 GOOD NEWS Wine for health
Toast a goblet of red wine to keep your heart healthy, says a report in the Journal of American College of Surgeons. The report adds that drinking two to three glasses of red wine daily is good for the heart. According to researchers, polyphenols (found in fruit, particularly berries, as well as green tea and chocolate), minus the alcohol, are powerful anti-oxidants that retard cell deterioration, apart from inhibiting platelet formation. This leads to a healthy heart.
Acupuncture relief
According to a paper published
in the British Medical Journal, acupuncture can help
relieve pelvic girdle pain (around the lower back and stomach)
in the last trimester of pregnancy. A group of Swedish researchers
have found that acupuncture or special exercises offers
clear clinical advantages over standard treatment alone
for reduction of pain during pregnancy. The study involved
observing 400 pregnant women over a six-week period at the
Perinatal Center at the Sahlgrenska Academy in Gothenburg.
BAD NEWS 
Cold-store loss
Don?t get swayed by the tall claims of the refrigerator companies. According to a paper published in the Journal of Food Science, spinach stored for more than eight days ? even in a refrigerator ? loses much of its nutrient content. Luke LaBorde, associate professor of food science, and Srilatha Pandrangi, graduate student, both at Penn State, found that though spinach stored at 5 C loses its nutrient content at a slower rate than spinach stored at 10 and 20 degrees, it loses much of its nutrients after eight days. The average temperature of a refrigerator is 5 C.
Waist meter
Measure your waist size to know whether you are diabetic or not, suggests a paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Men with larger waists or higher overall body fat have a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Compared to those in the group with the smallest waists (73-85 cms), the other groups ? 87-92 cms, 93-97 cms, 98-102 cms, 103-155 cms ? were 2, 3, 5 and 12 times more likely to develop diabetes respectively. This finding is based on data collected from 27,270 men tracked over 13 years.
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