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Poor Sleep Threatens Health?

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For years, life of sleep has been linked to a wide collection of metabolic conditions, including obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes. But until the recent studies, health researchers did not know much about the effect of inconsistent sleep, including nightly changes in sleep amount and timing. Tianyi Huang is among the writers of the study. Huang is with the Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston. In an email to Reuters News Agency, Huang said that more inconsistent sleep times are associated with higher metabolic disease risk. And that is no matter if one has short or long sleep duration or has good or poor sleep quality. The researcher explained that night to night differences in sleep, either duration or timing, are associated with a high risk of having several metabolic problems at the same time. For the study, 2003 patients did home based sleep studies for one week. They used devices known as actigraphs, which measure night time room mate

Is Risky Eating Red Meat?

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           Do you know eating red meat will do harm to your health? But is that true? Many studies have tied red meat food to cancer and heart disease. But are the risks big enough to stop eating foods like lamb chops and humbergers?              A team of International researchers says probably not. Their findings, published as a series of papers Monday, go against established advice. A group of well known U.S. scientists even took unusual step of trying to stop publication until their criticisms were answered.             The new work does not say that red meat and processed meats such as hot dogs and bacon are healthy. It is also does not suggest that people should eat more of such foods. The new work examined past studies on red meat and health problems.               The reaserchers involved generally support the finding that red meat is tied to cancer, heart disease, and other serious health risks. But the researchers also say the evidence is weak. They say there coul