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Sleeping Problems Broken sleep? Tired and incompetent? Fat and haggard? Are you sharing a bed with your lover? Bed sharing is not good for us – we are told by Dr Neil Stanley in an address to the British Science Festival. While women are thought to be better able to put up with disturbed sleep, [Nature’s gift to motherhood], men suffer stress and loss of brain function – though this is restored by having sex [no surprises there]. He Just Wants To Go To Sleep The “marital bed” should be for sex and not for sleep according to Dr Stanley [this was...

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Fear of Contracting Skin Cancer Readers of the Yin Yang Skincare Blog will have noted our regular cautions and advice about the action of the Sun’s rays on the skin. In the recent Sun & Skin: A Little Goes A Long Way – we noted that the fear of contracting skin cancer was now so great in Australasia that there was a notable increase in Vitamin D deficiency.  After decades of prostrating their bodies beneath the fierce Southern Sun, many New Zealanders and Australians are now covering up so emphatically that they are denying their bodies the 10 minutes per day of...

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Reduced Immunity Amongst The Elderly “Older people are more at risk of skin cancer and infection because their skin is unable to mobilise the immune system to defend itself, UK research suggests.” The findings by University College London have been published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Study leader Professor Arne Akbar said “reduced immunity in older people is well known, but why and how it happens is not”. Immune Response In Older People It would appear that the immune response in older people to the presence of cancer related antigens is reduced, but that it will respond to threat when pushed. The research team...

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Skin Malignancies Bobbing umbrellas are a common sight on the streets of Beijing and Tokyo in the heat of summer: many Asian women are horrified at the prospect of their skin being darkened by sun action. Conversely many Western women strive to develop a deep healthy summer tan as a key beauty accessory. The problem is that we now know that a tan may look healthy, but repeated tanning from an early age can lead to various forms of skin malignancy including basal cell carcinoma and melanomas. Skin Science Reporter [currently in New Zealand] notes that while basal cell carcinomas...

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Hot or Not How does it happen? From hottest craze to yesterday’s story, things, people and behavioural models come in and go out of fashion in the blink of an eye. Back in the “Swinging Sixties” those stylish French women decided that it was “le thing” to cast off their bikini tops and allow the sun and beaches full of grateful males to smile upon their breasts. Quickly the habit spread amongst a generation of women liberated by education and The Pill, and what started out as sun bathing protocol became a political gesture – women were liberating themselves from the behavioural...

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