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Green tea has been considered very beneficial to a person’s health for some time now. The primary bonus is that green tea is high in antioxidants which can help as a preventive measure to illness leading to cancer and heart disease. Because of its natural ingredients, and the fact its leaves are not fermented prior to brewing, the tea is also low in caffeine.

Recent research has found that there are further health benefits from drinking green tea on a regular basis, such as:

Prevention of strokes occurring. Up to three cups a day could reduce your risk by 21%.

Improved health of gums and teeth. By sipping a green tea drink per day research showed reductions in patients of periodontal disease, or as it is more commonly known – gum disease.

Reduction of stress. The presence of amino acid L-theanine within green tea lends itself to bring on relaxation and relieve stress.

The eastern religions have long supported and promoted the use of alternative medicines. One method as used by the Indian Hindu school of thought is healing stones on your body’s chakras points. This has only become apparent to the western civilisation in recent years, but is being introduced in the UK as the country expands its cultural awareness and diversity.

Chakras are points along the body, with the main seven chakras positioned along nerve points up and down the spinal column. There are smaller chains of chakras along the arms and legs, but it is thought that those along the length of the spine are the most affected by the placement of healing stones.

The recommended healing stones are specific to certain chakras points and to specific ailments. The colour of the stones is also linked the differing limbs with chakras points. The size also affects the strength of the stone.

There are qualified practitioners who will diagnose what is the best fit remedy using healing stones, or alternatively, you can become self taught in this area and purchase stones of varying qualities via the web.

A popular alternative that more and more people are choosing is acupuncture. This process involves the patient lying down and having very thin needles inserted in to specific areas of the body, that are left in for around 30 minutes.

The instruments used are called filiform needles, which penetrate the skin along the bodies meridians for pain relieve and improve, well being and Qi (pronounced ch’i).

Originating from China, acupuncture has been used for centuries as a remedy for a variety of illnesses and complaints. It first came under scrutiny from western civilisation scientific research in the 20th century, and to this day, there are still sceptics in the medical field who doubt the healing benefits of acupuncture.

Should you wish to try acupuncture for any aliment you have, first research within your local area any qualified alternative health centres where acupuncture is undertaken. As well as addressing health problems, acupuncture has been used for addressing addictions like smoking. They will ensure that all needles are sterilised, and discuss with you first the health problems you have, to make sure they pin point (no pun intended) the correct meridian zones, relevant to the health issue.

It has been discovered that more than one in four adult smokers now use pouch tobacco and roll-up cigarettes, with a considerably increase in the amount of female users.

An analyst approach of smoking habits in England suggests a cultural shift in the use of tobacco, now more favoured than conventional cigarettes. In 1990, just one in fifty female smokers used hand-rolled tobacco, compared with the one in five in 2007. The apparent increase is due to users believing the roll-up trend to be more fashionable than the conventional cigarette. Smoking related diseases have risen by 1.2mn to 1.4mn since 1997.

The new 12.7bn project to upgrade the NHS computers has believed to have had an effect on the computers and caused glitches on the system. This has resulted in a six-month wait for patients. The Department of Health has said that patients shouldn’t wait more than eighteen-weeks, unless they choose to.

The group which brought about this new technology, Barts and the London NHS Trust have a backlog of twenty-thousand patient records on its 18-week waiting list. Many of the twenty-thousand are suspected to be duplicates, but a good fourteen-thousand are believed to be genuine patient records.

Current charges for NHS patients and their visitors are to be axed, the government has announced. The NHS in England earns nearly 112 million from the car parking fees every year, which ministers have claimed helps pay for running costs  and the use of public transport.

Andy Burnham, the health secretary has claimed that if his party win the election, these charges will be cancelled for three years; however, he also claimed: “When people are coming in to hospital, the last thing they want to worry about is keeping the car parking ticket up-to-date,” Mr Burnham told the Labour Party Conference in Brighton today. “But, for families of the sickest patients, the costs can really rack up”.

Over the past week, 13,800 have died in Scotland, due to contracting swine flu. The most recent death due to the flu was yesterday when a sixty-two year old woman succumbed to the illness.

The old lady was believed to have underlying health problems. Staggeringly, these stats now indicate that there are almost as many people in Scotland with the flu when compared with England and Wales whom have a population almost ten times better. So far, swine flu ha claimed eighty-five deaths in the United Kingdom. Last week it has been discovered that seven-thousand people were found to have the illness.

A new therapy for new babies based on lowering the body temperature could significantly reduce the risk of brain damage at birth after oxygen starvation at birth. A complication can occur in around two out of a thousand babies where the umbilical cord becomes twisted and this can usually result in cerebral palsy and/or other neurological problems. Standard treatment for babies involves placing them in an incubator where they are helped to breathe by using a ventilator. However, today it is has been discovered that babies have better long term outcomes if they are cooled down by a few degrees.

A staggering eight out of ten children were receiving treatment in hospital for swine flu and were apparently healthy beforehand.

An analysis of impatient treatment in England also found that more than half of patients aged 16-44 didn’t have any previous underlying health conditions before being admitted. The amount of swine flu cases has risen in a third week in a row, and Sir Liam Donaldson, the government’s Chief Medical Officer had this to say about swine flu: “The continued increase in swine flu activity is consistent with the early stages of a second wave,”.

Natalie Morton, a fourteen year old girl given a cervical cancer jab was believed to have died due to the jab’s effect on her body. It has been discovered that apparently it was a tumour on her chest that ‘could have killed her at any moment’ compared to the jab’s effect. The fourteen year old collapsed suddenly moments after taking the vaccine as part of the National Immunisation Campaign. The joint director of the NHS Coventry told Coventry Magistrates’ Court:

“The pathologist has confirmed at the opening of the inquest into the death of Natalie Morton that she died from a large malignant tumour of unknown origin in the heart and lungs.

“There is no indication that the HPV vaccine, which she had received shortly before her death, was a contributing factor to the death, which could have arisen at any point.”