Did you know your Coke and Pepsi contain alcohol?
Coca-Cola and Pepsi contain minute traces of
alcohol, a study has revealed. According to tests carried out by the
Paris-based National Institute of Consumption, more than half of leading colas
contain traces of alcohol, Daily Mail reported. These include the brand leaders
Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola, while it is mainly only cheap supermarket versions of
the drink which are alcohol-free.
“60 Million Consumers”, the French magazine,
published the results of the tests in its latest issue. The tests suggest that
the alcohol levels are as low as 10 mg in every litre, and this works out at
around 0.001 per cent alcohol. But the figures will still be enough to upset
the thousands of Muslims who regularly drink Cola because their religion
forbids them from drinking alcohol, the daily said.
The study found minute traces of alcohol in ten
major alcohol drinks including Coca-Cola, Pepsi Cola, Coca-Cola Classic Light
and Coke Zero. Michel Pepin, scientific director for Coca-Cola France, said:
‘It is possible that traces of alcohol come from the process of making Coca
Cola according to its secret recipe.’ He however insisted that drinks were
provably ‘soft’.
A Pepsi insider acknowledged that some drinks can
contain minute traces of alcohol because of the Coca-Cola was invented in 1886
by the American John Pemberton and was originally patented as a medicine which
could cure everything from headache to impotence. It went on to dominate the
international soft drinks market and is now a US icon sold in more than 200
countries.
However, caffeine is widely considered to be the
main stimulant contained in the drink, along with vast amounts of sugar which
have come to associate it with a range of health problems including obesity. Every
can of Coke contains approximately 10 teaspoons of sugar.
Source: http://health.india.com
28.06.2012
Women who fear childbirth have longer labours!
Women who fear childbirth tend to have longer
labour than women who have no such fear, suggests a new research. Researchers
found that average labour duration was eight hours for women with fear of
childbirth, compared to six hours and 28 minutes for women without fear. The
Norwegian study looked at 2,206 women with a single pregnancy who intended to
deliver vaginally. Study co-author Samantha Salvesen Adams, Health Services
Research Centre, Akershus University Hospital, University of Oslo, Norway said:
“Fear of childbirth seems to be an increasingly important issue in obstetric
care.”
“Our finding of longer duration of labour in
women who fear childbirth is a new piece in the puzzle within this intersection
between psychology and obstetrics,” added Adams, the International Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology reports. Some of the factors linked with this fear,
which affects between five and 20 percent of pregnant women, include young
maternal age, being a first-time mother, pre-existing psychological problems,
lack of social support and a history of abuse or adverse obstetric events,
according to a Akershus statement.
Fear of childbirth was assessed by the Wijma
Delivery Expectancy Questionnaire (W-DEQ). Women undertook the questionnaire at
32 weeks gestation and fear of childbirth was defined as a score of more than
85. Out of the total number, 165 (7.5 percent) women scored more than 85. The
average age of the participants at delivery was 30.9 years and 50.5 percent
(1,113 women) were first time mothers. Average labour duration was 8.22 hours
for first-time mothers. The study also found that women with fear of childbirth
more often delivered by instrumental vaginal delivery (17.0 percent versus 10.6
percent) or emergency caesarean delivery (10.9 percent versus 6.8 percent) as
compared to women without fear of childbirth.
Source: http://health.india.com
28.06.2012
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