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Millions of slum dwellers have to struggle for a clean toilet but there is no solution. Most free community toilets built by the government are rendered unusable because of the lack of maintenance.

According to United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) data, an estimated 400,000 children under five years of age die each year due to diarrhoea and other infections caused by poor sanitation and hygiene which is largely because of open defecation of waste that contaminates drinking water.

But, now a Swedish firm has come out with a solution – Peepoo, a biodegradable toilet bag that is easy to use and hygienic. It can be used as fertiliser.

The Peepoo is clean from the beginning and doesn’t smell after use and very importantly, it makes collection of waste very easy,” Camila Wirseen said.

“It works like micro treatment plant and cuts the contamination. This will save lives.”

“Peepoo is not just a toilet bag, it’s a solution to human waste disposal problem, the biggest obstacle to sanitation and public health in developing countries like India.” Wilhelmson said in an email interview from Stockholm.

“It will be of great help particularly for women, who often wait all day until it is dark to go to the toilet, increasing their chances of infections.”

Describing Peepoo’s other features, the officials said the bioplastic bag can be used as fertiliser, which is an expensive and scarce commodity in countries like India.

Once used, the 14x38 cm slim elongated bag can be knotted and buried under the earth. With a layer of urea crystals, the waste can turn into fertiliser, killing off disease-producing pathogens found in faeces.

“Not only is it sanitary, they can reuse this to grow crops,” Wilhelmson said.

“You can use it directly in a small container or Garden-in-a-Sack. It can also be processed and mixed with topsoil and loam (clay+sand) creating a soil filled with nutrients.”

About the cost of the bag, the officials said, it will be comparable to the price of polythenes used to collect garbage.

The innovation will prove highly beneficial to control the situation, Wilhelson said, adding that his organisation (Peepoople A has carried out a small ground test in Bihar and “the response was overwhelming".

The toilet bag, which has recently undergone field trials in India, Bangladesh and Kenya, is expected to help mitigate the dreadful situation for millions, especially the women in the slum areas,

The market for low-cost toilets in the developing world is about a trillion dollars, according the World Toilet Organization, a sanitation advocacy group, which has been organising World Toilet Summit ever year since 2001.

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Treating cancer with just one injection? It may sound unbelievable, but an Indian medical institute is soon to start human trials to treat cancer in six weeks through a solitary injection dose.

‘It’s a single injection dose medicine to treat cancer. If everything goes fine, it will be a novel medical breakthrough,’ Kushagra Kataria, chief executive officer of Artemis Health Institute in Gurgaon, told IANS.

‘We are set to start human trials in May with a limited number of patients,’ said Kataria, a thoracic oncologist.

He said medical scientists will inject ‘oncolytic virus’ into the human body, which will target the cancer cells and treat patients with much precision and success. Subjects for this trial would be primarily patients suffering from lung, neck and cervical cancer.

Artemis, one of the leading tertiary care hospitals in India, will be conducting the trials in collaboration with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York.

Kataria said animal trials conducted in Britain had given encouraging results. ‘The drug has already been tested on mice with human cancer tumours. It has given optimistic results.’

In the current conventional therapy, cancer treatment affects healthy cells along with cancerous cells but in the new treatment, the medicine will not affect any other cells of the body other than the cancerous tumour and cells.

‘It will be targeted therapy,’ Kataria explained. ‘If everything goes well, we believe it will reduce all side effects of the conventional treatment.’
He added that right from finance to time, the treatment will be more human friendly.

While tens of thousands of people die every year due to cancer, India is home to nearly two million patients at any given period of time.

Article – courtesy: http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100307/1537/tls-human-trials-for-single-injection-ca.html

You will like the following Popular book on ‘Cancer’

The Doctor Who Cures Cancer

Rick had a ten-inch tumour in his colon. Nothing he tried stopped the daily pain, bleeding or flatulence. All three cleared up after his first meal. His huge tumour eventually disappeared.

He started with the pepper bread. He had never felt better, at least not in many months. The fatigue and pain are gone….There is a definite positive difference from the pepper bread that no other food, supplement, or treatment gave him.

Chuck’s prostate cancer was discovered by a biopsy. He had a Gleason 6 (3+3). His prostate was a little larger than a baseball. After about 2-3 months, his prostate shrank down to the size of a lemon. Later still, the size went down to a walnut.His doctor performed another biopsy. No cancer was found at all. The pathologist was so surprised he wrote on the biopsy report, “Wow.” That might be the first time that word was ever written on a biopsy report.

Michael also had prostate cancer. Over time, his tumour shrank 55% based on his last report

A man had stomach cancer. He didn’t want to follow the recipe. But his severe stomach pains got the best of him, so he relented and gave it a try.He was scheduled for stomach surgery, so he was only able to follow the program for a week prior to the surgery. When the surgery was attempted, no cancer was found!

A woman named Kelly shared her results. She was very pleased and excited to inform that the (stabbing, knife piercing) pains in her right breast were completely gone, and so was the lump!

All the patients followed a simple recipe for the above miracles.

Forward your request for the recipe at:
cancervanish@gmail.com

Adopted with courtesy from an article by William Kelley Eidem.

The Doctor Who Cures Cancer

Is sweetener deadly?

Every cell in our body uses glucose for energy.

We have been meeting our demands by getting fructose from fruits and vegetables. Fibre, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and beneficial phytonutrients help in moderating any negative metabolic effects of fructose in fruits and vegetables.

We have been using it for centuries without facing any ill effects on our health. Besides our consumption of fructose have never exceeded 15 gms per day.

Today, our consumption of fructose has touched almost 75 gms per day. Scientific studies reveal that high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is badly affecting our health in the following manner:
(i) Insulin resistance and obesity
(ii) Elevated blood pressure
(iii) Elevated triglycerides and elevated LDL
(iv) Cardiovascular disease, liver disease, cancer, arthritis and even gout.

There are two reasons for the excessive damage caused by fructose:
1. Entire burden of metabolizing fructose falls on your liver.
2. People are consuming fructose in enormous quantities, which has increased the negative effects

Food and beverage manufacturers began switching their sweeteners from sucrose (table sugar) to corn syrup in the 1970s when they discovered that HFCS was not only far cheaper to make, it’s about 20% sweeter than table sugar. Today, 55 percent of sweeteners used in food and beverage manufacturing are made from corn.

Still, this switch drastically altered the average American diet.
By USDA estimates, about one-quarter of the calories consumed by the average American is in the form of added sugars, and most of that is HFCS. The average Westerner consumes a staggering 142 pounds a year of sugar! And the very products most people rely on to lose weight – the low-fat diet foods – are often the ones highest in fructose.

Making matters worse, all of the fibre has been removed from these processed foods, so there is no nutritive value at all.

The bottom line is: fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome – not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that directly result.

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Small changes can help you stay sharp later in life and could keep your brain in tip-top shape.

On “The Early Show Saturday Edition,” Dr. Cynthia Green, Ph.D., has spelled out some tips for the same, reports CBS News.

Green and the editors of Prevention magazine wrote, “Brainpower Game Plan: Sharpen Your Memory, Improve Your Concentration, and Age-Proof Your Mind in Just 4 Weeks.”

Exercise: Go for a walk or run, swim - anything to get yourself moving.
Seek new challenges: Look for some simple ways to push you out of your intellectual routine every day, like - brushing teeth with non-dominant hand, taking a new route to work.

Get your head in the game: Spend 10 to 20 minutes every day giving your everyday intellectual skills a good workout by playing games that require you to play against the clock. Play board games like Boggle or Set.

Socialize: Connect with others in a meaningful way each and every day.

You are invited to scratch your head and give exercise to your brain. Visit: http://www.puzzle.dse.nl/index_us.html

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