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...Poor weather and disease in the world’s main cocoa growing region in West Africa has compounded deep structural problems in the industry, from ageing trees and chronic under-investment to climate change....
...Here and elsewhere people share their own stories with Thomas: of men drinking nettle tea in Morocco, or an Italian grandmother rubbing children’s gums with sage leaves....
...Tobacco use is the biggest cause of preventable disease in the UK and exacerbates the health gap between rich and poor....
...On the same day, a separate WHO committee will rule on how much risk the additive — found in thousands of products from chewing gum to yoghurts — poses to human health....
...Evidence suggests their vapour can contain substances that can cause lung disease, heart disease and cancer, though in far smaller quantities than cigarette smoke....
...is among the most widely used artificial sweeteners in food and drink, found in products from low-sugar carbonated drinks such as Diet Coke, Fanta Zero and Diet Pepsi to Mars’ Extra sugar-free chewing gum...
...The mice consumed sucralose — used as a low-calorie alternative to sugar in food and beverages such as cereals, chewing gum and fizzy drinks — at levels equivalent to the maximum daily intake for people...
...The trial is an encouraging demonstration that the disease can be treated by removing beta-amyloid, the gungy protein that gums up the brain as Alzheimer’s progresses....
...“What we prefer to say in Mars is that we believe you can walk the dog and chew gum at the same time.”...
...The spread of foot and mouth, a highly infectious disease that causes blistering on the gums of cloven-hoofed animals, would prove devastating for Australia’s rural economy....
...At first they said: “This fighter has been built out of three-ply and chewing gum.”...
...Early symptoms of Marburg virus disease include fever, headache, fatigue, abdominal pain and gum haemorrhage....
...Neutralising antibodies — human proteins that bind viruses and gum up their machinery, preventing them from finding and fusing with our cells — target multiple sites across the top of the spike protein....
...That a large minority of Democrats and Republicans say they would mind their child marrying someone from the other party does not gum up society in a meaningful way....
...French breeders then produced the Saphyr series, which are far more resistant to the disease. Saphyr pyracanthas with red, yellow or orange berries are now the ones to buy....
...The respiratory pandemic sweeping the world has lit a fire under smokers, sending them rushing out to stockpile cigarettes, nicotine patches and gum to keep their cravings at bay....
...He has pledged ¥10bn of his own money to researchers at Kyoto University to study the virus and other diseases....
...He first learnt of the new disease from contacts in China, where it first emerged, in mid-December....
...“You have to walk and chew gum in life . . ....
...BAT has bullishly defended its so-called reduced risk products despite a backlash against e-cigarettes in the US following reports of more than 2,000 cases of lung disease and 42 deaths related to vaping...
...by the National Institute for Health Research and Cancer Research UK, found that 18 per cent of ecigarette users were smoke-free after a year, compared with 9.9 per cent who used other therapies such as gum...
...I was given a large syringe of buccal midazolam and shown how to put it into the corner of Louis’ mouth between the gums and inside his cheek if he had a seizure lasting more than five minutes, to stop him...
...(Good Governance in Tobacco Control, Guardian) To vape or not to vape A major UK study found e cigarettes almost twice as effective as nicotine replacement treatments, such as patches and gum, at helping...
...to Parkinson’s disease and dry eye....
...But the highest readings that I had during the journey were from dumper trucks, rust-bucket minibuses that looked as if they were held together with twine and chewing gum, and cars with broken tailpipes...
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