“Even when they’re very tiny, they have an intact thirst reflex or a drive to drink,” Dr. Jennifer Anders, a pediatric emergency physician at the center, told Reuters Health. “When they have that thirst and they want to drink, the fluid they need to drink more of is their breast milk or formula.”

Because babies’ kidneys aren’t yet mature, giving them too much water causes their bodies to release sodium along with excess water, Anders said. Losing sodium can affect brain activity, so early symptoms of water intoxication can include irritability, drowsiness and other mental changes. Other symptoms include low body temperature (generally 97 degrees or less), puffiness or swelling in the face, and seizures.

“It’s a sneaky kind of a condition,” Anders said. Early symptoms are subtle, so seizures may be the first symptom a parent notices. But if a child gets prompt medical attention, the seizures will probably not have lasting consequences, she added.

Water as a beverage should be completely off limits to babies six months old and younger, Anders and her colleagues say. Parents should also avoid using over-diluted formula, or pediatric drinks containing electrolytes.

Anders said it may be appropriate in some cases to give older infants a small amount of water; for example to help with constipation or in very hot weather, but parents should always check with their pediatrician before doing so, and should only give the baby an ounce or two of water at a time.

If a parent thinks their child may have water intoxication, or if an infant as a seizure, they should seek medical attention immediately, she advised.

(Agencies via China Daily May 26, 2008)

At this rate, scientists will have to come up with a better description for the tomato than mere ’superfood’.

While it has long been credited with cutting cholesterol and preventing some cancers, the fruit now appears to have two more healthgiving benefits.

Protection against sunburn and helping keep the skin looking youthful are the latest pluses, a study has found.

Professor Mark Birch-Machin said tomatoes could provide a cheap and easy way of improving health.

“I went into the study as a sceptic,” he added. “But I was quite surprised with the significance of the findings.”

Researchers at Manchester and Newcastle universities recommend two tomato-based meals a day for optimum health.

Possible menus include a glass of tomato juice with breakfast and a salad later or tomato soup for lunch and pasta with a tomato sauce for dinner.

To test the fruit’s ability to protect the skin, ten volunteers were asked to eat five tablespoons of tomato paste mixed with olive oil every day for three months.

Another ten had a daily dose of olive oil – minus the tomato paste.

Tests using ultra-violet lamps showed the tomato-eaters were a third better protected against sunburn at the end of the study than at the start, the British Society for Investigative Dermatology’s annual conference heard.

Other tests suggested the tomato-based diet had boosted production of collagen, the protein that keeps skin supple.

If that were not enough, the fruit also protects our mitochondria – the elements of cells which turn the food we eat into energy.

Professor Birch-Machin, of Newcastle University, said: “Being kind to our mitochondria is likely to contribute to improved skin health, which in turn may have an anti-ageing effect.”

The researchers stressed, however, that their findings were not an excuse to throw away the suncream. Professor Lesley Rhodes, a Manchester University dermatologist, said: “People should not think tomatoes in any way can replace suncreams but they may be a good additive.

“If you can improve your protection through your diet then over several years this may have a significant effect.”

She added: “These weren’t huge amounts we were feeding the group. It was the sort of quantity you could easily manage by eating a lot of tomato-based meals.”

The fruit’s benefits are credited to lycopene, the pigment behind its distinctive red skin.

Lycopene, a powerful antioxidant capable of mopping up free radicals – the harmful molecules linked to cancer – is made easier for the body to absorb when tomatoes are cooked or processed.

(China Daily/Agencies April 30,2008)

On the other hand, tests scores were lower among preschoolers whose mothers had relatively high mercury levels in their blood during pregnancy. And mothers who regularly ate fish during pregnancy were more likely to have such mercury levels than non-fish-eaters were, the researchers report in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The findings add to evidence that fish can be brain-food, but underscore the importance of choosing lower-mercury fish during pregnancy.

“Recommendations for fish consumption during pregnancy should take into account the nutritional benefits of fish as well as the potential harms from mercury exposure,” write the researchers, led by Dr. Emily Oken of Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Oily fish such as tuna, salmon and sardines contain omega-3 fatty acids, which are important in fetal and child brain development. The problem is that fatty fish are more likely to be contaminated with mercury, a metal that is toxic to brain cells, particularly in fetuses and young children.

Because of this, pregnant women are advised to avoid certain fish altogether: shark, swordfish, king mackerel and tilefish. These fish are particularly high in mercury because they eat other fish and are long-lived, over time accumulating mercury in their fat tissue.

Fish that are high in omega-3 but relatively lower in mercury include canned light tuna, which has less mercury than albacore tuna, and smaller oily fish like salmon. White-meat fish such as cod and haddock tend to be low in mercury, but have less omega-3 than fattier fish.

Currently, U.S. health officials recommend that pregnant women eat no more than 12 ounces, or roughly two servings, of fish per week.

(Agencies via Xinhua News Agency April 8, 2008)

Look in the evening, in Minhou Xiangqian Town, a gale added on the rainstorm hail three days ago, destroyed several hundred Chinese acres farmland, the villagers looks that the place leant this way and that the sugar cane, potato and lettuce bamboo shoots, muttered saying:“10 minutes, 10 minutes anything destroyed.”

The hail came from the convection quite intense spring and summer festival generally. The weather forecast said that in the next few days Nanping, Sanming, Longyan and Ningde four city’s local will present the short-time gust, the strong rainfall, thunder and lightning and so on strong convection weather, such weather in this season, in the entire province scope possibly is quite frequent.

The early spring season, the myriad things apparent are very gentle, is the weather temperament actually so why strange? The meteorological observatory explained that enters after in February, the elevation of temperature of entire province most districts is obvious, the damp condition is also quite good, Fuzhou these day-long air humidity about 90%, but the cold air raids, both will meet will collide inevitably intensely, will be easy to initiate the thunderstorms gale, even the hail and so on strong counter-flow weather.

The hail may also judge according to the experience. For example folk proverbs: “In the morning is cool, in the afternoon breaks head.”In other words, if the weather is very cool in the morning, but sun is very big in the afternoon, and on the leaf ties the water drop are quite many, possibly has the hail to raid. But the folk proverbs also had said that “thunder did not have the matter, under the stuffy thunder spherical object”, everybody regarding this season’s thunder, must listen to the sound, the thunderclap, if simply, were quite not stuffy, moreover had feeling continuously, must hurry toward the family to run, possibly immediately under hail.

(This article originates: Southeast bulletin)

In 2010 Spring Festival just crossed, a section of ungraceful video frequency starts in the online insane biography, the content is a female model and boyfriend’s intimate lens, the criterion is bold.

The net friends described that this is in 2010 the model circle head “colorful aperture” event, in the video frequency leading lady has “Chinese first Che Mu” name Zhai Ling (beast).

Beast “colorful aperture” disturbance has not subsided, Guangxi guest tobacco monopoly bureau original bureau chief Han Feng “romantic diary” is taken to the threshing ground.

On February 27, 2010, alias was “including fairy maiden” the net friend, sent the placard at the horizon forum, announced Han peak part individual diary. The diary demonstrated that Han Feng when being appointed the Guangxi guest tobacco monopoly bureau chiefs, once with many female subordinates and colleague had the improper sexual relations, meanwhile has the bribery and corruption fact.

After involving this bureau chief, this event has the duty change, adjusts the Guangxi tobacco monopoly bureau to work as department head.

While makes the commentary to these matters, how carried on the protection also to become more person matter of concern to the right of privacy.

Legal anticipation

The law to protecting the personal privacy has He Xiangying to stipulate that what the right infringement person will receive to punish?

The attorney explains

Privacy including four aspects

In Beijing Run law office executive director Wang Jie said that the right of privacy refers to in individual life domain the matter not the right which learns about and forbids other people for other people to interfere, generally should contain the following content.

1. individual life peaceful power. Namely the subject of object can be engaged in either not be engaged in some kind according to own will to have nothing to do or the harmless activity with the social public interest.

2. individual life information secret power. The subject of object is authorized to forbid other people illegally to use individual life intelligence information. Height, body weight, feminine measurements, medical record, hobby and so on. In addition, do not disclose other people’s love history without the consent.

3. personal communication secret power. Namely the subject of object is authorized to individual the letter, telephone and other content security, forbids other people to intercept illegally or to steal.

4. personal privacy use power. The subject of object is authorized to act according to individual will to use its privacy legally, to be engaged in each kind to meet own needs the activity.

The right of privacy law had not stipulated

Classification in “right of reputation” within

Attorney Wang Jie said that our country current law and related judicial interpretation have not listed the right of privacy as the personality power’s one kind alone, but takes it as the right of reputation to protect.

“General provisions of the civil law” stipulated that citizen and legal person enjoys the right of reputation, citizen’s personal dignity the legal protection, forbids with insult, slander and other ways to harm the citizen and legal person’s reputation.

If the disseminator belongs to malicious manufacture dissemination privacy, must shoulder the civil indemnity liability to the privacy content main body, for example is requested to stop infringing upon the right, apologizing and pays indemnity for the opposite party corresponding spirit damage and so on. Because and its behavior constitutes the harm to the society, its need shoulders the responsibility.

If the social order question, but should also rest on “Public security management Punishment law” carries on the punishment.

If encroaches upon other people right of reputation circumstance to be very serious, will also possibly constitute the insult crime or the libel, should investigates the legal responsibility based on our country “Criminal law”, will be condemned below 3 years set term of imprisonment, to imprison or to control.

Passes on other people undisguised privacy

Is dissemination pornographic material

Attorney Wang Jie said that sometimes because disseminates the content which other people privacy involves to be private, in to the social public widespread dissemination, these contents is very possibly incorporated into is the pornographic material, then should encroach upon other people privacy the behavior to have the possibility to denaturate.

In real life, some network operators to increase the click rate, after obtaining the above privacy content carries on the duplication dissemination, even trades. This behavior constituted the manufacture, duplication and publication, to trade, the dissemination pornographic material seeking money crime, according to the plot weight, condemns the penalty and fine.

But speaking of the common network user, although took by no means seeking to make a profit as the goal, but disseminated the pornographic material to achieve the certain amount, caused the certain extent social harm, still had the possibility to constitute the dissemination pornographic material crime, needs to investigate certain legal responsibility.

Some time ago, a Beijing man because of through mailbox transmission link, dissemination “beast beastly gate” 3 sections of pornographic video frequencies, by police administrative detention.

This version writes/reporter Cheng Yao

(This article originates: Legal system evening news)

The vehicle does not enter the station twice flings the guest

In Cao Ann road’s Anting road junction, a vehicle number the Shanghai Soviet intersection point’s remote path stops for Henan Q50770 bus on, the driver wants on the vehicle the passenger to get out, passenger is very discontented. After Anting Police answer alarm, under orders the passenger train driver to arrive the guest according to the stipulation; Unexpectedly the driver complies in public but opposes in private, to go two degrees flings the guest to Jiading Huangdu Town, insisted that wants the passenger to get out, to guard receives a telegram after the Jiading District G2 high-speed road junction’s transportation law enforcement unit tenth crew, immediately rushes to the Huangdu scene. After looking up, this is one after approving transport business procedure, started work arbitrarily the Anhui bus. After the drivers from Henan Zhumadian pull a vehicle labor has ridden the passenger transportation to Shanghai, fears is investigated, does not dare to press again left for the Pudong passenger depot to passenger’s commitment. The transportation law enforcement officials seize and hold in custody this vehicle immediately legally, the arrangement passenger train delivers separate to the passenger destination.

Last night, a vehicle number for Shanghai B79373 traveling passenger train, the non-class line transport business intelligence, in Jiangsu some through the ox group guest, pulled Man Che the labor passenger to enter Shanghai, is ferreted out in the fine loose north road by the transportation law enforcement officials. From the Anhui Susong’s 51 buses, carries 69 people unexpectedly, is investigated by the transportation law enforcement with the Jiading public security personnels.

Stringent law enforcement warm service

From 11:00 pm last night to this morning 9:00, this city transportation law enforcement agency altogether set out 370 transportation law enforcement officials, distributed more than 40 important passes, altogether inspection transport business vehicles 1210, and unified to enforce the law with other 7 province transportation law-enforcing departments, strengthens the communication, to echo mutually, and helped people overcome their difficulties for the return trip labor passenger with every effort. 7:00 am, 3 outside areas girls in returning to Shanghai, are not on the way ripe because of the geographical position, with the relative who coming to attach does not relate, saw the done an inspection law enforcement vehicle, the loud call seeks help, had found the relative under the law enforcement officials help.

Authors: Zhang Xinping Wu Runyuan

(Origin: Xinmin Evening News)

(This article originates: Xinmin Evening News)

The circumvention law does not have the effect

Mr. Qin: I bought a Wang set of house, the house cost am 1.2 million Yuan.

To little pay taxes, we signed buying homes funds are 800,000 Yuan contracts and handle the net to sign the procedure. We have dispute in the fulfillment contract, Wang proposed that takes the actual cost 1.2 million Yuan as the cardinal number computation penalty, but I think that should take 800,000 Yuan as the basis computation penalty.

: Which share should take as the standard?

Attorney Liu Xiao: You have signed two contracts, 1.2 million Yuan contracts are your real meaning indicated that is legitimate effective; But 800,000 Yuan contracts are you to avoid taxes to sign the false contract, belongs to malicious collusion which “Law of contract” stipulated that the hurt national interest situation, therefore, this contract, even if has handled the net to sign also invalid. When both sides have the dispute, should rest on the real contract to process.

In second-hand house business to avoid taxes sign “black and white” the contract situation is very common, but this procedure both has the big risk to the round turns. Therefore, should sign the real valid contract, avoids being penny-wise and pound foolish.

(This article originates: Legal system evening news)

Last evening 5:40, in the Benxi road Jiangpu street intersection, a 18-year-old boy jumped into the river, when to today deadline for acceptance of drafts had not been salvaged to come ashore.

The eyewitness said that at that time this boy and a girl spoke on the Benxi highway bridge, the words were intense. The girl turns around to get out of the way, the boy crawls to the bridge approach parapet on. The girl hurries to beckon with the hand to urge the boy do not make the piffle, the boy actually shouts wildly one, jumps to plunge into the river. The girl frightens to shout “saving a life”, after the passer-by rushes, discovered that the rivers are very anxious did not see the boy trace.

Boy’s mother receives the notice to rush to bridge, looks at 56 meters wide rivers to wail to cry. It is known that the boy was reading high two, estimated that jumped into the river concerns with the emotion dispute.

Authors: The slaughter Shi ultra king is diligent and thrifty

(Origin: Xinmin Evening News)

(This article originates: Xinmin Evening News)

A chemical found in cruciferous vegetables called sulforaphane was found to activate a number of antioxidant genes and enzymes in immune cells. These prevent free radicals from damaging cells.

Free radicals are byproducts of normal body processes, such as the conversion of food into energy. They are a supercharged form of oxygen, which can cause oxidative tissue damage leading to disease – for example, triggering the inflammation process that causes clogged arteries.

Oxidative damage to body tissues and organs is thought to be one of the major causes of ageing.

“The mysteries of ageing have always intrigued man,” wrote chief author Dr Andre Nel, from UCLA in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

“While we have known for some time that free radicals are important in ageing, most of the past attention has focused on the mechanisms that produce free radicals rather than addressing the pathways used by the body to suppress their production.

“Our study contributes to the growing understanding of the importance of these antioxidant defence pathways that the body uses to fight free radicals,” said Dr Nel.

“Insight into these processes points to ways in which we may be able to alleviate the effects of ageing.”

The delicate balance between pro-oxidant and antioxidant forces in the body could determine the outcome of many disease processes that are associated with ageing, including cardiovascular disease, degenerative joint diseases and diabetes, as well as the decline in efficiency of the immune system’s ability to protect against infectious agents.

“As we age, the ability of the immune system to fight disease and infections and protect against cancer wears down as a result of the impact of oxygen radicals on the immune system,” Nel said.

“Our defence against oxidative stress damage may determine at what rate we age, how it will manifest and how to interfere in those processes,” Nel said.

“In particular, our study shows that a chemical present in broccoli is capable of stimulating a wide range of antioxidant defence pathways and may be able to interfere with the age-related decline in immune function.”

(Agencies via China Daily March 26, 2008)

A new study has suggested that green tea may protect brain cells
against Parkinson’s disease.

Chinese researchers examined the effects of green tea
polyphenols, a group of naturally occurring chemical substances
found in plants that have antioxidant properties, in an animal
model of Parkinson’s disease.

Corresponding and senior author Dr. Baolu Zhao, of the Institute
of Biophysics, Academia Sinica in Beijing said previous research
has indicated that green tea possesses neuroprotective effects.

After investigating the animal model, Zhao and colleagues
discovered that green tea polyphenols protect dopamine neurons and
the effect increases with the amount consumed.

They also showed that this protective effect is mediated by
inhibition of the ROS-NO pathway — a pathway that may contribute
to cell death in Parkinson’s.

Zhao said he hoped eventually “green tea polyphenols may be
developed into a safe and easily administrable drug for Parkinson’s
disease.”

The findings are published in the journal Biological
Psychiatry.

Parkinson’s disease is a progressive, degenerative disorder of
the central nervous system, resulting from the loss of
dopamine-producing brain cells, and there is presently no cure.

(Agencies via China Daily December 24, 2007)