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The new CDC studies shows how vast majority of Americans who drink excessively are not alcoholics

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                                                                   AMERICA<br />
Drinking excessively can cause serious #health risks and is responsible for an average of 88,000 deaths every year. But the vast majority of such excessive drinkers are not alcoholics, according to new government data.<br />
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Nine out of 10 excessive drinkers are actually not dependent on alcohol, revealed findings within a study released yesterday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The study is one of the first national, multi-year looks at alcoholism among excessive drinkers, and debunks the assumption that most excessive drinkers are dependent upon alcohol.<br />
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About<br />
10<br />
percent<br />
of<br />
people<br />
who<br />
drank<br />
excessively<br />
also<br />
met<br />
the<br />
clinical<br />
definition for alcohol dependence.<br />
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The vast majority of excessive drinking is binge drinking, a pattern of behavior where men consume roughly five or more drinks and women consume four or more within a short period of time.<br />
But the big takeaway here isn't that people who drink too much don't need to worry about their habits, said study author Bob Brewer, who heads the CDC's Alcohol Program in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion.<br />
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Rather, the study shows that combating excessive drinking as a public health problem needs to go beyond focusing only on alcoholism, a chronic medical condition.<br />
"Knowing that nine out of 10 people who drink too much are not alcohol dependent in no way diminishes the impact of alcohol dependence as a problem. It just says the problem we're dealing with is bigger than that," Brewer said. "We need to look at this problem with a wider-angle lens and consider not just treatment for those who need it."<br />
Alcohol dependence here is a "medical problem" and "based on the consequences and the science and symptoms of someone's drinking behavior," Brewer said.<br />
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People with alcohol dependence report symptoms such as withdrawal, unsuccessful attempts to cut down or stop drinking and continuing despite problems arising from drinking.<br />
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While about one in three adults drinks excessively, only one in 30 (or 3.5 percent) meets the clinical definition for alcohol dependence.<br />
The study also found that excessive and binge drinking, as well as alcoholism, was most common among 18- to 24 year-old men, with binge drinking most prevalent among people coming from households with an annual income of $75,000 or more.<br />
But<br />
alcoholism<br />
was<br />
most<br />
common<br />
among<br />
people<br />
who had family incomes of less than $25,000 and people who reported binge drinking 10 or more times in the past 30 days.<br />
The data comes from three years of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in which 138,100 people from around the country answered questions about their drinking habits.<br />
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That means all of the information was self-reported, and that kind of data is usually considered under-reported, the study authors noted.<br />
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Brewer said there are certain strategies that help reduce excessive drinking, such as increasing the price of alcohol and considering the geographic concentration of liquor licenses. The study<br />
"really gives us some further insight about what we need to be doing about dealing with this critical public health problem,"</div>

The new CDC studies shows how vast majority of Americans who drink excessively are not alcoholics

AMERICA Drinking excessively can cause serious #health risks and is responsible for an average of 88,000 deaths every year. But the …

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22 Nov 2014

Beyond alcohol, benefits of drinking beer

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Let me commence this contribution to this historical conference on #Beer and the Healthy Lifestyle by expressing my gratitude to organisers of this symposium, for the invitation to chair and speak at this occasion. I am particularly gratified that that at last the Nigerian beer drinkard (as the Nigerian writer would have put it) is being served by a Nigerian conference. Beer has been an important component of a healthy life style in human history for over four thousand years. It continues to be.<br />
My particular interest in beer and other beverages such as palm wine and grape wine began long ago, as a boy sent by my grandfather to harvest the juice of the palm tree which had been cut down and laid horizontal for easy collection.<br />
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 Later travels and further immersion in lifestyles led to particular passion for the ultimate relationship between alcohol and beer.<br />
Each area of human manipulation and invention contains an abiding puzzles. With car making it is always to invent a car that would, like the horse that inspired the automobile, move itself without a rider. The invention of automatic transmission brought that day forward. Today self-driving cars are being tested and we might have soon self-driving cars competing with life horses on the race course!<br />
In the field of aeroplanes, it would be the one that would fly without a pilot.<br />
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Today, drones fly past birds to do what they need to do. What then is the abiding puzzle in the case of beer brewing? Before I go into this I want to quote some of the major ways that Beer and Beer Brewing has enriched the languages and cultures of the world.<br />
“It was the accepted practice in ancient Babylonia 4000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride’s father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer, and because their calendar was lunar based, the period was called the ‘honey moon’ – or what we know today as the honey moon.”<br />
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“Before thermometers were invented, brewers would dip a thump or finger into the mix to find the right temperature for adding yeast. Too cold, and the yeast would not grow. Too hot, and the yeast would die. This thumb in the beer is where we get the phrase ‘rule of thumb’.”<br />
“In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So, in Old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settled down. It’s where we get the phrase mind your p’s and q’s!”<br />
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“Beer, we are told, was the reason the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock. It’s clear from the Mayflower’s log that the crew did not want to waste beer looking for a better site. The log goes on to state that the passengers were hasted ashore and made to drink water so that the seamen might have the more beer.”<br />
“After consuming a bucket or even two of a vibrant brew they called ‘aul’ or ‘ale’, the Vikings would head fearlessly into battle often without armour or even shirts. In fact, the term ‘berserk’ means ‘bare shirt’ in Norse, and eventually took on the meaning of their wild battles.”<br />
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“In 1740 Admiral Vernon of the British fleet decided to water-down the navy’s rum. Needless to say, the sailors were not too pleased and called Admiral Vernon Old Grog, after the stiff wool grogram coats he wore. The term ‘grog’ soon began to mean watered down drink itself. When you were drunk on this grog, you were ‘groggy’, a word still in use today.”<br />
I remember that one particular brand of beer Becks had been so domesticated that when my Uncle called for his Abeke I knew where to go and bring her!<br />
Now to go back to that abiding puzzle mentioned in the case of the automobile and aeroplane industries, which is still to be resolved in the industry of brewing of beer. What is the correct alcoholic content to make beer the best beer can be? Whoever can discover that formula would have done in beer brewing what the automobile and aeroplane industries have done for the pleasure car and the aircraft? Brewers have reduced the alcohol content drastically to create Beer Lite. At other times brewers have increased the alcohol content to hasten intake and effective inebriation! And there has been non-alcoholic beer as well.<br />
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In the rest of this presentation I wish to look at the health benefits of each one of these versions of beer: the non-alcoholic, the lite and the high alcoholic content. But let me sound a note of warning. All cultures preach one particular central virtue over and above every other virtue.<br />
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="fqcsn-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$fqcsn" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="fqcsn-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$fqcsn.0:$fqcsn-0-0">In terms of drink, “to drink moderately is to drink within the limits set by your health, the society in which you live and your obligations towards your family and friends: this means 1 – 3 drinks a day for most men. </span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="6h1gi-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$6h1gi" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="6h1gi-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$6h1gi.0:$6h1gi-0-0"><br data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$6h1gi.0:$6h1gi-0-0.0" /></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="9blli-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$9blli" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="9blli-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$9blli.0:$9blli-0-0">Women are more sensitive to alcohols, so they are advised to drink less than men: 1 – 2 drinks a day.” This amounts to a quarter litre glass having between 4 and 5 per cent alcohol 10g by volume. This approximates to beer lite.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="bqfih-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bqfih" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="bqfih-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bqfih.0:$bqfih-0-0">Alcohol and the natural raw materials from which beer is brewed are good to drink and are also good for the health. They are not health risks when taken moderately. Foods and drinks consumed by human beings contain both bad fat and good fat. When alcohol is consumed there is an increase of good fat. This is the fat that the body can easily convert to energy. Bad fat has a habit of sitting at the neck or at the guts or anywhere else that would give it space. Alcohol does not contain this bad type of fat.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="896ca-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$896ca" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="896ca-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$896ca.0:$896ca-0-0">There is also medical evidence that alcohol consumption has a blood thinning effect and this leads to the reduction of the tendency of blood to form clots. As we know now blood clots prevent the flow of blood to the heart and the brain thus causing massive heart attacks. It is also true that moderate alcohol consumption reduces the inflammation of the inner linings of the nerves as well as a lower level of insulin resistance. Any alcohol, whether sourced from beer or wine or any other beverage, protects the heart. How much and how often must be governed by the rules of moderation spelt out earlier. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4vpgt-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$4vpgt.0:$4vpgt-0-0"><br data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$4vpgt.0:$4vpgt-0-0.0" /></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="31lk3-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$31lk3" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="31lk3-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$31lk3.0:$31lk3-0-0">The consumption of beer with a meal is considered a better way rather than drinking on an empty stomach.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="51hcj-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$51hcj" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="51hcj-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$51hcj.0:$51hcj-0-0">Specifically, there are some illnesses and diseases which can be prevented, minimised or completely prevented by the consumption of alcohol. Some of these are Diabetes Mellitus, weakening of the bones (osteoporosis) as a result of the increase in blood of oestrogen associated with alcohol consumption in women. Others are Dementias which is the decline of cognitive ability with the advance of age. Parkinson’s disease, Gallstones and Kidney stones are other illnesses.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="3a7tq-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3a7tq" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="3a7tq-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3a7tq.0:$3a7tq-0-0"><br data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$3a7tq.0:$3a7tq-0-0.0" /></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="d0gs3-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$d0gs3" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="d0gs3-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$d0gs3.0:$d0gs3-0-0">These illnesses and diseases are helped by the presence of flaveroid and silicon, minerals present in beer. Moderate consumption of alcohol creates a feeling of well-being, reducing stress and tension.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="du3ci-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$du3ci" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="du3ci-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$du3ci.0:$du3ci-0-0">Moderate consumption of beer for health effects:</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="d9dtq-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$d9dtq" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="d9dtq-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$d9dtq.0:$d9dtq-0-0">Beer drinking can make a positive contribution to a healthy diet because of its wholesome raw materials used in brewing beer. These natural raw materials are cereals, hops, yeast and water. </span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="bm1mi-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bm1mi" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="bm1mi-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bm1mi.0:$bm1mi-0-0"><br data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$bm1mi.0:$bm1mi-0-0.0" /></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="5l6am-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$5l6am" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="5l6am-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$5l6am.0:$5l6am-0-0">There are soluble fibres derivable from the cell walls of barley which are good for human health. All these natural materials contain antioxidants, vitamins especially of the B variation, silicon and fibre. Beer generally on the average is 93% water. As a result beer is a thirst quencher of the first order with low alcohol. Research on alcohol-free beer has shown that these benefits are also present as well. This would mean that it is not only beer that has alcohol content that gives these benefits. So, beyond alcohol, the potential beneficial effects of the natural ingredients of beer are likely to apply to non-alcoholic beer.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="96rul-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$96rul" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="96rul-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$96rul.0:$96rul-0-0">Going further on barley’s soluble fibre, two glasses of beer contains in average 10% of the recommended daily intake of soluble fibre. Some beers can provide up to 30% of this food item. Fibre slows down digestion and absorption of food and reduces cholesterol levels.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="b146c-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$b146c" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="4k9ef-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$4k9ef" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="4k9ef-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$4k9ef.0:$4k9ef-0-0">Cholesterol as we all know or should know helps the risks of heart disease.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="68i1k-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$68i1k.0:$68i1k-0-0">People who drink beer have protection from bacterium helicobacter pylori, a bacterium known to cause the majority of stomach ulcers and may be a risk of stomach cancer.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="c0ic8-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$c0ic8" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="c0ic8-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$c0ic8.0:$c0ic8-0-0">Depending on style and process of brewing antioxidants present in beer from malt (barley) and hops as ingredients can be high or low. It is generally believed that antioxidants may play a role in the protection against cancer through their action against free radicals. Antioxidants also inhibit blood clotting.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="n370-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$n370" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="n370-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$n370.0:$n370-0-0"><br data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$n370.0:$n370-0-0.0" /></span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="5fk67-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$5fk67" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="5fk67-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$5fk67.0:$5fk67-0-0">Vitamins and Minerals:</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="dpf1f-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$dpf1f" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="dpf1f-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$dpf1f.0:$dpf1f-0-0">Present in beer and various forms of vitamin B: macin, riboflavin (vitamin B2) pyroduxine (vitamin B6) folate (vitamin B9) and cabolamin (vitamin B12).</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="2bpjg-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$2bpjg" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="2bpjg-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$2bpjg.0:$2bpjg-0-0">Some of the minerals present in beer are high potassium, low sodium, low calcium and rich magnesium which protects against gall stones and kidney stones formation. Silicon intake is associated with healthy bones.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="c65nd-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$c65nd" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="c65nd-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$c65nd.0:$c65nd-0-0">Hops:</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7762l-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7762l" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="7762l-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7762l.0:$7762l-0-0">Small quantities of the flower from hops are used to preserve beer as well as to flavour it. Beer is the only dietary source of hops and flavonoids found in hops helps to fight cancer.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="7vqvu-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$7vqvu" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="9e84d-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$9e84d" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="9e84d-0-0" data-reactid=".8u.1:3:1:$comment1572303559654831_1572305229654664:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$9e84d.0:$9e84d-0-0">Beer does not contain fat or cholesterol and it is low in free sugar. Any calories which beer contain, comes from the alcohol content. And as mentioned earlier research into non-alcoholic beer shows that the benefits derivable from beer with alcohol are also found in beer without alcohol.</span></div>
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Beyond alcohol, benefits of drinking beer

Let me commence this contribution to this historical conference on #Beer and the Healthy Lifestyle by expressing my gratitude to organisers of this symposium, for the invitation to chair and speak at…

francisjohnsonofficial@Gmail.com

22 Nov 2014

National Health Service And The English Reformation

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As #politicians squabble over England’s ailing health service, the bureaucrats have offered some promising medicine.<br />
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A SENIOR Conservative politician once described England’s beloved National Health Service (NHS) as “the closest thing the English have to a religion” (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland run their own services). Yet, as with many religions, passionate devotion can often stand in the way of serious analysis. Public discussion is too often reduced to an absurd competition about who can express support for the institutions of the NHS in the most unqualified terms, says Stephen Dorrell, a former Conservative health secretary. Anyone who tries to introduce nuance “quickly finds out what it must have felt like to be regarded as a heretic in a more religious age”.<br />
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With a general election looming, all parties want to look righteous, and are not thinking critically. The Labour Party, most trusted by voters to run the NHS, wants to make it the primary issue. The Tories, though supportive of the service, don’t want to talk about it. Whichever party succeeds stands a better chance of winning in May. But the result is an unholy mess.<br />
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Tight budgets and increasing demand from Britain’s greying population have put the NHS under huge strain.<br />
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But unlike other departments, forced to cut and reform, it lacks a clear consensus and firm direction on how it should adjust to straitened times. National targets for waiting times and length of stay in hospital do not necessarily lead to better care. Emergency wards are clogged and the money is about to run out.<br />
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While politicians, afraid of being accused of heresy, make timid suggestions, Simon Stevens, the NHS’s innovative new boss, has offered his own ideas for reform.<br />
NHS spending is up 3.6% in real terms since the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government came to power in 2010, according to the King’s Fund, a think-tank. Even so, the service is struggling to hold itself together.<br />
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Occasional cash injections have helped it cope with an increase in patients. But with 3m people still waiting for care, the highest total in six years, more is needed. Even if spending keeps up with inflation, the NHS claims its budget may fall short by £30 billion a year by 2021.<br />
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The Conservatives’ main move has been to back away from their own reforms, passed in 2012, which increased competition, gave health officials more autonomy and handed control over the purchase of care to groups of local doctors. Never understood by voters, these are now seen as a political disaster. But some aspects—like experiments in integrating services and moving care out of hospitals—deserve support. Labour, meanwhile, wants to merge the NHS with “social care”—looking after the elderly, disabled and mentally ill—which is run by local authorities and is also cash-strapped. That is a laudable goal, but it would probably involve another reorganisation and huge cost. So would a plan by Andy Burnham, the shadow health secretary, to take the service back in time by favouring NHS providers over private competitors for contracts.<br />
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Spending on non-NHS services ticked up slightly, to 9.5% of net NHS expenditure in the last financial year, according to Reform, a think-tank.<br />
Otherwise, the parties have simply promised to throw more money at the problem.<br />
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Labour says it would boost the NHS’s budget, which sits at £110 billion, by £2.5 billion a year if it wins the election.<br />
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The Conservatives say they would continue with real-term increases, which have averaged £1 billion a year under this government. The trouble is neither of these pledges would come near to closing the funding gap, nor would they maintain the current rate of spending when accounting for the ageing population (see chart). The longer-term trend is yet more worrying. England spends just over 6% of national income on the NHS. If this continues the share would rise to 20% and account for half of government spending by 2061.<br />
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Defenders of the NHS have had suspicions about Mr Stevens ever since he started work in April. He arrived from UnitedHealth, a private American health-care firm. Before that, he worked on Tony Blair’s pro-market health reforms.<br />
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="14j0p-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$14j0p" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="14j0p-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$14j0p.0:$14j0p-0-0">Recognising that advocating change to the NHS is inevitably political, he has stepped carefully. Nevertheless the five-year plan he published last month looks to change the service in a big way.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="f2fch-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$f2fch" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="f2fch-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$f2fch.0:$f2fch-0-0">Mr Stevens reckons he can save £22 billion a year by 2021 through curbing hospital admissions and limiting demand for services. This would involve better public-health efforts, but also a major restructuring of existing institutions to break down barriers between family doctors and hospitals, physical and mental health, and health and social care.</span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="aq325-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$aq325" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="aq325-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$aq325.0:$aq325-0-0">For this he will rely on local efforts, but he has given officials a menu of models from which they could choose. These include allowing hospitals more freedom to provide primary care and helping them to support care homes to prevent emergency admissions. Others involve allowing local doctors to provide some services normally done in hospital and getting smaller hospitals to team up and share administrative costs.</span></div>
<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="92ca0-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$92ca0" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="92ca0-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$92ca0.0:$92ca0-0-0">The plan is politically astute. It does not mention competition or privatisation, which raise hackles. But many of its ambitions can be achieved only through greater use of the private sector, says Thomas Cawston of Policy Exchange, a centre-right think-tank.</span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="ag64b-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$ag64b" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="ag64b-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$ag64b.0:$ag64b-0-0">Mr Stevens also calls for consolidating services, pointing to how 32 stroke units in London were reduced to eight, with positive results. He does not suggest closing facilities, though officials may have to. Nor does he propose ending favourable contracts for staff, or consider controversial user charges and higher taxes to make up the remaining £8 billion gap.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="r25a-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$r25a.0:$r25a-0-0">Mr Stevens has so far avoided any big fights, but he will face resistance from entrenched interests.</span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="55vav-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$55vav" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="55vav-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$55vav.0:$55vav-0-0">Take the situation in Bedfordshire, where the group responsible for purchasing services has bundled 20 contracts for musculoskeletal care into one that was won by Circle, a commercial health group. Mr Stevens is supportive of such agreements to integrate services. But the local NHS hospital has so far refused to work with Circle, lest it lose customers (ie, patients) and upset its balance-sheet, on which hospitals are, in part, judged.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="b4k7d-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$b4k7d.0:$b4k7d-0-0">For now, though, it is perhaps enough that Mr Stevens has pleased the politicians. Labour and the Tories continue to spar over the NHS, but both parties have expressed support for his plan. He will need it. </span></div>
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<div class="_209g _2vxa" data-block="true" data-offset-key="fqv89-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$fqv89" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; direction: ltr; font-family: 'helvetica neue', helvetica, arial, 'lucida grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span data-offset-key="fqv89-0-0" data-reactid=".8q.1:3:1:$comment1572495569635630_1572500106301843:0.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.$fqv89.0:$fqv89-0-0">The difference this time, says Mr Stevens, is that the NHS has little choice.</span></div>
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A bad #marriage can literally break your heart, especially if you’re a woman<br />
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Yes, love is grand and can heal all wounds, as they say. But bad marriages can do just the opposite. People in unhappy marriages are at a much higher risk for heart disease than people in more joyous unions, according to a first-of-its kind study released this week.<br />
"Married people seem healthier because marriage may promote health," said lead study investigator Hui Liu, a Michigan State University sociologist. "But it's not that every marriage is better than none. The quality of marriage is really important."<br />
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That negative effect on cardiovascular health was even more pronounced for women and older adults, as found in the National Institutes of Health-funded study published this week in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.<br />
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It's one of the first to take a nationally-representative sample of adults and examine the impact of marriage quality on heart health over time.<br />
Liu and researchers combed through five years of data taken from 1,200 adults in their late 50s to 80s, and determined respondents' heart health, measured by factors such as heart attacks, strokes and cholesterol levels.<br />
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They then compared heart health to how these adults said they felt about their marriages. Wives and husbands (who were not married to each other) answered questions about how close they felt to their spouses,<br />
how<br />
happy<br />
their<br />
marriages<br />
were,<br />
 and how demanding and critical they felt their spouses were.<br />
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Both negative and positive marital qualities were taken into account as "some people really love each other and have a lot of happiness, but at other times they may have a lot of arguments," Liu said. But the bad was more powerful than the good; Liu found that negative martial qualities hurt a spouse's heart health more than positive qualities helped.<br />
Being in an unhappy marriage can cause stress, which has a direct link with cardiovascular health. And those effects accumulate. "It's not like you have contact with your spouse and the next day you have heart disease," Liu said. "It really takes time. That may explain why it's stronger for older people. Your body will remember the effect."<br />
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Such marriages can also push you toward unhealthy and harmful habits, like drinking a lot or smoking.<br />
But why is it that women were hurt even more by unhappiness in a marriage? Liu said it's possible that women are more likely to internalize their feelings, feel depressed and be more sensitive than the men in their relationships. They also found that when women were sick with heart disease, it lowered the quality of a marriage, but not when men were sick. Liu said women are more likely to serve in a care giver role for their sick husbands and be more sensitive to not exacerbating stress, but husbands may not be as sensitive about the relationship when their wives are sick.<br />
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Heart health isn't only thing Liu and her team are interested in exploring; next they'll look at the impact of marriage quality as it relates to diabetes, and the health dynamics within couples themselves.<br />
So while a lot of marriage counseling may focus on younger couples, the study authors emphasize that older couples would be wise to pay attention to the qualities of their marriages, too. Their hearts may very well depend upon doing so.</div>

MARRIAGE

A bad #marriage can literally break your heart, especially if you’re a woman Yes, love is grand and can heal all wounds, as they say. But bad marriages can do just the opposite. People in unhappy mar…

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22 Nov 2014

Read How a Russian Web site peers into your home and your baby’s room, by hacking webcams

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In a dark corner of the #Internet, a profound violation of privacy is quietly unfolding unknowing to thousands of victims.<br />
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A Russian-based Web site allows its users to silently flip through hundreds of lives, observe for as long they’d like, and depart for the next living room, the next gym, the next child’s bedroom. There, through the grainy lens of a hacked webcam, you’ll find a New Jersey infant sleeping in a crib, the image of an Iowa high school hallway or an Illinois convenience store clerk.<br />
In all, the advertisement-festooned Web site takes you to nearly 4,600 locations in nearly every state in the nation. And then beyond. More than 2,000 French webcams have also been hacked.<br />
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As have 1,576 Dutch cams, 870 Japanese and 584 British. Even footage from Gambia, Mozambique and Bahrain make an appearance on the site, the URL of which DanglingReport is not publishing for reasons of privacy.<br />
The captured images of thousands serve as another stark reminder that private lives are not safe on the Internet.<br />
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 As this Web site proves,<br />
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                                        need<br />
                                                 to<br />
                                                       be<br />
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                                                            savvy.<br />
They only need to walk through the digital equivalent of an open door leading into the homes of Americans who don’t create a password to protect their webcams or Internet-connected baby monitors. When that happens, a camera may use a default password that everybody and anybody knows.<br />
That lapse, which concerns officials and  watchdogs, is exactly what the site’s managers claim they want to draw attention to.<br />
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In a Vice interview late last month, the unnamed operators saidtheir intentions are benign — though they do clearly derive some profits from the Web site, festooned with pop-up advertisements.<br />
“Only [the Web site] can prove the scale of the problem,” the hacker toldVice, adding no one has requested to have their cameras removed. “The problem was in darkness for many years.<br />
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Most people still do not know.” The operator said he or she devised a program that’s “automated” and collects thousands more every week.<br />
An edited screenshot shows a  Russian Web site where images  from hacked webcams are  displayed.<br />
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But some webcam users appear to be creating and switching their passwords. Vice’s three-week old report found the site was then surveilling nearly 4,000 more American locations than it does today. And if people are changing their passwords, it’s exactly what some officials want. “The danger of using weak passwords has been exposed again this month after a new website was launched that allows people to watch live footage from some of the insecure cameras in the world,” the British Information Commissioner’s Office said in a statement. “The website, which is based in Russia, accesses the information by using the default login credentials, which are freely available online, for thousands of cameras.”<br />
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The site targets some of the world’s most widely-used brands of webcams:<br />
                                  Foscam,<br />
                                       Hikivision,<br />
                                          Panasonic,<br />
                                            IPCamera and<br />
                                                            Linksys.<br />
Its operators add: The only way to remove your home from the Web site is to change your password, otherwise users can find it by simply browsing the cameras and “selecting the country or camera type.”<br />
The targeted camera companies are not thrilled by the news. “An analogy best describing this would be just because someone leaves their window open it does not give permission for an authorized individual to set up a camera outside their window and broadcast the feed worldwide,” Foscam chief executive Chase Rhymes said in a statement reported by the BBC.<br />
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Perhaps most alarming, the privacy of infants is being violated. Paging through the Web site early Friday, numerous babies could be observed, sleeping in their cribs. Is it necessary to intrude upon sleeping infants to raise awareness about Internet security?<br />
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One professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University  concededin an interview with Vice that provocative action can sometimes ignite change — but this? “What is different about this is that there are actual victims,” Matthew Green told Vice. “They are individuals…. There are a lot of people who pull stunts, and try to make a name for themselves.”<br />
And, judging from the advertisements, a few bucks, (money) too.</div>

Read How a Russian Web site peers into your home and your baby’s room, by hacking webcams

RUSSIA Photo showing a sleeping baby captured without the parent knowledge In a dark corner of the #Internet, a profound violation of p…

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