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DATE: 05/21/2007 / MOOD: in love

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DATE: 04/23/2007 / MOOD: other

Experts warn more and more women are taking up drinking

Women who drink the equivalent of roughly two bottles of wine over a weekend more than double their risk of breast cancer, say Danish researchers.

A study of 17,647 nurses found twice the risk of breast cancer in women who drank 22-27 drinks a week compared with those who drank one to three drinks.

The risk was greatest when drinks were consumed in a short period, reported the European Journal of Public Health.

Experts said women should try and limit the amount of alcohol they drank.

Women in the study were aged over 44, and most drank a moderate amount of alcohol.

A drink was classed as a bottle of beer or a glass of wine or spirit, which in Denmark is roughly 12g of alcohol.

Dr Alison Ross, Cancer Research UK

In the UK, a unit of alcohol is around 8g.

More than a quarter of the women drank more than the recommended 14 drinks a week.

One in 10 were week-day binge drinkers, having more than four drinks a day and 13% were weekend binge drinkers, defined as more than 10 drinks between Friday and Sunday.

There was a 2% increased risk of breast cancer for each additional drink consumed, but at weekends there was a 4% increased risk with each additional drink.

The researchers said this was because more drinks were likely to be consumed in a weekend drinking session.

Drinking 22-27 drinks over the course of the week was linked to a 130% increased risk.

Those who drank excessively on just one day during the week increased their risk by 55%.

Oestrogen

The researchers said higher alcohol intake may increase levels of oestrogen - a hormone associated with the development of breast cancer.

Dr Lina Morch a researcher in the Centre for Alcohol Research in Denmark, who led the study, said: "What our study suggests is that the total amount of alcohol consumed has a detrimental effect on the risk of breast cancer, but also the drinking pattern seems to have an impact on the risk.

"When more drinks are consumed within a limited time frame the concentration of alcohol in the blood peaks, which we suppose is more harmful than when the same amount of alcohol is consumed over longer time periods."

She advised women to drink moderate amounts of alcohol and to avoid consuming lots of drinks in one day.

Figures from the Health Survey for England in 2003 showed that 23% of women aged between 16 and 24 drank over 21 units a week.

A previous study by Cancer Research UK found that a woman's risk of breast cancer increases with every additional daily drink of alcohol.

Dr Alison Ross, Cancer Research UK's science information officer, said: "Researchers estimate that alcohol causes at least 2,000 breast cancer cases every year in the UK.

"Even small amounts of alcohol can increase the risk of breast cancer. Other research has shown an increase of risk of 7% for each alcoholic drink consumed on a daily basis.

"To reduce the risk of breast cancer our advice remains to limit the amount of alcohol you drink and try to keep a healthy body weight."

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DATE: 04/20/2007 / MOOD: in love

US shooting raises queries on dealing with mental illness Fri Apr 20, 12:21 PM BLACKSBURG, United States (AFP) - The massacre at Virginia Tech has sparked an intense debate over how to deal with mental illness and how best to protect society from people with violent tendencies. University officials faced a barrage of questions Thursday about why they allowed gunman Cho Seung-Hui to remain in school despite a history of mental problems and stalking. But while some are calling for a reform of the mental health system and the expulsion of disturbed students, experts say the solution is not that simple. Strange behavior is not sufficient to force a student into counseling, and even the best practitioners cannot always predict when a patient has become a danger to themselves or to others, experts said. "There can be signs, but it's not a crime to be odd," said Maggie Olona, head of student counseling at Texas A&M University and president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors. "There is nothing we can do if someone doesn't give us evidence to act." Privacy and patient rights laws can also prevent forcible treatment and doctors or university administrators from telling relatives that something is wrong. "Your hands are really tied unless you feel that there's some sort of imminent danger," said Richard Kadison, chief of mental health services at Harvard University. The vast majority of people with mental illnesses are not violent and it is hard to predict whether those with violent tendencies will ever carry them out, said Mardi Horowitz, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. "A number of people have a great deal of hatred permeating their personality, a great deal of inferiority they're trying to convert into a grandiose act and a great deal of envy for anyone who has what they want," Horowitz told AFP. Civil rights laws prevent the state from institutionalizing people simply because they might be dangerous and people can only be forcibly admitted if there is a concrete threat they could harm someone. Cho, 23, has been described as a sullen loner by students, teachers and his roommates and his violent writings and intimidating manner raised alarm bells among some of his professors long before he went on a rampage Monday killing 32 persons and himself. Cho was committed to a mental institution in December 2005 after one of two stalking incidents involving female students but was released the next day for outpatient treatment after he was deemed not to be a danger to others. "He broke no law that we know of," Chris Flynn of the Cook Counseling Center said at a press conference. While mass shootings are rare, a large number of students have mental health problems and practitioners say there are not enough resources to help them all. Nearly 18 percent of college students say they suffer from depression and 12 percent say they suffer from anxiety, according to a recent study by the American College Health Association. Even more disturbing is that nine percent of college students said they had seriously considered suicide and one percent had tried to kill themselves in the past year. In addition to safety concerns, administrators have to worry about liability. More universities have begun forcing suicidal students to withdraw following a 2003 lawsuit by the parents of an MIT student who committed suicide. But that can also lead to lawsuits: George Washington University recently paid a settlement to a student it suspended after he sought help for depression when he claimed the school violated federal disability laws. "Everyone's going to be looking at those threshold points, and (ask) 'When do we take more drastic action?'" said Kevin Kruger, associate executive director of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. "It's the classic tension between individual freedom -- the right of every individual to stay on campus -- with the interests of the community." "My gut (feeling) on this is, we're going to become more likely to want to remove students from the educational environment," Kruger said.

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DATE: 04/20/2007 / MOOD: happy

Good day to all,

Hope all is well with you and yours, so far it's a gorgeous sunny day here, hoping to go do some shopping later...lol, I dont intend to spend much today, I spent way too much since Sunday.So today it will be just what I really need

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DATE: 04/20/2007 / MOOD: disappointed

If you're like me then you will have had your fill of the bloody killings of all those Soldiers in Afghanistan coming home in board boxes for their families to bury. It's disturbing to see that weekly! why wont the Government remove them from the war, are they waiting until every last one is dead, while the Taliban sits back and laugh, saying I told you so, you'll all die here! I say it's time they came home, the Afghans dont want them there, and they'll do everything to get rid of them. What's your take on this, should the soldiers come home now, or do you think there is still work to be done, while we loose more lives?

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