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Study reveals popular brands tooth paste fail to stop enamel loss

Toothpaste alone does not prevent dental erosions. D ental erosion occurs when hard tissue is lost due to acidic break down combined with abrasive brushing or tongue movements.Continuous erosion can expose the underlying dentine, which causes people to suffer sensitivity and pain. After analysing nine fluoridated toothpastes that are available in India,including Colgate and Sensodyne Rapid Relief, researchers found enamel loss still occurs to some extent despite regular brushing. Speaking of the importance of a complete oral-care regimen, study author Dr Samira Helena João-Souza, from the University of São Paulo said 'Dental erosion is multifactorial. It has to do with brushing, and above all, with diet. 'Food and drink are increasingly acidic as a result of industrial processing.' The researchers plan to conduct a similar experiment that also measures any pain relief. The researchers created 150 enamel samples out of premolar teeth, which were preserved until required. Su...

Oxytocin hormone misuse in dairy and farming.

The hormone is also used to increase the size of vegetables such as pumpkins, watermelons, brinjals, gourds and cucumbers.   Oxytocin is a peptide hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland and is now chemically synthesised. It has medical use for induction and augmentation of labour, to control post- partum bleeding and uterine hypotonicity. The drug is also used in veterinary in case of retention of placenta and expulsion of foetus.  "Oxytocin injections are being illicitly used by dairy owners to extract milk leading to its harmful effects on humans as well as livestock. We want a strict surveillance for this drug. Despite a ban, it is being used in the dairy industry without a prescription from a registered medical practitioner. We want to curb this practice,  said Dr Jagdish Prasad, Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Union Health Ministry. The misuse of this growth promoter drug is also reported in cases where children are trafficked fo...

High Risk on these Non Banking Financial Companies.

Financial Intelligence Unit of India listed over 9500 NBFCs as high Risk NBFCs Financial Intelligence Unit – India (FIU-IND) was set by the Government of India vide O.M. dated 18th November 2004 as the central national agency responsible for receiving, processing, analyzing and disseminating information relating to suspect financial transactions. Get Full List Here

Excellent alternative for OpenVPN client for Linux with GUI

OAST OpenVPN GUI is a OpenVPN client for both Windows and Linux. Read this How to setup OpenVPN Step 1: Download these script Linux x86 client: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oast/files/oast/OAST%202.4/oast-2.4-linux-x86.sh/download Linux x86-64 client: http://sourceforge.net/projects/oast/files/oast/OAST%202.4/oast-2.4-linux-x86-64.sh/download 1) Download the oast-2.4-linux-x86.sh file and save it to your "Downloads" folder 2) Open "Terminal" by Ctrl+Alt+T then enter the following commands: cd Downloads/ → to open the directory where the file is located sudo chmod +x oast-2.4-linux-x86.sh → to make the file executable ./oast-2.4-linux-x86.sh → to execute the file (try “sh ./oast-2.4-linux-x86.sh” if not working) *.Software requirements OpenVPN service and Java runtime environment are installed, make sure to install these packages prior to installing OAST: sudo apt-get install openvpn default-jre gksu -y → Debian based distributions (Ubuntu, Mi...

Use Firefox with Container Tab Extension and stop advertising tracking you.

Containers is a feature in Firefox  lets you separate your work, shopping or personal browsing without having to clear your history, log in and out, or use multiple browsers.   Container tabs are like normal tabs except the sites you visit will have access to a separate slice of the browser's storage. This means your site preferences, logged in sessions, and advertising tracking data won't carry over to the new container. Likewise, any browsing you do within the new container will not affect your logged in sessions, or tracking data of your other containers. Normally, For example, generally if you have logged into any particular website account, all tabs in Firefox browser window will show you logged in with the same user account and you can't use a different user account created on same website.  With Container Tab you'll be able to use different user accounts and identities on same website in same Firefox browser window . It becomes possible because each contain...