More ‘Good’ Aspirin News

Will the good news about the benefits of taking aspirin never cease?

New research suggests taking aspirin in your 40s could cut the risk of cancer later in life apart from the earlier suggestions it may help prevent heart disease. On the other side of the coin,aspirin has also been linked to a raised risk of ulcers and internal bleeding.

A study by Cancer Research UK has been published in the journal Lancet Oncology.  According to a report on the BBC.co.uk website, aspirin apparently blocks the effects of proteins which can trigger inflammation, and which are found at unusually high levels in several types of cancer. Previous research suggests people who take the drug are less likely to develop bowel, breast and possibly some other types of cancer. However, regular use of aspirin specifically for cancer prevention is not currently recommended because of the risk of side effects. Common cancers, such as prostate, breast, lung and bowel, tend to develop after the age of 60 – when the risk of aspirin causing internal bleeding is at its highest. Lead researcher Professor Jack Cuzick, from the Cancer Research UK Centre for Epidemiology at Queen Mary, University of London, said pre-cancerous lesions tended to start developing in the mid-40s.

Thus, taking aspirin around that time may be the best strategy for preventing that damage progressing to the full-blown disease. It would also carry a much lower risk of side effects than beginning to take aspirin 15-20 years later.  However, Professor Cuzick told the BBC: “Many questions need to be answered before we would advise regular use of aspirin for cancer prevention.

“Future research and more clinical trials are needed to better identify those people who are at high risk of developing cancers and at low risk of side effects, who will benefit most from aspirin treatment.”

Professor Cuzick said it was not clear a lower dose “baby aspirin” could achieve the same anti-cancer effect as the standard dose of 300mg/day. The researchers also found that taking aspirin in combination with other drugs known as proton pump inhibitors could help to lower the risk of stomach bleeding.

Dr Lesley Walker, Cancer Research UK’s director of cancer information, said: “It’s too soon to recommend that people take aspirin to try and stop cancer developing because of the side effects.

“It’s important that any decision to take aspirin regularly is only made in consultation with a GP.”

Ellen Mason, of the British Heart Foundation (BHF), also stressed to the BBC it was too early for researchers to recommend taking aspirin to reduce the risk of cancer. “Currently the risk of bleeding outweighs the benefit,” she reportedly said. “Many thousands of people in the UK are prescribed aspirin because they have heart disease. “This research does not prove that they will also get protection from cancer at a low dose, but as they already need to take aspirin it would be reassuring if further research eventually shows an anti-cancer benefit.”

The new future of Wanobe

Wanobe Editor David Noble launches new look Wanobe as site for ambitious and aspirational 40 year old women and men

Wanobe has decided to step forward into a new future by taking a short step back into the recent past! Yes, we’ve decided to unfocus all our attention on becoming an exclusive WebTV provider to instead focus on building outselves as the quality network for ambitious and aspirational men and women in their 40s.

We believe what sets us apart from other social and professional networking sites is our desire to be a really exciting, useful tool for people in their 40s who are interested in financial freedom and achieving a good balance between pleasure and work.

By avoiding the frothy and irrelevant, we aim to deliver you smart and practical content that is a lifestyle enabler providing insights and advice on topics core to the way you want to live your life – at work, rest and play.

We want to facilitate the way you gather unique and valuable information while offering a fresh avenue to connect socially and professionally with a quality community of like-minded individuals.

I hope you enjoy the new Wanobe.com. And also that we deliver on your desire as a 40-something to make informed choices about finding the best things in life. Please don’t hesitate to let me know what more we could be doing for you.

Wanobe WebTV

Welcome to Wanobe Web TV, where you can help put a smile on the planet!

Watch great comedy and music videos by aspiring artists from around the world. And help bust the financial gloom by voting for your favourite band or comic to make them a winner. Every month your favourite original music or comic video can win a prize if it is voted the top choice by Wanobe members. We’ll also introduce winners to theatrical or music agents who could bring them stardom and we’re exploring staging a Wanobe Award Show to allow selected winners to perform in front of a live audience.

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GIive women a sporting chance!

Female athletes swept the medal board at the Olympics, but four out of five women in Britain apparently do hardly any exercise.

You can hardly avoid the sleek, toned and every inch an Olympic gold medallist, cyclist Rebecca Romero posing nude on her bike. After all, the 28-year-old’s naked image has been plastered across billboards to advertise sports drink Powerade.

There is a very good reason she has done so. The London-based Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation (WSFF) are keeping their fingers crossed that Romero will inspire a new generation of sportswomen.

Facing the daunting statistic that only one in five women take regular exercise, the UK charity devoted to getting more women into sport admits it’s got a problem.
According to the foundation, girls and boys start out with equal levels of activity, but by the time girls reach the age of 16, they are half as active as young men.

“Girls as young as seven stop playing sports because they don’t want to seem ‘unfeminine’,” says WSFF chief executive Sue Tibballs. “But with images of women like Rebecca looking strong, successful and sexy, they might change their minds.”

But Tibballs says this kind of attention is all too rare.

“At a time when female obesity levels are soaring, rates of activity are on the wane and women are struggling with their body image, Tibballs says that sport could be the answer.

“We are significantly less active than other countries like Australia and the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. What’s great about the Olympics is watching women use their bodies in a strong and confident way. Predominantly the women who are famous in our culture are slim or skinny – the size zero generation. What kind of role model is that?

“It’s all about creating that cultural shift where girls grow up to think that doing sport, being fit and healthy is a really aspirational and a good thing.”

I have to say I agree. You can check the full story out on our sports page … Have fun, rock on, stay fit, friends!

Mind the age gap

Twice their age and far less attractive, older men like Ronnie Woods, John Cleese and Salman Rushdie continue to attract gorgeous young girlfriends. Wanobe’s reporter Sara O’Meara talked to author Judy Astley and others about the appeal of older men and why these relationships are usually doomed.

For many folks, relationships between older men and young woman seem crazy and unnatural. I mean why would a 19-year-old Russian waitress choose to date a man like 61-year-old Ronnie Wood?

But Ronnie’s nnot the only older man to bag a younger woman. At 61, Salman Rushdie’s latest squeeze is 27, John Cleese recently began dating an American woman aged 34, and 32-year-old DJ Mark Ronson is reportedly planning to marry 19-year-old model Daisy Lowe.

Some beleive that the age gap relationship is a trade off. The younger lady is looking for someone to make her feel safe and the older man is looking for someone who doesn’t answer back and is a trophy.

Christine Northam, a counsellor for relationship service Relate, told our reporter that couples with a large age difference need to work harder than most. She says that a large age gap can create a minefield of potential problems.

“Practically and emotionally you’re always going to be at different stages of development in terms of your career, your social life and starting a family. Success would entirely depend on exploring these possible areas of conflict and facing them head on.”

However, fiction writer Judy Astley who explores the age gap idea in her new romantic novel, Other People’s Husbands., believes ‘a relationship with a big gap can have an added spark.’

“I know a couple, she’s in her 50s and he’s over 80. He’s kept her fairly balanced, and she’s kept him young. He still can dive in to the sea off a high rock.”

Now that is what I call cool and living life out loud regardless of age. Check out the full article under the Family category in our News, tips and reviews section. I think in my next blog I’ll look at older women with younger men.

Have fun, rock on, friends!

Magical mind, magical body

Summer is a great time, whatever the weather. It’s a period when we regather our energy, soaking in the warmth and sunshine (yes, even in rainy Britain, the sun is known to shine occasionally during the summertime).

For me, summer is a time to laze around reading.

And I’ve just been given some amazing insights into the body’s relationship to the mind by reading  Deepak Chopra’s, Magical Mind Magical Body’.

Chopra explains how personality impacts choice of food, music and activities and how we can use this knowledge to optimise our health and potential.

All awesome stuff as evidenced by some of the mind-blowing facts provided about body and mind:

- In a year, a person`s heart beats 40,000,000 times.
- The average human’s heart will beat 3,000 million times in their lifetime.
- The average human will pump 48 million gallons of blood in their lifetime.
- In 1 square inch of skin there lies 4 yards of nerve fibers, 1300 nerve cells, 100 sweat glands, 3 million cells, and 3 yards of blood vessels.
- The structural plan of a whale’s, a dog’s, a bird’s and a man’s ‘arm’ are exactly the same.
- There are 45 miles of nerves in the skin of a human being.
- Most people blink about 25 times a minute.
- Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.
- Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170-miles per hour.
- You use an average of 43 muscles for a frown. You use an average of 17 muscles for a smile.
- Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle.
- You burn 26 calories in a one-minute kiss.
- The average human body contains enough: Sulphur to kill all fleas on an average dog, Carbon to make 900 pencils, Potassium to fire a toy cannon, Fat to make 7 bars of soap, Phosphorus to make 2,200 matchheads, and enough water to fill a ten-gallon tank.
- A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
- The tooth is the only part of the human body that can’t repair itself.
Live well, live happy, folks – and keep on rocking!

On being awesome

On being awesome … and the meaning of life

We don’t claim to know the meaning of life at Wanobe.com, but we do understand our user’s desire to have a lifestyle site that is superb, really useful and easy to use.

That’s why we are working hard to make this site an awesome tool when it comes to delivering more fun, more useful features and some outstanding interactivity.

If you fancy sharing or looking at some cool videos, take a look at our new video category. Or if you are worried about a health issue, visit our new ‘well-being and health’ category where we have partnered with Britain’s NHS national health service to provide useful information and advice on just about every health issue under the sun.

What is wanobe.com here for?

We want to help open the door to a unique world of encounters, pleasure, knowledge and experiences. We want to provide you as many possibilities to explore, whether its shopping around for a top brand product at a cheaper price, planning a wonderful holiday, finding a new partner or taking a punt at winning a small fortune.

We’re here for you, 100 percent of the time.

Live well, live happy, keep on rocking!

Exciting changes at Wanobe

Wanobe is really following up on our reader survey a few weeks back by delivering some exciting new options.

You asked for more community enhancing things to do, so we have now launched a movie clip gallery where you can place your video clips on Wanobe, open either to your family and friends or available for everyone visiting the site.

I really hope you find this new function easy and fun to use – and, remember, it’s free.

We have also updated the look and feel of our astrology pages. Now you can read what Wanobe’s inhouse astrologer Patrick Arundell believes the stars have in store for you today, tomorrow, during the week or month ahead in a easier-to-read style.

Even more great things are happening now or are in the pipeline.

Wanobe now gives you the opportunity from your own home to visit a virtual hospital, probably the first of its kind in the UK, to get in touch with GMC registered doctors. Apart from providing advice, they’ll also be able to issue prescriptions for a number of treatments for problems such as erectile dysfunction or weight issues and you can have the medicines delivered to your home.

We like this service so much that we have negotiated a 10% discount for everyone from Wanobe who signs as a member at UK-Med during May. Just go the the Wellbeing section for more information, or click here on UK-Med .

These type of enhancements to the Wanobe site are just the start of some exciting new developments. So please stay with us, and tell your friends and family about all the benefits and fun things you can find at Wanobe.com.

Keep on rocking, Dave

Silent killer

It was scary to learn the other day that high blood pressure may account for more than 13 percent of premature deaths around the world.

An article in the The Lancet medical journal wrote that researchers found that in 2001, the latest year for which complete global data were available, around 8 million early deaths could be attributed to high blood pressure.

Hypertension was also claimed to be responsible for 54 percent of strokes and 47 percent of heart disease worldwide.

I have always thought high blood pressure was principally a problem in high income western countries. But the latest findings show that 80 percent of deaths linked to high blood pressure now occur in the developing world, with half of the fatalities among people of working age.

According to The Lancet article writers little substantive or sustained effort has been made to address an issue that has probably killed over 50 million people in the past decade, disabled many more, and taken billions of dollars from already fragile economies.

However, there is hope on the horizon. Both the WHO and World Bank have now highlighted the importance of chronic disease as an obstacle to economic development. They recommend action to control the huge epidemics of cardiovascular diseases already affecting Asia and South America and threatening other regions, including Africa.

The Lancet writers noted global expenditure on antihypertensive treatment is around €50 billion each year, more than 90 percent of which is spent in high-income countries, where the main debate about access concerns the provision of care to very-low-risk individuals. Middle-income and low-income regions have a five times greater burden of disease than do high-income regions, with access to less than 10 percent of the global treatment resource.

Keep on rocking, Dave

Still rocking and rolling …

I remember first hearing the Rolling Stones perform life back in the early days of their career and being totally wowed by their energy. I am still amazed by their music making and ability to bounce around the stage performing at break-neck speed despite their ages.

I am also really looking forward to seeing the new film they have made with Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light. Judging by what Mick Jagger said in his interview with Wanobe.com, the film promises to be a scorcher.

I know that one of the reasons for Mick Jagger’s ability to shake those hips of his the way he does is because he works hard at staying in shape. That’s a life attitude we should all try to learn from.

I just read a recent study that shows how regularly doing gentle yoga exercises can help reduce the risk of older people falling painfully. The US study found that just eight weeks of classes to improve muscle strength, balance and flexibility makes falls and fractures less likely to happen.

An extra bonus is that people, and especially women, who practised yoga designed for the over 65s also felt more confident and upbeat. The study was carried out by researcher Dr Jinsup Song at Philadelphia’s Temple University.

So there you have it folks. If you want to stay in top performer shape like Mick, start some gentle yoga.

Rock on, yoga it up!

Have fun, travel safe, Dave