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OTTAWA - The trend measure of housing starts in Canada was 199,169 unitsin January compared to 203,304 in December, according to Canada Mort-gage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). The trend is a six-month movingaverage of the monthly seasonally adjusted annual rates (SAAR) of housingstarts. "Housing starts trended down across the country with the exception ofOntario," said Bob Dugan, CMHC Chief Economist. "The overall decline ismostly attributable to a slowdown in the Prairies where the housing startstrend was at a 4-year low in January. The slowdown in new housing activitycoincides with an unemployment rate that is at a 5-year high in Alberta".CMHC uses the trend measure as a complement to the monthly SAAR ofhousing starts to account for considerable swings in monthly estimates andobtain a more complete picture of the state of Canada's housing market. Insome situations analyzing only SAAR data can be misleading, as they arelargely driven by the multi-unit segment of the market which can vary signifi-cantly from one month to the next. The standalone monthly SAAR was 165,861units in January, down from 172,533 units in December. The SAAR of urbanstarts decreased by 3.0 per cent in January to 153,701 units. Multiple urbanstarts decreased by 5.3 per cent to 95,406 units in January and the single-

detached urban starts increased by 1.0 per cent to 58,295 units. In January,the seasonally adjusted annual rate of urban starts decreased in Québec, thePrairies and British Columbia, but increased in Ontario and Atlantic Canada.Ruralstarts were estimated at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 12,160 units.Source: cmhc-schl.gc.ca

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Your spouse's lifestyle choices can make you obeseSHAH RUKH KHAN DURING THE TRAILER LAUNCH OF FILM FAN IN MUMBAI (IANS).

LONDON, (IANS) Next time when you try to imitate the way yourspouse eats, pause for a moment as a couple's lifestyle choices canincrease their chances of becoming obese regardless of their geneticprofile, finds a study. According to researchers, choices made bycouples in middle age -- including those linked to diet and exercise -- have a much greater impact on them than the lifestyle each sharedduring their childhood. "The environment you share with your par tnerin adulthood also influences whether you become obese and this ismore impor tant than your upbringing," said lead researcher ChrisHaley from the University of Edinburgh in Britain.The findings, published in the journal PLOS Genetics, reinforce themessage that lifestyle changes in adulthood can have a significantimpact in tackling obesity. The research helped scientists to betterunderstand links between obesity, genetics and lifestyle habits. Theteam analysed data provided by 20,000 people. They compared people'sfamily genetics and home environments in childhood and adulthoodand related these to measures linked to health and obesity. A total of16 measures were considered, including waist to hip ratio, bloodpressure, body fat content and body mass index (BMI).

The information was gathered as par t of the Generation Scotlandproject -- a national resource of health data that helps researchersinvestigate genetic links to health conditions. "The findings also showthat even people who come from families with a history of obesitycan reduce their risk by changing their lifestyle habits," Haley added.

Lose just 5 per cent weight tolower diabetes risk

NEW YORK, (IANS) Working hard to shed those extra kilos?Take hear t as according to a new study, losing as little as fivepercent of your body weight is enough to reap significant healthbenefits. The results indicated that while additional weight losswill fur ther improve metabolic health, a mere five percent weightloss is sufficient to reduce multiple risk factors for Type 2diabetes and coronary hear t disease."Our findings show that even a small amount of weight losshas impor tant health benefits for multiple organ systems," saidSamuel Klein from Washington University in St Louis in the US. Thecurrent obesity practice guidelines needs to be reconsidered towardsstressing a target goal of five percent weight loss, the researchersmaintained in a paper published in the journal Cell Metabolism.Obesity is a major risk factor for a number of chronic diseases,including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. The research-ers randomly assigning 40 obese individuals to either maintain theirbody weight or go on a low-calorie diet to lose five percent, tenpercent, or five percent of their body weight. Importantly, all of thestudy participants showed signs of insulin-resistant glucose me-tabolism -- a major risk factor for Type 2 diabetes. Among the 19individuals who lost five percent of their body weight, beta cell func-tion improved significantly, as did insulin sensitivity in fat tissue, liverand skeletal muscle. Meanwhile, the nine participants who achievedadditional weight loss showed fur ther improvements in betacell function and insulin sensitivity in muscle tissue. "We hopethat these findings will encourage obese people to take rea-sonable steps to watch what they eat and increase their physi-cal activity, because this will translate into a lower risk fordiabetes and heart disease," the authors pointed out.



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OVERUSE OF BEAUTYCREAMS CAUSES ACNE,DAMAGES SKIN: EXPERTNEW DELHI, (IANS) Overuse of fairness and beauty creamsis the root cause for acne and may lead to thinning of theskin, a leading dermatologist said here on Sunday. "The obvi-ous side-effect of using beauty creams on face is thinning ofthe skin. Daily use of these creams leads to growth of acnebesides skin losing its tightness and becoming thinner inreturn," said Rohit Batra, a skin doctor, at Acne India Summitheld at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital here.The one-day programme was aimed at providing educationand refreshing knowledge of practising dermatologists re-garding acne. A quiz contest and workshop to impar t proce-dural skills to students and private practitioners were alsoconducted on the occasion. "A growing percentage of popu-lation aged 15 to 44 suffer from severe acne. Every patientwants a cure as no one wants to live with scars on theirface," Batra said.He added that dermatologists are now equipped with state-of-the-ar t technologies to help patients regain their confi-dence. "Contrary to what we are led to believe, acne is notjust a concern for adolescents, and the market reflects that.With cutting edge methods like lasers, chemical peels, ther-mal and non-thermal light sources, one can easily get rid ofacne and acne scars," said Batra, who was also the organisingsecretary of the summit. Around 250 dermatologists, stu-dents, faculty members and delegates from across the coun-try par ticipated in the event.

GOOD NIGHT'S SLEEPSTRENGTHENS MEMORYLONDON, (IANS) Ensure proper sleep if you want to boostyour memory as brain activity during sleep sor ts throughseveral experiences we encounter every day and retains onlyimpor tant information in memory pockets, say researchers.The findings showed that patterns of brain activity that occurduring the day are replayed at fast-forward speed during sleep. Thekey result is that sleep replay strengthens the microscopic connectionsbetween nerve cells that are active -- a process deemed critical forconsolidating memories. "These findings are about the fundamentalprocesses that occur in the brain during the consolidation of memoryduring sleep," said lead researcher Jack Mellor from University of Bristolin a paper published in the journal Cell Reports. The new discoveriesprovide further evidence for the benefits of a good night's sleep.Good sleep is important because the bad night sleep often experiencedby both the healthy population and people with schizophrenia orAlzheimer's disease lead to impaired mental function. "It also seems thatthe successful replay of brain activity during sleep is dependent on theemotional state of the person when they are learning. This has majorimplications for how we teach and enable people to learneffectively," Mellor said. The replayed activity happens inpar t of the brain called the hippocampus, which is our cen-tral filing system for memories.

ALCOHOL IN PREGNANCY MAY PUT KIDSAT NEUROLOGICAL PROBLEMS RISK

NEW YORK, (IANS) Mothers whoconsume alcohol during preg-nancy put their children at the riskof impairment in kidney blood

flow in adulthood and heightenedneurological problems caused bya stroke, warns a study. In thestudy conducted on mice, the

blood flow analysis showed evi-dence for increased ar terial re-sistance within the kidneys -- asign of possible early onset renal

hyper tension in the male offspringthat were exposed to alcohol be-fore bir th. "The finding indicatesthat in mice exposed to alcoholbefore bir th, sex appears to playsome role in whether the volumeof damaged tissue in the braincorrelates with functional andneurological impairment," saidlead researche Shameena Bake,assistant professor at Texas A &M Health Science Centre in theUS. Assessing neurological dam-age caused by stroke, the re-searchers found greater levels ofimpairment in the six female andsix male mice that had fetal alco-hol exposure, compared with thedozen that were not exposed toalcohol. Moreover, the measure-ments of the stroke-damagedarea of the brain were linked toscores on neurological testing inthe females, but not the males,with fetal alcohol exposure, theresearchers maintained.


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LONDON, (IANS) Hyper tensive women with physicallydemanding jobs are at nearly three times higher risk ofischaemic hear t disease, a condition that affects bloodsupply to the hear t, warns a study. The combination ofhyper tension (commonly known as high blood pressure)and high physical activity at work increased the risk ofischaemic hear t disease more than adding the individualrisks together, the study said."There is an additive interaction between hyper tensionand high physical activity at work. The two risk factorsappear to work together, resulting in an even greaterincidence of hear t disease," said lead author KarenAllesøe, research student at the University of SouthernDenmark."It means hyper tensive women with physically demand-ing work may be especially at risk of hear t disease," sheadded. Physically demanding work causes rise in hear trate and blood pressure, which can give way to plaquesin the ar teries and develop atherosclerosis, a disease inwhich plaque made up of fat, cholesterol builds up insidethe ar teries. In the study, nurses with hyper tension andhigh physical activity at work proved to be at a greaterrisk as both high physical activity at work and longperiods of sitting increase the risk of hear t disease, thefindings, published in the European Journal of PreventiveCardiology, showed. Nurses with normal blood pressure andhigh physical activity at work had a small increased risk ofhear t disease (about 20 per cent) but this was not statisti-cally significant after adjusting for traditional cardiovascularrisk factors such as diabetes and smoking, the researchersexplained. During the 15-year follow up period, 580 nursesdeveloped ischaemic hear t disease, the researchers said.

HYPERTENSION, HARDLABOUR RAISE WOMEN'SRISK OF HEART DISEASE

INFANTS CAN 'SENSE' COLOURSEVEN BEFORE THEY CAN SPEAKTOKYO, (IANS) Infants aged between five and seven months areable to categorise colours in their brain, even before theacquisition of language, according to Japanese researchers. Along-held theory called Sapir-Whar f hypothesis claims thatlanguages define our perceptions. Colour perception is alsoconsidered to be subject to this theory since colours are calledby their names in daily communications.However, according to the new study, the category of colourscan be independent of language, at least in the early stage ofdevelopment in an infant's visual system. The researchers fromChuo University, Japan Women's University and Tohoku Univer-sity tested 5-7 months old infants to see if brain activity isdifferent for colours in different categories.

The brain activity was measured by a near infraredspecr toscopy technique which realises comfor table measure-ment of brain activity in infants. The study, published in thejournal of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,found that the brain activity increased significantly when thecolours of blue and green were alternated, while there was nosignificant reaction to the alternation of different shades ofgreen. The difference was observed in both left and righthemispheres of the brain. A similar difference was found inadult par ticipants with no significant lateralisation. Sincelanguage related cor tical areas reside in the lef t hemisphere inmost right-handed adults, the observed brain activity had nodirect relation to language processing.

NEW YORK, (IANS) A depressed mother's stress can pass on to infant before his or her life begins in many ways. Butaccording to a new study, parenting strategies can combat the negative impacts of maternal depression on an infant.Stress can pass through the placenta to negatively impact the foetus in ways that manifest after birth such as birthweight, brain development and increased susceptibility to various ailments, said lead author Elisabeth Conradt fromUniversity of Utah in the US in a study. "We were curious about whether maternal behaviour could 'buffer' the childagainst the effects of maternal depression, and if this buffering could be observed at the level of the infant's epigenome,"Conradt added in the study published in Child Development. This study is the first to demonstrate that certain formsof maternal care-giving can have such an effect. The team worked with 128 infants of women with self-reportedsymptoms of depression and obtained DNA from the infants through cheek swabs and cortisol -- a hormone releasedin response to stress, levels from their saliva. Each infant participated in three two-minute face-to-face play episodeswith their mothers. The first play episode required normal play between mother and infant, the second episoderequired that the mothers be unresponsive to their infants and the third episode was a reunion episode where motherswere allowed to interact again.

MOTHER'S AFFECTION CAN COMBAT DEPRESSION IN KIDS

Focus on quality, notquantity, of food to stay slim

NEW YORK, (IANS) Have youcome across a few people whonever seem to worry about weightand yet manage to stay slim? Onesecret that works behind theirseeming effortlessness may ac-tually be a sharp focus on the qual-ity of food that they eat, suggestsnew research."These results are encouragingbecause they imply that instead ofputting restrictions on one's dietand avoiding favourite foods,weight gain could be preventedearly on by learning to listen to in-ner cues and putting emphasis onthe quality instead of the quantityof food," said lead researcherAnna-Leena Vuorinen from theUniversity of Tempere in Finland.You know that one friend who neverworries about weight and seemsto stay effor tlessly slim? Thatfriend, and others like him mightunknowingly possess secrets tohelping those who struggle withtheir weight. The findings are basedon Global Healthy Weight Regis-try that surveyed adults who havesuccessfully maintained a healthy

body weight throughout their lives.The registry was created by CornellFood and Brand Lab of Cornell Uni-versity in the US. Those who volun-tarily signed up for the registry an-swered a series of questions aboutdiet, exercise and daily routines. Theresearchers then divided the respon-dents into two groups. Group one, themindlessly slim, consisted of 112adults who reported that they did notmaintain strict diets.

The other group consisted of thosewho dieted regularly, thought aboutfood frequently and were highlyconscious of what they ate. Af-ter comparing the responsesf rom each g roup , t he r e -searchers found that mind-lessly slim individuals weremore likely to use strategies thatdiffer from traditional recommen-dations for weight loss or mainte-nance.



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