CHAPTER IV PRESENTATION, ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF DATA
Text 2 Three fizzy drinks per day could triple chance of heart disease
Drinking just three cans of fizzy pop each day could triple your chance of developing heart disease, a study has suggested.
For people who take on a quarter of their calories each day from the sugars common in sticky drinks, sweets and desserts, the researchers found the risk tripled compared to those whose sugar contribution was less than 10 per cent.
Dietary guidelines from the World Health Organisation recommend added sugar should make up less than a tenth of total calorie intake, yet many processed foods and beverages are packed with sugar.
In Britain the average adult between 19 and 65 takes on 1,882 calories per day, according to the The Health and Social Care Information Centre, so three cans of fizzy drinks each containing 140 of added sugar would amount to around a quarter.
The new study, published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine, used American national health survey data to determine how much added sugar people were consuming. Between 2005 and 2010 it accounted for at least 10 per cent of the calories consumed by more than 70 per cent of the US population, the research showed. Around a tenth of adults obtained a quarter or more of their calories from added sugar.
The information was matched against heart disease mortality over a typical period of 14.6 years, during which a total of 831 cardiovascular deaths were recorded.
Professor Naveed Satta from the British Heart Foundation Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Glasgow said: "We have known for years about the dangers of excess saturated fat intake,
an observation which led the food industry to replace unhealthy fats with presumed 'healthier' sugars in many food products.
However, the present study, perhaps more strongly than previous ones, suggests that those whose diet is high in added sugars may also have an increased risk of heart attack. Of course, sugar per se is not harmful - we need it for the body's energy needs - but when consumed in excess it will contribute to weight gain and, in turn, may accelerate heart disease."
Source:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10615664/Three-fizzy- drinks-per-day-could-triple-chance-of-heart-disease
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Microsoft says law enforcement documents likely stolen by hackers
IDG News Service - Documents linked with law enforcement inquiries appear to have been stolen in recent phishing attacks on certain employee email accounts, Microsoft said.
The technology giant said earlier this month that a small number of Microsoft employee social media and email accounts had been affected in a phishing attack. The accounts were reset and no customer information was compromised, Microsoft said.
On Friday, Adrienne Hall, general manager in Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Group, said in a blog post that it appeared that documents associated with law enforcement inquiries were stolen. "If we find that customer information related to those requests has been compromised, we will take appropriate action," Hall said.
The company will, however, not comment on the validity of any stolen emails or documents in deference to "the privacy of our employees and customers -- as well as the sensitivity of law enforcement inquiries,"
she added.
Microsoft said its investigation continues, and that the type of attack was not uncommon, as many companies face phishing attempts from cybercriminals.
The company has been recently targeted by the Syrian Electronic Army, a hacker group that supports the Syrian regime of Bashar al- Assad. SEA attacked this month the social media properties of Skype and other Microsoft social media and blogs, including the Microsoft Office Blogs site.
In a message on Twitter, SEA accused Microsoft of selling customer data to governments, which was probably a reference to disclosures last year by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that Internet companies were allegedly providing access to real-time customer data to the agency.
Microsoft receives requests for customer data from law enforcement agencies around the world relating to Microsoft online and cloud services. Some of these are covered under "gag orders," which do not allow the company to disclose to the public the existence of the specific requests.
In March last year it started publishing its Law Enforcement Requests Report, which listed the total number of requests it receives from law enforcement agencies in countries around the world and the number of potentially affected accounts identified in those requests.
Microsoft, Google and some other Internet companies have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court for permission to provide aggregate data on security information requests under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which they are currently disallowed.
(Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9245775/Microsoft_says_law _enforcement_documents_likely_stolen_by_hackers)
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