Every day people catch sharks in huge quantities only because of culinary value of fins. They prepare soups which are considered as a delicacy all over the world. As for other parts of sharks they are simply thrown out, including meat which until recently was not popular among cooks because of unpleasant taste.

However, recently one of Bali Island resorts — Jimbaran – has become famous owing to the chief-cook. He managed to prepare the shark meat very tasty and the dish cannot leave anybody indifferent. The cook prefers not to share his secrets, he only marks that owing to new recipe the shark meat became more appetizing and pleasant on taste.

Salt is really white death, Japanese scientists once again were convinced in it. After supervisions and numerous analyses they have come to conclusion, that abusing salty products doubles risk to get cancer of a stomach.

This tendency is most obviously observed at men.

Ministry of Health and Work, which is also supervise questions of well-being, has lead the grandiose work, as a result of which experts-oncologists during 11 years observed the way of life of approximately 40 thousand Japanese of middle age. Physicians paid special attention to a daily food of these people, their attachment to the certain drinks, and also the bad habits directly influencing health, for example, smoking.

According received data, among men (amateurs of salty products) one person from 500 was exposed to risk to be ill with a cancer of a stomach. It twice exceeds the parameters fixed among those who tries to abstain from the salt usage.

For the first time in history of New York the fancy-dress parade of vegetarians has passed. More than 600 participants in colorful suits of vegetables and fruit, having started in area with symbolical name Meatpacking, have peacefully passed on streets Greenwich Village of New York with demonstration «Vegetarian Sounds Proud».

Adherents of vegetarian diet proclaimed the advantage of vegetarianism from positions of ethics, protection of an environment and advantage for health. The culmination of parade became the competition on the best vegetarian suit and a slogan. Celebratory procession has finished with rock music festival in Washington Square Park. The most remembered moment of the holiday became the open wedding ceremony during which the groom in a suit of carrots and the bride in a two-meter green suit of peas pod became the lawful husband and wife.

Feeding the child only by breast milk in the first months of his life positively influences his mental abilities. Canadian scientists from MakGill University observed the development of almost 14000 children in Belarus and have come to such conclusion.

The research under direction of Michael Kramer was spent from the end of 1990th years in 31 Belarus maternity homes. Approximately half of establishments spent the encouragement program of long exclusively breast feeding, the others continued the former practice without changes. The estimation of children mental abilities was spent at six-year age.

It was found out, that children who was exclusively on breast feeding at least in first three months, had the best results of tests on cognitive abilities. Besides children from this group were able to read, count and write much better, than children from the control group, Kramer has informed.

According to authors, now it is not clear, with what positive influence of breast feeding on intelligence is connected. This effect can speaks by the influence of breast milk components, or by physical and social factors arising at contact of mother and her baby during breast feeding, the scientist has informed.

Zoologists from Alabama-Birmingham University have come to conclusion, that low-calorie diet is more important for preservation of health and longevity, than regular physical exercises.

Scientists have analyzed the health state of several groups of mice. The lowest life expectancy was observed at mice which have got unlimited access to forage and had no physical activities. Also scientists have compared mice which had a low-calorie diet, and those mice, which eat so much, how many they wanted, but also they twisted «squirrel wheel» regularly. It has appeared, that starving mice live longer than those mice who make physical exercises and have unlimited meal.