KIDS who sleep with the light on could risk leukaemia, parents were
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Scientists have found the body needs darkness to produce a chemical
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across time zones, or the light from street lamps can stop enoughwww2.tvboxnow.com! @: l$ _$ a$ a! m' {1 [
melatonin being made, they say.4 f' Z9 N' \: Y- y# H( N
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The body needs the chemical to prevent damage to DNA and its absence1 ]3 |* W- ?+ t l1 w4 Q
stops fatty acids reaching tumours and preventing them growing. Texas
; u) D" T6 Q7 j" `( V: H8 v: gTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。University Prof Russell Reiter, who led the research, said: 'Once you
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'Your brain immediately recognises the light as day and melatonin公仔箱論壇+ v2 Y# c8 D% K* U$ t
levels drop.'
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8 B- ]) t) |) u( w+ wTVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。Rates of childhood leukaemia have doubled in the past 40 years.
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About 500 youngsters under 15 are diagnosed with the disease each year and around 100 die. A conference on childhood leukaemia in London yesterday公仔箱論壇7 t$ U& i1 {" H8 c# [$ j
heard that people were being subjected to more light at night than公仔箱論壇5 I- c: |3 M, n; z. B6 ~
ever..
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higher levels of breast cancer.公仔箱論壇( c5 g# j |8 E+ s5 \1 v# H& [ A
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Blind people, who are not vulnerable to fluctuations of melatonin, have
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