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Tea tree oil not a proven remedy for acne
Q. My son has bad acne. What foods should he avoid? What's the best treatment? And what about tea tree oil? A. Amazingly enough, acne is not worsened by chocolate, soft drinks, fried foods, shellfish or milk products. In a study, 65 acne patients who ate two concentrated chocolate bars a day for a month did not get worse. A survey of 47,355 nurses found no association between severe teenage acne and eating pizza, sweets or french fries. But if certain foods worsen your son's acne, then by all means avoid them. Regarding tea tree oil, a systematic review of six electronic databases concluded that the data was promising but not compelling. And witch hazel bark, Vitex agnus-castus, bittersweet nightshade, brewer's yeast and Chinese duckweed don't seem to work.
India's tea sector seeks law change to diversify
COONOOR, India (Reuters) - India's struggling tea sector is seeking changes in the law to allow for diversification into other crops to fight rising production costs and increase returns, officials said on Monday. At present laws such as the Plantation Labour Act, land reform acts of various states and Minimum Wages Act inhibit diversification and need drastic overhaul, said J.K. Thomas, president of the United Planters' Association of Southern India. "Even while a plantation commodity is economically unviable, we cannot change over to alternate crop because of the restrictive and archaic laws which have outlived their purpose," he said. It is high time that necessary legal amendments were brought about for allowing tea estates to diversify into other crops like bamboo, jatropha and palm, Thomas told a planters meet in Coonoor.
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