A new study suggests that drinking milk and eating cheese stimulate a protein that prompts the release of eggs thus making women five times more likely to give birth to twins.

The study published in the Journal of Reproductive Medicine available Monday attributed it to the hormones given to cattle to boost their milk and meat production

New research by scientists at Long Island Jewish Medical Center rules on the possibility that diet may have an important role in twin births.

The scientists noted that even after the decline in number of transfer of embryos by in vitro fertilization during mid-90s, the proportion of twin births rose

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Dr. Gary Steinman, an obstetrician specializing in multiple-birth pregnancies at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York, stated that the reason may be hormones given to cattle to boost their milk and meat production

According to a new investigation, scientists say that about tens of millions of Britons are at risk of contracting the mad cow disease.

Previously, researchers had supposed that only 40 percent of the population was at the risk of disease vCJD, believed to have been passed from cattle to humans through eating meat infected with BSE during the 1980s and 1990s, says The Scotsman

The presence of bird flu in some West African countries has created panic and forced many to turn to bush meat. The demand for animals like antelope, hedgehog and bush rat has surged in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Nigeria and Senegal.

Aka, a bush meat vendor at Abidjan, told Reuters, "There is a huge demand for bush meat ever since the government said there was bird flu in Abidjan." A new announcement that confirmed the presence of the H5N1 strain of bird flu reaffirmed the position of thousands of West Africans when the panic was almost dying out