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The number of U.S. citizens with high blood
pressure is increasing, mainly due to growing rates of obesity, researchers at
the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute said.
The findings were based on a study conducted by collecting
data from an estimated 30,000 people who participated in the National Nealth
and Nutrition...
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 NBC newsman Tim Russert, 58, died Friday
while recording a segment for the Sunday edition of “Meet the Press.” His death
shows that medicine can’t always prevent the risk of sudden death. It raised
questions on the amount of stress his work put on him and the increased heart
attack risk he was exposed to.
Dr. Randall Zusman of...
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 According to a new study by Australian researchers, fathers are more influential than mothers when it comes to children’s weight gain.
The Centre for Community Child Health at The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, and the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute collaborated on a study that brings novel insight into the...
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 New exercise guidelines were released by the U.S. government on Tuesday. The exercise guidelines advice adults to take a break from their usual work for 2 ½ hours a week and do exercise. Also children are advised to run and play for about an hour a day. The guidelines were released after important studies on health benefits from regular...
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US pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer Inc. is closing out the early-stage development of at least 11 medications in order to focus on more profitable drugs, media reports said Tuesday.
The financial newswire Bloomberg cited a memo sent to employees on September 25 in which the world's largest drug company would be ending the early...
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 Los Angeles wants healthier food too. But where to find it if in South Los Angeles, for example, the easiest way to eat is to buy fast food? Still, officials look concerned to all the unhealthy sources of calories and cholesterol. And they seem to have found a solution for the problem.The City Council was obliged to vote on Tuesday that...
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 According to a recent study conducted in U.S. schools and
announced on Friday, French fries and other fatty and sugary foods and drinks
are becoming harder to come by, but many schools are falling short on providing
physical education for pupils.
More schools prohibit smoking and other tobacco use, but
more than a third do not...
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 A new study has proved that curbing inflammation in some part of the brain can help in keeping the weight down. The most known weight problem is obesity and this disease increases inflammation inside all the body. The new study can show that the brain inflammation might be a weapon to fight obesity. The tomorrow edition of “ Cell” will...
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 Researchers have recently discovered that the gene which causes the risk of obesity in people is strongly connected to colon cancer. And that’s good because the fat cells inside the body create a smaller risk of colon cancer. On Tuesday, the researchers added that this might be a discovery to reassure the people who have family history...
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 Glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are two supplements used to treat arthritis and joint pain. Still, recent studies have shown that these two popular drugs don’t work properly or don’t do enough to cure neither arthritis, nor joint pain. But the researchers added that their study needed to be revised as some findings were confusing.Dr....
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 According to a new study released by the University of California, San Francisco, diabetes are less likely than other people to lose weight so easily. Just like the people with larger stomach pouches, the diabetes find it hard to lose weight after gastric bypass surgery. The ones who suffer this kind of operations have their food intake...
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A study has recently showed that diabetes who control their blood sugar levels even if only in the first ten years since they were diagnosed, have lower risks to heart attacks, death or any other complications 10 years or more. The most common type of diabetes linked to obesity is Type 2 diabetes. Researchers want to teach the newly...
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 Researchers have recently stated that even if genetics play a main role in obesity, this weight problem can be overcame with regular exercise and physical activity. Physical exercise can really decrease the impact the genetics have on obesity. The particular gene known as fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) is also known to be in...
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This “good” brown fat is a protein which helps the bones to grow. Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston have recently discovered that this protein could fight against obesity by burning calories. The protein, called BMP-7, is said to be able to prevent overweight.Researchers said that their study began from the fact that...
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 A report released in U.S. by researchers led by Linda Bartoshuk of the University Of Florida College Of Dentistry has shown that ear infections in children are strongly related to the risk of obesity. After the researchers studied some reports they have stated the link between obesity and ear infections.The relationship between these two...
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 According to U.S. researchers, women who suffer from diabetes before getting pregnant are approximately three times as likely as other women to have a baby born with at least one deficiency.A range of distinct birth defects are linked to mothers who have type 1 diabetes, also called juvenile diabetes though it is not exclusively a...
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Hailed for keeping people
slim, healthy and living longer, the Mediterranean diet has followers
all over the world - but is increasingly disregarded around the
Mediterranean, a United Nations expert said Tuesday.
According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Senior Economist
Josef Schmidhuber, over the past 45 years the...
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Tests with animals show that
a traditional herbal remedy could usher in a cure for obesity and heart
disease, according to German scientists. They believe that
the herbal extract could be incorporated into a food supplement which
may not only reduce obesity, but also lessen the risk of developing
type 2 diabetes and coronary heart...
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 Researchers from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development followed about 1,000 U.S. children at different ages, from 2000 until 2006, discovering a striking dissimilarity in the frequency of activity between age 9 and 15. Whereas 90 percent of children aged 9 do exercises for a couple of hours almost every day, fewer...
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 In spite of the extensive attempts to persuade Americans to
lose weight, the number of U.S.
adults who are obese rose with approximately 2 percent between 2005 and 2007,
according to a new report.
The proportion of U.S. adults who are obese increased
from 23.9 percent in 2005 to 25.6 percent in 2007, the Centers for...
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 Eating watermelon can have the same
boosting effect on a man’s libido as Viagra. Researchers from Texas A&M
University in the United States
concluded that the secret ingredient called citrulline which is found in the
flesh and rind of the fruit can help relax the body’s blood vessels; a Viagra
pill produces a similar effect....
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 A new study shows people with heart disease
and low levels of vitamin D in their blood have a great risk of dying from different
causes and particularly from cardiovascular disease. According to health
authorities, lack of vitamin D has been blamed for everything from weakened
bones to rickets, but now Harald Dobnig, M.D., of the...
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 Weight-loss surgery to control obesity may
also cut cancer risk for people who are overweight, two recent studies from Canada and Brazil suggest. The treatment for
obesity is already known to reduce heart disease and diabetes, but now Canadian
researchers reported that gastric bypass surgery decreases the incidence of
cancer by 80...
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 A big carb-rich breakfast is the secret way to reach the perfect silhouette, a new study suggests. A group of scientists, led by Dr. Daniela Jakubowicz, a clinical professor of medicine at the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, said that a “big breakfast” diet, involving more calories, more...
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 Scientists looked at the link between
diabetes and depression and have found that diabetes contributes to depression
and vice versa.
The study, published yesterday in the “Journal
of the American Medical Association,” indicated that people who are treated for
type 2 diabetes had a 52% higher risk of developing symptoms of...
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 A study published Monday in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows that despite
general worries that juice might lead to an increment of child obesity levels,
the research found no connection between children's consumption of 100 percent
fruit juice and their weight.
"One hundred percent juice contributes...
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 The national rate for obesity in children and adolescents
could be moving toward stability after a 25-year increase, according to a study
published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study involved analyzing data gathered from 1999 to 2006
by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Analysts...
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 Some 20.6 million American adults suffer from diabetes. These people face a two-fold risk to develop arthritis, according to a study released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the May 9 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
"The prevalence of arthritis is astoundingly high in people with...
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 It has been proven that people who sleep less than six hours or more than nine each night are disposed to a higher risk of obesity, physical inactivity, smoking and alcohol drinking, according to a study made by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
"Among adults 18 and older who sleep between seven to eight hours a...
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 Obesity rates have achieved alarming rates worldwide and this is an outset to many research studies in the process of seeking a solution.
A team of scientists from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has made a study over the reasons why overweight people have difficulties in losing weight and why they regain it in a short time. The...
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 Although overall life expectancy in the U.S. has increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000, Washington Post staff writer David Brown and Majid Ezzati, researcher at the Harvard Global Health, have showed based on a research study that the situation is different as concerns poor...
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 Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington found that life expectancy is
declining in many poor US counties, especially among women. Smoking, obesity
and high blood pressure are three main factors which reduce the life expectancy
of women in Appalachia Mississippi River states and parts of...
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 According to a study developed by researchers at the
University Of Minnesota School Of Public Health, breakfast does not only keep
us healthy, but also in good shape.
The recent study revealed that teenagers who eat breakfast
regularly are more likely to weigh less and eat a more healthy diet, while the
teenagers who skip the...
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 A new research study states that
there might be a link between regular unintentional daytime dozing and the risk
of stroke in seniors.
The study looked at 2,153 adults
with an average age of 73. The researchers asked the subjects involved in the
two-year study to say how often they nod off during daytime activities such...
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 A British study
published on Friday reveals that obesity can lead to less common forms of cancer,
Reuters reports.
Analyzing
144 published studies involving around 280.000 men and women, researchers
noticed that gender can also make a difference in the relationship between
obesity and certain forms of cancer, according to...
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 Scientists have found that
70-year-old people who take care of themselves, leading healthy lifestyles, not
smoking and maintaining a reasonable body weight and blood pressure are likely
to live until 90. The study, conducted by Boston’
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, also states that the former lifestyle during
youth is not relevant,...
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 Researchers say that people who suffer from severe psoriasis
die younger than people who don't have the condition or who have mild forms of it;
however, the reasons are unclear.
Psoriasis is a common but incurable disorder that commonly
causes red scaly patches on the skin. It can also cause inflammation of the
joints, which is...
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 Federal health officials reported on Wednesday that the
obesity epidemic that has been spreading for more than a quarter-century in the
United States has leveled off among women and may have hit a plateau for men as
well.
While the proportion of adults who are obese remains high at
more than 30 percent, the rate in 2005 and 2006...
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According to new research from Stanford Medical School, people
who use a pedometer walk one mile farther than those who do not.
A bit more good news is that those wearing a pedometer tend
to lose a few pounds of weight and lower their blood pressure.
What does this message mean? The study did not reveal
any causal...
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 Researchers show that obese men diagnosed with prostate
cancer are twice as likely as healthy-weight men to die from the disease.
The heavier a man is at time of diagnosis, the greater his
risk of death, according to a study published in today's issue of the journal
Cancer.
After five years, the death rate for normal-weight men...
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 According to U.S. researchers, eating just a few meals
loaded with fat, could be enough to throw off the body's internal clock,
starting a vicious cycle that could lead to obesity and diabetes.
They found mice fed high-fat foods showed marked changes in
their diet and sleep patterns, sleeping longer and eating when they should...
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 According to a recent federal researchers reported made on
Tuesday, being overweight boosts the risk of dying from diabetes and kidney
disease but not cancer or heart disease, and carrying some extra pounds appears
to protect against some other causes of death.
The findings, based on an analysis of decades of government
data about...
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 According to a report issued today, obesity is on course to
overtake tobacco as the leading risk factor for cancer in America.
Moreover, the risk for cancer increases even with modest
weight gain, said Walter C. Willett, M.D., Ph.D., of the Harvard School of
Public Health. He said excess body fat increased the risk for cancers of...
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 According to recent studies conducted by researchers, people
who have a sweet tooth for chocolate may just have received the best excuse
they could have wished for, stomach bacteria.
Sunil Kochhar, the co-author of the study published in the
American Journal of Proteome Research, said the same may hold true for other
foods,...
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 With such a large number of couch patatoes in the USA, it should
not come as a surprise that more than 25 million kids are complaining from weight
problems.
According to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which
recently announced an unprecedented effort to reverse the childhood obesity
epidemic by 2015, one in three kids is obese...
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According to the New England Journal of Medicine the
enlargement of male breast tissue common thing amongst some adolescents as well
as in middle-aged and older men
is of benign origin called Gynecomastia and is caused by a
variety of factors.
Apparently the for men with this unaesthetic condition of
their torso is...
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 A new study by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that altering a single gene can tweak the amount of body fat in mice and fruit flies. Apparently, tweaking the gene could also work in humans. The researchers published their work in the journal Cell Metabolism under the title "Adipose Is a...
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 Two teams of scientists backed the use of gastric surgery to treat severe obesity, showing that weight loss surgery extended the lifespan of patients who suffer from the condition. Their independent studies were published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine.The first study, by Ted D. Adams, Ph.D., M.P.H., and his team,...
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 A common virus, which was previously linked with obesity, has been proved in lab tests to transform adult stem cells obtained from fat tissue into fat cells. It's the human adenovirus-36 (Ad-36), which usually causes respiratory and eye infections.Previous research has established that around 30 percent of obese people are infected with...
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Sixty-six percent of adults and seventy percent of children
in the U.S. are
overweight. Eating too much and not exercising are the main causes,
but discoveries in the lab show that there is an explanation for the fact that some people
never succeed to get or to keep fit.
Specialists have long debated whether obesity can...
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 On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics came forward with some rather surprising guidance. For the first time ever, the Academy advised people to give eight-year-olds cholesterol-fighting drugs in order to prevent future heart conditions.According to Dr. Stephen Daniels, member of the academy's nutrition committee, the new advice...
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 San Diego-based Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc announced that an independent safety monitoring board has concluded that its obesity drug Lorcaserin shows no heart safety issues after one year. The results were awaited eagerly because obesity drugs have created scandals in the past, such as that made by Wyeth which had to be recalled ten years...
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 According to a new research study, a new obesity drug that
jams the biological trigger responsible for cannabis "munchies" is
effective even at low doses.
The drug, called taranabant, is the second in a new
generation of appetite-reducing weight loss medications.
It follows the lead taken by rimonabant, developed by...
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 Health officials say that the first over-the-counter
slimming pill to go on sale in Britain could be available in pharmacies as
early as next year. The drug, which has been marketed in the US under the name
Alli since June, is a half-strength version of a pill called Xenical that is
currently only available in Britain under...
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 Singer/Actor Marc Anthony can’t wait to take his wife, Jennifer Lopez, on tour with him and sow the world how good their voices blend."We're seriously talking about going out this year and putting together an amazing show with just her and me," Anthony told Billboard magazine. Explaining his excitement, Anthony said that...
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 The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban for at least one year new fast-food restaurants in one of the town's poorest areas, this way taking measures against increasing obesity rates.If approved by Mayor Antonia Villaraigosa, the ordinance would put a one-year moratorium on construction of new fast-food eateries in a...
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 What happens with this Trans Fat? They are made by pumping hydrogen into liquid oil at high temperature. Trans Fat is what fast-food restaurants do to make food crisp and add the flavor. Where can Trans Fats be found? The Food and Drug administration released a list of the Trans Fat providers.Major products that are made by using the...
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A group of television stations tested the “low fat, low
calorie" choices offered at popular restaurants including Applebee's,
Cheesecake Factory, Taco Bell, Macaroni Grill and Chili's. Food from chains in
eight cities was analyzed from March till May this year. The result was
troubling. Diet menus contained twice as many...
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 To eat or not to eat? That is the question
that lately kept the attention of the experts from the London School
of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
Has anybody ever wondered which the
consequences of eating too much are? Let’s consider the people who need daily five
times the normal quantity of calories. Because it seems that...
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 Results of a California
study on one of the most followed topics as regards pregnancy contain both good
and bad news. The situation of women suffering of diabetes, who plan to give
birth, has been investigated and the outcome of the study shows that the
proportion of gestational diabetes stagnated between 1999 and 2005.
What...
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 A new study published in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine has found that infants and toddlers who sleep less than 12 hours a day were twice as likely to be overweight than longer sleepers by the time they are 3 years old.Those who also watched more than two hours of television per day had a chance of 16 percent of...
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 A new Sleep
Diagnostic Center
has been just opened at the Methodist
Mansfield Medical
Center, as the number of
persons suffering from all kinds of sleep disorders seems to be continually
increasing. The new Sleep Diagnostic Center offers two specially designed
sleep-study suites; among the sleep disorders that the Center will be...
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 For the first time a team of
researchers analyzed the relation between salty foods and nutritional problems
in children and discovered that salt-rich diets could be linked to obesity. It has
always been known that high concentrations of salt in the food people eat leads
to thirst and to the bodies’ tendency to retain more water...
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 According to a news study
released Sunday, the scientists from Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Indiana, found that food containing calorie-free artificial sweeteners may be
fattening instead of sliming, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The research, performed on rats,
was published in the February issue of Behavioral...
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 First, baby cosmetics and now
baby bottles. There is a new concern among parents regarding baby bottles,
which might contain toxic substances. A new study has drawn attention upon the
fact that when baby bottles are exposed to heat, they release a chemical that
could cause obesity, diabetes and developmental problems in lab...
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 According to a new bill in Mississippi, restaurants
might be banned from serving food to obese customers, and the restaurants which
do not obey this decision might even lose their license.
The bill, known as HB 282, was
proposed by Mississippi State Representative John Read of Gautier, along with
two more authors Ted Mayhall...
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 An experimental Merck & Co Inc obesity drug helped
patients lose weight and burn up calories, but at higher doses caused
psychiatric side effects similar to those that prevented U.S. approval of a
similar Sanofi-Aventis treatment, researchers said.
The findings, seen in mid-stage trials of Merck's taranabant,
were reported in...
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 U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday that heart attacks may
not be reserved for the hostile and driven among us -- anxious, but fearful
people also have a higher risk.
They found men who scored the highest on tests of anxiety
were 30 to 40 percent more likely than the others to have a heart attack.
The findings held even when...
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 Boston-area researchers say that adolescent girls who placed
themselves low on the ladder of popularity were more likely to gain weight
later in their teen years than girls who saw themselves as having higher social
standing.
Depression and low self-esteem have been identified as
contributing to the burden of obesity in...
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 Arthritic disease is the most common cause of disability in
the United States and now affects 46 million Americans, or more than 21 percent
of the adult population, a major new report finds.
That number is expected to rise even higher as baby boomers
age, so that by 2030, 40 percent of American adults will suffer from some form
of...
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 Health officials are concerned with the nation's poor diet, costing
the economy £10 billion, of which £7.7 billion comprises NHS treatment that
could be avoided if people cut down on fatty and salty foods and ate more fresh
fruit and vegetables.
Those who die prematurely would have lived for almost 10
years longer if they adhered...
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 US researchers suggest that a disturbed night's sleep may
increase the risk of developing diabetes.
The US team discovered that volunteers who were roused
whenever they were about to fall into the deepest sleep developed insulin
resistance.
This inability of the body to recognise normal insulin
signals leads to high blood...
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 A recent study found that the British are the keenest fast
food consumers in the world, closely followed by Americans. When asked to
comment on the statement "I like the taste of fast food too much to give
it up," 45% of the British agreed, compared to 44% of Americans - Canada
came third with 37%. At the other end of the...
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 Parents are being urged to make sure their children get
enough exercise over the festive period.
Many youngsters spend their Christmas holidays indoors
playing on video games, reading books and eating chocolates.
But local doctors and national politicians have grouped
together to call on parents to ensure their children get at...
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 Concerns regarding whether a chemical called Bisphenol A and
whether it is harmful to humans are ever so growing considering the fact that
the chemical is used to harden plastic in consumer products including baby
bottles, food containers, cling wrap, toys, CDs, sunglasses, and thousands of
other products.
A number of...
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The global obesity epidemic has been brought to our
attention by an international team of scientists, urging health professionals
to adopt a more social approach in counteracting the problem.
Sharon Friel, Principal Research Fellow with the Commission on Social
Determinants of Health at the Department of Epidemiology and Public...
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