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South Africa Notes Signs of First-ever Decline in HIV Infection Rates

...ctions occur. The country has the world's second heaviest caseload of HIV/AIDS, behind India, with about 5.5 million in a population of 48 million infected, as well as one of the world's highest rates of teenage pregnancy....

Video Game Addiction to Be Termed as a Medical Condition

...ata, Gallagher said. An AMA report notes that the heaviest game players are those who play MMORPGs massive multiplayer online role-playing games such as World of Warcraft. And those players, says the AMA, are more likely to be socially isolated and probably addicted. Up to 90 percent of American youngster...

Both Alcohol and Neighborhood Characteristics can Affect Intimate Partner Violence

...ecific effects differ by gender; women who are the heaviest drinkers are at elevated risk for mutual IPV despi...married/cohabiting women, except those who are the heaviest drinkers, drinking contributes to elevated risk for mutual IPV, but only in the context of higher ne...

Scales Tipping Alarmingly in the U.S.

...e highest percentage increase ever to occur in the heaviest weight groups. A body mass index, or BMI, is a ratio of weight to height and those men who weigh 300 pounds at a height of 5 feet 10 inches are considered morbidly obese. However a severely obese woman is described as the one who weighs 250 pounds...

Lard, Have Mercy

... than or equal to 30.It has compiled a list of the heaviest nations. Of the top 10 countries on the list, eight were from the South Pacific, with Nauru tipping the scales in first position with 94 per cent of its adult population overweight. The US was ninth with 74 per cent overweight and Britain was 28t...

Flood Toll Rises, and Indonesia Braces for Disease

...was among the worst in memory. Residents say the heaviest flooding comes in five-year cycles. In January 2002, flooding killed 21 people and forced 380,000 from their homes. Environmentalists said the annual floods had been growing worse and blamed clogged drains, trash-filled rivers and deforestation of...

Deaths due to heavy drinking has doubled in 15 years

... "Given that 16 to 24-year-olds are now among the heaviest consumers of alcohol in Britain, these figures paint a bleak picture for their future health. Drinkers need to realise that alcohol misuse is implicated in a range of fatal diseases, from cancer to severe psychosis, which can strike at relatively you...

Lighten Up! Heavy Backpacks a Weighty Load for Children to Bear

...y help their children to pack their backpacks, the heaviest items should be placed closest to the child’s body and as close to their center of gravity as possible,” Kramer explained. “Otherwise, not only will the heavy backpacks cause strain on backs and necks, but it will also make the child unsafe because i...

Coffee Drinking Associated with Lower Risk for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease

...ot drink coffee, with the strongest link among the heaviest drinkers. Tea drinking was not related to reduced risk in the study, suggesting that it is not caffeine that is responsible for the relationship between coffee and reduced cirrhosis risk. "Previous reports are disparate with respect to whether th...

Europeans Tops the World in Alcohol Consumption

...cording to a funded study by EU, Europeans are the heaviest drinkers in the world with nearly 115,000 alcohol-...e alcohol drunk per adult each year, Europe is the heaviest drinking region of the world, the report said. An estimated 23 million Europeans (five percent of me...

A simple answer to teen weight loss: Reducing sugary drinks

... the stronger the effect on body weight. Among the heaviest one-third of teens, the beverage-delivery group had a marked decrease in body mass index (BMI), while the control group had a slight increase – a group-to-group difference of almost 1 pound per month. Other factors affecting obesity – physical activi...

Plump Infants Getting Obese Later In Life In More Cases

...t of obesity at any later age. They found that the heaviest infants, those with the highest body mass index, and those who gained weight rapidly during the first and second year of life, were more likely to be obese in childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood than other infants. The authors believe that f...

Tsunami Survivors Face Pneumonia Threat

...eared that diseases such as cholera would take the heaviest toll on survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami. But overcrowding at refugee camps has intensified// the spread of pneumonia, and health officials fear that respiratory diseases may claim many lives in the already devastated region. In the days follo...

Tea helps protect Heart disease

...ionship between tea consumption and mortality. The heaviest tea drinkers had a significantly lower mortality rate than non-tea drinkers. However critics argue that people who drink tea might be expected to live healthier lifestyles than people who don't drink tea....

Link between birth weight and Insulin Resistance

.... The study also shows women with the lightest and heaviest offspring had the highest risk of developing diabetes.// More than 4,100 women ages between 62 and 75 years participated in the study. Researchers found, as birth weight increased every 2.2 lbs, women had a 12% risk of being among those with the hig...

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