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Lard, Have Mercy

Obesity has become a household word, and it’s not the rich and over-fed// anymore. In western countries it is seen that the poor are actually fatter and the rich with access to awareness about bad eating habits, and personal trainers, hi-tech gyms, diet secretaries etc., are co...

Active Lifestyle Reduces Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer

...ntham-Dietz. "Future research should also consider household activity in addition to recreational and occupational activities." Source-Eurekalert SR...

Over 50s Most Concerned About Global Warming

...led carbon footprint analysis of the UK by age and household expenditure, together with an attitudinal survey o... associated with consumption into over 40 kinds of household expenditure categories. Using age specific expenditure data, it calculates the carbon footprint by a...

Poor People Worse Off Following Heart Attack

... common practice of using the neighbourhood median household income as a proxy for socioeconomic status, the researchers classified patients into separate income groups. Patients in the lowest income quartile were more likely to be older, female and to have other illnesses such as diabetes and peripheral vascu...

Breastfed Kids Enjoy Greater Social Mobility Than Bottle-fed Children

...g varied from 45% to 85%, but was not dependent on household income, expenditure on food, number of siblings, birth order, or social class in childhood. But those who had been breastfed as babies were 41% more likely to move up the social ladder as adults than those who had been bottle fed. The longer a ch...

Colorado Smoking Cessation Program Targets Hispanics

...homes randomly, determine if a smoker lives in the household and then offer counseling if needed. The team will return to that home as many as five times for follow-up counseling. To date, the program has reached about one-fifth of 1% of the state's 650,000 Hispanic households and has spent $200,000. Other ...

Flu Strikes Late - Child Succumbs

...n and adults with chronic health conditions, their household contacts, health care workers, nursing home and other chronic care staff members, pregnant women in their third trimester and babies between the ages of six and 23 months. Those who work with live poultry or pigs are also eligible. Meanwhile, the s...

Cat Owners at Risk of Bird Flu

...the bird flu virus. All the cats in one Bangkok household died of H5N1 in 2004, and tigers and leopards - members of the cat family - died in Thai zoos in the same year. Last year three cats died in Germany after eating wild birds. Dr Chiarul Anwar Nidom of Airlangga University took blood samples from 5...

WHO's New Chief Very Optimistic

...ded. ‘When women are given a hand up in terms of household income, we see improvements in their own health an... people to work their way out of poverty and spend household incomes on something other than illness.’ Dr. Chan notes that although infectious diseases like A...

Poorer Women More Likely to Get Reduced Chemotherapy Dose

Breast cancer patients who have a lower household income and less education may be more likely to re...he women’s zip codes to assign each woman a median household income, poverty status and level of education. Information about individual women’s actual education...

Antiviral Drugs Curb Influenza Virus

...a total of 1,475 households. The majority of first household cases (53 percent to 70 percent) had influenza A (...as defined by reductions in influenza illnesses in household contacts, when oseltamivir was used for treatment of ill persons, but not when zanamivir was adminis...

Swimming in Troubled Waters

...lities. People living in households with average household water THM level of more than 49 micrograms per liter had double the bladder cancer risk of those living in households where water THM concentration was below 8 micrograms per liter. THM levels of about 50 micrograms per liter are common in industrial...

South Asians, Don’t Blame Your Genes Anymor

...d foods, and reduced mobility due to automation of household chores. 'In the transition to a modern lifestyle, these risk factors have been picked up rapidly by South Asians,' said Prabhakaran Dorairaj, a cardiologist at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. The final word goes to team ...

A Shot at the Gun

... ‘Our findings suggest that in the United States, household firearms may be an important source of guns used to kill children, women and men, both on the street and in their homes,’ said Matthew Miller, assistant professor of health policy and injury prevention, who led the study.More than 200 million guns ar...

Living Near Toxic Waste May Bring On Diabetes

... skew the data, such as age, race, sex and average household income. Major types of organic pollutants are polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, a former industrial ingredient of pesticides, paints, paper and other products. Although banned from the US industries in the 1970s, PCBs still exist in the environ...

Household Chores May Reduce Risk Of Breast Cancer

...eyed 200,000 women from 9 European countries found household chores are far more cancer protective than playing sport. It has been long known that physical exercise reduces the risk of breast cancer, perhaps through hormonal and metabolic changes. Dusting, mopping and vacuuming were good exercise and bette...

Household Chores Could Cut Breast Cancer Risk

Women who exercise by doing household chores like dusting, mopping and vacuuming could reduce their risk of breast cancer, suggests a new study.// The research funded by Cancer Research UK studied over 200,000 women from nine European countries and found that doing housework was far mo...

Treat Soft Drinks As Toilet Cleaners: Baba Ramdev

... cancer, Ramdev called upon Indians to make yoga a household treatment to all kinds of diseases rather than become an addict to allopathic treatment. "You are killing yourself by becoming an addict of allopathic medicines. Just stick to yoga for a healthy and long life," the yoga guru advised people at a thre...

Corporate Inc Awakening To Economic Impact Of HIV

...ch (NCAER), highlights that "HIV infections reduce household incomes by as much as 10 percent, with the impact being especially severe on those engaged in agricultural labour." "This is on account of job losses or leave of absence for people living with HIV/AIDS and their care-givers," said NCAER Director-Gen...

Sweat It Out- Prevent Colon Cancer

... researchers for those too lazy to pump iron: even household activities like scrubbing the tub, washing windows etc. will suffice....

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