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Risk Of Asthma Rises Due to Endotoxins

...highest in kitchen and living room floor dust, and lowest in the case of bedding. "The mean concentration of endotoxin in the kitchen floor dust was 2.3-fold higher than bedroom floor dust and 4.3-fold higher than bedding dust," said Dr. Thorne. ...

Romantic Relationships Make People Happy

...sual relationships. Un-partnered people report the lowest levels of well being, the study noted. Even those in relatively unhappy marriages appear to benefit from being married, perhaps because they benefit from marriage's stability, commitment and social status, Dush said. "Being married is associated w...

Smoking Related Scenes in Movies Increase Teenage Susceptibility To Smoke

...it more frequently compared to those who watch the lowest related. In addition, adolescents and teens who were under strict parental guidance regarding watching of R-rated films were less likely to start smoking than those with fewer restrictions. "This result indicates that lowering exposure by removing ...

Cholesterol Can Be Effectively Controlled By Sunflower Seeds, Pistachios

.... Walnuts and Brazil nuts were found to have the lowest cholesterol reduction property as revealed by minimal levels of phytosterol content. Although the present study throws light on the widespread use of sunflower seeds and pistachio nuts for reduction of cholesterol, these are not the only cholestero...

Once affected by breast cancer it can strike back!

...anoma, non-melanoma skin cancer, and leukemia. The lowest elevated risk is 22 percent for colorectal cancer and the highest elevated risk is 125 percent for soft tissue sarcoma. The researchers were Dr. Lene Mellemkjaer and colleagues from the Danish Cancer Society in Copenhagen. The sample they took comp...

Cholesterol; Can Be Reduced By Sunflower Seeds, and Pistachios

...oods. Similarly Brazil nuts and walnuts ranked the lowest in phytosterols, the researchers reported in their study that appeared in the American Chemical Society's Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. However, they cautioned that phytosterols are not the only food component involved in lowering cho...

Study Says Vitamin D Is Good For Lungs

...ifference in lung function between the highest and lowest quintiles of vitamin D is substantial and greater than the difference between former and non-smokers," he added. "Although there is a definite relationship between lung function and vitamin D, it is unclear if increases in vitamin D through suppleme...

Salmon's own diet sure to affect yours

... world. Farmed salmon from South America had the lowest level of pollutants followed by farmed salmon from...salmon from Chile (which were found to contain the lowest concentrations of pollutants in farm-raised populations), and in some oils, nuts and vegetables.'...

Study finds no link between fibre and cancer risk

... less likely to get colon cancer than those in the lowest fifth. But on further analysis, the link disappears. If other dietary factors such as red meat, milk and alcohol are included, the link between fibre and cancer becomes insignificant. The team did not find support for a linear inverse association ...

A cheesy story!!!

...artling finding was that one of the cheeses scored lowest overall by the experts was scored higher among one consumer segment. The reason attributed was some consumers actually favoured certain characteristics of flavour or texture considered to be defects in the cheeses by the assessors. This is why expert...

Drug Use On The Decline Among US Youth

...good. It found that cigarette smoking was at its lowest level since the survey began in 1975, and overall drug use among teens and adolescents continued to decline. However, Nora D. Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, said there remained areas of...

Seasonal Variation In Exercise And Eating Habits Identified

...alorie intake was documented during winter and the lowest during spring. A seasonal fluctuation in the foo...hest during the fall. Consistent with reports of lowest levels of physical activity during winter, a corresponding increase in the body weight was also note...

Mental Health Services In Poor Shape

...o NGOs which cater // to mental health is also the lowest in the country. The number of mental health disorders in South Australia stands only after cancer and heart disease. The State spending towards mental health has risen by 49% during the past decade, while in the case of federal spending, it is at ...

With a healthy heart stick to the wild salmon

... in farmed salmon, with Chilean salmon showing the lowest levels and European (particularly Scottish) farmed salmon showing the highest levels, careful consumers with a history of heart disease could choose farmed salmon from Chile for their high omega-3 content and relatively lower level of contaminants." ...

Men queue up for Circumcision In Swaziland To Prevent HIV/AIDS

...ion in Swaziland, which has one of the world's // lowest rates of the practice and one of the highest HIV prevalence rates. Circumcision, once widely viewed as unmanly, it is making a sudden comeback in the country since the publication of a South African study that finds the practice could reduce the r...

Health Insurance Scheme Generates Conflicting Opinions

... also said that ICICI-Lombard had come up with the lowest premium quotations. "We are confident the schem...ll nationalized insurance companies were high. The lowest rate from the public sector was Rs.542. The ICICI-Lombard rate was Rs.399”. Jose, who heads a pov...

Baltimore is America's Fittest City; Chicago the Fattest

..., dropped to No. 8 position. Chicago took over the lowest spot from Houston....

A taxi could increase your exposure to pollution

...o find the extent to which walking resulted in the lowest exposure. The higher exposure from travelling in taxis may come from actually sitting in the vehicle while being stuck in traffic where you are directly in the path of the pollutant source. Also, the fact that taxis are probably on the road for much ...

Planning Permission Delayed In Scotland

...ity Council, Orkney, and Perth and Kinross had the lowest success rates, managing to process only 50% of applications within the two months. Edinburgh City Council with just 61% of cases. Malcolm Chisholm, communities minister, said that only a small number of planning authorities meet the targets for dev...

Fat chance: Live Statistics of an English Man

...fth adults obese. Scotland is disappointing with lowest life expectancy for men (73.8 years) and women (79...rates of lung cancer. Wales is child friendly with lowest death rate among infants in 2003 but has the highest proportion of disabled people in 2003-04. Howe...

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