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Singer Pink disgusted by sex tape mentality

...ng wrong with being sexy. She is disgusted by the popularity of Hilton's raunchy homemade film made with her ex-boyfriend Rick Saloman and is concerned that girls are turning to unsuitable role models. Says Pink: "I feel scared, really scared. I personally need more examples of how to be better and how to be...

Chocolate to Treat Heart Disease

... disease. Corder’s theory has not met with much popularity as most cardiac doctors view chocolate consumption itself as part of the problem for heart patients and others who tend to put on weight. <br...

Advertisements in High School Newspapers Encourage Students to Sport a Tan

...s a classified carcinogen. Tanning is fast gaining popularity amongst the teen girls and perhaps this explains why there is a high incidence of skin cancer among young women. According to recommendations from The World Health Organization, those who are younger than age 18 are advised not to use UV tanning de...

Campaign to Eliminate Cervical Cancer

...most a quarter-million women deaths each year. The popularity of the Pap test has however helped to bring down cervical cancer rates in the United States over the last 60 years. The approval of a new screening test for HPV infections, which, when used in conjunction with a Pap is expected to increase the accura...

Aspirin to Prevent Deafness caused by Antibiotics

...t 1 in 10 persons. Gentamycin does not have much popularity in United States because of its widely publicized risks. Schacht and his colleague Su-Hua Sha conducted their aspirin tests in China because the problem was seen there especially among children. The tests revealed that only 3 percent of the 89 pa...

Teenagers Often Deny Taken ‘Virginity Pledges

Taking virginity pledges is gaining popularity among the teenagers in the recent years. But a new study has found that despite such pledges teens deny bluntly that they ever took such vows. // The study also questions whether teens' self-reported sexual histories are a good way of gauging how w...

Varicose Vein Treatments Turn Out To Be A Viable Health Investment

...edical practice, where sclerotherapy is gaining in popularity as a varicose vein treatment. Varicose veins are enlarged, sometimes twisted veins just under the skin caused by a faulty valve that allows a backflow of blood. The condition, which often appears in the legs, can be cosmetically troubling for patien...

Bariatric Surgery Solution to Obesity and to Boost Medical Tourism

...tched to a part of the small intestine, has gained popularity throughout the world as it reduces the body weight of patients by 80 per cent. Through procedures called laparoscopic gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy, where the digestive system is short-circuited to decrease absorption of fats, Bariatric surg...

MMR – Related Autism, Doctor’s Need To Be Chargd

...year. Thus since 2000 a drop has been found in the popularity of mumps and measles jab. When charges are put against a doctor, it should be under the course of their investigation. All over the world about 90 countries were vaccinated for MMR, where as in US it started during the 1970s. A short study by Dr...

Vitamin A Deficiency Subsequent to Intestinal Surgery

... deficiency. The authors warn that the increasing popularity of gastric banding and gastric bypass, the surgical treatments for obesity, is making vitamin A deficiency increasingly common in the developed world....

Liposuction Made Less Time Consuming

...res are available in cosmetic surgery clinics. The popularity of this technique in Britain has increased by 35% according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons. Now-a-days men are also worried about their looks and about 11% of all procedures have been carried out on men. Wigmore Medical, th...

Dieting Behaviors Changed Among Weight Losers

...from 1995 to 2003. Phelan cites that the rise in popularity of the low carbohydrate diets might explain, in part, the shift in more recent years to participants consuming consistently lower amounts of carbohydrates. Despite fluctuations in participant's fat and carbohydrate consumption over the years, physi...

Astro Gem Therapy: The Latest Beauty Secret for Glowing Skin

...the face. Another more important reason for the popularity of the gem stone facials is that they are safe and...aid college student Megha Tiwari, vouching for the popularity of the latest fad. (Source: IANS)...

Face-lift: Essentials for a youthful look

...ces of Wales’, personal trainer,// is fast gaining popularity for its one day programme that claims to make its clients look and feel nearly 80,000 years younger. The programme encompasses a combination of consultation and therapy. The programme is designed with the belief that any anti-ageing initiative ha...

Online Drugs Could Prove Hazardous To health Warn Doctors in UK

The doctors in UK have warned that with the rising popularity of the online pharmaceuticals the health of the general health could be threatened.// An article published today in the online edition of the Lancet by Scientists from the Sunderland Eye Infirmary had yesterday, published an article in the online e...

Unpasteurized Milk And Milk Products: Are they Safe for Health?

The gaining popularity of unpasteurized milk has raised questions over the safety of drinking such milk. While people consume unpasteurized milk for a variety of reasons// from religious belief to thinking that unpasteurized milk are healthier and tastier, it can’t be den...

Changing Food Habits: Fodder For Thought

...ugh it must be noted that these drinks are gaining popularity among the young. The survey also revealed that alcohol consumption is quite popular among the middle-aged and is avid in communities where drinking is not a taboo.13% of the country’s population drink regularly. It is estimated that alcoholism, in ...

Discrepancy in salt content on food labels

...y of iodine. Decreasing salt consumption and the popularity of rock and sea salts have resulted in marked decrease of iodised salt intake. Transtasman food regulator Food Standards Australia New Zealand intends to require iodised salt to be used in baked cereal products. Responding to the test results, Gr...

Obesity – Made in China

BEIJING: The popularity of Chinese products leaves little doubt about their diligence and ingenuity , yet an average Chinese, caught up in the euphoria of success//, growth and development, is unfortunately not a symbol of good health. A survey purporting to measure the s...

Hooked on the Hookah, a’int no good

...t has swept through the Middle East and is gaining popularity in the West, and demonstrates that the amount of cellular chromosomal damage produced inside the mouth is the same as that seen in cigarette smoking. Yet water pipe cafes or bars have been popping up all over the Eastern Mediterranean region over t...

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