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Vegetarian Diet Could Reduce Risk of Colon Cancer

...port, a history of life-long vegetarianism (due to religious reasons) was obtained from all patients to plan a suitable diet. Twenty-seven percent of subjects (2,092 patients) from the control cohort were life-long vegetarians and 22.4 percent (178 patients) of subjects with colon cancer were vegetarians. P...

Spirituality And Health

...nd growing in number. Spiritual needs arising from religious beliefs should be identified and addressed as part...style are just some of the influences arising from religious belief. All of these factors influence health in ways that are increasingly being understood thro...

Extremist Christian Preacher Dies of Heart Problems

...founded the Moral Majority and used it to mold the religious right into a political force, died Tuesday shortly...m unresponsive." Falwell, became the face of the religious right in the 1980s. He later founded the conservative Liberty University and serves as its president...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

..."the Indian paradox", where millions drink despite religious and social taboos. Consumption of hard liquor was high - 120 million cases of whisky, vodka and other drinks and 105 million cases of beer every year. "Add 200 million cases of country liquor and a sizable number that is unaccounted for, and 500 mi...

Report Examines Medical Students' Perceived Readiness To Treat Diverse Patients

...ust the U.S. health system or who have cultural or religious beliefs at odds with Western medicine. In addition, many residents cited obstacles to providing cross-cultural care, including a lack of time, lack of language-appropriate written materials, inadequate access to interpreters and lack of experience in...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

...legedly an activist of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious outfit, and former skipper Inzamam-ul Haq had come under criticism for taking Ahmed on as a bowling coach....

Legalization of Therapeutic Abortion in UAE on the Cards

... religion. Whatever we decide has to be within the religious and social environment," Ali Shakar of the ministry of health was quoted as saying in Gulf News Thursday. According to the draft law, it will be legal to terminate fetuses with severe genetic disorders such as thalassemia. Abortion is currently ...

Osteoarthritis Facts and Causes

...e positions are used in eating, socializing and in religious or traditional ceremonies and squatting is the position usually used for defecation in Asia and the Middle East. The results showed that impingement occurred in all subjects in the W-sitting position and was also seen in 2 subjects in the squatting...

Teenage Birthrate Declining in US Both Abstinence and Awareness Called for to Maintain the Trend

...conduits of false and fear-based information and a religious message. The United States has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in the western industrialized world. Whatever is working -- abstinence education, comprehensive education, integrated education -- we need more of it. A couple of months ago the Na...

Church Weddings for Gays Soon a Reality in Sweden

...ate in 2000, has since January 2007 offered gays a religious blessing of their union. Some pastors are ready ... have not been flooded with requests from gays for religious blessings of their civil unions, since most gay couples prefer to wait and see if a new marriage law...

Egypt Outlaws All Female Circumcision

... stop it must be a "national priority". Powerful religious leaders, usually silent on taboos relating to fema...uda III also declared it had "no foundation in the religious texts" of either Islam or Christianity. An education campaign launched in 2003, involving televisi...

India Records Substantial Decline in Polio Cases

...s quite encouraging. The government, WHO, NGOs and religious leaders are working in tandem to battle the diseas...thing to do with any religion and we appeal to all religious leaders to lend their support to wipe out polio from India,' he said. The ministry has also asked...

Meditation Increases Attention - A Brain Scan Report

...N - For hundreds of years, Tibetan monks and other religious people have used meditation to calm the mind and i...on, and not lifestyle factors such as isolation or religious faith. "This was a highly unusual group of people. Two-thirds of the experienced meditators were T...

Charity Slot Machines a Thing of the Past in Norway

...rsecretary of state at the ministry of culture and religious affairs, told AFP. At most there were some 18,500 slot machines across Norway, which has a population of 4.6 million. The ban on charity slots "will affect the manna that goes to good causes but our main concern is this scourge of gambling addictio...

India to Get a Taste of 'British' Curries

...beef, as many Indians do not eat pork and beef for religious reasons. She also hopes to steer Indians brought up on fried food to roasting, grilling and baking. "I won't call my show an invasion. I am not going to say 'give up your cuisine'," said Malhi. She was brought up in London, where her home-made...

Sixteen-year-old UK Girl Demands Right to Wear 'purity Ring'

...selves up as arbiters of faith and "cannot rule on religious truth". He asked Judge Supperstone to declare that the school had acted outside its powers when it banned the wearing of the purity ring, arguing that the school authorities were violating Lydia's right to "freedom of thought, conscience and religio...

Bush Again Vetoes Embryonic Stem Cell Research Bill

...n involves their destruction -- conflicts with his religious beliefs and he urged scientists to consider other alternatives. "If this legislation became law, it would compel American taxpayers for the first time in our history to support the deliberate destruction of human embryos," Bush said. "I made it cle...

Cervical Cancer Vaccine for the 12 Year Old

... new programme of the government. Some parents and religious groups say the vaccine could encourage girls to have unprotected sex. The ethical and religious groups oppose the scheme and believe girls should be taught to abstain from sex rather than go in fo...

Elton John's Free AIDS Awareness Concert in Ukraine

...efore it stops us' has however been boycotted by a religious group that urged the people that the Grammy Award winning singer tried to promote his gay lifestyle through it. There are around 400,000 HIV-positive people in Ukraine. According to experts AIDS is a major threat to the country, for it is estimated...

Child Health Key Focus Among Muslim Nations

...liable supply and safety. Officials also called on religious leaders to take responsibility to promote polio vaccination among poor and marginalised Muslim populations. '(We) hereby strongly affirm that polio eradication is an urgent priority for all OIC member states,' the draft statement said. Polio, a pr...

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