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Photographs as a parameter

...h the eyes and risk of stroke, like diabetes, age, smoking and high blood pressure. Ann Elsner from eye institute Boston says the study shows the value of looking carefully at the eye. "The eyes are the windows to the world," she says.Hu Ssang studied vascular changes on the micrometer scale - far too small...

Preventing mental decline in the aged

...line in older people. Drinking too much alcohol or smoking may also promote cognitive decline and avoiding these activities could help an older person maintain cognitive ability. Researchers conclude cognitive vitality is crucial to optimal aging. They say clear data is now beginning to show scientific bas...

Impact on Lung function based on exposure

...participants provided information regarding family smoking status, early diagnosis of asthma, early initiatio...ult asthma, and cigarette smoking. Results showed smoking at an early age was related to a faster decline in FEV 1. Having family members who smoked led to ea...

Poor diet among smokers

...ancer cases.// Where people are exposed to passive smoking - usually because they live with a smoker or work ...ith smokers are compounding the problem of passive smoking by eating a poor diet. Nonsmoking men living with smokers consume more fat and cholesterol and less ...

Advantages of Red Wine

... drinking habits, doctors reviewed nutrition data, smoking history, blood pressure, and physical activity levels. More studies will be done to further understand how all of these factors may influence heart health....

A new herbal therapy to quit smoking

...n attempt to de-automise the habit. This will turn smoking from a mechanical to a conscious process. This w...4-hour period, when the person will keep away from smoking and resume. This is done to reduce the stress of quitting, according to therapists at Newtrition. ...

Balanced diet important in cancer prevention

... the risk, independent of other factors. Giving up smoking remains the best way to reduce your risk - but if you don't smoke, attention to diet and exercise will help keep you free of cancer....

Watching television linked to smoking

In the United States smoking is the leading preventable cause of death. Turning...roducts are banned from advertising on television, smoking is still widespread on television programs. In California, researchers from Children's Hospital loo...

Overweight can affect sex life

... measured 30 inches. Even after adjusting for age, smoking and hypertension, men with a larger waistline were more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction, the study said. The data also showed that men who were inactive were more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction than men who exercised at least 3...

Osteoarthritis and Estrogen are connected

...ed for other factors such as age, body mass index, smoking and exercise, women on estrogen were still more likely to have hip or hand osteoarthritis. Researchers conclude postmenopausal estrogen use is associated with a higher prevalence of osteoarthritis. Researchers say this could be due to the complex e...

A smoke free place to be initiated

...eye irritation and even lung cancer. In California smoking is now banned in the workplace and in public places. Researchers at the University of California have studied a group of 200 people with asthma, to see how they were faring with respect to ETS. They found that around per cent of the group experien...

A boon for smokers to quit

...ehaviour.Blocking dopamine is found to induce more smoking as the chemical plays with an individual's emotions and feelings of pleasure.Infact, a group of smokers who tried the new drug smoked less than when they took a dopamine blocker.This effect of the drug is believed to be due to nausea induced by it.Ho...

Sensitive cough suffered by females

...e between the genders was independent of cigarette smoking and the kind of cough being treated at the clinic. The study suggests that women have a more sensitive cough reflex than men to. Similar differences have been found in the onset of asthma and gastroesophagal reflux disease....

Occupational exposurer aises respiratory symptoms

...t lung symptoms, workplace dust and fume exposure, smoking habits and asthma. Then, after 5 years 1656 of t...ter adjusting for sex, age, educational levels and smoking habits, there is a clear link between occupational exposures and respiratory symptoms and asthma. In...

Quit smoking after cancer diagnosis

...ement, while the control group was told to give up smoking and given information leaflets. Even though motiva... more likely to give up. Counseling people to quit smoking when they have cancer is tricky - for instance, if stress makes them smoke, it would be better to ad...

Quitting the smoking habit

...erved that antidepressants used to aid people quit smoking are more effective when combined with a psychologi...ates occurred among those who took one of the stop smoking medications and also took part in a counseling program run by internal medicine and psychiatric resi...

Smoking may be influenced by Parents

...go a questionnaire that asked about their parents' smoking "prompting" behaviors. The students' parents compl... questionnaire. Researchers compared data from 242 smoking parents and their children. Results show only 9 percent of parents said they asked their children t...

Handling forgetfulness

...s also very helpful. Limiting alcohol and stopping smoking will also boost mental skills, for it is known that nicotine has a negative effect on cognition in some older adults. Manage stress, too, as well as you can, for stress hormones can interfere with mental processes. It is also important to have regula...

Smoking impairs protective reflex in throat

...ical college of Wisconsin have recently shown that smoking leads to damage of the protective reflexes in the ... stomach acid from flowing back into the hroat and smoking causes damage to the// pharyngoglottal closure reflex, which closes off the vocal chords if fluid en...

Help Quit Smoking

...ist Nancy Murray says that the age when one starts smoking has a link to the difficulty in quitting as a find...articles on new ways to talk to teens and facts on smoking and cancer in addition to an addiction quiz proves as a medium to understand why a child smokes and ...

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