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Australian Kids High On Television And Low On Sleep

...tralian and American guidelines, the safe level of television viewing is restricted to 2 hours per day. As littl...tes, and burn fat as well. As children engaged in television are more likely to get glued to the seat for many hours, then show a decreased inclination towards p...

Parents Need Guidance to Broach the Subject of Cancer with Their Children

...e children seemed to have gathered the inputs from television soap operas, health campaigns, and celebrities, as well as from the experience of relatives or friends' parents with cancer. Researchers also felt that parents often underestimated the child’s emotional impact and even misjudged the child’s reactio...

Nepal: Doctors Treating Protestors Being Deported

... detained Wednesday after he appeared on a private television channel the day before saying he and others were b...urity forces. On Tuesday, Cobb had told Kantipur television channel that truncheon-wielding policemen swooped down on him and other people and started hitting t...

Watching TV Blamed for Weight Gain

Scientists have discovered that watching television for an hour increases a child's dietary intake by ...a year. Scientists have discovered that watching television for an hour increases a child's dietary intake by about 167 calories thereby adding over than six ki...

TV Viewing Increases Intake of Junk Food

...d that there was a significant association between television viewing and higher rates of daily consumption of s... likely to eat sweets with each additional hour of television watched. They were 12% less likely to eat vegetables and 15% less likely to eat fresh fruit with e...

Soap Opera: Advertisement Throws ‘Head & Shoulders’ Off Balane

The ASA has demanded that the television commercials for ‘Head and Shoulders’ Shampoo, that claims cent percent dandruff free efficacy of their products, is required to be// modified. Adverts for ocean spa and cool menthol varieties of the shampoo are the ones working up more soap than req...

Medias Plays Vital Role In Sexual Behavior Of Teenagers

...al content researchers found in the movies, music, television and magazines teens used ranged from sexual innuendo to nudity to depictions of sexual intercourse. Brown and her colleagues found that one of the strongest protective factors against early sexual behavior was clear parental communication about sex...

Overweight Briton Underwent Successful Surgery In India Being Denied By NHS

...t," Rogers told the local media. His wife saw a television programme about Britons flying to India for medical treatment and further investigations led her to a website that offers people access to top-class medical treatment in India. The London-based manager of the website put the couple on to one Dr Nag...

The Face Of Indian Health Care: A World Health Day Evaluation

...g the nurse for help. The room has everything from television to plug points to recharge a mobile. Within few days of successful treatment, the patient is discharged from the hospital, led to believe that illness and death happens only to those outside the heaven. The above-mentioned scenarios only reflect th...

Obesity in Kids Increases the Risk of Early Onset of Type-2 Diabetes

... the kids spend almost 4 hrs sedentarily, watching television or playing at the computer. This is leading to the early onset of Type 2 diabetes, which was common only in the above 40 age group. In Britain, more than 1,000 child cases have been diagnosed, which could cause early death from the condition. Dr Kam...

Parents Urged To Talk About Sex With Children

...public awareness campaign on billboards, radio and television in their state with the slogan "Talk to your kids ... and the messages their children are exposed to on television and the internet," lead researcher Robert Durant said. "But when parents convey their own values, ...

Older Women Who Are Avid Watchers of the Tube Have Cognitive Difficulties

...he other study conducted to analyze the effects of television watching on children. He said that viewing television reduces active mental engagement and may lead to poorer cognitive outcomes in older people. On the o...

Loyola’s Tips On How to Avoid Basketball Injuries During March Madnes

...ss, the explosion of the NCAA Tournament // on the television screens turns even the most avid couch potato into a basketball freak, but it is important to prevent injuring oneself even as you enjoy the slam dunk. “Knee injuries can be especially painful and require months of rehabilitation, so it’s best to ...

Chip of a Woman: A 'Human Dairy', Who Has Scientists’ Eating Out Of Her Hands

...he goes – recalling the penultimate episode of the television soap-opera Dallas, or the day actor Robert Blake's wife was murdered, even the date of the Lockerbie plane crash. Not only that, she also instantly associates her actions during a recalled event and even the weather during that day. When she was pos...

A simple answer to teen weight loss: Reducing sugary drinks

...s affecting obesity – physical activity levels and television viewing – did not change in either group. "Sugary beverages have no nutritional value and seem to make a huge contribution to weight gain. People often get overwhelmed by nutrition advice and give up. We opted to study one simple, potentially high-...

Good news for kids in love with TV: it may not cause kids' attention disorders

...e it does not seem that children watching a lot of television get behaviour problems in school.// A report from... the presence of an important relationship between television exposure and subsequent attention problems," In the earlier 2004 study appearing in the same journ...

Obesity enveloping children like the many headed monster.

...ty and too much time spent in front of computer or television screens have been blamed for the growing number of overweight children worldwide. North America, Europe and part of the Western Pacific have the highest prevalence of overweight children at about 20-30 percent. So this problem needs to be tackled ...

Direct To Home: Television Provides Powerful Fillip to Smoking Cessation Campaigns.

...sed cessation sites. The study has revealed that television advertisements were extremely potent in carrying h...l anti-tobacco media campaign. Anti-smoking ads on television are likely to be the sole source of support for quitting smoking among young adults, who make less u...

Australia To Start Campaign Against Obesity

A television campaign is being launched in Australia to encourage the children in the country to lead a more active life to avoid getting chubby or obese. One in three // tralian children are overweight and the Government is to spend six million Australian dolla...

Mystery Behind The Déjà Vu Phenomenon Yet To Be Resolvd

...c. Surprisingly, he reported of seeing some of the television programmes before and hearing a bird sing the same song, every time he went out. This prompted curiosity, which was followed by publicity about his case. Soon, 10 other individuals, with the same condition presented to the clinic. The other partici...

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