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Obesity risk for immobilized adults

Data from a national survey of more than 149,000 Americans including 23,000 participants with one or more forms of disability showed that 25% of adults with disabilities, compared to 16 per cent without any disability, ran a risk of obesity.// Obesity was defined as having a Body Mass Index greater than 32. The study also highlighted that adults with lower limb mobility difficulties an...

Quota Row: Student Attempts Immolation

One student attempted suicide by immolation at the Ramlila grounds in New Delhi at a protest rally against the quota for OBCs in higher institutions. // The student had 15 percent burns and was admitted at the LNJP hospital. Meanwhile IIT students in Delhi and Kanpur are to go at a hunger strike on Sunday. JNU students are to join them. Meanwhile the Union Health Ministry has issued o...

Two Students Try To Self-Immolate As Anti-Quota Stir Continues

The government’s assurances seems not to have affected the resolve of the students against reservations who continue their stir // and this took a worse turn when two frustrated students tried to self immolate themselves - one in the capital and another in Orissa. Rishi Ranjan, 23, whom the police described as a vendor, tried immolating himself at the capital's Ram Lila ground where m...

Medicos Seek President’s Permission For Self-Immolatio

As many as 25 junior doctors here who have been protesting the central government decision to implement 27 percent reservations for other backward classes have sought// President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's permission for self-immolation. They have faxed a letter to the president seeking his "permission to immolate themselves", informed Ashutosh Dixit, who is leading the protesting doctors. <...

Family of man who immolated himself seeks justice

The family of a man who immolated himself to protest against non-payment of bills due to him by the Bihar government are to approach// the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) for justice. Manoj Mishra, in his 30s, sustained about 80 percent burns after setting fire to his clothes in front of the Gaya Dairy project in Gaya Aug 15, saying the company was not paying him his dues tota...

Parents ignorant about kids' immoral practices

According to an annual back-to-school survey on teens' attitudes that covers an overall picture of a generation of parents clueless about children’s immoral practices, one// third of the American teenagers have attended parties where alcohol or illegal drugs were used while their parents were at home. It doesn’t imply that parents were aware of what was happening when teenagers partie...

Seated Immobility Causes Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT)

A research conducted by the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand suggested that people who sit for long hours without moving// are said to be more prone to deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Deep vein thrombosis is a state where blood clots are formed in the deep vein regions of thigh or calf. These clots may sometimes obstruct the smooth flowing of blood partially or completely resulting...

Bill Clinton Says US Healthcare System Immoral

Former US president Bill Clinton has said that the country's was collapsing threatening the country's well-being, former President Bill Clinton told a symposium in San Francisco on Saturday. // "Our health care system is immoral because it doesn't provide health care to everybody," said Clinton at a symposium. "It's wildly uneconomical. We pay more than everybody else in the...