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Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Some Useful Health Tips

Top 5 Heart Disease & Cancer Causing Meats
If you are a meat lover then you must be well acquainted with several mouth watering dishes! But have you taken care to find out whether a type of meat is associated with any harmful effect?It remains as a fact that you cannot think of a party or a social get-together without non-vegetarian items! However, you should be able to make healthy...
  • How Salt Can Affect Blood Flow To Arteries
    It takes a mere 30 minutes for a single salty meal to constrict the blood flow in your arteries.Scientists tested how quickly salt had a damaging effect on the body by recruiting healthy adults and feeding them each a high-salt meal, containing four grams, and later a low-salt meal, made with just 0.3 grams.Before and after each meal, they..

  • Strengthen Your Legs For Better Heart Health
    Our legs provide us with mobility and deliver extra strength for lifting heavy items. They also support many of the fitness exercises we do to enhance our strength and boost our cardiovascular systems.Yet many people - even those who hit the gym regularly - neglect to exercise them in a thorough.``All of our movement is generated from our...

  • New rogue genes discovered behind heart disease
    The new discovery of rogue genes mean heart disease could be eradicated within 50 years, say researchersHeart disease is linked to just a few rogue genes as well as lifestyle choices, landmark research into Britain’s biggest killer has found.The 18 genes that raise the risk of cardiac problems, from heart attacks to hardening of the arteries,...

  • Disease? May be it's in your genes
    HYDERABAD: In the last one year, Dr Mohana Vamsi, chief surgical oncologist of Omega Hospitals, has performed what may appear as unusual procedures. He carried out `bilateral mastectomy' (removal of both breasts) on three women who were not suffering from breast cancer, well not yet. They were in the `high risk' category and the decision to carry out the preemptive procedure was based on the results of their genetic tests carried...

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  • Kumquats Fruit Delivers Many Health Benefits
    Kumquats fruit effective in preventing most disease and conditionsKumquats is a small, orange citrus fruits from China in which both skin and flesh are edible. An average Kumquat tree can produce up to fifty fruits per one year. Usually people like to enjoy Kumquats in a raw form. They have a sweet, delicate flavour. They are only occasionally...

  • When does osteoporosis usually happen in women?
    For most women, it is somewhere between the ages of 25 and 30. It may also peak even sooner for some women which depend on what their risk factors for osteoporosis are.The tide turns when the total amount of bone peaks and at some point, it is usually around the age of 35 where women start to lose bone.While some bone is lost each year, the...

  • Most Effective Supplements To Prevent Anxiety
    Anxiety disorder is described by excessive, overinflated anxiety and worry about everyday life events with no obvious reasons for worry. People with symptoms of anxiety disorder tend to always expect disaster and can't stop worrying about health, money, family, work, or school. In people with AD, the worry often is unrealistic or out of proportion...

  • Health Benefits of Working in Night Shifts
    Women on night-shift could escape skin cancer, it looks like. For disturbed circadian rhythm can reduce production of melatonin, and it helps in warding off skin cancer.Shift work has been thought to have important health impacts, with evidence linking shift work to an increased risk of several cancers including breast, endometrial, prostate,...

  • Ibuprofen May Reduce the Risk of Parkinson's Disease
    Ibuprofen is a popular painkiller, which works wonders to reduce inflammation in chronic conditions like arthritis and more discrete hurts brought about by surgery. Now researchers are hoping to add another condition to that list — Parkinson's disease.Based on a study of more than 136,000 healthy men and women, scientists report Wednesday in the journal Neurology that those taking ibuprofen regularly over six years lowered their...

  • Anise Effective Herb To Boost Health
    Anise Plant Most Effective Herbal Plant To Boost HealthThe Anise or Aniseed plant is native to Egypt, Crete and Western Asia but is widely cultivated, e.g. in Central Europe and North Africa. The spice, derived from the seeds has been used for thousands of years and has a distinctive flavour resembling liquorice. Both seeds and fruit are...

  • Great Tips To Take Care of Your Face (Facial health)
    First of all it is very important to practice good personal hygiene and proper grooming. The face must be free of pimples or warts or any skin problems.Here are some tips to have great facial features:* First thing you have to do is eat a healthy diet rich in vitamins and minerals.* Have a good and regular exercise. Good exercise means good...

  • A salty meal 'reduces blood flow in arteries in 30 mins'
    It may sound alarming, but a new study has claimed that eating a single salty meal could reduce blood flow in your main arteries in just 30 minutes.And, blood flow becomes temporarily more restricted for between 30 minutes and an hour after the salty food has been consumed, say researchers. The researchers tested how quickly salt had a damaging effect on the body by recruiting 16 healthy adults and feeding them each a high-salt...

  • Beware Of These Cancer Signs!
    The worst and deadly disease after heart attack is cancer. This life threatening disease has become wide spread and most common in all ages of life. Apart from the common types of cancer like that of Breast Cancer and Prostrate cancer, the other types which are raging is the throat cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, stomach...


Today's Health News Headlines

         Today's Health News Headlines
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Belly Laughs And Good Nursing Best Medicine For Leg Ulcers
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
Good quality nursing care and having a good belly laugh now and again is the best medicine for patients with venous leg ulcers, according to a BMJ report of a five-year study that examined the effectiveness of adding...

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Food Safety: Packaging From Recycled Cardboard May Transfer Unsafe Levels Of Mineral Oil
Written by Catharine Paddock, PhD
Concerns that foods packed in material made of recycled cardboard may contain mineral oil above agreed limits are causing some food companies to change their packaging material, and in one UK company's case, to stop using...
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Being Called At Home About Work Bothers Women More Than Men
Written by Christian Nordqvist
Women are more psychologically distressed when receiving emails or phone calls about work while they are at home than men are, researchers from the University of Toronto wrote in Journal of Health and Social Behavior...

Health in Your Hands (Salud en tus Manos)

  Health in Your Hands (Salud en tus Manos)

Morbidity and mortality associated with inadequate and nonexistent hand hygiene has an expansive impact worldwide. This project focuses on the problem of marginal or non-existent use of hand- hygiene in rural communities due to inadequate sanitation infrastructure, deficient hygiene knowledge, and the inconvenience of washing hands with local soaps that are designed for dishes and clothes. The Health in your Hands Program (Salud en tus Manos) is designed to decrease the complexity of hand hygiene for rural inhabitants living in developing countries, with corresponding reductions in sanitation related diseases. This will be achieved through the introduction of a simple, attractively branded, accessible, and context-appropriate hand-sanitizer technology program with a comprehensive education and support system that will ensure it's effective implementation and long term success.
The program will partner with three key organizations in Mexico to reduce diseases associated with hand hygiene, providing a comprehensive solution for mothers and their young children and children attending rural schools. It includes the provision of hand sanitizer, coupled with context specific delivery methods and educational support to:
  • Maximize the capacity and effectiveness of existing education-based hygiene programs with regards to increasing hand-hygiene behaviors.
  • Create alternatives that make the process of daily hygiene routines easier and more attractive to target groups through improved product attributes and presentation.
  • Refine our past successful hygiene programs with expanded partnerships to create a model that is increasingly scalable, broadly applicable, efficient, cost effective and sustainable for use throughout Mexico and worldwide.
    Principal Investigator: Fermin Reygadas, UC Berkeley Energy and Resources Group
    Field Location: Baja California Sur and Yucatan, Mexico

    Chitika