Dieting Makes People Miserable
Dieting industry may suffer great loss if the word comes out: Fat people are happy people. According to a new study, slim people are no happier or more content with their lives than huge people. On the contrarary, the lives of slim people are filled with mental suffering and woes and they are more...
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Mom's Attitude Affects Teen's Dieting
A new research on dieting shows that children may value their mothers’ thoughts about weight and that their visions are often influences by their mothers’ views. Those teenagers who believe that their weight was important to their mothers were more likely than other teens to be preoccupied by...
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Mother dies refusing cancer aid to save her unborn child
A Filipino mother, who found out she had cancer after becoming pregnant sacrificed her life for her unborn baby by refusing an abortion and chemotherapy. The 37-year-old Bernadette Mimura lived in the northeast England, with her British partner, Adam Taylor, survived long enough to see the birth of...
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HIV Kit Giving Errant Results
The standard HIV test takes at least five hours to process and sometimes as long as overnight as they need to be sent to laboratories and the results may not be available for days. There are two rapid tests, a blood and an oral test, both made by OraSure Company. The oral test is simple to use. A...
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Risk Of Birth Defects on Paxil
Around 20% of all pregnant women suffer from some form of depression. Further more, many of them show tendency to irritable behaviour, tremors and seizures after childbirth. This has posed concerns and rouse questions about starting anti-depressant treatment during pregnancy. A warning from the...
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New Chair Invented To Relieve Backache
Australian therapist Mary Gale invented so called 'Bambach Saddle Seat' that helps in relieving backache. It was found, after the testing, that the chair kept the spine in its natural 'S' shape and positioned the pelvis correctly. While most chairs made the pelvis, which supports the upper body,...
Cancers use bone marrow cells to spread tumors
A new study on cancers reveals an answer to longstanding question about how tumors invade new tissues. Scientists did a lot of research in an effort to understand how pieces of a tumor can break off, travel through the bloodstream, and grow elsewhere. It appears that cancers use cells in bone marrow...
Europe's Health Woes May Worsen with Global Warming
While scientists used to think that effects of climate change on health wouldn’t be evident much longer. WHO reports that some effects are already visible now. Rising rates of deadly heat strokes, salmonella infection and hay fever across Europe are all associated with global warming. Extreme...
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Ads Blamed for U.S. Children's Poor Diet
About 16 % of people 6 to 19 years old are overweight in U.S. Health experts blame advertising agencies for contributing to poor eating habits and the growing obesity problem among children. Marketing plays a big role today on forming people’s minds and making decisions. Companies spend about...
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Chinese manufacturers jailed over deadly formula
China has been suffering from rampant counterfeiting of food and medicines in the last couple of years. Twelve children died from drinking fake formulas from different manufacturers. The factory in Shandong's Weihai city was producing the shoddy Lezichun-branded milk powder between 2002 and 2004,...
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