Public Health

Blame City Life, Not Fast Food, For The Surge In Diabetes

City folk may not think much of rural living- but they are healthier. A new study finds that diabetes, once rather uncommon, is now affecting 387 million people worldwide- and 77 percent of it is in developed nations. The reason is stress, write the autho ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 18 2014 - 5:18pm

Is A Cheap, Old Car Better For Teens?

...

Article - News Staff - Dec 28 2014 - 12:39pm

Dr. Ozvorkian And The Amoebas

In case you are fooled by the title, and are expecting to learn about a retro-metal group with a really terrible name, I apologize in advance. That's not what this is about. At some point during the rancorous comment section that followed my last piec ...

Article - Josh Bloom - Dec 28 2014 - 12:03pm

IPad Before Bed Could Be Messing Up Your Sleep

Use of a light-emitting electronic device like an iPad in the hours before bedtime can adversely impact overall health, alertness, and the circadian clock which synchronizes the daily rhythm of sleep to external environmental time cues, according to a new ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2014 - 12:55pm

To Survive A Heart Attack, It Helps To Be Fat

Being obese brings with it a greater risk of heart disease, but patients who are obese before developing heart failure live longer than normal weight patients with the same condition, an 'obesity paradox' that is still unexplained. Using data fro ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 22 2014 - 4:25pm

How To Assess The Risks Of The Botanicals In Supplements Craze

Examples of poisonings due to people mistakenly picking and consuming poisonous botanicals in the wild made it clear that, contrary to claims by an alarming number of nutritionists and supplement sales compnies, natural does not mean safe. Nature has alway ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 23 2014 - 9:00am

Yoga Helps With Cardiovascular Disease And Metabolic Syndrome

Cardiovascular disease and the rather more vaguely-defined metabolic syndrome are major public health concerns throughout the developed world. A new paper in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology finds that Yoga, a popular mind-body practice, has ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 3 2015 - 1:42pm

Think Before You Drink

Even though many of us are aware of the higher rates of alcohol-related traffic fatalities  on New Year’s Eve, myths about drinking and driving persist. ...

Blog Post - Richard Taite - Dec 30 2014 - 5:21pm

Survival Of The Fattest: You Don't Need To Turn Into A Model, Any Exercise Is Good

It's never too late to start balancing the calorie ledger. rangizzz By Lee Hamilton, University of Stirling ...

Article - The Conversation - Apr 5 2015 - 2:02pm

6 Healthy Lifestyle Practices May Prevent Heart Attacks In 75 Percent Of Women

A  study that  followed participants in a study of nurses established in 1989, which surveyed more than 116,000 participants about their diets and other health habits every two years, resulted in 69,247 women being followed for two decades and concluded th ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 5 2015 - 5:06pm