Researchers concluded that the danger of them developing the respiratory condition was raised by more than half compared with children who watch just one hour. Read more…
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MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) — Now that the outdoor recreation season is in full swing, new statistics from the U.S. government warn that your risk of injury is also in full swing.
From 2004 to 2005, almost 213,000 Americans were treated in hospital emergency rooms for injuries received during outdoor recreational activities. More than half of those injuries occurred among people aged 10 to 24, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We want people to enjoy the outdoors,” said study co-author Arlene I. Greenspan, a senior scientist at the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control. “However, we also want people to know that outdoor activities can and do lead to injuries.” Read more…
According to Steven Reinberg
MONDAY, June 16 (HealthDay News) — Women with type 2 diabetes and heart disease often receive less of the medical treatment they need than men, making their ability to control both diseases more difficult, a new study reports.
The research findings, expected to be presented at the Endocrine Society’s annual meeting in San Francisco, probably explains why death from heart disease is being lowered in male diabetics but not among females.
“Our study shows that in patients with diabetes, there is a clear disparity between men and women in the control and treatment of important modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease,” study leader Dr. Ioanna Gouni-Berthold, professor of medicine at the University of Cologne in Germany, said in a prepared statement. Read more…
According to Kevin McKeever
When it comes to good health, women paint a prettier picture than we men do. They smoke fewer cigarettes, drink less beer, visit the doctor more often, and maintain better diets.
Statistics may prove that women average longer life spans, but occasionally nature cuts men a break and fortifies us against diseases that afflict females in greater numbers.
For a change of pace—and perhaps a change in perception—here’s a snapshot of five such conditions. As it turns out, men sometimes do fare better than the fairer sex. Read more…
According to Rich Maloof
In the 1950s, kids had three cups of milk for every cup of soda. Today that ratio is reversed, meaning they get all the calories and none of the nutrients.
Americans disagree about a lot of things, but we rarely quarrel when it comes to our food. For a nation built on grand democratic virtues, there is still nothing that defines us quite like our love of chow time.
We have plenty of reasons to fetishize our food—not the least being that we’ve always had so much of it. Settlers fleeing the privations of the Old World landed in the new one and found themselves on a fat, juicy center cut of continent, big enough to baste its coasts in two different oceans. The prairies ran so dark with buffalo, you could practically net them like cod; the waters swam so thick with cod, you could bag them like slow-moving buffalo. The soil was the kind of rich stuff in which you could bury a brick and grow a house, and the pioneers grew plenty—fruits and vegetables and grains and gourds and legumes and tubers, in a variety and abundance they’d never seen before. Read more…
According to JEFFREY KLUGER
NaturalNews) Average height provides one of the best indications of a population’s overall health. Until the last few years, U.S. citizens were the world’s tallest and enjoyed better health than the people of any other nation. Things have changed, though. Now, western Europeans’ height exceeds that of Americans, and the difference is growing larger.
If there’s any question about the connection between height and health, consider that longevity has also decreased during the same time that height has dropped. References vary, but the usually-reported figure is that the United States is between 28 and 38 in the world for life expectancy, behind nearly all western European nations. Read more…
According to Heidi Stevenson
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