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• Cancer cases on the rise in Meghalaya: Minister

  SHILLONG: The rise in the number of cancer cases in Meghalaya with a total of 2620 reported cases during the last five years is a matter of concern for the State Government, said Meghalaya Health Minister Rowell Lyngdoh. The disease in on the rise and the State Government has taken up various health programmes to control the disease. Talking to reporters, Lyngdoh said that the statistics available with the Health Department recorded that in 2006, the reported cases of cancer was only 303. In 2007, the number of people affected with the disease went up to 457 and in 2008, it was 464. In 2009,

  • 16/04/2012

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Tobacco Related Cancer
    • Diseases
    • Health Effects
    • Cancer
    • Lifestyles
    • Health
    • Meghalaya

• Exposure to residential greenness as a predictor of cause-specific mortality and stroke incidence in the Rome Longitudinal Study

  <p>Living in areas with higher levels of surrounding greenness and access to urban green areas have been associated with beneficial health outcomes.<a href="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/residential-greeness-cause-specific-mortality.pdf"

  • 18/02/2019

  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • • Green Spaces
    • Health Effects
    • Urban Habitat
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Italy
    • Lifestyles

• UP ban on junk food in schools

  Children used to feasting on burgers, chips, colas and instant noodles will now be in distress. The UP government has sent a letter to all schools — ICSE, CBSE as well as UP Board — to ban sale of junk food within their premises and outside it with immediate effect. The letter has been issued on instructions received by the Union health and family planning ministry.

  • 06/04/2012

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Children
    • Junk Food
    • Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare
    • Soft Drinks
    • Health Effects
    • Diseases
    • Lifestyles
    • Health
    • Uttar Pradesh

• Tobacco smoke impacts the unborn too

  A fetus exposed to tobacco smoke may be at increased risk for diabetes in adulthood, a new study of adult daughters finds. The results will be presented in a poster Saturday, March 7, at ENDO 2015, the

  • 09/03/2015

  • Environment News Network
  • • Health
    • Tobacco
    • Smoking
    • Child Health
    • Diabetes

• Stress, long commute take heavy toll on Mumbaikars

  Mumbai: Mental stress, lack of physical exercise and poor dietary habits are decreasing the average life expectancy of Mumbaikars.

  • 03/11/2009

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Lifestyles
    • Health
    • Tuberculosis
    • Maharashtra
    • Mumbai

• How lifestyles raise malnutrition, obesity in Africa

  Surprising as this may sound, malnutrition and obesity are co-existing in the same households, says a global study on Africa’s feeding habits. The study titled, Nourished: How Africa can build a future

  • 30/05/2018

  • East African (Kenya)
  • • Health
    • Malnutrition
    • Obesity
    • Children
    • Nutrition
    • Africa
    • Non Communicable Diseases

• Young hearts at risk: Study

  No Exercise, Alcohol & Bad Diet Raise Risk Of Heart Attack New Delhi: Better education and socioeconomic status have had little impact on the health profile of Delhi’s young, the results of a year-long survey conducted on young adults by city cardiologists to assess risk factors for heart disease vis-à-vis smoking, alcohol consumption, obesity, hypertension and diabetes seem to indicate.

  • 17/10/2013

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Delhi
    • Heart Diseases
    • Smoking
    • Obesity
    • Hypertension (Blood Pressure)
    • Lifestyles
    • Diabetes
    • WHO
    • Health Effects
    • Health

• Lifestyle diseases the biggest killer in India today

  <p>The new report from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released yesterday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as the major killers in India. Revealing the links of air pollution with mental diseases, it stated that air pollution is responsible for 30 per cent of premature deaths in India while every third child in Delhi has impaired lungs.</p>

  • 27/11/2017

  • Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
  • • Health
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Mental Health
    • Lifestyles
    • CSE Study
    • India
    • Environmental Health
    • Obesity
    • Cancer
    • Respiratory Diseases
    • Air Pollution
    • Pesticide Use

• Years of life gained by multifactorial intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria: 21 years follow-up on the Steno-2 randomised trial

  <p>The aim of this work was to study the potential long-term impact of a 7.8 years intensified, multifactorial intervention in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and microalbuminuria in terms of gained

  • 16/08/2016

  • Diabetologia
  • • Diabetes
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Lifestyles
    • Drugs
    • Denmark
    • Europe
    • Heart Diseases
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  House rules

  No smoking, less oil, less salt and more excercise frisking came as a surprise to the employees of a company in Nagpur. It was not a security check. Cigarettes, gutka and tobacco packets of the employees were confiscated. It was not a blanket ban but the restrictions were as good as a ban. Unhealthy food was taken off the menu following tobacco. who estimated 17.5 million

  • 29/06/2009

  • Down To Earth
  • • Lifestyles
    • Health Effects
    • Health
    • Smoking
    • Heart Diseases
    • India
    • Thiruvananthapuram (D)
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  Centre asks Telangana government for report on plastics

  While banning the usage of plastic, the Central government had directed the state government to prepare a detailed action plan. Hyderabad: Union environment, forest and climate change ministry has asked

  • 18/07/2017

  • Deccan Chronicle (Telangana)
  • • Telangana
    • Plastics
    • Non-Biodegradable Waste
    • State Pollution Control Board (SPCB)
    • Environmental Health
    • Environment

• At 35, 2 of 3 urban women obese

  3-Year Countrywide Study Finds High Rate Of BP And Diabetes Kounteya Sinha | TNN New Delhi: Two in three women in urban India and one in three women in rural India above the age of 35 have been found to be overweight. Almost every second woman in urban India and every third woman in rural India were found to have high blood pressure.

  • 06/04/2009

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Lifestyles
    • Nutrition
    • Health
    • Women
    • Diabetes
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • India

• Counting the cost of calories

  Obesity is a significant public health issue. Marion Nestle spoke with Ben Jones about calories and why anti-obesity measures must prevail.

  • 01/08/2012

  • Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • • Obesity
    • Health Effects
    • Lifestyles
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Food Process Industry
    • Health Policy
    • Multinational Corporations (MNCs)
    • WHO

• Challenge of controlling and preventing diabetes

  Even as modern medicine practices have elaborate programmes for diabetes control and prevention programmes with diet charts and exercises, there is but little focus on the crucial component of stress,

  • 09/11/2011

  • Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
  • • Diabetes
    • Drugs
    • Lifestyles
    • Children
    • Population
    • Heart Diseases
    • Health Effects
    • Health

• WHO: Obesity epidemic is tied to greed, not laziness

  London: Greed, not laziness, is to be blamed for the soaring obesity rates throughout the developed world, says a WHO study.

  • 11/05/2009

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Lifestyles
    • Health
    • Obesity
    • WHO

• State to make diabetes test free

  Scheme To Be Launched At All Medical Colleges And District Hospitals In The State From April 7 Jaipur: As instances of lifestyle diseases are on the rise, the state government is intensifying the fight to check its growing threat on the urban as well as the rural population. In one such effort, free test for diabetes will be launched in the state soon. The state government is already providing free diabetes medicines including Metformin capsules, Glimepiride tablets, and insulin under the chief minister free medicine scheme.

  • 17/12/2012

  • Times Of India (Jaipur)
  • • Rajasthan
    • Lifestyles
    • Diseases
    • Diabetes
    • Health Care
    • Population
    • Health

• NRHM to roll out lifestyle clinics

  <p> Recognising the threat of non-communicable diseases and lifestyle diseases tipping the balance of the State&#39;s health parameters, the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) - Kerala would be rolling out lifestyle clinics across the State to provide easy access to medical treatment.</p>

  • 04/08/2011

  • Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
  • • Non Communicable Diseases
    • National Rural Health Mission (NRHM)
    • Diabetes

• Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality

  To be able to curb the global pandemic of physical inactivity and the associated 5.3 million deaths per year, we need to understand the basic principles that govern physical activity. However, there is

  • 10/07/2017

  • Nature
  • • Lifestyles
    • Walking
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • Obesity
    • India
    • Statistics
    • Global
    • Women
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Japan
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Developing Countries
    • United Kingdom (UK)

• Delhiites most obese: Study

  Research Focused On Delhiites, Manipuris & Keralites New Delhi: Delhiites’ predilection for fatty foods and sweets is no secret. Not surprisingly, they have beaten south Indians and those from the northeast

  • 16/08/2012

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Kerala
    • Obesity
    • Lifestyles
    • Health
    • Delhi
    • Manipur

• Global access to nutrition index 2013

  The world’s largest food and beverage manufacturers must do more to increase access to nutritious products and positively exercise their influence on consumer choice and behavior, says the first edition

  • 12/03/2013

  • Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
  • • Nutrition
    • Food Process Industry
    • Soft Drinks Industry
    • Health Effects
    • Obesity
    • Lifestyles
    • India
    • Global
    • Diseases