‘High-calorie food may lead to loss of eyesight’
The fast-changing food habits in Hyderabadis is leading to a new health risk and diseases related to eyes. According to city ophthalmologists, rapid transitions in lifestyles and change in food
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Report highlights unhealthy lifestyles
UNHEALTHY eating habits and a lack of exercise have been blamed for making obesity, thyroid diseases and liver fat the top three health problems afflicting Shanghai’s white-collar workers, according to
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Community perceptions of health and chronic disease in South Indian rural transitional communities: a qualitative study
Chronic diseases are now the leading cause of death and disability worldwide; this epidemic has been linked to rapid economic growth and urbanisation in developing countries. Understanding how characteristics
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Alarming rise in obesity rate in region
– The child obesity rate is seeing an alarming increase in the region compared with the rest of the world because of sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits, a fitness expert has said. “A shift
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Men more vulnerable to kidney stone’
Pune: Thirty-five-year old Subhash woke up one morning with intense abdominal pain. He thought it could be just a cramp or a result of indigestion. But the pain kept getting worse. On investigation, Subhash
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Cancer on the rise in Meghalaya
SHILLONG: People’s lifestyle has always been a factor in one’s health and this is true in Shillong too. With the rise in what doctors consider unhealthy life style the death rates too are rising. In the last 5–6 years Meghalaya has seen a huge rise in Cancer rates in the state with 1038 cancer cases being registered in Civil Hospital Shillong alone. Addressing this issue, a Specialist from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Judita Syiemlieh informed that in recent years especially in 2009 and 2012 there was a huge rise in the numbers of cancer cases being reported only in Civil hospital Shillong. She added that the number would be many fold if we take into account the cases that go to other states of the country for treatment.
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Tipping the scales: Why preventing obesity makes economic sense
<p>Three out of four (75 per cent) people in the UK are unaware of the link between obesity and cancer, according to a Cancer Research UK report. The nationwide survey found that people from lower socioeconomic
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Herbal wonders discussed
Stay close to Mother Nature and enjoy the bounties of Ayurveda as several combinations of easily available herbs can do wonders and herbs can do wonders and keep lifestyle disorders such as
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Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects
To implement effective non-communicable disease prevention programmes, policy makers need data for physical activity levels and trends. In this report, we describe physical activity levels worldwide with
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Energy balance: a crucial issue for exercise and sports medicine
<p>Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity and type 2 diabetes, are clearly the leading public health problems facing the world in the 21st century. The
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Does social capital promote physical activity? A population-based study in Japan
In February 2009, data were collected in a population-based cross-sectional survey in Okayama city, Japan. A cluster-sampling approach was used to randomly select 4,000 residents from 20 school districts. A total of 2260 questionnaires were returned (response rate: 57.4%).
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A multifaceted strategy using mobile technology to assist rural primary healthcare doctors and frontline health workers in cardiovascular disease risk management: protocol for the SMARTHealth India cluster randomised controlled trial
Blood Pressure related disease affected 118 million people in India in the year 2000; this figure will double by 2025. Around one in four adults in rural India have hypertension, and of those, only a minority
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Pistachios curb diabetes: Study
New Delhi: In a controlled intervention trial of pistachios conducted by National Diabetes, Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation (NDOC),daily consumption of a handful of the nut was found to reduce symptoms
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A mega study and a global trial, to fight killer diseases better
The largest ever study to investigate causes of common cancers in India is being carried out through a collaboration between Oxford University in the UK and 12 leading cancer centres in India. Several
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Not just lifestyle, geography too plays crucial role in mapping of cancer incidences
CHENNAI: Over two decades back, doctors at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, noticed that most gall bladder cancer patients were from the Gangetic belt states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh or West Bengal. This
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Study spikes notion atherosclerosis is lifestyle disease
Research shows the condition was seen in pre-industrial humans A study published on Monday (March 11) in The Lancet disproves the notion that atherosclerosis (hardening and narrowing of the arteries) that causes heart attack and stroke is a predominantly lifestyle-related disease and product of industrialisation. The researchers, who studied 137 mummies from four populations spread across geographically using whole body CT scanning, provide hard evidence that the condition was seen in pre-industrial humans. The populations studied were from ancient Egypt, ancient Peru, the ancestral Puebloans of southwest America and the Unangan of the Aleutian Islands (modern Alaska).
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48% Mumbaikars at risk of heart attacks
Forty-eight per cent of Mumbaikars face the risk of heart attacks because of obesity, more than 50% have unhealthy cholesterol levels while around 64% lead a sedentary life and avoid exercise. These
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Urban lifestyle increases heart problems in women
Changes in urban lifestyles have led to a sharp increase in cardiac diseases among the youth and women, according to the findings of the "State of the Indian Heart", a compilation of cardiac disease trends by Fortis Escorts Heart Institute. The study suggests that the percentage of women undergoing coronary artery bypass surgeries has increased from 6 per cent in the late 1980s and early 1990s to 15 per cent in the past three-four years, an alarming increase of 150 per cent.
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Obesity emergence in the Pacific islands: why understanding colonial history and social change is important
Between 1980 and 2008, two Pacific island nations – Nauru and the Cook Islands – experienced the fastest rates of increasing BMI in the world. Rates were over four times higher than the mean global BMI
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Your Lifestyle, Your Genes and Cancer
We've known for a long time that a high-fat diet, obesity and lack of exercise can increase the risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes, two conditions that affect millions of Americans. What we are finding out now is that those same lifestyle factors also play an important role in cancer. That's the bad news. The good news is that you can do something about your lifestyle.