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Nature s second course
Do not lose sleep over insomnia, says the physic. Resort more to behavioural changes and less to pills. The rest is zzz...
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Obese kids may grow up to be diabetic teens
Lifestyle-acquired diabetes (Type II), a disease that was known to be prevalent in the elderly who have abused their bodies for years, is not very rare in young people now. Deposition of fat in the
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Bridging the gap
Pressured by a highly active civil society, the Kerala state government is actually giving power to the people. The decentralisation theory has been turned on its head. People get the money first, and then build the infrastructure to govern themselves. Bu
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The impact
<i> Kerala s income growth rate has increased, among several other positive signs</i>
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The next challenge
Bureaucrats pose a threat to the process
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Obesity-Linked Cancers Increase
Several cancers linked to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle rose every year from 1999 through 2008, even as improved screening and a sharp decline in the number of smokers have helped push down the rate
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Basic Instinct
In a simultaneous press release issued on Monday, 26 June 2000, the Human Genome Project, an international government-funded project, and Celera Genomics (a us privately funded body) announced that they had assembled a ‘working draft’ of the human genome
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Regional report on nutrition security in ASEAN
<p><img alt="" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/media/iep/homepage/food28.jpg" style="width: 290px; height: 179px; margin: 14px; float: left;" /> Southeast Asia is facing mounting health costs
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30+ lifestyle takes cancer toll
Rapid lifestyle changes over the past few years have now begun taking their toll of Kolkata's young women. They are now becoming afflicted with breast cancer, medically blamed on smoking, additional
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Steep drop in Lanka’s poverty index
Sri Lanka’s poverty index was 22.7 percent in 2002. Today it is only 8.9 percent. But on the other hand, under-weight child births have increased to 16 percent. Over 20 percent of schoolchildren suffer
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Report by the Secretary-General on the prevention and control of non-communicable diseases
Non-communicable diseases represent a new frontier in the fight to improve global health. Worldwide, the increase in such diseases means that they are now responsible for more deaths than all other causes
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Epidemiology of type 2 diabetes: Indian scenario
India leads the world with largest number of diabetic subjects earning the dubious distinction of being termed the “diabetes capital of the world”. According to the Diabetes Atlas 2006 published by the
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Apollo will bring health at doorsteps
In yet another move to provide world-class healthcare services, Apollo Health and Lifestyle limited, a subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals Group, launched its fourth satellite Apollo Clinic in Delhi. Set
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Popping pills for BP is passe
Drugs are no longer the best method of treating patients with high blood pressure. New global guidelines on blood pressure (BP) recommend only lifestyle modifications during the first year of
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Last word on Lasik is caution
The final word on the commonly used surgery for removal of spectacles -- Lasik -- is out from no less than a team of medical scientists: the lifestyle surgery is associated with several potentially
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A partial eclipse
Between India Shining and Jai Ho, through four years of high growth that India became the story of global markets, not much has changed on the ground, it would seem. Between aspirational Indians vying for better and richer lifestyles, there are millions still below the poverty line. India trails badly on the human development indicators. Illustration: Saurabh Singh
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Diabetes headed to be worldwide epidemic
Diabetes is spreading from rich countries like the United States and turning into a worldwide epidemic as much of the developing world turns to more sedentary lifestyles, U.S. scientists said.
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Obesity, the new giant killer after smoking
A report by the World Heart Federation has waned that obesity will soon overtake tobacco smoking as the biggest cause of heart disease unless the trend of unhealthy lifestyles stops, reports BBC. An
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Apollo to cash in on its franchise, set up chain of health clinics
Apollo Health & Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL) a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Apollo Group of Hospitals, plans to set up a chain of franchised primary health care clinics across the country.