Bad influence
Women can help prevent deterioration of their child's intelligence in later years by avoiding toxins and leading a healthy life during pregnancy. The environment of the womb plays a crucial role in
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Improvement in nutrition-related knowledge and behaviour of urban Asian Indian school children: findings from the ‘Medical education for children/Adolescents for Realistic prevention of obesity and diabetes and for healthy aGeing’ (MARG) intervention
Increasing prevalence of childhood obesity calls for comprehensive and cost-effective educative measures in developing countries such as India. School-based educative programmes greatly influence children's
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Danger in the air: how air pollution can affect brain development in young children
<p>Pollution can permanently damage children’s lungs, along with affecting the brain and lowering intelligence, said this report released by UNICEF. This report which states that children’s IQ and memory is affected by pollution, sampled 17 million babies worldwide. The report further stated that globally 17 million babies live in highly polluted areas and South Asia is home to 12.2 million of them.</p>
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Sinister pattern
Analysis of Asian studies highlights universality of air pollution problem
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AHLL to launch healthcare centre chain in State
The Apollo Health and Lifestyle Ltd (AHLL), a subsidiary of Apollo Group of Hospitals, will set up a chain of day-to-day healthcare centres, Apollo Clinics, in all the key cities in Madhya
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Prevalence of overweight in urban Indian adolescent school children
<p>The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is increasing in urban India. Overweight in adolescence is a marker of overweight in adult age, and it shows an association
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Diabetes drugs post fastest sales growth
NEW DELHI: Sales growth of diabetes medicines has accelerated the fastest among all drugs sold in the country as pharma companies pushed their products to tap over 50 million people suffering from the lifestyle disease in India, making it the single largest home for diabetics in the world. Oral anti-diabetes segment grew 29.7% for the nine-month period ended August 2010 over the year ago period
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Doctors sound alert on heart disease
Heart disease would assume epidemic proportions in Calcutta and elsewhere by 2020, unless preventive measures, like change of food habits and sedentary lifestyle are adopted at once. The warning sent
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A few steps a day can keep the doctor away
According to health experts at the World Health Organisation (WHO), 'moving' throughout the day, as opposed to strenuous aerobic exercise, is enough to keep lifestyle-related diseases at bay. To ward
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Cardiac deaths hereditary
According to a study by Paris-based scientist Xavier Jouven, sudden cardiac deaths among men can be traced to their family history. While it is well-known that a person's genetic blueprint
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Change your lifestyle to prevent heartburn
Study : Most heartburn sufferers prefer to pop-over the country pills rather than figure out why they get that familiar burning sensation and make the lifestyle changes needed to prevent it,
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Diabetics highest in India
The Indian diabetic population is estimated to touch 57.2 million from the present 32 million by 2005, largely on account of the changing food habits and lifestyles, according to the latest WHO
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Modified lifestyle must to avoid heart diseases
Cardiovascular diseases, identified as the major cause of death, could be averted in 50 per cent of the cases through a healthy lifestyle which also includes regular exercise and balanced dietary
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Databank of lifestyle diseases
India will soon have its own databank of lifestyle diseases and non-communicable ailments. And the Union Health Ministry will not have to refer to foreign data to formulate policy. The ministry is
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Global, regional, and national cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost, years lived with disability, and disability-adjusted life-years for 29 cancer groups, 1990 to 2016
<p>While lifestyle-related cancers saw a universal increase from 2006 to 2016, several cancers from infectious causes – including cervical and stomach cancers – decreased over the same time period finds this global study published in the journal "'ONCOLOGY"</p>
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Diabetes atlas 2012
<p><span id="itro1">India has 63 million people living with diabetes and is only second to China in terms of global diabetes cases warns this Diabetes Atlas 2012 released by International Diabetes Federation
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WHO for adding dignity with age
5.5 per cent of the Indian population is already aged over 65 years The World Health Organisation's theme on the upcoming World Health Day this year is “Ageing and Health”. According to Census 2011 data, 5.5 per cent of the Indian population is already aged over 65 years. While this means that the average life expectancy has increased, it also means India is faced with the challenge of providing the elderly with a dignified, relatively independent, and consistently healthy lifestyle.
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A long haul
Decentralisation in Kerala is the work of a persistent civil society
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Heart study blames the male lifestyle
Women are less likely to die from heart disease than men, not because they are protected by female sex hormones but because men are more vulnerable to lifestyle risks such as dietary fat, researchers
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Pro industry food safety and standards bill does not address safety concerns
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine gun. George Orwell in his 1937 novel <i>The Road to Wigan Pier</i> <br> <br> Seventy years down the line, Orwell could not have been more correct.