Adipose Americans
An increasingly sedentary lifestyle is making Americans, largely white, obese. The US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted between 1988-91, reveals that 33.4 per cent of
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Water under threat
This richly documented book asks the major questions about the enormously important political and geo-strategic issue of water. Does water have a price? Is it a right or a need? Is there a water crisis? Will wars be fought over water? Should we be worried about water pollution? Can the available technological solutions keep it under control?
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Cause for concern
Extract from the Draft Inhalation Dose Assessment for Remediated Land at Maralinga
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CSE's Study- Body Burden: Lifestyle Diseases
Doctors on call brings you a quick update on this new report investigating environmental triggers and how they affect our health. "Over 61% of all deaths in India are due to lifestyle or non-communicable
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Curse of infections
The re-emergence of infectious diseases has become a matter of global concern; about 17 million of the 52 million deaths last year were classified as owing to infectious diseases. Changes in
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Heart Diseases, Cancer, Obesity: Is Our Lifestyle Killing Us?
A new report from the Centre for Science and Environment shows that lifestyle diseases or non-communicable diseases are responsible for more than 61 per cent of all deaths in India. Whether it is heart
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Diabetes : Asia's modern scourge
As traditional lifestyles disappear, fast food and computer games are leading Asains to develop a deadly disease. The number of diabetes cases is expected to double by 2025. And the avalanche
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'Smoking responsible for 90 p.c. lung cancer deaths'
"India is passing through a social transformation phase which is the leading cause for lifestyle diseases. And tobacco is one of the main reasons for this." said the National Professional Officer of
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'Colanisation' behind rise of diabetes
Western lifestyle is the fast emerging as the biggest threat contributing to the sharp rise in the incidents of diabetes in India, experts warned at the two-day international conference, Diabetes
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Occupational health hazards related to informal recycling of E-waste in India: An overview
The innovation in science and technology coupled with the change in lifestyle of an individual has made an incredible change in the electronic industry show casing an assorted range of new products every
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Heat therapy to curb excess uterine bleeding
Changing lifestyles, food habits and levels of stress have to a large extent had an adverse effect on women's health. Many suffer in silence. But the fact remains that excessive menstrual bleeding
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The debate on interlinking rivers in India
India plans to develop its water resources by interlinking its Himalayan rivers with those in the peninsular region through 30 interlinking canal systems. Already, the project has raised controversy and debate. Interlinking rivers is now a matter of South
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Silver bullet
Nanoparticles of the metal can prevent blood clots blood clots are a common cause of heart attacks, strokes and coronary arterial diseases. Clots block arteries, choke blood and oxygen supply to tissues, thus killing them. The way to deal with this is to take anticoagulants, like aspirin and heparin, which thin the blood. But in large doses they can cause excessive bleeding. However,
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Europe's environmental balance sheet
Pollution kills Europeans than any other factor does. Poor air quality affects crops, ecosystem and children's health; threatens some 700 European species including iconic species such as the
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It pays to be single
Contrary to popular belief, children of single parents do rather well in life
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A Doctor tension
In some people, blood pressure rises when they visit the doctor.How do they deal with it?
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Cancer linked to lifestyle
Lifestyle, not genes, is the main determinant of whether someone will develop cancer, according to the results of a landmark study. The study of almost 45,000 pairs of twins in Sweden, Denmark and
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Pathogen paradigms
Foresight and planning are necessary to counter the new outbreaks of infectious diseases
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Gender preferences for alternative energy transport with focus on electric vehicle
ransportation has become an important part of our day to day life. Due to changing lifestyle, frequent travels whether related to work or leisure has become a common phenomenon. Such lifestyle also demands
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First 'World Heart Day' on Sep 24
Lack of exercise, fat-rich food and a sedentary lifestyle make Indians in their thirties ten times more prone to heart ailments than people in the same age group in the west, experts have