Inputs of social scientists are critical
John R Seager, research director, Human Sciences Research Council HSRC of South Africa, speaks to Atanu Sarkar on interdisciplinary aspects of public health
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Hard work pays
Hard manual labour may actually reduce the risk of breast cancer in women
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Lifestyle turns into killer disease
Indians will spend more on the treatment of lifestyle diseases than on vitamins and anti-infective treatment in the next decade, a Mckinsey analysis says. The change will mark a paradigm shift in the
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Unfriendly neighbourhoods
In their rush to meet the housing requirements of cities, planners are turning a blind eye to the quality of the built environment
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Sugar coated menace
Researchers link aerated drinks to diabetes in women
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Americans neglect all advice on health
While Americans know how to live a healthy lifestyle, most aren't doing it, fostering a new array of ills from hypertension to diabetes, according to a survey released on Sunday by Newsweek magazine.
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Cancer cases on the rise in city
Pune Experts are of the opinion that sedentary lifestyle and environmental pollution also contribute to cancer With 928 persons seeking radiation therapy at Ruby Hall centre in 2007 and 1258 in 2008, the number of cancer
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Diabetes 'will double in 25 years'
The spread of the western diet and couch-potato lifestyle has transformed diabetes a "disease of affluence" that now affects 5 per cent of adults, into one of the world's worst and fast growing
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Silent bone disease on the increase
Lifestyle and proper diet are some of the measures which help in the treatment of osteoporosis a silent disease. Osteoporosis, which affects the bones, is increasingly becoming common in India,
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Heartcare on Internet
A new comprehensive lifestyle-oriented heart care advice service was launched on the Net on Monday.The "Saaol Heart programme - correspondence", available on the Net and mail, will educate and train
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An egg a day is OK
Eggs have been a controversial food in the recent years with conflicting claims about its nutritious content. Critics claim that they are dange rous as eggs contain as much as 210 mg of cholesterol.
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The return of leather weather
AMONG the many perishable theories that poured out of the minds of management gurus was the notion of sunrise and sunset industries. Beyond the phase of maturity, the prophets laid down, industries
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Past repast
Earlier, most people ate what was locally available: fish, for example, was a staple in coastal areas, and people living in, or close to, fertile agricultural tracts preferred grains. Classical cuisines are often a good indicator of local food preferences, even if we account for the caveat that these were very often on the plates of the well-to-do. Food was sourced locally. <br>
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Hitting a century...
...depends on one s will power and lifestyle and not genes
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Life positive
With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non infectious diseases that now threaten us
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Hype about salt
To eat or not to eat is not the question, says a critic of 'low salt' theory
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CHINA
One-third of all young Chinese men would die due to smoking in the next few decades unless they change their lifestyle, states a new study by a team of international researchers. The prediction was
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Hearty activity
Exercise increases life span, proves study
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Green films of all hues
AT THE End of Tears and Anger is a Japanese film on a doctor diagnosing a pollution-related disease. Investigating further, he comes upon its linkages with the social structure. The film bagged the
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Battling against tobacco
Guatemala is exploring the possibility of legal action against multinational cigarette firms, the first such move by a country