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      And the Healthiest Cities Are…..

      January 13, 2012 /

      This could get complicated if you’re coupled; it seems that there are cities which are healthy for women and cities which are healthy for men.

      Women tend to be healthiest in the South and men in the North and the unhealthiest cities are the same for both and included Memphis, Tennessee; Birmingham, Alabama; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Detroit, Michigan; St. Louis, Missouri; Jackson, Mississippi; Cleveland, Ohio; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Toledo, Ohio; and Kansas City, Missouri.

      Raleigh in North Carolina has been rated the healthiest U.S. city for women, while Burlington, Vermont has earned the same accolade for men, according Men’s and Women’s Health magazines.
      Both cities scored top marks in the magazine polls that ranked 100 of the largest U.S. cities in 30 categories ranging from obesity and the amount of time they spent working out to how often they saw their doctor.

      Read the whole article here and get the complete list of the healthiest and unhealthiest cities for men and women at www.menshealth.com and www.womenshealthmag.com.

      Quality Control, Research, Resources, Wellness

      Looks Trump Personality Whether You Realize It or Not

      January 12, 2012 /

      People will say that they are looking for compatibility and intelligence in a partner but what really brings two people together is sexual attraction.

      And is this really a surprise?

      Isn’t this the ultimate goal of anyone searching for love? To find an emotionally compatible mate to whom you are attracted.

      The problem starts when you eschew all the other qualities and go for looks alone.

      “People will readily tell you what they value in a romantic partner,” study researcher Eli Finkel, of Northwestern University, said in a statement. “But study after study shows that those preferences don’t predict whom daters are actually attracted to when they meet flesh-and-blood partners. Now we can get under the hood with this quirky methodology to see what people actually prefer in live-interaction settings.”

      Research

      The Price Society Pays for Diabetes

      January 11, 2012 /

      The overall cost of diabetes on society is greater than the dollars and cents spent to treat and care for patients.

      A new study from researchers at Yale suggests that the disease, which currently affects nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population, could have significant nonmedical costs to society as well.

      The study, which appears in the January issue of the policy journal Health Affairs, suggests that young people diagnosed with the disease are more likely to drop out of high school and to forgo or fail to finish college. As a result, they’re likely to earn less than those without diabetes.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Research, Resources, Wellness

      Forgetful at 45 Could Be the Norm

      January 11, 2012 /

      Scientist have discovered that memory loss and cognitive function start slipping earlier than once thought.

      Maintaining and improving mental health should start early in life.

      Living a healthy lifestyle and being active seems to be the best way to ward off mental decline.

      Researchers haven’t conclusively proven that cognitive decline in middle age predicts Alzheimer’s or other dementias, but on balance the evidence suggests that small changes in midlife mental function can become magnified later in life, says Francine Grodstein, Sc.D., an epidemiologist and associate professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in Boston.
      “There is a lot of evidence that [people] with cognitive decline are at highest risk of later developing dementia, so it is likely that preventing or delaying cognitive decline today will help reduce risk of dementia tomorrow,” says Grodstein, who was not involved in the research but wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Drug Mix-Up Prompts Recall

      January 10, 2012 /

      Consumers are being warned to visually inspect medications bought over the counter.

      For those who purchased bottles of Excedrin, Bufferin, NoDoz and Gas-X, produced by Novartis, they are being told to discard or return the products in a voluntary recall that started Sunday.

      “Due to problems that occurred when these products were packaged and labeled at the site, it’s possible that tablets from one product may have been retained in the packaging machinery and then may have carried over into the packaging of another product,” said Dr. Edward Cox, director of the Office of Antimicrobial Products, Office of New Drugs, Center for Drug Evaluation of Research for the FDA.

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