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      High Blood Pressure Still Not Managed Very Well

      September 5, 2012 /


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      The CDC has done a great job of making the public aware of the dangers of hypertension yet many don’t make the changes necessary to keep their high blood pressure under control.

      High blood pressure quadruples the risk of a death from stroke and triples it for heart disease. So the CDC is pushing for more action.

      Previously, public health officials and groups in the private sector unveiled Million Hearts, a campaign to prevent 1 million heart attacks and strokes by 2017. One plank of that plan is to improve the proportion of people with controlled blood pressure to 65 percent from 46 percent.

      So what will it take to achieve a goal like that? The CDC has some ideas.

      Among them:

      Take the blood pressure medicines you’ve been prescribed.
      Lose weight and stop smoking.
      Measure and keep track of your blood pressure between doctor visits.

      Simple lifestyle changes like consuming less salt and sodium and sugar along with maintaining a healthy weight and getting regular exercise go a long way toward keeping your blood pressure down.

      Hypertension is a contributing factor to stroke, and heart attack.

      Research, Wellness

      Study Shows That Lung Cancer Is On The Rise Among Non-Smokers

      September 5, 2012 /


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      Women are at much higher risk for contracting lung cancer and for women who have never smoked the rate of developing lung cancer is on the rise.

      The American Association for Cancer Research has found that lung cancer tumors in non-smokers are different than tumors in smokers and they are trying to determine why.

      The World Health Organization, WHO, recently classified diesel fumes as carcinogenic.

      This might explain the rise along with other environmental factors.

      “Not only has there been an increase in the number of women and non-smokers contracting the disease, but there has also been an increase in the number of cases diagnosed in stage 4 of the illness,” lead researcher Dr. Chrystèle Locher said in a statement.
      This change — 58 percent with stage 4 in 2010 compared with 43 percent in 2000 — might reflect new classifications of different stages of the disease, the researchers said. They also found big changes in the type of cancer being diagnosed. The rate of people developing adenocarcinoma, a form of non-small cell lung cancer, jumped from 35.8 percent to 53.5 percent over the decade.

      Quality Control, Research

      Cell Phone Health Hazard

      August 30, 2012 /


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      When is the last time you cleaned your cell phone?

      Sharing the phone provides the greatest opportunity to share germs from the unclean gadget.

      Cell phones go everywhere we go, including the bathroom, and they are rarely cleaned.

      To limit the spread of diseases from phones or other objects, try not to share them, or wipe them down with an antibacterial wipe if you do. While sprays might damage the equipment, a gentle wipe should do the trick.

      Quality Control, Research

      Strategies To Fight Weight Gain After Menopause

      August 28, 2012 /


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      It’s not your imagination.

      Weight gain after menopause is real and sometimes diet and exercise alone simply does not work anymore.

      As expected, more of the women who got specific diet and nutrition counseling lost weight. But Gibbs and colleagues wanted to know what worked for any of the women who managed to lose weight, regardless of which group they were in.

      Early on, some of the more obvious diet strategies worked — eating less fried food, staying away from restaurants, avoiding sweets and eating more fish. But these approaches didn’t work for the women in the long term, Gibbs reported in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

      “What we found at four years is that the women who changed their eating behaviors to eat more fruits and vegetables, who ate less desserts, less sugar-sweetened beverages and less meats and cheeses were more likely to have greater weight loss or less weight gain long term,” says Gibbs, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Physical Activity.

      Building lost muscle with weight training and avoiding sugar are probably the two biggest ways to jump start weight loss.

      Regular exercise and a healthy eating along with good sleep habits contribute to well balanced hormones.

      There is no quick fix. Real lifestyle changes are key.

      Nutrition, Research, Wellness

      Smoking Patterns Around The World Alarm Researchers

      August 25, 2012 /

      Women and young people in developing countries are smoking in increasingly alarming numbers.

      According to a study in the Lancet Journal, after years of anti-smoking measures have been encouraged across the world, there exists an alarming rate of tobacco use in developing countries.

      Tobacco is likely to kill half of its users as there are low quit rates.

      Women and young people are among the most addicted.

      “Although 1.1 billion people have been covered by the adoption of the most effective tobacco-control policies since 2008, 83 percent of the world’s population are not covered by two or more of these policies,” Gary Giovino of the University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions in New York, who led the research, told Reuters.
      Such measures include legislation in some developed nations banning smoking in public places, imposing advertising bans and requiring more graphic health warnings on cigarette packets.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

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