A Lancet study found abortion rates ran higher in countries where the procedure is illegal, and that unsafe abortions rose from 44 percent of the total in 1995 to 49 percent in 2008. About 47,000 women died from unsafe abortions in 2008 and 8.5 million had serious complications.
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Proven: Kids Get Smarter Just from Doing This One Simple Thing
Dr. Mercola reports on a review of 14 studies of children aged 6 to 18 finding that the more physically active schoolchildren are, the better they do academically, and urges parents to trade screen time for short bursts of vigorous activity.
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New Warning About Manicures, Piercings and Tattoos
Dr. Mercola warns that any procedure breaking the skin, including manicures, pedicures, tattoos and piercings, can spread hepatitis B. He argues the vaccine carries risks and leaves few detectable antibodies 7 to 10 years on, and notes nail products contain toxic chemicals.
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Exercise May Encourage Healthy Eating Via Brain Changes
Mercola reports research finding that exercise strengthens the brain's inhibitory control, making it easier to turn down unhealthy food, and increases sensitivity to fullness signals and to leptin — benefits beyond the calories burned.
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Try this Simple Trick to Slim Down and Build Muscle Faster
Mercola argues diet accounts for as much as 80% of the benefit of a healthy lifestyle: eat five or six small meals pairing protein with vegetable carbohydrates, take half or more of calories from healthy fats, and wait 45 to 60 minutes after cardio before eating protein.
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Diabetes Study Shines Spotlight on Lifestyle Interventions (PR)
Emory researchers reviewed 28 studies that adapted the Diabetes Prevention Program for real-world settings and pooled their weight loss results a year after enrollment. The original trial cost about $1,400 per person in year one, which later programs have tried to cut.
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14 Awesome Apps for Your New Smart Phone or Tablet that You Should Love
Dr. Mercola picks favorites from the half-million-plus mobile apps available, spanning weather, navigation, RSS readers, online magazines, and nutrient and fitness trackers, and describes how the iPad changed his skeptical view of tablets.
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Education Makes Weight Loss Possible Even When Eating Out
Thirty-five perimenopausal women took a six-week Mindful Restaurant Eating program and lost an average of 1.7 kg while cutting about 297 calories a day, without eating out less often, according to the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior.
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Rate of twins doubles in past 30 years
National Center for Health Statistics figures show US twin births rose from 68,339 in 1980 to more than 137,000 in 2009, from 1.9 to 3.3 percent of all births. Rates climbed nearly 100 percent among women 35 to 39 and over 200 percent past 40, likely reflecting fertility treatment.
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Far Safer than Vaccines in Limiting Chickenpox Spread
After reviewing 25 studies of the varicella-zoster virus, University of London researchers found chickenpox far less common in the tropics, where sunlight is plentiful year-round. Mercola argues UV exposure may deactivate the virus and that chickenpox is usually mild in healthy children.
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Breast implants News
A French health insurance agency filed a criminal complaint for deception and fraud over Poly Implant Prothese breast implants, which a French safety agency says rupture more than other types. About 30,000 women in France will have them removed, at an estimated 60 million euros.
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Avoid This Popular Exercise - As It Shrinks Your Muscle and Accelerates Aging
Emergency physician Doug McGuff argues to Dr. Mercola that high-intensity weight training recruits fast-twitch fibres, builds muscle and improves insulin sensitivity in 12 to 15 minutes, while long, slow distance work can leave those fibres atrophying.
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Positive activity interventions help fight depression
Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky's review of research on positive emotion argues that small acts such as helping someone or writing a thank-you note can work as a low-cost treatment for depression, because depressed people benefit from even brief increases in positive feeling.
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Mothers with hepatitis B can breastfeed newborns as along as --
A Chinese review of ten trials covering 1,624 infants found no difference in hepatitis B infection between breastfed babies who received proper immunoprophylaxis and non-breastfed babies. By one diagnostic measure, breastfed infants were 14 percent less likely to acquire the virus.
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Kathy Smith Laws to Living Lean
Fitness expert Kathy Smith lays out her Laws to Living Lean: aim for progress rather than perfection, treat breakfast and exercise as non-negotiable, allow favorite foods 10 percent of the time once at goal weight, and keep a journal to spot old habits.
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Smoking in pregnancy harms children's blood vessels
Dutch researchers followed more than 250 children and scanned their carotid arteries at age 5. Children whose mothers smoked in pregnancy had walls about 19 microns thicker and 15 percent stiffer; with both parents smoking, 28 microns and 21 percent. Fathers smoking alone showed no effect.
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Thanks for Nothing--Fur Coats Becoming Gift You Can't Wear Anywhere
An essay on Chicago's 25-year Fur Free Friday march down the Magnificent Mile and the furriers that have since closed, among them Evans, which cited anti-fur activism when it went out of business in 1999, along with Mysels Furs and D'ion Furs.
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Night Shift Work May Raise Diabetes Risk
Harvard School of Public Health researchers found nurses' type 2 diabetes risk rose with years of night work: 20 percent higher after three years of occasional night shifts and 58 percent after 20 years or more. Mercola suggests irregular sleep-wake cycles may disturb blood-sugar metabolism.
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