Among 69,950 women in the Nurses' Health Study followed 18 years, those sitting more than 41 hours a week were more than twice as likely to be diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary embolism as those sitting under 10 hours. The BMJ study identified 268 cases.
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Are You Afraid to Display a Bumper Sticker? You Should Be
An essay arguing that provocative and humorous bumper stickers have largely disappeared, because road rage and polarized politics make taunting or joking with strangers on the highway far riskier than it was in the CB radio era.
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New studies link cell phones to brain cancer?
Analysing Interphone data from 13 countries, the study found the heaviest mobile phone users, at 1,640 hours or more, had 40 percent higher glioma risk and 15 percent higher meningioma risk, while the second-heaviest users showed lower risk, which the authors attribute to bias.
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Current smokers with prostate cancer more likely to die early
Among 5,366 men with prostate cancer in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, those smoking at diagnosis were 61 percent more likely to die of the disease and to see it recur. After adjustment the increases were 38 and 47 percent, and rose with pack-years. Published in JAMA.
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This Popular Moisturizer Applied to Mice for 17 Weeks Got 69% More Tumors
In UVB-pretreated high-risk mice, 17 weeks of topical Dermabase, Dermovan, Eucerin or Vanicream raised the total number of tumors by 69 percent, according to The Journal of Investigative Dermatology. The researchers say human effects need study; Mercola points to mineral oil in such products.
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Physical Activity Levels of High School Students --- United States, 2010
CDC analysed the 2010 National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Study and found that among students in grades 9 to 12, 15.3 percent met the Healthy People 2020 aerobic objective, 51.0 percent the muscle-strengthening objective and 12.2 percent met both.
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Beverage Consumption Among High School Students --- United States, 2010
In the CDC's 2010 National Youth Physical Activity and Nutrition Study, 24.3 percent of high school students drank regular soda daily, 16.1 percent a sports drink and 16.9 percent another sugar-sweetened beverage. Male students and black students reported the highest daily intake.
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3 Ways to Improve Your Eyesight
Mercola passes along Yahoo Health tips for vision: eat for vitamins A, C and E plus copper, zinc and the omega-3 DHA; limit fluorescent light, screens, allergens and pool chlorine; and sleep enough. He adds that failing vision is common but not an inevitable part of aging.
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Fighting skin cancer with new sunscreen labels
Under FDA's new rule, only sunscreens protecting against both UVA and UVB may be labeled Broad Spectrum. Those that are Broad Spectrum at SPF 15 or higher may claim, when used as directed alongside other measures, to reduce the risk of skin cancer and early skin aging.
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Tips to protect parents and kids from tobacco smoke
An estimated 20 percent of US adults smoke and 7 in 10 want to quit. The piece asks readers to thank and support parents who have quit, warns that smoking raises risks including infertility, low birth weight, stillbirth and SIDS, and says no amount of secondhand smoke is safe for children.
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Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9--12
A CDC report uses state and local Youth Risk Behavior Surveys from January 2001 to June 2009 to describe health-risk behaviors among sexual minority students in grades 9-12, arguing local data are needed to target and evaluate public health interventions for this group.
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The Bottom Line on Sunscreens - - Which Sunscreens are the Safest?
Mercola summarizes the Environmental Working Group's 2011 guide, which recommends only about 20 percent of more than 600 beach and sport sunscreens and advises avoiding oxybenzone, which EWG calls an endocrine disrupter, and retinyl palmitate, linked in some animal studies to skin cancer.
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New Study Finds Major Toxins in Many Cosmetics
Environmental Defence had an accredited lab test 49 face makeup items bought in Toronto. Lead turned up in 96% of products, cadmium in 51%, arsenic in 20%, beryllium in 90% and nickel in every item; none contained mercury. None of these metals appear on the ingredient labels.
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Active Survivors Get Immediate Rewards
Studies suggest cancer survivors who join a structured program change habits more readily than those trying alone. In a UC San Diego trial led by Cheryl Rock, breast cancer survivors given food and activity guidance lost weight, with early improvements in how they felt keeping them going.
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43% of Americans Damage Their Brain by Making This Mistake
Dr. Mercola points to the National Sleep Foundation's 2010 poll, in which 43 percent of Americans said they rarely or never sleep well on weekdays and 95 percent used an electronic device within an hour of bedtime, and argues that chronic sleep deprivation often goes unrecognized.
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Cellphone use linked again to high risk of brain cancer - new study
Hardell and colleagues report in the International Journal of Oncology that people who used cell phones for ten or more years had a 170 percent higher risk of astrocytoma, and cordless phone users 70 percent. Risk ran highest among those who started before age 20.
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2B or not 2B, mobile phones may boost brain cancer risk
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, category 2B, after more than 30 experts spent eight days reviewing about 30 studies. Berkeley's Joel Moskowitz says the higher-quality studies tend to show a brain cancer link.
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2011 Sunscreen Database Profiles 1,700 Products (PR)
Environmental Working Group's fifth annual survey of over 1,700 sun products found only about 20 percent of beach and sport sunscreens trustworthy, with three in five giving inadequate UVA protection. Analyst Sonya Lunder blames FDA inaction for overstated claims and misleading SPFs.
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