The Global Adult Tobacco Survey's 2009 data show men in Bangladesh and Thailand smoke far more than women, while Uruguay's gap is narrower. Smokeless use is roughly equal by sex in Bangladesh and higher among Thai women. Women aged 15-24 noticed tobacco marketing most.
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Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
Gary Coleman Died at 42
The actor died at a Utah hospital two days after an intracranial hemorrhage, once his wife decided to end life support. His brother said he had been injured in a fall. Coleman had congenital kidney disease, two transplants, and recent pneumonia and seizures.
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Today's College Kids Less Empathetic
Sara Konrath's team at the University of Michigan reviewed 72 standardized personality tests given to college students between 1979 and 2009 and concluded today's students are 40 percent less empathetic, less inclined to take another person's perspective.
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Tanning Beds Linked to Melanoma - Should We Worry?
Minnesota researchers interviewed 1,167 melanoma patients and found indoor tanners faced a 74 percent higher risk, rising to 340 percent with UVA-based beds. The Indoor Tanning Association disputes the result, and the study was not a clinical trial, so it cannot show tanning beds cause melanoma.
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Tanning Beds Increase Melanoma Risk
A University of Minnesota study interviewed 1,167 people aged 25 to 59 diagnosed with invasive melanoma and found tanning bed use tied to a 74 percent higher risk, accounting for exposure length, starting age and years of use. Which ultraviolet wavelength does the damage remains unsettled.
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Recreational Water Illness (RWI) Prevention: Take action and stay healthy!
Germs in pools, hot tubs and lakes cause recreational water illnesses, most often diarrhoea from Cryptosporidium and Giardia, and reported outbreaks have climbed since the mid-1980s. A CDC study found 1 in 8 public pool inspections led to immediate closure.
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Brittney Murphy's husband found dead in home
Simon Monjack was found dead at home five months after his wife Brittney Murphy died; his mother believes he died of natural causes. Murphy's death was attributed to community acquired pneumonia, iron deficiency anemia and multiple drug interactions.
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Biking to Work Produces Myriad of Benefits
May is National Bike Month, and cities from the Bay Area to Fairbanks held rides and festivities. The piece makes the case for pedaling to work: fitness that can reverse problems tied to a sedentary life, and endorphins that lift the morning mood.
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Where can I learn about protecting my eyesight?
A resource guide on vision impairment, eyesight that cannot be corrected to a normal level. Age-related macular degeneration, cataracts and glaucoma lead the U.S. causes, and regular comprehensive eye exams with prompt treatment can prevent some vision loss.
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Workaholics more likely to have heart problem?
In a European Heart Journal study that followed 4,262 men and 1,752 women aged 39 to 61 for 11.2 years, those working ten or more hours a day had a 60 percent higher risk of coronary death, nonfatal heart attack or angina. One or two extra hours showed no such link.
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Study: Physical activity cuts breast cancer risk
A case-control study of 1,463 breast cancer cases and 4,862 controls found women who exercised at least once a week were 50 percent less likely to have breast cancer than those who exercised less often. Going three or more times a week added no further benefit.
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11 Simple Ways to Avoid Burnout
Dr. Mercola passes on 11 Lifehack suggestions for heading off burnout, among them scheduling regular social activities, following a fitness plan, taking up a hobby unrelated to your work, volunteering, writing a personal manifesto and asking for help.
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6 Astonishingly Smart Ways to De-Junk Your Life
Mercola passes along six Lifehack suggestions for clearing out unhelpful habits, possessions and relationships: be honest, list seven irreplaceable things and five people who matter most, move somewhere smaller, quit your job or plan to, and train for an endurance race.
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Laughter is the medicine to cure depression
Italian researchers reviewing existing evidence argue laughter may have a therapeutic role in depression: laughing engages cortical and subcortical brain regions, affects neuroendocrine and immune function, and laughing less often appears to be a symptom of depression.
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Physical activity helps breast cancer patients survive
A Medical Oncology meta-analysis of six studies covering 12,108 breast cancer patients found post-diagnosis physical activity was linked to 34 percent lower breast cancer mortality, 41 percent lower overall mortality and 24 percent fewer recurrences. Pre-diagnosis activity showed no such benefit.
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42 Practical Ways To Improve Yourself
Mercola passes along a Lifehack list of 42 self-improvement tactics. The first 20 include reading daily, learning a language, taking a course, waking early, exercising weekly, writing a letter to your future self and leaving your comfort zone.
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What's the Best Way to Exercise for Good Muscle Tone?
A New York Times piece calls the fear of bulking up a myth, since building big muscles also takes eating well past 2,000 calories a day. A 2002 study found subjects lifting heavier weights for fewer reps burned more energy and got a greater metabolic boost afterward.
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The New Magic that Can Heal You and Has the Drug Companies Running Scared
Dr. Mercola relays reporting that drugs increasingly fail to beat placebo: Phase II dropouts rose 20% from 2001 to 2006 and Phase III failures 11%, with half of late-stage failures coming from losing to sugar pills, including long-marketed drugs such as Prozac.
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