A European study estimates obesity may have caused more than 124,000 new cancers in 2008, up from about 70,000 in 2002, accounting for 8.6 percent of cancers in women and 3.2 percent in men. Lead author Andrew Renehan calls the figures conservative.
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Lifestyle
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Lifestyle
Sleep: A Commodity You Can’t Afford to Lose
Depending on the report, 75 to 90 percent of US adults are said to be losing sleep over the uncertain economy. Prescription sleep aids exist, but two women describe side effects they could not live with: one has no memory of a nighttime conversation, the other feels hung over until noon.
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37% of U.S. Teen Girls Got HPV Vaccine
A CDC survey found 37% of US teenage girls had received at least one Gardasil injection and 18% had all three. The vaccine covers four HPV strains, so the piece notes girls still need regular Pap smears; the CDC counts 25,000 cervical cancer diagnoses a year.
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Religious Teens More Likely to Have Unexpected Pregnancy
A Reproductive Health study by Drexel's Joseph Strayhorn compared state data and found states scoring higher on religiosity also had the highest teen pregnancy rates, even after controlling for income and abortion. A family therapist says such teens often skip birth control out of guilt.
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Low breast feeding numbers "pathetic," say doctors
CDC figures show almost 74 percent of US women breast-fed in the days after birth in 2005, but only 12.3 percent did so exclusively for six months. Doctors call those numbers pathetic and the CDC plans a Call to Action; advocates blame formula marketing, while officials say the causes run deeper.
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Pathogenic bacteria found abundant in shower heads
Testing 50 shower heads from nine US cities, University of Colorado researchers found 30% harbored Mycobacterium avium at levels 100 times higher than ordinary tap water. The bacteria can cause lung infection, mainly in people whose immunity is compromised.
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Review: Cell phones raise risk of brain tumors
A review in Surgical Neurology pooled 11 qualifying studies and found that using a cell phone for 10 years or more roughly doubled the risk of a brain tumor on the side of the head usually held to the phone. The link reached significance for glioma and acoustic neuroma, not meningioma.
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10 Reasons Why Exercise is Good for Your Weight
Answering a Time article that said exercise won't make you thin, Mercola lists reasons working out matters for weight: aerobic exercise targets abdominal fat, burns excess calories, preserves muscle and metabolism, and helps curb emotional eating.
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Limit your exposure to cell phone radiation
Environmental Working Group urges consumers to buy low-emission phones while the science is unsettled, and publishes an interactive guide ranking radiation output for more than 1,000 models. It also wants the government to require radiation labeling at the point of sale.
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High Risk Dieting
A young British woman died while on the 500-calorie LighterLIfe diet, and her inquest heard she wanted to lose weight before her wedding. The piece notes she had her doctor's approval, that guidance sets a 1,200-calorie floor for women, and that obesity itself strains the heart.
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Live Near a Busy Freeway? It May be Raising Your Blood Pressure
A Lund University study in Environmental Health, based on 28,000 questionnaires from one Swedish province, found young and middle-aged adults tended to have higher blood pressure where home road noise reached 60 decibels, rising with each decibel above that.
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Yoga Study Proves Efficacy for Chronic Pain Sufferers
In a West Virginia University study, 43 chronic back pain sufferers took 90-minute yoga classes for 24 weeks while 47 received standard care. The yoga group reported less functional disability, less pain and fewer depressive symptoms, and many cut their pain medication.
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The Key to Affordable Health Care: Healthier Lifestyles
Dr. Mercola points to an Archives of Internal Medicine report that not smoking, exercising regularly, eating well and keeping a healthy weight cut the risk of the most common chronic diseases by about 80%, and argues prevention, not treatment, is the key to affordable care.
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Cigarettes and Taste Buds: A Volatile Relationship
A study of 62 soldiers at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki found the 28 smokers had fewer, flatter taste buds with reduced blood supply and scored significantly lower on taste tests than the 34 non-smokers. A 2007 Duke study found milk, water, fruit and vegetables worsen the taste of cigarettes.
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Fasting: Good for the Soul and the Body
An argument that fasting rests an overtaxed digestive system, set against the practice's place in Christian Lent, Ramadan and Jewish tradition, and Zen priest Norman Fisher's New York Times account of a Puget Sound retreat where participants gave up both food and speech.
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Pregnant women, children under five need flu treatment
WHO says doctors should not wait for test results before treating suspected H1N1 and should give oseltamivir as soon as possible to severely ill or worsening patients, including pregnant women and children under five. Healthy people usually recover in a week untreated.
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Stay fit and live longer
Among 4,400 adults given treadmill tests between 1986 and 2006, the least fit were twice as likely to die over the next nine years as people only 20 percent fitter, researchers report. Recent activity offered the greatest protection, and it is never too late to start.
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Paraffin candles may smell trouble
Researchers at South Carolina State University reported that paraffin candle smoke emits benzene, toluene and ketones, pollutants linked to cancer, asthma and birth defects. They said an occasional candle is unlikely to harm, but frequent use in unventilated rooms may cause problems.
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