By the year 2000, it was estimated that 1.1 million people were dying annually from cancer, with about 85% of those cases stemming from a single cause – tobacco. “The cigarette is the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation,” says Robert Proctor of Stanford University. “It killed about 100 million people in the …
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Category:Health
It’s what’s inside that counts.
Check out this BBC article Five photos that sparked body image debates. The images are very thought provoking and challenge assumptions about body shape. Perhaps the message is “more variety, more health is beautiful”.
Health, simply.
The best six doctors are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.
Now we have heart disease in primary school children.
Another study has reiterated the foolishness of stuffing children with chocolate and chips. The health problems of middle age are now occurring in children from as young as two years old who are obese. Either the love or carelessness of parents is killing children. Parents want to give the children what they want, or don’t …
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1/6th cancer is preventable or treatable
It is ironic that the evidence is emerging to support the observation that overpopulation is making the world dirty. The Lancet study reports that a sixth of cancer is caused by contamination. It reminds me of the whole BSE and Asian flu epidemics – too many beasts in too small a space eating processed food. …
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Don’t let pain killers squash your baby.
Apparently the incidence of babies born in the US with opiate withdrawal has spiked in the Bush decade. New born infants with symptoms increased 3x, from prescription and recreational drug use. Babies gestated with these powerful drugs in the mothers system are less well developed. An editorial in the Journal of The American Medical Association …
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Learning is painful.
At least when you’re making a leap or really starting something new. You can either accept the pain of the process or not. Not accepting it means avoiding it and not learning. If you accept the challenge choose to live with the pain and enjoy the process. Or choose to hate the pain and fight …
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Aspirin for cancer.
What is aspirin? Now manufactured in a lab it originally started as a natural remedy based on extract of willow bark. It is a magic cure for headaches and now cancer. But it has side effects because it does change the consistency of blood and increases the chance of internal bleeding. Taking a low dose …
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I used to love a nice, bloody steak …
.. but now, having been on a non-meat diet for years, wouldn’t be able to digest it. As a meat eater, health was not one of my priorities. Living, having fun, partying, burgers and beer, were much more important. But just in case you care, it’s probably worth getting good beef … it seems processing …
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Micro-plastic, from clothes, is entering the food chain.
Microscopic plastic debris from washing clothes is accumulating in the marine environment and could be entering the food chain, a study has warned. The findings appeared in the journal Environmental Science and Technology. Dr Browne, a member of the US-based research network National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, said the tiny plastic was a …
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