Changes in diet can sometimes lead to hair loss
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Dieters hoping to lose weight are discovering they’re losing something else—their hair.
The little-talked-about secret of the dieting industry is that a successful diet can also trigger hair loss. As Americans struggle with obesity and tackle countless fad diets, some dermatologists say they are increasingly hearing complaints from perplexed dieters about thinning hair.
On what time of day you eat ?
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The latest fashion in diets is to focus on what time of day you eat. But does it make any difference?
You are when you eat is the latest catchphrase among healthy eaters. Instead of obsessing about what’s on your plate, a new strategy to stay trim is to focus on what time of day you eat it.
Obesity in America Continues to Expand
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Obesity rates continue to climb in every state except Oregon, and government policies and actions offer little hope of reversing the trend, according to a new report Tuesday from the Trust for America’s Health.
The report, F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2005, found that Mississippi is the heaviest state, while Colorado is the least heavy.
Drugs not likely to be solution to obesity
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Summer has long been a time of renewed efforts to lose excess pounds that are hard to hide under skimpy hot-weather clothing. Some people (rarely those significantly overweight) manage to shed 5 or even 10 pounds before the Fourth of July.
Having just driven from New York to Minnesota and back, at every rest stop I saw evidence of what health experts are calling a national crisis - an epidemic of obesity, especially health-robbing morbid obesity.
Many boys say they’re likely to get someone pregnant
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More than half of teenage boys in a new survey said there was at least some chance they would get a girl pregnant in the near future-pointing, researchers say, to the importance of boys’ intentions and attitudes in preventing teen pregnancy.
The study, of 101 sexually experienced teenage boys treated at a California STD clinic, found that about one quarter said they intended to get someone pregnant in the next 6 months. Another third said they had no such plans, but were nonetheless likely to get a girl pregnant.
Nigerian women hurt in childbirth slowly find hope
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Soueiba Salisu endured the pains of childbirth for four days and four nights in a mud-brick house in her remote Nigerian village before her family, fearing for her life, took her to hospital.
When she arrived after hours of travel on unpaved tracks, doctors performed a caesarean section but it was too late. The baby was stillborn, and a few days later 15-year-old Salisu started leaking urine.
Italy passes decree to prepare for bird flu
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Italy’s cabinet passed a decree on Friday to try to prevent an outbreak of bird flu and be prepared with vaccines if they are eventually needed.
The law will beef up controls on poultry entering Italy and increase veterinary checks in domestic industry with immediate effect.
$200 million pledged to Clinton’s initiative
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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton received pledges of more than $200 million for economic development in Africa and to fight HIV/AIDS on Thursday at a private summit on some of the world’s most pressing woes.
Bringing together world leaders, business figures, academics and political activists, the Clinton Global Initiative aims to address four key worries—poverty, religious strife, climate change and corruption.
Indonesia confirms fourth human bird flu death
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Indonesia confirmed its fourth human death from bird flu on Friday and said another person was suspected of having the virus as global alarm grew that the disease would mutate and become a pandemic.
Speaking in New York on Thursday, World Health Organisation chief Lee Jong-wook said the virus was moving toward becoming transmissible by humans and that the international community had no time to waste to prevent a pandemic.
More veggies may curb pancreatic cancer risk -study
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Eating more raw vegetables every day, especially yellow and dark green ones, may help cut the risk of pancreatic cancer in half, according to a study released on Thursday.
Researchers at the University of California in San Francisco found eating five or more servings of yams, corn, carrots, onions or other similar vegetables is linked with lower risk of the disease—one of the most deadly and hard-to-treat cancers.
African first ladies launch new AIDS drive
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The wives of 40 African leaders launched a campaign on Thursday to fight AIDS, saying the first step is to protect orphans and children suffering from a disease some countries still treat as taboo.
“People don’t want to talk about it for the simple reason that we have a society that is very judgmental on this issue,” Janet Kagame, wife of Rwandan President Paul Kagame, said after announcing the “Treat Every Child as Your Own” campaign.
Heart surgery outcome may be worse in blacks-study
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The short-term rates of death or heart attack after heart surgery are comparable for blacks and whites, but there is trend toward worse long-term outcomes in blacks, researchers report in the European Heart Journal.
Previous reports have generally described little or no racial gap in the outcome of patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) to restore blood flow to the heart. PCI typically involves angioplasty, in which a balloon-tipped catheter is snaked into a clogged heart artery to push aside blockages.
Distraction underlies memory problems with aging
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The memory impairment that often accompanies aging may be related to an inability to ignore background information while focusing on the task at hand, investigators report in Nature Neuroscience.
“We were interested in how memory and attention change with aging, to see if changes in (nerve) activity might be associated with changes in performance,” said lead investigator Dr. Adam Gazzaley.
Indian state caught napping by deadly disease
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India’s most serious outbreak of encephalitis in three decades, which has killed 750 people and infected thousands in the past two months, could have been prevented if authorities had stuck to an immunisation programme, experts said.
While neighbouring China has drastically cut its infection rate of Japanese encephalitis through mass vaccination programmes, India, which has suffered smaller outbreaks for decades, has consistently ignored it.
Schwarzenegger signs ban on sodas in high schools
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation on Thursday to ban carbonated soda in state high schools as part of an effort to stem teen obesity.
“California is facing an obesity epidemic,” said Schwarzenegger, a former Mr. Olympia and longtime health advocate. “Today we are taking some first steps in creating a healthy future for California.”
