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Fast Food and Childhood Obesity
Recently the childhood obesity has taken a form of endemic in the United States. Rate of childhood obesity has increased by 5 fold from 1970s to the current time. Consumption of food rich in calories and fats are the main culprits for this increasing trend in the childhood obesity. A major part of this increase calorie intake by children comes from consumption of fast food. Read
By: Sean | 04/12/2007 | Chocolate
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Getting to Those Old Years Gracefully
Various health organizations have estimated that that today the average duration of human life in the United States is just about 70 years for women and a little less for men. Some scientists do believe that the human body is made withstand a century and we can live up to one hundred years. Until recently infections diseases have been the greatest menace to human being, but now heart disease and cancer have taken over as the biggest problems impediments to a long life. With medial advances and Read
By: Sean | 16/11/2007 | Anti Aging
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Diabetes: Take Control With Physical Activity
Exercise is an integral part of life for everyone. This becomes especially true in the case of a person with diabetes, in which case it is part of the treatment of diabetes as well. For a diabetic exercise should be a daily routine. Daily exercise would help a diabetic person to have good blood sugar control in addition to making him or her physically fit. Daily exercise also would make a diabetic person less susceptible for a heart attack and nerve damage from diabetes. Read
By: Sean | 31/10/2007 | Diseases and Conditions
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What is Brachytherapy?
There are several ways of giving radiation dosage to a cancerous tumor. The most common method is to deliver the required dosage from an external beam of radiation produced outside the body. In this case the source of radiation beam is located 80-100 cm from the body of the person receiving radiation. Sometimes placing the source of radiation within the tumor might have advantages over delivering radiation from an external source. This method of delivering required radiation from an internal sou Read
By: Sean | 08/08/2007 | Diseases and Conditions
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Strategies for Prevention of Prostate Cancer
There are several strategies that might be effectively used to prevent the development of prostate cancer. Some of these strategies are more promising than other ones and only more work and research would ultimately show us, which of these strategies are better and if so if these strategies could be used in combination. Read
By: Sean | 31/07/2007 | Diseases and Conditions
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Perspectives on Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal cancer is a major health concern and public health problem in most of the Western countries despite widespread use of screening technique to detect early stages of this disease. In the United States alone more than 148,000 people are diagnosed with colorectal cancer each year. Over 55,000 deaths occur in the United States due to colorectal cancer. Colon cancer is a very common disease and it is the third most common type of cancer in both sexes. In men it ranks third after Read
By: Sean | 25/07/2007 | Diseases and Conditions
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Why the Opposite Breast Should be Evaluated With Mri?
Breast cancer is a worldwide problem with which causes 502,000 deaths per year worldwide. In the United States breast cancer is the most common form of cancer diagnosed in women. Every year more than 40,000 women in the United States die of breast cancer. A recent study has suggested that in women who are diagnosed with breast cancer the other breast may harbor occult malignancy that is not detected by mammogram. This article explains what every women who are diagnosed with breast cancer should Read
By: Sean | 12/07/2007 | Diseases and Conditions