Public Health

Fat People Rejoice!

Feeling kind of full of yourself over the holidays? You're not alone but there may be help on the horizon! An article on MSNBC.com reveals new findings about the roles that microbes play in your digestive tract. Two different types were isolated and ...

Article - Se7en - Jan 26 2007 - 6:17pm

Fatty Foods Can Decrease Fertility, Study Says

Fats hidden in thousands of foods can harm a woman’s chance of having a baby, scientists said yesterday.   They can increase the risk of fertility problems by 70 per cent or more. Eating as little as one doughnut or a portion of chips a day can have a dam ...

Article - Administrator - Jan 21 2007 - 9:33pm

Food Fats Threaten Women's Fertility

Fats hidden in thousands of foods can harm a woman’s chance of having a baby, scientists said yesterday.   They can increase the risk of fertility problems by 70 per cent or more. Eating as little as one doughnut or a portion of chips a day can have a dam ...

Article - Administrator - Jan 24 2007 - 1:33pm

Protein Cell May Be Key Link In Obesity

A single protein in brain cells may act as a linchpin in the body's weight-regulating system, playing a key role in the flurry of signals that govern fat storage, sugar use, energy balance and weight, University of Michigan Medical School researchers ...

Article - Administrator - Jan 30 2007 - 12:21am

Diet Alone Can Lose Weight

When it comes to body composition and fat distribution, a calorie is a calorie, regardless of whether it's controlled by diet alone or a combination of diet and exercise. New research published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolis ...

Article - Administrator - Jan 30 2007 - 12:22am

Experts 'Weigh In' On Popular Diet And Exercise Myths

This year, millions of Americans made the resolution to lose weight. However, many will get frustrated and give up before their goals are reached. Contributing to this problem is the host of bad information regarding diet and exercise circulating through ...

Article - Administrator - Jan 29 2007 - 11:08pm

Worldmapper Draws Attention To The World's Health Inequalities

When it comes to the inequality in people's health across the globe, says Professor Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) "you can say it, you can prove it, you can tabulate it, but it is only when you show it that it hits home ...

Article - Administrator - Feb 14 2007 - 6:54pm

Heartbeat And Breathing Can Become Synchronized

Heartbeat and breathing cycles can become synchronized, a new study shows. Looking for patterns in the sequence of human heartbeats is a much studied subject; evidence for pattern-revealing characteristics such as chaos and fractal or spiral geometry have ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2007 - 12:37pm

No Surprise- Less TV, More Family Meals Mean Decreased Obesity

Sitting down to a family meal more often and cutting down on television watching can help keep children from becoming overweight, according to a new University of Missouri-Columbia study. After following 8,000 children from kindergarten to third grade, re ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 1 2007 - 12:35pm

Measles Deaths Fall By 60 Percent Globally

Measles deaths have fallen by 60% worldwide since 1999-- a major public health success. This exceeds the United Nations goal to halve measles deaths between 1999 and 2005 and is largely due to an unprecedented decline in measles deaths in the African regi ...

Article - Aleksandr Kavokin - Feb 1 2007 - 5:26pm