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Make Halloween healthy: If you dare!
Meaghan O’Keeffe, RN, BSN, is a mother, writer and nurse. She worked at Boston Children’s Hospital for nearly a decade, in both the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit and the Pre-op Clinic. She is a regular contributor to Thriving.
Happy Halloween! This is a festive time of year when kids get excited to dress up in fantastical costumes and enjoy some light-hearted scares. But let’s be honest. Most kids dream about one thing and one thing only: the enormous bounty of candy that awaits them. Didn’t you?
Besides tasting great, sugar intake heightens the pleasure and reward centers of the brain. Feel-good hormones like dopa...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - October 21, 2014 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Meaghan O'Keeffe Tags: All posts Source Type: news
Cardiovascular Disease in Latin America: The Growing Epidemic
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) produce almost a million deaths a year in Latin America (LA), becoming the main cause of death in the last years, and it is estimated that the number of deaths in the region attributable to CVD will increase in the near future. This new epidemic is a consequence of the demographic, economic and social changes observed in LA in recent years. Coronary heart disease and stroke causes 42.5 % and 28.8%, respectively of the CVD mortality in the region. Chagas heart involvement and rheumatic heart disease, once a major health problem, are responsible of only 1% of the mortality each.
Source: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases - August 4, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Lanas Fernando, Serón Pamela, Lanas Alejandra Source Type: research
Facing the noncommunicable disease (NCD) global epidemic – The battle of prevention starts in utero – The FIGO challenge
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for 36 million deaths every year. Of this death toll, nearly 80% (29 million) occur in low- and median-income countries. More than 9 million deaths attributed to NCDs occur in people under 60 years of age. National economies are suffering considerable losses due to premature death or disability to work resulting from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.The knowledge that in utero and in early childhood certain processes can affect the risk of developing NCDs provides an opportunity to enforce interventions during this critical time, when they may have the greatest effect.
Source: Best Practice and Research. Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - August 20, 2014 Category: OBGYN Authors: Lluis Cabero Roura, Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran Tags: 1 Source Type: research
Experiential or behavioral processes: Which one is prominent in physical activity? Examining the processes of change 1 year after an intervention of therapeutic education among adults with obesity
Obesity is recognized as a growing epidemic with the worldwide body mass index (BMI) increasing by 0.5kg/m2 per decade since 1980 [1]. It is associated with increased total mortality and increased risks of disease or death from diabetes, ischemic heart disease and ischemic stroke, cancers, chronic kidney disease, and osteoarthritis [2]. Beneficial effects of physical activity (PA) on body weight and global health have now been clearly proven and besides diet and behavior therapy, PA is considered as a cornerstone of weight management for overweight/obese adults [3–5].
Source: Patient Education and Counseling - August 13, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: A.J. Romain, V. Attalin, A. Sultan, C. Boegner, C. Gernigon, A. Avignon Tags: Intervention Source Type: research
Title: Beyond Malnutrition: The Role of Sanitation in Stunted Growth
Charles W. Schmidt, MS, an award-winning science writer from Portland, ME, has written for Discover Magazine, Science, and Nature Medicine.
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Citation: Schmidt CW. 2014. Beyond malnutrition: the role of sanitation in stunted growth. Environ Health Perspect 122:A298–A303; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.122-A298
News Topics: Children’s Health, Diet and Nutrition, Gastrointestinal Health, International Environmental Health, Microbial Agents, Musculoskeletal Health, Drinking Water Quality, Sanitation
Published: 1 November 2014
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Source: EHP Research - October 31, 2014 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Web Admin Tags: Featured Focus News Children's Health Diet and Nutrition Drinking Water Quality Gastrointestinal Health International Environmental Health Microbial Agents Musculoskeletal Health November 2014 Sanitation Source Type: research
Epidemiology of hypertension
Publication date: April–June 2013 Source:Clinical Queries: Nephrology, Volume 2, Issue 2 Author(s): Jitendra Kumar Hypertension is an epidemic affecting one billion people and is the commonest risk factor for death throughout the world. World health statistics 2012 has estimated the prevalence of hypertension to be 29.2% in males and 24.8% in females. Approximately 90 percent for men and women who are non hypertensive at 55 or 65 years will develop hypertension by the age of 80–85. Hypertension is not limited to rich population and affects countries across all income groups. Out of total 58.8 million deaths worldwide...
Source: Clinical Queries: Nephrology - November 1, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: research
Task shifting interventions for cardiovascular risk reduction in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
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There is a dearth of evidence on the implementation of task-shifting strategies to reduce the burden of CVD in LMICs. Effective task-shifting interventions targeted at reducing the global CVD epidemic in LMICs are urgently needed.
Source: BMJ Open - October 16, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Ogedegbe, G., Gyamfi, J., Plange-Rhule, J., Surkis, A., Rosenthal, D. M., Airhihenbuwa, C., Iwelunmor, J., Cooper, R. Tags: Open access, Cardiovascular medicine, Global health, Health services research Source Type: research
The Double Burden of Malnutrition
These Haitian schoolchildren are being supported by a WFP school feeding programme designed to end malnutrition which, for many countries, can be a double burden where overweight and obesity exist side by side with under-nutrition. Credit: UN Photo/Albert González FarranBy Gloria SchiaviROME, Nov 23 2014 (IPS)Not only do 805 million people go to bed hungry every day, with one-third of global food production (1.3 billion tons each year) being wasted, there is another scenario that reflects the nutrition paradox even more starkly: two billion people are affected by micronutrients deficiencies while 500 million individuals s...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - November 23, 2014 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Gloria Schiavi Tags: Development & Aid Featured Food & Agriculture Global Headlines Health Human Rights IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Population Poverty & MDGs Women & Economy breastfeeding Children Civil Society disease family farming FAO Fr Source Type: news
Prevention Science Should Be a Higher Federal Funding Priority
This study highlights inadequate investment of federal funding for science that will help us better prevent chronic disease. Investing in prevention -- and prevention science -- should become a much higher priority for federal research. It's essential if the United States is to improve the health of our population and save future generations of Americans from the burden of preventable disease.
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Noncommunicable diseases prematurely take 16 million lives annually, WHO urges more action
Urgent government action is needed to meet global targets to reduce the burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), and prevent the annual toll of 16 million people dying prematurely – before the age of 70 – from heart and lung diseases, stroke, cancer and diabetes, according to a new WHO report. “The global community has the chance to change the course of the NCD epidemic,” says WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan, who today launched the "Global status report on noncommunicable diseases 2014". “By investing just US$ 1-3 dollars per person per year, countries can dramatically reduce illness and death from NCDs. ...
Source: WHO news - January 19, 2015 Category: Global & Universal Tags: alcohol [subject], alcohol abuse, alcohol use, alcohol consumption, alcohol drinking, alcoholic intoxication, alcoholism, alcoholic beverages, social drinking, cancer [subject], cervical cancer, communicable disease [subject], infectious diseases, mortali Source Type: news
The brighter (and evolutionarily older) face of the metabolic syndrome: evidence from Trypanosoma Cruzi infection in CD‐1 mice
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Source: Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews - January 1, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Wunnie Brima, Daniel J. Eden, Syed Faizan Mehdi, Michelle Bravo, Mohammad M. Wiese, Joanna Stein, Vanessa Almonte, Dazhi Zhao, Irwin Kurland, Jeffrey E. Pessin, Tomas Zima, Herbert B. Tanowitz, Louis M. Weiss, Jesse Roth, Fnu Nagajyothi Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
Facing the noncommunicable disease (NCD) global epidemic – The battle of prevention starts in utero – The FIGO challenge
Publication date: January 2015 Source:Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Volume 29, Issue 1 Author(s): Lluis Cabero Roura , Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for 36 million deaths every year. Of this death toll, nearly 80% (29 million) occur in low- and median-income countries. More than 9 million deaths attributed to NCDs occur in people under 60 years of age. National economies are suffering considerable losses due to premature death or disability to work resulting from heart disease, stroke, and diabetes. The knowledge that in utero and ...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology - January 24, 2015 Category: OBGYN Source Type: research
Ebola Epidemic Takes a Toll on Sierra Leone's Surgeons
This article originally appeared here on ScientificAmerican.com.
Thaim Kamara is 60 years old and would like to retire this year. But he is one of only eight remaining surgeons in Sierra Leone, a west African country of about 6 million people. Kamara lost two friends to Ebola in 2014 -- Martin Salia and Thomas Rogers, fellow surgeons at Connaught Hospital in the capital, Freetown. In light of the dire circumstances, Kamara has postponed his plan to retire.
Although the rate of new Ebola infections in Sierra Leone, along with neighboring countries Guinea and Liberia, is finally falling, more than 800 health care personnel...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The burden of disease in older people and implications for health policy and practice
Publication date: 7–13 February 2015 Source:The Lancet, Volume 385, Issue 9967 Author(s): Martin J Prince , Fan Wu , Yanfei Guo , Luis M Gutierrez Robledo , Martin O'Donnell , Richard Sullivan , Salim Yusuf 23% of the total global burden of disease is attributable to disorders in people aged 60 years and older. Although the proportion of the burden arising from older people (≥60 years) is highest in high-income regions, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) per head are 40% higher in low-income and middle-income regions, accounted for by the increased burden per head of population arising from cardiovascular disease...
Source: The Lancet - February 10, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: research
Cholesterol: I Told You So!
Big Brother has finally come around to what I’ve been telling my patients for almost 30 years – stop worrying about cholesterol in your diet!
The influential Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, the nation’s top nutrition panel, has now admitted they were WRONG about cholesterol. And they have now proclaimed this former dietary evil as no longer a “nutrient of concern.”1
They were slow – and, of course, wrong for decades – but at least they got there in the end.
That means eggs are back on the menu for millions of Americans – yolk and all – although my patients have been enjoying their e...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - March 2, 2015 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Dr. Al Sears Tags: Heart Health Nutrition cholesterol diet heart disease Source Type: news
