All Entries in the "Health News" Category
Exercise Can Defeat The Fat Gene
It is true that many of us are genetically predisposed to obesity and being overweight. However, this is no reason to just sit around and bemoan your fate; recent research has found that exercise can reduce obesity risk.
It is possible to offset this genetic predisposition, even a strong one, by being physically active.
Researchers identified several [...]
Here’s An Idea – Walk In Your Lunch Hour
For all those of us who are too pressed for time, are too overworked and stressed to find the time to exercise, here is a suggestion – use that lunch hour at work and put it to good use by working out.
Think about it – what is the healthier option? Sitting at your desk, with [...]
Virus Linked To Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the condition that can cause deep exhaustion can interfere with daily activities and manifest itself in several other ways, has been linked to a virus. According to a study, it is the Murine leukemia viruses (MLV), a family of retroviruses known to cause cancer in mice that could be responsible.
According to a [...]
Why Marrying A Cousin Is Such A Bad Idea?
This is not a topic that is discussed too often – marrying one’s own first cousin; yet there are dozens of scientific studies that point to the fact that babies born from the union of first cousins are far more likely to be born with birth defects.
Babies born from first cousin marriages are 10 times [...]
The Health Savings Account To Replace Health Insurance?
Expensive health insurance premiums are increasingly being replaced with healthcare plan such as the High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP), particularly when used along with the Health Savings Account (HSA).
Many employers are also now offering this option of health care, and as per America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) “The number of people with HSA/HDHP coverage rose [...]
Beware Of The Acai Supplements
This article reveals the real truth about the Acai supplements, the supposed miracle supplement that is supposed to help shed pounds, and stave off illness. Also the article makes it clear that no specific products related to the berry have actually been endorsed by either Oprah Winfrey or Rachel Ray, contrary to what the product [...]
Can You Block Out Noise During Sleep?
It may seem rather unfair that you seem to awaken from sleep with sound of a door softly closing while someone else you know can literally sleep though an earthquake. Researchers are now telling us that pulses called spindles may be able to help certain brains to block outside noise during sleep and which may [...]
Avoid Diet Pills, Exercisers Warned
With the number of diet pills and supplements that flood the market today, it is no surprise that their use is common place in the populace at large: people take them to lose weight or to increase the impact of their exercise routine, however diet pills can be potentially fatal, we are now warned.
Assistant Chief [...]
Technology And The Future Of Healthcare
Till not so long ago, they would have been in the realm of science fiction. Now, however they are a reality, the way that technology is being incorporated into healthcare to make it more accessible, more accurate, easier and quicker.
This article speaks about how technology is changing the way health care works already:
The basic cell [...]
Have A Weekend Lie-In, It’s Good For Health!
Here is good news folks, we no longer have to feel guilty about that illicit lie-in over the weekends, sleeping in on the weekends is actually good for health say researchers from the University of Pennsylvania.
Typically the week gone past has been harried, with hard work, short hours of sleep and insufficient rest and recovery [...]
