For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of how physically active they are otherwise, researchers say. Analyzing self-reported data from more than 222,000 people aged 45 and older, [...]
Chemotherapy drugs work better against cancer when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting, a study has found. According to world-science.net, researchers suggest the fasting might help because normal cells tend to put off trying to divide when nutrients are lacking—but cancer cells keep trying, and this process ultimately kills them. Fasting, even on its [...]
A study in the United States has revealed that higher taxes on cigarettes, limits on selling to kids and campaigns to educate people on the dangers of smoking have saved nearly 800,000 lives. The study released Wednesday was based on scientific models that counted how many people smoked up until 1970 and projected how many [...]
A Chief Consultant Gynaecologist, Dr. Francis Alu, says abortion contributes to almost half of maternal mortality in Nigeria. Alu, who works with the Maitama District Hospital, Abuja, stated this in Abuja at a training workshop on Women’s Sexual Reproductive Needs, organised for journalists by an international NGO on reproductive health. He said abortion occurred mostly [...]
Women who regularly eat citrus fruits such as oranges and grapefruit may have a lower risk of blood-clot related stroke, according to a US study published on Thursday. .Researchers looked at 14 years of data from a US nurses survey that included 69,622 women who reported what they ate, including details on fruit and vegetable [...]
Scientists on Wednesday said they had uncovered the first molecular proof that the “biological clock” is linked to a type of sudden, fatal heart attack. Ventricular arrhythmia, or abnormal heartbeat, occurs most frequently after waking in the morning — and also to a lesser degree in the evening hours — and causes a high number [...]
A new health report has revealed that eating potatoes helps to reduce blood pressure especially for people suffering high blood pressure, obesity and hypertension. The study, the first of its kind to check the effects of eating potatoes on blood pressure in humans, concluded that taking two small portions of purple potatoes, popularly called Purple [...]
