Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Instead of popping pills and following fad diets to lose weight in 2013, use your time to practice safe and effective weight-loss methods like aerobic exercise and a balanced diet. • • Letting your vacation days expire or roll over: CNN Travel in …
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Athletes wanting to motivate themselves with Fitocracy's game-like ranking system have had to carry an iPhone to get the full experience, at least if they wanted to go beyond the website. They've got their solution now that the Android port has arrived.
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| However, this control can get out of balance, and when that happens, self-empowerment tips into obsession. “When one becomes obsessed, exercise then becomes more of a self-imposed prison rather than a vehicle for optimal health and wellness.” … See all stories on this topic » |
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – An Irish woman terminally ill with multiple sclerosis lost her battle for the lawful right to die in the first case of its kind to be brought in Ireland, Dublin’s High Court said on Thursday. Marie Fleming, a 59-year-old former university lecturer who is completely Paralyzed, made an impassioned plea last month to establish the right of her partner of 18 years to help her die, an act that could currently see him jailed in mainly Roman Catholic Ireland. …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States suffers far more violent deaths than any other wealthy nation, due in part to the widespread possession of firearms and the practice of storing them at home in a place that is often unlocked, according to a report released Wednesday by two of the nation's leading health research institutions.
LONDON (Reuters) – When it comes to protecting millions of people from deadly infectious diseases, Mark Kendall thinks a fingertip-sized patch covered in thousands of vaccine-coated microscopic spikes is the future. A biomedical engineer with a fascination for problem solving, he has developed the so-called "nanopatch" to try to transform delivery of life-saving vaccines against potential killers like flu and the HPV virus that causes cervical cancer. …
ROME (Reuters) – Food prices will stay at high levels in 2013 and low stocks pose the risk of sharp price increases if crops fail, the United Nations' food agency said on Thursday, after its index showed prices fell for the third month running in December. A surge in food prices over the summer of 2012 fuelled by the worst drought in more than half a century in the United States and dry weather in other major exporters raised fears of a new food crisis such as the one seen in 2008. …
NORRIDGE — Options abound for those wanting to improve their health. From exercising to build core strength to eating more healthfully to finding the right diet supplements, all one needs to do is a little research. In the exercise department, the …
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Victims have a right to be heard at these hearings, but "if they don't know the hearing is happening, they can't exercise that right," Wolf said. The Kern County District Attorney's Lifer Unit, where Wolf is a prosecutor, is encouraging victims of …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian scientists have discovered how insulin is taken up by cells, potentially opening the way for new drugs for diabetes patients that can be administered without injection. The team, whose findings appeared in Nature, solved the puzzle of how the hormone insulin binds to its receptor in cells – a process necessary for cells to take up sugar from the blood and essential for treating diabetes. …
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has issued regulations that will require cigarette packets to bear graphic photographic warnings, a long-delayed measure in a country with one of the highest rates of smoking in the world.
