Month: April 2015

Public health messages intended to tackle obesity should focus on unhealthy eating rather than physical activity, which does not promote weight loss, …
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By Andrew M. Seaman (Reuters Health) – Children born to women who suffered severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy are more likely to be diagnosed with neurological developmental disorders, according to a small U.S. study. Compared to children of women without hyperemesis gravidarum, children who were exposed to the condition while in the womb were more than three times as likely to be diagnosed with attention and sensory disorders and learning and language delays by age eight, researchers report. Early onset of the nausea and vomiting – within the first five weeks of gestation – was significantly tied to the likelihood of a child having a developmental delay. While the researchers can’t say exactly why the mothers' extreme nausea in pregnancy would affect the children years after birth, the lead author said it may be related to the influence of nutrition on very early development of the embryo and fetus.

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"However, the obesity epidemic represents only the tip of a much larger iceberg of the adverse health consequences of poor diet," the authors write.
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Still, there can be no doubt that dietary excess leads to trouble. The British researchers estimate that up to 40 percent of people in the normal weight …
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Chinese nuclear experts have warned that North Korea may already have 20 nuclear warheads and the capability to produce enough weapons-grade uranium to double its arsenal by next year, The Wall Street Journal reported. Experts at the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies earlier this year presented three scenarios for North Korea's nuclear capability, predicting its stockpile of weapons could grow to 20, 50 or 100 within five years. North Korea has conducted three nuclear detonations, the most recent in February 2013. Early this month, U.S. Admiral William Gortney, commander of the U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, said the U.S. military believes North Korea has the ability to miniaturize a warhead and mount it on a ballistic missile, although there had been no tests.

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Professor Susan Jebb, professor of diet and population health at Oxford University, told the Guardian: “The authors fail to note that that weight loss …
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Cases involve Medicare Advantage billing practices
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