Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
| Let's kick off 2013 with some thoughts on a sad, but important news story coming out of South Africa. I missed this one, being overseas at the time, but a colleague and I got to talking on Thursday, and it's really a very startling reminder of the … See all stories on this topic » |
 The Guardian (blog) |
In the early '90s when South Africa's Themba Lethu clinic could only treat HIV/AIDS patients for opportunistic diseases, many would come in on wheelchairs and keep coming to the health center until they died.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday signed a new deal supporting efforts to fight AIDS in South Africa, which has the world's biggest population of people with HIV.
About 117,000 babies were saved from HIV infection last year under South Africa's scheme to prevent mothers from passing on the disease during childbirth, health official said Thursday.
England striker who wasn't at his best in Polkraine won't be asked to play in United's sharpening-up friendlies in South Africa and China.
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Sweat drips down the face of a plump woman as she shuffles between exercise machines and pauses to greet passersby in Soweto’s first outdoor gym, a new trend in South Africa, one of the world’s fattest nations.
South Africa on Saturday launched a plan to diagnose tuberculosis in the country’s gold mines, where the disease’s incidence is the highest in the world.
Cape Town – Commanding officers in the South African Navy and the German Navy taskforce on Thursday applauded one another at the end of a series of joint naval exercises on anti-piracy operations near Simons Town Naval Base.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A South African lawyer said on Tuesday he was preparing a class action lawsuit against leading gold mining firms on behalf of thousands of former miners who say they contracted silicosis, a debilitating lung disease, through negligent health and safety. Attorney Richard Spoor, whose legal battle against a South African asbestos-mining company led to a $100 million settlement in 2003, said he would file class action papers with the High Court in Johannesburg “within the next few months”. …
All food manufactured, and sold in South Africa must be labelled with detailed nutritional and compositional information, according to new health …
www.health24.com/news/DietFood_News…/1-3420,73064.asp
If you want your child to get better grades, you may want to make sure they’re getting physical activity. Researchers in the Netherlands analyzed 14 studies from the U.S., Canada and South Africa and found strong evidence of a relationship between physical activity and academic performance. They discovered physical activity increases circulation to the brain, which may have some positive effects …
By adopting this lifestyle, what many people do not realise is that they are digging their own graves by eating food that is high in fat and sugar content and by not exercising. One of the major health hazards caused by such popular diet and inactivity …
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