Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for 2011
Happy New Year!
If you are like most people, you have promised yourself that THIS YEAR you are going to improve in one or more areas of your life!
Are your resolutions on our TOP 10 List?
- Lose Weight
- Stop Smoking
- Get Fit
- Spend More Time With Family and Friends
- Quit Drinking
- Enjoy Life More
- Get out of Debt / Earn More Money
- Learn Something New
- Help Other People
- Get Organized
Watch for upcoming posts that will talk about many of these topics!
Cancer Will Kill More Than 13.2 Million People a Year by 2030: U.N.
Cancer will kill more than 13.2 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died from the disease in 2008, the United Nations’ cancer research agency said.
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) also said that almost 21.4 million new cases of the disease will be diagnosed annually in 2030.
Launching a new database on global incidence of cancer in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, the IARC said the burden of cancer was shifting from wealthier to poorer nations.
“Cancer is neither rare anywhere in the world, nor confined to high-resource countries,” it said in a statement.
In total, 7.6 million people died of cancer in 2008 and there were an estimated 12.7 new cases diagnosed.
Around 56 percent of new cancer cases worldwide in 2008 were in developing countries and these regions also accounted for 63 percent of all cancer deaths, the data showed.
Dietary Supplements, Weight Loss
U.S. Dietary Supplements Often Contaminated!
Many popular dietary supplements contain ingredients that may cause cancer, heart problems, liver or kidney damage, but U.S. stores sell them anyway and Americans spend millions on them, according to Consumer Reports.
The consumer magazine published a report on Tuesday highlighting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s lack of power to regulate such supplements, and said the agency rarely uses what little power it does have.
The report from the influential group urged Congress to speed up small moves toward giving the agency more clout, especially in regulating supplements.
Darker Skin Doesn’t Mean Melanoma Immunity!
Melanoma is on the rise among certain groups of dark-skinned Floridians, new research shows.
And while it’s not clear why from the current study, the study does provide an important take home message, according to Dr. Robert S. Kirsner of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine: “Just because you have darker skin pigmentation, whether you’re Hispanic or black, does not make you immune to skin cancer,” he told Reuters Health.
Melanoma remains much rarer among blacks and Hispanics than among whites, which helps explain why public health efforts to prevent melanoma chiefly target the light-skinned among us.
In the current study, for example, in 2004 there were about 26 cases of melanoma diagnosed for every 100,000 persons per year among US whites, compared to 4 cases for Hispanics and less than 1 case for non-Hispanic blacks.
Butt Test Shows U.S. Cigarettes High in Chemicals
Americans inhale more cancer-causing agents with their cigarettes, probably because of the tobacco blend, while smokers in Canada, Britain and Australia get less, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
This unique study also demonstrated that the amounts of these carcinogens in a smoker’s cigarette butts directly correlated with tell-tale compounds in the smoker’s urine.
The study, published in the June issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, can help researchers trying to trace the harmful effects of smoking.
“We know that cigarettes from around the world vary in their ingredients and the way they are produced,” said Dr. Jim Pirkle of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who heads a lab using a mass spectrometer to measure levels of chemicals in people’s bodies.
“All of these cigarettes contain harmful levels of carcinogens, but these findings show that amounts of tobacco-specific nitrosamines differ from country to country, and U.S. brands are the highest in the study,” Pirkle said in a statement.
Alzheimers, Dementia, Disease, Mental Illness
Educated People Less Likely to Suffer From Dementia!
Educated people are better able to cope with the physical effects of dementia, and even one extra year of education can significantly cut the risk of developing the brain-wasting disease, scientists said on Monday.
The findings by scientists from Britain and Finland could have important implications for public health at a time when populations in many countries are rapidly aging and dementia numbers are expected to rise sharply.
The researchers found that people who go on to university or college after leaving school appear to be less affected by the brain changes, or pathology, associated with dementia than those who stop education earlier.
“More education is not associated with any differences in the damage to the brain, but people with higher education can cope with that damage better,” Hanna Keage from Cambridge University, who worked on the study with an Anglo-Finnish team, said in a telephone interview.
Over the past decade, studies on dementia have shown that the more time you spend in education, the lower your risk of dementia — but until now scientists had not known whether this was because education somehow protected the brain against damage, or because it made people better able to cope.
Foot Detox Scam!
The Foot Detox brochure claims that the device will “detoxify” your body by immersing your feet in it. The brochure is even so bold as to deny that they are “not linked with the recent media reports on foot spa services being investigated by the Ministry”.
The main benefits touted by the useof the foot detox system are that it relieves pain and discomfort of arthritis, improves immunity system, reduces stress and anxiety, improves circulation, removes blood clot material, improves sleep, improves liver and kidney function, enhances mental focus and concentration, assists in recovery time from injuries and surgery, soothes headaches and increases vitality and energy.
While their website states that “As a company we do not claim that we can cure disease by soaking the feet in water”,
Early Treatment Key for HIV-Positive Patients: WHO
The number of people receiving medicines for the AIDS virus jumped by a quarter last year but more patients need to be brought into treatment before they are too sick, the World Health Organization said on Monday.
Presenting the data at an international conference on AIDS in Vienna, the WHO said an estimated 5.2 million people were being treated for the AIDS virus at the end of 2009 after an extra 1.2 million people started treatment during the year.
It described the increase — the largest in a single year — an “an extremely encouraging development” but called for more programs to help patients receive treatment before the virus starts to make them very sick.
“Starting treatment earlier gives us an opportunity to enable people living with HIV to stay healthier and live longer,” said Gottfried Hirnschall, WHO director of HIV/AIDS.
An estimated 33.4 million people now live with HIV/AIDS around the world. The United Nations says 15 million people need AIDS drugs, so the latest increase means that only just over a third are getting them.
Earlier HIV treatment can prevent so-called “opportunistic infections” including tuberculosis (TB), which is the biggest killer of people with HIV.
Heart Disease, Stroke and Diabetes Less Common in Fish Lovers.
Middle-aged and older men who eat fish every day are less likely than infrequent fish eaters to develop a collection of risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and stroke, a new study suggests.
Whether a fishy diet itself is the reason for the benefit is not clear from the findings.
But, the researchers say, the results are in line with studies showing that omega-3 fatty acids — found most abundantly in oily fish like salmon, mackerel and albacore tuna — may have heart benefits.
Clinical trials have shown, for instance, that omega-3s can lower triglycerides (a type of blood fat), and a prescription medication containing the fats — sold as Lovaza — is sometimes used to treat very high triglyceride levels.
Research has also suggested that fish oil supplements can help lower blood pressure and may reduce the risk of death among people with established heart disease, according to the National Institutes of Health.
The new study, of 3,500 Korean adults ages 40 to 69, found that men who had a serving of fish each day were 57 percent less likely than those who dined on fish less than once per week to develop metabolic syndrome over three years.
Some Caffeine OK During Pregancy
A cup of coffee a day during pregnancy probably won’t increase a woman’s risk of miscarriage or premature birth, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists said today.
Until recently, studies have had conflicting findings about the effect of moderate caffeine consumption on pregnancy complications.
But, “I think it’s time to comfortably say that it’s okay to have a cup of coffee during pregnancy,” Dr. William Barth, the chair of a College committee which reviewed the evidence, told Reuters Health.
The College’s Committee on Obstetric Practice said that 200 milligrams of caffeine a day, about the amount in a 12-ounce cup of coffee, doesn’t significantly contribute to miscarriages or premature births. That definition of “moderate caffeine consumption” would also include drinking about four 8-ounce cups of tea or more than five 12-ounce cans of soda a day, or eating six or seven dark chocolate bars.
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