Articles related to "Risk Reduction"



The ABC's of Healthy Eating, The Dietary Guidelines
This article reviews the Dietary Guidelines published in 2000. It also looks at a few ways to improve your health, such as whole grains and fruits and vegetables.
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Emotional Disaster Preparedness Actions
As a group, these focus on building resilience, information, and empowerment before, during, and after emergencies. Activities 1-4 are in this installment.
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Introduction to Emotional Disaster Preparedness
Risk reduction and psychological readiness is little practiced, yet able to make a difference in both willingness to prepare and in recovery resilience.
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More Emotional Disaster Preparedness Actions
As a group, these focus on building resilience, information, and empowerment before, during, and after emergencies. Activities 5-8 in this installment.
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Ways to Avoid Alzheimer's
Australian and American dementia researchers have described simple lifestyle approaches that people at risk can take to lessen the likelihood of developing Alzheimer's.
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Health Benefits of Alcohol
Research has found that moderate drinking significantly reduces the risk for a number of health problems.
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Know Your Chances - Book Review
Medical statistics are everywhere, but they are often hard to understand and may seem confusing, contradicting or misleading. This textbook helps you solve the riddle.
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Benefits of Pollution Control
Analysis of non-market benefits of pollution reduction can offer important contributions to the debate concerning costs related to pollution reduction.
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Concussions in Youth Sports
With 3.8 million sports related concussions sustained each year in the US, how can parents, athletes, and coaches work together to reduce concussions in youth sports?
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CVD Risk Prevention - Weight Loss
The American Heart Association's Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations are a great start towards weight loss and can lower your risk of cardiovascular disease.
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Drugs Preventing Heart Disease Mortality
The renin-angiotensin system's involvement in cardiovascular regulation makes it a key target for drugs fighting heart disease.
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Saving in Mutual Funds
Saving in mutual funds leads to an enhanced investment portfolio and lower risk depending on individual investor earning projections.
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American Air Pollution Levels Continue to Rise
State of the Air 2009 notes some improvements in air quality, but claims overall, rising levels of ozone and particulate matter give cause for environmental concern.
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Breast Cancer Discrepencies
Scientists are making progress against breast cancer as diagnoses are declining and research is revealing how ethnicity may impact prevalence and risk factors.
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Cancer of the Pancreas
Treatment for pancreatic cancer hasn't changed much in the last two decades. Chances of survival haven't improved much, either.
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Cancer Will Soon Be World's Biggest Killer
Cancer is about to be the world's biggest killer, and developing countries will see the most deaths because of lack of resources.
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FDA Warns Cheerios Over False Cholesterol Claims
In a strong letter, the FDA cautions General Mills about misbranding Cheerios as a disease fighting drug. The giant cereal maker takes on the war of words and stands firm
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Nutritional Genomics - Personalized Nutrition
There is a lot of truth in the old adage "you are what you eat." Nutrigenomics, investigates the interaction between nutrients and genes and how they are manifested.
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Recent Research - Another Glimpse!
Research, clinical trials and media releases about breast cancer breakthroughs.
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Suction-Assisted Lipoplasty (SAL)
Retrospective studies show that removing excess fat through liposuction can be perfomed safely with favorable health benefits.
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Visual Impairments & Aging
Two common vision disorders in older people are cataracts and macular degeneration.
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The German Reaction to Blitzkrieg
The Germans understood Blitzkrieg warfare as poorly as the Allies. Their military leaders tolerated its best practitioners only so long as they were successful and sacked them thereafter.
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Exercise with Hypertension
What is Hypertension and what recommendations are there for exercise?
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What's New in Breast Health?
This article is an update on what's been happening in the past five years of interest to women who have been diagnosed with breast - and other - cancer. Includes information on criticisms of mammograms for women under 50; the importance of lifestyle choices like exercise, antioxidants, not wearing bras, breastfeeding, increasing consumption of green tea, iodine-rich kelp seaweeds, and nourishing herbal infusions. Susun discusses new studies showing frequent antibiotic use is connected to a doubling of breast cancer risk - and what about deodorant and cosmetics? Read on for the latest information on what's new in breast health.
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What's New in Breast Health?
This article is an update on what's been happening in the past five years of interest to women who have been diagnosed with breast - and other - cancer. Includes information on criticisms of mammograms for women under 50; the importance of lifestyle choices like exercise, antioxidants, not wearing bras, breastfeeding, increasing consumption of green tea, iodine-rich kelp seaweeds, and nourishing herbal infusions. Susun discusses new studies showing frequent antibiotic use is connected to a doubling of breast cancer risk - and what about deodorant and cosmetics? Read on for the latest information on what's new in breast health.
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What's New In Breast Health?
An update on what's been happening in the past five years that's of interest to women dancing with breast cancer.
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