American adults account for 25,000 deaths related to over-consumption of sugary drinks.
This week, researchers reported that they have linked 180,000 obesity-related deaths worldwide to sugary drinks, including about 25,000 adult Americans.
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MetaMed provides “evidence based medicine.”
Going to your usual doctor may not be enough for someone who has a persistent medical problem. They need to know more than their physician can tell them, and they need to know it soon. MetaMed is a new company that provides a personalized medical research service. The company is backed by Peter Theil and Jaan Tallinn.
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Do entrepreneurs lead healthier lives than office workers?
Physicians and business owners are among the people most likely to exercise, according to the most recent Gallup Well-Being Index. Here are five other interesting facts about entrepreneurs from the Gallup Index.
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Colorado has more than 1.1 million dogs and not quite 350,000 children under 5 years old.
Don’t worry about the “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” Earth is far more likely to become the “Orb of the Dogs” demographically, as human fertility rates plummet for a slew of reasons, including canines substituting for kids in many households.
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It might not be enough to to just work out at the gym of you spend much of the rest of the day sitting down. A government survey shows that Americans are more sedentary than ever. That is a problem even among people who exercise regularly.
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Epidermal electronics
Researchers have devised a way to “print” devices directly onto the skin so people can wear them for an extended period of time while performing normal daily activities. Such systems could be used to track health and monitor healing near the skin’s surface, as in the case of surgical wounds.
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Scientists have long known that the young and old brains are very different.
A single molecular switch, that when flipped, helps create the mature neuronal connections that allow the brain to bridge the gap between adolescent impressionability and adult stability.
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Increased risk of death for people who eat a diet of processed meat.
Vegetarians have healthier hearts but people who have diets high in processed meat — regardless of whether or not it contains horse — are at a significantly increased risk of death due to cardiovascular disease, and to a lesser extent, cancer.
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Salt intake linked to autoimmune diseases.
In developed countries in recent decades the incidence of autoimmune diseases, such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, has spiked. Researchers describe in three studies that were published in Nature that the molecular pathways that can lead to autoimmune disease and identify one possible culprit that has been right under our noses — and on our tables — the entire time: salt.
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CDC microbiologist,holds up a plate that demonstrates the modified Hodge test, which is used to identify resistance in bacteria.
In hospitals across America, deadly infections with bacteria that resist even the strongest antibiotics are on the rise. Health officials have warned that here is only a “limited window of opportunity” to halt their spread.
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If you live in Hawaii, Colorado, or Minnesota then chances are you are happier than those that live in Mississippi, Kentucky, and West Virginia. That’s according to the 2012 Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index. The report that comes out every year surveys 1,000 people each day for 350 days out of the year, asking them questions about work environment, physical health, emotional health, lifestyle behaviors like exercise and smoking, access to things like health care and food, and overall life satisfaction.
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Women aged 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years.
There is compelling evidence from a new study that the expectancy for some U.S. women is falling, a disturbing trend that experts can’t explain. The study found that women aged 75 and younger are dying at higher rates than previous years in nearly half of the nation’s counties. many of the women lived in rural areas and in the West and South. For men, life expectancy has held steady or improved in nearly all counties.
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