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Health Benefits of Quitting Smoking
Quitting is good medicine! For people with heart disease, quitting smoking reduces the risk of repeat heart attacks and death from heart disease by 50 percent or more. For people with peripheral artery disease (poor circulation to the legs), quitting smoking improves ability to exercise and increases overall survival. For people with ulcers, quitting smoking reduces the risk of...
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Wal-Mart Pledge to Make and Sell Healthier Food →
moxielicious:
Can Wal-Mart make public health a priority? Can Wal-Mart make us healthier?
Reading through the various points, the bottom line is Wal-Mart made a great step in the right direction. And we have to continue in the right direction of public health.
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The World Health Organization has issued marketing recommendations with the goal of reducing the exposure of children to advertisements of unhealthy foods. About 43 million pre-school children worldwide are obese or overweight. Globally, children are exposed to the marketing of unhealthy foods (through television, internet and printed ads) and evidence shows that advertisements influence...
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“Greater awareness of such basic and essential concepts as preventative care and...”
– Most people don’t really understand public health, which is a shame, David Tuller explains. (via utnereader)
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NYT: Broad Racial Disparities Seen in Americans’... →
publichealthroll:
Article highlights findings of the CDC’s new report, released yesterday January 14, 2011.
Key Facts:
White people in the United States die of drug overdoses more often than other ethnic groups.
Black people are hit proportionately harder by AIDS, strokes and heart disease.
American Indians are more likely to die in car crashes.
Babies born to black women are up to three...
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Fire With Water: Ahhh, crap: "U.S. not ready for... →
firewithwater:
HSNW writes that a new report supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation indicates if the US was to undergo a bioterrorism attack or “major disease incident”, we would basically all be screwed.
This really disturbs me, especially considering I’ve recently reread the first…
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Summaries for patients: Spread of Alcohol Use in a... →
katychuang:
What did the researchers find? Drinkers were more likely to have social contacts who drank similar amounts. Also, nondrinkers were more likely to have friends and relatives who were nondrinkers. Neighbors’ and coworkers’ drinking habits were not as strongly associated with a person’s drinking habits as were the drinking habits of friends and relatives. A person’s drinking behavior...
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Ignoring mental illness, until it’s too late
Tucson tragedy could pave way for a discussion of getting treatment for those who need it
(From Larry Wissow, a child psychiatrist at the JHU Bloomberg School of Pub Health, as published by The Baltimore Sun)
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Ignoring mental illness, until it’s too late
Tucson tragedy could pave way for a discussion of getting treatment for those who need it
(From Larry Wissow, a child psychiatrist at the JHU Bloomberg School of Pub Health, as published by The Baltimore Sun)
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