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Diet key to blood pressure

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

If you're like many Americans, your blood pressure has crept up as you've gotten older. But it doesn't have to. Our lifestyle has an impact on blood pressure; in fact, in parts of the world where people still live as their ...





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Five tips for stress-free exams

Five tips for stress-free exams

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's exam time, and for many students that means long days, late nights and lots of coffee. It's easy to let the anxiety get to you, so what can you do to cope with exam tension?


'Supportal' Provides Tech Support for Living Room

Technology / Other

created May 03, 2007 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Manufacturers support their own products. But what to do when you're trying to make them work with something else? A new support site, Supportal.com, promises help for both the home and office.


Pick Up the Cell Phone, Drop the Pounds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 13, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cell phone owners use their phones for much more than talking to friends: surfing the web, snapping pictures, listening to music. How about using that cell phone to lose weight?


People living in poorer neighborhoods at increased risk for death, worse health risks

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Regardless of an individual's dietary and lifestyle risk factors, living in a poorer or more socioeconomically deprived neighborhood may increase a person's risk for death, according to data presented at the American Association ...


Protecting the future: How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage

Protecting the future: How plant stem cells guard against genetic damage

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich, UK, have shown how plants can protect themselves against genetic damage caused by environmental stresses. The growing tips of plant roots and shoots have an ...


Lifestyle changes, drug lower type 2 diabetes risk

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Intensive lifestyle changes aimed at modest weight loss reduced the rate of developing type 2 diabetes by 34 percent over 10 years in people at high risk for the disease.


Pedometers motivate people with diabetes to walk more

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 19, 2007 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The use of a pedometer and a Web site that tracked physical activity levels proved to be powerful motivators for people with diabetes who participated in a recent walking study conducted by researchers from the University ...


Eating, drinking and lifestyle changes can boost immunity to ward off seasonal flu

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

College students looking to stay healthy during flu and exam season need to focus on three very important factors, says a nutritionist at Washington University in St. Louis.


When East meets West: Why consumers turn to alternative medicine

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Alternative health remedies are increasingly important in the health care marketplace. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research explores how consumers choose among the many available remedies.


Telephone counseling may be as effective as face-to-face counseling in weight loss maintenance

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 24, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Face-to-face and telephone follow-up sessions appear to be more effective in the maintenance of weight loss for women from rural communities compared with weight loss education alone, according to a report in the November ...



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