Britain has one of the highest rates of asthma in the world, with about 1.1 million children receiving treatment for the condition. It occurs when the airways to the lungs become inflamed and constricted, making it more difficult to breathe. Over the past 20 years the number of people diagnosed with asthma in the developed [...]
Sleep difficulties are common among older individuals. Typical symptoms for individuals over age 65 include problems falling asleep and maintaining sleep, early-morning awakening, and excessive daytime sleepiness. A variety of reasons keep seniors from getting enough rest.Each year, one-third of Americans over age 65 fall*. Twenty to 30% of those who fall suffer injuries that [...]
Middle-aged men who ate seven or more eggs a week had a higher risk of earlier death, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday. Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study adds [...]
Health campaigners have criticised a Scottish brewery for launching what it claims is the UK’s strongest beer, at 12 per cent alcohol by volume. BrewDog, the Aberdeenshire microbrewery, says its new beer, called Tokyo, is inspired by a 1980s arcade game played in Japan. Described as intergalactic fantastic oak-aged stout, Tokyo is brewed with specialist [...]
The deliberate injury of a child. Child abuse can take several forms: neglect (including failure to provide adequate shelter, food, or medical treatment), physical abuse (including beating and poisoning), emotional abuse (including verbal abuse), and sexual abuse. In practice, a child is often subject to more than one form of abuse. In 1994, 1,271 children [...]
An egg is really three separate foods, the whole egg, the white, and the yolk, each with its own distinct nutritional profile. A whole egg is a high-fat, high-cholesterol, high-quality protein food packaged in a high-calcium shell that can be grounded and added to any recipe. The proteins in eggs, with sufficient amounts of all [...]
Contrary to the moans of many dieters, being hungry may make you happy. Or, at least, it can be a serious motivator whose evolutionary intent was to help you find dinner instead of becoming dinner. When our bodies notice we need more calories, levels of a hormone called ghrelin increase. Ghrelin is known to spur [...]
Sudden cardiac death (also called sudden arrest) is death resulting from an abrupt loss of heart function (cardiac arrest). The victim may or may not have diagnosed heart disease. The time and mode of death are unexpected. It occurs within minutes after symptoms appear. The most common underlying reason for patients to die suddenly from [...]
The symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis come and go, depending on the degree of tissue inflammation. When body tissues are inflamed, the disease is active. When tissue inflammation subsides, the disease is inactive (in remission). Remissions can occur spontaneously or with treatment, and can last weeks, months, or years. During remissions, symptoms of the disease disappear, [...]
Texas students are out of shape – and the older they get, the flabbier they get, according to the first statewide physical fitness assessments of public schoolchildren.
Based on evaluations of nearly 2.6 million students in grades three through 12, the testing found that fitness levels drop with each passing grade – Health Topics and elementary-age [...]
