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  • Obese drinkers face 'double hit' (13 Mar 2010 01:06)

    ... risk of cirrhosis and other liver diseases. Obese women who drink little more than a ... be redefined. Rates of liver disease and obesity are increasing in the UK. Alcohol is ... liver cirrhosis. Dr Bette Liu of Oxford's Cancer Epidemiology Unit said: "We estimate that almost ...

  • Selecting Healthy Vegetarian Cooking (13 Mar 2010 08:51)

    ... and attention deficit disorder as well as cancer and leukemia seem to be on the rise. While ... Some people say that meats lead to obesity and health problems because our bodies were ...

  • Financials boosted by collapse of reform plan (13 Mar 2010 01:35)

    ... for US rival Terra Industries. Switzerland's Roche fell after the world's biggest maker of cancer drugs said that, in a trial, its Avastin tumour-fighting medicine failed to prolong late-stage ...

  • Cut in pulp supply boosts UPM (13 Mar 2010 05:35)

    ... 1.7 per cent this week to 33.54. fell after the world's biggest maker of cancer drugs said that, in a trial, its Avastin tumour-fighting medicine failed to prolong late-stage ...

  • How the blocks of our health system crumbled to dust (13 Mar 2010 01:33)

    ... order of magnitude greater than the breast cancer scandals of 2007 and 2008. They represented ... he notes no pilot would fly an overweight aircraft, yet many of our hospital clinics ...

  • Kate Delley to conquer Great Wall for diabetes (13 Mar 2010 04:33)

    ... children with diabetes. The 27-year-old, who was overweight as a child, conquered her weight problem ... Oxfam, the MS Society, the RSPCA, the Cancer Council, the Butterfly Foundation, the Cerebral Palsy ...

  • Strong Period Pain And Excess Weight In Childhood Increase Risk Of Endometriosis (13 Mar 2010 09:06)

    ... risk of . Researchers from QIMR's Gynaecological Cancer Laboratory have found having strong period pain ... Nagle and her team found that being overweight at 10 years of age also doubles ...

  • Florida ranks 38th in federal funding for disease and injury prevention (13 Mar 2010 00:16)

    ... national median was $28.92 per person. State public health departments try to address diabetes, obesity, cancer, and infectious disease prevention, among other functions. The good thing in Florida is that ...

  • Letters, Thursday, March 11, 2010 (13 Mar 2010 10:31)

    ... animal suffering, but vegetarians tend to have lower rates of diet-related diseases such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes and some cancers. Switching to a plant-based diet will also significantly reduce your ecological footprint, because animal ...

  • Reduce safe drinking limits for overweight people, research suggests (12 Mar 2010 07:57)

    ... should be reduced because the combination of obesity and drink act like a "double whammy" ... Correspondent Published: 7:30AM GMT 12 Mar 2010 Obese men who drink are 19 times more ... rate doubling in the last decade. Only cancer, respiratory disease, heart disease and stroke kill ...

  • Number of Scots dying from heart disease, strokes and cancer drops (12 Mar 2010 00:23)

    ... linked to Scotland's three biggest killers cancer, heart disease and strokes fell last ... smoking. "However, Scotland is the second most obese country in the world, after America, and ...

  • Parkridge Offers Free Screening And Education On Colon Cancer (12 Mar 2010 00:37)

    ... Offers Free Screening And Education On Colon Cancer March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, ... indicate that men and women who are overweight are more likely to develop and die ...

  • American Cancer Society invites Othello residents to take part in nationwide study (12 Mar 2010 04:32)

    ... chosen as a point for the American Cancer Societys Cancer Prevention Study-3. Those who wish ... looked for a connection between cancer and obesity. The new study will concentrate on genetics, ...

  • Medicine to Lower Blood Pressure Significantly Decreases Risk for Cardiovascular Disease, Stroke (12 Mar 2010 07:45)

    ... 25 percent among normal weight, overweight and obese patients. Obese patients, who had higher initial ... management of hypertension in the obese.” Although obesity is a recognized risk factor for stroke ... death after diseases of the heart and cancer. For those who survive, stroke is a ...

  • Can a beer a day help keep your girlish figure? (12 Mar 2010 08:59)

    ... a lower risk of becoming overweight or obese than women who shunned alcohol or drank ... alcohol consumption is a risk factor for obesity. Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in ... carries other serious risks including digestive tract cancer and liver disease, he added. He also ...

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