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Post by vimala on Jun 17, 2008 14:21:13 GMT 5.5
Sun Bed Use Prohibited for the Under-18 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New legislation has been put in place which forbids the use of sun beds by those below 18 years of age. The public health bill will include a new legislation that prohibits the use of sun beds by those below 18 years of age. This move comes in the wake of the nation’s increasing levels of skin cancer, reportedly 8500 cases annually from Scotland alone. The risk of skin cancer is up by 75% for those who use sun beds before the age of 35. Following this legislation, salons in Scotland will need to cough up a fine of £100 if they are found encouraging sun bed use by the under -18s. Further, the salons will attract a fine of £50 fine if tanning facilities are run without staff. Commenting about the legislation, Public health minister Shona Robison said, “This major piece of legislation will ensure appropriate measures are in place to safeguard the public from existing and emerging threats to public health." Equally positive of the legislation, Cancer Research UK, director of policy, Richard Davidson, said, “Using a sun bed before the age of 35 increases the risk of skin cancer by up to 75 per cent, so we welcome the move to prevent children from using them. Scotland is once again leading the way in public health across the UK.” Salons have been advised to educate users about imminent health risks of sun bed use. Source-Medindia SAV/M
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Post by vimala on Jun 17, 2008 14:23:42 GMT 5.5
Medical Aphorism ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Aphorism is from a Greek word and means to define. It is generally a one-liner used tersely to convey a perspective in a way that once bitten by it you are seldom likely to forget it in a hurry. Some examples of Aphorism are as follows: * People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones at others - Anon * "Death with dignity is better than life with humiliation." -Husayn ibn Ali * Love your mistakes but don't marry one. - Leonid Sukhorukov, book 'All About Everything' * Marry in haste: Repent at leisure. -- Scottish proverb * Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. -- Chinese Proverb. * One man's meat is another man's poison. Hippocrates was the first to use them to improve a way to remember symptoms to cure diseases. Later others started using them in their work. Usage of Aphorism comes from experience. The first aphorism used by him runs as follows: --"Life is short, art is long, opportunity fugitive, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult: it is necessary not only to do oneself what is right, but also to be seconded by the patient, by those who attend him, by external circumstances."
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Post by vimala on Jun 21, 2008 13:35:04 GMT 5.5
Top Ten Facts About Diabetes -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Diabetes is a silent epidemic and according to WHO there are 246 million people in the world living with diabetes. This is almost 6% of the world's adult population. 2. Diabetes in Asians is five times the rate of the white population 3. India is the diabetes capital of the world. It is estimated that currently there are 40 million people with diabetes in India and by 2025 this number will swell to 70 million. This would mean every fifth diabetic in the world would be an Indian. 4.Central obesity or apple shape of the body and insulin resistance is the main reason for diabetes increase in Indians 5. Diabetes causes 6 deaths every minute and one in 20 deaths in the world is due to the condition. Every year it is estimated that 3.2 million people in the world die due to the diabetes or its related causes. 6. Diabetes is a one of the important 'silent killer disease' as there is usually no early symptom of the disease. The commonest early symptom is feeling thirsty 7. Almost 90 to 95% of diabetes is of type 2 or maturity onset type; that affects people in their middle age. Type 1 or juvenile diabetes affects 70,000 children under the age of 15 years every year. 8. The major cause of increase in the incidence of diabetes is a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise and diet can either reduce or delay the incidence of diabetes by over 50%. 9. Diabetes is the number one cause of kidney failure in the world. Besides this every year it is responsible for 5% or 5 million blindness in adults and one million limb amputations. Diabetes is also an important cause of heart disease, stroke and cataract. 10. The current cost of treating diabetes and its complications in the world is estimated as US $ 215-375 billion. The disease is growing fastest in developing countries where there are more people in the lower and middle-income group.
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Post by vimala on Jun 26, 2008 7:10:52 GMT 5.5
Feeling fat' worse than actually being fat ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- London: Adolescents who think they are too fat seem to be worse off than their counterparts who are really obese, according to an extensive survey. The Robert Koch Institute in Germany surveyed nearly 7,000 boys and girls between 11 and 17. They were asked about self-assessment, ranging from "far too thin" to "far too fat.” The survey, published in the German journal Deutsches Aerzteblatt International, established that about three quarters of adolescents were of normal weight. Yet, 55 percent of girls and under 36 percent of boys thought they were "too fat". Only about 18 percent of adolescents were actually overweight, while 7-8 percent were underweight. The quality of life is lower in obese adolescents. However, this correlates to a large extent with self-evaluation. If adolescents think they are "far too fat", they forfeit a lot of their quality of life, whatever their actual weight. This is particularly marked with girls. On the other hand, if they consider their weight "just right", their quality of life is the same as if they were of normal weight, even if this is not true. The proportion of adolescents who think they are overweight has been increasing more rapidly in recent years than the proportion of those who really are overweight. In an accompanying editorial, lead researcher Johannes Hebebrand points out that adolescents are exposed to considerable social pressure to be thin. He said it was remarkable that as many as 40 percent of the subjects thought that their weight was right, in spite of the ideal of slimness and the stigma of being overweight
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