The boy died on Friday at a hospital in Jakarta, Runizar Ruesin, the head of the center, told Reuters.
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Sunday, September 24, 2006
Indonesian boy dies of bird flu - official reports confirm
A nine-year-old Indonesian boy has died of bird flu, an official of the health ministry's bird flu information center said on Sunday, taking the country's death toll from the disease to 51.
The boy died on Friday at a hospital in Jakarta, Runizar Ruesin, the head of the center, told Reuters.
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The boy died on Friday at a hospital in Jakarta, Runizar Ruesin, the head of the center, told Reuters.
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Saturday, September 23, 2006
Many would 'want to live to 100'
What society needs is a little help in becoming healthier by cutting back on unhealthy food and drink.
Many Britons would give up favourite things, including sex, to reach 100 years of age, a poll suggests.
Some 40% said they would give up sex - half of women and a third of men - 39% food and drinks and 42% travel.
But the Bupa survey of 1,003 people found 94% would not give up the company of family and friends and three quarters would not sacrifice money.
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Many Britons would give up favourite things, including sex, to reach 100 years of age, a poll suggests.
Some 40% said they would give up sex - half of women and a third of men - 39% food and drinks and 42% travel.
But the Bupa survey of 1,003 people found 94% would not give up the company of family and friends and three quarters would not sacrifice money.
Many would 'want to live to 100' - via bbc news From nanny state to a helping hand
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Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Getting the best out of your food
A balanced diet is the key to a happier, healthier life, so the mantra goes.
Experts advise us to eat more fruit and veg; boost protein and fibre intake; make sure we get the optimum levels of vitamins and minerals.
A glass of orange juice along with spinach boosts iron intake
But what actually happens to these nutrients once they are inside the body?
Getting the best out of your food via bbc news
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Experts advise us to eat more fruit and veg; boost protein and fibre intake; make sure we get the optimum levels of vitamins and minerals.
A glass of orange juice along with spinach boosts iron intakeBut what actually happens to these nutrients once they are inside the body?
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Long hours at work can raise your blood pressure
Putting in those extra hours at the office could be raising your blood pressure, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have found that working longer hours is directly associated with hypertension, even after adjusting for biological risk factors such as gender and ethnicity.
Long hours at work can raise your blood pressure - full story via globeandmail.com.com
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Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, have found that working longer hours is directly associated with hypertension, even after adjusting for biological risk factors such as gender and ethnicity.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Ten Steps Senior Citizens Can Take to Control High Blood Pressure
More than half of all senior citizens suffer with high blood pressure, or hypertension. The September issue of the Harvard Heart Letter takes a look at the latest thinking on high blood pressure and includes 10 steps for getting your blood pressure under control.
Follow the 10 steps here via seniorjournal.com
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Monday, August 28, 2006
Strike a balance - One of the best ways to healthy living is to eat a balanced diet
The basics:
Bread, cereals and potatoes
This food group also contains pasta, rice and noodles and is full of starchy carbohydrates - your body's main source of energy.
Fruit and vegetables
Fruit and vegetables are brimming with fibre, plus a whole range of vitamins and minerals, and because they're low in calories, they make an important and healthy addition to any diet.
Meat, fish, eggs and alternatives
This food group includes poultry, pulses, beans, nuts, seeds, soya products and vegetable protein foods such as quorn and seitan. They're grouped together because they're all rich in protein.
Milk and dairy
This food group includes milk, cheese, yoghurt and fromage frais - but not butter, margarine or cream, which belong in the fat and sugar group. The foods in this group contain many different types of nutrients but are particularly rich in calcium.
Fats and sugar
The foods in this group are best eaten sparingly because, although an energy source, they contain few nutrients. Don't be fooled into thinking they're entirely 'bad', though. Fat is an important contributor to good health.
The digestive system
Ever wondered what happens to your food once it passes your lips? Well, once you've taken a mouthful, your food embarks on an incredible journey......
You have roughly 10,000 tastebuds on your tongue, which come alive the moment you put food in your mouth. As nerve endings, they're responsible for sussing out the chemicals in the food you've eaten and transmitting messages to your brain. Without them you wouldn't be able to experience salty, bitter, sweet or sour sensations. While your tastebuds are busy at work, your teeth grind the food into easily digestible pieces and your saliva moistens everything, so it doesn't scrape your digestive (gastrointestinal) tract on the way down.
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Bread, cereals and potatoes
This food group also contains pasta, rice and noodles and is full of starchy carbohydrates - your body's main source of energy.
Fruit and vegetables
Fruit and vegetables are brimming with fibre, plus a whole range of vitamins and minerals, and because they're low in calories, they make an important and healthy addition to any diet.
Meat, fish, eggs and alternatives
This food group includes poultry, pulses, beans, nuts, seeds, soya products and vegetable protein foods such as quorn and seitan. They're grouped together because they're all rich in protein.
Milk and dairy
This food group includes milk, cheese, yoghurt and fromage frais - but not butter, margarine or cream, which belong in the fat and sugar group. The foods in this group contain many different types of nutrients but are particularly rich in calcium.
Fats and sugar
The foods in this group are best eaten sparingly because, although an energy source, they contain few nutrients. Don't be fooled into thinking they're entirely 'bad', though. Fat is an important contributor to good health.
The digestive system
Ever wondered what happens to your food once it passes your lips? Well, once you've taken a mouthful, your food embarks on an incredible journey......
You have roughly 10,000 tastebuds on your tongue, which come alive the moment you put food in your mouth. As nerve endings, they're responsible for sussing out the chemicals in the food you've eaten and transmitting messages to your brain. Without them you wouldn't be able to experience salty, bitter, sweet or sour sensations. While your tastebuds are busy at work, your teeth grind the food into easily digestible pieces and your saliva moistens everything, so it doesn't scrape your digestive (gastrointestinal) tract on the way down.
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Tuesday, August 08, 2006
Indonesia bird flu toll 'hits 43'
Indonesia has reported its 43rd human bird flu death which - if confirmed by the World Health Organization - would give it the world's highest death toll.
Local tests, which are usually accurate, show that a 16-year-old boy died of the disease on Monday night, health ministry officials said.
Indonesia has registered more bird flu deaths this year than any other nation.
Vietnam has also been badly affected, suffering 42 deaths, but the outbreak there seems to be under control.
No one has died from the disease in Vietnam since the beginning of 2006.Read full story via bbc news
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Local tests, which are usually accurate, show that a 16-year-old boy died of the disease on Monday night, health ministry officials said.
Indonesia has registered more bird flu deaths this year than any other nation.
Vietnam has also been badly affected, suffering 42 deaths, but the outbreak there seems to be under control.
No one has died from the disease in Vietnam since the beginning of 2006.
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Sunday, August 06, 2006
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You can expect your body cells to have a positive reaction from Dr. Ana Aslan's1957 ORIGINAL health-supplement formula with Procaine. You will appreciate its magical contribution for continuing good health and slowing down the aging.They will be the natural benefits from the good doctor's lab. You can feel good and help keep your young looks. ...Read full story Via Aslavitalpill.com
Saturday, August 05, 2006
SI man hit with West Nile
A 67-year-old Staten Island man is the first New Yorker to catch the West Nile virus this year, health officials said yesterday. The unidentified man is at home recovering from the mosquito-borne disease. ...Read full story via NY dailynews
Friday, August 04, 2006
North of England is worst when it comes to 'Binge drinking'
People in northern England are the most likely to binge drink and die earlier because of alcohol, research suggests.
Thursday, August 03, 2006
Eating curry may boost the brain and stave off Alzheimer's disease
Eating curry may boost the brain and stave off Alzheimer's disease. Scientists looked at the curry consumption of 1010 Asian people aged between 60 and 93 who were currently unaffected by Alzheimer's. Their thinking ability was compared using a standard test called the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE).
Participants who ate curry once or more in six months, or more than once a month, had better results than those who "never or rarely" ate it.Read full story via yahoo news
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Participants who ate curry once or more in six months, or more than once a month, had better results than those who "never or rarely" ate it.
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Wednesday, August 02, 2006
New bird flu fears in Indonesia
Seven people from the same village have been hospitalised in Indonesia with suspected bird flu, officials say.
The group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one family died of the deadly H5N1 virus in May.
Their deaths sparked fears that the virus was mutating into a form which could pass easily from human to human, but experts later ruled this out.
Indonesia has seen more bird flu deaths this year than any other country.Read full story via bbc news
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The group is from Karo district in Northern Sumatra province, where seven members of one family died of the deadly H5N1 virus in May.
Their deaths sparked fears that the virus was mutating into a form which could pass easily from human to human, but experts later ruled this out.
Indonesia has seen more bird flu deaths this year than any other country.
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Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Refugees taught how to eat American food
In a classroom on Chicago's north side, nutritionist Bindi Desai points at a sign of an obese man holding a hamburger with a pained expression on his face.
"And guess what happens?" she asks. "Inside his body there are lots of problems."
At a table, a dozen or so refugees - most of them from Africa - sit and nod. Some smile and chat among themselves. They appear to get the picture.
This workshop on how to eat American food responsibly is part of an Illinois state-funded programme to improve the nutrition of refugees who are being re-settled in the land of plenty.
"First we are most concerned about whether they will understand how to eat American food," says Shana Willis, with the non-profit refugee resettlement agency Heartland, one of the project co-ordinators.
"They did not only not understand how to eat American food, but they went immediately to the junk food and it was then that we realised, this is going to have a much more important impact than we anticipated."Read full article via bbc news
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"And guess what happens?" she asks. "Inside his body there are lots of problems."
At a table, a dozen or so refugees - most of them from Africa - sit and nod. Some smile and chat among themselves. They appear to get the picture.
This workshop on how to eat American food responsibly is part of an Illinois state-funded programme to improve the nutrition of refugees who are being re-settled in the land of plenty.
"First we are most concerned about whether they will understand how to eat American food," says Shana Willis, with the non-profit refugee resettlement agency Heartland, one of the project co-ordinators.
"They did not only not understand how to eat American food, but they went immediately to the junk food and it was then that we realised, this is going to have a much more important impact than we anticipated."
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Indonesia bird flu deaths hit 42
Indonesia has recorded its 42nd human bird flu death, bringing the country level with Vietnam as the worst affected by the disease.
Tests by the World Health Organization showed that a 44-year-old man who died last week had the H5N1 virus, health ministry officials said.
Indonesia has registered more bird flu deaths this year than any other nation.
In contrast the outbreak in Vietnam now seems to be under control, due to a large culling and vaccination drive.
No Vietnamese deaths have been recorded in 2006.Read full story via bbc news
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Tests by the World Health Organization showed that a 44-year-old man who died last week had the H5N1 virus, health ministry officials said.
Indonesia has registered more bird flu deaths this year than any other nation.
In contrast the outbreak in Vietnam now seems to be under control, due to a large culling and vaccination drive.
No Vietnamese deaths have been recorded in 2006.
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Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Bird Flu cluster sounds alarm bells
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is extremely worried about a cluster of recent human deaths from the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu.
Seven people from the same family in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, died from the disease earlier this month.
WHO spokesman Peter Cordingley said there was no sign of diseased poultry in the immediate area.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the virus spread from human to human, Mr Cordingley said.
But he emphasised that there was no indication the virus had mutated.
Experts are worried that if it does mutate, the H5N1 strain could become more easily transmitted between humans, leading to a worldwide pandemic of the killer disease.
The H5N1 virus has already killed more than 120 people worldwide since 2003. It has also devastated poultry stocks.
The majority of deaths have occurred in Asia, but cases in people and birds have also been recorded in Europe and Africa.
Almost all human infections so far are thought to have been caused by direct contact with sick poultry.Read full story via bbc news
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Seven people from the same family in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, died from the disease earlier this month.
WHO spokesman Peter Cordingley said there was no sign of diseased poultry in the immediate area.
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the virus spread from human to human, Mr Cordingley said.
But he emphasised that there was no indication the virus had mutated.
Experts are worried that if it does mutate, the H5N1 strain could become more easily transmitted between humans, leading to a worldwide pandemic of the killer disease.
The H5N1 virus has already killed more than 120 people worldwide since 2003. It has also devastated poultry stocks.
The majority of deaths have occurred in Asia, but cases in people and birds have also been recorded in Europe and Africa.
Almost all human infections so far are thought to have been caused by direct contact with sick poultry.
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Monday, May 22, 2006
Memories of 1918 flu pandemic haunt 21st century
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As health agencies worldwide scramble to stop bird flu from becoming a pandemic that could claim millions of lives, memories of the murderous flu that swept the globe almost 100 years ago haunt the 21st century, passed on from generation to generation, or, in my case, from grandmother to granddaughter.
My grandmother lived through the Great War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great
There was little that could threaten her nerve but until the day she died, Marie Starace was afraid of two things. One was lightning. The other was "The Grip" -- the deadly flu that wreaked havoc on the Brooklyn, New York, neighbourhood where she was born and raised.
So vivid were her memories of the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that whenever she saw us with open coats and throats exposed to the cold, she would gravely warn: "Button up or you'll get the grip." When I was a teenager -- about 50 years after the horrible episode -- I had the sense to ask what this dreaded "grip" was.
"It was a terrible thing. So many people died from the grip when I was a little girl that it seemed like every family lost someone," my grandmother told me.
"It was heartbreaking to see mothers crying for their children. Some of them lost two and three children. I'll never forget one woman crying in my mother's arms because she lost her children and her husband."
"People didn't want to say when someone in their house was sick because the place would be quarantined and no one could get out to work," Granna recalled.
"Some people went out in the middle of the night to get the undertaker because they didn't want it to get around that someone in their house had died from the flu. They were afraid of being reported to the Health Department and quarantined."Read full story via yahoo news
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My grandmother lived through the Great War, the Roaring Twenties, the Great
There was little that could threaten her nerve but until the day she died, Marie Starace was afraid of two things. One was lightning. The other was "The Grip" -- the deadly flu that wreaked havoc on the Brooklyn, New York, neighbourhood where she was born and raised.
So vivid were her memories of the influenza pandemic of 1918-19 that whenever she saw us with open coats and throats exposed to the cold, she would gravely warn: "Button up or you'll get the grip." When I was a teenager -- about 50 years after the horrible episode -- I had the sense to ask what this dreaded "grip" was.
"It was a terrible thing. So many people died from the grip when I was a little girl that it seemed like every family lost someone," my grandmother told me.
"It was heartbreaking to see mothers crying for their children. Some of them lost two and three children. I'll never forget one woman crying in my mother's arms because she lost her children and her husband."
"People didn't want to say when someone in their house was sick because the place would be quarantined and no one could get out to work," Granna recalled.
"Some people went out in the middle of the night to get the undertaker because they didn't want it to get around that someone in their house had died from the flu. They were afraid of being reported to the Health Department and quarantined."
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Five more deaths in Indonesia from Bird Flu
Five more people have died from bird flu in Indonesia, the World Health Organization has confirmed.
The deaths of the five brings Indonesia's bird flu death toll to 30.
Four of the people who died lived in northern Sumatra and were from the same family. The WHO has sent a team to the area to investigate.
An Indonesian health ministry official told Reuters news agency there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission in the latest cases of the H5N1 virus.
The H5N1 virus has killed more than 100 people worldwide since 2003. It has also devastated poultry stocks.
The majority of deaths have occurred in Asia, but cases in people and birds have also been recorded in Europe and Africa.
Almost all human infections so far are thought to have been caused by direct contact with sick poultry.
Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that passes easily between humans, possibly sparking a pandemic.
Read full story via bbc news
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The deaths of the five brings Indonesia's bird flu death toll to 30.
Four of the people who died lived in northern Sumatra and were from the same family. The WHO has sent a team to the area to investigate.
An Indonesian health ministry official told Reuters news agency there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission in the latest cases of the H5N1 virus.
The H5N1 virus has killed more than 100 people worldwide since 2003. It has also devastated poultry stocks.
The majority of deaths have occurred in Asia, but cases in people and birds have also been recorded in Europe and Africa.
Almost all human infections so far are thought to have been caused by direct contact with sick poultry.
Experts fear the virus could mutate into a form that passes easily between humans, possibly sparking a pandemic.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
Death toll from bird flu has reached 103 since late 2003
The world's human death toll from bird flu has reached 103 since late 2003, the World Health Organization has said.
The latest deaths from the H5N1 strain occurred in Azerbaijan, where five have died since February, the WHO reported.
The virus cannot pass easily from one person to another but there are fears it could mutate, triggering a pandemic.
US scientists have confirmed the H5N1 virus has evolved into two genetically distinct strains, potentially increasing the risk to humans.
The team from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also said this could complicate the search for an effective vaccine.
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The latest deaths from the H5N1 strain occurred in Azerbaijan, where five have died since February, the WHO reported.
The virus cannot pass easily from one person to another but there are fears it could mutate, triggering a pandemic.
US scientists have confirmed the H5N1 virus has evolved into two genetically distinct strains, potentially increasing the risk to humans.
The team from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also said this could complicate the search for an effective vaccine.
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UK young women risking Liver disease by "out-drinking men"
Young women are out-drinking men of the same age in the UK but in no other European country, experts are warning.Analysis of a Europe-wide study also shows that alcohol consumption in southern Mediterranean countries is falling, but rising in northern Europe.
Liver disease is now seen in younger people, Professor Moira Plant of the University of Western England said.
She will tell a nursing conference on Thursday that alcohol is cheaper and more available than ever before.
Professor Plant, a specialist in alcohol studies, warned that if young women in Britain continued to drink in this way, that they could present problems for the health service in the future.
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Monday, March 20, 2006
Tens of thousands of illegal marijuana "grow-ops" remain in Canada
Frank proudly surveys the large log cabin he constructed himself, on a two-acre plot of aromatic evergreen forest he now owns.
"All this," he says, "was built on marijuana."
Over four years, Frank - not his real name - tended a patch of marijuana plants in a forest clearing about 45 minutes' walk from where his cabin now stands.
He regularly pooled his harvests with those of several other growers in the small British Columbia (BC) town in which he lives, to sell wholesale to young men from just across the border in the US state of Idaho.
Frank says he made hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars before hurriedly leaving the business when his American buyers were arrested.
But tens of thousands of illegal "grow-ops" remain in Canada. Estimates suggest marijuana may generate up to C$7bn (£3.5bn; US$6.1bn) a year in BC, the sunny province thought to be at the heart of the industry.
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"All this," he says, "was built on marijuana."
Over four years, Frank - not his real name - tended a patch of marijuana plants in a forest clearing about 45 minutes' walk from where his cabin now stands.
He regularly pooled his harvests with those of several other growers in the small British Columbia (BC) town in which he lives, to sell wholesale to young men from just across the border in the US state of Idaho.
Frank says he made hundreds of thousands of Canadian dollars before hurriedly leaving the business when his American buyers were arrested.
But tens of thousands of illegal "grow-ops" remain in Canada. Estimates suggest marijuana may generate up to C$7bn (£3.5bn; US$6.1bn) a year in BC, the sunny province thought to be at the heart of the industry.
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