LONDON, England (CNN)
— Famed for keeping people slim, healthy and living longer, the Mediterranean diet has followers all over the world.
However, the diet is being increasingly shunned by people who live in the Med as the convenience of fast food gains popularity.
The renowned low-fat, high-fiber diet has “decayed into a moribund state” in its traditional regions, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Read the rest of this entry »
As September moves into its second week, students are now settled back in school for another year of reading, writing and arithmetic.
And with September also marking when officials recommend vaccinations, students will soon resume their roles as germ spreaders.
The close quarters of schools combined with the sometimes lax cleanliness of kids — think uncovered sneezes and nose picking — make classrooms an ideal incubator for germs during Read the rest of this entry »
6:47am UK, Wednesday September 17, 2008
Thomas Moore,
Health Correspondent
A chemical commonly used in plastic food and drink containers could increase the risk of heart disease and diabetes, according to new research.
Scientists think they have found a link between a chemical used to make plastic bottles, and heart disease and diabetes.
The substance, called Bisphenol A, can disrupt natural hormones in the body.
Tests on 1,455 adults Read the rest of this entry »
I normally don’t fall prey to celebrity fitness fads; in fact, I find most of them downright deceptive.
One day you hear a svelte starlet boasting on “Access Hollywood” that she got her pre-baby body back using “nothing but a ballet barre,” and the next day you read in “Redbook” that she, in fact, turned her pool cabana into a million-dollar ballet studio and flew in a Russian ballerina once a week for lessons.
But when actress turned Jenny Craig Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators have
expanded approval for Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ.N:
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) Prezista in
combination with other drugs to treat HIV patients who are just
beginning to take medication for the virus, the company said on
Wednesday.
Prezista, or darunavir, had already been approved for use
along with other HIV drugs in patients who were already taking
protease inhibitors but had developed resistance. Read the rest of this entry »
Two operation theatres have been hauled by cranes into the grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital in central London.
A 500-tonne crane hoisted the theatres 200ft (61m) into the air, over a seven-storey building and into place in the hospital’s courtyard.
The ready-made surgery units are fitted out with X-ray viewing machines and other equipment.
The units, which cost a total of £1.5m, will replace two operation theatres which will close for upgrades. Read the rest of this entry »
– A 6-foot-4 football player is more than a million times the size of a typical Staphylococcus bacterium. But under the right conditions, that athlete could find himself defenseless against the microscopic bug.
The problem came to the forefront last week with Cleveland Browns player Kellen Winslow, who recently had his second staph infection. He is reportedly the sixth player to acquire staph among the Browns in five years.
Winslow recently Read the rest of this entry »
How do we die? With drugs, oblivious, in a basement, frozen nobly on a mountain top, screaming in a car crash, or traditionally in a bed surrounded by our family and children, croaking out our last wishes? Or in hospital, where there are tubes and bleeps, where we are monitored, fed intravenously and kept alive till the last moment? Most of us shudder, try to think about something else and admit that we are with Woody Allen when he said he didn’t Read the rest of this entry »
Laura Ruiz, an 11-year dance instructor in Roseburg, was introduced to Zumba fitness in a most unconventional way. While attending a dance conference last August in Phoenix, she witnessed complete strangers dressed in similar garb run to and greet one another with an identical tribal yell: “Zumba love!”
“I thought, ‘I have to do that,”’ Ruiz said.
After training her body and memory every day to learn how to move to the Latin rhythms Read the rest of this entry »
She was America’s most wholesome girl, with the most adorable ponytails and
the cutest little Valley Girl twang.
So who would ever have thought that Marcia Brady would end up as a cocaine
addict, partying at Sammy Davis Junior’s house and trading drugs for sex?
Yet that, according to Maureen McCormick, the actress who played Marcia in The
Brady Bunch, is exactly what happened.
For those too young to remember the 1970s, or who had not yet got Read the rest of this entry »