Posted on : 07-07-2011 | By : Abigail Mullagh | In : Healthy Food Diet
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First, the good news: Oncologists continue to make amazing advances in the treatment of breast cancer. Twenty years ago just about every woman with the disease had her breasts chopped off and was given a debilitating dosing schedule of chemo, but these days doctors tailor breast cancer treatment specifically to a woman’s risk profile and type of cancer (because breast cancer isn’t a single disease).
Now for the bad: Despite these advances, and all the attention breast cancer gets via awareness-raising marches and pink ribbons, many women with the disease aren’t receiving the right treatment.
A new study done at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center found that 45% of older women with advanced breast cancer in the U.S.
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Posted on : 06-07-2011 | By : Abigail Mullagh | In : Healthy Food Diet
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A Netherlands-based professor has said that exposure to alcohol marketing and films with images of sexy drinking could entice people to drink twice as much as they normally would.
Forty male university students from the Netherlands were split randomly into two groups.
One watched an hour of 40 Days and 40 Nights, which included three scenes of drinking and 15 additional alcohol images.
The other watched an hour of American Pie 2, which had 18 scenes of drinking and 23 extra alcohol-related images.
Those who watched American Pie 2 and saw the alcohol commercial had 2.98 drinks on average, almost twice as many as the 1.51 drinks consumed by those that saw 40 Days and 40 Nights and watched the advertisement that had nothing to do with alcohol.
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Posted on : 06-07-2011 | By : Abigail Mullagh | In : Healthy Food Diet
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Participation may decline, but belief system stays steady through high school, research suggests.
THURSDAY, July 7 (HealthDay News) — Many American teens maintain their religious identity through high school, even though their participation in church and other religious activities declines, a new study finds.
This was true of teens in all three groups studied — from Asian, Latin American and European backgrounds — according to University of California, Los Angeles psychiatry professor Andrew J. Fuligni and colleagues.
The study of 500 teens in the Los Angeles area also found that those from Latin American and Asian backgrounds had higher levels of religious identity, and teens from Latin American backgrounds had higher rates of religious participation.
Changes in religious identity that did occur among some teens were associated with changes in ethnic and family identities.
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Posted on : 05-07-2011 | By : Lincoln Fry | In : Healthy Food Posts
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It may seem counter-intuitive, but, in my experience, many people struggle with their weight because they’re not eating enough, or not often enough.
We all have a certain number of calories that we need to sustain life. For the purpose of this article, I will refer to this number as your resting metabolic rate. This is how many calories you need to live, even if you are lying in bed 24 hours per day.
In order to figure out this number, you need to know your ideal or goal weight. This is really up to you. Once you know what this number is, females will multiply the number by 10 and males by 11.
Here is an example for a female who is five feet, seven inches tall and wants to weigh 155 pounds: 155 x 10 = 1,550 calories. If
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