Articles, tagged with "world health organisation", page 1
06th February 2012
You know you have to lose weight but do you know how much you have to lose? Do you have a target to shoot for? Like most things we are trying to achieve, losing weight works best when we have a goal. Otherwise, how will you know when you have lost enough ...
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Author:
William Burnell
05th January 2012
Our body does not need us to feed it sugar. It has no need of it and it gets no nutritional value from it. It does need sugar in the form of glucose, which it gets by converting some foods. Glucose is necessary to feed our cells and thus our total system....
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Author:
William Burnell
21st November 2011
"Sticky" Egg Captures Sperm
A study by an international team of researchers published in the journal Science in August 2011 has found that it is the "sticky" egg that catches the sperm. The international research team said that their discovery should he...
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Author:
Jackie De Burca
04th November 2011
According to the World Health Organisation almost two thirds of blind people worldwide are women and girls. Women are also prone to develop dry eye problems more than men. There are several ways to keep the eyes healthy to prevent serious eye problems fro...
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Author:
Kate Dawson
25th August 2011
Our bodies have the impressive ability of being able to heal themselves and fight off illness. All the body needs from us to provide it with the right energy and nutrients to allow it to function at its maximum potential.
Diets which are high in proce...
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Author:
Jimmy Evola
25th July 2011
Know your health
Health is physical (body) efficiency. Sickness is opposite to health i.e. physical inefficiency. We can say nobody is perfectly healthy or unhealthy. It is not possible to compare a persons health with other person.
Health may be d...
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Author:
jpreddy
04th July 2011
Obese people find it the hardest to deal with the fat stored in and around the abdomen and the waist.
Not only does belly fat make your abdomen bulge out, it also poses grave risk to of diseases like hypertension, diabetes and stroke. According to the Wo...
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Author:
seoatulkumar
19th May 2011
We need only 10% protein food in our diet.You may have heard that you need more than that,especially from the meat lobby who always want you to believe that only meat can deliver sufficient amounts of protein
According to the World Health Organisation ...
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Author:
andrewcollinson
17th May 2011
Loud lawnmowers in the morning, incessant city traffic, construction work, aeroplanes, school kids shouting, phones ringing in the office, Australian Idol – we’re constantly surrounded by never-ending irritating noises in today’s modern society, but a new...
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Author:
Scott Jamieson
16th May 2011
The World Health Organisation estimates that around 76 million people globally currently suffer from some kind of alcohol-related condition. Alcohol remains the world's number one killer causing almost 2.5 million deaths a year or just about 4% of the wor...
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Author:
James Frith
03rd May 2011
A well known area of Spain is the ideal place for your COSTA BLANCA HOLIDAYS. The Costa Blanca is well known for the many sandy beaches all along the coast, dotted with small fishing villages and the occasional larger towns. Alicante sits almost in the ce...
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Author:
Porsche
19th April 2011
If you're thinking about moving to foreign countries as an expat, your first concerns are probably about arranging accommodation and finding a job. But you also need to think about your health. What will happen if you become ill? It is important to think ...
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Author:
Deepaksingh1
29th March 2011
Hearing loss is on the rise, according to Professor Adrian Davis of the British MRC Institute of Hearing Research. He estimates that the number of people suffering from hearing loss of more than 25 dB (the definition of hearing impairment recognised by th...
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Author:
Carolyn
23rd March 2011
What is the "obesity crisis? and how is it measured?" How do we know what a 'healthy weight' is and how on earth can we measure our progress reaching it?
BMI - (Bloomin Misleading Indicator! )
Many weight loss websites stick to a BMI (Body Mass Ind...
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Author:
nicolabusley1
23rd March 2011
The high quality of modern packaging has allowed consumers to have the utmost confidence in the integrity of the contents, so any issue that causes us to question that confidence is a concern worth investigating. Recent world-wide media reports of poss...
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Author:
EvaJudge