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Ten Factors That Account For 90% Of Stroke Risk

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

These numbers are hard to ignore. A large international study published in The Lancet has found that there are ten risk factors that account for a staggering 90% of stroke risk. In the U.S., strokes are the third largest cause of death (behind heart disease and cancer), and bring a heartbreaking, life [...]

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Are Your Bad Habits Getting the Better of You?

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The numbers are tough to ignore. Six in ten American drink alcohol regularly, while only three in ten get regular exercise according to an annual study on health behaviors in the U.S., just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report covers a range of both good and bad health [...]

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Third Hand Smoke New Danger…

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

We’ve all heard of “second hand smoke,” the result as smokers exhale and send carcinogens into the air around them. The harmful effects of second hand smoke are well established. Third hand smoke is less familiar.
The term was coined in 2009 by doctors out of Mass General Hospital for Children, and is [...]

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Effects of Smoking Cigarettes Different for Women

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Everyone knows the dangers of tobacco smoke, but until recently experts believed the danger to be equal for men and women. Now new research is showing just how wrong, and perhaps how dangerous, that misconception can be, as the effects of smoking cigarettes is different for women.
It appears that the cancer causing agents in cigarettes [...]

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