Girl Lives 118 Days without a Heart.
This is an inspiring story about a young girl’s desire to live. She can teach all of us a lesson..
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By Jim Loney
MIAMI (Reuters) - An American teen-ager survived for nearly four months without a heart, kept alive by a custom-built artificial blood-pumping device, until she was able to have a heart transplant, doctors in Miami [...]
TV Ads Contribute to Childhood Obesity, Economists Say
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: November 20, 2008
Banning fast food advertisements from children’s television programs would reduce the number of overweight children in the U.S. by 18 percent and decrease the number of overweight teens by 14 percent, economists have estimated in a new study.
The researchers used several statistical models to link obesity rates to the [...]
Your Birthday May Increase Your Risk Of Asthma
Perhaps Vitamin D deficiency is directly related to this increase in asthma development more than the infections themselves. It is well established that vitamin D, a hormone, can affect the immune system.
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Your birthday may decide your risk of asthma
By Sue Mueller
Saturday Nov 22, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — Your birthday may decide your risk of asthma, according [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Exercise and Sleep Help Fight Cancer
Boston - A recent study has shown that women who exercise regularly and get a full eight hours of sleep each night helps to bring down the risk of getting cancer.
Lisa Nemcheck, a breast cancer survivor says that she has come to know that exercise and sleep is helping her remain cancer free. She says, [...]
I am going to have Tofu Turkey for Thanksgiving!
I don’t even know what to say! The turkeys are not surviving this year! See the Palin interview here- but be warned, its kind of gross…
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