March 16th, 2009
Contentment in numbers. A recent survey reveals that the happiest women in terms of life and look are those with size 14. This may explain why Nigelia Lawson and Kate Winslet look so happy with their lives.
The British survey asked around 3000 women to rate their happiness. The size 14 subjects rated their happiness highest compared to the other female shapes.
One fourth of the size 14 women are very satisfied with the way they look. Half of them are very satisfied with the way their careers are going and around 30% are all smiles with their love lives.
Next happiest are the size 14 women. The research findings tabulates that around half of them are very happy with their work. Seventy five percent of them are enjoying their relationships with their special ones and friends, and they are in the least need of psychological health care.
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February 4th, 2009
Lack of sleep may have more than serious effects than losing focus in school or at work. A recent study conducted by researchers in the University of Chicago traces build up of calcium in the heart of a person that gets less sleep than the average.
A group of 495 men and women between 35 to 47 years old were subjects of the survey. The proponents were surprise with the results as an hour less sleep than average increases cardiac calcium by as much as 16%.
The individuals getting less than the recommended 5 to 7 hours have a 27% occurrence of plaques in their blood vessel. Those sleeping within the average range of hours had 11% affection. Only 6% of the subjects who gets over 7 hours of sleep were found positive for coronary plaques.
Even the researchers were surprised with the strong relation between the lack of sleep and cardiac problems. Earlier studies were not able to establish the link between shut eyes and heart problems. Most of the previous studies had biases to deal with and questionable methodologies.
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January 17th, 2009
Brighter lights at home may help enliven someone’s mood during the gloomy winter season.
A number of people with depression have reported to struggle more in managing their condition during winter. This fits the profile of people suffering from SAD or seasonal affective disorder which usually triggers depression during autumn and early winter. There have also been documented cases of individuals being more prone to depression during the summer months.
A study in the United States shows that around 4 to 6 percent of the population is suffering from seasonal affective disorder. A Cleveland health facility cites that around 10 to 20 percent of the population may struggle with more mild winter depression. SAD is a common occurrence with individuals between the ages of 20 and 40 years old.
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January 4th, 2009
Amid rising numbers of tobacco smokers in the developing countries, like China and India which serves home to 40% of smokers in the whole world, the World Health Organization foresees cancer to overtake heart disease as the No. 1 killer.
Health experts also see development in the diagnosis of cancer and lower cases of communicable diseases that has troubled the human race ever since.
A survey expects diagnosis of cancer in 2009 to hit the scale of 12 million individuals. Deaths due to cancer are projected to be at 7 million.
By 2030 a conservative estimate forecasts cancer cases to blow up to 27 million on a yearly basis with 17 million deaths. All the projected figures also assume the growth of the world’s population.
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