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Study: Fast Food Ad Ban Could Curb Obesity
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2008-11-20 08:09:12
ITV1 to launch healthy campaign
ITV1 is to launch a campaign to help fight obesity and get the nation healthy after Christmas.
2008-11-18 14:39:07
MEPs back free school fruit plan
EU lawmakers back a scheme to offer free fruit and vegetables to schools across the EU in a drive to curb child obesity...
2008-11-18 10:25:10
Florida fights childhood obesity with new gym rule
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2008-11-17 14:00:24
Aspirin may cut prostate cancer risk
Washington, Nov 17 ANI: Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found that the use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs is significantly associated with lower PSA prostate-specific antigen levels, especially among men with prostate cancer.The findings are based on a study, which included 1,277 participants referred to a urologist for a biopsy of their prostate. Approximately 46 percent of the men reported taking an NSAID, mostly aspirin 37 percent of all men. After taking into account age, race, family prostate cancer history, obesity, and other variables that have independent effects on the size of the prostate organ, cancer risk, and PSA levels, the researchers found that aspirin use was significantly associated with lower PSA levels. They found that PSA levels were 9 percent lower in men taking aspirin compared with men who did not use aspirin.A PSA test is used widely as a method to screen men for the possibility of prostate cancer, with higher blood PSA levels suggesting a greater chance of having prostate cancer. High PSA levels can also signify benign prostatic hyperplasia BPH, a non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate organ. Although decreased PSA levels could have a protective effect, there is an aspect to this finding that could potentially be concerning."This analysis raises the concern that aspirin and other NSAIDs may lower PSA levels below the level of clinical suspicion without having any effect on prostate cancer development, and if that is true, use of these agents could be hampering our ability to detect early-stage prostate cancer through PSA screening," said the study's lead author Jay H. Fowke, Ph.D., an assistant professor in medicine at Vanderbilt.The study will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. ANI
2008-11-17 10:07:08
Obese Midlanders problem tackled
Health experts meet in Birmingham to discuss the problem of obesity in the West Midlands.
2008-11-17 04:24:16
Obesity 'programmed before birth'
Eating a high-fat diet in pregnancy may cause changes in the foetal brain that lead to over-eating and obesity early in life, research suggests.
2008-11-16 18:18:13
Diabetes and Heart â€“ The Deadly Duo
The incidence of diabetes is constantly increasing in the past few years all over the world due to the changing lifestyle and increasing obesity...
2008-11-14 07:37:29
Britain Identifies 9 Towns As Pilot Areas To Battle Obesity AHN
AHN - With obesity claiming over 9,000 Britons yearly, the United Kingdom launched Monday an intensified battle to help the nation battle the major health crisis through the naming of nine new healthy...
2008-11-13 01:30:27
Obesity link to 450 deaths a year
Obesity is causing an estimated 450 deaths a year in Northern Ireland and costing the economy xA3500m, a health chief says.
2008-11-13 01:00:10

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Study: Fast Food Ad Ban Could Curb Obesity

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Aspirin may cut prostate cancer risk

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Britain Identifies 9 Towns As Pilot Areas To Battle Obesity AHN

Obesity link to 450 deaths a year