Health and Fitness

This year on World Tuberculosis Day there is cause for optimism. The recent adoption of a fast and powerful new diagnostic tool promises to accelerate international gains against the disease.

At the same time, our hope must be tempered by the sobering fact that multidrug-resistant forms of TB remain an ever-present threat that, if allowed to spread unchecked, could set back the steady progress made during the past two decades.

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The importance of dieting, for the body, soul, spirit and mind has been around for ages. I dieted and lost 30 pounds within 6 months. I used to be heavy set but lost the weight I needed too, and still am dieting.
Cleric and Senior Pastor, Royalty Christian Centre, Pastor David Adeoye has listed nutritional imbalance, immorality and restlessness as potential causes of sicknesses, some of which experts say are incurable. Pastor Adeoye who spoke at a one- day lecture titled ' Cure for incurable diseases' held at the Church auditorium, Omotoye Estate, Old Iyana – ipaja Road, Agege, Lagos affirmed that some of the diseases which defile solutions more often than not only require enough sleep and water in the body system for cure.
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Mr. Mukoro said he had pain at the waist in 2007 while trying to help his wife lift a bag of salt she bought at the market from the boot of her car.
Mental and emotional health is the area of health that focuses on developing good character, interacting in ways that help create a positive atmosphere at work; which can be misinterpreted as trying to gain cheap popularity among workers.
Frequent alcohol consumption by teenage girls may increase the chances that they will develop non-cancerous breast disease in their 20s and possibly breast cancer later in life.

Research published online April 12 in the journal Pediatrics found that girls who drank the most alcohol during their teen years — daily or nearly every day — were five times more likely to develop benign breast disease as young adults than were their peers who never drank or drank less than once a week.
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M&S said the pants had been independently tested
Marks and Spencer is making unproven claims about anti-cellulite knickers, consumer group Which? has said.

The £29.50 Anti-Cellulite Firm Control Waist and Thigh Clincher pants contain vitamin E, aloe vera and caffeine.
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Capsaicin causes the burning sensation in chilli peppers

Studying chilli peppers is helping scientists create a new type of painkiller which could stop pain at its source.

A team at the University of Texas says a substance similar to capsaicin, which makes chilli peppers hot, is found in the human body at sites of pain.
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Premature babies are undergoing more intense treatment to keep them alive

Babies born before 24 weeks are spending longer periods in intensive care but their overall survival rates have not improved, a study has found.
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Dreaming may be a sign our brain is working hard in our sleep

Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory – as long as you dream, scientists say.
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Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I commend thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and WITH THY CHILDREN AFTER THEE, and THAT THOU MAYEST PROLONG THY DAYS UPON THE EARTH, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

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Scientists are reporting progress toward a test that could revolutionize the diagnosis of glaucoma – the second leading cause of vision loss and blindness worldwide – by detecting the disease years earlier than usually happens at present.
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Remember the story of the schoolteacher who, back in March 2009, was charged with the murder of his 14-year-old female pupil, Victoria Ampofo, after the latter suddenly died while allegedly being disciplined for lateness? Well, the autopsy report later revealed that the child actually suffered from a “simple” type of congenital heart defect, which means she did not decease as a result of the “two [supposed] strokes of the cane” she received from her teacher, but rather due to a heart problem.
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Now that many women hardly have enough time to get their make-up done, here is some good news if you can spare five minutes before rushing out the door.
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Ho, Jan. 6, GNA - Millions of Ghanaians regard HIV/AIDS as a condition for the other person and not them. The thinking is that the condition is far away from them and as long as they did not engage in unprotected sex.
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Long-term physical activity has an anti-ageing effect at the cellular level, a German study suggests.

Researchers focused on telomeres, the protective caps on the chromosomes that keep a cell's DNA stable but shorten with age.

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