Health aNd Fitness Guide

Lifestyle changes like having more vegetables, avoiding alcohol, and exercising regularly can delay onset of diabetes for years, reports journal Lancet. Researchers in China divided 577 people with high risk of diabetes into four groups: one group focused on diet, another on exercise and the third on both; the fourth did not make any lifestyle → Continue reading »

A patient whose skin cancer had spread throughout his body has been given the all-clear after being injected with billions of his own immune cells. Tests revealed that the 52-year old man’s tumors, which spread from his skin to his lung and groin, vanished within two months of having the treatment, and had not → Continue reading »

Obesity may be linked to cancers of the breast, colon, thyroid, uterus, kidney, esophagus, and gallbladder. Researchers at the University of Manchester analyzed 282,137 cases of cancer to establish a link between different cancers and Body Mass Index. In men, an increase in BMI showed an increased risk of esophageal cancer by 52 percent, thyroid → Continue reading »

Pot belly in middle age can increase risk of dementia in later years. Researchers at the Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, measured the sagittal abdominal diameter (the measurement around the stomach) of 6,583 adults in their 40s from 1964 to 1973. They examined the medical records of these individuals 36 years later and found that → Continue reading »

Diabetics have the same risk of having a heart attack or stroke as someone with a history of heart attack, and twice the risk of dying from a heart attack compared to non-diabetics, said a Danish study published in the journal Circulation. → Continue reading »