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Healthiest Pregnant Women Feel a Strong Sense of Community

By Guest PostAugust 4, 20101 commentHealthafrican american, blood pressure, cleopatra abdou, communalism, european american women, healthiest, pregnant woman, psychology, race, stress

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— It takes a village to keep a pregnant woman at her healthiest, a new University of Michigan study shows.

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Improving Global Health: Five Engineering Strategies

By Guest PostJuly 31, 20105 commentsHealthkathleen sienko, medical care, nicaragua, osman palma, sofia merajver, sustainable health technologies, tejkaran gill

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— After researching more than 600 health-related technologies and traveling to Nicaragua to observe medical care there, University of Michigan graduate students have identified five keys to developing sustainable health technologies in resource-limited settings such as developing nations.

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Spread of Malaria Still a Looming Problem

By Guest PostJuly 28, 20101 commentHealthanti-malarial drugs, anti-mosquito coils, disease, environmental factors, epidemiology, infection, jose siri, Kenya, kisumu, malaria, mark Wilson, mosquito nets, traveling

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—There are hundreds of millions of new cases of malaria annually, but much of what scientists believe about preventing the spread of malaria in urban settings is mistaken, a new University of Michigan study suggests.

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E.coli and Rotten Tomatoes Found at Moscow McDonald’s Restaurants

By PravdaJuly 22, 20106 commentsCulture, Health

Russian Federal Consumer Rights Protection Service and Prosecutor’s office revealed the results of recent inspections of catering outlets in Moscow.

The results, as always, are shocking.

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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change: The Cows Did It!!

By PravdaJuly 21, 20101 commentCulture, Healthbeatle, british, emissions, greenhouse gas, gwyneth paltrow, jamie oliver, linda, lisa karpova, livestock industry, mary, meat dishes, michael jackson, natalie portamar, observer, paul mccartney, pravda, stella, sunday, un report, vegetarian diet, worldwide

*Paul McCartney and Daughters Publish Booklet for Vegetarian Newspaper – -Newspaper speaks of the campaign promoted by the former Beatle in order to avoid eating meat on Mondays.*

Paul McCartney and daughters, Mary and Stella, are helping to publish a special supplement of a healthy and very tasty vegetarian diet of foods published by the British Sunday newspaper “The Observer.”

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Breast Transplantation, the Consequences

By ShamsJuly 15, 2010Healthbiggest breasts, brazil, breast transplantation, health problems, sheyla hershey, texas

Sheyla Hershey, the woman with the biggest breasts (breast transplantation operation – 30 times), is now encountering serious health problems. Sheyla now living in Texas, originally comes from Brazil.

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Walnuts: Its Amazing Health Benefits

By PravdaJuly 4, 20102 commentsHealth40 nuts, amino acids, anna protsenko, anti-inflammatory, antioxidants, Avicenna, b, black currants, blood pressure, blood sugar, c, calcium, cancer center, cardiovascular, chocolate, cholesterol, cobalt, colitis, constipation, copper, davis, diabetes, diseases, e, enteritis, fatty acids, gastro-intestinal tract, hippocrates, iodine, irina shlionslaya, iron, kernels, magnesium, medpulse, metabolism, minerals, nutritionist, omega-3, p, phosphorus, potassium, prostate cancer, protein, ru, sodium, teaspoon, thyroid, university of california, usa, vitamin c, vitamins a, walnuts

Health benefits of walnuts have been known since time immemorial. Hippocrates and Avicenna mentioned them in the treatment of various diseases. In addition, the ancients thought that they stimulate mental activity. Anna Protsenko, a nutritionist, told MedPulse.ru.

“Walnuts contain a great deal of minerals,” the expert explains. “They include iron, copper, cobalt, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, and iodine. Many of them are antioxidants.

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‘Thin May Not be in for African-American Women’

By Guest PostJuly 3, 2010Culture, Healthafrican-american women, american psychological association graduate student awa, bmi, body mass index, body shape, college of education, curvy body, department of educational, mu, rashanta bledman, school and counseling psychology, university of missouri, women

COLUMBIA, Mo. —Many women today are dissatisfied with their weight, body shape and size, and often strive to be unrealistically thin.

A University of Missouri graduate student has found that black women actually differ from white women in their perceptions of the ideal body shape and size.

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