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View Post: CDC Media Advisory March 17, 2008
18 Feb 2009
The March/April issue of the Preventing Chronic Disease Journal will be available online March 17, 2008. For details about the studies published in the Preventing Chronic Disease Journal, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/index.htm. ...
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View Post: How Is Coffee Linked to Weight Gain?
20 Nov 2009 by Ng Peng Hock  
The findings, which were published in the online journal Preventing Chronic Disease during September 2009, included 3000 purchases from 115 coffee and restaurant chains in the city. Nevertheless, not all drinks are filled with calories. ...
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View Post: How to Rebuild Global Prosperity « Don at Dawn
4 hours ago by donatdawn  
For the second year, The Wall Street Journal invited top CEOs and policy makers to come up with ideas for dealing with four of the most crucial issues confronting the world today. .... So we have to figure out how to do a better job with chronic disease, which accounts for about 75% of our health costs, and preventing chronic disease. A lot of providers feel prevention is a much more cost-effective strategy than just treating chronic disease once someone gets very ill. ...
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View Post: Picture of Health: Does preventing chronic illness now pay off ...
3 Sep 2009 by Kelly Brewington  
Many lawmakers and the Obama administration assert there will be huge savings down the road from preventing chronic diseases now -- enough to pay for a health care overhaul. But a new study from the journal Health Affairs, ...
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View Post: Cost Savings Adds to Value of Preventing Chronic Disease (HealthDay)
23 Sep 2009 by Yahoo! News: Health News  
23 (HealthDay News) -- Prevention of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure improves the lives of older Americans and also reduces medical costs, study findings show. WEDNESDAY, Sept. ...
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View Post: Confusion About The Ideal Medical Saving Account: Part 2
18 Oct 2009 by stanleyfeldmdmace  
Ten (10) million pounds were gained in 2 years according to the April issue of Preventing Chronic Disease, a medical journal published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “About 173500 adult New Yorkers became obese and ...
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View Post: new research findings two
10 hours ago by concerned heart  
In an article appearing in the November 2009 print issue of the FASEB Journal, they show that antioxidants -- the same substances found in plant-based foods -- might hold the key in preventing the flu virus from wreaking havoc on our lungs. .... The correlation between lower vitamin D levels and increased risk of URI's was even stronger in individuals with asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 5.Another 2009 report in the journal Pediatric Research stated that ...
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View Post: How to NOT be (too terribly) Unhealthy: Lifestyle Medicine ...
9 Nov 2009 by Karah Pino, CEO-Community Educator Organizer  
Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease "Lifestyle is not only a public health issue; it is also a medical and clinical care issue. Lifestyle medicine is not just about preventing chronic disease but also about treating it, often more effectively and less expensively than relying only on drugs and surgery. Nearly all the major medical societies recently joined in publishing a review of the scientific evidence for ... Alternative Health Journal Newsletter ...
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View Post: Why Vitamin D is Good For You! ~ via Dr. John Douillard's LifeSpa ...
16 Nov 2009 by elephantjournal.com  
Search elephant journal for: ... At the optimal levels it may be responsible for preventing many of our modern day diseases. About ten years ago researchers discovered that people who live in climates where natural sun exposure was the greatest had less chronic disease. In northern climates studies show up to 61% of Americans are vitamin D deficient, and during the winter months up to 87% are deficient. Surprising Health Findings. For the past 80 years it was believed ...
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