Health

Lifestyle diseases biggest killers: CSE

Experts say foods high in salt, sugar and fat are leading to rise in such ailments

Publication Date: 
28/11/2017
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Lifestyles, Diseases, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), WHO, Non Communicable Diseases, Sunita Narain, Health
Air Pollution

30% premature deaths in India due to air pollution: CSE Report

NEW DELHI: Highlighting major links between environment and health, a study released here on Monday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as

Publication Date: 
28/11/2017
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Air Pollution, Health Effects, Non Communicable Diseases, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Sunita Narain, Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA), WHO
Health

Body Burden: Lifestyle Diseases

Lifestyle diseases or non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are responsible for more than 61 per cent of all deaths in India.

Whether it is heart diseases, respiratory illnesses, cancer, obesity or food allergies, emerging research reveals that the rise in their incidences is due to environmental factors—rapid urbanisation, air pollution and changes in diet—rather than your genes.

Publication Date: 
Nov 2017
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)
Tags:
Lifestyles, Non Communicable Diseases, CSE Study, Health Effects, Heart Diseases, Respiratory Diseases, Cancer, Obesity, Mental Health, Environmental Health, Air Pollution
Health

Lifestyle diseases the biggest killer in India today

The new report from Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) released yesterday held lifestyle diseases like obesity, mental health, cancer and heart diseases to count a few, as the major killers in India. Revealing the links of air pollution with mental diseases, it stated that air pollution is responsible for 30 per cent of premature deaths in India while every third child in Delhi has impaired lungs.

Tags:
Health, Non Communicable Diseases, Mental Health, Lifestyles, CSE Study, India, Environmental Health, Obesity, Cancer, Respiratory Diseases, Air Pollution, Pesticide Use
Health

Health policy moots key changes

KOCHI: The health policy introduced by the state government envisages several instrumental changes in the health sector in Kerala.

Publication Date: 
24/11/2017
Times Of India (Kochi)
Tags:
Kerala, Health Policy, Health Education, Non Communicable Diseases, Health
Health

National Assembly approves sugar tax

The bill providing for the implementation of a tax on sugary beverages — the health promotion levy — was passed by the National Assembly on Tuesday.

Publication Date: 
23/11/2017
Business Day (South Africa)
Tags:
Health, Health Effects, South Africa, Non Communicable Diseases, Africa
Health

Number of children stunting on the rise in Africa, WHO says

The number of stunted children in Africa is on the rise, according to the newly released nutrition report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Africa.

Publication Date: 
23/11/2017
Africa Science News
Tags:
Health, Child Health, Nutrition, WHO, Malnutrition, Children, Non Communicable Diseases, Africa
Health

A growing concern - Fatty Liver Disease

When a condition commonly associated with a lifetime of alcohol abuse — severe scarring of the liver, or cirrhosis — starts to show up in children as young as eight, something is very wrong.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
22/11/2017
Bianca Nogrady
Nature
596
551
Tags:
Obesity, Child Health, Non Communicable Diseases, Health Effects, Medical Research, United States Of America (US), United Kingdom (UK)
Air Pollution

Ambient ozone pollution and daily mortality: A nationwide study in 272 Chinese cities

Few large multicity studies have been conducted in developing countries to address the acute health effects of atmospheric ozone pollution. The researchers explored the associations between ozone and daily cause-specific mortality in China.

Original Source

Publication Date: 
21/11/2017
Peng Yin, Renjie Chen, Lijun Wang & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
1-7
Tags:
Ozone, Health Effects, China, Urban Air Quality, Air Pollution, Air Quality and Health, Developing Countries, Asia, Heart Diseases, Non Communicable Diseases
Health

Sugar industry sponsorship of germ-free rodent studies linking sucrose to hyperlipidemia and cancer: An historical analysis of internal documents

In 1965, the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF) secretly funded a review in the New England Journal of Medicine that discounted evidence linking sucrose consumption to blood lipid levels and hence coronary heart disease (CHD). SRF subsequently funded animal research to evaluate sucrose’s CHD risks. The objective of this study was to examine the planning, funding, and internal evaluation of an SRF-funded research project titled “Project 259: Dietary Carbohydrate and Blood Lipids in Germ-Free Rats,” led by Dr. W.F.R.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2017
Cristin E. Kearns, Dorie Apollonio, Stanton A. Glantz
PLoS Biology
1-9
Tags:
Sugar Industry, Health Effects, Information, Heart Diseases, Non Communicable Diseases, Cancer, Medical Research, United Kingdom (UK)

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