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Today is 2010 World Health Day!

World Health Day 2010 will focus on urbanization and health. With the campaign “1000 cities – 1000 lives”, events will be organized worldwide calling on cities to open up streets for health activities. Stories of urban health champions will be gathered to illustrate what people are doing to improve health in their cities.

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Do you have computer vision syndrome? How to prevent it?

Just happened to know CVS this afternoon and it appears I AM suffering CVS already as I do have some symptoms. So, just to share here as it’s something important we should all know. Computer vision syndrome (CVS) is a temporary condition resulting from focusing the eyes on a computer display for protracted, uninterrupted periods [...]

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Get the FREE online diet plan from SparkPeople

Weight management site SparkPeople really is free. Over 5 million people have joined SparkPeople to lose weight and make healthy lifestyle changes. Major media outlets like Good Morning America, The Today Show, and People Magazine regularly feature successful SparkPeople members and talk about how this is a completely free site. SparkPeople is an easy program [...]

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Sitting Up Straight is Not the Best Solution for Back Pain

I understand from many people that “back pain” is quite common in Singapore especially for those “white-collar” people. I was suggested I sit straight. Well, it helps a little. And, the more important thing is, “sitting straight” just makes me feel uncomfortable. Surprisingly, the latest research suggests not to “sit up straight”; leaning back is [...]

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How to Call In Sick

Health writes an article why you should call in sick and how to do that without jeopardizing your job. Even if you are not contagious, you should still consider calling in sick if a splitting headache is making you dizzy or if an over-the-counter cold remedy has your brain in a fog. If your symptoms [...]

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10 Secrets Your Dentists Never Told You

I never went to a dentist unless I really had to. Not to mention the expensive cost, the experience is just terrible. Daily Finance ten secrets you need to know to get the most for your money when shopping for dental care. Your dentist may not be as educated as you think. Your dentist may [...]

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Exercise Won’t Make You Thin; Here’s Why

Doing properly exercise regularly can definitely makes you healthier; but it won’t make you thin, pointed out by TIME, People who regularly exercise are at significantly lower risk for all manner of diseases — those of the heart in particular. They less often develop cancer, diabetes and many other illnesses. But the past few years [...]

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Video: How To Improve Your Memory

This short video shows some tips everyone can follow to improve the memory: Do crossword puzzles, play Sudoku, take up bridge Drink purple grape juice Both rosemary and sage improve people’s scores on word-recall tests Hit the dance floor, jog, or do anything that gets your pulse racing. Take naps De-stress yourself by taking up [...]

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Find out How the Sugars in your Favorite Foods Literally Stack Up

Sugar Stacks has used regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each) to show how the sugars in your favorite foods literally stack up, gram for gram. Compare foods, find out where sugar is hiding, and see how much of the sweet stuff you’re really eating. Sugar Stacks

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52 Ways to Control and Conquer Stress

via Men’s Health, stress attacks in all sorts of ways—which means that if you want to control it, contain it, conquer it, you need to fire back in kind. That’s why we’ve spent the past several months devouring studies and cross-examining experts to find the 31 best stress-busting tips of all time. We won’t lie—it [...]

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10 Ways to Keep Your Mind Sharp

via LiveScience.com, 10. The more you’ve tried to learn, the better you’ll be at mental sit-ups in old age. The key may be tackling something new; the challenge of the unknown is likely more beneficial than putting together the same jigsaw puzzle over and over again.

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Tripartite Advisory on Workplace Measures to Tackle Mexican Swine Flu

The World Health Organisation has raised the pandemic alert phase for the outbreak of Mexican swine flu from Phase 4 to Phase 5, signaling that a pandemic is imminent. Even though there are no human cases of Mexican swine flu in Singapore as of 30 April 09, the Ministry of Health (MOH) has upgraded Singapore’s [...]

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Swine Flu Vaccine Could Take 6 Months

Via LiveScience.com, A vaccine for the new swine flu in humans could take at least six months to manufacture and distribute widely, a British doctor said.

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What is Swine Flu? Swine Flu FAQ

What is Swine Flue? Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this [...]

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General Health Status & Lifestyle Practices of Singaporeans

This article compares the personal health practices among 3,302 male and 3,456 female Singapore residents aged 18 to 69 years who participated in the National Health Surveillance Survey (NHSS) 2007. Survey findings from NHSS 2007 showed striking gender differences in health practices with females reporting overall better health behavior. They took greater conscious effort to [...]

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How to Live to A Hundred

via National Geographic, Children of centenarians—who usually inherit both longevity and personality traits from their parents—are on average more outgoing, agreeable, and less neurotic, according to a new study. That’s because being affable and more social confers health benefits, according to lead study author Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study at Boston [...]

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Caffeine May Lessen Exercisers’ Muscle Pain

via Quality Health, The researchers found that young men who performed an intense bout of cycling had less muscle soreness when they took a pre-workout dose of caffeine.

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Unilever Research: 33% Singaporeans Don’t Wash Hands

via Straits Times, NEARLY one in every three Singaporeans does not wash his hands after using the toilet. And even if they do, 40 per cent of Singaporeans do not wash their hands with soap, according to a research commissioned by Unilever in January to find out Singapore’s hygiene habits.

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Video: Exercises for Tendonitis & Carpal Tunnel [Health]

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Do You Know The Perfect Running Pace?

Each person has an optimal running pace that uses the least amount of oxygen to cover a given distance. An experiment showed, Overall, the optimal speeds for the group were about 8.3 mph (about a 7:13 minutes per mile) for males and 6.5 mph (9:08 min/mile) for females. via livescience.com

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