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Emphasis Needed on Prevention to Defeat Chronic Disease
Preventable
illness makes up approximately 80 percent of the burden
of illness and accounts for eight of the nine leading
categories of death. So why are so many of us dying from
preventable conditions, such as cardiovascular disease
and cancer? What are governments doing wrong? Why is modern
medicine continuously failing us? What can we do positively
impact our future health and make things right? |
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WHO
Releases Independent Expert
Report on Prevention of Chronic Disease
An
independent study, examining the interrelationship between
diet, nutrition, physical activity and chronic disease
was released by WHO and the Food and Agriculture Organization.
The expert report will form a scientific basis for the
development of a Global Prevention Strategy against chronic
disease through Diet, Physical Activity and Health to
be adopted by the World Health Assembly in May 2004. |
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Physical
Activity Fundamental to Preventing Disease
The U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services developed this excellent report which clearly
presents the need for immediate change to effect a healthier,
more active lifestyle. The report uses more than 30 scientific
publications to establish and support the relationship
between physical inactivity and chronic disease. |
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Exercise
& Preventing Disease
It wasn't too long ago that people
with conditions such as high blood pressure, high blood
sugar, arthritis, asthma and heart disease, were told
by Physicians to "take it easy","stay in
bed" or ingest several medications in order to stabilize
these conditions. Today, there is little doubt how the
impact of lifestyle changes, including exercise, can dramatically
prevent, treat and even cure many of these ailments. |
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Building
the Case for the Prevention of Chronic Disease
This report is an important recent
development and report on behalf of the Alliance for the
Prevention of Chronic Disease and prepared by Dexter Harvey,
Ethel Hook, Jennifer Kozyniak, and Morgan Selvanathan
for the Disease Intervention Division, Centre for Chronic
Disease Prevention and Control, Health Canada, March 31,
2002. |
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Child
Obesity Prevention in Schools
In the past 20 years, obesity among
6- to 11-year-old children has risen 54 percent, according
to John Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Fat kids often
suffer socially and have a greater risk of developing
conditions like heart disease and diabetes. The "ShapeSmart
Fitness Program" was developed to curb the child
obesity epidemic. Help us help schools create healthier
environments for children to decrease their risk factors
for disease. |
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