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08/03/2018 / By Tracey Watson

Study: Diet determines whether you get type 2 diabetes, especially in older women

For many years, doctors insisted that a diabetes diagnosis was nothing more than bad luck, an unfortunate genetic predisposition about which very little could be done. In some instances, patients were advised to lose a bit of weight, but for the most part they were prescribed chemical drugs to control the condition and sent on […]

04/18/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Cancer is a lifestyle disease: 4 in 10 cancers can be entirely avoided

Those who think they shouldn’t worry about cancer because they have no family history of the dreaded disease are grossly misinformed. Scientists have found time and again that genes are not the reason people get cancer. A new study shows that lifestyle is a frequent culprit. The research suggests that 2,500 cases of cancer could be […]

04/18/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Cut your risk of premature death by more than half by just doing short bursts of exercise

Too busy to go to the gym and exercise? Too riddled with deadlines to take those 10,000 steps a day for good health? Take heart. New research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association found that you don’t need long hours of exercise a day to stay healthy. Short bursts of exercise a […]

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