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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 "Active Health & Wellness 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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