Monthly Archives: July 2008

drug contamination of drinking water

There is a thought provoking review in BMJ vol 337, 12th July p 80-81 which discusses the pollution of our UK drinking water with drugs which have been excreted in the urine and eventually pass into the domestic water system.Stringent precautions are taken to remove pesticides and other major pollutants but drugs because of their…

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muscular strength and mortality

In a report coming from three counties , Sweden, Spain and the USA the association between muscular strength and mortality in men was examinedThe cohort was 8762 men. After adjusting for age, physical activity , smoking, alcohol intake they found that an independent factor was muscular strength.This is a strong protection against cardiovascular and respiratory…

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predicting those at risk of exercise induced death

Nutritionists interested in promoting good life styles always mention sporting activities. However from time to time this worthy advice is marred by the death of a fit young person. Cardiac death in young athletes is caused by a wide range of structural diseases of the heart eg cardiomyopathies and electrical channel defects.A questionnaire before embarking…

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Primary solutions of global poor health and poverty

This article by Tegegne in Medicine Conflict and Survival 2008 The primary solution of global poor health and poverty vol 24, pp 107-114 is a thoughtful discussion of this massive problem.There is a huge global burden of disease and mortality. The principal underlying cause is regarded as poverty. This is associated with a global order…

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Colonic health and bacteria

The incidence of human intestinal inflam¬mation and inflammatory bowel disease has increased steadily in the Western world since the early 1950s.The human ‘gut flora consists of between 300 and 1,000 microbial species, and some 1014 microorganisms in total (about ten times the number of cells of the human body). They synthesize essential vitamins and amino…

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Obesity measurement

There is a very simple method of evaluating obesity.Whether the person needs one two or three seats to sit onTherefore the average person requires one seat. The fat two seats the obsese three seats.hence a person can be classified as a one, two or three seater . This evaluation does not measure malnutrition.In super markets…

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