10 Health Tips To Healthy Living In 2015

1. Exercise regularly (at least three times a week and preferably once a day). For most people, walking is the simplest and safest form of exercise. One study reports that walking 30 minutes a day adds 1.3 years to a person’s life. More strenuous types of exercise done in moderation and with proper pre- and post-exercise stretching is recommended. In order to increase your fitness level, exercise should increase your heart rate. Exercises involving balance and light weightlifting can help prevent falls.

Health Minister appointed as Prime Minister

Haiti’s Health Minister, Florence Duperval Guillaume has been named interim Prime Minister in replacement of former PM, Laurent Lamothe who resigned last week.

Guillaume’s appointment was announced on Sunday, December 21, after Lamothe vacated the office following several weeks of protests in the country.

How Sophie Guidolin lost 28 kilograms and took the fitness world by storm

WHEN 25-year-old Sophie Guidolin gave birth to her second child just a year after her first, she was tired. Tired of being pregnant, tired of giving birth, tired of always being tired.

“I put on quite a bit of weight while pregnant, and I was really unhappy,” Sophie tells news.com.au. “It wasn’t so much that I hated the way I looked, I just had no energy or strength. I wanted to have energy for my boys, and I just didn’t. I knew something had to change.

“Initially the only thing I could do was put the boys into a pram and go for long walks with them. Then I started to be more organised with my food. Then I signed up for weight training, and that’s when I really started to see the changes.”

How to Eat For Weight Loss

If so, I’m sorry, but I’m probably not the right person to help you with that. And that’s for good reason — a kindly reminder that on most occasions ‘diets’ don’t work.

Depending on which bit of research you look at, it is said that women will diet anywhere between 2—7 times a year and on average spend an incredible 17 YEARS of their life dieting — I dare say a pretty stressful 17 years at that — as the saying goes, the proof is in the pudding (mmmm, pudding).

So with a large percentage of us overweight, sick and super unhealthy, what do we do? Where do we go from here? How do we change? Well I’m glad you asked …

More than 16,000 people sickened with Ebola, WHO says

 

DAKAR, Senegal –  The World Health Organization says the number of people sickened with Ebola has passed 16,000.

The data shows that the death toll in the epidemic is nearing 7,000.

The world's largest-ever Ebola outbreak is battering the three West African countries of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Data released late Friday by the U.N. health agency showed that there have been 16,169 cases in those three countries. There have also been around three dozen cases elsewhere.

Liberia has recorded the highest number of cases and deaths, but the rate of infection is slowing there. The disease is now spreading fastest in Sierra Leone.

Men suffering from depression may also suffer in the bedroom

Depression affects around 350 million people worldwide and can have a devastating impact on your life and relationships, including in the bedroom.

Sadly, when it comes to depression and low libido, men tend to suffer the most. Whereas women can say “Not tonight, I have a headache,” men often feel that avoiding sex somehow emasculates them or changes the way their partner views them. And, to be honest, many times women do not understand that all men aren’t in the mood for sex sometimes, even if they aren’t depressed. It’s just one of many urban legends in this country that needs to be debunked if men and women are going to able to communicate honestly in the bedroom.

Perfumer Set To Release EBOLA Fragrance

As the Ebola Virus is currently ravaging most of West Africa and getting the attention of the whole world for the wrong reasons, some people are however also cashing on it.

From makers of Ebola Halloween costumes, to others setting a high price for a domain name Ebola, a French company is now set to release a perfume called EBOLA.

Man Now Leukemia-free after Doctors Injected Him with AIDS Virus

A man who was diagnosed with an extremely aggressive form of cancer two years ago is now amazingly cancer-free thanks to a revolutionary treatment that involved receiving an infusion of the virus that causes AIDS.

According to DailyMail, Marshall Jensen of Utah, was one of 30 leukemia patients to undergo a trial treatment at Penn Medicine recently, in which white blood cells are implanted with a harmless form of HIV programmed to target and kill cancer. The 30-year-old married father of one has so far responded well to the treatment and is now cancer-free for the first time in years.

One of the Doctors Without Borders Dr. Craig Spencer is Free of Ebola Virus Disease

 

33-year-old Craig Spencer, a Doctors Without Borders physician who was infected with Ebola while treating patients in Guinea is now Ebola free.  According to a statement from New York City health department,  "Dr. Spencer poses no public health risk."

Nurse who had Ebola has been released from hospital and is ‘so grateful to be well’

 
A TEXAS nurse who was the second US healthcare worker infected with Ebola while caring for a Liberian patient left the hospital overnight after being declared cured of the virus.
“I’m so grateful to be well and first and foremost I want to thank God,” Amber Vinson, 29, said at a press conference at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wearing a grey suit and pink blouse, Ms Vinson appeared healthy and smiled often, occasionally wiping away tears as the medical team at Emory University Healthcare surrounded her and her doctor spoke about her care.
She also thanked her family and the medical teams in Texas and Georgia, and asked for people to continue to work to eradicate the Ebola outbreak abroad.

Ebola scare sees 19 in quarantine

NINETEEN people are being isolated in home quarantine in Brisbane as a precaution against spreading the Ebola virus, as a teenage woman undergoes tests for the deadly disease in hospital.

The 18-year-old is being kept in an isolation ward at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital after developing a fever yesterday.
She arrived in Australia 12 days ago from Conakry in Guinea, with eight members of her extended family, including six children.
The group is one of four West African families who have arrived in Brisbane in the past couple of weeks from Ebola virus hot spots.
Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said they all had agreed to remain in home quarantine until the 21-day incubation period had expired.
“They’ve been extraordinarily co-operative. These people have gone directly from the airport into home quarantine,” Dr Young said.

Ebola: Heathrow To Start Screening Passengers

Heathrow airport is to start screening for Ebola among passengers flying into the UK from countries at risk.

The health secretary told MPs a "handful" of cases were expected to reach the UK before Christmas.

Screening will start at Terminal 1, before being extended to other terminals, Gatwick airport and Eurostar by the end of the week.

Growing, and growing vulnerable

As the president of the Fire Island Association, Suzy Goldhirsch has a message she says she often offers property owners.

“We are living on a sandbar in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean,” she tells them.

“We are in a high-risk environment. We on barrier islands are on the front lines of climate change.”

The same could be said of many coastal areas around the world, which are threatened by rising sea levels as the planet warms. But the barrier islands that line the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, from Cape Cod to the Mexican border, are a special case.

A new report from the National Research Council finds that the effect of climate change is especially harsh on these islands. Population growth in much of this long coast “is nearly twice the national average,” the report said.

Home where Ebola patient stayed disinfected

 

DALLAS (AP) — After days of scrutiny about their treatment, a family that was living in the Texas apartment where an Ebola patient was staying when he got sick was moved to a private residence in a gated community.

Meanwhile, a hazardous-materials crew on Friday decontaminated the apartment, and public-health officials cut by half the number of people being monitored for any symptoms of the deadly disease.

Hours later, the family was moved to the private residence that was offered by a volunteer.
The decontamination team was to collect bed sheets, towels and a mattress used by the infected man before he was hospitalized, as well as a suitcase and other personal items belonging to Thomas Eric Duncan, officials said.
The materials were sealed in industrial barrels that were to be stored in trucks until they can be hauled away for permanent disposal.

The truth about the origins of AIDS

 
A NEW genetic history of HIV shows how the pandemic almost certainly took root in the 1920s in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers said Thursday.
Assisted by train transport and the sex trade, the virus that causes AIDS then spread across the continent and eventually the world, infecting some 75 million people and killing 36 million of them.
An international team of researchers reconstructed the genetic history of the HIV-1 group M pandemic, and found that the common ancestor of group M is “highly likely” to have emerged in Kinshasa around 1920.
While various strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have jumped from primates and apes to humans at least 13 times, only one such transmission event has led to a human pandemic.

10 secrets to living your life with intention

WHAT’S the biggest difference between people who live full, rich, meaningful lives and those who don’t?

The art of living with intention.
It’s easy to let life happen to us, to accept our day-to-day as it unfolds and never question what it brings.
It’s so simple, in fact, that we don’t even realise we are doing it. We forget we have huge personal power.
We can drive, direct and change our lives. All that’s required is a shift in mindset and commitment to action. The good news is, you needn’t waste a single more moment living without intention.
Here are 10 actions to live life by design, instead of by accident:

US says 100 had contact with Ebola victim

ELEGRAM/MCT - Dallas officials have ordered the family who came in contact with Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncan to remain at home, as the possible contact count grew to 100. THE family in northeast Dallas was placed under a public control order and a police officer was stationed outside the Ivy Apartments where they live to enforce it.
"We didn't have the confidence we would be able to monitor them the way we needed to," said David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, in a telephone news conference on Thursday. He declined to elaborate on the reasons why, but Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said they were "non-compliant with the request to stay home". Duncan, the first Ebola victim diagnosed in the US, was taken by ambulance to Texas Health Presbyterian on Sunday and remained in isolation and in serious condition on Thursday. He has a phone and has been calling family members. The number of possible contacts in Dallas since he arrived grew from 18 to 20 on Wednesday to about 100, state health officials said. "We are working from a list of about 100 potential or possible contacts and will soon have an official contact tracing number that will be lower," said Texas Department of State Health Services spokeswoman Carrie Williams.

Alcohol may reduce sperm quality: study

 
DRINKING just five units of alcohol every week could reduce the quality of a man's sperm, new research suggests.
AND the more alcohol consumed, the weaker the quality of the sperm, the study found.
Men of a reproductive age should be advised to steer clear of habitual drinking, the authors said. The study, published in the journal BMJ Open, examined 1200 Danish male military recruits between the ages of 18 and 28, all of whom underwent a medical examination between 2008 and 2012. As part of the assessment they were asked about their drinking habits and invited to provide sperm and blood samples. The average number of units drunk in the preceding week was 11.

US Sends Medical Experts To Nigeria To Learn How To Contain Ebola

The United States’ Center for Disease Control and Prevention has sent medical experts to Nigeria to learn how Nigeria was able to contain its Ebola outbreak.

This decision was necessary after a Liberian man, got to the US few days ago with the deadly disease. Aside visiting Nigeria, the officials will also visit Senegal to study its containment model.

Melbourne drug could help prevent thousands from dying in childbirth

AN inhalable love drug from Melbourne that could prevent 300,000 women from dying during childbirth will be fast-tracked after it got a $16.6 million dollar boost.

Oxytocin is routinely given to women to prevent excessive bleeding after birth, but it is not available in many developing countries because it must be refrigerated and given by trained health professionals.
The Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Monash University has developed a dry inhalable version of the drug, which will be fast-tracked into development and clinical trials.
The technology has been licensed to pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, and will also receive funding from the McCall MacBain Foundation and Grand Challenges Canada.
The idea is to ensure the drug is heat stable, so it does not have to be stored in the fridge. Delivering it via a puffer would make it more accessible to more women giving birth in low-resource areas or outside medical facilities.
It’s estimated a woman dies from post-partum haemorrhaging every three minutes.