Tag: lifestyle diseases
Health minister launches ‘Eat Right India” to tackle lifestyle diseases
Health minister Dr Harsh Vardhan has launched the "Eat Right India" campaign to deal with rising incidence of non communicable diseases
“Eat Right, Stay Fit,...
High blood pressure for many years can cause the brain to...
Study finds that high blood pressure and large increases in blood pressure in midlife may be associated with reduction in brain volume in later...
Obesity stalls progress in reducing heart disease, stroke mortalities
Research warns that declines in mortality due to heart disease or stroke have stalled in many countries because of rising obesity
Heart disease and stroke...
Harsh Vardhan inaugurates geriatric clinic at Safdarjung
Inaugurating the geriatric clinic he says prime minister Modi has brought health to the forefront
Union health minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan inaugurated a host of...
More than what you eat, it is when you eat it...
Meal timing strategies may help people lose weight
Meal timing strategies help with weight loss by helping people burn more calories or by lowering appetite,...
Healthy foods cost more; poor diet is a factor in 1...
Study by IFPRI says cost of healthy foods is a factor in both obesity and under nutrition
Poor diets are now the leading risk factor...
Random blood glucose tests can identify patients at high diabetes risk
Random plasma glucose tests could be used to predict which patients will develop diabetes, according to a study of Veterans Affairs treatment data
Random plasma...
Kids eat more, court obesity, if there is more variety on...
Study finds that kids eat more when there is a wide variety of foods, say it has contributed to Australia's obesity problem
A new study...
Less than 1 in 3 hypertension patients treated in LMICS
A new study published in The Lancet reports that less than one in three high BP patients receive treatment in the Global South
Healthcare in...
Not just psychiatric, anorexia is a metabolic disease
The research highlighting that anorexia is a metabolic disease could lead to the development of a medication for the problem
An international study, led by...
