Personal hygiene can play an important role in preventing the spread of illness and keeps us healthy. In today's world in which infectious diseases can spread among people like wildfire and threaten our health and wellbeing, this is critical.
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Despite our desire to make the most of every waking moment, we do all in fact need sleep. If you are reading this article you are clearly one of many GEMS members who have chosen to make this the year of taking charge of your health. There is no question that people who care about their bodies experience less downtime because of illness.
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For children, time spent actually inactive - such as lying on the couch - appears to have less of an impact on how much body fat they have than a lack of exercise does, according to a US study. Researchers found that the more minutes children spent exercising at the pace of a fast walk each day, the lower their percentage of body fat. But the time they spent lying around made no difference.
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Eating three or more servings of blueberries and strawberries each week may help reduce a woman's risk of heart attack, a large new study suggests. The study included nearly 94 000 young and middle-aged women who took part in the Nurses' Health Study II. The women completed questionnaires about their diet every four years for 18 years.
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New research found that people who successfully quit smoking experience less anxiety. Although it is generally thought that smoking relieves stress. The study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found that after successfully quitting smoking for six months, former smokers experience a significant decrease in anxiety levels.
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OR Tambo. - Many challenges prevent pregnant women from accessing Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services despite a strong HIV management programme in the area. Although there are 350 antiretroviral (ARV) accredited sites (clinics and hospitals) that provide PMTCT in this Eastern Cape health district, there are various social and cultural factors that prevent women from accessing it, thereby increasing the chances of passing HIV on to their unborn children.
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The first new tuberculosis (TB) treatment in 50 years was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), strengthens efforts to make the drug available in South Africa.
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The amount of caffeine that's typically found in two cups of coffee may contribute to urinary incontinence in men, according to a new study. "It's something to consider. People who are having problems with urinary incontinence should modify their caffeine intake," said Dr Alayne Markland, the study's senior author, from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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