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PHYTONUTRIENTS ARE natural compounds found in plant foods such as vegetables, fruit, wholegrain products and legumes. These plant compounds have beneficial effects working with other essential nutrients to promote good health. Phytonutient...
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EATING A healthy, balanced diet is an important part of maintaining good health, and can help you feel your best. This means eating a wide variety of foods in the right proportions, and consuming the right amount of food and drink to achieve and...
BEIJING (AP): A surge in respiratory illnesses across China that has drawn the attention of the World Health Organization (WHO) is caused by the flu and other known pathogens and not by a novel virus, the country’s health ministry said Sunday....
PARIS (AP): France will ban smoking on all beaches, in public parks, forests and some other public areas as part of a national anti-tobacco plan presented by the health minister on Tuesday. Tobacco products cause 75,000 avoidable deaths a year in...
HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (AP): A new Pennsylvania law will require doctors to get a patient’s verbal and written consent before medical students can perform pelvic or rectal exams on someone who receives anaesthesia. At a press conference Monday,...
CHILDREN WITH poor eating habits do not get the right amounts of nutrients they need for healthy growth and development. Children’s food preferences and eating habits are formed early in life, and the time that they spend in their early years...
WHAT WE eat can play a critical role in determining our health, whatever our age. The eating patterns established in the first few years of life influence our health during childhood and adulthood. Encouraging good nutrition during the early years...
The Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) highlighted the importance of the JADCO Nutrition Guide for Jamaican Athletes, at the 10th annual staging of the Senior Athletes Anti-Doping Education Workshop. The event was held at the Jamaica Conference...
DIABETIC RETINOPATHY is one of the most common complications of diabetes. It is an eye condition that affects blood vessels in the retina, the innermost layer lining the back of the eye. It occurs due to damage to the small capillaries that supply...
DIABETES OCCURS when the blood sugar levels in the body are too high. This disease can cause problems such as heart disease, kidney failure and amputations. Blindness is also one of the severe complications of diabetes and knowing how many people...
A new version of the popular diabetes treatment Mounjaro can be sold as a weight-loss drug, US regulators announced Wednesday. The US Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s drug, named Zepbound. The drug, also known as tirzepatide,...
NEW YORK (AP): Surgeons have performed the world’s first transplant of an entire human eye, an extraordinary addition to a face transplant – although it’s far too soon to know if the man will ever see through his new left eye. An accident with high...
CHRISTMAS IS a time to enjoy yourself and have foods that you would not regularly eat at other times of the year. However, being a time of celebration, many traditional Christmas foods tend to be high in saturated fat, free (added) sugars and salt...
PHYSIOTHERAPY IS treatment to restore, maintain, and make the most of a patient’s mobility, function, and well-being. Physiotherapy helps through physical rehabilitation, injury prevention, and health and fitness. Physiotherapists get you involved...
LAST SEPTEMBER, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) gave new impetus to an initiative to eliminate 30 communicable diseases and related conditions from the region of the Americas. Many are known foes, such as tuberculosis (TB), HIV, and...
THE JAMAICA Physiotherapy Association (JPA), the national professional organisation representing physiotherapists, interns, and students throughout Jamaica, recently hosted its JPA Health Fair, Expo and Annual Conference. This year’s conference,...
