Researchers from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health conducted a massive study of the impact of health habits on life expectancy, using data from the well-known Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (HPFS). This means that they had data on a huge number of people over a very long period of time. The NHS included over 78,000 women and followed them from 1980 to 2014. The HPFS included over 40,000 men and followed them from 1986 to 2014. This is over 120,000 participants, 34 years of data for women, and 28 years of data for men.
What is a healthy lifestyle, exactly?
These five areas were chosen because prior studies have shown them to have a large impact on risk of premature death. Here is how these healthy habits were defined and measured:
1. Healthy diet, which was calculated and rated based on the reported intake of healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, nuts, whole grains, healthy fats, and omega-3 fatty acids, and unhealthy foods like red and processed meats, sugar-sweetened beverages, trans fat, and sodium.
2. Healthy physical activity level, which was measured as at least 30 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous activity daily.
3. Healthy body weight, defined as a normal body mass index (BMI), which is between 18.5 and 24.9.
4. Smoking, well, there is no healthy amount of smoking. “Healthy” here meant never having smoked.
5. Moderate alcohol intake, which was measured as between 5 and 15 grams per day for women, and 5 to 30 grams per day for men. Generally, one drink contains about 14 grams of pure alcohol. That’s 12 ounces of regular beer, 5 ounces of wine, or 1.5 ounces of distilled spirits.
Researchers also looked at data on age, ethnicity, and medication use, as well as comparison data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Wide-Ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research.
A new outbreak has officials concerned after it affected at least 100 children in India.
The disease has been dubbed the “tomato flu” by researchers.
No deaths have been reported due to the disease.
Ever since COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, people have been more concerned than ever about potential disease threats.
The newest of these is called “tomato flu,” and has affected over 100 children in India, according to a recent correspondence in The LancetTrusted Source.
The authors report that tomato flu, likely a viral disease, was first identified in the Kollam district of Kerala, India on May 6, 2022.
According to The Lancet, the disease is considered non-life-threatening and resolves on its own in time.
The symptoms of tomato flu
The Lancet reports that primary symptoms observed in infected children resemble those of chikungunyaTrusted Source, a mosquito-borne illness, and include high fever, rashes, and intense pain in joints.
Similar to many viral infections, other symptoms include, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, fever, dehydration, swelling of joints, body aches, and common flu-like symptoms, which resemble those of dengueTrusted Source – another disease spread by mosquitoes.
“Transmission is likely to be through close contact,” Hannah Newman, MPH, director of infection prevention at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, told Healthline.
“The virus has been named tomato flu on the basis of the red, painful blisters it causes that can mimic the look and size of a tomato,” Newman explained.
She said while the disease is thought to be non-life threatening, it can cause an uncomfortable rash, fevers, and joint pain.
New Delhi: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Tuesday said that the state government will implement the Uniform Civil Code within the fixed time limit.
“Before the Uttarakhand Assembly polls, we had promised that after forming the government in the state again, the first decision we will take will be to take forward the Uniform Civil Code process,” Dhami said.
“As people gave us the mandate, we have moved forward in that direction. Under the supervision of Justice Ranjana Prakash Desai, a five-member committee has started working on it and met twice… The draft which the committee will form after holding talks, the state government will implement it. We will implement Uniform Civil Code in Uttarakhand within a certain time limit,” he added.
Asked about Opposition’s allegation of targeting Muslims with the Uniform Civil Code, Dhami said, “Those people are saying this who have always done appeasement. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership we are working for ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’.”
Ms. Marvel has arrived. Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first teen Muslim-American superhero Kamala Khan, played by Iman Vellani, looks up to the superheroes especially Captain Marvel (Brie Larson). She is your regular 16-year-old high school girl living in the busy city of Jersey who has overprotective Pakistani parents Muneeba (Zenobia Shroff), a fun Abu/dad Yusuf (Mohan Kapur), and a brother Aamir (Saagar Shaikh), best friends Bruno (Matt Lintz) and Nakia (Yasmeen Fletcher), who idolises superheroes and has regular teen issues. Amid this, she finds herself unique – or one could say there’s something cosmic about her. As the premiere episode arrived on Wednesday on Disney+ Hotstar, the soundtrack caught everyone’s attention.
For more than 150 years, the Department of Posts (DoP) has been the backbone of the country’s communication and has played a crucial role in the country’s social economic development. It touches the lives of Indian citizens in many ways: delivering mails, accepting deposits under Small Savings Schemes, providing life insurance cover under Postal Life Insurance (PLI) and Rural Postal Life Insurance (RPLI) and providing retail services like bill collection, sale of forms, etc. The DoP also acts as an agent for Government of India in discharging other services for citizens such as Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) wage disbursement and old age pension payments. With more than 1,55,000 post offices, the DoP has the most widely distributed postal network in the world.
Tamil Nadu health minister Ma Subramanian has informed the State Assembly that Dr Rathinavel will be reinstated as the dean of Madurai Medical College. This was announced by the state health minister on Wednesday, May 5. Dr Rathinavel was earlier removed from his position as dean after first-year students took the Charaka Shapath instead of the Hippocratic Oath on April 30.
The Charaka Shapath versus the Hippocratic Oath row came to the fore again on April 30. The induction ceremony of first year students of Madurai Medical College on Saturday took a controversial turn when they ended up taking an oath of the modified ‘Maharshi Charaka Shapath’ instead of the Hippocratic oath.
The Maharishi Charaka Shapath is an oath which is present in the ancient ayurvedic text, ‘Charaka Samhita’. The Maharishi Charaka Shapath has been criticised for being unsuitable to the ethics of modern medical practice.
The difference between the Maharishi Charaka Shapath and the Hippocratic oath is that the latter requires physicians to treat patients regardless of background and character, while the Charaka Shapath says, “No people who are hated by the king or who are haters of the king or who are hated by the public or who are haters of the public, shall receive treatment.”
Tamil Nadu finance minister, Thiaga Rajan, who was present at the ceremony, took to Twitter to share a copy of the oath read out by the medical students in Madurai.
Following this, Dr Rathinavel, Dean of Madurai Medical College, was suspended. Now, the TN health minister has reinstated him to his previous position.
Meanwhile, Madurai Medical College students, who took an oath of the modified ‘Maharshi Charaka Shapath’ instead of the Hippocratic oath, said that they were merely following the NMC (National Medical Council) guidelines on the medical oath.
