Researchers from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have found that survivors of childhood cancers are at higher risk for obesity, heart disease, and type 2 diabetes than their siblings who did not have cancer. The risk exists because the survivors tend to be more sedentary than the siblings.
The study, done across medical centers in the United States and Canada, looked at over 20,000 childhood cancer survivors. From those 20,000 people, over 9000 survey responses were received and analyzed, and these were compared to almost 3000 responses from siblings. The researchers were looking for the type of lifestyle the survivors led …read more

Although the population in the United States is aging, it seems that deaths due to cancer are dropping, say researchers. This decline has been occurring over the past 50 years.
A study published recently in the journal Cancer Research said:
Age-specific cancer mortality rates have been steadily declining in the United States since the early 1950s, beginning with children and young adults and now including all age groups. During the second half of the 20th century, each successive decade of births from 1925 to 1995 experienced a lower risk of cancer death than its predecessor at virtually every age for which such …read more

When I was pregnant with my son, I remember not always being too happy when popping too many pills on a daily basis: vitamin-B complex with iron, folic acid, mutivitamin…the works, when you are pregnant.
But whenever i tell myself that the benefits will go to my baby and not to me, that was enough for me to take those vitamins religiously…so that on my 7.5-8 month of pregnancy, my ob-gyne told me to drop the mutivitamin because we were both too healthy. I really wonder if anybody can be too healthy at any time?
Anyway, here’s one more reason why pregnant women …read more