| Smoking bans reduce heart attack risk
October 16, 2009 at 3:21 pm
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| | BALTIMORE, Oct 16, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- Smoking bans are effective and even relatively brief exposures to secondhand smoke may lead to a heart attack, U.S. researchers say. A report by a committee of the Institute of Medicine confirms there is sufficient evidence that breathing secondhand smoke boosts non-smokers' risk for heart problems. "It's clear that smoking bans work," Lynn Goldman of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore said in a statement. "Bans reduce the risks of heart attack in non-smokers as well as smokers." The committee conducted a comprehensive review of published and unpublished |
| Workers are urged to take the stairs
October 16, 2009 at 10:14 am
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| | Oct. 15--EVERY COMPANY HAS THEM -- employees who get on the elevator and push the button for one floor down. Even gravitational pull isn't enough to get some people to exert themselves. Maritz Holdings is trying to change that. "Our CEO Steve Maritz was the one who wanted us to capitalize on the stairwells," says Sherry Ward, vice president of benefits. "He said, 'Wouldn't it be great if people were integrating physical activity into their daily work hours?' So now we pop into the stairwells from time to time and give out water bottles, pedometers and coupons for free heart-healthy |
| Lowering Blood Pressure Is Simple
October 16, 2009 at 10:14 am
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| | The words are in larger-than-average type. The message is simple: "The Blood Pressure Miracle."And Frank Mangano, health advocate and natural health writer, says that's all it takes to lower your blood pressure _ naturally.Mangano combines stress reduction, herbs, vitamins, foods and exercise in a 60-day program that he says will change your life."People don't want to read a lot of stuff, they just want a simple answer," Mangano says about his to-the-point book.Q. So are you telling people to stop taking their medications?A. Absolutely not. I stress that if you are taking blood pressure pills, |
| Health-care summit to focus on obesity
October 16, 2009 at 7:41 am
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| Rocking for a cure: Cancer survivor's craft helps support disease awareness
October 16, 2009 at 7:41 am
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| Co-workers share their struggle against cancer
October 16, 2009 at 7:41 am
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| | Oct. 16--Maggie Harris can sum up in one word what it is like to be in remission from breast cancer: "wonderful." Harris and fellow breast cancer survivors Wanda Furches and Celeste Feimster, all co-workers at Carolina Office Systems, are celebrating Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- and the gift of life. "This has happened to us for a reason," Harris said. "I really do feel like a survivor." Harris, 57, who has been in remission for four years, learned she had breast cancer after finding a lump that did not show up on a mammogram. She initially thought it was a | 
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