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Soda Pop Doom!! Soda Linked to Lung Disease

More bad news for soda lovers: in addition to obesity and heart disease, the sugary drinks may be tied to asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), Australian researchers found.

People who consumed at least a half a liter of soft drinks a day were more than twice as likely to develop either lung condition compared with those who didn’t partake at all (OR 2.33, 95% CI 1.51 to 3.60), Zumin [...]

Study: Baby Boomers, Health ‘Very Poor,’ Getting Worse

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Baby Boomer generation’s overall health has been on a sharp decline.

Australian researchers from Adelaide’s three universities have completed the first stage of a report on the generation born between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1960s.

Obesity among baby boomers is more than double the rate of their parents at the same age, and boomers with three or more chronic conditions was 700 percent greater [...]

Sitting down for more than 3 hours a day can shave your life expectancy by 2 years, say researchers

Sitting down for more than three hours a day can shave a person’s life expectancy by two years, even if he or she is physically active and refrains from dangerous habits like smoking, according to a study to be published on Tuesday in the online journal BMJ Open.

Watching TV for more than two hours a day can exacerbate that problem, decreasing life expectancy by another 1.4 years, said the report, [...]

Visionary research: Scientists to conduct human trials of a bionic eye that beams images directly to the brain

So far ‘bionic eyes’ have only been seen in sci-fi films such as The Terminator.

In that movie Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a robot with enhanced vision capable of scanning and analysing its surroundings.

Now Australian researchers are set to make computer-aided sight a reality, though not quite as sophisticated as the infamous cyborg’s.

Scientists from the Monash Vision Group at Monash University in Australia will begin human trials of a bionic eye in [...]

STUDY: Too Much Sitting Can Kill You!

By By Maureen Salamon HealthDay Reporter

MONDAY, March 26 (HealthDay News) — For better health, try standing up more, a new study suggests. Those who spend 11 or more hours a day sitting are 40 percent more likely to die over the next three years regardless of how physically active they are otherwise, researchers say.

Analyzing self-reported data from more than 222,000 people aged 45 and older, Australian researchers found that [...]

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Soda Pop Doom!! Soda Linked to Lung Disease

Study: Baby Boomers, Health ‘Very Poor,’ Getting Worse

Sitting down for more than 3 hours a day can shave your life expectancy by 2 years, say researchers

Visionary research: Scientists to conduct human trials of a bionic eye that beams images directly to the brain

STUDY: Too Much Sitting Can Kill You!

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