Archive for the ‘Health Tips’ Category

Interactive Tool: How Much Is Smoking Costing You?

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

What does this tool measure? From Healthwise Click here to find out how much smoking is costing you. This interactive tool calculates how much money you have spent on cigarettes in the past or how much you will spend on them in the future. When computing future costs, this calculator does not take ...

Teen smoking: 10 ways to help teens stay smoke-free

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Teen smoking can become a lifelong habit. Help your teen resist that first puff. From MayoClinic.com Teen smoking might begin innocently enough, but it can become a lifelong habit. In fact, most adult smokers began smoking as teenagers. Your best bet? Help your teen resist taking that first puff. These 10 tips ...

Passive Smoking Causes Hazard To Oral Health

Thursday, November 8th, 2007

American researchers in four monthly “Journal of Periodontology” the report said animal experimental results revealed that passive smoking also caused hazard to oral health, then lead to the patients with periodontitis lost cementum. Researchers in the experiment firstly induced mice suffering from periodontal disease. Then let the first group mice lived ...

Scientists Study The Misunderstanding That Smoking Is Good For Health Slimming

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Some smokers thought that smoking is good for losing weight and staying in shape. However, a study from some scholars in Australia shows that the point of smoking can lose weight is just self-comforting. And smoking will bring a bigger harm to human health. Australia, “Courier Post” on the 23rd reported, ...

Smoking Makes Long-term Effect To Human Brain

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Recently the United States National Health Institute reported that smoking can make long-term effect to human brain. The reason for smoking addiction is similar to the effect which drugs cause to brain. The institute professors analyzed brain tissue shows that smoking causes changes to brain tissue. Although some people quitted smoking ...

A Netherlands study found that smokers more prone to dementia

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

A Dutch study found that compare with non-smoker, smokers more susceptible to dementia or Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Previously on the research results between smoking and Alzheimer are not consistent. The Netherlands Erasmus Medical Center Reitz and so on, make a long-term follow-up on the large sample of subjects, after that they ...

Britain Every 100,000 People Have 288 People Die From Smoking

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

According to the British newspaper “Independent” reported that comparing with the average level of EU, Britons is the fattest, drinking more and have higher rate of dieing from smoking among Europe. The British Ministry of Health published “2007 England Health Facts” on October 22. The public data showed that every 4 ...

Half of Bladder Cancer Was Caused By Smoking

Friday, April 13th, 2007

In developed countries, 50%-60% of bladder cancer was caused by smoking which has been the most important cause of bladder cancer. Tobacco contains large amounts of toxic substances, and aromatic amines and acrolein is close to bladder cancer. Many studies showed that smokers with the risk of bladder cancer are ...

Children twice the risk of obesity when a pregnant mother smoking

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007

Children are likely to be obese when pregnant mothers smoking.     A new study shows that if mothers smoke during pregnancy, then the children grow up will increase nearly doubled risk of obesity. The same study also found that those pregnant mothers who in habit of do not eat breakfast, their ...

The United States study found that smoking increased risk of suffering from Psoriasis

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

According to foreign media on the 30th, a new study shows that smokers have higher risk of suffering from psoriasis. American researchers found that people who suffer from deeper nicotine addiction, can get a higher risk of skin diseases. But only after such people quit smoking 20 years, then become ...