June
2008
HEALTH CENTRAL WEDNESDAY 25th JUNE
Show time 6 minutes
Cell Phones on a Diet If you’ve ever tried to stick to a strict diet, you know it’s not easy — especially if you have to count calories and measure portions every time you sit down to eat. Now, a new study reveals cell phones could be an important tool to help dieters stay on track.
Eating disorders among teens: We may be bombarded with statistics concerning childhood obesity, but the number of children suffering from eating disorders is also on the rise. According to government figures, the number of cases of children being admitted to hospital with eating disorders such as anorexia has increased by more than a third over the last 10 years, with 562 girls and 111 boys aged under 18 hospitalised in 2005/06
Gay Brains Are Wired Differently Say Scientists Using scanning technology, researchers in Sweden found that the brains of gay men and women were wired differently to the brains of heterosexual people of the same sex, but were similar to the brains of heterosexual people that were of the opposite sex to them. Thus a gay man’s brain was in some ways more like the brain of a heterosexual woman than a heterosexual man, and the brain of a gay or lesbian woman was more like that of a heterosexual man than a heterosexual woman. According to a U.N. report, religious and cultural issues continue to have both negative and positive effects on efforts aimed at preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS worldwide. About 60 nongovernmental organizations at the meeting signed a statement urging governments and the United Nations to deliver on promises to address HIV/AIDS among women and girls. According to the statement, shortfalls in providing HIV treatment, care and support are the result of social, cultural and economic subordination among women, structural inequalities and pervasive gender-based violence in all sectors of society
| Rate it: |
 Email it
|
      |
|