Tag: heart disease
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Shoveling snow poses heart health risk for some
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News With the immediate threat of more snow over, many Kentuckians have been picking up their shovels to make sure their driveways and sidewalks are...
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December’s Our Healthy Kentucky Home campaign focuses on heart-healthy tips
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Kentucky introduced a year-long initiative to improve Kentuckians’ health last month, dubbed “Our Healthy Kentucky Home,” and this month the campaign focuses on heart...
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Study finds even low levels of alcohol consumption increases risk of cancer deaths among older adults
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A new study found that even light drinking was linked to an increase in cancer deaths among older adults, and even greater among those...
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Is sugar our nutritional enemy? New book claims it is
For about a decade as the century started, more and more Americans appeared to obey the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s advice to eat less sugar. But that trend of improvement...
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Sedentary older women who don’t exercise are ‘biologically older’ than active women, study of their chromosomes shows
Photo from Center for Advancing Health By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News A study has found that older women who sit for more than 10 hours a day and also...
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Obesity is top health concern for children, cancer the biggest concern for adults in the latest Kentucky Health Issues Poll
Kentucky adults said cancer is the top health concern for both men and women in the Commonwealth, while obesity is the top concern for children, according to the latest Kentucky...
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Study finds a genetic marker determines a love for salty foods; says they should be considered a treat, like dessert
Heart-disease death rate for Kentuckians over 35 in 2012-14 (CDC map) A person’s desire for salty foods may be determined by their genes, and that could spell trouble for their...
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Attorney general, stiffed again by UK’s refusal to let it examine heart-clinic records, says university violated Open Records Act
Attorney General Andy Beshear has ruled that the University of Kentucky violated the state Open Records Act by not giving the Lexington Herald-Leader records about a Hazard heart clinic that...
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New guidelines recommend no more than 6 teaspoons of sugar a day and one sugared drink a week for children and teens
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Children and teens should consume no more than six teaspoons of added sugars a day and drink no more than one 8-ounce sugar-sweetened beverage...
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Studies: Hour of daily activity counters deathly effects of sitting, but ‘inactive lifestyles are just accepted,’ even by teenagers
image: medicaldaily.com By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Most of us spend too many hours sitting, and research says it’s slowly killing us, but a new study says that just...