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Thursday 28 August 2008

8 Of Every 10 Spanish Adolescents Who Play A Sport Do Not Smoke, And More Than 40% Do Not Practice Any Physical Activity

�Sports and tobacco white plague are straight related, according to a study carried out by researchers of the University of Granada, the Spanish National Research Council- CSIC, the Universities of Murcia, Zaragoza and Cantabria, and the Nuestra Se�ora de la Consolaci�n School of Granada. This work has proved that those Spanish adolescents world Health Organization play a sport do not hummer usually (8 of every 10), and more than 40% of the adolescents aged betwixt 13 and 18 do not pattern any physical activity.

The article Increase of tobacco using up and reduction of the physical activeness practice level in Spanish adolescents: AVENA Study, published in the journal Nutrici�n Hospitalaria, has analysed the relationship 'tween tobacco and sports in a sample of about 3,000 students from Granada, Madrid, Murcia, Santander and Zaragoza, who were applied a questionnaire to get to know their habits on this matter.

According to this research play, with the participation of the UGR Professors Pablo Tercedor, Palma Chill�n, and Manuel Delgado, 59.2% of the adolescents ar physically active, although there are significant differences according to sex (71.1% of the boys as against 46.7% of the girls). These percentages coincide with other like studies carried out in the USA, although the results ar below those obtained in France (where 75% of men play a sport, as against 58% of women).

Girls smoke more

As regards tobacco economic consumption the appraise has revealed that 15% adolescents ar regular smokers, slightly more girls than boys. There is a clear correlativity between the practice of physical activity and tobacco plant consumption, as 80.9 per cent of the active subjects say they do not smoke, as against 71.4% of the non-active.

In the scientists' opinion, these results show the importance of adopting measures to promote the practice of physical activity and root out tobacco ingestion, as it has been proved how physical activity, diet and tobacco and alcohol ingestion are related to obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, osteoporosis and genus Cancer. Whereas the practice levels of physical activity in adolescents step-down as they get elder, tobacco consumption increase, which reveals the importance of adopting interposition strategies on both conducts.

This work has also analysed the attitudes and motivations that boost to baccy consumption among the young, such as the use of this toxic substance as a mechanism to control body weight, a method to calm down in the mouth, a curiosity or a with to feel elderly, among others.

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Monday 18 August 2008

Researchers Examine Safety Of Internet Prescriber Service Providing Erectile Dysfunction Medications

� Online Internet shopping today offers many benefits. You privy research a product in the privateness of your own nursing home and purchase most anything by clicking a black eye. But should we be allowed to buy prescription drugs via the Internet, bypassing a traditional spot visit or conversation with a physician? In the August event of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers from Utah and several colleagues compare the relative rubber of two systems -- an on-line prescribing service versus traditional physician consultation -- for patients seeking medication to treat erectile dysfunction.

Online prescribing, likewise called e-medicine prescribing, is relatively new in the United States. Patient demand for these services appears to be growing, merely the researchers acknowledge that the health care industriousness "has fitly raised serious concerns about the safety of prescribing over the Internet." In 2002, the state of Utah sign a contract with an Internet prescribing service to prescribe erectile dysfunction drugs called PDE-5 inhibitors. Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the inability of a piece to maintain a fast erection long enough to have gender.

The researchers randomly selected 1,000 patient medical records from patients quest ED intervention from Jan. 1, 2001 to Dec. 31, 2005. Half (five hundred) of these patients secondhand the on-line prescriber (the e-medicine grouping), and 500 consulted a physician (the traditional medicine group) for treatment.

Using statistical analyses, the researchers compared the safety of both approaches -- e-medicine versus traditional medicine -- in treating patients wHO have ED. The safety comparisons looked at a number of criteria, including prescription appropriateness, how often the prescribers used a diagnostic tool called the International Index of Erectile Questions (IIEQs) and the level of patient education provided by prescribers.

Evaluating both systems for these safety criteria, the researchers concluded that the e-medicine system "outperformed the traditional system in most of the safety variables tested." One area the e-medicine system appeared to stand out was patient role education. The authors noted that hundred percent of the e-medicine clients standard written maker product data, and 75.2 per centum of e-medicine clients standard tailored electronic messages. In comparison, study data showed that no medication instructions were recorded for 51.8 per centum of patients who received prescriptions via a traditional physician interview.

"Innovation, engineering and stream medical practice all broker into the outcome of this study," note the authors. "Application of an expert interview system specifically targeted to erectile disfunction along with a continuous platform for patient client-physician communications throw this fussy Internet system comparable to traditional medical practice."

The researchers recognize that additional research is needed to confirm these results. They also recommend that state of matter regulatory agencies "consider using the regulative model of oversight protections implemented by the province of Utah to licence Internet prescribing companies."

Authors include: Mark Munger, Pharm.D., and Gregory Stoddard, from the University of Utah - Salt Lake City; Allen Wenner, M.D., West Columbia's Doctor Family Medicine, Lexington, SC; John Bachman, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.; John Jurige, M.D., University of Louisville in Kentucky; and Laura Poe and Diana Baker, Utah State Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, Salt Lake City.

A referee journal, Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes original articles and reviews transaction with clinical and laboratory medicine, clinical research, basic science research and clinical epidemiology. Mayo Clinic Proceedings is published monthly by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research as part of its dedication to the medical education of physicians. The journal has been published for more than 80 days and has a circulation of cxxx,000 nationally and internationally. Articles are available on-line at hypertext transfer protocol://www.mayoclinicproceedings.com.

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Friday 8 August 2008

Ex-Eurythmic Stewart tours again as "band leader"

LOS ANGELES () - Dave Stewart was half the musical duo Eurythmics in the 1980s, just when his partnership with singer Annie Lennox washed-out the British artist institute other outlets for his creativity.

The guitarist, singer and music manufacturer released a new album, "The Dave Stewart Songbook, Volume 1" on Tuesday and will tour with a "john Rock fabulous orchestra" later this month.

"I'm not the new big anything. I've been around for ages, and I've been doing all this stuff behind the scenes, and I want to put it in the spotlight a bit," Stewart told .

Stewart, 55, sold more than 75 meg albums with Eurythmics. He and Lennox disbanded the band in 1990 only reunited for the 1999 album "Peace."

He described his persona on "Dave Stewart Songbook" as kindred to a big band leader from the forties or fifties, bringing

Tuesday 1 July 2008

Cyd Charisse - Cyd Charisse Dead At 86

Beloved actress/dancer CYD CHARISSE has died in a Los Angeles hospital.

The 86-year-old reportedly suffered a heart attack on Monday (16Jun08) and was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she died on Tuesday (17Jun08).

Born Tula Ellice Finklea in Texas in 1921, Charisse studied ballet in Los Angeles and performed as Siderova in the Bellet

Russes up until World War Two, when she returned to California to embark on a movie career.

She became a staple in movie musicals throughout the 1940s and 1950s, appearing alongside Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly in films like Ziegfeld Follies, The Band Wagon, Silk Stockings and Brigadoon.

She retired from dancing in the late 1950s to become a straight actress.

Charisse took her surname from her first husband Nico Charisse, who she wed in 1939. She was married to singer Tony Martin for 60 years up until her death.

The actress/dancer was presented with America's highest artistic honour, the National Medal of the Arts + Humanties, by President George W. Bush in 2006.

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Friday 27 June 2008

Kitt Kittredge

There are as many young actors on screen in Kitt Kittredge: An American Girl, as there are luminary adults � Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn and Julia Ormond among them � which is appropriate since this is the film that will be competing with Wall-E for family movie dollars this summer.

Based on one of the immensely popular American Girl dolls, it�s features Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine) as the title character, an inquisitive little girl whose family is suffering from the economic ravages of the Great Depression. The cast also includes movie veterans such as 12-year-old Zach Mills and freshly-minted heartthrob Max Thieriot (Jumper, Nancy Drew), as well as newcomers like Madison Davenport, all of whom suffered a whirlwind press weekend in Los Angeles recently with an entourage of mothers, minders and puppies in tow.

�My grandma grew up in the Great Depression,� Breslin tells us, �so I talked to her about that, and she told me things like they put sugar on their tongues and would drink their tea over it, and everybody was in the same situation back then, and she told me that the clothes (in the movie) looked really authentic and everything, so that was good.�

�Abby was so sweet," Davenport recalls, when asked about the movie�s Toronto shoot.

"Abigail is so nice and down to earth," agrees Mills.

"She's a professional,� Thieriot says. �She's truly like a professional. She's a great person and then she can completely become the character, and then go back to being a 12-year old kid."

Davenport changed her hair colour for her role as Ruthie, Kitt�s best friend. �I was there when she died her hair," adds Mills, who plays a boarder in the Kittredge house.

"I cut off his circulation," laughs Davenport

"I very nearly lost an arm," Mills deadpans.

For his role as a young hobo, Thieriot recalls director Patricia Rozema asking if he�d be willing to live the part a bit. �She said 'What do you think about not eating as much?' And so I literally changed my entire diet on the film, and it doesn't really look like it, but before filming started I was 160 pounds, and I went down to, like, 140. I lost 20 pounds in less than a month by just drinking juice and eating soup.�

Breslin mostly remembers working with other kids as being liberating. �It was really fun to get to work with other kids, but everybody on the movie was really nice and we had fun - me and Madison and Zach would go out every night to a mall or a movie and everything, so it was really fun.�

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Anggun

Artist: Anggun

   Genre(s):
Pop
   Rock
   Dance
   New Age

Discography:

Best of Anggun

Year: 2007
Tracks: 17

Best Of (Italian Retail)

Year: 2007
Tracks: 17

Luminescence

Year: 2005
Tracks: 15

Open Hearts

Year: 2002
Tracks: 9

Anggun

Year: 2002
Tracks: 16

Desirs Contraires

Year: 2000
Tracks: 15

Chrysalis

Year: 2000
Tracks: 14

Snow On The Sahara

Year: 1999
Tracks: 16

Au Nom De La Lune

Year: 1997
Tracks: 16

An Indonesian pop princess wHO later affected to Europe to seize the Western charts as well, Anggun was born in Jakarta and listened to native Javanese music as well as john Rock icons care Elvis Presley. She began playacting at the age of seven, and recorded her first record album just deuce years later. By the metre Anggun was 17, she had become the almost popular creative person in the country during the former '90s.

Not satisfied with her succeeder, Anggun stirred to London and by and by Paris to begin recording for a breakthrough into the European charts. With the avail of producer Erick Benzi (whose credits extend from Celine Dion to Jean-Jacque Goldman and Johnny Hallyday), the soulstress recorded the record album Snowfall on the Sahara for a 1998 waiver on Epic Records.