Expected life span is gradually increasing worldwide. Healthy dietary and exercise habits contribute to healthy ageing. Certain types of diet can prevent or reduce obesity, and may reduce the risk of diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease). Exercise also reduces the risk of diseases (e.g., cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis, some cancers and some mental disturbances). A less sedentary life st...

BACKGROUND Breast carcinoma is an unpredictable disease in the sense that some patients may die at early disease stage due to wide-spread metastasis within six months to one year, while others may survive longer. This study was aimed to evaluate the risk factors for breast carcinoma occurrence and histopathological features of breast carcinoma developed in the social and economical conditions o...

Some kinds of neurons are spontaneously recruited in the intact, healthy adult brain, but the variables that affect their survival are not always clear. We show that in caudal nidopallium of adult male zebra finches, the rostrocaudal position of newly recruited neurons, their age (1 vs 3 months), and the nature of social change (complex vs simple) after the neurons were born affect their surviv...

This review is based on several studies that have advanced our understanding of overweight and obesity from the point of view of energy balance and its regulation. There is no doubt that physical activity plays a key role in the prevention and therapy of obesity and it is, therefore, an indispensable component of healthy life style. However, a full consensus on an “optimal” physical activity do...

Primary prevention aims at identifying persons with risk of developing DM, so that the complications of DM can be prevented. With regards to developing Type 2DM there are many modifiable risk factors viz. overweight, corpulence, consumption of high calorie diet, fried foods, carbonated drinks, smoking, alcohol and lack of physical activity. These risk factors can be changed to active daily rout...

In this paper, we model self-assessed health, and quantify its uncertainty through a stochastic approach based on the framework from Lee and Carter (1992). We combine explanatory and extrapolative approaches by including macroeconomic factors (GDP and unemployment rate), and life-style related factors (alcohol and tobacco consumption) into the stochastic model for health dynamics. This leads to...

The life style of young adults has been receiving attention with a view to its improvement to prevent coronary heart diseases (CHD) later in life. In this study, to determining the influence of different life styles on the serum phospholipids level, we carried out experimental studies on the effects a high sugar diet and physical exercise on serum phospholipid levels. Considering the trend for ...

A scale was constructed to investigate the dietary life style of Japanese college students relating to dietary life, mental health, and eating disorders. Exploratory factor analysis found four factors, termed "dietary mood," "dietary regulation," "dietary stress avoidance behavior," and "food safety." Cluster analysis revealed four typical dietary habits of Japanese college students: "deprecati...