Sentences with phrase «killer diseases»

High blood pressure is responsible for many killer diseases such as heart attacks and strokes.

Because of this, experts often refer to hypertension as a silent killer disease.

Obesity is the number one killer disease all over the world.

In early 1977, the committee released the Dietary Goals for Americans, blaming what they saw as an «epidemic» of killer diseases — obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer — on changes in the American diet that had occurred in the previous fifty years, specifically the increase in «fatty and cholesterol - rich foods.»

Other laboratories have set their sights on transforming the flu virus into prototype vaccines for other killer diseases such as HIV and malaria.

He said anybody that wanted evidence about Ghana's dire need for aid, should go to the health sector where many Ghanaian children were dying of childhood killer diseases because donor countries had cut back on vaccine donations.

In fact, the big killer diseases of history all came to us from microbes living in other species, overwhelmingly from other warm - blooded mammals and, to a lesser extent, from birds.

Genetic tests lay odds on killer diseases, and now a «health check» for your chromosomes spots traits that could reveal your lifespan — if it really works

Heart disease has been the leading killer disease in the United States in the 1960s.

Globalisation makes the spread of a worldwide killer disease inevitable.

Almost 2 million people in England could be living with killer diseases such as lung cancer, lung disease and heart disease that remain undiagnosed.

They all developed the same killer disease.

Conclusion: Eating fish without any salt added will greatly lower our risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, stroke, all cancers, brain diseases, bone diseases, kidney diseases, any many other killer diseases without increasing our risk of developing diabetes.

Cut off from the outside world, their attempts to recover are shattered when a Man (Jamie Bell) is washed ashore, with news of an airborne killer disease that is sweeping through Europe.

They have never been inoculated from preventable killer diseases like distemper, rabies or parvo.

Nor is it fun to fight for the right to mate; tomcats risk catching killer diseases such Feline Leukaemia or Feline AIDS through bite wounds.

Officials everywhere will doubtless use the outbreak as an opportunity for promoting vaccination, not just for polio but for all the childhood killer diseases.

According to World Health Organization, «National and local bans on trans fats in the preparation of foodstuffs are one of the most effective ways to prevent some of the world's biggest killer diseases.»

Cuts our risk of dying from the # 1 killer disease in half, with, what, some new expensive miracle drug?

Not only are these monocultures of carbohydrate rich crops deficient in most essential micronutrients, through industrial breeding they are introducing new deficiencies that are leading to killer diseases.

Have you ever noticed that in movies where there is a killer disease that takes out everyone alive, it always starts at an airport?

The four - day exercise, targeted at children below five years, was meant to vaccinate children against polio and other killer diseases, including hepatitis, measles, yellow fever and tetanus.

The party noted that the rallies were thwarting Nigeria's efforts to control the spread of the killer disease.

At the meeting, the wife of the Zamfara State governor and chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Asmau Abdulaziz Yari, said drug abuse is a «killer disease» that people tend to shy away from.

He's slammed the government for its decision to celebrate the birth of the United Gold Coast Convention (UGCC), a political movement that begun the struggle for Ghana's independence from British rule, at a time the country has run out of stock of vaccines against the six killer diseases.

The commissioner commiserated with the families that lost their loved ones to the killer disease and urged all residents to always keep their environment clean.

All the things I have been talking about have happened because the 20th century eradicated the killer diseases that wiped out most children before they could grow up.

Have Plague, Will Travel Once a killer disease has emerged, modern societies offer new ways for it to flourish and spread.

Hence the recipe for a killer disease is for the microbe to achieve a balance between two things: the probability of its killing us quickly once we become infected and its efficiency in leading our bodies to transmit the microbe to new victims.

Measles — along with tuberculosis, diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis and poliomyelitis — is one of the six childhood «killer diseases» targeted by World Health Organization (WHO) mass immunization programs.

At least that's the theory behind the latest attempt to control epidemics of the killer disease.

This new field could help us develop and test effective vaccines against AIDS, tuberculosis and other killer diseases, writes Alan Aderem in this month's Scientific Scientific American.

Sales of chocolate products may be booming, but killer diseases are threatening the world's major cacao plantations

With drug - resistant strains on the increase, Clare Sansom outlines the latest in the fight against this killer disease

So while it helps you lose the weight, it also addresses those risk factors for the chronic and killer diseases we face in Australia.»

Conclusion: Dr. Greger makes the mistake of selecting purple - colored fruits and vegetables (because they have high ORAC antioxidant scores) instead of many foods that have very low ORAC antioxidant scores but have been shown in real populations of real people to prevent the killer diseases and help us to live longer much more effectively.

You see, this killer disease thrives on sugar.

Richard is also President and Chairman of End Malaria Now, a non-profit organization that helps raise life - saving bed nets for African families to end the spread of malaria; he continues to help rebuild a continent stricken with malaria - the Number One killer disease of children in Africa.

Many have even contacted the killer disease through the use of previously used sharp objects by druggists.

It's a killer disease, highly contagious and particularly lethal to puppies, passed between animals through contact with feces — even a speck on fur.

In most cases, affected dogs die only a week after being exposed to the killer disease.

So whilst this killer disease may be less prevalent than it was a years ago, cats in rescue shelters, cats from backyard breeders, kittens under 16 weeks and feral cats are still prone to this disease.

It is caused by the parvovirus, which is an exceptionally hardy virus that is able to survive outside the body in the environment for a year or more and this is another reason why it is such a killer disease.