Sentences with phrase «of less disease»

«When you look at overall dietary patterns it's a more whole - foods, plant - based diet that tends to be healthier in terms of less disease risk,» Anselmo said.

Not exact matches

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

A review of more than 200 studies found that people who drank three or four cups of coffee per day were 19 % less likely to die from cardiovascular disease.

Washington suffered from a number of otherwise debilitating, painful ailments and diseases throughout his life that would have taken a lesser man down — but not the man who founded the most powerful country ever to grace the Earth.

And when the disease gets out of control because most of the population live on less than one dollar a day?

Put another way, the fatter and less active you become, the better the chances are that you'll suffer some form of cardiovascular disease.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

Sub-Saharan Africa, a region of endemic poverty, has 11 % of the world's population, 24 % of the world's burden of disease, and less than 5 % of its health workforce, said Gottlieb.

There are already plenty of reasons to keep your caffeine addiction alive and kicking: habitual coffee drinkers are less likely to die of heart failure as those who don't indulge, and research has suggested that caffeine may help prevent cancer, diabetes, stroke, and Parkinson's disease.

Consider: the arsenal of effective (and less risky) HIV medicines has ballooned, the stigma associated with the disease has declined (although, as activists note, much work remains to be done on that front), and awareness campaigns centered on HIV / AIDS have gone from what was a fringe movement just 30 years ago to a cause championed by top public figures and companies around the world.

If any of those treatments pan out, it could change the way we look at the disease and potentially make the statistics a lot less dire.

Sources say the spread of swollen shoot and other diseases could become difficult to manage for the government and cocoa production may become less predictable as a result.

ALS, which killed Shepard, is the focus of entrepreneurs working in healthcare to rid us of this and lesser - known diseases.

He found that «men who reported more than 23 hours a week of sedentary activity had a 64 percent greater risk of dying from heart disease than those who reported less than 11 hours a week of sedentary activity,» according to NPR.

Fernando Pagan, a GUMC associate professor of neurology who directs the Movement Disorders Program at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, said that to his knowledge, the study «represents the first time a therapy appears to reverse — to a greater or lesser degree depending on stage of disease — cognitive and motor decline in patients with these neurodegenerative disorders.»

Many studies have demonstrated that Indians, despite being nominally less obese than other ethnicities, have a higher risk of diabetes and heart disease.

Having read through a company database of recent sales reports, Lesser saw some «curious» notes from Mass Design regarding TB and infection and disease transmission.

He said that many patients use the drug for far less than a year and that the price was now more in line with those of other drugs for rare diseases.

Epidemiologists have found that when the incarceration rate rises in a county, there tends to be a subsequent increase in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases and teenage pregnancy, possibly because women have less power to require their partners to practice protected sex or remain monogamous.

Prions, which are malformed proteins, may be alive or not; but the more or less reproduce — and are the cause of mad cow disease.

Therefore it is no less a disease than some forms of cancer.

There are lots of other sex acts in which people engage other than penetrative sex which all carry less risk of disease transmission (in differing degrees).

In the case of Hardin's argument, if the calculations revealed that giving aid to certain countries would result in more rather than less disease and death, it would follow then that to do so would be an offense against love and mercy.

In each one the seed is hidden, more or less inert or active, of that spiritual disease which today throughout the world is bursting out into a homicidal, myth - making phobia, and the secret soul of which is resentment against the Gospel: «Christophobia.»

Gradually but progressively our bodies begin to function less effectively, and that increasing loss of function makes us more vulnerable to disease and death....

In regarding mental illness as symptomatic of the diseased general condition of humankind, faith relativizes the simplistically absolute distinction between the sick and the well, and calls attention to a deeper, less obvious level of selfhood.

If we got him right, Mr. Rich finds it troublesome that masturbation is still thought to be unsuited to the drawing room, but if we encouraged a lot more of it there would be fewer unwanted babies and less disease.

These two strategies have led to the phenomenal advances of biomedicine and the conquest (nothing less) of many diseases.

Less than 1 % follow your «thinking» and most of those are morally diseased as well.

But this statement is less reassuring since a careful British study found that if a mother was X-rayed during pregnancy, the child is about twice as likely to die of a malignant disease before its 10th birthday.11 Harrison Brown summarizes the problem:

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

And the recent amendment to Codex recommendations reflects evidence that while people with coeliac disease can tolerate a low level of gluten without ill effects, some people are more sensitive and can only safely eat foods with less than 20ppm of gluten.

If you're looking for more reasons to eat curry for breakfast, studies have revealed that India has four times less the incidence of Alzheimer's disease than their American counterparts.

As coeliac disease causes your digestive system to work less effectively, severe cases can sometimes lead to a critical lack of nutrients in your body.

I buy local, pasture - raised eggs which tend to have less risk of disease compared their mass - produced cousins.

Several reports established that eating less meat could significantly lower the risk of developing colorectal cancer or succumbing to heart disease, as well as helping cut spiralling rates of child and teen obesity.

The use of Active UMF ® (MGO ™) Manuka Honey is proven to be a less expensive and non invasive way to heal any stomach affections like acid reflux disease, stomach ulcer, irritable bowel movement etc..

If only people knew that Millet are 5 times more nutritious than the average rice varieties, has a low glycemic index (studies show they benefit type2 diabetes), cost less, cook faster, aids weight loss, reduces risk of heart disease and more!

This is especially so in low - income or less educated population groups, who must be considered a major focus of any front - of - pack nutrition labelling systems because of the link between socioeconomic status and lifestyle diseases.

Lead researcher Dr Michael Macknin, of the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital in Ohio, said the findings of the study showed eating less meat and more plant - based foods could be «an effective lifestyle modification» to help reverse risk factors for heart disease.

Did you know, according to the Center for Disease Control, only a third of American adults report eating two servings a fruit a day and less than 27 percent consumed three or more servings of veggies, the minimum recommended daily amount (RDA)?

Obesity is less prevalent among those who have cut or are cutting out meat, and a vegetable - heavy diet also means less likelihood of developing cholesterol or heart disease.

Between this and my other health issues I've found too often that what is good for the body overall or good for one particular disease is contraindicated by another, and you wind up having to choose the lesser of the evils.

Actually, LOTS of people argue that plant - based protein is superior because it is healthier / less likely to cause disease compared to animal protein.

We conduct research and training to improve rice for better grain quality and higher yield, resistance to pests and diseases, tolerance of environmental stresses, and less farm input requirement.

I respect those who truly have health problems when they eat foods with gluten (namely people with celiac disease... which happens to be less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, and those with legit sensitivities to gluten).

Some of the benefits of eating more plants and less meat, include: reduction in cholesterol levels, blood pressure, certain cancers, heart disease risk and they have even shown those who eat more plants are happier.

Trans fats have been directly correlated to a host of diseases, currently the American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that less than 1 % of energy intake should be in the form of trans fatty acids.

AOECS has participated in several EU - funded research projects, looking into various aspects of coeliac disease such as the development of a less invasive diagnostic tool as well as evaluations of diagnosis guidelines for children.

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is defined medically as macrovesicular steatosis, or abnormal retention of lipids (fats) sufficient and large enough to distort or replace the nuclei of liver cells among those who consume less than 20 grams -LRB-.7 ounces) of alcohol per day.