Sentences with phrase «with effects on health»

Many of these are found in a typical diet and some are already known to have medicinal properties with effects on health, diseases and general well - being.

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«With an increasing aging population, the effect on public health is only anticipated to increase,» Holt - Lunstad said in a statement.

There's no problem with getting too much sleep, but not getting enough can have lasting effects on your overall health, Huffington said.

In cases when they do - such as with the work disincentive effects of means - tested tax credits used for the purchase of health insurance - it's better to hold off on those attacks or make them more nuanced.

On that latter possibility, however, it's important to note that the study didn't specifically link artificial sweeteners with worse health effects.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

The EPA, a federal agency charged with safeguarding clean, livable air and water, funds and conducts research into the effects of climate change on public health, the environment, and natural disasters.

Important factors that could cause our actual results and financial condition to differ materially from those indicated in the forward - looking statements include, among others, the following: our ability to successfully and profitably market our products and services; the acceptance of our products and services by patients and healthcare providers; our ability to meet demand for our products and services; the willingness of health insurance companies and other payers to cover Cologuard and adequately reimburse us for our performance of the Cologuard test; the amount and nature of competition from other cancer screening and diagnostic products and services; the effects of the adoption, modification or repeal of any healthcare reform law, rule, order, interpretation or policy; the effects of changes in pricing, coverage and reimbursement for our products and services, including without limitation as a result of the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014; recommendations, guidelines and quality metrics issued by various organizations such as the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, the American Cancer Society, and the National Committee for Quality Assurance regarding cancer screening or our products and services; our ability to successfully develop new products and services; our success establishing and maintaining collaborative, licensing and supplier arrangements; our ability to maintain regulatory approvals and comply with applicable regulations; and the other risks and uncertainties described in the Risk Factors and in Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations sections of our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q.

As retailers in all industries grapple with the «Amazon effect,» Foulkes has made several notable moves to battle the big - box competition during her tenure at CVS — including putting a focus on health.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

There were hundreds of speakers at this yearâ $ ™ s CEA conference in Ottawa. About a dozen of these were designated â $ œSpecial Lectures / Confà © rences spà © cialesâ $ and among them were Jack Mintz on â $ œThe GST After Twenty Yearsâ $, Don Drummond on productivity and Evelyn Forget on â $ œThe Town With No Poverty:  the health effects of the MINCOME guaranteed annual income experiment.â $

The charges suggest that a small group of health - care firms — ones that acquire the rights to drugs and significantly increase their prices — is drawing the scrutiny of regulators and prosecutors, with a possible chilling effect on aggressive drug - pricing strategies.

Waste to energy technology has been backed as an «affordable» way for municipalities to manage wastes and generate energy, with «almost no measurable effect on human health», according to scientists and industry experts at the recent Energy Recovery Symposium in Toronto, Canada.

Indeed, Mindspace's research goes so far as to claim that poorly designed workspace can have a detrimental effect on workers» productivity and mental health, with one - quarter of respondents connecting their workplace to feelings of fatigue and exhaustion, and a further 20 % stating that it leads to stress.

Martin Shkreli, the founder and chief executive of Turing, said that the drug is so rarely used that the impact on the health system would be minuscule and that Turing would use the money it earns to develop better treatments for toxoplasmosis, with fewer side effects.

Many health care analysts are concerned about the financial effect of the Affordable Care Act on health insurers, especially those with large exposure to Medicare and Medicaid such as Aetna.

Dutch health - technology group Philips on Jan. 30 said its revenue in the fourth quarter of 2017 was 5.3 billion euros — up 5 percent compared with a year earlier, excluding the effects of deals and currency moves.

We need more studies that deal with the effect of institutional diet on the health of the people «served.»

Sex, as Freud made crystal clear, is a powerful, ubiquitous phenomenon in human life with profound effects on mental health.

No, momoya, it's about out of control insurance costs going ever higher because more and more is mandated to be covered, it's about tax exempt groups being in effect taxed via mandates and indeed mandated to pay things that go directly contrary to their philosophy, it's about disingenuous mumblers on the left talking incoherently about people being «forced» not to use contraception when (a) no one is forcing them to affiliate with the organization balking at the mandate, (b) no one is preventing them from buying contraception on their own dime and (c) no one is preventing them from buying their own health insurance plans, something MANY will have to do when Obamacare kicks in for real.

Without getting into a great deal of song and dance about a side topic, I'll just say that I believe our GDP growth would explode as companies rushed to establish operational headquarters in the US, and the changes in the individual income tax codes would have a chilling effect on both the Wall Street money churners (people would be rewarded for going long with their investments instead of shuffling money around to chase pennies) and the out - of - control executive compensation at the expense of the long - term health of the company.

In 2006, scientists evaluated the effects of vitamin D on the mental health of 80 elderly patients and found those with the lowest levels of vitamin D were 11 times more prone to be depressed than those who received healthy doses.

Finally, after being diagnosed with Celiac Disease in 2010, I realized the ravaging effects gluten had on my body and health.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

Oats A simple change like getting rid of refined breakfast cereal and substituting it with rolled oats can have profound effects on your health.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

But with that progress has come the question of whether or not solving these problems creates new ones, especially when it comes to the effect of those artificial ingredients on our health.

The problem Benbrook and Mellon see with the genetically modified food is that Monsanto, for example, is on its fifth - generation seed but the health and environmental effects of the first seed are still unknown.

«Concerns about the effects of pesticides, hormones and antibiotics on an individual's health and the health of that individual's children, along with the desire to avoid highly processed foods and artificial ingredients for the family were also top reasons to buy organic.»

Furthermore knowing what I do about the effects of a diet laden with animal products on health and chronic disease, I wouldn't be able to subject someone I love to a meal that I wouldn't deem good enough to eat myself.

One of the most consistent findings with these compounds is the beneficial effect on cardiovascular health.

These new guidelines would mean drinks were packaged in a uniform way, with the label's emphasis being on the health effects of drinking rather than on the brand.

Estimates of effects of traffic light labels and Health Star Rating labels compared with noninterpretive nutrition information panels on nutrient contents of packaged foods purchased during a 4 - wk intervention1

Estimates of effects of traffic light labels and Health Star Rating labels compared with noninterpretive nutrition information panels on the healthiness of packaged food and beverage purchases during a 4 - wk intervention1

However, unlike conventional agricultural practices which use large amounts of arsenic - based herbicide, insecticide and feed formulations — organic agriculture strictly prohibits their use — as well as a wide range of toxic pesticides with documented negative health and environmental effects that end up on and in our food supply on a daily basis.

(See: The Potential Health Benefits Of Makapuno Coconut Byproduct) Previous studies done on coconut flakes and coconut flour have also shown that the dietary fiber of coconut can reduce cholesterol levels (e.g. see: The Cholesterol - Lowering Effect of Coconut Flakes in Humans with Moderately Raised Serum Cholesterol)

With regard to health for instance, she suggests that the view should be broadened beyond the nutritional properties of organic food for the people eating it to also encompass the detrimental effects of pesticide use on both the people eating and those growing our food.

The Consensus Action on Salt and Health (CASH) is a group of specialists concerned with salt and its effects on hHealth (CASH) is a group of specialists concerned with salt and its effects on healthhealth.

The Committee recommends that the Minister for Health and Ageing commission research into the effect of the advertising of food products with limited nutritional value on the eating behaviour of children and other vulnerable groups.

Brighter Baby examines the positive effect that attachment parenting, combined with infant massage, has on children's health and intelligence.

He may feel anxious about upcoming expenses, your health insurance coverage, the pain that you'll feel during pregnancy or delivery, what life will be like with three rather than two, and the effects of pregnancy on your sex life.

«There's more emphasis now and there will be more emphasis because of the Affordable Care Act [on] offering mental health services in primary care settings,» suggests Curry, who is about to start a clinical trial looking at the effects of cognitive behavior therapy for adolescents with depression and substance abuse problems.

Chemicals with estrogenic activity «have been reported to have potential adverse health effects in mammals, including humans, especially in fetal and infant states,» says Dr. George Bittner, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin who has served on many National Institutes of Health phealth effects in mammals, including humans, especially in fetal and infant states,» says Dr. George Bittner, a professor of neurobiology at the University of Texas at Austin who has served on many National Institutes of Health pHealth panels.

It's not surprising that a parent - child relationship that's often filled with conflict or neglect would have a negative effect on kids» emotional or mental health; but did you know that parenting style may also have an impact on a child's physical health?

The effects are enormous on health, mental wellness, mood, bonding with kids, anger responses, stress tolerance, relationship nurturing, and so on and so on.

Salt rooms are fully furnished with the fresh air filters which captures and remove up to 99.97 % of all the airborne particles which may cause negative effects on your health.

Fletcher (2009) found that an intervention with a father whose partner was depressed not only improved the quality of his parenting (with inevitable positive impact on his baby's mental health) but also had positive knock - on effects on the quality of mother - infant interactions in that household.

With so many health problems among American youth being attributed to poor diet these types of food programs can have a profound effect on the future of the nation's health.

New or expectant moms may worry about having a pet with a new baby in the house, but a recent study on the effects of a furry pet on a baby's health shows that Fido may just be a baby's best friend when it comes to health.

I work with many families where infants» frequent night waking exacerbates parental depression and marital conflict, two factors known to have negative long - term effects on both mental and physical health.