‘Lifestyle’ Archives
Decline In Teen Smoking Hits Plateau
Data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey indicates the decline in teen smoking is leveling off. The biennial report showed that between 2000 and 2009, cigarette smoking rates declined from 28 percent to 17.2 percent among high school students, and from 11 percent to 5.2 percent among middle school students. However, the researchers from the [...]
Craigslist Under Scrutiny For Adult Ads
Craigslist is under the spotlight once again for its adult advertising section. The concern is the ads are a contact point for prostitution and sex trafficking operations. Much of the current scrutiny of Craigslist stems from the murder of Julissa Brisman by medical student Philip Markoff, who preyed on women who put massage ads on [...]
New Hope For The Genetically Weight Challenged
There is hope for those who thought they could never lose weight because of inherited predilection to obesity. New research published in PLoS Medicine suggests that an active lifestyle can reduce people's genetic predisposition to obesity by about 40 per cent. This puts into question the opinion that exercise doesn't help people lose weight if [...]
