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7 Facts You Must Know About Lung Cancer

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Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in both men and women. With increasing prevalence of smoking, lung cancer has reached epidemic proportions in India. It has surpassed the earlier commonest form of cancer. In addition to smoking, occupational exposure to carcinogens, indoor air pollution and dietary factors have recently been implicated in the causation of lung cancer. Let's look at some basic facts of lung cancer:<br />
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<b>1. Smoking Is The Leading Risk Factor For Lung Cancer</b><br />
Smoking is the biggest risk factor, for almost 87 per cent of lung cancers are related to smoking. The risk depends on how long one has been <a href="http://www.mensxp.com/special-features/today/23696-this-brilliant-chanting-lighter-may-finally-make-you-quit-smoking.html">smoking</a>, the age when they started and number of tobacco products smoked per day.</div>
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<b>2. Lung Cancer Targets More Than Just Smokers</b></div>
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The greatest risk factor for lung cancer is smoking, but passive smokers can also develop lung cancer. Almost 10 to 15 per cent of lung cancer cases occur in non-smokers, and many of these patients are women.</div>
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<b>3. There Are Two Types Of Lung Cancer</b><br />
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Almost 85- 90 per cent of lung cancers are the Non-small Cell type. This cancer grows slowly and does not spread quickly to other organs. The other type, Small Cell Carcinoma, tends to grow faster and spreads to other organs.</div>
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<b>4. Know The Warning Signs</b></div>
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Both men and women should know the warning signs of lung cancer. They can be subtle but symptoms to be aware of include coughing regularly, shortness of breath, appetite or weight loss, wheezing and coughing blood. If you have these symptoms, see a doctor immediately.<br />
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<b>5. CT Screenings Can Save Lives</b><br />
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Detecting lung cancer can be difficult, but now there are improvised screening tests. But results from the National Lung Screening Trial suggest that screening high-risk individuals with low-dose CT scans can detect tumors at an earlier stage, resulting in improved lung cancer survival. Screening is currently recommended for people who are between the ages of 55 and 74 and who have smoked a pack a day for 30 years and quit less than 15 years ago.</div>
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<b>6. New Therapies Show Promise</b></div>
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With updated technology and advanced medication, treatments are available for lung cancer too, depending on cancer type, tumor location, stage and overall health. Options include surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy or a combination.<br />
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<b>7. It's Never Too Late To Quit Smoking</b><br />
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Smoking is injurious to health, even the packets claim so. For those who do <a href="http://www.mensxp.com/health/live-healthy/8994-10-most-fatal-chemicals-in-a-cigarette.html">smoke</a> and decide to quit, within weeks to months the risks of heart attack and lung cancer is reduced.<br />
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5 Facts and Symptoms About Ebola Virus

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<strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHEN IS EBOLA CONTAGIOUS?</strong></div>
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Only when someone is showing symptoms, which can start with vague symptoms including a fever, flu-like body aches and abdominal pain, and then vomiting and diarrhea.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW DOES EBOLA SPREAD?</strong></div>
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Through close contact with a symptomatic person's bodily fluids, such as blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen. Those fluids must have an entry point, like a cut or scrape or someone touching the nose, mouth or eyes with contaminated hands, or being splashed. That's why health care workers wear protective gloves and other equipment.</div>
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The World Health Organization says blood, feces and vomit are the most infectious fluids, while the virus is found in saliva mostly once patients are severely ill and the whole live virus has never been culled from sweat.</div>
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The Texas Department of State Health Services said Sunday that a health-care worker who provided hospital care for the first patient to die from Ebola in the United States has tested positive for the virus. The worker, who was not identified, was wearing full protective gear while attending to the patient during his second visit to the hospital, according to a hospital official. If the diagnosis is confirmed, it would be the first known case of Ebola being transmitted in the U.S.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHAT ABOUT MORE CASUAL CONTACT?</strong></div>
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Ebola isn't airborne. Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said people don't get exposed by sitting next to someone on the bus.</div>
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"This is not like flu. It's not like measles, not like the common cold. It's not as spreadable, it's not as infectious as those conditions," he added.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WHO GETS TESTED WHEN EBOLA IS SUSPECTED?</strong></div>
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Hospitals with a suspected case call their health department or the CDC to go through a checklist to determine the person's level of risk. Among the questions are whether the person reports a risky contact with a known Ebola patient, how sick they are and whether an alternative diagnosis is more likely. Most initially suspicious cases in the U.S. haven't met the criteria for testing.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">HOW IS IT CLEANED UP?</strong></div>
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The CDC says bleach and other hospital disinfectants kill Ebola. Dried virus on surfaces survives only for several hours.</div>
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20 Amazing Facts About Your Heart

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1. Worldwide, 17.3 million people die every year from heart disease or stroke, which account for 31 per cent of all deaths. </div>
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2. Aristotle believed that the heart was the source of intelligence and the main function of the brain was to cool our blood. </div>
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3. Every day, your heart creates enough energy to drive a medium-sized truck 20 miles. </div>
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4. The sound of heartbeats is made by the four valves of the heart opening and closing. </div>
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5. On average, women’s hearts beat about 10 per cent faster than men’s. </div>
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6. The heart of an unborn baby begins to beat about four weeks after conception. </div>
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7. The heart of a blue whale weighs about 1,500 lb.</div>
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8. The words ‘heart’ and ‘blood’ can be found in every one of Shakespeare’s plays. </div>
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9. Blood enters the heart through its atriums and leaves through the ventricles. “Atrium” is Latin for “entrance hall” and “ventriculus” means “little belly”. </div>
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10. A hummingbird’s heart beats about 20 times a second. A blue whale’s heart beats between four and eight times a minute.</div>
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10 Interesting Facts You Need To Know About Eggs

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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">1. The world’s top-ranked competitive eater Joey Chestnut set a record by eating 141 hard-boiled eggs in eight minutes in 2013.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">2. In the UK, 11,532 million eggs are eaten  each year. That works out at 372 eggs a second.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">3. Eggs are oversubscribed in four sizes ranging from tiny (53gm and under) to very large (more than 73gm).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">4. the biggest bird’s eggs ever were those of the ratite of Madagascar, that may be more than a foot long.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">5. In 1290, King edward i spent eighteen pence for 450 eggs to be gold-leafed and colored as Easter gifts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">6. Crushed-up egg shells besprent around plants facilitate keep snails and slugs away.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">7. under EU regulation 1544/2006, breeders of silkworms receive a support grant of 133.26 euros (£104.66) per box of silkworm eggs they produce. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">8. a mean hen lays 266 eggs annually. The record is said to be 371 eggs in one year.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">9. A kiwi’s egg may account for 1 / 4 of its total weight.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">10. The Guinness world record for the most flips of an omelette in one minute is 103, achieved by Mohamad Shahabaz Khan in Mumbai in 2011.</span><br />
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Every time you step foot in an exceedingly grocery store, you are bombarded with organic choices. however there is a heap regarding organic food that the majority people ne'er hear. Here square measure seven fascinating facts regarding organic food.<br />
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The u.  s. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has certified around twenty five,000 farms and businesses worldwide. Department of Agriculture certification is not only necessary for yank companies – it is important for associatey company that desires to plug its product as organic to an yank audience. To date, farms and corporations in over a hundred countries have received the USDA's stamp of organic approval.<br />
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Unless you sell but $5,000 price of turn out annually, you are needed to rent a third-party certifier to decision your product organic. The classification has received important pushback from some small-scale farmers, WHO tout the title as unaffordable. whereas actual prices vary by farm sort and size, the Department of Agriculture has recognized that certification does not come back low-cost. it will reimburse up to $750 per certification, and therefore the new 2014 measure doubles certification cost-share funding to $57.5 million.<br />
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3. sudden inputs</h3>
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Farmers square measure associate innovative bunch, and over the years they've tailored their inputs to use what the remainder people would possibly think about useless. whereas biodegradable pollution sludge is on the input lists for a few farmers, the Department of Agriculture has nixed that from organic farmers' armory of ingredients. however black-and-white newspaper, soap, and liquid fish product (it's precisely what it sounds like) all got the go-ahead from the Department of Agriculture .<br />
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Drinking organic might not be a high priority at 2 o'clock within the morning, but beer, wine, and liquor are often organic, too. There square measure 2 divisions for your drink: "organic" and "made with constitution." to induce the gold star, the particular alcohol company should use nearly completely organic ingredients. For "Made with constitution," it's enough for your food to be a minimum of seventieth organic.<br />
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5. It begins before birth</h3>
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For all class eutherian mammal (cows and pigs, mostly), it isn't simply those animals that eat organic – it's their mothers, as well. From the last third of the gestation, mama should eat solely organic for her baby to profit from identical certification.<br />
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Like a fine French farm, soil may be a very important element of the organic arrangement. For farmers to start touting their merchandise as organic, they have to begin permanent  by all land laws 3 whole years earlier. meaning no irradiation, biodegradable pollution sludge, artificial fertilizers, prohibited pesticides or genetically changed organisms (GMOs) will bit that land throughout farmers' phase-in amount.<br />
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Taking care of soil will have semipermanent advantages for farmers, too. Organic farming helps keep land biologically active, giving natural chemical element and carbon athletics that keeps plants and our planet healthier.<br />
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It's easy to dismiss organic food as a way of life alternative for the made and far-famed, however this classification is creating major moves across the agricultural sector. In 2013, the organic business was valued at $35 billion. ninety two of these sales came from food, whereas the additional 8 May 1945 was created from flowers, fiber, home product, and pet food. In total, organic food currently accounts for around 4WD of America's $760 billion in annual food sales.<br />
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The organic business has practiced huge growth over the last decade, however it isn't swiftness down -- however. From 2012 to 2013, the market grew eleven.5% for its quickest rate in 5 years, consistent with a survey by the Organic Trade Association (OTA). "The U.S. organic market is experiencing robust growth, with organic food and farming continued to achieve in quality," same OTA chief operating officer and executive Laura Batcha in an exceedingly statement . whereas overall food sales have practiced average annual growth rates of three since 2010, organic food has enjoyed associate about 100 percent boost once a year.<br />
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10 Amazing Facts About Milk

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1. Cows produce 90 per cent of the world’s milk needs.<br />
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2. According to legend, the Milky Way was created by drops of milk from the breast of Hera, the wife of Zeus, as she breast-fed Hercules.<br />
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3. Nero’s second wife, Poppaea, kept 500 asses to provide milk for her bath.<br />
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4. The current UK annual milk production stands at 13.7 billion litres (3.01 billion gallons).<br />
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5. Louis Pasteur developed pasteurisation for beer more than 20 years before he did it for milk.<br />
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6. In 1984, Swedish scientists reported improved milk yield from cows fitted with plastic discs with insecticide to keep their heads fly-free.<br />
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7. Buffalo milk has 25 per cent more protein than cow’s milk.<br />
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8. The world’s first commercial dromedary dairy opened in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1986, selling camel milk at £1.20 a litre.<br />
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9. Cow’s milk was first drunk by humans 10,000 years ago in what is now Afghanistan and Iran.<br />
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10. “The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.<br />
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5 Mind-Blowing Facts About Yoga!

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Yoga has been around for so long that many are aware of the great positive health and fitness benefits it inspires. On the flip side, there are also lots of misconceptions about yoga, such as that it is only for flexible people, when yogis profess that the flexibility needed is often that of the mind. However, there are also some really interesting yoga facts which you might be interested to learn about.<br />
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What's great about exploring yoga facts is that we are able to break down some myths about the practice:<br />
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<li><b>Yoga is popular</b> - If you think that yoga was a trend years ago when it really did become popular around the world, then think again. Even in the last few years the numbers of yoga practitioners is rising rapidly. Many top athletes incorporate yoga stretches and poses into their training programs for the physical effects as well as the meditative and mind benefits. According to a Yoga Journal produced study, there are around 20.4 million Americans practicing yoga; that's 8.7% of the population!</li>
<li><b>Yoga is for all ages</b> - Do you have a stereotype of someone who is middle-aged as the most likely yoga practitioner? Or do you think of it as a practice only suitable for the young and agile? Yoga is great for all ages and can be a wonderful practice as you age. The oldest yoga teacher in the world, according to the Guinness World Records is 93 year old French-Indian yoga Tao Porchon-Lynch who just last year released a book and DVD on yoga.</li>
<li><b>Yoga is for everybody</b> - While there are more women than men practicing yoga, it is not an exclusionary practice. With the right guidance, yoga can be helpful for those with limited mobility, as well as those who are suffering from back pain or are recovering from illness and injury. Of course, as with any exercise, you do need to check with a medical professional first. Did you know that there's even yoga for dogs? Doga is aimed at yoga for dogs and their humans; creating true canine calm and human harmony!</li>
<li><b>Yoga is about intuition</b> - Chanting 'Om' in yoga or when practicing yoga and meditation at home is believed by many yogis to help open your third eye chakra, as it is the primordial sound of the Universe; an energy point in the body which is considered to be linked to intuition.</li>
<li><b>Yoga is about connection</b> - Yoga practice is about the body and the mind and encourages greater awareness of your inner self and your physical self. The culture of yoga springs from a form of spirituality. Did you know that the word 'yoga' comes from Sanskrit and means 'to unite'?</li>
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3 Scientific Facts Showing How the Mind Can Heal the Body

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fact 1: Your body can manufacture and administer the precise balance of neurochemicals that can reverse illness and cure disease. Your body possesses the innate capacity to heal itself. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fact 2: Science has proven, beyond doubt, that the contents of our thoughts and emotions directly and immediately influence our biochemistry. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Fact 3: You can consciously influence and direct the body’s output of health chemical information through meditation and visualization techniques. ~ Kelly Howell </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">In this TED Talk, M.D. physician and Author of the New York Times Bestselling book, Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, dr. Lissa Rankin  shares not just scientific proof that your mind can heal your body and tips for using the power of your mind to optimize the body’s natural self-repair mechanisms, but also ways in which you can reduce the stress in your life, increase your happiness levels and craft a better and more beautiful life for yourself and those around you. Enjoy!</span><br />
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