May 13, 2024, at 06:03 pm
India's top medical body Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN) has released a set of 17 dietary guidelines to combat the rising risk of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular ailments, virtually offering a menu card to good health.
Time to get off the couch, WHO warns, as 500 million risk developing chronic illness
Oct 21, 2022, at 06:58 pm
New York: Almost 500 million people will develop heart disease, obesity, diabetes or other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) attributable to physical inactivity, between 2020 and 2030, if governments worldwide don’t take urgent action to promote the benefits of exercise, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Wednesday.
Following five healthy lifestyle habits may increase life expectancy by decade or more: Study
May 03, 2018, at 01:19 am
New York, May 2 (IBNS): Maintaining five healthy habits—eating a healthy diet, exercising regularly, keeping a healthy body weight, not drinking too much alcohol, and not smoking—during adulthood may add more than a decade to life expectancy, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
A healthy lifestyle increases life expectancy by up to seven years, says study
Jul 22, 2017, at 12:55 am
New Delhi, July 21 (IBNS): A new study published today in Health Affairs shows that people who refrain from engaging in risky health behaviors not only have a very long life — longer than the famously long-lived Japanese - but that most of these additional years of life are spent in good health.