February 11th, 2011 by Stand Team

A large increase in the federal tax on cigarettes in force on April 1 can motivate 1 million U.S. to stop smoking, according to experts in public health.
The expansion of a popular program of public health insurance for low-income children is being financed by an increase in the federal tax on a package of cigarettes of $ 1.01 per pack, until the current 39 cents in a package of $4.35.
Smoking kills approximately 440.000 Americans each year and costing the country $ 193 billion in medical expenses and loss of productivity, said Dr. Terry Pechacek of the centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases of the Office on Smoking and Health.
“There are almost unanimous agreement on all the scientific community and the politicians, respect of the increase in the price of cigarettes, as it has an effect consisting of the reduction of the smoking rates, the increase in the dropout rate among adult smokers and prevention before the initiation to the tobacco by children and young adults” said Pechacek.
Danny McGoldrick, of the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids said that the formula is simple: as the increase in prices, the people buy fewer cigarettes. Read the rest of this entry »

February 8th, 2011 by Stand Team

Although many pet owners say that their animals makes them feel better, there are some skeptics, however there is research that demonstrate the positive impact that have pets in the health.
Have a dog increases the survival rates of the people who have suffered a heart attack. It also increases the proportion of people who survive after hospitalization caused by a heart problem. There are studies that claim that only 6 percent of patients who had no pet survived, compared to 28 per cent of the people who did. The having a pet is one of many variables that influence the improvement in the levels of survival, but even a 2% 3% is a significant difference to the relatives of a patient, in addition the pets reduces the risk of suffering a heart attack, according to other sources.
Another discovery of medical research claims that people with pets have levels of cholesterol and triglycerides minors, compared with those who do not live with pets, even when they have the same weight, the same diet and smoke.
Studies with dogs have found that the people who care have lower values of arterial tension compared to those who do not. When you have made similar studies, with women, it has been demonstrated that the presence of a dog is more important in the reduction of the blood pressure that the presence of friends. Other researchers have discovered that the presence of a dog, while the children are examined by a doctor, makes your heart rate, arterial tension and anxiety are lower than when the animal is absent.
If all these data do not convinced perhaps you interested to know that the stock brokers who have cats or dogs in their offices while working, show smaller increases in your blood when performing activities stressful, compared with those who have no pets near. In addition people suffering from chronic diseases reported that their pets are able to feel the attacks before they occur, more when they have been trained to do this, capacity that used to warn the owner of the event that will come, giving time to prepare for the same.

It seems that the pets, despite the responsibilities that accompany them, bring more benefits of that we suspect.