Violent clashes erupted in the Ukrainian capital Kiev as more than 100,000 people protested against a government decision to delay an association deal with the EU.
Riot police and angry demonstrators fought each other in front of government buildings as one group tried to break into the Cabinet of Ministers offices.
The protest was the biggest Ukraine has seen since the 2004 Orange Revolution.
Pro-EU supporters want Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovich to sign the trade pact with the European Union as agreed, during a summit in Lithuania on Friday.
His decision to pullout due to pressure from Moscow has been roundly condemned by Ukraine's top opposition figures.
Protesters have set up a tent city in the capital vowing to stay there until they get their way.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
VIDEO: Amarachi – Amarachi’s Dance
Winner of the maiden edition of Nigeria’s Got Talent, 8-year-old Amarachi Uyanne, releases the video for her debut single “Amarachi’s Dance”.
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Too little sleep linked to heart disease risk.
People who do not sleep a lot are more likely to suffer from negative health effects than people who sleep more than eight hours a night.
The research is the first to look at differences in risk between racial and ethnic groups and also finds the strongest effect among black and Hispanic Americans.
"This is important, since racial minorities are generally at increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity," said Michael A. Grandner, who led the study at the Centre for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
"And if they also tend to have more sleep difficulties, that could be making things worse," said Grandner.
Poor health
Using nationwide survey data from 2008, researchers divided results from more than 5 000 respondents representing the US population into three groups: people who were sleeping less than five hours a night; the next group who slept between five and six hours and people who slept more than nine hours a night.
Grandner's team reported in the journal Sleep Medicine that people who didn’t sleep a lot and the next group were both linked to poor health.
People who didn’t get a lot of sleep were twice as likely to have high blood pressure and high cholesterol, compared to people who slept around seven to eight hours a night. People who slept the less were also 75% more likely to have diabetes and 50% more likely to be obese. They were 20% more likely than normal sleepers to report high blood pressure and obesity.
Blacks were most likely to report sleeping less than five hours and the same group was also most strongly linked to obesity.
Populations
Sleeping just a few hours at night was strongly linked to high blood pressure among blacks, whites and non-Mexican Hispanics, while people of Asian descent had the strongest link between short sleep and high cholesterol.
People who slept the longest at night did not appear to experience any negative health effects once researchers adjusted for other factors.
There is no consensus on what the ideal minimum amount of sleep should be for good health, Kristen L. Knutson said.
She studies sleep and heart health in different populations at the University of Chicago’s Department of Medicine.
Younger people
There’s no set number for sleep, in part "because there is likely to be some variability in how much sleep different people need," Knutson said, but the majority of large studies had found that people who said they slept between seven and eight hours a night were the healthiest.
"Recommendations vary by age, with younger people generally needing more sleep than older people.
"Like most aspects of health, too little is bad for you and too much is also likely bad for you," Grandner said.
"It’s hard to say that short sleep is worse than sleeping too many hours - it's just that we currently have a better idea of why short sleep is detrimental to health," she said.
Quantity of sleep isn't the only important factor though, Grandner said.
Insomnia, sleep apnoea and waking frequently during the night may be related to heart disease, diabetes and obesity.
Stress on the body
"These data do suggest that short sleep, whatever the cause, is associated with important negative health outcomes," Knutson said.
Sleep and health are likely linked in a two-way relationship, Grandner said.
Less sleep may negatively impact health and certain health conditions like obesity might make sleep more difficult.
"Lack of sleep limits your body's ability to keep itself healthy, increasing risk for disease, which puts stress on the body, making sleep harder," he said.
"It is likely a cycle like this."
Obese kids more affected by asthma!
Overweight and obese kids are more likely to struggle with asthma than other kids, a new review suggests.
Overweight and obese kids are more likely to struggle with asthma than kids of normal weight, according to a new review of more than 623 000 children.
Researchers found that children carrying extra weight are between 1.16 to 1.37 times more likely to develop asthma than normal-weight kids, with the risk growing as their body-mass index a measure of body fat encompassing height and weight – increases.
Obese children also experience more frequent and severe episodes of asthma, requiring more medical attention and drug therapy, found the study in the 7 August issue of theAmerican Journal of Epidemiology.
For example, heavier kids required more visits to the doctor to treat their asthma, and needed to use inhalers more often to help restore normal breathing.
Inflammation caused by body fat is suspected to be one factor in the kids' increased risk of asthma, said study lead author Mary Helen Black, of the department of research and evaluation at Kaiser Permanente Southern California.
The extra pounds also might affect the severity of asthma by placing additional weight on a child's chest, Black said.
Greater perceived symptoms
"Overweight and obese youths have greater perceived symptoms of asthma," she said. "When they have difficulty breathing, it seems more extreme to them than to kids with normal weight." This could be due to the added weight constricting their breathing.
Asthma is the most common chronic childhood illness in the United States, affecting one out of every 10 kids, according to study background information.
For the study, the researchers examined electronic health records maintained by Kaiser Permanente for 623 358 children and classified them from normal weight to extremely obese based on their height and weight.
The link between asthma and obesity was particularly pronounced among moderately and extremely obese girls between 6 and 10 years old, who had between 1.36 and 1.56 times higher risk of asthma than normal-weight girls their age.
Moderately and extremely obese Asian-Pacific Islander children also were inordinately affected, running between 1.41 and 1.67 times higher risk of asthma, the investigators found.
The new study confirms a common-sense link between the effects of obesity and the causes of asthma, said Dr Jacqueline Eghrari-Sabet, an allergy and asthma specialist in Gaithersburg, Md., and a fellow of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. She was not involved with the study.
Reservoir of toxins
"Really you could have figured this out if you lined up all of the boxes neatly on your table," Eghrari-Sabet said. "Fat is a huge reservoir of toxins. Toxins can of course cause inflammation. This is kind of like, what do you expect?"
Eghrari-Sabet noted that the inflammatory response caused by obesity already has been linked to other chronic conditions such as heart disease.
"If we explored this idea a little further: Is that the same cardiac disease you see in the adult? It would make you take the asthma in the young person so much more seriously because the problem is, so many people do not take asthma seriously," she said. "If you said your asthma is linked to heart disease, you would get that kid treated so much faster for asthma."
Study author Black said physicians and families should monitor overweight and obese children closely for signs of asthma.
"If they already have asthma, parents should think about their medication regimen and do everything they can to prevent some of these symptom exacerbations [flare-ups] from happening, knowing that kids who are obese are more likely to have these exacerbations," Black said.
Source - health24.com
PHOTOS : MELODY JACOB,ONE OF NIGERIA'S FINEST ''FASHION LOVER''
She is Melody Jacob, a medical student of karazina national university,Ukraine. Proudly NIGERIAN, a fashion lover " fashion is her style, her thing.. and its part of her.
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MEET THE FASHIONISTA OF THE YEAR 2012 (NSA MEDICAL TERNOPIL,UKRAINE)
She is Ogunyemi Bukorlah Prettyfaze a fourth year Medical student of Ternopil State
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Friday, November 29, 2013
Governor Oshiomhole Apologizes to WIDOW.
Gov. Oshiomhole Apologizes For Harsh Public Dismissal of Helpless Benin City Widow
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has apologized for his abominable dismissal of a helpless widow on a Benin street during a “sanitation tour.”
A fast-circulating online video shows the governor, who was leading a large team of officials, telling the crying woman, who was on her knees begging him, to “go and die.”
Source - Sahara Reporters
Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State has apologized for his abominable dismissal of a helpless widow on a Benin street during a “sanitation tour.”
A fast-circulating online video shows the governor, who was leading a large team of officials, telling the crying woman, who was on her knees begging him, to “go and die.”
Source - Sahara Reporters
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