World Health Organization:
Q: Are the number of cancer cases increasing or decreasing in the world?
A: Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and the total number of cases globally is increasing.

The number of global cancer deaths is projected to increase 45% from 2007 to 2030 (from 7.9 million to 11.5 million deaths), influenced [...]

Crying Voices:
As much as we try to deny it, we all feel in our bones that sugar is harmful to us. Why else would we try to restrict our and our children’s intake of it to only a few sweets at a time? We know it instinctively, but perhaps we need to know more… Dr [...]

If most of us thought about the conditions in which chickens used for meat and eggs are raised and slaughtered, we’d become vegetarian on the spot.
Egg-laying chickens can be raised in cages with 6 chickens to a cage, each chicken getting only 67 square inches of space for its lifetime.
Unless they’re certified and [...]

Sunday’s Zaman:
According to information from the World Health Organization (WHO), by the year 2030 the majority of deaths in the world will be related to cancer.
Data show that 24 million people a year get cancer, 17 million people die from it annually and 75 million people are currently living with it.
Judging from past data, [...]

Prevention best ‘cure’ for many health problems.
Benjamin Franklin once said, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” – and the best “cure” for many of the most prevalent health problems in the United States is to prevent them in the first place through healthy lifestyle choices.
National Public Health Week [...]