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The Life Channel Becomes The Change4Life Channel
For the whole month of January, The Life Channel will be transforming its entire network branding in support of cross-government campaign, Change4Life. Aiming to help every family in England eat well, move more and live longer, Change4Life is a new movement supported by the Department of Health which primarily focuses on the issue of obesity in children. The Life Channel TV network's mission is similar to Change4Life: to help and inform the general public.
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New Test Will Catch Sports Cheats On New Endurance Drugs
Avoiding detection just got harder for drug cheats who try to use a particular range of untested, but potentially enhancing, compounds. In the past, tests have been developed once a drug is known to be in circulation. Now a German research team has developed tests for a class of drugs that they believe could be used in the near future.
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Mountaineers Measure Lowest Human Blood Oxygen Levels On Record
The lowest ever levels of oxygen in humans have been reported in climbers on an expedition led by UCL (University College London) doctors. The world-first measurements of blood oxygen levels in climbers near the top of Mount Everest, published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), could eventually help critical care doctors to re-evaluate treatment strategies in some long-term patients with similarly low levels of blood oxygen.
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The Myths Of Back Pain - 80% Of Adults Experience Back Pain In Lifetime
Next to the common cold, low back pain is the most frequent cause of lost work days in adults under the age of 45, according to the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. About four out of five adults will experience low back pain sometime in their lives. The spine is a complex structure that provides you with mobility and strength. Proper functioning of your spine is needed for almost all activities of daily living.
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Bicycle Seat Design Can Directly Affect A Man's Sexual Function
Long suspected by the 5 million recreational bike riders and sexual medicine experts, bicycle seat design-shorter noseless seats versus the standard protruding nose extended seat-can directly affect a man's sexual function, based on the nation's first prospective study of healthy policemen riding bikes on the job. The study is published in the current issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine. Dr.
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