Health workers in Nigeria “have fought the Ebola outbreak to a tentative standstill.” - New York Times

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2753770577072678235" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbY-l97QA32JT5lIOW2b9CnUxO21mFpFxIeb8b79swplVwR5K_C6C9MX_j3dO98mV97UiPxrBeQ9S-UckPNsJ2MJzmGP5RXZJ2shuyd5ct6D_NDxjme_92_MxBQxvd3qPKVf7W59qsVyE/s1600/onyebuchi+chukwu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbY-l97QA32JT5lIOW2b9CnUxO21mFpFxIeb8b79swplVwR5K_C6C9MX_j3dO98mV97UiPxrBeQ9S-UckPNsJ2MJzmGP5RXZJ2shuyd5ct6D_NDxjme_92_MxBQxvd3qPKVf7W59qsVyE/s1600/onyebuchi+chukwu.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Director of the USA Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Thomas Frieden, was quoted as saying American health workers were watching Nigeria with intense interest, “because of its huge population and because it is much more of a crossroads than the other three countries, in much closer touch with the rest of Africa.”<br /><br />As the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu, announced that the first Nigeria carrier of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has fully recovered.<br /><br />Revealing this at a press briefing at the Yaba Psychiatric Hospital, Lagos, on Saturday, Professor Chukwu confirmed that the statistics of currently confirmed cases of the virus in Nigeria had risen to 12.<br /><br />The minister said the first Nigerian EVD carrier, the female doctor who attended to Mr Patrick Sawyer, had been freed from the deadly disease.<br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He added that, “the patients under treatment have now been moved to the new 40-bed capacity isolation ward provided by the Lagos State Government and, at present, five of the confirmed cases of EVD have almost fully recovered.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Chukwu also disclosed that the experimental drug, Nano Silver, was rejected by the Federal Government because it did not meet the specification of National Health Research Ethic Code.<br /><br />Speaking on the sack of Resident Doctors, Chukwu said their suspension was temporary.<br /><br />US expresses worry over Nigeria<br /><br />Meanwhile, there were growing concerns at the weekend over how Nigeria is handling its share of the problem as the world battles to stop the spread of the virus and save the lives of those who have contracted it.<br /><br />However, authorities in the United States of America (USA) health sector commended the country and expressed hope that Nigeria stood the best chance of handling the problem, among affected African nations, even as there were indications that the world power is preparing well for victims of the disease in West Africa.<br /><br />This is coming on the heel of reports of an upsurge in the number of victims of the disease as well as growing fear that it might bring economic hardship to millions of people in the region.<br /><br />US experts hail Nigeria<br /><br />According to a report by New York Times, it is believed that health workers in Nigeria “have fought the Ebola outbreak to a tentative standstill.”<br /></span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">American health workers believe that the country is “offering, at least, a chance to eradicate the disease there before it spins out of control, as it has in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, where a sluggish response failed to halt it early.”</span></blockquote> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Director of the USA Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr Thomas Frieden, was quoted as saying American health workers were watching Nigeria with intense interest, “because of its huge population and because it is much more of a crossroads than the other three countries, in much closer touch with the rest of Africa.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Another foreign expert, Dr Maurizio Barbeschi, a scientist from the World Health Organisation (WHO) who is working on the outbreak, was also quoted as saying that though there is panic in Nigeria, the situation is not hopeless for the country.</span><blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />“They think it is a death sentence,” he said, adding, however, that the people of the country were getting good care and expressing doubt that the country’s death rate would reach that of the other countries, “where about 60 per cent of the cases have been fatal in some locations.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Source: Tribune</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); 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Health workers in Nigeria “have fought the Ebola outbreak to a tentative standstill.” - New York Times

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USA created Ebola virus as biological weapon?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="border: 0px; clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <br /><img alt="USA created Ebola virus as biological weapon?. 53335.jpeg" height="148" src="http://pravda-team.ru/eng/image/article/3/3/5/53335.jpeg" style="border: 0px; float: left; margin: 10px; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;" title="USA created Ebola virus as biological weapon?. 53335.jpeg" width="200" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 7px;"> <div class="_ga1_on_ _reachbanner_" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus that was born in the depths of the jungle, has been spreading around the world with an unprecedented speed lately. The number of victims, according to official figures, has already exceeded a thousand people. The number of infected individuals nears almost two thousand. The WHO declared the disease a threat of global significance. Are there ways to combat the fever?</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It turns out that there is a vaccine against Ebola. Pentagon scientists were developing it for 30 years, and all the rights for the drug belong to the government of the United States. Two infected US medics received injections of the vaccine and they started recovering from the disease immediately.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why has this been made public only now? Why is it the USA that holds all the rights for the use of the vaccine? There can be two most obvious answers found to these questions.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As one can see, Ebola is a perfect biological weapon: it spreads quickly and gives nearly 100 percent mortality. Those having the life-saving vaccine can dictate any conditions to others.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The second answer is a purely commercial interest. It is enough to arrange panic with the help of the media, as it was the case with several epidemics before, such as avian flu. Afterwards, it will be possible to sell the life-saving medicine at any price.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, Russian scientists doubt that the Americans created the medicine indeed. Russian scientists also conduct the research to study the nature of the virus to be able to create the vaccine against it. Soviet scientists, for example, Professor Alexander Butenko, was a member of the joint Soviet-Guinean expedition in 1982 and spent nearly a year in the rain forests of Guinea, when the then unknown virus was discovered.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The current distribution of the infection is a continuation of a dangerous outbreak of the disease from 1982, said Professor Butenko. Russian scientists have the most extensive scientific base for the creation of the vaccine, Butenko says. The materials that Alexander Butenko collected a quarter of a century ago should help today's generation of Russian scientists in the development of the vaccine against the fever.</span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several Russian researchers are already in Guinea, including the head of the Laboratory for the Ecology of Viruses, Mikhail Shchelkanov. "Currently, the vaccine has passed five tests quite well. The tests of the vaccine go through the final stage, but no one knows when they are going to end," said Mikhail Shchelkanov.</span></div> </div> </div> </div>

USA created Ebola virus as biological weapon?

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EBOLA OUTBREAK: A nurse's story, being on the front lines of Ebola outbreak

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-688137362155151242" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZmtDj3c29sYIgEBtFi590hwMAuBa2jCWJ93HZTcoRLhNr_Ter2OS0gPvQzBx-vlO0_PXtr-kWWMR5fw3A8i9TiS8lAkpjlbQ9lYgeSGF_Ns1-GXf8ji2hHInyR5zUo_cva1GWd0N7KE/s1600/monia-saya-in-guineaimg1290.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7ZmtDj3c29sYIgEBtFi590hwMAuBa2jCWJ93HZTcoRLhNr_Ter2OS0gPvQzBx-vlO0_PXtr-kWWMR5fw3A8i9TiS8lAkpjlbQ9lYgeSGF_Ns1-GXf8ji2hHInyR5zUo_cva1GWd0N7KE/s1600/monia-saya-in-guineaimg1290.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i>Nurse Monia Sayah (R) standing with a recovered patient and the nurse supervisor at the Doctors Without Borders facility in Guinea where she treated Ebola patients.</i><br /><br />When Doctors Without Borders nurse Monia Sayah first arrived in Guinea in March, she couldn't have known she would witness the worst Ebola outbreak in history. Back then, there were 59 confirmed deaths from Ebola, a virus which can be fatal in up to 90 percent of cases. The death toll in West Africa has since soared to 932, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. In Guinea, where the first cases were reported in March, Ebola has killed 363 people.<br /><br />"The fear is palpable," Sayah said, speaking to CBS News in New York after returning from her latest assignment. "People are very afraid because they never know if Ebola's going to hit their family or their village."<br /><br />Because of the fear and stigma associated with the virus, Sayah said many infected people are choosing to hide their illness and often don't check in to treatment centers until it is too late. By that point, there is very little Sayah and her colleagues can do. They try to rehydrate the patients and administer antibiotics. But there is no proven treatment for Ebola, though an experimental drug is currently being tested.<br /><br />Concerns have also been growing for the safety of medical workers in the field. A leading doctor died in Sierra Leone last week. A Nigerian nurse who treated that country's first Ebola victim died from the virus, Nigerian health officials said Wednesday, and two American medical missionaries infected with Ebola in Liberia are still battling the virus at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.<br /><br />But Sayah, who has spent a total of 11 weeks in Guinea, said she is not afraid. She and her colleagues take strict precautions to limit their risk of exposure. Before entering a high-risk zone, they suit up in head-to-toe protective clothing including gloves and goggles. "You do have to follow the rules," she said, "but accidents do happen."<br /><br />She has to limit the amount of time she spends in the infected area. It's hot under the protective clothing, and exhaustion and dehydration are serious concerns. "The risk is you could faint, you could fall. You do not want to fall in a high-risk area," she said. "Maybe your goggles will move up and your eye will be infected."<br /><br />Working so closely with patients at death's door has taken a personal toll. Sayah described the anguish of stepping outside a treatment facility to take a quick break from the intense heat, only to find that her patient had died in those ten minutes she was away. "It was really hard for me to know that they had died alone," she said, "not with someone holding their hands and reassuring them."<br /><br />Sayah recalled the "hectic" challenges of setting up some of the first international treatment facilities for Ebola patients. By the end of May, she said, the medical community thought they had almost contained the virus. But soon after she left Guinea, another cluster of infected patients was found in another village. The virus was spreading like wildfire.<br /><br />Several factors are contributing to the spread. The virus has an incubation period of up to 21 days, according to the WHO, and in West Africa the population is highly mobile, moving easily across porous cross-country borders. Traditional burial ceremonies in which relatives have direct contact with the body can also play a role in the transmission of Ebola.<br /><br />Sayah found that many local communities distrust the healthcare system and foreigners. "Some have said we brought the Ebola to them," she said. "It's very difficult to contain the outbreak when communities are not cooperating." There were instances of infectious patients leaving the facility, she said, and many weren't receptive to the idea of isolation -- a crucial step in containing the virus.<br /><br />During her breaks from the field, Sayah stays in touch with her colleagues on the front lines, hoping for the slightest bit of good news. Just this past week, she heard some. One of the patients who'd been under her care was discharged from hospital, apparently free of the virus.<br /><br />But the situation on the ground remains dire, and Sayah hopes to see a greater response from the international community.<br /><br />Despite the challenges, Sayah said she will return to West Africa to fight the outbreak. 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146 patients recover, says group

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="single-post-thumb" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Chukwu" class="attachment-slider wp-post-image" data-cfsrc="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Prof-Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" height="201" src="http://thenationonlineng.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Prof-Onyebuchi-Chukwu.jpg" style="border: 0px none; height: auto; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; width: 620px;" width="251" /></span></div> <div class="single-post-caption" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 5px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chukwu</span></div> <div class="post-inner" style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 20px 0px;"> <h1 class="name post-title entry-title" itemprop="itemReviewed" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Thing" style="border: 0px none; 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text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">ONE hundred and forty-six patients have recovered from the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also called Doctors Without Border, has said.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF, which has established Ebola treatment centres in the three countries, explained that once a patient recovers from the disease, such a patient becomes immune to the virus and could continue to live a normal healthy life.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group also said an Ebola outbreak is considered to end once no new case is reported after 42 days.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Conakry, the Guinean capital, the MSF said it admitted 232 patients with 124 confirmed Ebola cases.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The group said 64 of them recovered and returned home.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Gueckedou, also in Guinea, of the 366 patients admitted, 169 were confirmed to have Ebola; 46 recovered and returned home.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Sierra Leone, MSF said of the 174 confirmed Ebola patients it admitted, 36 recovered and nine were discharged on August 4, after they recovered from the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In 2012, the MSF effectively contained an Ebola outbreak in Uganda by placing a control area around the treatment centre.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The organisation has 676 workers in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">MSF said it would support any effort by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to find a vaccine for the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px none; list-style: none; outline: none; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It said: “MSF welcomes the steps the WHO is taking to adopt exceptional regulatory procedures in the face of an exceptionally grave Ebola epidemic. 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Science Reveals What Sitting All Day at Work Actually Does to Your Body

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Prolonged Sitting linked to Breast Cancer, Colon Cancer</span></b></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The news is going viral.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>But there's a problem:</strong> What many of the outlets did not report was that sitting for long periods did not explicitly <em>cause</em> cancer: It led to an increased <em>risk</em> of two specific types of the disease. These two types also happen to be linked to being overweight and obese, behaviors that are associated with sedentary behavior.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Here's what the researchers actually found:</strong> After reviewing 43 studies, the researchers, who published their study in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, <a href="http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/7/dju206.full.pdf+html" style="text-decoration: none;">discovered</a> that people who sat for long periods of time had a higher chance of developing colon and endometrial cancer. The more time they spent on their butts, the more their risk increased.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In fact, for every additional two hours someone spent sitting, the researchers reported an 8% increase in their risk for developing colon cancer and a 10% increased risk for endometrial cancer.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>So what is risk, anyway, and why does it matter?</strong> The 66% increase that <em>TIME</em> <a href="http://time.com/2884953/sitting-can-increase-your-risk-of-cancer-by-up-to-66/" style="text-decoration: none;">boasted</a> in its headline sounds huge.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What that figure doesn't include is the overall risk of developing the two types of cancer that the study found to be associated with more sitting time. For example, this table shows the percentage of American men who developed colon cancer over 10-, 20- and 30-year periods according to their age between 2008 and 2010.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img class="enlarge-image" src="http://media2.policymic.com/0c4e5c55c998dd77f32f429625d88ebf.jpg" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="700" /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Image Credit: <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal/statistics/age.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</a></em></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you're a 30-year-old man, your risk of developing colon cancer by the time you turn 60 is just under 1%.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">According to the study, every two-hour increase in sitting time led to an 8% increase in the risk for developing colon cancer.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, theoretically, if you're a man that spends eight hours sitting at the office each day and you were to start sitting for only six of them, you could decrease your colon cancer risk by about .08%.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As for the allegation that sitting causes breast cancer? That's a conclusion the researchers who did the study explicitly <a href="http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/106/7/dju206.full" style="text-decoration: none;">did not find</a>.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>We know sitting is bad for us.</strong> Too much sedentary time can have dozens of unintended long-term consequences, from higher rates of chronic diseases, including <a href="http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/10/1/20?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=february-2013" style="text-decoration: none;">heart disease</a> and <a href="http://www.ijbnpa.org/content/10/1/20?dom=PSC&loc=recent&lnk=1&con=february-2013" style="text-decoration: none;">diabetes</a>,<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22717340" style="text-decoration: none;"></a> to immediate effects such as strained and sore muscles.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bonnie Berkowitz and Patterson Clark made an awesome <a href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/the-health-hazards-of-sitting/750/" style="text-decoration: none;">infographic</a> of all the health problems someone can develop just by spending too much time in a chair.</span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img src="http://media2.policymic.com/8f81459f7b2ae34b52afe88e869c9247.jpg" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="915" /></span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <em style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Image Credit: <a href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/national/the-health-hazards-of-sitting/750/" style="text-decoration: none;">Washington Post</a></em></div> <div dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 18px; margin-top: 18px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Luckily, there are tons of ways to cut back on your chair time.</strong> At work, you can take breaks every couple of hours — walk down the block or around the office. And instead of hunching over your desk for lunch, step outside and get some air.</span></div> </div>

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