Betty C. Jung's Web site - Public Health, Health, Jobs, Careers, Cool & Useful Sites

this site has won the cowgomoo webawards!

http://www.bettycjung.net/index.htm
bcj17@columbia.edu or, bettycjung@yahoo.com

(Posted January 15, 2010) "...obesity may soon overtake tobacco use as the leading cause of preventable death in the United States if current trends continue. Nearly 7 out of 10 adults are classified as overweight or obese."; "At present, poor diets, lack of exercise, and people being overweight or obese accounts for approximately a third of cancers in western countries, and approximately a fifth in developing countries."; "Overall, medical care for obese patients is about 43% more expensive than for normal weight patients -- about $4,870 a year compared with $3,400."; "There are about 4.4 ischemic strokes for every 100,000 women of childbearing age. Birth control pills increase the risk 1.9 times, to 8.5 strokes per 100,000 women."; "Menopausal women who take hormone-replacement therapy pills more than double their risk of developing a potentially fatal blood clot,..."; "...hormone therapy increases a woman's risk of ovarian cancer, regardless of the duration of use, dose, formulation, or route of administration.Current hormone users had a 38% increased risk of ovarian cancer compared with never-users."; "Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) using estrogen and progestin is associated with an increased risk for death from lung cancer."; "For men and women who had a higher body mass index, stress from job-related demands, difficulty paying bills, or depression and anxiety led to weight gain. For women, perceived constraints in life and strain in family relationships were also associated with greater weight gain. Stress in the workplace proved more fattening for men, who gained pounds if they felt a lack of skill discretion or decision authority on the job."; "Excessive Pregnancy Weight Gain in Obese Women May Be Retained for 1 Year..."We found that nearly three quarters of obese women gain too much weight during pregnancy — and the more weight they gain, the harder it is to lose,... This extra weight also increases the risk of pregnancy and delivery complications like diabetes, preeclampsia, bigger babies, C-sections, and birthing injuries."; "Impaired glucose tolerance at 20 weeks' gestation was associated with nearly six-fold increased risk of postpartum diabetes or prediabetes...."; "Older women who aren't getting enough vitamin D appear to be at risk for suffering from back pain,..."; "Since body weight is a modifiable factor, the good news is that healthy aging is not purely the consequence of good genes or other factors that one cannot change. If women maintain a healthy weight as adults, they may increase their odds of enjoying a healthy life in their later years,... In addition to overall weight gain, central adiposity was also identified as a risk factor for unhealthy aging."; "...overweight people who lost an average of just 11 pounds cut their risk of osteoarthritis in half."; "While most men agreed that the same women were attractive, women were less likely to agree about men’s attractiveness. Some women gave high attractiveness ratings to men other women said were completely unappealing. This happened much more often with women than it did with men."; "People who feel pressure to look attractive are more fearful of being rejected because of their appearance than are their peers....overall women showed greater sensitivity to appearance rejection than did men."; "The current generation of children faces a far higher risk of cancer later in life due to their unhealthy habits.... Childhood is the time when the habits of a lifetime are established. If you want healthy adults you have to start by making healthy children....If we don't do something about tackling how much exercise our young people take and how concerned they are about what they eat and their weight, we are going to have another explosion of cancers, to which unhealthy lifestyles will be a significant, contributory factor."

All Quality of Life Quotes & References Page
Visual Site Links Index

Powered by IP2Location.com
Digital Time
2010 Calendar
Happy 2010

Vision To provide a place where public health and healthcare professionals, and anyone interested, can find good quality information that exist on the World Wide Web.

Mission To be the only site you'll ever need to start a search for public health and healthcare information.

Goal To meet the Evaluation Criteria set by the Health Summit Working Group for Quality Health Information on the Internet & adhere to the Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility and...
Objectives 11/2004 - Highlighted "I-Spy: Website of Interest" in International Society of Performance Improvement Newsletter
9/8/2003 - Praise-worthy Consumer Webwatch site
4/2001 - Listed as a credible source of Public Health information by the Open Directory Project (quite an honor for a personal Web site!)
January 2010

# of Web site Hits: 21,460
# of Unique Visitors: 15,521
Highest month's hits: 37,389 (3/2007)
Thanks so much!!

Ratings

This site complies with the HONcode standard for trustworthy health information:
verify here.

Your Feedback

Who Are You?

Who Are You?

Search The Internet

Popular Pages

Web site Polls Statistics

Web site Statistics

Main Index Pages

Academic

Annotated Bibliographies

Consumer Health Information

Cool & Useful Sites

Epidemiology

For Kids Only

Health Information

Healthy People 2010

Internet Bibliography

MPH Alumni Record Site Map

Public Health

Public Health Data

Public Health Chapter Web Site

Quality

Topical Search Engines

Visitor Listings

Web Development & Net Resources

Wellness Web site

Add this code to your Web site to link to my Web site

<a href="http://www.bettycjung.net "target="_blank"><img src="http://www.bettycjung/Graphics/Junglink.gif" border="0" alt="Betty C. Jung's Web site"></a>

And this icon will show up:

or a simple link to www.bettycjung.net

Recommended by University of Michigan's SPH Career Services & Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health

Subscribe to Phjobs

Powered by health.groups.yahoo.com

Subscribe to PHE-News

Powered by health.groups.yahoo.com

Five Minutes Or Less For Health

Which is the most important Public Health Competency?

Site Search Engine and Site Index

Web www.bettycjung.net

Surf all the Public Health pages using the Public Health Web Ring Navigation Bar!

Web site created: August 25, 1999

Construction time for 2010: R25
Cumulative time and revision stats
Comments, Suggestions, Dead link Reports:

This Web site is now years and months old!!
© Copyright 1999 - 2010
All rights reserved.

Sponsored by
Web Hosting

1987-2004