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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.
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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.
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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.
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CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/04/10/impotence.drug/hs\\%7eindex.html
CNN.com delivers the latest breaking news and information on the latest top stories, weather, business, entertainment, politics, and more. For in-depth coverage, CNN.com provides special reports, video, audio, photo galleries, and interactive guides.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/07/your.health/hs\\%7eindex.html
Several years ago, Oprah Winfrey walked onto her talk show pulling a wagon full of fat to graphically demonstrate what she had lost on a highly touted liquid diet. Her dramatic results gave hope to dieters nationwide that they, too, could lose weight fast. But Oprah's triumph didn't last. Within a year or so, the television superstar had regained most of what she'd lost.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/13/weight.loss.wmd/index.html
For years I thought the battle between me and my thinning hair was waged on one front: my forehead. But my genes opened a second front without warning. Seeing the back of my head one day in a restaurant with far too many mirrors, I saw a devastated terrain far beyond my receding hairline. The war was over. I had a classic case of male pattern baldness, in front and on top of my head.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/04/05/less.hair.wmd/index.html
Before her divorce, Jane, a 52-year-old attorney, had a hard time dealing with an emotionally abusive husband who badgered their son and verbally attacked her. Sure, she was angry at her ex, but when researchers asked her about her experiences, she never once used the term
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/04/13/anger.healthy.wmd/index.html
While some discipline experts have rejected the idea of time-outs, Jane Nelsen, author of
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/24/discipline.sbtwo.wmd/index.html
As an avid skier who had spent much time perched atop two skinny sticks, Matt Walsh thought he knew a thing or two about balance. But it wasn't until he began incorporating equilibrium exercises into his fitness routine that he learned he could actually get better at it.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/03/balance.health.wmd/index.html
American doctors have long been reluctant to prescribe the most powerful of pain killers, opioids, fearing they'll turn patients into addicts or draw scrutiny from federal drug agents. After all, from opioids we get the heroin used on the streets as well as the morphine used in hospitals.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/04/pain.killer.wmd/index.html
When Leslie Palmer was suffering from painful and debilitating stomach problems, she called a gastroenterologist and was told the earliest available appointment was two months away.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/04/27/talkto.doc.wmd/index.html
At a time when blood banks report dangerously low supplies, the best argument for rolling up your sleeve is still to do someone else some good. But if University of Florida researcher Jerome Sullivan, M.D., is right -- and there's new evidence to suggest he is -- giving blood could also save your life.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/26/give.blood.wmd/index.html
Three experts -- Becky Bailey, Martha Heineman Pieper and Jane Nelsen -- who have written extensively on the new, enlightened approach to parenting young children, offer these suggestions for dealing with toddlers:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/24/discipline.sbone.wmd/index.html
Parents will go a long way just to quiet a colicky baby. The quest often starts with a baby swing, progresses to 3 a.m. drives around the neighborhood and ends in a pediatrician's office, where parents get condolences and little else.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/11/chiro.forcolic.wmd/index.html
A recent study shows that flavonoids, biological compounds found in more than 4,000 fruits and vegetables, seem to inhibit the growth of human cancer cells in laboratory tests.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/03/30/flavonoids.study/index.html
For years, parents of anorexic girls have been told to avoid arguments over food and give up their failed fight for control over their daughters' bodies. But when Claire and Bob Donovan walked through the doors of Children's Hospital of Michigan with their bone-thin daughter Megan, they were put squarely in charge.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/28/anorexia.health.wmd/index.html
Frustrated by the lack of support for healthy activities at your job? Sick of trying to squeeze in a workout before work at the pricey club across town? Here's how to nudge your company into making fitness a priority.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/24/fitness.sb.wmd/index.html
On a path along the Hudson River at the southern tip of Manhattan, in the shadow of the World Trade Center, is a playground surfaced in a soft, green, rubber-like material. The playground beckons with brightly painted multilevel climbing structures, swaying bridges, curvy yellow slides, a pedal-powered merry-go-round and an elevated sand table that allows a child in a wheelchair to scoop sand and ...
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/05/monkey.bars.wmd/index.html
Five million Americans suffer from an eating disorder such as anorexia or bulimia. Most of them are young women and teenage girls, although about 5 percent are male. Eating disorders can have devastating effects on health. As many as 1,000 girls and women die each year from the complications of anorexia.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/28/anorexia.sidebar.wmd/index.html
Eric Snider, a music critic for
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/aging/04/19/hearing.loss.wmd/index.html
Ask any parent of a little kid and they'll tell you that their wiggly-squiggly wee one is constantly in motion -- chasing birds, scrambling up hills and booting balls. But it's become a sad fact of American life that many of these frisky small fry wind up out of shape and overweight by the time they reach their teens.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/10/fit.kids.wmd/index.html
Barbara Poland, a 35-year-old sales representative from Fredricksburg, Virginia, knew exactly what she wanted when she had her first child. No drugs, no interventions: an
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/04/07/induction.health.wmd/index.html
Until about six months ago, 38-year-old Marty Shaver, a supply manager at Motorola in Palmer, Texas, could have been a poster boy for the couch potato elite. Although he'd been an accomplished athlete in college, his grown-up responsibilities had gradually squeezed workout time from his schedule. His weight hovered about 30 pounds above what it had been during school, and his cholesterol level had...
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/24/corporate.fitness.wmd/index.html
For years, Maria Cusenza's three children didn't worry much about her. Through her 60s and early 70s, Cusenza was a busy woman living in her own apartment in San Francisco. But in recent years the situation has changed. Cusenza, now 80, has marked memory loss. By afternoon, she forgets a conversation she had that morning. During the week she forgets a weekend outing.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/18/stress.depress.wmd/index.html
In the epic struggle of man against microbe, scientists have won the latest battle, but it remains to be seen which side will win the war. On Tuesday, Pharmacia-Upjohn received FDA approval for the first completely new type of antibiotic in more than 35 years. The medication comes as a welcome weapon in the war on
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/19/antibiotic4_19.a.tm/index.html
I am no Captain von Trapp and yet, as the mother of 21-month-old twins, there lurks within me a certain envy of how the
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/24/discipline.health.wmd/index.html
When optometrist Frank Siciliano, O.D., first saw an advertisement for ColorMax eyeglass lenses, he took more than a professional interest. Siciliano, who runs the Belmont Eye Clinic in Youngstown, Ohio, is colorblind himself and knows the frustration of not being able to see the world in full, brilliant color.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/20/color.blindness.wmd/index.html
For more than 10 years, 72-year-old San Franciscan Ellen Arbenz was dogged by pain every time she climbed a set of stairs. Sometimes just walking across a room made her joints cry out. And though she'd always loved gardening, she had gradually come to enjoy it less and less. Kneeling to yank a weed, pushing a trowel into the dirt or merely reaching to clip a flower had become too painful.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/04/07/glucosamine.health.wmd/index.html
Like many pregnant women, Dana Martin knew very little about perineal massage until about two months before giving birth.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/women/04/18/episiotomy.health.wmd/index.html
It comes in a bewildering number of products, from MuscleTech and Cell-Tech to Champion Creatine Xtreme and Twinlab Creatine Fuel 5000. Day after day, weight lifters and athletes from junior high to pro leagues are swallowing gram after gram of the stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/14/creatine.health.wmd/index.html
If you are getting less attention and help from your doctor than you might like, the findings from a recent study might help you to improve the relationship -- especially if you are 65 or older.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/06/doc.you.wmd/index.html
All that Gary and Jenifer Troxel wanted was to watch their granddaughters grow up -- to see them on holidays and weekends and even a couple of weeks in the summertime.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/05/grand.parents.wmd/index.html
On weekday mornings, the boardwalk in Santa Monica, California, is a whirlwind of power walkers, runners, inline skaters and cyclists. Yet each day amid the hubbub, a group stands off to the side. With feet spread wide and knees flexed, they glide through a series of slow, controlled movements, such as the evocatively named
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/diet.fitness/04/04/balance.sidebar.wmd/index.html
You can put down that super-size bowl of bran flakes. According to an article published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, it looks as if our national obsession with all things fiber may not be yielding the results we'd hoped for, particularly in the realm of colorectal cancer.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/20/fiber4_20.a.tm/index.html
When physician Wendy Schlessel Harpham went to the hospital with severe back and leg pain in the fall of 1990, she faced a devastating diagnosis: non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph system.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/children/04/28/coping.health.wmd/index.html
In his early 40s, Ron Hanson was too young to be having trouble getting and sustaining erections. But like many men, he was too embarrassed at first to talk about the problem.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/men/04/05/viagra.failure.wmd/index.html
Even the most heartening news about the health benefits of wine wasn't enough to convince Susan Sanford to imbibe.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/alternative/03/31/wine.heart.wmd/index.html
Citing unsanitary conditions and poor oversight of
medical supplies, the Washington State Department of Health Tuesday ordered
Puget Sound Hospital in Tacoma to close by Friday.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/25/hospital.shut/index.html
Under the Compassionate Care Program, multiple sclerosis patient Barbara Douglass was one of 15 people in the country who was chosen to receive medical marijuana.
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CNN.com - Health - 25 years after Vietnam, U.S. grapples with health lessons of war - April 28, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/28/vietnam.medical.history/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/04/26/emerging.infections/index.html
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Wikipedia-Article "Health"
- For the science of human and animal health, see Health science.
Defined negatively, health is the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. In any organism, health is a form of homeostasis. This is a state of balance, with inputs and outputs of energy and matter in equilibrium (allowing for growth). Health also implies good prospects for continued survival. In sentient creatures such as humans, health is a broader concept.
Many definitions of health have been offered from time to time. Webster's Dictionary defines health as "the condition of being sound in body, mind or spirit, especially freedom from physical disease or pain". The Oxford English Dictionary defines health as "soundness of body or mind; that condition in which its functions are duly and efficiently discharged". Dubos (1968) defined health as " a modus vivendi enabling imperfect men to achieve a rewarding and not-too-painful existance while they cope with an imperfect world".
However, the most widely accepted definition is that of the World Health Organization Constitution. It states that "health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (World Health Organization, 1946). In more recent years, this statement has been amplified to include the ability to lead a "socially and economically productive life". The WHO definition is not without criticism, mainly that it is too broad. Some argue that health cannot be defined as a state at all, but must be seen as a process of continuous adjustment to the changing demands of living and of the changing meanings we give to life. It is a dynamic concept. the WHO definition is therefore considered by many as an idealistic goal rather than a realistic proposition. Using the WHO definition classifies 70-95% of people as unhealthy. In spite of the above limitations, the concept of health as defined by WHO is broad and positive in its implications. It sets out a high standard for positive health. It represents the overall goal that nations should strive to reach.
The most solid aspects of wellness that fit firmly in the realm of medicine are the environmental health, nutrition, disease prevention, and public health matters that can be investigated and assist in measuring well-being.
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See also
- Disease
- Health care
- Health disparities
- Health profession
- Healthcare delivery
- Healthy eating
- Longevity
- Medicine
- Mental health
- Natural Hygiene
- Nursing
- Physical fitness
- Population health
- Public health
- Sexuality
- Wellness (alternative medicine)
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Notes and references
- World Health Organization, Constitution, World Health Organization, Geneva, 1946. Available online at [http://w3.whosea.org/aboutsearo/pdf/const.pdf http://w3.whosea.org/Accessed October 24, 2005.
- WHO (1979)Health for All, Sr. Nos. 1, 2
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