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Parents who are strict disciplinarians are far likely to wind up with children who are fat by six, according to a study conducted at Boston University School of Medicine in the USA. The study also found that children of parents who are indulgent and without discipline, also have weight problems but not the degree of the offspring of strict disciplinarians with low levels of sensitivity. The children of neglectful mothers and fathers, those who are emotionally uninvolved with no set rules, fared about the same as kids raised by permissive parents. The study covered 872 children who were part of a group enrolled at birth in 1991.

A diet rich in whole gains my lower the likelihood of developing periodintitis (gum disease)report researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Diabetes and high levels of blood sugar are known to increase a person’s risk and severity of periodontitis, white whole grains and fiber have been shown to improve ability to process blood sugar. The researchers followed over 34,000 men over 14 years, gathering information about the men’s diet every four years.

Over a 14-years period, 1,897 men were diagnosed with periodontitis. Those who reported eating the most brown rice, dark breads, popcorn and other whole grains (about three servings per day) were 23 percent less likely to develop periodontitis than those who reported eating less than one daily serving of whole grains.

A study conducted at the Yale School of Medicine in the USA revealed that being fired could prove fatal, especially for middle-aged 51 and 61, the study found the incidence of heart attack and stroke among those who had lost their jobs was more than double that in those still working. Losing one’s job at a late age was shown to cause extremely high tress levels.

A recent British study found that smokers with a lot of wrinkles are far more likely to have emphysema than are smokers with less-lined faces. Researchers looked at 149 current and former smokers who had smoked at least one pack of cigarettes a day for five years.
Independent experts assessed them for so-called crows’-feet, and their breathing capacity was tested. More than 80 percent of the volunteers with facial wrinkling were found to have symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.