A study has been able to find that brushing your teeth is not only good for your ivory whites, but it as well decreases your chances to develop heart problem or get a heart attack.
Researchers in England scrutinized information from more than 11,000 people that took part in a study named as the Scottish Health Survey. They evaluated their lifestyle habits for example smoking, overall physical activity, and oral health routines.
Patients were questioned that if they paid a visit to their dentist at least once each six months, every one or two years rarely or if they never visited their dentist.
They were as well asked that how often that would brush their teeth, twice or once in a day, or even less than that.
62% said that they paid a visit to their dentist once every six months. 71% said that they brushed their teeth twice every day.
After regulating the information for cardiovascular risk factors for instance obesity, smoking, social class, and family heart disease history, the researchers could find that people, who confessed to brushing their teeth less recurrently had a 70% further risk of heart disease.
People that informed about pitiable oral hygiene also tested positive for bloodstream inflammatory markers for example fibrinogen and C-reactive protein.
Friday, May 28, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Vienna tops 'quality of living' list
Vienna tops 'quality of living' list
Vienna, Zurich and Geneva are the top three places in the world for quality of living, a survey claims, with only five British cities appearing in the top 100
Vienna in Austria has come top of a quality of living list
Oh Vienna: The Austrian capital has come top of a quality of living list. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Seven cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been ranked among the 10 best in the world for quality of living, according to a survey published today.
Vienna has the world's best quality of living, according to global consultancy Mercer, with Zurich and Geneva just behind it and Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich and Bern also in the top 10.
Only five British cities made it into the top 100 – London is the highest at 39 followed by Aberdeen (53), Brimingham (55), Glasgow (57) and Belfast (63).
Popular cities including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh were omitted from the list on the grounds that they are not popular with companies as relocation bases. Baghdad and Port-au-Prince were in the bottom 10 of the 221 cities that the survey compared, with Baghdad at 221.
Vienna has topped the list for the past five years, with all countries measured on a point-scoring index against New York, which is given a base score of 100. New York itself was ranked 49 in the list just behind Washington and Chicago.
Cities are assessed on local living conditions and analysed according to 39 factors in 10 categories. These include political stability, banking services, waste disposal, standard and availability of international schools, restaurants and theatres, and record of natural disasters.
The list is compiled to help governments and multi-national companies compensate employees fairly when placing them on international assignments.
Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer, said: "As the world economy becomes more globalised, cities beyond the traditional financial centres are emerging as attractive places in which to expand or establish a business.
"Cities in many emerging markets, such as in the Middle East or Asia, have seen a significant influx of foreign companies and their expatriate employees in recent years."
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Taipei in Taiwan, and Busan in South Korea all made it in to the top 100.
This year, Mercer also ranked cities on their eco-credentials for the first time, based on water availability, waste removal, quality of sewage systems, air pollution and traffic congestion. Calgary, Honolulu and Ottawa came first, second and third, while Scotland and Northern Ireland also did well with Aberdeen, Belfast and Glasgow in the top 50.
• This article was amended on 26 May 2010. The original said 'although Baghdad and Port-au-Prince in Haiti both made the top 100 even though they were deemed to be among the least desirable places to live'. This has been corrected.
Vienna, Zurich and Geneva are the top three places in the world for quality of living, a survey claims, with only five British cities appearing in the top 100
Vienna in Austria has come top of a quality of living list
Oh Vienna: The Austrian capital has come top of a quality of living list. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian
Seven cities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland have been ranked among the 10 best in the world for quality of living, according to a survey published today.
Vienna has the world's best quality of living, according to global consultancy Mercer, with Zurich and Geneva just behind it and Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich and Bern also in the top 10.
Only five British cities made it into the top 100 – London is the highest at 39 followed by Aberdeen (53), Brimingham (55), Glasgow (57) and Belfast (63).
Popular cities including Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Edinburgh were omitted from the list on the grounds that they are not popular with companies as relocation bases. Baghdad and Port-au-Prince were in the bottom 10 of the 221 cities that the survey compared, with Baghdad at 221.
Vienna has topped the list for the past five years, with all countries measured on a point-scoring index against New York, which is given a base score of 100. New York itself was ranked 49 in the list just behind Washington and Chicago.
Cities are assessed on local living conditions and analysed according to 39 factors in 10 categories. These include political stability, banking services, waste disposal, standard and availability of international schools, restaurants and theatres, and record of natural disasters.
The list is compiled to help governments and multi-national companies compensate employees fairly when placing them on international assignments.
Slagin Parakatil, senior researcher at Mercer, said: "As the world economy becomes more globalised, cities beyond the traditional financial centres are emerging as attractive places in which to expand or establish a business.
"Cities in many emerging markets, such as in the Middle East or Asia, have seen a significant influx of foreign companies and their expatriate employees in recent years."
Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Taipei in Taiwan, and Busan in South Korea all made it in to the top 100.
This year, Mercer also ranked cities on their eco-credentials for the first time, based on water availability, waste removal, quality of sewage systems, air pollution and traffic congestion. Calgary, Honolulu and Ottawa came first, second and third, while Scotland and Northern Ireland also did well with Aberdeen, Belfast and Glasgow in the top 50.
• This article was amended on 26 May 2010. The original said 'although Baghdad and Port-au-Prince in Haiti both made the top 100 even though they were deemed to be among the least desirable places to live'. This has been corrected.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
The Web Makes the World Happier [STUDY]
New research from UK research firm BCS suggests that, on average, people around the world think that information technology (i.e. Internet access) increases their sense of freedom by 15% and improves their overall well-being. Altogether, our life satisfaction increases by 10% when we have IT access, the study concludes.
BCS’s study set out to better understand the relationship between IT and well-being, and to determine if there is a link — positive or negative — between the two. The report, ”The Information Divident: Can IT make you happier?”, is based on data collected from more than 35,000 survey respondents across the globe.
BCS’s primary finding — that, statistically speaking, IT has a positive impact on life satisfaction — is quite interesting, especially considering that some research shows that greater wealth doesn’t correlate to greater happiness (one would think money would make people happier than access to Twitter). And others believe that Internet addiction could become a chronic childhood illness.
The results indicate that those who benefit most from IT access are women, individuals in lower income households and those with less education. The institute argues that this is because “IT helps to promote and enable empowerment and autonomy.” For women specifically it serves as an important “social and family network support tool.”
You can read more about BCS’s findings in the full report embedded below.
BCS’s study set out to better understand the relationship between IT and well-being, and to determine if there is a link — positive or negative — between the two. The report, ”The Information Divident: Can IT make you happier?”, is based on data collected from more than 35,000 survey respondents across the globe.
BCS’s primary finding — that, statistically speaking, IT has a positive impact on life satisfaction — is quite interesting, especially considering that some research shows that greater wealth doesn’t correlate to greater happiness (one would think money would make people happier than access to Twitter). And others believe that Internet addiction could become a chronic childhood illness.
The results indicate that those who benefit most from IT access are women, individuals in lower income households and those with less education. The institute argues that this is because “IT helps to promote and enable empowerment and autonomy.” For women specifically it serves as an important “social and family network support tool.”
You can read more about BCS’s findings in the full report embedded below.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Giving hope in Horn of Africa
Giving hope in Horn of Africa
City native to be honored
By Danielle M. Horn TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
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WORCESTER — Jonathan Starr said some people have reacted incredulously upon learning that he abandoned a lucrative career as an investment banker to move to Africa and pursue a far less financially rewarding path.
The 33-year-old Worcester native and Worcester Academy graduate founded a nonprofit, four-year school and graduate school in Somaliland, a country of 3.5 million in the Horn of Africa. He relocated from the Boston area to the impoverished country, where he leads an effort to establish a sustainable institution that will meet standards of any boarding school in the world.
“With some people, there’s a lot of disbelief. Some think I’m a little crazy,” Mr. Starr said in a phone interview yesterday, while visiting family in Worcester. “But I feel I was put in the position to make a difference. Not everyone is lucky enough to be in that position.”
Mr. Starr’s alma mater will honor him today with Worcester Academy’s Young Alumnus Recognition Award, noting that Abaarso Tech, in its inaugural year, is attracting top local and international minds to teach Somaliland’s most promising youth. The school, which welcomed a freshman class of 50 in the fall, plans to add 50 students a year until it reaches 200. The associated graduate school trains Somaliland business leaders and is the first of its kind in the country.
“We’re always looking to recognize graduates who are achieving success, and exemplify the school motto, ‘To achieve the honorable,’ ” said Neil Isakson, director of external communications for Worcester Academy. “Jonathan’s pursuit is unusual, and exciting at the same time.”
But how did a Worcester kid, whose ties to the city are so deep that he named his investment firm after his elementary school, end up pouring all his efforts into a small African country?
Mr. Starr said he learned about Somaliland, where only 33 percent of school-aged children are in school, when his aunt married a man from there. He visited the country, learned about its lack of educational opportunities, and became consumed with thoughts about how he could help.
A 1998 graduate of Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he had worked as a research associate in the taxable bond division of Fidelity Investments, and as an analyst at two private investment firms before founding his own company, Flagg Street Capital, in 2004. He led the $170 million firm until liquidating it in 2008. Since then, his focus has been in Somaliland.
Teachers recruited from across the country are paid $3,000 a year and are provided housing. Mr. Starr said he is not on the school’s payroll and is living off earnings from his prior career.
“A lot of nonprofits in Somaliland are not making much of an impact and they’re paying Western salaries to be there,” Mr. Starr said. “Our teachers, we know, are there because they want to make a difference.”
Mr. Isaakson said Worcester Academy is in the early stages of forming a sister school relationship with Abaarso Tech, one that will likely involve collection efforts for the school and interaction between students.
“I think this partnership will be wonderful for both schools,” Mr. Starr said. “If done right, the ability for cultural exchange and education will be eye opening to both sides.
“We’re trying to educate the most talented kids in the country, and by doing that, our impact can be really enormous,” he said. “Right now, Somaliland is tenuous — though it is safe now, long-term, if it doesn’t develop, it could follow the paths of its neighbors. Some people may think this doesn’t affect them, as Americans, but it does. When you have a bunch of unemployed, uneducated people, it’s ripe for some bad behavior and that very much does affect America.”
City native to be honored
By Danielle M. Horn TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF
2 comments | Add a comment
WORCESTER — Jonathan Starr said some people have reacted incredulously upon learning that he abandoned a lucrative career as an investment banker to move to Africa and pursue a far less financially rewarding path.
The 33-year-old Worcester native and Worcester Academy graduate founded a nonprofit, four-year school and graduate school in Somaliland, a country of 3.5 million in the Horn of Africa. He relocated from the Boston area to the impoverished country, where he leads an effort to establish a sustainable institution that will meet standards of any boarding school in the world.
“With some people, there’s a lot of disbelief. Some think I’m a little crazy,” Mr. Starr said in a phone interview yesterday, while visiting family in Worcester. “But I feel I was put in the position to make a difference. Not everyone is lucky enough to be in that position.”
Mr. Starr’s alma mater will honor him today with Worcester Academy’s Young Alumnus Recognition Award, noting that Abaarso Tech, in its inaugural year, is attracting top local and international minds to teach Somaliland’s most promising youth. The school, which welcomed a freshman class of 50 in the fall, plans to add 50 students a year until it reaches 200. The associated graduate school trains Somaliland business leaders and is the first of its kind in the country.
“We’re always looking to recognize graduates who are achieving success, and exemplify the school motto, ‘To achieve the honorable,’ ” said Neil Isakson, director of external communications for Worcester Academy. “Jonathan’s pursuit is unusual, and exciting at the same time.”
But how did a Worcester kid, whose ties to the city are so deep that he named his investment firm after his elementary school, end up pouring all his efforts into a small African country?
Mr. Starr said he learned about Somaliland, where only 33 percent of school-aged children are in school, when his aunt married a man from there. He visited the country, learned about its lack of educational opportunities, and became consumed with thoughts about how he could help.
A 1998 graduate of Emory University with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he had worked as a research associate in the taxable bond division of Fidelity Investments, and as an analyst at two private investment firms before founding his own company, Flagg Street Capital, in 2004. He led the $170 million firm until liquidating it in 2008. Since then, his focus has been in Somaliland.
Teachers recruited from across the country are paid $3,000 a year and are provided housing. Mr. Starr said he is not on the school’s payroll and is living off earnings from his prior career.
“A lot of nonprofits in Somaliland are not making much of an impact and they’re paying Western salaries to be there,” Mr. Starr said. “Our teachers, we know, are there because they want to make a difference.”
Mr. Isaakson said Worcester Academy is in the early stages of forming a sister school relationship with Abaarso Tech, one that will likely involve collection efforts for the school and interaction between students.
“I think this partnership will be wonderful for both schools,” Mr. Starr said. “If done right, the ability for cultural exchange and education will be eye opening to both sides.
“We’re trying to educate the most talented kids in the country, and by doing that, our impact can be really enormous,” he said. “Right now, Somaliland is tenuous — though it is safe now, long-term, if it doesn’t develop, it could follow the paths of its neighbors. Some people may think this doesn’t affect them, as Americans, but it does. When you have a bunch of unemployed, uneducated people, it’s ripe for some bad behavior and that very much does affect America.”
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