Doctor James Wright - the original TV medic shares the latest health and medical news.

A new report in the “Harvard Health Letter” says five simple life-style moldifications reduce illness, avoids early death and promotes longevity.

The 'Nurses Health Study” started in America in 1980 & regularly followed up. 9,000 nurses have died. Smoking caused 28%, physical inactivity 17% Overweight 14% Bad diet 13% Alcohol 7%.

Advice: Never smoke, exercise regularly, eat healthful foods, (fruit veggies) and stay trim.

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Doctor James Wright - the original TV medic shares the latest health and medical news.

Bowel cancer kills huge numbers annually and is rising. It is completely curable by early diagnosis. A new survey in the “British Medical Journal” believes that if 60% of persons took the occult blood test, it would be detected and cured, saving at lesat 1,200 lives annually in Australia. It's a cheap and simple crude test, but effective. Ideally the colonoscopic test will become widely available and cheaper, as this is now the gold standard.

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Doctor James Wright - the original TV medic shares the latest health and medical news.

A new heartening report from London says the intervention called radiofrequency “catheter ablation” can reverse the potentially lethal heart irregularity called “atrial fibrillation”, reducing risk of stroke and heart failure.

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Doctor James Wright - the original TV medic shares the latest health and medical news.

Eighty was once considered “very elderly”. But today that has all changed.

80 is now the new 60. says the Harvard Health Letter.
The main reason is huge numbers of elderly people are having blood pressure regularly checked, and aggressively treated if elevated. Medication will reduce it, so dramatically reducing risks of stroke, heart attack, heart failure and overall mortality.

Ideally, the best BP for anyone is considered to be 135-85.

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Doctor James Wright - the original TV medic shares the latest health and medical news.

An amazing report in the staid doctors magazine the “British Medical Journal” says the newest “contagion” is called 'HAPPINESS”.

Several major reviews extending back to 1983, and covering 5,000 people, (called the “Framingham Heart Study”) has found those who are happy associate with happy people, who like-wise catch the happiness contagion, and associate with yet others who similarly become happy..

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