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Does a four or five year old live with you?

Children need two booster immunisations at four years of age to protect them against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whopping cough), poliomyelitis, measles, mumps, and rubella. Booster immunisations at this age are given as two combined vaccines, one in each arm. It is vitally important for children to be vaccinated on time to provide protection against these serious diseases. If you child is due, or overdue, for any scheduled vaccinations please bring them to an immunisation session. Remember to bring your child health record book.

Prostate Cancer Awareness Month

According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, prostate cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in Australia and the second greatest cause of cancer deaths in men.

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Women who eat a high-fat diet during pregnancy may put their child at risk of birth defects, a new report has found. British researchers carried out a study on mice which showed a pregnant mother's diet could affect the genes of her unborn child, influencing types and severity of birth defects, such as cleft palate and congenital heart disease.

"These are very important findings as we have been able to show for the first time that gene-environment interactions can affect development of the embryo in the womb," said study leader Jamie Bentham of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics at the University of Oxford.

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There are some things that once you know them, they really can't be forgotten. I will now enlighten you, in regards to some health and diet information that is a "must know", yet is for some reason they're little known.

First of all, maybe you knew drinking enough water does a wealth of good for you, but did you know that just drinking water alone, helps your body burn more calories? Start taking a multi-vitamin, and you'll be burning another 4% more calories on top of that. So just getting enough water, and a multi-vitamin daily will turn your body into a calorie burning machine compared to the latter.

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The International Medical and Education Trust (IMET) has recently organised a health competition of pregnant women in Bhittai Colony to make the women aware about the importance of a healthy mother for a healthy society. As many as 47 pregnant women participated in the contest, while large numbers of spectators were also there to watch the unique competition.

Speaking at the prize distribution ceremony, Dr Safia, who is one of the most active workers of the IMET, said that the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) had mentioned that the intake of complete diet was must for a pregnant woman; the diet should be supplemented with vitamins, calcium, zinc, and iron so that a mother could produce a healthy baby.

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Does the diet of a pregnant woman really affect the unborn baby's sex? According to new research, what a woman eats in the early stages of pregnancy impacts the sex and health of the offspring.

Eating a high-fat diet around conception elevate the odds of a boy, whereas a low-fat diet with longer spells of fasting indicate a baby girl is more likely to be born.

Lead author of the study Dr Cheryl Rosenfeld of the University of Missouri stated, "High calorie diets generally favor birth of males over females, whereas low calorie diets tend to favor females over males.

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When Bill Clinton was released from a New York hospital on Friday, the world was reminded again about the importance of heart health.

The 63-year-old former president had two stents inserted into a clogged coronary artery after he had complained of chest pains last week.

Clinton's prognosis is favorable and he's expected to be back at work this week, which is, as it happens, Heart Failure Awareness Week.

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1 Say 'no thanks' with feeling
Think up new phrases to decline extra portions like, "None of these puds float my boat", or, "My new thing's peppermint tea".

2 Keep a food diary
Writing down what you eat has been proven to help you avoid fatty temptation.

3 Reach for a remedy
Bach Original Flower Remedies' new Emotional Eating Kit has three essences including Crab Apple for self-acceptance and Cherry Plum for rational thinking when a cake's giving you the eye.

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Keeping it real and keeping it positive and watching out for fad diets is essential for losing weight. At this time of year with everybody working out New Year’s Resolutions it seems that everywhere you look there is a new easy to follow diet which requires no effort whatsoever.

At Ukmedix News we say that you should avoid all of them!The first thing you need to do before trying to lose weight is to get your head in order.

Ask yourself what your goals are and instead of seeing the future as a bleak place devoid of tasty food and full of aches and pains from exercise, you should imagine the future as a rosy place where you are free, fit, able to run up the stairs and live your life doing what you want to do when you want to do it.

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The freshness of the fruit coupled with its flavour and texture are but some of the benefits in undergoing a fruit cleansing diet.

When ingested, the natural ingredients allow for instantaneous digestion without much work by the body.

The sucrose in the fruit is easily burned and the fibres help in colon maintenance. There is nothing about fruits that can be said to be harmful to the body, though not all fruits are edible.

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