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Thursday, January 26, 2012

SC Johnson Helps Families Learn More About the Products They Use Every Day

Racine, Wis., (January 26, 2012) /PRNewswire/ — SC Johnson announced today the release of its Exclusive Fragrance Palette that was more than two years in the making. This fragrance palette provides a comprehensive list of the fragrance ingredients found in the company’s products and is accessible to consumers through www.whatsinsidescjohnson.com, the company’s relaunched ingredient disclosure website. The goal is to help families learn more about the ingredients that are in products they use in their homes every day, and to help consumers feel confident about the fragrances found in SC Johnson products like Windex®, Glade® and Pledge®.

“We want all of our ingredients to be transparent, so consumers can make their own, informed choices on what to purchase,” said Fisk Johnson, Chairman and CEO of SC Johnson. “We also want to earn the trust and confidence every day of the people that buy our products because we work hard on our ingredient choices and strive to continually improve our products.”

In March 2009, SC Johnson announced that it was going beyond an industry-wide “Consumer Product Ingredient Communication Initiative” in a number of ways, by committing to make ingredient information available in three ways (online, on pack and by phone); by committing to list all of the ingredients included in its products, including dyes, preservatives and fragrance ingredients; and by committing to make the information available in English, Spanish and French. Today, SC Johnson announced the completion of this commitment through the release of its Exclusive Fragrance Palette.

Our Exclusive Fragrance Palette
Fragrances are both creative and complicated. Many companies develop their fragrances from a list of more than 3,000 fragrance molecules published by the International Fragrance Association (IFRA), which shows fragrance ingredients used in consumer goods worldwide, all of which have passed IFRA’s standards.

SC Johnson takes the review of fragrance ingredients a step further. Fragrance ingredients are evaluated not only under the IFRA standards, but also under SC Johnson internal requirements. These internal requirements may look at the same criteria as IFRA, such as carcinogenicity, mutagenicity or reproductive toxicity, but the SC Johnson standard may take a stricter or different view of an ingredient. In some instances, additional factors are considered such as consumer confidence with ingredients or other scientific viewpoints. As an example, in early 2009, SC Johnson committed to removing the phthalate DEP from its fragrances in response to consumer concerns, even though DEP has been extensively researched and has been deemed safe by various scientific bodies. This was the only phthalate used in its fragrances and the company is meeting its commitment to remove it. The end result is SC Johnson’s Exclusive Fragrance Palette, which is smaller and more exclusive than the IFRA list.

Ingredient Website Offers Better Resources
As part of the release of the palette, SC Johnson is also introducing an enhanced website, designed to provide families with the product and ingredient information they are looking for, including features such as a fragrance education section, comprehensive product definitions, FAQs, links to other resource websites and more.

The ingredient website will offer additional resources for families looking to learn more about what’s in the products they use in their homes. Enhanced product definitions will describe ingredients and the role they play in products. FAQs offer easy to understand answers to the most commonly asked questions and in keeping with the company’s commitment to transparency, the website offers links to alternate sites containing ingredient information, educational materials and more.

Enhanced Labels
Beginning in 2012, SC Johnson will start rolling out product labels that list ingredients using their International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients names (INCI), a naming system used by the personal care products industry that is recognizable and familiar to many consumers. The move will be completed over several years.

A History of Doing What’s Right
SC Johnson’s ingredient leadership extends the company’s long history of doing what’s right for people and the planet. In 2001, SC Johnson internally developed its ingredient selection process called its Greenlist™ process. SC Johnson’s Greenlist™ process classifies raw materials according to their impact on the environment and human health. The company’s goal with the Greenlist™ process is to increase year-on-year the percentage of ingredients used in its products that are rated “Better” or “Best” by the Greenlist™ process. In 2001, the total “Better” or “Best” ingredients by weight of raw materials used in the company’s products was 18 percent. In 2010, this reached 51 percent. SC Johnson’s Greenlist™ process is patented by the company and the company received the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award in 2006 for its Greenlist™ process.

About SC Johnson
SC Johnson is a family-owned and managed business dedicated to innovative, high-quality products, excellence in the workplace and a long-term commitment to the environment and the communities in which it operates. Based in the USA, the company is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of household cleaning products and products for home storage, air care and pest control. It markets such well-known brands as GLADE®, KIWI®, OFF!®, PLEDGE®, RAID®, SCRUBBING BUBBLES®, SHOUT®, WINDEX® and ZIPLOC® in the U.S. and beyond, with brands marketed outside the U.S. including AUTAN®, TANA®, BAMA®, BAYGON®, BRISE®, KABIKILLER®, KLEAR®, MR. MUSCLE® and RIDSECT®. The 126-year-old company, that generates $9 billion in sales, employs nearly 13,000 people globally and sells products in virtually every country around the world. www.scjohnson.com

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Cancer Among Minorities with HIV/AIDS

By the National Cancer Institute

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Racial and ethnic minorities in America have been hit harder than white Americans by the HIV/AIDS epidemic–they make up about one-third of the population but two-thirds of all cases. In 2009, African Americans made up 14 percent of the population but accounted for 44 percent of all new HIV infections. And Hispanics made up 16 percent of the population but 20 percent of new cases in 2009.

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All patients infected with HIV, including racial and ethnic minorities, are benefiting from new, more effective therapies developed over the last 15 years. But as patients are living longer, the distribution of cancer has shifted dramatically. While the types of cancer that have been typically associated with AIDS progression are on the decline in the HIV/AIDS population, other types of cancer are now on the rise.

A Tale of Two Diseases

Cancer and HIV/AIDS has always been "a tale of two diseases," according to researchers at the NCI. Infection with HIV not only weakens the immune system, leading to AIDS and increasing the risk of opportunistic infections, but also increases the risk of several types of cancer.

One of these cancers is Kaposi sarcoma, or KS. Before the HIV/AIDS epidemic, KS was extremely rare, but with the onset of the epidemic it became more common. Indeed, the increase in KS helped alert doctors to the epidemic in the first place. KS is now one of three cancers, along with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and invasive cervical cancer, whose presence is part of the criteria for defining whether a person infected with HIV has developed AIDS. In 1995, 51,414 people died of AIDS, and 34,000 people with HIV had developed one of these signature cancers in the previous five years.

Since then, "progress against HIV infection and AIDS, diagnoses once perceived as an automatic death sentence, has been striking," said Dr. Robert Wiltrout, director of NCI's Center for Cancer Research. In 2005, AIDS deaths numbered about 17,000, a reduction of nearly 65 percent from a decade earlier. The incidence of "AIDS-defining" cancers also dropped over this period, from 34,000 in 1991 through 1995 down to about 10,000 between 2001 and 2005.

Thanks to better treatments, four times as many people were living with AIDS in 2005 as in 1991. Also, as people with HIV have begun living longer, they face an increased risk of other types of cancer, for several reasons: They often have more exposure to other viruses or agents that cause cancer, their immune systems are somewhat weakened, and the general risk of cancer increases with age.

The most common non-AIDS-defining cancers in patients with HIV are anal, lung, and liver cancers and Hodgkin lymphoma. These four cancers made up nearly half of all non-AIDS-defining cancers diagnosed in this population from 2001 through 2005. Higher risks for these cancers reflect co-infections such as human papillomavirus (HPV), hepatitis B and C viruses, and Epstein-Barr virus, as well as higher smoking rates in the HIV/AIDS population. Thus, although fewer people now die of AIDS, cancer is emerging as an important cause of death for the HIV-infected population.

Preventing cancer

Preventing cancers that are increasing among the HIV-infected population is now a major focus of people who treat those with HIV. This effort includes trying to combat viral co-infections that cause cancer through prevention, screening, and treatment and avoiding exposure to other risk factors, such as smoking. Both men and women who are infected with HIV should discuss screening options for cancer with their medical providers. The risk of lung cancer can be reduced by quitting smoking. Because HIV-infected people have a higher risk of lung cancer, it is especially important that they do not smoke. Also, determining a patient's hepatitis status can sometimes lead to effective early intervention that may be able to reduce the risk of liver cancer.

Finally, for individuals who are not yet HIV infected, prevention of HIV-associated cancers should include prevention against HIV infection in the first place. And since many HIV-related cancers are caused by HPV, it is important for male and female children to be vaccinated against HPV infection before they are sexually active.

These prevention efforts are especially important for racial and ethnic minorities, who make up more than half of all HIV patients. Nearly four in five women with HIV/AIDS are from these groups, and an even greater number of children with the disease are also from these groups.

The NCI has made substantial contributions to AIDS research since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic and today supports a broad and robust research program in this area. NCI leads the National Cancer Program and the NIH effort to dramatically reduce the burden of cancer and improve the lives of cancer patients and their families, through research into prevention and cancer biology, the development of new interventions, and the training and mentoring of new researchers. For more information about cancer, please visit the NCI web site at www.cancer.gov or call NCI's Cancer Information Service at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237). More articles and videos in the culturally relevant Lifelines series are available at www.cancer.gov/lifelines.

SOURCE National Cancer Institute

Sunday, January 15, 2012

How To Get Rid Of Constipation

Everybody hates it when they feel abdominal pains caused by constipation. In addition, it’s really painful to experience trying to release the bowel because it can be really harder to do than usual.

When this kind of condition challenges a person, he or she is unable to complete any task for that particular moment and when one finds a right angle that would lessen the pain, he refuses to move anymore. But this would not solve the problem. So, how do we really get free from constipation? Here are two ways on how to treat constipation.

One is what most people usually do, taking up medicine to regulate the movement; and second is the healthier way which is to take in natural remedies such as vegetable oil particularly olive oil. But, aside from the two, it is always necessary to exercise, drink plenty of water and eat fruits and vegetables that are rich in fiber.

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Friday, January 13, 2012

Important Factors on How to Run a 5k Effectively

Every runner must remember that there are important factors to be considered on how to run a 5k effectively. Getting into a training program under the supervision of a professional trainer can be considered as an essential factor. Although there runners who finds this idea rather expensive. It is not necessary to get a formal running program, what is important is to know the basic techniques and rules in running.

Learning the proper way of how to run a 5k may seem to be a tedious task particularly for runners who did not have a formal training. However, the willingness to learn and having the right discipline will enable a runner to develop certain running skills. There are certain free running programs and tips that can be searched in the internet. Although nor all these free programs can be reliable and effective, just get the most vital information which is apt for you.

A runner who desires to know how to run a 5k must be patient in learning the proper way of running. Running is a simple activity that can be complicated if the person do not possess the right attributes of a good runner. A 5k training schedule should be customized to fit your health needs, too. The injuries that a runner may incur during the practice or the actual run may cause damage to the body. With the right knowledge and proper training, injuries can be avoided and success can be achieved.

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How perilous can loud snoring be? The answer is very much so

Noisy snoring everyone knows is incredibly irritating and positively ridiculous. But did we all know that loud snoring can be the cause ofa deadly situation named sleep apnea? There are many reasons individuals snore which range from weight problems to merely sleeping in an undesirable position during the night time. However, if snoring is a result of sleep apnea than the intelligent course of action is always to consult a health care professional who can help take care of this aggravating and threatening disorder.

Sleep apnea impacts the throat, and during sleep individuals with this disorder fall victim to their air passage collapsing in on itself consequently making breathing very difficult. Nevertheless quite often the deafening sound coming from the individual afflicted with sleep apnea is really gasping and suffocation in order to inhale. In extreme cases of sleep apnea individuals can virtually stop inhaling over 50 times a night!

Thankfully there are a selection of sleep apnea treatment options available to fix this disorder. Probably the most common strategies is the Cpap mask. Montgomery sleep apnea treatment. The goal of the CPAP machine is to force pressurised air into your respiratory tract to stop you from suffocation and loud snores. Unfortunately most folks don’t like donninga mask to fall asleep and will choose other treatments. A new treatment method that individuals tend to be more open too will be the sleep apnea mouthpieces. This devices help to position the mouth in a way that the throat remains unblocked thus permitting the patient to inhale and prevent loud snores.

In the event you or an individual you love is experiencing this disease than it’s essential to go to the sleep apnea specialist who can effectively diagnose and offer solid treatment solution. Locate the best medford dentist in your area. We all must make sure we get good sleep; practically nothing weakens efficiency more than this sleeping disorder. The great thing is that numerous solutions will also be taken care of through most insurance policies, so there really is no excuse to hold back if you think you may be battling with this issue.

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