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- Lawn bowls - health benefits
Lawn bowls is a popular participant sport, particularly for the elderly, due to its relaxed pace and comparatively light physical demands.
- Lawn bowls - preventing injury
People who take part in lawn bowls develop skills and coordination that improve their fitness.
- Lead exposure and your health
Long-term exposure to low levels of lead may produce symptoms including irritability, lack of energy and loss of appetite.
- Lead exposure from shooting firearms
If you shoot firearms, handle bullets, make your own ammunition or visit shooting ranges, you’re at a higher risk for lead exposure.
- Leg ulcers
Age, varicose veins, smoking and arterial disease increase the risk of leg ulcers.
- Legionnaires' disease
Legionnaires' disease is a form of pneumonia.
- Leprosy (Hansen’s disease)
Once a person with leprosy begins treatment they quickly become non-infectious.
- Leptospirosis
Leptospirosis is a disease spread from animals to humans, caused by infection with the bacteria Leptospira.
- Lesbian sexuality
Many women report they have lesbian experiences or feelings, but do not think of themselves as lesbians.
- Leukaemia
Most children and many adults with acute leukaemia can expect to be cured, while chronic leukaemia can be successfully managed.