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Mar. 4 - A report on the Schools for Healthy Lifestyles program indicates students not only eat better and exercise more, but they do better on standardized testing. Schools for Healthy Lifestyles, a nonprofit organization started in 1997, works in 52 Oklahoma elementary schools to promote physical fitness, good nutrition, prevention of tobacco use, safety and injury prevention and good oral health....
March 3, 2010
Singapore on Thursday stuck to its 18-year ban on the import and sale of chewing gum, which has become an international symbol of the city-state's image as a strict society. "The government stands by its decision to ban chewing gum," Maliki Osman, parliamentary secretary at the Ministry of National Development, told parliament. "Chewing gum has not been a significant problem since that ban took effect....
March 3, 2010
Mar. 4 - The doctor who performed a type of liposuction procedure that led to the death of a Miramar nurse last fall is still practicing cosmetic medicine, and should be stopped as soon as possible, her husband said Wednesday. Joe Orukotan and his attorneys said they were shocked to learn this week that Dr. Omar Brito is working at a Pembroke Pines medical spa that offers liposuctions of the same kind...
March 3, 2010
After a steady 15-year decline, the percentage of U.S. babies not born in a hospital rose slightly in 2005 and remained stable in 2006, according to a government report released Wednesday. Even so, the proportion of out-of-hospital births is still less than 1% - a far cry from the 44% in 1940, the authors write in National Vital Statistics Reports. In 2004, out-of-hospital births represented 0.87%...
March 3, 2010
Mar. 3 - With nicotine substitutes, effective delivery is paramount. Some smokers chew nicotine gum in an effort to quit, but instead of parking a slightly masticated piece between cheek and gum, they chomp the little squares like a wad of Bazooka. This sends most of the nicotine directly to the stomach, which doesn't want it. "If you chew it like regular gum, it doesn't work and it makes you sick,"...
March 3, 2010
Food-borne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion a year, a tab that works out to an average cost of $1,850 each time someone gets sick from food, a report by a former Food and Drug Administration economist says. "A lot of people don't realize how expensive food-borne illnesses are," says Robert Scharff, a former FDA regulatory economist and now a professor of consumer science at Ohio State...
March 3, 2010
"House Rules" by Jodi Picoult: Published by Atria, 532 pages, $28 - After being disappointed by Jodi Picoult's previous book, "Handle With Care," I dug into her newest effort hoping for the best. While "House Rules" treads some familiar ground when it comes to plot devices, her examination of a family dealing with the form of autism called Asperger's syndrome will touch all but the coldest heart. Picoult...
March 2, 2010
Mar. 3 - Call it the flu season that wasn't. Despite the cold and snow, the seasonal flu bug that strikes during winter months is absent. "It's been practically nonexistent," Guillermo Cole, spokesman for the Allegheny County Department of Health, said Tuesday. "It's like a no-show flu." Seasonal flu typically thrives this time of the year, with outbreaks peaking as late as March. This year is different,...
March 2, 2010
Mothers who work part-time are more likely to have healthier children than those who work full-time or who are not in the workforce, the author of an Australian study said Wednesday. Children whose mothers worked part-time watched about an hour less television per week and had a healthier lifestyle, Jan Nicholson of Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute said. "The main finding that we have...
March 2, 2010
Mar. 3 - Parents and their children don't always have the right information to make healthy choices. That's why Gundersen Lutheran is taking its Winning Weighs for Kids program to the Children's Museum of La Crosse for weekly sessions on healthy living. Margie Ley, Gundersen Lutheran pediatric registered dietitian, said the first of eight weekly classes begins March 11 with topics ranging from portion...
March 2, 2010
Feb. 27 - MIAMI When Oprah Winfrey recently asked her former personal chef what he wanted for his 50th birthday, Art Smith's first thought was a new treadmill. Aim higher, she told him. How about a check to help fund the sort of healthy eating programs for children called for by another of his high profile clients, first lady Michelle Obama, recently called for? Done. On Monday, during a party hosted...
March 2, 2010
The Center for Science in the Public Interest calculated the teaspoons of added sugars in some popular foods in the January/February Nutrition Action HealthLetter. The nutrition-facts panel lists the grams of added sugars in products. There are roughly 4 grams of sugar in a teaspoon. To convert grams to teaspoons, divide by 4. In these calculations, added sugars are rounded to the nearest half-teaspoon....
March 2, 2010
ST. LOUIS - Eleven years ago, a ruptured brain aneurysm nearly killed Jacquie Crawford. A pulmonary embolism, a lung disorder, shortly after brain surgery added to her health issues. Years later, she survived a heart blockage, atrial fibrilation, that forced her into more months of rehab. Then both of her knees had to be replaced. In the midst of all of that, she managed to take a trip with a dogsled...
March 1, 2010
Children today snack an average of three times a day, and they are mostly consuming sugary beverages, cookies, cake, candy, salty snacks and other high-calorie junk food, a new study shows. In fact, children are now consuming 168 more calories from snacks than kids did in 1977, the research shows. The findings confirm previous studies that indicate snacking may have run amok in the USA, and it may...
March 1, 2010
Hamburg (dpa) - Physical exercises that improve muscle strength, coordination and balance can reduce the chance of a fall happening to people with a balance disorder, according to advice published by Germany's Professional Association of Ear, Nose and Throat Doctors. There's a range of therapeutic exercises that can help patients deal with dizziness and which can be performed at home. The association...
February 28, 2010
Feb. 28 - A year after Ohio prisons instituted a cold-turkey smoking ban, taxpayers can expect to shell out a little less for medical care for inmates suffering from emphysema and other respiratory diseases. But the ban - which includes chewing tobacco and snuff - also gave birth to a lucrative contraband market in state prisons. Sources said tobacco has become as valuable as marijuana, with a single...
February 28, 2010
Feb. 28 - Itchy eyes? Sneezing? Runny nose? It may feel like a cold, but it could be allergies, local physicians say. The near-record rainfall levels in January, followed by some spring-like, warmer days in February, has sparked tree pollen growth in the Valley. This typically happens with increased rain, said Chandler physician Bilge Bayar, an emergency room doctor who works at Premier Emergency Medical...
February 28, 2010
Young children are notoriously finicky. Broccoli, salmon, beets - name a healthy food, and there's a preschooler who won't eat it. But many just as quickly rule out carrots, pot roast or scrambled eggs, or anything that's not white or smothered in ketchup. "Picky, picky, picky," many a parent, myself included, has muttered over the antics of a recalcitrant pint-sized diner. Of course, worrying about...
February 28, 2010
Feb. 28 - These researchers don't work down some long, dark hallway in the bowels of an ancient university building. They don't sit in silence at a lab bench, surrounded by beakers and petri dishes, all attention trained on microscopic who-knows-what. When they talk about what they do, they aren't even hard to understand. And all of that is sort of the point. Welcome to out-in-the-open, regular-Joe-friendly...
February 28, 2010
Feb. 27 - Sara Lee's EarthGrains brand has launched an "environmentally friendly" line of bread with a marketing blitz that describes itself as a "plot to save the earth, one field at a time." But not everyone buys Sara Lee's green credentials. It's triggered a furor by critics who cite a claim by Sara Lee on its Web site - since deleted - that some wheat in its new EarthGrains Eco-Grains bread is...
February 28, 2010
Losing weight is hard to do. Some of the USA TODAY readers who participated in the seventh annual Weight-Loss Challenge, especially those who are middle-aged or older, know it well. After losing 10 pounds or so, they hit a brick wall and their weight loss stalled. Cindy Groover, 54, of Palm City, Fla., who cut calories and walked 3 miles a day to lose 15 pounds since late September, says: "When I was...
February 28, 2010
Thanks to changes in the industry, today's doctors spend on average of just 10 to 15 minutes with each patient. As a result, the experience can be both confusing and frustrating if communication is lacking. Many patients leave the office not understanding the doctor's directions. Ultimately, however, your health is your responsibility. Because physicians can't read your mind, it's your responsibility...
February 28, 2010
Looking for new ideas for delicious, nutritious, quick-cooking and budget-conscious meals? Make lentils your go-to legume. One of the first foods ever cultivated, lentils have never really entered the mainstream of American cuisine. But that may be changing. Flip through the index of "The $5 Dinner Mom Cookbook" by Erin Chase (St. Martin's Griffin) and you'll count nine recipes featuring lentils, including...
February 28, 2010
When 18-month-old Josie King arrived at Johns Hopkins Children's Center, she had blistering burns on 60% of her body, caused by scalding bath water produced by a broken water heater. Josie seemed to receive the best of care and had surgery to transplant skin grafts onto her scarred body. Yet Josie's mother, Sorrel, who slept on a cot by the girl's side for weeks, noticed the baby getting sicker just...
February 28, 2010
The more time teens spend watching television or playing on a computer or games console, the less likely they are to be close to their family and friends, a study published Monday shows. And with technology providing us with screens to do everything from entertaining ourselves to educating ourselves, the findings give cause for concern, the authors of the study wrote in the Archives of Pediatric and...
February 28, 2010
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