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NEW ORLEANS, Apr 24, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Weight gain is more likely to increase as a result of liquid calories, particularly sugar-sweetened beverages, than solid food calories, U.S. researchers said. Lead author Dr. Liwei Chen of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center said the study reports four principal findings: a reduction in liquid calorie intake was significantly associated...
April 23, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. film star and singer Jennifer Lopez, the mother of twins, wants parents and adults to get a pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine to protect infants. "This issue is important to me. I didn't know too much about it before becoming a parent but whooping cough is on the rise. There have been a significant increase in reported cases over the past decade,"...
April 23, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. film star and singer Jennifer Lopez, the mother of twins, wants parents and adults to get a pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine to protect infants. "This issue is important to me. I didn't know too much about it before becoming a parent but whooping cough is on the rise. There have been a significant increase in reported cases over the past decade,"...
April 23, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - People who drink a glass of 100 percent juice daily have fewer risk factors for several chronic diseases, U.S. researchers found. Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2004, Dr. Mark Pereira and Dr. Victor Fulgoni, co-authors from the University of Minnesota, found that, compared with non-consumers of juice, 100 percent...
April 23, 2009
Apr. 20 - Court officials want the public to save time by going online. You can pay traffic tickets, postpone jury duty and check the time and place of a hearing on the Stanislaus County Superior Court's Web site, which is available in English or Spanish at www.stanct.org. The court also has a Self Help Center that offers free legal help in divorce and child custody arrangements, landlord-tenant disputes...
April 22, 2009
MIAMI, Apr 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A University of Miami study reveals physical attractiveness, personality and grooming can affect grades in high school. Michael T. French, one of the authors of the study, said several previous studies found that physical attractiveness is significantly related to labor market earnings for men and women. However, the study found that physical attractiveness was...
April 22, 2009
NEW ORLEANS, Apr 23, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A grape-enriched diet may help prevent the downhill sequence of heart failure brought on by years of high blood pressure, U.S. researchers suggest. E. Mitchell Seymour, whose study was part of his doctoral work in nutrition science at Michigan State University, said all the rats his team used were from a research breed that develops high blood pressure when...
April 22, 2009
HOUSTON, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Drinking at least one glass of low-sodium vegetable juice daily may help overweight people with metabolic syndrome lose weight, U.S. researchers say. Metabolic syndrome is defined by a cluster of risk factors, including excess body fat in the midsection, high blood pressure, high blood sugar and abnormal blood lipids. If left uncontrolled it can increase risk...
April 22, 2009
MADISON, Wis., Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - News about the harmful effects of trans fat, may influence consumers' purchases of foods containing it, but not for long, U.S. researchers found. Lead author Jeff Niederdeppe of the University of Wisconsin said that in 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration mandated that the amount of trans fat per serving be listed on nutrition labels. Trans fat...
April 22, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it won't appeal a federal court order directing it to permit the Plan B drug to be available without prescription. The March 23 court order directed the FDA to act within 30 days, to permit Plan B (levonorgestrel) to be made available to women 17 and older without a prescription. Plan B is an emergency contraception...
April 22, 2009
Apr. 23 - Claudia Arthrell recalls the first time her child asked what sex was. She was taking her 3-year-old to day care. "I thought 'Oops, I'm not going there. I'm in the car, no picture book,' " she said. So instead she took the anatomy route. "There's male sex and female sex: Mom and Dad." But that was only a temporary tactic. Arthrell said she wanted to have the right books and information when...
April 22, 2009
Apr. 23 - Kirk Bailey's financial adviser wanted to know his life goals. The Tulsan had several, like taking care of his wife and two children, saving enough for retirement and, of course, staying healthy. The plan, circa 2005, seemed solid. After all, Bailey ran marathons, ate right and didn't drink or smoke. But two years later, his plan skittered off the adviser's desk when Bailey was diagnosed....
April 22, 2009
NEW YORK, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. film star and singer Jennifer Lopez, the mother of twins, wants parents and adults to get a pertussis, or whooping cough, vaccine to protect infants. "This issue is important to me. I didn't know too much about it before becoming a parent but whooping cough is on the rise. There have been a significant increase in reported cases over the past decade,"...
April 22, 2009
About 3 million Americans have been laid off since the recession began 16 months ago, the government says. In every instance, someone decided the worker had to go, and someone delivered the bad news. Those people won't get much sympathy from shell-shocked employees, whose reactions to job loss have been compared to the emotional upheaval of a divorce or death in the family. But it turns out that the...
April 22, 2009
A new federal subsidy designed to help laid-off workers pay for health insurance could be out of reach for thousands of jobless workers because they worked for a small company or their former employer has gone out of business. The subsidy, part of the economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year, covers 65% of COBRA premiums for individuals laid off between Sept. 1, 2008, and the end of this...
April 22, 2009
DENVER, Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - An anti-inflammatory herbal extract may inhibit pancreatic cancer, U.S. researchers say. Thymoquinone - the major constituent of the oil extract from a Middle Eastern herbal seed called Nigella sativa used as a traditional medicinal in Middle Eastern and Asian countries - reduces the release of inflammatory mediators in pancreatic cancer cells. Dr. Hwyda Arafat...
April 22, 2009
ROYAL OAK, Mich., Mar 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - A study by U.S. researchers found that the morbidly obese - with body mass indexes between 40 and 49.9 - spend about 8.4 minutes in activity a day. Thomas Vanhecke, Barry Franklin,Wendy Miller, Adam deJong, Catherine Coleman and Peter McCullough of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich., examined the average fitness level of the morbidly obese....
April 22, 2009
ALBANY, N.Y. You want to live long and look good, so you do everything the experts suggest: You eat salmon, wear sunscreen, lift weights and jog. You floss, eat five fruits; take your Vitamin D and you pray. Pray? Yes, God is now part of a healthy lifestyle. It turns out that God can save your life as well as your soul. According to the newest research on aging and health, we need to hit both the treadmill...
April 22, 2009
A Harvard study done in India found that children born to short women were 70 percent more likely to die before age 5 than those born to taller mothers. Those whose mothers were shorter than 4-foot-9 were 70 percent more likely to die by age 5 than those whose mothers were at least 5-foot-3, said the study in the Journal of the AMA. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
April 21, 2009
WARSAW, Poland, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Customs officials in western Poland said they seized 32,000 pairs of imported flip flop plastic shoes on suspicion they included carcinogenic substances. Beata Downar-Zapolska, a spokeswoman of the customs office in the western Polish town of Lubusz, on the border with Germany, said a customs laboratory at Wroclaw established the Chinese-made flip flops...
April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - The Walgreen Co., operator of the largest U.S. drugstore chain, is among the latest companies recalling possibly tainted pistachio products. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Walgreens is recalling Deerfield Farms Mediterranean Fruit and Nut Blend sold in its 6,736 drug stores March 5-April 21. The product might contain pistachios from Setton Pistachios...
April 21, 2009
BOSTON, Apr 22, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - Eating salmon or other fatty fish once a week may help reduce men's risk of heart failure, but eating it more frequently wasn't helpful, U.S. researchers found. Researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center said heart failure is usually caused by existing cardiac conditions, including high blood pressure and coronary artery disease. First author Emily Levitan...
April 21, 2009
Edward Dougherty never saw the tick that bit him. It wasn't until his doctor, during a checkup, spotted a circular red rash on his shoulder that he discovered he had Lyme disease. Dougherty, 47, who lives in rural Bucks County, Pa., took the antibiotic doxycycline for a week and was soon free of the infection. "I was very lucky," he says. Except for the rash, Dougherty had no symptoms, not even the...
April 21, 2009
DAVIS, Calif., Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. researchers found evidence that human consumption of fructose-sweetened but not glucose-sweetened beverages can adversely affect sensitivity to insulin. Peter Havel and colleagues, at the University of California at Davis, said that in 2005, the average American consumed 141 pounds of added sugar, a sizable proportion via drinking soft drinks. Added...
April 21, 2009
With Americans looking to reduce their "carbon footprints," food seems an obvious place to start. Choosing a diet with a smaller carbon footprint means choosing foods that are processed in ways that emit less carbon dioxide - a heat-trapping "greenhouse" gas - into the atmosphere. In general, experts say, it breaks down to these guidelines: *Cut down on meat. "That doesn't mean never eat meat, it means...
April 21, 2009
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