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Sep. 12 - Pat Ward-Schumann of Paducah may look like the picture of health, but last year she had her second heart stent put in at age 52. "Ten years ago I went through the same thing," she said. "I thought I was too young. At the time, I was told women didn't have heart attacks. They just died." She didn't want to be the next statistic. She went to the doctor after experiencing severe chest pains....
September 12, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration is alerting Asian and ethnic markets across the USA that infant formula made in China may be contaminated. The FDA is working with state health agencies across the country to make members of Chinese-American communities aware of the danger. Chinese newspapers report that some infant formula has been linked to kidney problems and kidney stones in babies in China because...
September 11, 2008
Sep. 12 - CONOVER - Jay Haas makes his living under the sun. Day in and day out, he's usually in the bright sunshine, mastering his golf game and competing on the Champions Tour. He's one of the favorites in the Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn Presented by Kia Motors this week. Rock Barn is where he won his first Champions Tour title. Haas knows how to deal with the sun, although skin care wasn't...
September 11, 2008
Spices give your recipes a flavor boost. Do they give your body a nutrition boost as well? Here's a quiz to find out how much you know about spices. Answer each of the following statements true or false. 1. One recent study shows that consuming -1-/-4- teaspoon of cinnamon after meals reduces blood sugar levels by as much as 29 percent in some people. 2. In some studies, regularly adding cinnamon to...
September 11, 2008
Mom is right when she says "Eat your vegetables." It's never too early to start good eating habits. Today's lesson will help you focus on following a healthful diet. WE'VE got an obesity problem. Kids as young as you are now developing diabeties and heart problems. It's time to start watching what you eat. Maybe you hear it every night at the dinner table - "Eat your veggies." Mom's advice is good...
September 11, 2008
Sep. 10 - Think of it as a one-stop shop for holistic healing. That's what Lisa Vaz envisioned when she decided last year to launch Holistic Xchange, a full-service natural health clinic located in Merced's Bob Hart Square. "I literally just woke up one day and said to myself, 'I'm going to do this,'" said Vaz, 27, who left a career as a loan officer to start the clinic. "I didn't know how I was going...
September 11, 2008
Mom is right when she says "Eat your vegetables." It's never too early to start good eating habits. Today's lesson will help you focus on following a healthful diet. WE'VE got an obesity problem. Kids as young as you are now developing diabeties and heart problems. It's time to start watching what you eat. Maybe you hear it every night at the dinner table - "Eat your veggies." Mom's advice is good...
September 10, 2008
Sep. 11 - Nearly a third of children are obese or overweight, an epidemic of excessive weight that increases their risk of serious disease later in life. Now, an initiative announced Wednesday hopes to reverse that trend in Western New York by turning physical fitness and good nutrition into a school competition. The Fitness for Kids Challenge is one of a number of school-based interventions targeting...
September 10, 2008
Sep. 11 - Birds, it turns out, know their nutrition. Sunflower seeds, that favored food of our feathered friends, deliver the most potent combination of vitamins and minerals of any common nut or seed. Other nuts have a standout nutrient value or two: 1 ounce of Brazil nuts contains 780 percent of the government's recommended daily intake of selenium, a trace mineral that helps with enzyme production...
September 10, 2008
Beijing (dpa) - "It is as if I have been given a second chance," American swimmer Melissa Stockwell explains. "As a young gymnast I always dreamed of participating at the Olympics." The 28-year-old, who lost her leg in a bombing in Iraq five years ago, is one of 16 war veterans in the 216-strong American Paralympic team in Beijing. Stockwell, who holds the Purple Heart decoration, which is awarded...
September 10, 2008
NEW YORK, Sep 10, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study has determined type 1 diabetes patients using continuous glucose monitoring improved their HbA1c blood sugar control levels. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International-funded trial showed type 1 diabetes patients using continuous glucose monitoring, or CGM, devices experienced significant improvements in HbA1c blood sugar control....
September 10, 2008
BALTIMORE, Sep 10, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. scientists say they have determined a ketogenic - or high fat, low carbohydrate - diet is effective in treating infantile epileptic spasms. Infantile spasms are a potentially devastating epileptic condition affecting children aged 4-8 months. Johns Hopkins University researchers said their finding is the first description of the ketogenic diet as a first-line...
September 10, 2008
Teenagers and young adults are using fewer street drugs - cocaine, heroin and marijuana - than they did in 2002, says a government report out Thursday. Children ages 12 to 17 are using fewer prescription drugs for non-medical purposes. The survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) shows young adults 18 to 25 are using more prescription drugs illicitly. Use of...
September 10, 2008
Sep. 10 - Grace Burks aced her first algebra test this fall and keeps track of baby-sitting jobs by marking them on her calendar. The 15-year-old's room is so organized that her mother put her to work organizing the rest of the house. That's in stark contrast to a few months ago, when Grace struggled to get from her teacher's desk to her own without forgetting what her teacher had told her. She and...
September 10, 2008
Sep. 10 - Every day after practice, the Detroit Shock's All-Star shooting guard Deanna (Tweet) Nolan climbs into a blue puffy chair to get her feet wrapped with a funky black tape that is suddenly all the rage. It's called Kinesio, and physical therapists expect more patients to ask about how they might use it for treatment after the tape became famous during the Summer Olympics on the shoulder of...
September 10, 2008
Cox News Service ATLANTA - The leaves haven't even changed, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants you to start thinking about the winter flu season. Curtis Allen, CDC spokesman, urged people to get their flu vaccine now. "The ideal thing to do is to get the flu vaccine as early as possible," he said. With influenza activity typically peaking in January or February, many patients...
September 10, 2008
A new online tool now lets Seattle-area consumers look up information about how well health care is practiced in the region. The Community Checkup report allows consumers to search and sort the report measuring local performance for several health conditions, including diabetes, heart disease, depression and low back pain. It includes performance results for 26 hospitals in the region, using public...
September 9, 2008
Sep. 9 - Latin pop and salsa singer Marc Anthony estimates he runs about 12 miles on stage during a typical concert. "It feels more like 30," he joked during a sound check last week at Miami's AmericanAirlines Arena. Anthony, 39, met with 30 Allapattah Middle School and Belen Jesuit Preparatory students invited to attend his private sound check because they have committed to run 12 miles in the ING...
September 9, 2008
An "unacceptably high" number of college students smoke cigarettes, according to an American Lung Association report released yesterday. And aggressive tobacco-industry marketing on college campuses is largely to blame, the group says. In 2005 the tobacco industry spent more than $1 million a day sponsoring events targeting college students, according to the report. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc....
September 9, 2008
WASHINGTON - Suicide rates for young male Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans hit a record high in 2006, according to statistics to be released today by the Department of Veterans Affairs. In 2006, the last year for which records are available, figures show there were about 46 suicides per 100,000 male veterans ages 18-29 who use VA services. That compares with a trend of about 20 suicides per 100,000...
September 9, 2008
Kids who play the latest physically challenging video games expend energy at levels that might help protect them from becoming overweight and boost their heart health at the same time, according to a new study. Children burn roughly four times as many calories per minute playing a physically active video game, such as Wii Sports, than playing a seated game, and their heart rate is much higher, say...
September 8, 2008
Sep. 9 - With an estimated 2 in 10 people suffering from allergies, it's not surprising a significant number include those who are allergic to nuts. According to WebMD, while the number of adults having peanut allergies has not changed much over the years, numbers of children with peanut allergies has jumped significantly - doubling from 0.4% in 1997 to 0.8% in 2002. South Heart and Hettinger schools...
September 8, 2008
NEW YORK, Sep 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A New York couple who have trying for years to have a second child will finally get their wish - and then some, since they're set to have sextuplets. Victor and Digna Carpio, naturalized citizens from Ecuador, said they didn't want their 7-year-old son, Jhancarlos, to grow up alone. But they didn't expect it to work out this way. They learned the news nearly...
September 8, 2008
Sep. 8 - PLATTSBURGH - New York's population is aging, and that growth in the number of senior citizens is already impacting the health-care system. As the Baby Boomer generation reaches retirement age and beyond, health-care providers will be facing a double-edged problem: many more patients needing lots more care, and fewer providers available to meet that growing demand. The message that health-care...
September 8, 2008
You see the doctors on TV, on billboards everywhere, in magazines. They're competing for patients not just with other doctors, but with celebrities like Valerie Bertinelli and Sarah Ferguson. That's because these doctors are offering to help you lose weight. In the past, people struggling with weight went to self-help programs or picked up a diet book. The biggest controversy was about which bestseller...
September 8, 2008
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