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Forget about greasy hamburgers and french fries. Major employers such as Cisco Systems, Dow Chemical and others are overhauling cafeteria fare in a new effort to introduce healthier foods and programs that slash environmental waste. Companies hope that low-fat or low-calorie menu items will lead to savings in health care costs. And the move comes as employers increasingly go green - adopting such policies...
February 8, 2008
Many diners face a mystery of sorts at restaurants: They don't know how many calories are in the dishes they're eating. And when they guess, they greatly underestimate the numbers. So says David Zinczenko, author of the new book Eat This, Not That! written with Matt Goulding (Rodale, $19.95). It was No. 19 on the USA TODAY Best-Selling Books list last week. But if consumers arm themselves with nutrition...
February 8, 2008
Georgia receives about $150 million a year from the 1998 tobacco manufacturers' settlement with the states. It spends just 2 percent of it on programs to prevent residents from smoking or to help them quit. By spending just a small fraction of what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends for tobacco control programs, the state has 214,000 more smokers than it might otherwise, according...
February 8, 2008
Children lacking enough shut-eye face a greater risk of becoming obese than kids who get a good night's sleep, according to a study released Thursday. Each extra hour of sleep cuts a child's risk of becoming overweight or obese by nine percent, according to an analysis of epidiomogical studies by researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. By contrast, children who got the least...
February 8, 2008
Feb. 7 - While most kids on antidepressant drugs get some follow-up care, only 3 percent of the thousands of Minnesota teenagers taking them get as many face-to-face appointments as they should, according to an analysis by the Minnesota Council of Health Plans. Four years ago, the federal government warned doctors to check frequently on adolescent patients who take antidepressants. It was all part...
February 7, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration's recent announcement that "meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine (pigs), and goats . . are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals," is generating mixed reactions. Promising accurate and complete tracking of the animals, Cyagra, Infigen, Tran Ova and other cloning companies are delighted. After investing millions of dollars in developing the cloning...
February 7, 2008
Tobacco use could kill more than one billion people around the world this century unless governments and civil society quickly act to reverse the epidemic, according to a World health Organization (WHO) report released here Thursday. "One hundred million deaths were caused by tobacco in the 20th century," said the report launched by WHO Director General Margaret Chan at a joint press conference with...
February 7, 2008
On New Year's Day 2006, Beth Lisick woke up with a hangover and decided to upgrade her existence. Like countless other Americans, she turned to self-help. "I chose 12 things that I wanted to improve about my life," she says. The result: Helping Me Help Myself: One Skeptic, Ten Self-Help Gurus, and a Year on the Brink of the Comfort Zone (Morrow, $24.95). Lisick, 39, is not the sort of person you typically...
February 7, 2008
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Feb 7, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - U.S. teens who watch TV wrestling are up to six times more likely to engage in risky behaviors like fighting and unprotected sex. Robert H. DuRant and colleagues of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., conducted a telephone survey of 2,300 young people, ages 16 to 20, across the United States. The survey found 22 percent of males and 14...
February 7, 2008
Napping is a necessity for Alissa Vladimir on many days, and it's not because she's a toddler. The 23-year-old public relations associate from Philadelphia has insomnia, a sleep disorder characterized by difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep or waking up too early. Sleepless until the wee hours most nights, Vladimir often rises weary. "I am cranky and more easily annoyed when I have a bad night....
February 7, 2008
Rose Crumb claims she still doesn't know why she won a national Jefferson Award in 1998. But the humble founder of the Hospice of Clallam County has helped thousands of families keep terminally ill patients at home during medical treatment. The Jefferson Awards program, sponsored locally by the Seattle P-I and Microsoft Corp., honors "ordinary people who do extraordinary things" for other people, their...
February 7, 2008
Keeping your heart operating like a well-oiled machine pumping oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body hinges on smart lifestyle choices. "Just by doing the things we need to do can have a great impact," says Winston Gandy, a cardiologist with Piedmont Heart Institute. That includes not smoking, eating a diet low in fat and cholesterol and getting regular exercise. The amount and location...
February 7, 2008
Are you crazy in love or just plain crazy? It all depends on whether new research into a condition called "limerence" leads to the creation of a new psychiatric diagnosis. "It's that first stage of attraction where there's that bliss and euphoria and the newness of love," says Brenda Schaeffer, a psychologist from Minneapolis. That's the upside. But there is a dark side, too. "It is obsessive-compulsive...
February 6, 2008
A higher death rate among diabetes patients treated aggressively to lower their blood sugar prompted the government on Wednesday to halt one part of a major study of diabetes and heart disease. The 10,251-patient trial, called ACCORD, is the first test of whether lowering blood sugar in patients with type 2 diabetes to levels found in those without the disease will prevent heart attacks and strokes....
February 6, 2008
People taking a certain type of blood pressure medication called calcium channel blockers may also be lowering their risk of getting Parkinson's disease, according to a study released Wednesday. A study by Swiss researchers found that people who had been taking a calcium channel blocker medication for an extended period of time had a 23 percent lower risk of developing the incurable neurological disease...
February 6, 2008
CHICAGO, Feb 6, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study has found some cerebrovascular stent patients do not respond well to clopidogrel (Plavix). Researchers at Rush University Medical Center found half of patients undergoing cerebrovascular stent placement did not respond well to clopidogrel. Clopidogrel and aspirin are medications routinely prescribed following cerebrovascular stent placement to combat...
February 6, 2008
If you have blue eyes, you may be related to every other blue-eyed person in the world. Researchers in Denmark have found that every person with blue eyes descends from just one "founder," an ancestor whose genes mutated 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Before then, everyone had brown eyes. Lead scientist Hans Eiberg, a geneticist at Copenhagen University, began in 1973 to study a Danish father with 17 children...
February 5, 2008
Feb. 6 - Who are candidates for flu shots? Well, most folks. Many people are in special risk groups based on elevated vulnerability to influenza or in high-contact circumstances in which they more likely to encounter and pass along the illness. Annual shots are especially recommended for: - Children ages 6 months to 4 years. Adults 65 or older. People ages 2-64 with chronic medical conditions such...
February 5, 2008
From top to bottom, dill is good for you. Its leaves and seeds can be used as seasoning and for nutrition. Dill seeds are high in calcium, which helps reduce bone loss, and studies indicate that dill oil contains properties that may prevent bacteria growth. Dill weed contains an agent that helps relieve intestinal gas and produces a calming effect, especially in young children. It is also a good source...
February 5, 2008
Beginning today, grocery giant Kroger will sell generic prescription drugs for a number of ailments - including asthma, depression, diabetes, heart disease and thyroid - for $4. The program will cover more than 300 drugs prescribed for 30-day supplies, the Cincinnati-based company said. It addition, it will sell generic versions of family-planning drugs Ortho Cyclen and Ortho Tri Cyclen for $9 and...
February 5, 2008
LONDON, Feb 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A Korean study suggests a lack of a water-soluble vitamin B known as folate deficiency triples the risk of dementia among elderly people. Researchers at Chonnam National University Medical School in Kwangju, South Korea, tracked the development of dementia in 518 people from 2001 to 2003. All participants were over the age of 65 and lived in one rural and one...
February 5, 2008
LOS ANGELES, Feb 5, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. study has determined older lung transplant patients who are often excluded because of lower survival rates, actually have acceptable outcomes. The UCLA Medical Center study reviewed records of lung transplant patients between March 2000 and September 2006. During the period, 50 transplant surgeries were performed on 48 patients between the ages of...
February 5, 2008
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. Too many women care for everyone else but themselves, according to Patricia Nahormek, a Hampton, Va.,-based cardiologist with Tidewater Heart Specialists. "In order to be truly useful to others, a woman has to be healthy herself, first and foremost," she says. As a heart specialist, Patricia encourages women of all ages to take their daily health seriously. Eat right; get moderate...
February 5, 2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - Several outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning have been confirmed in consumers who ate fish harvested in the northern Gulf of Mexico, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. The FDA said that fish such as grouper, snapper, amberjack and barracuda represent the most significant threat to consumers. They feed on fish that have eaten toxic marine algae. The toxin is stable in...
February 5, 2008
Cox News Service ATLANTA - Keeping your heart operating like a well-oiled machine pumping oxygen and nutrient-rich blood throughout your body hinges on smart lifestyle choices. "Just by doing the things we need to do can have a great impact," says Winston Gandy, a cardiologist with Piedmont Heart Institute. That includes not smoking, eating a diet low in fat and cholesterol and getting regular exercise....
February 5, 2008
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