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Feb. 5 - Laughter might be the best medicine, but music plays an increasingly vital role in mental and physical well-being. The power of music is often self-evident: it can pump us up for a big sporting event; help elicit feelings feelings of patriotism during a parade; assist teens in getting through a first case of puppy love gone bad; and turn usually respectable people into whirling dervishes on...
February 5, 2008
WOW! WHAT A game. Even two days later, don't you just want to talk about it, analyze it and gloat about how the Giants denied the arrogant Patriots and their corrupt and grumpy coach a perfect season and a Super Bowl victory? But of course you do, you are a sports fan. At some point, however, you might hear this in response: "I don't care. I don't follow sports." It's usually said with a sniff over...
February 5, 2008
Feb. 5 - Bekah Sellers and Julie Samitt can tell you exactly what triggered their eating disorders. "I wasn't even in the eighth grade yet," Sellers recalls. She was just beginning to be concerned about her weight when she read an article on the dangers of anorexia and bulimia in a popular teen magazine. "It planted the idea in my mind," she said. "Isn't that scary? Instead of being sad and horrified,...
February 4, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S study found video games appear to activate a greater level of rewarding feelings in the brain for men than women. Dr. Allan Reiss of the Stanford University School of Medicine said the gender differences may help explain why males are more likely to become addicted to video games than women, the university said Monday in a news release. The study,...
February 4, 2008
A California olive oil company is recalling thousands of jars of a cheese dip sold at Williams-Sonoma stores that could contain the bacteria that causes botulism, an often deadly food-borne illness. The recall covers 11.76-ounce jars of Olivier brand Parmesan & Asiago Dip With Garlic & Basil, from Olivier Olive Oil Products Inc. in St. Helena, Calif. The jars were sold at Williams-Sonoma stores across...
February 4, 2008
CHINO, Calif., Feb 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Allegations that a California slaughterhouse used at-risk cattle for beef products have left some schools struggling to maintain safety standards. The Los Angeles Times said Sunday that since the Hallmark Meat Packing was accused of creating beef products from so-called downer cattle, school officials across southern California have been trying to determine...
February 4, 2008
Claudia Vercellotti, 38, of Toledo, Ohio, makes light of her size, but it weighs heavily on her heart. At 5-foot-6, she weighs 347 pounds. "Truth be told, if you cremated me, I fear it would be a grease fire," she jokes. "But I'm trying, really trying - hanging on like a single-threaded loose tooth. "I joined Weight Watchers in August 2006 and lost 52 pounds. I've been up and down, just trying desperately...
February 4, 2008
JACKSON, Miss. A state lawmaker wants to ban restaurants from serving food to obese customers - but please, don't be offended. He says he never even expected his plan to become law. "I was trying to shed a little light on the number one problem in Mississippi," said Republican Rep. John Read of Gautier, who acknowledges that at 5-foot-11 and 230 pounds, he'd probably have a tough time under his own...
February 4, 2008
Deirdre Imus wants you to know that your child's classroom could be dangerous. No, it's not killer tests or deadly boring lectures. Think more along the lines of things that your child can't even see. Many schools contain harmful toxins and other chemical contaminants that endanger children's health, says Imus, founder and director of the Deirdre Imus Environmental Center for Pediatric Oncology at...
February 4, 2008
BOSTON, Feb 4, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A study conducted in Africa suggests male circumcision does not reduce the risk of HIV transmission to female partners. The report, presented Sunday at the 15th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, said male circumcision actually increased the risk of HIV transmission if the couple resumed sexual intercourse before the circumcision...
February 4, 2008
Parents who use baby powder, lotion or shampoo on their infants may unknowingly expose their children to controversial chemicals with hormone-like effects, a study shows. Researchers found the chemicals - called phthalates - in the urine of all 163 babies tested, according to the study in today's Pediatrics. Most of the babies, whose average age was 13 months, had seven or more types of phthalates...
February 4, 2008
"Get the Sugar Out: 501 Simple Ways to Cut the Sugar Out of Any Diet" by Ann Louise Gittleman (Three Rivers Press, $13.95). Nutritionist Ann Louise Gittleman offers tons of practical tips on low-sugar shopping, cooking and dining in "Get the Sugar Out." Twelve years ago, she wrote, "Get the Sugar Out," revealing that sugar contributes not only to weight gain but also to mood swings, weak immunity,...
February 4, 2008
CHINO, Calif., Feb 3, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - Allegations that a California slaughterhouse used at-risk cattle for beef products have left some schools struggling to maintain safety standards. The Los Angeles Times said Sunday that since the Hallmark Meat Packing was accused of creating beef products from so-called downer cattle, school officials across southern California have been trying to determine...
February 3, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 1, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - The use of mosquito nets and modern medicine in many African countries has drastically reduced malaria-related deaths, a report said. The World Health Organization's report showed Ethiopia and Rwanda had more than a 50 percent drop in malaria-related deaths during the recent study, The New York Times reported Friday. "We saw a very drastic impact....
February 2, 2008
ATLANTA - The sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer in women is poised to become one of the leading causes of oral cancer in men, according to a new study. The HPV virus now causes as many cancers of the upper throat as tobacco and alcohol, probably due both to an increase in oral sex and the decline in smoking, researchers say. The only available vaccine against HPV, made by Merck...
February 1, 2008
SEATTLE, Feb 1, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S. report suggested that not enough research has been conducted into the use of vitamin and mineral supplements among cancer survivors. A review of scientific literature conducted by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, found that 64 percent to 81 percent of cancer survivors reported...
February 1, 2008
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon Supreme Court for a third time has allowed a $79.5 million punitive-damages judgment against Philip Morris, an award twice struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, which suggested it was excessive. The award was for the family of Jesse Williams, a former Portland janitor who started smoking during a 1950s Army hitch and died in 1997 six months after he was diagnosed with...
February 1, 2008
Feb. 1 - Is the health risk from obesity being exaggerated? Most medical experts would say no. But a provocative minority says yes. This week, two prominent skeptics match wits with two obesity experts from Minnesota in a heated debate in the British Medical Journal. Patrick Basham, a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, and John Luik are both health policy experts at the conservative Democracy Institute....
February 1, 2008
ROOM R01W, Ariz. The Super Bowl is being played just up the road in Glendale. But here on the second floor of St. Joseph's Hospital neuro-rehabilitation center, where stroke victims try to win back their lives, it is a world away from the New England Patriots' drive for 19-0. Or is it? His name is Tim Lange, and he is a 47-year-old electrical engineer from this area. He is an active man, a mountain...
February 1, 2008
LOS ANGELES - With Britney Spears whisked out of the public spotlight Thursday and committed to a hospital psychiatric ward, it's now up to a team of professional caregivers to reverse her seemingly endless downward spiral. Spears, accompanied by more than a dozen police officers, was taken to the UCLA Medical Center before dawn Thursday in what one officer would only say was an effort to "get help"...
February 1, 2008
A dramatic increase in the number of U.S. children who died last year from influenza - while also battling staph infections - has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning doctors to be on the alert as the nation enters the worst part of the winter flu season. Georgia health officials, who also recorded a local spike in child flu deaths associated with staph infections last year, urged...
January 31, 2008
DALLAS, Jan 31, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) - A U.S study suggests that women who take folic acid supplements before they become pregnant can cut their risk of having a premature baby by half. The report, presented Thursday at the annual Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine meeting, said taking folate supplements for at least one year before becoming pregnant reduced premature delivery by 50 percent to 70...
January 31, 2008
Women may be able to halve the risk of giving birth prematurely by taking folic acid a year before becoming pregnant, a study published in the United States on Thursday said. Women taking the supplements - a form of vitamin B - can reduce by 50 to 70 percent the risk of a premature birth, which can cause mental retardation, blindness or lung problems in a child, according to the study. Trials run by...
January 31, 2008
Chicago Tribune (MCT) CHICAGO - After two nose jobs and thousands of dollars, Debra Dunn hated her face so much that she avoided mirrors, didn't want to leave the house and hid behind her long hair anytime she had to be out in public. "Every time I saw myself, I wanted to punch myself in the nose to make it all go away," said the 40-year-old New Yorker, referring to the five years that followed a cosmetic...
January 31, 2008
The grapefruit is a subtropical citrus tree grown for its fruit, which was originally named the "forbidden fruit" of Barbados. The flesh of a grapefruit is segmented, varying in color, which includes white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness. Grapefruit is an excellent source of nutrients and phytochemicals. Just half of a grapefruit provides a full days supply of vitamin C and is a good source...
January 31, 2008
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