Personal Health
By JANE E. BRODY
Published: August 26, 2008
Getting older doesn’t have to mean getting frailer.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/26brod.html?ex=1377403200&en=620cea7b9dacd456&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Vitamin D Deficiency May Lurk in Babies
By RONI CARYN RABIN
Published: August 26, 2008
Exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, recent research suggests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26rick.html?ex=1377403200&en=5c6cdd79b5062238&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Published: August 26, 2008
Exclusive breast-feeding may be associated with vitamin D deficiency and rickets, recent research suggests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/health/research/26rick.html?ex=1377403200&en=5c6cdd79b5062238&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Sunday, August 24, 2008
What's Coming From Your Tap?
By ANJALI ATHAVALEY
August 19, 2008; Page D1
America's latest drinking problem isn't about alcohol.
Many pharmaceuticals taken by humans are excreted into urine, or are flushed intentionally down the toilet. Even though wastewater is treated, trace amounts of the drugs are often not eliminated. Also, drugs found in the waste of animals treated with hormones and antibiotics can eventually end up in groundwater.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910526011851511.html
August 19, 2008; Page D1
America's latest drinking problem isn't about alcohol.
Many pharmaceuticals taken by humans are excreted into urine, or are flushed intentionally down the toilet. Even though wastewater is treated, trace amounts of the drugs are often not eliminated. Also, drugs found in the waste of animals treated with hormones and antibiotics can eventually end up in groundwater.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910526011851511.html
Vitamin D May Play Larger Role in Health
August 19, 2008
Vital Signs
By ERIC NAGOURNEY
A lack of vitamin D has been found in some studies to play an unrecognized role in death among people suffering from a variety of medical problems, including heart disease and cancer.
Now researchers say they have evidence that even in the general population, having too little of the vitamin appears to be associated with a higher risk of death.
Writing in The Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers say they looked at the vitamin D levels and death rates of more than 13,000 people over a period of more than six years.
Those who fell in the lowest quarter of vitamin D levels had a 26 percent higher risk of death from all causes than those in the top quarter, found the study, which was led by Dr. Michal L. Melamed of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
About 41 percent of men and 53 percent of women in the United States have levels of the vitamin that are considered too low.
The researchers pointed to other studies looking at the role in disease of vitamin D, which can be found in milk and also comes from exposure to the sun. Researchers have found, for example, that deaths from cardiovascular disease are higher in the winter, when less sun leads to lower levels of vitamin D.
The question now, the study says, is whether taking supplements to raise levels of the vitamin would lower the risk of death.
Vital Signs
By ERIC NAGOURNEY
A lack of vitamin D has been found in some studies to play an unrecognized role in death among people suffering from a variety of medical problems, including heart disease and cancer.
Now researchers say they have evidence that even in the general population, having too little of the vitamin appears to be associated with a higher risk of death.
Writing in The Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers say they looked at the vitamin D levels and death rates of more than 13,000 people over a period of more than six years.
Those who fell in the lowest quarter of vitamin D levels had a 26 percent higher risk of death from all causes than those in the top quarter, found the study, which was led by Dr. Michal L. Melamed of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
About 41 percent of men and 53 percent of women in the United States have levels of the vitamin that are considered too low.
The researchers pointed to other studies looking at the role in disease of vitamin D, which can be found in milk and also comes from exposure to the sun. Researchers have found, for example, that deaths from cardiovascular disease are higher in the winter, when less sun leads to lower levels of vitamin D.
The question now, the study says, is whether taking supplements to raise levels of the vitamin would lower the risk of death.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
On the Table: the Calories Lurking in Restaurant Food
HEALTH JOURNAL
By MELINDA BECK
July 29, 2008; Page D1
Studies have shown that even dietitians often underestimate how many calories dishes contain, and no wonder. Applebee's Fiesta Lime Chicken packs 1,290 calories. Pizzeria Uno's Individual Chicago Classic (serves one) has 2,310. Who could eat another bite after an appetizer like T.G.I. Friday's Jack Daniel's Sampler at 2,330? Bear in mind that to maintain their present weight, most men should consume from 2,000 to 2,500 calories a day; most women from 1,500 to 1,800, depending on activity level and size.
See the rest of the story:
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By MELINDA BECK
July 29, 2008; Page D1
Studies have shown that even dietitians often underestimate how many calories dishes contain, and no wonder. Applebee's Fiesta Lime Chicken packs 1,290 calories. Pizzeria Uno's Individual Chicago Classic (serves one) has 2,310. Who could eat another bite after an appetizer like T.G.I. Friday's Jack Daniel's Sampler at 2,330? Bear in mind that to maintain their present weight, most men should consume from 2,000 to 2,500 calories a day; most women from 1,500 to 1,800, depending on activity level and size.
See the rest of the story:
http://online.wsj.com/wsjgate?subURI=%2Farticle%2FSB121728720696791385-email.html&nonsubURI=%2Farticle_email%2FSB121728720696791385-lMyQjAxMDI4MTE3OTIxODk3Wj.html
Monday, August 11, 2008
Honey, I Plumped the Kids
By OLIVIA JUDSON
Published: August 10, 2008
Reversing the obesity epidemic may rest on helping women lose weight before they conceive and helping them eat a balanced diet while they are pregnant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10Judson.html?ex=1376107200&en=794205adf4f3510a&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Published: August 10, 2008
Reversing the obesity epidemic may rest on helping women lose weight before they conceive and helping them eat a balanced diet while they are pregnant.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/opinion/10Judson.html?ex=1376107200&en=794205adf4f3510a&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
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