A Pediatrics study of Texas 8th and 11th graders found students who ate well and exercised heavily also drank large amounts of flavored and sports drinks, while less active students with poorer diets favored soda. Ranjit says sports drinks carry little juice and extra calories.
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Avoiding Illness
How diet and lifestyle affect cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity and other illnesses.
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Obesity
"Freshman Fifteen" Avoided by Finding a Heavy Roommate
Female freshmen randomly assigned heavier roommates gained about half a pound, against 2.5 pounds for those with thinner roommates, in a study of 144 students. Co-author Kandice Kapinos suggests it is heavier students' dieting and exercise habits that spread.
Other Diseases
Mediterranean diet helps costly, deadly Alzheimer's disease
A report by Alzheimer's Disease International puts 2010 dementia care costs at $601 billion, more than 1% of global GDP, for an estimated 35.6 million people worldwide, with cases expected to double by 2030. Wealthy countries hold 46% of cases and 89% of the costs.
Avoiding Illness
Is it A Cold or the Flu?
A cold builds over several days, from a scratchy throat to sneezing and coughing, while influenza follows a 3 to 4 day incubation and then floors patients with severe body aches, high fever, sore throat and cough. Researchers tie 1918's deaths to cytokine storms.
Obesity
Obesity Remains a "Heavy" Problem
The CDC's goal of cutting adult obesity to 15 percent by 2010 went unmet. Earl S. Ford's team examined 23,000 adults in NHANES and found obesity rose from 27 to 32 percent among men and from 33 to 35 percent among women between 1999-2000 and 2007-2008.
Heart & Blood
Flawed Study, Bad Science, Outrageous Conclusion
Dr. Mercola faults a study that fed heart attack survivors omega-3-enriched margarine, arguing the trans fat cancelled any benefit. Mayo cardiologist Stephen Kopecky called the dose tiny and noted patients enrolled on average four years after their heart attack.
Heart & Blood
Flu Shot Decreases Risk of Diabetes, Stroke, Asthma
British researchers found influenza vaccination came with 19 percent fewer first heart attacks, with larger reductions when shots were given early in the fall; pneumococcal vaccine showed no such benefit. Deaths among people with diabetes rise 5 to 15 percent during flu epidemics.
Other Diseases
DEA Providing Sites for Prescription Drug Disposal
The DEA set up 3,400 sites for National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, saying most abused prescription drugs come from home medicine cabinets and that flushing or trashing them is unsafe. Treatment admissions for prescription drug abuse quadrupled from 1998 to 2008.
Other Diseases
Global Cost of Dementia Soars
Martin Prince and Anders Wimo estimate dementia will cost $604 billion worldwide in 2010 and $1.08 trillion a year by 2050. Rich nations hold 46% of cases but 89% of the cost. ADI chairman Daisy Acosta says governments are woefully unprepared.
Heart & Blood
Medtronics New Stent FDA Approved
The FDA approved Medtronic's smaller, more flexible Integrity bare-metal stent, formed from a single wire by continuous sinusoid technology, which the company says may eventually yield polymer-free drug-filled stents. The piece also reviews how angioplasty and stents treat clogged arteries.
Cancer
Pediatric Cancer:Curing the Beast
An appeal about childhood cancer that lists the types, from leukemia and lymphoma to neuroblastoma and Wilms' tumor, and relays parents' accounts of a son, Sam, dying in their arms and of a daughter's leukemia diagnosis after what looked like flu.
Avoiding Illness
Childhood Obesity Linked to Cold Virus
Of 124 children tested, 19 carried antibodies to the cold virus AD-36 and 15 of those were obese; antibody-positive children weighed 50 pounds more than negative ones. The researchers caution the link may not run that way — obese children could simply catch the virus more easily.
Cancer
Scientists Make Progress in Understanding Ovarian Cancer Risk
Analyzing DNA from more than 10,000 women with ovarian cancer and 13,000 without, researchers report in Nature Genetics five genetic variants tied to ovarian cancer risk, on chromosomes 2, 3, 8, 17 and 19. Four of the five were more common in women with serous ovarian cancer.
Cancer
Thyroid, Kidney Cancers May Share Treatment
Keith Bible's phase II trial found Votrient shrank tumours in about 49 percent of patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer, with a 66 percent chance of lasting a year. Side effects were common and any survival benefit remains unclear.
Cancer
FDA Delays Decision on Breast Cancer Drug
Genentech says the FDA has pushed back by 90 days, to December 17, its decision on revoking Avastin's breast cancer approval. An advisory panel voted 12-1 in July to withdraw it after follow-up studies showed the drug delayed worsening by only one month rather than the five originally reported.
Cancer
Childhood Cancer: Where are the Headlines?
Cancer kills more US children under 14 than any other disease. Over 12,400 are diagnosed each year and about 4,000 die, 11 a day. The piece describes what treatment costs families and siblings, and suggests practical help neighbours can offer.
Other Diseases
All Memory Loss Due to Brain Abnormalities
Over 16 years, Rush researchers tested 354 nuns, priests and brothers up to 14 times, then examined their brains after death. Those with mild to moderate memory loss had Lewy bodies, neurofibrillary tangles and evidence of stroke, suggesting decline is not simply aging.
Cancer
Please Help CHOP Childhood Cancer
About 11,000 US children will be diagnosed with cancer this year and more than 1,300 will die, making it the second leading cause of death in children. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia marks the awareness month by sharing patients' stories, including Tara Stout's.
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