A CDC report on 5,807 Massachusetts students found those who bully, are bullied, or both were more likely to report being physically hurt by a family member, witnessing family violence, and considering suicide or self-injury. About 44 percent of middle schoolers were involved.
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How many cosmetics or personal care products you use in a day? EWG-Newsletter
EWG relaunched its Skin Deep Cosmetics Database seven years after starting it, and asks readers to donate before a May 4 deadline. EWG says people apply an average of 126 unique ingredients daily and that no pre-market testing of these products is required.
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Medical Marijuana Becoming Blockbuster Drug
Mercola reports US medical marijuana sales at $1.7 billion, close to Viagra's $1.9 billion, and projections reaching $8.9 billion by 2016 if 20 more states legalize. He points to the film Run From the Cure and its claim that hemp oil's cancer potential is being suppressed.
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Acupuncture helps hot flashes in prostate cancer patients
Among 14 men treated for prostate cancer, twice-weekly acupuncture lowered an average hot flash score from 28.3 to 10.3 after four weeks and to 7 after eight, according to a study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology. A randomized trial is being designed.
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Plastic surgery to prevent bullying?
A 7-year-old South Dakota girl had surgery to reshape and pin back her ears after being teased, which her mother called a step to stop bullying. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery counted 160,283 cosmetic procedures in children in 2008.
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Want to Burn Away Those Excess Pounds? Heed This Lesson From the Afghans...
Physician Kevin Patterson found that Afghan patients he treated in Kandahar carried little or no fat under the skin, unlike the Canadians, Americans and Europeans whose organs were encased in it. He ties urbanized Western eating to rising diabetes worldwide.
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April Is Alcohol Awareness Month
The CDC is using this year's campaign to highlight binge drinking among women, which it links to more than 11,500 U.S. deaths a year. In 2009 more than one in 10 women reported binge drinking in the past 30 days, averaging almost six drinks per occasion about three times a month.
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Hello motherhood, goodbye diet and exercise?
A Pediatrics study of 682 women and 838 men found parents of children under five were less physically active than non-parents. Mothers reported more sugar-sweetened beverages, more total energy and more saturated fat, and had higher mean BMIs; fathers' BMIs did not differ.
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Childhood obesity issues linger into adulthood
A study in the New England Journal of Medicine followed 37,674 healthy Israeli army teens for a mean 17.4 years. Higher adolescent BMI, even within the normal range, predicted diabetes and coronary heart disease; adjusting for adult BMI erased the diabetes link but not the heart one.
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Teen Pregnancy: The Importance of Prevention
About 1,100 US teen girls give birth each day and more than 400,000 each year, even after a 40 percent drop over two decades. Teen birth rates run up to nine times higher than in most other developed countries, and teen childbearing costs taxpayers about $9 billion a year.
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Are Any of These Your Eating Patterns?
Martha Rosenberg reports the OECD ranked the United States the fattest of 33 countries, with 70 percent of Americans overweight and 75 percent projected by 2020. She points to screen-bound lifestyles, the demise of the family dinner and food deserts; one journal projects 86 percent by 2030.
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Skip the Doctor - Use 'Grandma's Home Remedies' for These 7 Ailments
Dr. Mercola reviews seven folk remedies reported by Yahoo Health, among them olives for motion sickness, an oatmeal paste for eczema, yogurt for bad breath and salt water gargles for sore throat, and offers his own alternatives, such as ginger tea for nausea.
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Smokers with diabetes more prone to complications
Researcher Xiao-Chuan Liu told the American Chemical Society that nicotine raised HbA1c by as much as 34 percent, with higher nicotine levels producing more of it. The finding may explain why diabetic smokers show persistently elevated long-term blood sugar readings.
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Teens get gastric bypass and lose bone mass
A review of 61 adolescents after bariatric surgery, published in Pediatrics, found whole-body bone mineral content and density z scores fell significantly, with predicted bone mineral content down 7.4% over two years. Researchers want longer follow-up.
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Health-Washing: Is 'Healthy' Fast Food for Real?
Mercola relays a Time report on fast food marketed as healthy: McDonald's Fruit & Maple Oatmeal holds more sugar than a Snickers bar, its grilled chicken is reconstituted rib meat with 22 additives, and a foot-long Subway teriyaki sandwich carries 34 grams of added sugar.
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A bowl a day for breakfast could keep heart problems away
Among 13,368 male physicians followed for 16 years, those eating whole grain breakfast cereal seven or more times a week had a 25 percent lower risk of high blood pressure than men who ate none, with smaller reductions at lower intakes.
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Bottom line: Big bottoms could mean public transit changes
The Federal Transit Administration proposes raising the assumed average bus passenger weight from 150 to 175 pounds, giving standing passengers 1.75 rather than 1.5 square feet, and toughening structural tests. Comments were open until May 13, 2011.
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Frequent sex is heart smart - study
A JAMA review of 14 studies found episodic physical activity and sexual activity were each associated with a short-lived rise in heart attack risk, but the absolute increase was small, roughly 2 to 3 per 10,000 person-years, and smaller in people who were habitually active.
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