A public health explainer warning that unpasteurized milk can carry bacteria, viruses and parasites that cause serious illness. Pasteurization kills the disease-causing germs, which otherwise leave no change in how milk looks, tastes or smells.
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Parents who light up more likely to have kids who smoke
Analysing the British Household Panel Survey from 1994 to 2002, researchers found sons had a 24 percent chance and daughters a 23 percent chance of becoming addicted to cigarettes when both parents smoked, against 12 percent each when neither did.
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Breast implants and rare breast cancer may be linked says FDA
The FDA says saline and silicone breast implants may carry a very small but significant risk of anaplastic large cell lymphoma in the scar capsule, citing about 60 cases worldwide among an estimated 5 to 10 million women, and asks doctors to report confirmed cases.
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Menopause symptoms reduce breast cancer risk
Fred Hutchinson researchers surveyed 1,437 postmenopausal women, 988 of them with breast cancer, and found those who had menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes had a 40 to 60 percent lower risk, even after accounting for obesity and hormone therapy.
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FDA: Breast Implants linked to lymphoma
The FDA's January 2011 review of published cases and epidemiological data concluded women with breast implants may face a very small increased risk of anaplastic large cell lymphoma in the scar capsule, but says the data cannot confirm implants cause it.
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The Quickest, Easiest Way to Help Detoxify Your Body
Mercola argues that filtering your household water is the easiest way to lighten your body’s toxic load, since blood, kidneys and liver need clean water to clear daily chemical exposures. He points to chlorination by-products, leached plastics, pesticides and hormones.
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Light Therapy Promising for Treating Major Depression
In a trial of nearly 90 adults aged 60 and over with clinical depression, an hour of bright light each morning for three weeks improved symptoms over controls, comparably to antidepressants, while raising evening melatonin and lowering cortisol.
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Managing stress could reduce heart disease
In a Swedish trial of 362 patients discharged within the previous year, those assigned cognitive behavioral therapy had a 41 percent lower rate of fatal and non-fatal cardiac events, 45 percent fewer recurrent heart attacks and 28 percent lower death rates than usual-care patients.
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Walking, weight loss increase older, obese people's mobility
Wake Forest researchers split 288 adults aged 60 to 79 into physical activity and activity-plus-weight-loss groups and followed them 18 months. Measured by a 400-meter walk, mobility improved 5 percent on average and by as much as 20 percent.
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Smoking before menopause may boost breast cancer risk
A study of 111,140 women found smoking before menopause, especially before giving birth, modestly raised breast cancer risk, with the earliest and heaviest smokers most affected. Light and moderate smoking and secondhand smoke showed no increase.
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Kids fight childhood obesity in their sleep
A Pediatrics study of 308 children aged 4 to 10 wearing wrist actigraphs found obese children slept less and more erratically on weekends. Short or highly variable sleep was associated with altered insulin, LDL and C-reactive protein levels.
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Human growth hormone leads to street drug use
Harvard researchers surveyed 231 male weightlifters aged 18 to 40 and found 27 had used human growth hormone or IGF-I. All 27 had also used anabolic steroids, and 15 had used opioids, cocaine or ecstasy. Illicit HGH use often accompanies street drug use, they conclude.
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Social supports help breast cancer survival
Researchers followed 2,230 breast cancer survivors in Shanghai and found that, six months after diagnosis, women with greater social well-being had a 38 percent lower risk of dying and a 48 percent lower risk of recurrence.
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Quality of Life and Safety of Tai Chi and Green Tea Extracts in Postmenopausal Women
In an NCCAM-funded trial of postmenopausal women with osteopenia, tai chi alone or combined with green tea polyphenol supplements appeared to improve quality of life, while the supplements alone showed no significant improvement. Both interventions appeared safe.
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Breastfeeding Report Card—United States, 2010
The CDC's state-by-state Breastfeeding Report Card finds three of every four new U.S. mothers now start out breastfeeding, meeting the Healthy People 2010 initiation goal. Breastfeeding at 6 and 12 months and exclusive breastfeeding remain low and flat.
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CDC Grand Rounds: Childhood Obesity in the United States
Obesity affects about 12.5 million US children and teens, roughly 17 percent, after tripling during the 1980s and 1990s. The rise has slowed and may have levelled off, but the heaviest boys keep getting heavier, and Hispanic boys and non-Hispanic black girls are hit hardest.
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Breastfeeding may protect women who survive childhood cancer
Reviewing existing research, St. Jude investigators found breastfeeding may favorably affect bone mineral density, metabolic syndrome risk factors, cardiovascular disease and secondary cancers in women who survived childhood cancer, and urge that those able to breastfeed be encouraged to.
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Drinking alcohol may boost risk of divorce
Indiana University researchers followed more than 5,000 Australian couples recruited in the early 1980s and found alcohol dependence tied to both delayed marriage and early separation, with genetic influences contributing to the pattern in men and women alike.
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