Forty percent of the 637,000 New York City schoolchildren from kindergarten through eighth grade were obese or overweight in 2008-9, above the national 35.5 percent, though rates did not rise from the prior year. Corona, Queens topped the list at 51 percent; TriBeCa sat at 15 percent.
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Mental Acuity May Increase Rate of Cognitive Decline
A Rush University Medical Center study of 1,157 Alzheimer's-free seniors found mentally stimulating activity delayed symptoms by 52 percent, but once the disease took hold decline ran 42 percent faster among the cognitively sharp. Researchers still count the delay as worthwhile.
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Sleep Quality Influences Food Choices in Teens
Researchers tracked three weeknights of sleep in 240 teenagers aged 16 to 19 with wrist devices. Those sleeping under eight hours took 2.2 percent more of their calories from fat than longer sleepers, with a wider gap among girls. Only a third got the recommended nine hours.
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Too Sexy Too Soon: Media's Dangerous Impact on Teens
Cited surveys put 46% of high school seniors as having had intercourse and one in four teens with an STI. Teens spend about seven hours a day with media; more than 75% of prime-time programs carry sexual content, while only about 14% mention risk, responsibility or consequences.
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Fewer middle, high schoolers smoke tobacco - CDC reports
CDC's National Youth Tobacco Survey found current tobacco use among middle schoolers fell from 15.1 percent in 2000 to 8.2 percent in 2009, and among high schoolers from 34.5 to 23.9 percent. Prevalence did not drop between 2006 and 2009, and susceptibility to starting held steady.
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The Power of Biological Light in Healing
Mercola relays reports that Russian scientist Pjotr Garjajev intercepted ultraviolet photon signals from DNA, and recounts Fritz-Albert Popp's photorepair work and a case in which a mistletoe remedy appeared to restore normal photon emission in a cancer patient.
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Complaints from States Follow Craigslist Suicide
Seventeen state attorneys general wrote to Craigslist urging it to stop carrying prostitution ads, a push spurred partly by the suicide of Philip Markoff, who died before standing trial for killing a woman who advertised as a masseuse on the site.
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This Daily Mistake Can Make You Obese and Forgetful
A study links sleeping fewer than five hours a day to more than double the risk of angina, coronary heart disease, heart attack or stroke, while sleeping more than nine hours raised risk by 50 percent. Separate research found catch-up sleep nearly erases the fatigue left by several short nights.
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Passive smoking more harmful than thought
Weill Cornell researchers measured nicotine and cotinine in 121 people and scanned their airway cells, finding that any detectable level, from passive or infrequent smoking, correlated with abnormal activity in genes tied to lung disease. The study appeared in AJRCCM.
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Physical activity, healthy diet cut type 2 diabetes risk
Women eating one and a half extra servings of green leafy vegetables a day had a 14% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, according to a BMJ review that cannot show cause. A separate Chinese cohort found high waist-to-hip ratio and low physical activity each raised risk sharply.
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Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Early Death
A pooled analysis of the largest studies found even light or moderate activity such as walking or cycling lowers the risk of early death, by about 19 percent at the recommended 30 minutes five days a week and 24 percent at seven hours a week.
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Learn Some Positive Parenting Tips
CDC guidance on helping children develop stage by stage, from infants learning to recognize a parent's voice and focus their vision to toddlers growing more mobile, independent and defiant, alongside advice on nutrition, rest, play, reading and talking.
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Healthy Pets Healthy People
CDC advice on germs pets can carry: households with children under five should avoid amphibians and reptiles, pregnant women should stay away from pet rodents and take care around cats, and everyone should wash hands right after handling an animal.
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Hearing Loss in Teens Can Change Their Future
National health data show one in five US teens has some hearing loss, a 31% jump in a decade. Dr. Josef Shargorodsky and colleagues compared NHANES results from 1988-1994 and 2005-2006 and say they cannot pin the rise on ear buds or any single cause.
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More Than One-in-Four Americans Now Obese
Obesity rates reached 30% or more in nine states, up from three in 2007, adding 2.4 million obese adults for a total of 72.5 million, or 26.7% of the population. The New York Times notes the figures rest on self-reported height and weight and are probably underestimates.
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No Siblings? No Problem!
Ohio State sociologists examined friendship nominations among students in grades 7 through 12 at more than 100 schools and found only children were named as friends as often as students with siblings, unlike a 2004 finding of weaker social skills in kindergarten.
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Anna Nicole Had Borderline Personality Disorder
Psychiatrist Nathalie Maullin testified at the drug conspiracy trial that Anna Nicole Smith, treated at Cedars-Sinai for acute Xanax and methadone withdrawal, also had borderline personality disorder. The piece then outlines what BPD involves and how hard treatment can be.
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Ella Wins FDA Approval
The FDA approved ella (ulipristal acetate) as a prescription-only emergency contraceptive for use within five days of unprotected sex. The agency said its likely main effect is to inhibit or delay ovulation; opponents point to evidence it may also thin the uterine lining.
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