Mercola writes that Americans get about a billion colds a year and that flu-like symptoms come from influenza at most 17 percent of the time. He attributes winter illness to indoor crowding and falling vitamin D levels, and notes antibiotics do nothing against viruses.
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Research Shows that Loneliness is Contagious
Researchers from Chicago, UC San Diego and Harvard report in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that loneliness spreads through social networks. The average person has about 48 lonely days a year, and each lonely friend adds roughly 17 more.
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Your Complexion Reveals How Good Your Diet and Health Is
Asked to adjust the skin color of faces to look as healthy as possible, participants raised rosiness, yellowness and brightness. Researchers link the rosy preference to blood full of oxygen and the golden tone to carotenoid pigments picked up from vegetables in the diet.
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Indoor Tanning: The Risks of Ultraviolet Rays - FDA
The FDA warns that sunlamps and tanning beds emit UV-A and UV-B radiation that damages skin, and that any tan is itself a sign of injury. In 2009 the International Agency for Research on Cancer moved tanning devices into its highest risk category, carcinogenic to humans.
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Keeping Holiday Stress at Bay
Opening with a Thanksgiving-weekend family killing in Jupiter, Florida, the piece notes holidays can sharpen anxiety, depression and family resentment, and suggests keeping expectations realistic, skipping some invitations, and putting every December event on a calendar.
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College Students Getting Smarter, Shunning H1N1 Vaccine
A Washington Post-ABC News poll found nearly seven in ten people aged 18 to 29 did not plan to get the H1N1 vaccine. CDC officials said young people's lack of concern worries them enough that they are running surveys to work out what lies behind it.
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Five Steps to Overcoming Gout Naturally
Mercola explains that gout is a form of arthritis in which excess uric acid forms crystals in the joints, most often the big toe, causing sudden, intense pain that usually eases within three to ten days but tends to recur more often and damage joints over time.
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Those With MS Need Not Fear Pregnancy
Analyzing 18.8 million births, a Neurology report found women with MS had more C-sections, 42 versus 33 percent, and slightly slower fetal growth, but fewer complications than women who were diabetic before pregnancy and no added risk of preeclampsia.
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Benefits of quitting smoking happen in 20 minutes
The American Cancer Society says heart rate and blood pressure drop within 20 minutes of quitting, and promotes its Great American Smokeout as a date to stop. Smokers who quit by 35 gain about eight years of life expectancy, by 55 about five, and by 65 about three.
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Quarter of a million English children risk skin cancer at tanning beds
Two studies of more than 9,000 English children aged 11 to 17 found 6 percent had used a sunbed, with rates reaching 51 percent in Liverpool and 21.8 percent unsupervised. The authors estimate a quarter of a million face raised melanoma risk and want legislation.
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Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Trends in Smoking Cessation --- United States, 2008
CDC's analysis of the 2008 National Health Interview Survey found adult smoking fell from 24.1% to 20.6% between 1998 and 2008 but did not change significantly from 2007. Prevalence was highest among adults with a GED (41.3%) and lowest among those with a graduate degree (5.7%).
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Smoking rates increase in 2008 - CDC
A CDC report put adult smoking at 20.6 percent in 2008, up from 19.8 percent in 2007. The CDC called the change statistically insignificant, but anti-tobacco campaigner Matthew Meyers noted it was the first rise in the adult rate since 1994.
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Study Shows Relationship Between Adolescent Obesity and MS
Harvard researchers followed 238,000 nurses for 40 years; among the 598 later diagnosed with MS, women obese at 18 had twice the risk of slimmer women. Obesity in childhood or adulthood showed no such link, and the team says more work is needed to explain how the two connect.
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Quitting smoking with help from your cell phone
A Tobacco Control study of more than 30,000 smokers found a history of switching to light or low-tar brands carried 46% lower odds of quitting. Separately, Columbia researchers are building Lit, a phone game played by breathing into the microphone as a substitute for smoking.
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Exercise Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk
Among 190 men biopsied for suspected prostate cancer, those walking the equivalent of three to six hours a week were two-thirds less likely to be diagnosed than sedentary men. The study shows an association, not that exercise caused the drop.
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No-Nonsense Guide to a Naturally Healthy Pregnancy and Baby
Mercola's prenatal advice leads with omega-3 fats, which he calls the single most important dietary influence on prenatal health, citing a 1991 Mayo Clinic study in which all 19 “normal” pregnant women were deficient. He also covers vitamin D, exercise, mercury amalgams and pesticides.
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Want to quit smoking? Don't try light cigarettes
Among 31,000 smokers tracked, 38 percent switched to a light brand. Those who switched were 58 percent more likely to try quitting in 2002-2003 but 60 percent less likely to succeed, University of Pittsburgh researchers report in Tobacco Control.
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Physical Activity Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk
Actor Dennis Hopper, 73, has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. The article pairs that news with a British Journal of Cancer study of 45,887 Swedish men, which found physical activity such as walking or bicycling was inversely associated with prostate cancer risk.
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