A Duke University analysis of national survey data found 22 percent of men and 9 percent of women aged 50 to 64 binge drink. Lead author Dan Blazer says clinicians focused on college-age drinkers miss these patterns, which often lack the usual signs of dependence.
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Good Bacteria Fight the Flu
Young children who drank a mixture of probiotic bacteria had fewer colds, needed fewer antibiotics and missed fewer school days, a study found. Mercola uses the result to argue that strengthening the immune system, not a flu vaccine, is the better defense.
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Gene found that allows people to sleep less
Of 1,000 people studied at the University of California, only two, a mother and daughter, carried a mutation that let them sleep from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. with no apparent ill effects. Mice bred to carry the gene also slept less without adverse effects.
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Weight lifting benefits breast cancer survivors
In 141 breast cancer survivors with stable arm lymphedema, slowly progressive weight lifting left limb swelling unchanged but halved flare-ups, 14 percent versus 29 percent, while easing symptoms and building strength. No adverse events were tied to the lifting.
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Young Women Look to Their Own Mothers for Parenting Advice
An Ohio State study of 1,133 young parents whose own parents were surveyed in 1979 found young women follow their mothers on reading, praising and spanking more closely than fathers follow theirs, though 1990s parents were more likely to drop spanking.
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Stress Raises Belly Fat, Heart Risks
Wake Forest researchers found socially stressed monkeys secreted more cortisol and carried more visceral fat than calmer ones, even at matching weight and BMI. Stressed females put on belly fat as readily as males, losing their usual relative protection from plaque buildup.
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Breastfeeding linked to lower breast cancer risk
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine links breastfeeding to a 59 percent lower breast cancer risk among women whose mother or sister had the disease. The piece also notes reported reductions in type 2 diabetes, ovarian cancer and rheumatoid arthritis risk.
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Breastfeeding reduces breast cancer risk
Among 60,075 women in the Nurses' Health Study II, breastfeeding showed no overall link to premenopausal breast cancer. But women whose mother or sister had the disease were 59 percent less likely to develop it before menopause if they breastfed.
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Optimists live longer, healthier lives, study shows
In an eight-year University of Pittsburgh study of nearly 100,000 post-menopausal women, the most optimistic had a 9% lower risk of heart disease and a 14% lower risk of dying from any cause, while the most hostile and cynical were 16% more likely to die.
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Stress Raises Belly Fat, Heart Risks
Wake Forest researchers led by Carol Shively found chronically stressed monkeys secreted more cortisol and carried more visceral fat than calmer animals of the same weight and BMI, and that stressed females put on belly fat as readily as stressed males.
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Many women at risk of breast and ovarian cancer elect to have prevention surgery
A British survey of 200 women counselled for BRCA mutations found 40 percent had both breasts removed and 45 percent both ovaries. Some acted soon after counselling, others waited up to seven years, and testing still cannot say who will develop cancer.
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Television Viewing Directly Linked to Higher Blood Pressure in Children
Among 111 children aged 3 to 8 followed for four years, those watching 1.5 to 5.5 hours of television a day had higher systolic and diastolic pressure than those watching under 30 minutes. Other sedentary activities, such as reading or computer use, showed no such link.
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Obesity Tied to Social Networking
A New England Journal of Medicine study found that when a close friend becomes obese, a person is 57 percent more likely to gain weight, even if that friend lives across the continent. Teenagers' BMI also tracks with their peers, though the reason stays unclear.
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Sexual behavior among Americans aged 15 to 24
CDC survey data for 2002 show 30.0 percent of girls and 31.6 percent of boys aged 15 to 17 had ever had sex, against 70.6 and 64.7 percent at 18 to 19. Among sexually active never-married teens, 75.2 percent of females and 82.3 percent of males used contraception at first intercourse.
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Circumcision not a Factor in Male Transmission of HIV to Female Partners
Johns Hopkins researchers led by Dr. Maria Wawer circumcised half of 922 HIV-infected uncircumcised men and tracked 163 female partners for 24 months, finding circumcision did nothing to lower the women's risk. Their conclusion: condom use is essential either way.
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Swearing helps relieve pain
Richard Stephens at Keele had more than 60 undergraduates hold their hands in icy water and found they lasted longer and felt less pain while repeating a curse word than a neutral one. Why swearing helps is unknown; exercise is offered as another option.
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Low intake of calories and or methionine extends lifespan
In a 20-year Science study of monkeys, 80 percent of those fed 30 percent fewer calories were still alive against 50 percent eating freely, and the restricted animals were half as likely to develop cancer or cardiovascular disease. Whether the same holds in humans is unknown.
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Childhood obesity on the rise
Analyzing NHANES data on 12,384 US children aged 2 to 19, researchers found severe obesity, a BMI at or above the 99th percentile, rose more than 300% since 1976 and over 70% since 1994, reaching 3.8% of children in 1999-2004, with rates highest among black children.
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