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		<title>The Angelina Effect: TIME&#8217;s New Cover Image Revealed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 16:31:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie has never lacked for influence. When she adopted a baby from Ethiopia, inquiries at U.S. adoption agencies about other Ethiopian orphans doubled. When she named other children Vivienne or Maddox, those names shot up the popularity charts for American newborns. So this week, when a woman known for her powerfully iconic beauty announced that she had undergone an elective double mastectomy to reduce her genetically high risk of breast cancer, it was a cultural and medical earthquake — a revelation so arresting it became the subject of TIME&#8217;s newest cover story (visit time.com/angelina to read the story; free for subscribers or purchase a digital pass. Jolie, by nearly universal agreement, made the right choice for her. She tested positive for the breast-cancer-related BRCA1 gene, putting the probability that she would develop the disease at a terrifying 87%; after her surgery, her doctors put that number at just 5%. But a lot of experts worry that we may overread the lessons. Genetic screening is a young science, and while we may have detected genes linked to a host of ills — Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, prostate cancer, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, heart disease — we often do a terrible job of calculating our resulting risks. Just over one-tenth of 1% of all women carry the same BRCA mutation Jolie has, and yet doctors expect a stampede of women requesting the test. In the U.S., 36% of women who test positive opt for preventive mastectomy, but some doctors argue that regular MRIs and other screening tests may be sufficient to detect the disease, and that less radical procedures, like lumpectomies, may be sufficient to treat it if it does occur. (Read Cover Story on The Angelina Effect, Why Her Mastectomy Raises Key Issues About Genes, Health and Risk) Similar misunderstanding of risks is common in the case of prostate cancer too. The familiar PSA screening test detects blood antigens related to the disease, but levels of the marker can rise as a result of inflammation, infection and even riding a bicycle. Still, many men who test<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86769&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Brain of a Bomber: Did Damage Caused By Boxing Play a Role in the Boston Bombings?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tamerlan Tsarnaev is telling no tales. The older of the two brothers who committed the Boston Marathon bombings was likely the one who planned the attack, but when he died in a shootout with police just days after the blasts, his thoughts and motivations vanished with him. But the brain that was home to his angry mind remains, and in this case that may mean something. Tsarnaev was an amateur boxer who won the New England Golden Gloves competition as recently as 2009 and 2010. That speaks to a young man with a healthy sense of discipline and focus, and if he had a violent streak, it was violence well-channeled. But his sport of choice suggests the possibility of something else too: traumatic brain injury. As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what&#8217;s known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear. Roughly 4,000 former NFL players and 2,000 of their spouses are currently suing the league, claiming that the perils of head injuries were never explained to them and, indeed, that the players were pushed to get back on the field even when it was clear that they had suffered concussions. It was inevitable, then that questions would be raised about  whether Tsarnaev&#8217;s brain may have been similarly traumatized during the years he boxed, and if there had indeed been damage, did that spark his murderous behavior? The answer is a likely yes to the first part and a likely no to the second. (MORE: Terrorists and Mass Shooters: More Similar Than We Thought) Boxers are perhaps the best-studied victims of CTE, with the consequences of consistent trauma to the head described initially as &#8220;punch drunk,&#8221; but emerging as CTE in the 1950s, says Dr. Robert Stern, cofounder of the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy. The term &#8220;better describes a neurodegenerative disease caused, at least in part, by repetitive brain trauma,&#8221; he says.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=85139&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">From Right: Tamerlan Tsamaev fights Lamar Fenner during the 2009 Golden Gloves National Tournament of Champions  in Salt Lake City, on May 4, 2009.</media:title>
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		<title>Understanding How the Brain Speaks Two Languages</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/23/bilingualism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did. It wasn&#8217;t just the 50,000 words you had to master to become fluent or the fact that for the first six years of your life you learned about three new words per day. It was the tenses and the syntax and the entire scaffolding of grammar, not to mention the metaphors and allusions and the almost-but-not-quite synonyms. But you accomplished it, and good for you. Now imagine doing it two or three times over — becoming bilingual, trilingual or more. The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself. At a bilingualism conference last weekend convened by the Lycée Français de New York, where all students learn in both English and French, and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy, language experts gathered to explore where the science stands so far and where it&#8217;s heading next (disclosure: my children are LFNY students). Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth — and perhaps even in the womb — to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations language sounds. At first, we don&#8217;t much care which of these phonemes from which languages we absorb, which makes sense since the brain has to be ready to learn any of the world&#8217;s thousands of languages depending on where we&#8217;re born. &#8220;Before 9 months of age, a baby produces a babble made up of hundreds of phonemes from hundreds of languages,&#8221; said Elisabeth Cros, a speech therapist with the Ecole Internationale de New York. &#8220;Parents will react to the phonemes they recognize from their native tongues, which reinforces the baby&#8217;s use of those selected ones.&#8221; (MORE: How Terror Hijacks the Brain) Doubling down on a pair of languages rather than just one does take extra work, but it&#8217;s work young children are generally not aware they&#8217;re doing. Bilingual people of all<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84706&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too Old to Be a Dad?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/11/too-old-to-be-a-dad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: we&#8217;re lifetime baby-making machines. Women&#8217;s reproductive abilities start to wane when they&#8217;re as young as 35. Men? We&#8217;re good to go pretty much till we&#8217;re dead. The reason, of course, is sperm: Unlike ova, they&#8217;re hardy and decidedly plentiful. Every 16 days or so the male body raises a whole new army of them hundreds of millions strong. Want to use a few of those reproductive foot soldiers to keep conceiving children far into your fifties, sixties and even seventies? Have at it, and I should know: I didn&#8217;t have my children until I was in my mid- and late-40s (for more, read my story in the new issue of TIME, available to subscribers here). But not so fast. Older fathers, it turns out, can present as many medical problems as older mothers—more in fact. For all the concerns about Down syndrome and other genetic disorders that become more common in babies of older mothers, the list of conditions older fathers bring to the table is turning out to be far longer. Just last year, a study in Nature found that rates of autism and schizophrenia rise sharply in the babies of older dads, with the risk doubling for every 16.5 years of paternal age. Another study, also in Nature, found something similar for autism, beginning when a man is just 35—the same ostensible trouble-age as for moms. Yet another paper in the American Journal of Men&#8217;s Health linked paternal age to preterm birth and low birth weight, and others have found connections to cleft lip and certain cancers. The problem arises from the same 16-day turnover rate that make sperm such an infinitely renewable resource. Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos—called de novo mutations—to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman&#8217;s total has remained<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=84403&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Hope Works</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/07/this-is-your-mind-on-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If hope were a franchise, a lot of people would claim to own a piece of it. Bill Clinton rode to two terms in the White House on the sunny idea that he still believed &#8220;in a place called Hope.&#8221; Barack Obama served it up as a two-part dish—hope and change, like fish and chips. Napoleon declared that &#8220;a leader is a dealer in hope,&#8221; which is a smart truth for an emperor to know, but maybe a little too cynical to say out loud. Hope may be the lovely, lyrical, inspiring thing many people believe it is— &#8220;the thing with feathers,&#8221; as Emily Dickinson called it. But to scientists, it&#8217;s also a more prosaic thing as well: a skill, a tool, a simple choice that is a lot less accidental, and a lot less serendipitous than most of us believe it to be. As psychologist Shane Lopez, a senior scientist at the Gallup organization argues in his new book, Making Hope Happen, it&#8217;s also much more attainable than it seems. (MORE: The Most Common Psychiatric Disorders Share Common Roots) In both children and adults, there can be a hard-to-deny link between a robust sense of hope and either work productivity or academic achievement. In studies of this idea, hope is measured by a widely accepted psychological survey (a somewhat modified version of which is available on Lopez&#8217;s Hopemonger.com website) and productivity is measured by grades earned, sales made, widgets manufactured or any other metric that&#8217;s appropriate to the sample group. When Lopez and his colleagues recently gathered up a large body of this research and subjected it all to a meta-analysis, they came up with what they believe are very solid numbers. &#8220;Our finding was that hope accounts for about 14% of work productivity and 12% of academic achievement,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s admittedly still a little unclear when it comes to establishing a firm cause and effect. But when you roll it all up in a meta-analysis you get a little more confidence.&#8221; Hoping, Lopez stresses, is a lot different from wishing, though<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=81673&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of an Epithet: How Hate Speech Dies</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/25/the-end-of-an-epithet-how-hate-speech-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A long time ago, I didn&#8217;t know I was a hebe. I was born Jewish and raised Jewish, but hebe? Never heard of it. That was mostly a function of geography. I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an extremely high concentration of Jewish families—where the Levys and Cohens in the high school yearbook went on for pages, where I could count far more temples than I ever could churches. Antisemitism, in our cultural biodome, was mostly an abstract concept. One afternoon, however, I was standing in front of our synagogue with books in my arm, waiting to be picked up from a bar mitzvah lesson. Two boys a couple years older than me walked by and scanned me up and down. Then one shouted, &#8220;Hey! Are you a hebe?&#8221; Under the circumstances, I could make a pretty fair guess what he meant, but I couldn&#8217;t be sure. So I looked back at him and offered only a shrug that said, in effect, &#8220;dunno&#8217;.&#8221; And with that, the word hebe died a little death. I thought about that moment last weekend, when my 12-year-old daughter was having a Harry Potter-themed sleepover with a few of her friends. One of the girls was recalling a moment in a Potter book and came up short as she groped for a word. She was looking for ferret, but what came out was faggot. Another girl immediately jumped. &#8220;That&#8217;s a bad word,&#8221; she said. The first girl asked what it meant and after she was told, simply nodded her head at the nastiness of the thing. The girls, in effect, had gang-tackled the word, first by opprobrium, then by indifference—and then they went back to their playing. (More: The Problem With the &#8220;We Are All&#8230;&#8221; Trope) The slow, inexorable sunset of this most-used and most-loathed gay slur is by no means complete. It still burns brightly and horribly in far too many places and far too many lives, but its day is undeniably passing — a process only hastened by President Obama&#8217;s inaugural<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78286&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Viewpoint: Why America Won&#8217;t Forgive Lance Armstrong (for Now)</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/17/lance-armstrong-forgive-oprah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police. They look like Seinfeld&#8217;s Michael Richards, caught in a racist, career-wrecking rant during a stand-up performance in 2007. They look like John Edwards—whose name alone still makes half the country want to throw crockery while the other half just never, ever wants to have to think about him again. (I&#8217;ve written about Edwards before: &#8216;Why We Love to Loathe John Edwards&#8216;) There is no end to the number of American celebrities who have found themselves in this netherworld, brought low by crime, sex scandal, Wall Street finagling or just plain nuttiness (we&#8217;re looking at you, Charlie Sheen). Now, Lance Armstrong has landed in that same  low place. The seven-time Tour de France winner—stripped of his titles for using performance-enhancing drugs and exposed as having apparently lied and intimidated others into keeping his secrets—is about to do what so many disgraced figures do, which is to seek redemption through the TV confessional. And Armstrong—who has never done anything by halves—is going straight to the high priestess: Oprah. Armstrong&#8217;s goal, of course, is forgiveness, a public absolution that will allow him to resume his career as a competitive athlete—this time in triathlons—and regain some tarnished measure of his lost  good will. Sometimes it works: Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, Michael Vick—who ran a dog-fighting ring—managed to bounce back. Eliot Spitzer got a TV gig after frolicking with prostitutes and resigning as governor of New York, and is said to be flirting with a run for public office again. Mark Sanford, who stepped down as South Carolina governor after disappearing to hike the Appalachian Trail in his Argentine mistress&#8217;s bed, just announced his candidacy to reclaim the seat he once held in Congress.  Even Richards has earned a<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=78131&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s One-Child Policy: Curse of the &#8216;Little Emperors&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/10/little-emperors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 03:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[China is a colossal country and, as befits such a global powerhouse, it has made some colossal mistakes. Take its infamous one-child policy, implemented in 1979 and condemned from that day forward. A new study released in Science makes it clear just how misguided the idea was. Initially, the policy seemed to make a cold kind of sense: the country&#8217;s population growth was out of control, leaping nearly 75% from 1949 to 1976; its per capita income was about 300 yuan, or just over $48, and families with multiple children had nowhere near enough money to raise them well. Why not just clamp down on all the prodigious baby making and solve both problems at once? Thirty-four years later, the planners can claim a crude victory. China&#8217;s economy has boomed, and its 1.34 billion population is estimated to be about 15% smaller than it would have been otherwise. But that means that 250 million Chinese babies who would have been born never were. Until 2004, when the practice of sex-selective abortion was banned, millions of girls were aborted to satisfy China&#8217;s traditional preference for boys; and as a result of that gender bias, there are 32 million more marriage-age men in the country than there are women, according to the British Medical Journal. (MORE: Sibling Rivalry: Squabbling May Lead to Depressive Symptoms, Anxiety Among Teens) Lost in all those troubling numbers is what&#8217;s become of the singletons themselves. Just 27% of those born in China in 1975 were only children; in 1983, it was 91%. When you&#8217;re your parents&#8217; one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods — at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance. For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what&#8217;s known as the xiao huangdi — or little emperor — phenomenon, a generation of pampered and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77638&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Battle Against Polio?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/03/the-final-battle-against-polio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 11:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no one place a virus goes to die — but that doesn&#8217;t make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out. In the developed world, vaccines have made once-common scourges such as measles, rubella, mumps and whooping cough rare to the point of near-extinction. Only once, however, has any virus been flushed from its last redoubts in both the body and the wild and effectively vaccinated out of existence. That virus was smallpox, which ceased to exist outside high-security labs in 1977. Since that day, humanity has been free to put the vaccines against the disease — and the terror its periodic outbreaks would cause — on the shelf forever. Now we are tantalizingly close to another such epic moment. This time the disease in the medical cross hairs is polio, and there&#8217;s no minimizing the progress made against it. Just 25 years ago, polio was endemic to 125 countries and would paralyze or kill up to 350,000 people — the overwhelming majority of them children —  each year. Now the disease has been run to ground in just three countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria, and in 2012, it struck only 215 people worldwide. Thanks to aggressive global vaccination programs led by Rotary International, UNICEF, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and, most recently, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the year just beginning could be the disease&#8217;s last. (TIME: Read the magazine story on polio, available to subscribers here) But polio still has strong-armed friends. On January 1, as the rest of the world celebrated the New Year, gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed seven medical aid workers — six of them women or girls — who had been part of the anti-polio drive. Those killings followed nine others in December, as well as the shooting of a Ghanaian doctor, also conducting polio-vaccination work in<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=77115&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raising Hispanic Kids in a &#8216;Build a Fence&#8217; World</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/29/raising-hispanic-kids-in-a-build-a-fence-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 19:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughters have never met Arizona Governor Jan Brewer — and it&#8217;s likely they have never even heard her name. That makes sense since they&#8217;re only 9 and 11. But even at their age, they&#8217;ve become familiar with Brewer&#8217;s — and her state&#8217;s — handiwork. I was born in the U.S., my wife was born in Mexico and emigrated here when she was in college, and my daughters were born in New York City. That makes them passport-carrying, natural-born, eligible-to-run-for-President Americans. But they’re also Mexicans and they like that just fine. From the time they were pre-schoolers, they’ve seen themselves as a happy mix of the red, white and blue and the red, white and green — but the happy part hasn’t always been so easy. They were not old enough to notice when I would leap up to mute the TV whenever the seemingly ubiquitous Lou Dobbs would appear, going on about this or that imminent threat looming just south of the border. They were surely too young to appreciate what was going on when hardliners on Capitol Hill blocked George W. Bush’s plan for legalizing America’s 11 million undocumented aliens. (More: How the Gay Marriage Victories Are Slowly Transforming the Nation) But they definitely understood only a few years later when their Mami watched the news, learned about Arizona&#8217;s show-your-papers law and worried aloud whether it would ever be safe for her to travel there again. They surely understood when other legal-alien relatives wondered if they’d better hurry up and sit for their citizenship tests, since a green card and decades of productive residency suddenly seemed like flimsy protection. In the weeks since the just-passed election, there&#8217;s been no shortage of hand-wringing on the right — and not-entirely seemly gloating on the left — about the demographic suicide the Republican party seems to be committing. In 2004, Bush won a respectable 44% of the Hispanic vote. This year, 44% represented the margin between Mitt Romney’s 27% and Barack Obama’s 71%. In fairness, it&#8217;s the shrillest voices in the GOP that are mostly responsible for that<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=73601&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Redeeming the Supermarket: The Diet for the 99%</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/11/21/redeeming-the-supermarket-the-diet-for-the-99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything sadder than the foods of the 1950s? Canned, frozen, packaged concoctions, served up by the plateful, three meals per day, in an era in which the supermarket was king, the farmer&#8217;s market was, well, for farmers, and the word locavore sounded vaguely like a mythical beast. We knew far less of flavor or freshness or artisanal excellence than we do now. We were culinary rubes and too clueless even to know it. Of course, the food of that primitive era was affordable and nutritious. It was easy to prepare and it was always there. You loved it as a kid, and, be honest, you still love a lot of it now. What, you&#8217;re suddenly too good for peanut butter? For tuna salad? For jars of pickles and cans of baked beans and a carton of perfectly delicious ice cream that isn&#8217;t priced like truffle oil? Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it&#8217;s amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won&#8217;t even eat. (MORE: Cheap vs. Expensive Foods: What Wins at Checkout?) When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we&#8217;ve moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new. And when it comes to diet, a whole lot of what&#8217;s old and good involves the ordinary supermarket and some of the familiar foods on its shelves. Nutritionists and menu planners have increasingly been taking a second look at what we&#8217;ve dismissed as dreary, down-market and somehow below us, and coming to the rather surprising conclusion that there is plenty of room for a lot of it in our recipes and on our tables. Take a block of frozen vegetables for instance. The flash-freezing method introduced in the 1920s by inventor Clarence Birdseye (yes, that’s how they got the name) works so quickly and at such low temperatures that it prevents water and flavor from being extracted because of<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=74346&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a Deadly Snake&#8217;s Venom Could Mean Pain Relief</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/10/05/how-a-deadly-snakes-venom-could-mean-pain-relief/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Veronique Greenwood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At first you might feel a slight sting as the fangs enter. Then, a tingling will spread throughout your limbs. But within minutes your central nervous system will start shutting down, culminating in convulsions, paralysis, and a suffocating death. The venom of the black mamba snake, one of the world’s deadliest poisons administered by one of the world&#8217;s deadliest reptiles, can kill you within half an hour. Untreated bites have a mortality rate of 100%. Hidden in the grim cocktail the snake carries, though, are a couple of proteins with a remarkably different effect. Research published this week in Nature has revealed two molecules in mamba venom that can eliminate pain with as much potency as morphine, suggesting an unusual new source for painkillers. Sylvie Diochot, an engineer at France’s Institute of Pharmocologie Moleculaire and Cellulaire and first author of the paper, has always had a yen for the venomous. Fascinated by the destructive power of black widow bites, she studied venomous arthropods and was on familiar terms with her specimens. “Sometimes, I had several spiders and scorpions at home, in breeding, but I have children at home, so I prefer to observe them in nature (photos), or sometimes in our laboratory,” she wrote in an e-mail. Her research involved purifying the toxin molecules that make venom so deadly and then applying them to neurons and other cells to study how they send the body into catastrophic failure. (MORE: The Strange World of Drug Origins: Nuns&#8217; Urine, Yew Trees and Rooster Combs) The conclusion that venom investigators like Diochot have reached is that the things that make animal venoms so deadly are often proteins that work by jamming open or closed the channels that let ions flow across the membranes of neurons. Chemical cross-chatter into and out of the cells is what allows neurons to send messages to the brain and elsewhere. Disrupt that communications feed and the whole system can come crashing down. But not all the information neurons transmit is good. Pain, after all, is a neuronal signal<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=70840&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At the U.N., a Vow to Eradicate Polio by 2015</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/27/polio-u-n-firepower-against-an-ancient-scourge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Salk and Aseefa Zardari never met before today, but they have an odd and very significant thing in common: both of them were inoculated against polio by one of their parents. In the case of Salk, of course, it was his father Jonas, who administered his just-developed vaccine to himself, his lab workers and his family even before it was formally approved and released. Aseefa&#8217;s inoculator was her mother, the late Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, assassinated in 2007. &#8220;I have a picture of my wife immunizing our daughter 18 years ago,&#8221; said Asif Zardari, the current President and Aseefa&#8217;s father, at a United Nations gathering this afternoon. &#8220;My martyred wife told the world she dreamt of a world in which all children are free of disease.&#8221; Father, daughter and Salk had come to the U.N. as part of a new international push to eradicate polio once and for all, and they were hardly alone. Also in attendance were U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan; Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius; and — significantly — Bill Gates, head of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. All of them and others addressed a plenary session of the U.N.&#8217;s Economic and Social Council, and all of them had a single promise: by 2015, if not earlier, polio would join smallpox as the only diseases in human history to be finally and fully snuffed out in the wild. (MORE: Polio&#8217;s Back. Why Now?) There was an odd-seeming disconnect between the financial and institutional firepower assembled today and the actual, lingering incidence of polio. In 1952, three years before the Salk vaccine was introduced, 52,000 children were paralyzed or killed in the U.S. alone. In 1988, polio was endemic in more than 120 countries, still afflicting an average of 350,000 people — mostly children — per year. Today, the disease is endemic in just three countries — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria — and only in isolated pockets<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=70307&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Sh*tty Mom?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/11/are-you-a-shtty-mom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As its authors readily concede, the new book Sh*tty Mom is "about shortcuts and parenting with 40 percent effort. It's about doing a half-assed job, but doing it well enough that no one but you notices."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68206&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Oz: How to Overcome &#8216;Emotional Inertia&#8217; and Change Your Life</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/09/06/the-deadly-words-i-know-i-should/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 12:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a deep-freeze of sorts for all good intentions — a place that you store your plans to make changes in your life when you know you&#8217;re not going to make them at all. There&#8217;s no way of knowing for sure which of your plans are destined for cryopreservation, but when you utter the words &#8220;I know I should,&#8221; it&#8217;s a pretty good bet that you&#8217;ve found one. &#8220;I know I should lose weight&#8221; too often means you won&#8217;t. &#8220;I know I should quit smoking&#8221; is what you say right before you light up. &#8220;I know I should work out more or leave a bad marriage or get out of this lousy job,&#8221; are far too often followed by the word, &#8220;but.&#8221; And that&#8217;s generally the end of it. The vexing thing about human behavior is that when we say we know we should do something, we really and truly do know it. It&#8217;s hard to be 50 lbs. overweight or smoke a pack a day or feel miserable every moment you spend at work and not understand in a deep and primal way that change is in order — and that in some cases it could even save your life. So why do we wind up lost at sea, somewhere between the shores of I-know-I-should and I&#8217;m-actually-doing-it? Dr. Mehmet Oz, who knows a thing or two about motivating people to make life changes, has dug into the recent research and come up with a wealth of recent studies looking at the larger idea of what psychologists call emotional inertia, as well as the strategies — such as incremental goal-setting and group accountability that can get people moving (see his piece in this week&#8217;s issue of TIME, available to subscribers here). There&#8217;s also the surprising concept of social networks — the way good behaviors like exercising or dieting can be passed along virally from person to person, ultimately among people who may not even know one another at all. Become part of the right web and you can pick up<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=68056&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Breakthrough at Last for Spinal-Cord-Injury Research?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/07/31/a-breakthrough-at-last-for-spinal-cord-injury-research/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the early winter of 1988, I traveled to Miami to visit Marc Buoniconti. He was 24 years old at the time, and in many ways looked quite fit — full of energy, chattering on about his plans, exactly what you&#8217;d expect from a person his age. But Buoniconti wasn&#8217;t fit. He was in a wheelchair and hadn&#8217;t moved a muscle below his shoulders since fracturing his spine between the third and fourth cervical vertebrae in a college football game in October 1985. By the time I met him, he had already done the grueling work of weaning himself from his respirator — training new muscles and learning new techniques to breathe on his own. And that freedom allowed him to assume the job of point man for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, an organization co-founded by Buoniconti; his father, NFL Hall of Famer Nick Buoniconti; the University of Miami; and a handful of local surgeons. &#8220;I was never in denial about my injury,&#8221; Marc Buoniconti told me at the time. &#8220;When you can&#8217;t move, you move through that phase pretty fast.&#8221; But the absence of denial did not mean the absence of hope. Buoniconti was adamant that he would dedicate his life to getting out of his chair and helping the 300,000 other Americans living with spinal-cord injury do the same. In the meantime, he&#8217;d keep himself as fit as possible. &#8220;When the cure comes,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I plan to be ready.&#8221; Buoniconti is now a 45-year-old man with a degree in psychology, still with the Miami Project — and still in a wheelchair. But the cure he spoke of 27 years ago just got a very big step closer. On Tuesday morning, Miami Project doctors convened a press conference to announce that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had just granted them a green light to begin Phase 1 human trials for a new surgical technique in which nerve cells from the leg would be transplanted to the spine of newly paralyzed patients in the hope<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=65155&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists Create an Artificial Jellyfish to Help Mend Broken Hearts</title>
		<link>http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2120119,00.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caltech and Harvard scientists built an artificial jellyfish in hopes that its coordinated muscle movements will help teach them better ways to mend damaged human heart tissue or build replacement parts for other systems in the body. Read more about the jellyfish in TIME.com&#8217;s Science section.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=64444&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blessed Are the Sleek? Why God Wants You to Be Thin</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/31/blessed-are-the-sleek-why-god-wants-you-to-be-thin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s say you believe in God (most Americans do). Let&#8217;s say you&#8217;re deeply religious (most Americans say they are). So what does God want for you? You can be pretty sure God wants you to be happy, to be charitable, to be honest, to be kind. You can be pretty sure God doesn&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re rich, beautiful, famous or thin, right? Well, that thin part may take a little explaining. With the U.S. tottering under an obesity epidemic that has left two-thirds of all adults and one-third of all kids overweight or obese, public health experts are despairing of finding new ways to get Americans off their duffs, away from the fridge and back into at least nominally healthy habits. Fad diets are useless; gym memberships do nothing — at least if they go unused; public service ads get ignored. But, as we explore in this week&#8217;s issue of TIME (available to subscribers here), where all of those efforts have failed, faith could succeed — at least according to Pastor Rick Warren. Two years ago, Warren, the author of the über-bestseller The Purpose Driven Life and the leader of the Saddleback mega-church in Lake Forest, Calif., was struck by how out of shape his 20,000-strong congregation had gotten and, he readily admitted, he was no better, tipping the scales at 295 lbs. — or a full 90 lbs. too much for his 6-ft.-3-in. frame. He suspected he had a way to fix all that — one that might work in the wider world as well — and the secret, he believed, lay in Scripture, specifically in the Book of Daniel. (MORE: The Book of Daniel: Is It Really About Diet?) There&#8217;s a lot that happens in the Book of Daniel, but the critical passage occurs when Daniel and three other Jewish boys are brought to the court of the conquering King Nebuchadnezzar, where they are to be fed and trained so that they may serve in the royal circle. But as the Biblical passage recounts, the boys resist at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=60618&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Book of Daniel: Is It Really About Diet?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/31/the-book-of-daniel-is-it-really-about-diet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Dias</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bible is not a diet book. Study it as closely as you want, and you’ll never find anything remotely approaching “10 Tips to Drop 10 Pounds.” And yet that same Bible has helped 15,000 members of Rick Warren’s Saddleback megachurch drop a collective 260,000 lbs. The program the Saddleback members are following is known as The Daniel Plan, and in TIME’s health special this week (available to subscribers here), Jeffrey Kluger and I take a deeper look at just why it’s met with such success. Throughout Judeo-Christian history, whole societies have shifted based not on the specific words in the Bible, but on the ways later generations understood them. It was interpretations of the apostle Paul’s teachings on the relationship between law and grace that led to the reformation that split Europe in the 16th century. It is Paul too, whose belief that homosexuality is a sin and that women should not speak in church, that has kept both women and gays out of the pulpit. In a far more benign way, it’s the Book of Daniel that has helped the Saddleback congregants drop 130 tons. The book tells the tale of a boy who was taken with other young Jewish men to serve in the conquering King Nebuchadnezzar’s palace. Daniel and three of his friends accepted the king’s teaching and even new Chaldean names, but they refused the royal food and wine, choosing instead a diet of legumes (literally &#8220;seeds&#8221;) and water. “At the end of the ten days,” reads the scriptural passage, “they looked healthier and better nourished than any of the young men who ate the royal food. So the Biblical message is to go vegetarian, right? Well, Daniel’s decision to forgo rich foods like cakes, meats, and wine, combined with New Testament passages calling the human body a “temple of the Holy Spirit” certainly seems to suggest as much. It is difficult to serve God, after all, if you are chronically ill and at risk of dying young. But the historical context of the Book<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=60672&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Junior Seau&#8217;s Death Raises Familiar and Agonizing Questions</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/03/junior-seaus-death-raises-familiar-and-agonizing-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Kluger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no getting inured to scenes like the one that unfolded in Oceanside, Calif., on May 2, where a crowd gathered and a mother wailed as the body of Junior Seau — the sunny, preternaturally good-natured veteran of three NFL teams — was carried out from his home to a coroner&#8217;s van, victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. He left no note. What made the loss of the 43-year-old Seau especially cruel was not just that he was a model citizen in a sport too often populated by on-field bounty hunters and off-field felons. It was also that this kind of thing has become drearily familiar: Ray Easterling, who played for the Atlanta Falcons in the 1970s; Dave Duerson of the Chicago Bears and New York Giants; and Owen Thomas of the University of Pennsylvania all committed suicide in the past two years. Other NFLers have died in violent driving incidents — Chris Henry of the Cincinnati Bengals in 2009 who tumbled from the back of a moving car while fighting with his girlfriend, who was behind the wheel; and Justin Strzelcyk of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who died in a fiery collision while fleeing the police in 2004. And all of them had one thing in common: their brains had been permanently, disablingly damaged by careers spent clobbering and getting clobbered by other very big, very strong men. No one yet knows if Seau was suffering from the same kind of degenerative injury, and no one ever will know unless his family agrees to allow his brain to be studied postmortem, the way the brains of the other athletes have been. He does, however, fit the profile. He played for a long time — 20 years in the pros alone, to say nothing of college, high school and Pop Warner. He had recently exhibited uncharacteristically volatile behavior — getting arrested in 2010 on a domestic violence charge and later that day driving his car over a 100-ft. cliff in California, sustaining surprisingly mild injuries. No drugs or<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=58807&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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