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		<title>Fish: The Fountain of Youth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eating fish can be good for the heart and even for the brain, so it&#8217;s probably no surprise that pelagic products can lead to a longer life. Omega-3 fatty acids have long been credited with protecting the heart and reducing risk of heart attack and stroke, but studies on the benefits of supplementing with fish oils have had conflicting results. So researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington decided to explore whether fish oil&#8217;s benefits for the heart translated into longer life spans. The researchers combed through 16 years of data on 2,700 healthy adults ages 65 and up who were not taking fish-oil supplements and participated in the long-term Cardiovascular Health Study from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Throughout the 16 years, the participants had physical exams, took diagnostic tests, submitted blood samples and answered questionnaires about their health, lifestyle and medical history. (MORE: Study: Eating Omega-3s May Help Reduce Alzheimer’s Risk) From the blood samples, the researchers isolated docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosapentaenoic acid (DPA), the healthy fatty acids found in fish oils, that served as a proxy for how much fish the participants ate. Reporting in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the researchers found that those with higher levels of all three fatty acids showed a 35% lower risk of dying of heart disease compared with those with lower levels of the fats in their blood. DHA was associated with a 40% lower risk of coronary-heart-disease death, in which gradual buildup of plaque within the heart-vessel walls can lead to heart failure, often from irregular heart beats. EPA was linked to a lower risk of heart attacks, and DPA was associated with a lower risk of death from stroke. When the researchers factored in not just heart disease but other causes of death, those with the highest levels of all three fatty acids were 27% less likely to die during the study period and lived on average more than two years longer than those with the lowest levels. Although the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83590&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unhealthy Teens Could Lead to Rise in Heart-Disease Rates</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/01/unhealthy-teens-could-lead-to-rise-in-heart-disease-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than half of U.S. adolescents are living heart-healthy lives, and lack of exercise and poor diets could be creating a new generation of heart-disease patients. It’s no surprise that American adolescents aren’t the healthiest eaters, and that they aren’t as physically active as they should be. But the latest survey confirms the fear that the current generation of teens could be at greater risk of heart disease than their parents if they don’t change their behaviors. Christina Shay, an epidemiologist at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, led a study of 4,673 teens ages 12 years old to 19 years old who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2005 and &#8217;10. The volunteers answered questions about their eating and exercise habits by phone once every two years and also provided occasional blood samples and were examined in person at mobile centers to record their blood pressure, weight and height. The sample is demographically representative of the 33.2 million adolescents in the U.S. As in previous studies, Shay and her colleagues found that these teens were a sedentary group that ate unhealthy foods. More than 80% ate what the researchers rated as a poor diet — high in fast foods and processed foods as well as sugar-sweetened drinks, and low in fruits and vegetables and whole-grain products. The scientists ranked the children’s heart-disease risk behaviors according to how well they complied with the seven factors that the American Heart Association (AHA) recently defined as critical for optimal heart health: maintaining a healthy body weight; eating a healthy diet; being physically active; keeping blood pressure, cholesterol and blood glucose within normal ranges; and not smoking. If the teens met the recommended requirements, their behavior was rated as ideal; if they fell short, their compliance was considered poor; and if they fell in between, the researchers ranked them as intermediate. Only 45% of boys and 50% of girls in the study met five or more of these criteria, and less than 1% of the teens were eating<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=83364&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kids Who Exercise Are Less Likely to Have Fractures in Old Age</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/03/25/kids-who-exercise-are-less-likely-to-have-fractures-in-old-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that strengthening bone to avoid fractures starts at a very young age. Physical activity, such as the exercise children get in school gym classes, is important for fighting obesity, but the latest research suggests it may help to keep bones strong as well. For six years, researchers from Skane University Hospital in Malmo, Sweden, followed 808 boys and girls ages 7 to 9 who were asked to participate in 40 minutes of physical activity daily during school. The scientists recorded the children&#8217;s skeletal development, and documented any reports of fractures and compared these results with those of a similarly aged control group that completed 60 minutes of physical activity over a week. Reporting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine&#8217;s Specialty Day in Chicago, the researchers found that during the study period, children in the group that exercised daily reported 72 fractures, while those in the control group recorded 143 fractures. Those who were physically active for 40 minutes a day also showed higher bone density in the spine compared with those who did not exercise as much. Bone density is an indication of bone strength, and the denser bone density is early in life, the stronger bones remain decades later, when natural thinning of bones weakens the skeleton and increases the risk of fractures and breaks. (MORE: 10 Ways to Build Healthy Bones and Keep Them Strong) To correlate these results with fracture risk later in life, the researchers also studied 708 former male athletes in their 60s and 70s and compared their fracture rates and bone-density scores with those of healthy men of the same age who had not been trained at an elite level. The former athletes showed a smaller rate of loss in bone density on average than the nonathletes, suggesting that their bones were better able to avoid fractures. &#8220;According to our study, exercise interventions in childhood may be associated with lower fracture risks as people age, due to the increases in peak bone mass that occurs in growing children who perform regular<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=82883&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>With Age Comes Happiness</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/18/with-age-comes-happiness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 19:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wisdom may come with age, but does happiness follow suit? Some studies show that the elderly may be more prone to depression and loneliness, which can lead to higher rates of unhappiness, not a surprise given the health and emotional challenges that tend to accompany aging. But increasing, more and more studies suggest that happiness may actually rise after middle age — at least when scientists take into account some of the non-biological factors that can influence reports of contentment. In a new study, which was published in Psychological Science, researchers led by Angelina Sutin of Florida State University College of Medicine examined data from two large samples of people; one included nearly 2,300 primarily white and highly educated people with an average age of 69 living in a Baltimore community between 1979 and 2010. The second group included reports of well-being collected in the 1970s from a representative sample of some 3,000 adults from the U.S. population who were in their late 40s and 50s at the time of the study. Sutin and her colleagues were particularly interested in exploring whether differences in happiness reported by different generations &#8212; the middle-aged vs. the elderly, for example &#8212; were related to factors that have nothing to do with aging itself, but rather reflect life situations reflecting when they were born. For instance, growing up in tough economic times might reduce the sense of well-being of an entire generation— and if this group is compared to younger folks who got their start in better times, being older might seem to cause a decline in happiness, when instead, the older people were actually less happy because they were unable to overcome the effects of early adversity. When the researchers adjusted for the influence of such generation-wide life experiences, says Sutin, “Well-being may increase with age and also across generations. Those born during the early part of the 20th century had lower levels of well-being than those born more recently. Once we accounted for the fact that people grew up in different eras, it<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80395&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can You Hear Me Now? Training the Brain to Hear Better</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/12/can-you-hear-me-now-training-the-brain-to-hear-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improving hearing, especially in a loud environment, is just like any other skill — it takes practice. The din of a loud restaurant or party can make conversation difficult for anyone— but for the elderly, these settings can make it nearly impossible. The mechanics of hearing decline with age, but the latest research focuses on another part of the problem — the slower processing speed of aging brains, which have to work harder to translate sound into intelligible language. Research shows that musicians— despite often working in conditions that can produce hearing loss— are better able to pick out speech from surrounding noise as they age compared to non-musicians.  And a new study of  auditory training with a commercially available brain training program suggests that most people who are hard of hearing can develop the same skills. In a report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists showed that people trained for 40 hours over 8 weeks with Posit Science&#8217;s “Brain Fitness” were able to pick out 41% more words from background noise compared to those who watched educational DVD’s and were quizzed on their contents after the same amount of time. The authors, led by Nina Kraus of Northwestern University, received no funding from the makers of the program; the study was funded by the university and the National Institutes of Health. The research included 67 older adults between 55 and 70, with an average age of 63.  The auditory training came in the form of computerized hearing tasks that primed the participants to hear better by requiring them to identify various speech sounds and distinguish between similar sounding syllables, for example, as well as repeating back words and remembering stories. MORE: Creating Music Using Brain Waves: Just for Fun or Clinically Important? Both those who received the training and those who watched the DVDs were tested on short term memory, brain processing speed and the ability to hear speech in noisy settings. All of the participants showed improvement in these three measures, but for the first<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=80043&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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