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		<title>What&#8217;s In That Big Mac? More Than You Think</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/24/whats-in-that-big-mac-more-than-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 19:56:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diet & Fitness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, fast food frequenters have no idea how many calories they&#8217;re ordering up at the counter. Researchers conducted a large cross sectional study of 1,877 adults and 330 school age kids who regularly visited fast food chains including McDonald&#039;s, Burger King, Wendy&#8217;s, KFC, Subway and Dunkin&#8217; Donuts. The investigators collected receipts from the participants in order to calculate how many calories the participants consumed from their meals. They also asked the volunteers to estimate the number of calories they had just ordered. At the time of the study, none of the restaurant chains included calorie information on their menus, as many now do. (MORE: How Much Exercise Will It Take to Work Off a Burger? Menus May Soon Tell You) Reporting in the BMJ, the researchers found that on average, adults consumed 836 calories with each order, adolescents ate 756 and kids downed 733 calories. Not only was that a relatively large amount to consume in a single meal, but the participants consistently underestimated how dense their meals were by an average of more than 100 calories. Adults and kids underestimated their meals by 175 calories, and adolescents by 259 calories. The more calories the meals contained, the more the participants underestimated their content. Interestingly, the greatest disparity in calorie estimations were among Subway diners. Adults and adolescents who ate at the sandwich chain underestimated their meals by 20% to 25% more than the participants who ate at McDonald&#8217;s, possibly because the Subway choices have an aura of being lighter and healthier than those at fast food chains. But starting in 2014, as part of the U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), all restaurant chains that have over 20 restaurants in the U.S. must list the calorie content on their foods on menus. The initiative has received some push-back from unlikely places, with some public health experts saying the plan, rolled out in some cities and states, so far hasn&#8217;t resulted in a significant change in eating habits. Some studies of the strategy found that customers don&#8217;t notice the labels, or, even if they do, they don&#8217;t influence what they buy. (MORE:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87218&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Drinking Starts at Puberty, It&#8217;s More Likely to Lead to Alcohol Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 16:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking your first drink in your early teens may put you at greater risk of developing alcohol problems later on, according to new research. The study adds to work suggesting that early start to substance use may be particularly dangerous &#8212; not only because those who are at high risk of becoming dependent tend to start young for social reasons, but also because early use may affect brain development.  Researchers have long known that the age at which a person starts drinking or taking drugs is a good predictor of whether or not he or she will develop an addiction. A person who starts drinking between age 11 and 14, for example, has a 16% chance of becoming an alcoholic 10 years later, while the odds are just 1% for someone who starts at 19 or older, according to one large study. And there are several reasons for this elevated risk. Children who start drinking at 12 may turn to alcohol to escape a chaotic, unstable family situation, or to cope with their own psychological stress or anxiety; such a strategy, however, may prevent them from learning other ways of coping. It&#8217;s also possible that the effects of alcohol on the brain during this period of development may make addiction more likely. MORE: Brain Scans Can Predict Which Alcoholics Are Most Likely to Relapse To find out, researchers led by Miriam Schneider of the University of Heidelberg in Germany studied 280 young adults who had taken part in a long term study of children at risk of many types of bad outcomes because of poverty and potential maltreatment. They wanted to learn how having a first full drink (not just a sip or ceremonial taste) during puberty, vs. other periods, affected the odds of alcohol problems. The volunteers were assessed on many psychological measures every several years between age 3 months and age 23: most of them had experienced various types of childhood adversity such as poverty and domestic violence. Researchers controlled for the level of negative childhood experiences, parental addictions<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87138&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Key to a High IQ? Not Getting Distracted</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/24/the-key-to-a-high-iq-not-getting-distracted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study suggests that intelligence is more about what the brain chooses to ignore than simply its ability to process information rapidly. The research, which was published in the journal Current Biology, suggests new ways of testing intelligence that may be less biased by cultural knowledge— as many have claimed other IQ tests are. It may also help to explain the profound intellectual talents of some autistic people. “It’s a really interesting potential new paradigm,” says Scott Barry Kaufman, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at New York University, who was not associated with the research. Scientists led by Duje Tadin, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at the University of Rochester, studied 67 people in two similar experiments. Before beginning, all participants took IQ tests: the first twelve took short versions, the rest sat for the full battery of testing. Then they watched videos of both small and large objects that moved, very slightly, either to the right or to the left of a screen and tried to identify the direction of motion. The scientists knew that tracking larger objects is actually more challenging, possibly because in the natural world, large background movements like those of trees rustling in the wind are typically irrelevant to human activity— so the brain automatically dismisses or ignores them.  “What you want to see is if there’s an animal hiding in the tree about to jump you,” says Tadin. MORE: What the Jazz Greats Knew About Creativity The researchers found that the difference between an individual’s ability to correctly identify the direction of motion between the small and large objects was strongly linked to their IQ. “The more they struggled with the big ones and the better they were at the small ones, the better their IQ was,” Tadin explains. In other words, intelligence may require a trade-off between being good at identifying motion in small objects at the cost of not being able to do so with large ones. Tadin and his colleagues called the measure of this skill the “suppression index.” “This is<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87173&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medical Students May Already Be Biased Against Obese Patients</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/24/medical-students-may-already-be-biased-against-obese-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Body & Mind]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest study suggests that the one-third of Americans who are obese they may not be getting the proper health care they need &#8212; because their doctors are biased against treating them. The study, published in the Journal of Academic Medicine, shows that two out of five medical students have a subconscious bias against obese people. The bias may not be overt, but it can have serious implications for the patient&#8217;s health once they leave the doctor&#8217;s office. (MORE: Doctors&#8217; Advice About Obesity: It&#8217;s Personal) Previous research found that doctors, like the general population, may assume that heavy-set patients won&#8217;t follow advice for healthy living as stringently as patients of normal weight. That means they may not be as likely to advise their patients to treat their obesity, or guide them toward the most effective weight management strategies. To determine when this bias sets in, the researchers focused on a group of medical students and found that this way of thinking can appear before doctors even start to treat patients. Over three years, the scientists from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina studied 300 third-year medical students at a southeastern medical school starting in 2008. Using a computer program called the Weight Implicit Association Test (IAT), they measured the students&#8217; subconscious preferences for thin or fat patients by recording how love it took the students to associate positive words such as &#8216;laughter&#8217; or &#8216;happiness&#8217; with drawings of thin or overweight people. The participants also filled out questionnaires that explicitly asked about their weight preferences. The difference between the two measures, the researchers said, reflected the amount of unintentional bias the medical students had. Based on the results, 39% of the students had a moderate to strong subconscious bias against the overweight, and less than 25% of the students were aware of their bias. (MORE: Most Parents of Overweight Kids Don’t Hear It From The Doctor) Acknowledging such bias could be critical for helping doctors to better treat obesity among their patients; in another study published in February in the journal Preventive Medicine,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87199&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Behind The Drop in U.S. Teen Birth Rates</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/24/whats-behind-the-drop-in-u-s-teen-birth-rates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pregnancy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teen birth rates in the U.S., which have been declining for two decades, have reached a record low, with significant drops in almost every state. The report, from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that teen birth rates fell at least 15% in all states with the exception of West Virginia and North Dakota during the years 2007 to 2011. Rates in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Utah fell by 30% or more. The CDC based their findings on birth certificates collected during the study period. Overall, the rate of births to teen mothers dropped by 25% from 41.5 per 1,000 teens between the ages of 15 to 19 in 2007 to a record low of 31.1 births per 1,000 teens in 2011. The greatest drops were recorded among Hispanic teens &#8212; 34% from 2007 to 2011. Teens from other groups saw steep declines too, with non-Hispanic black teenagers showing a at 24% decline in teen births and non-Hispanic white teenagers a 20% drop. (MORE: Fighting Teen Pregnancy: Portrait of a Radical High School Program, 1971) The report, compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics, did not address the reasons behind the decline, but experts say it&#8217;s a mix of greater access to birth control and better sex education. &#8220;The short answer is that it is a combination of less sex and more contraception. Teenagers have a greater number of methods of contraceptives to choose from,&#8221; says Bill Albert, the chief program officer of The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. &#8220;The menu of contraceptive methods has never been longer.&#8221; It&#8217;s a validation for public health programs that have advocated safe sex messages and sex education in schools; critics of that strategy raised concerns that such efforts would only promote more sexual activity among adolescents and drive up teen pregnancy rates. Studies do show, however, that more contraceptive options work only if teens understand how to use them appropriately. So quality sex education may partly be responsible for driving down teen birth rates. &#8220;When we look at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87180&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Older Men Should Pass on Getting Prostate Cancer Treatment</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/23/older-men-should-pass-on-getting-prostate-cancer-treatment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The advice to detect and treat cancers at the first opportunity may not apply to older men with prostate tumors, according to the latest study. With a government-backed group advising that most men no longer need regular screening for prostate cancer with the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test, researchers now say that older men who are diagnosed with the disease should not always get surgery or radiation treatment. That&#8217;s because for most men, having a low to moderate risk of prostate cancer is not a major red flag for early death. The cancer is typically so slow-growing, that many of these men will die from other causes, which means the benefits of treatment do not always outweigh the risks. Surgery, radiation and radioactive seed implants can cause disorders such as erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence. And since it can take many years for the effects of the treatments to emerge, the survival advantage is low in most cases in which the tumors aren&#8217;t aggressive. (MORE: Genetic Test Can Predict the Most Aggressive Cases of Prostate Cancer) In the new study, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine,  led by researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Urology looked at the 14-year survival of 3,000 men diagnosed with prostate cancer between the years 1994 and 1995. Older men with low to intermediate cases of prostate cancer, who also had at least three other health problems like diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure and arthritis, were significantly more likely to die from a cause unrelated to their cancer. (MORE: Pared Back Prostate Cancer Screening May Save Lives) The 10-year risk of dying from these other causes among men aged 61 to 74 was 40%, and for men over 75, it climbed to 71%. The 14-year risk of dying from low or intermediate risk prostate cancer was 3% for men between 61 and 74, and 7% among men over 75. For men with high-risk prostate cancer, the risk of death from the cancer was 18% at the 14-year mark. &#8220;The take home point from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87011&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Experimental Asthma Drug May Provide Major Relief&#8211;But For a Limited Group of Patients</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/23/experimental-asthma-drug-may-provide-major-relief-but-for-a-limited-group-of-patients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 09:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A promising new drug for treating asthma could not only reduce asthma symptoms but also improve lung function in patients, according to a new study. The results of the trial involving dupilumab, which is being developed by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and French drugmaker Sanofi, showed the drug reduced asthma attacks by 87% in patients compared to those taking a placebo. The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society in Philadelphia and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. (MORE: Asthma Symptoms Hinder Children’s Sleep and School Performance) The trial, which was sponsored by the drug&#8217;s makers, included 104 adults with moderate to severe asthma. For 12 weeks, 52 of the participants received dupilumab, and the rest of the participants took a placebo. Among the treated group, only three had asthma attacks, which is significantly lower than the 23 episodes reported among the placebo group. The dupilumab users were also less likely to need their short-acting inhalers. Dr. Sally Wenzel, the lead investigator of the trial told Reuters that the trial provided the most exciting data in asthma in the last 20 years. &#8221;We have been treating asthma with sort of Band-Aid therapies that didn&#8217;t get at the underlying causes,&#8221; she Wenzel. She said the study was written by a medical writer paid by Regeneron, but that she wrote the first draft. (MORE: Sneezing and Wheezing Solutions: Surprising Ways to Relieve Spring Allergies) The drug blocks two proteins, interleukin-4 and interleukin-13, that prior research suggested could play critical roles in triggering asthma and other allergy-related diseases. Because, as Wenzel said, the drug targeted the underlying mechanisms driving the disease, dupilumab could have wide-ranging benefits beyond  just temporarily opening up airways. However, before the drug can be used by the 25 million Americans who suffer from asthma, more trials need to confirm its effectiveness and safety. As Forbes reports, Regeneron still needs to determine the most effective dosage of dupilumab, and  Sanofi has just begun a two-year long study investigating different doses of the drug compared to a placebo in 600 participants. (MORE: Location, Location:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87124&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Club Drug&#8217; Ketamine Lifts Depression in Hours</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/22/club-drug-ketamine-lifts-depression-in-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The largest study to date confirms that ketamine — a “club drug” that is also legally used as an anesthetic — could be a quick and effective way to relieve depression. The results were presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association and represent growing excitement about ketamine&#8217;s potential. The study included 72 patients who had previously failed to respond to at least two other medications. After receiving a single intravenous (IV) dose of ketamine, 64% of patients reported fewer depression symptoms within one day compared to 28% of those given midazolam — an anesthetic drug that was used as a control. “[This research] reports the largest controlled evaluation of the antidepressant effects of ketamine to date,” says Dr. John Krystal, professor of psychiatry at Yale, who published the first study in 2000 suggesting that ketamine could quickly lift depression, but was not associated with this trial. Antidepressants typically take weeks to improve mood — and that&#8217;s a time when people with the disorder are at an especially high risk of suicide. “Among people who respond to antidepressants, it takes on average 7 weeks to produce this response,” Krystal says, “When simply getting through a single day can be difficult, waiting 7 weeks to get better can be daunting.” Ketamine— and similar drugs currently being tested by pharmaceutical companies could help relieve suffering faster and potentially reduce the suicide risk associated with the mood disorder. And because the doses used were lower than those taken by clubbers or used in anesthesia, most patients didn’t have the extreme experiences of “out of body” sensations or profoundly distorted perceptions of reality.  “Nobody freaked out,” says Murrough, adding that most described the experience of the infusion as being similar to having had a few drinks. About 10%, however, did have some dissociative effects.  “One patient [reported] wondering whether time still existed during the infusion,” he says. The results are especially noteworthy because ketamine was compared to another anesthetic with similar psychoactive effects, not just a placebo. Such comparisons are important because drugs<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87069&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watch: This Week in Health</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/22/watch-this-week-in-health/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alice Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How marijuana contributes to weight loss &#8212; and a reduced risk of diabetes; researchers zero in on the first genes associated with postpartum depression; and ADHD in childhood may be linked to obesity later in life. These are the stories making health news this week; for more, visit TIME Health &#38; Family.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87144&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Scan or Not to Scan: Largest Study to Date Links Childhood CTs to Increased Cancer Risk</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/22/to-scan-or-not-to-scan-largest-study-to-date-links-childhood-cts-to-increased-cancer-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 18:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cancer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Medicine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CT scans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CT scans can reveal a remarkable amount of useful medical information, but more studies underscore the need to balance the benefits of that knowledge with the risks of being exposed to the scans&#8217; small amounts of radiation. Being able to peer into the human body without making a single incision is undeniably a major advance of modern medicine, and doctors and patients are taking full advantage of the latest techniques to scan our internal organs with CT, MRI, ultrasound and more. But as more studies show, that ability comes with a price. Between 1996 and 2010, according to a study published in 2012, the use of computed tomography (CT) scans nearly tripled, from 52 scans per 1,000 patients to 149 scans per 1,000 patients. And those images certainly provided valuable information to help doctors diagnose internal injuries, infections and other hidden conditions that wouldn&#8217;t have been possible without the added insight. But CT scans generate those detailed images using small amounts of radiation, and while the absolute risk of that exposure is small, on a population level, increased reliance on the scans could drive a slight bump in cancer risk from CT. That risk is especially concerning among children, for several reasons. Not only are their still-developing tissues more vulnerable to radiation&#8217;s effects, but they have more years to live after their exposure, which increases their chances of developing cancers related to the radiation they received. That&#8217;s exactly what the latest study, published in the BMJ, found. It&#8217;s the largest study to date  &#8212; involving 10.9 million people born between 1985 and 2005. A team of researchers from Australia and Europe studied the cancer rates of Australian patients from birth to 19 years old who had CT scans in early childhood, and compared them to those who did not receive the scans. (MORE: Too Many Scans? Use of CT Scans Triples, Study Finds) Most of the cases were followed for 10 to 17 years, and by the end of the study period, 3,150 of the 680,000 patients exposed to CT<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87092&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asthma Symptoms Hinder Children&#8217;s Sleep and School Performance</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/22/asthma-symptoms-hinder-childrens-sleep-and-school-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 11:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asthma & Allergies]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[academic performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sneezing and wheezing can make children feel miserable, and that discomfort can hamper how well they do in school. About 7.1 million children in the U.S. live with asthma, and its health consequences are well known; inflamed lung tissue can contribute to lasting lung damage as well as make breathing difficult. But the latest study shows that enduring these symptoms can take a toll on other aspects of children&#8217;s lives as well. The data, which was presented at the annual meeting of the American Thoracic Society involved 170 parent-child pairs in greater Providence, R.I. The participants were from urban, African-American, Latino and non-Latino white families. During three separate 30-day monitoring periods, the researchers measured the kids&#8217; asthma and sleep symptoms. The severity of the asthma symptoms was measured using spirometry, which tracks the speed and amount of air exhaled. The kids and their families also used diaries to report on their symptoms and how they controlled them. (MORE: Sneezing and Wheezing Solutions: Surprising Ways to Relieve Spring Allergies) To determine the association between a child&#8217;s asthma control and its effect on sleep and academic performance, the scientists also asked the parents about sleep quality and queried the children&#8217;s teachers about their school grades. The kids with poorly controlled asthma showed lower-quality schoolwork, as reported by their teachers, compared with students who had a better handle on their asthma symptoms. The more asthma symptoms reported by the kids, the lower their academic performance. If the child had low sleep quality because their symptoms kept them up at night, their schoolwork also suffered. (MORE: Being Born in the U.S. Puts Kids at Higher Risk of Allergies) The findings underscore the wide-ranging effects that asthma can have on children, particularly those who may already be suffering academically. Asthma rates tend to be higher among children in urban and lower socioeconomic areas, since they are more likely to live near environmental pollutants that can raise asthma risk, and less likely to take advantage of the cleaner air found near trees and parks. That means, however, that their health condition may<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87055&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer of Safe Browsing: 5 Ways to Keep Online Searching Secure for Kids</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/22/summer-of-safe-browsing-5-ways-to-keep-online-searching-secure-for-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With summer vacation about to start, kids will inevitably spend even more time online. So here are some tips for making sure they&#8217;re only seeing what&#8217;s appropriate for them. &#8220;You shouldn&#8217;t have to be a computer scientist to protect yourself and stay safe online,&#8221; says Nadja Blagojevic, a manager of privacy and security at Google. But if keeping track of all the filters and settings is overwhelming, start with these these five ways to keep your children&#8217;s online exposure PG. (MORE: Why Facebook Makes You Feel Miserable) 1. YouTube Safety Mode Turning on Safety Mode in YouTube is an easy way to filter out videos with mature content, or videos with age restrictions. Scroll down to the bottom of any YouTube page and click on the “Safety,&#8221; button and switch it on. You can also log in with a YouTube account and lock Safety Mode as your default setting. Remember you have to do this on each one of your computer&#8217;s browsers. When Safety Mode is activated, inappropriate videos will not show up in video search, related videos, playlists, shows or films. It also filters objectionable comments. The filter is not always 100% accurate, but it helps screen out questionable content you don&#8217;t want on your family computer. 2. SafeSearch in Google Search If you want to hide explicit images, search results, and videos from popping up while Google browsing on your family computer, you can activate SafeSearch to prevent sexually explicit video and images, as well as links that may lead to explicit content from appearing in the Google Search results. You can set the filter in the &#8220;Search Settings&#8221; preferences here and on any search results page, or you can activate it while you are signed in to your own (or your children&#8217;s) Google account by clicking &#8220;Lock SafeSearch.&#8221; 3. Flags on YouTube Just because a video gets uploaded to YouTube, it doesn&#8217;t mean it has to stay there forever. If a video &#8212; or user comment &#8212; is unsettling to you, you can flag it. Flagging the video alerts YouTube&#8217;s 24/7 staff that its content may be inappropriate, and violates YouTube&#8217;s Community Guidelines.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86891&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Early Exposure to Air Pollution Tied to Higher Risk of Hyperactivity in Children</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bonnie Rochman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breathing in pollutants released into the air isn&#8217;t healthy for developing lungs, but a new study says it&#8217;s harmful for developing brains too. Kids exposed to higher levels of traffic-related air pollution in childhood scored higher on measures of hyperactivity at age 7, according to a new study published in Environmental Health Perspectives. The researchers say it’s believed to be the most comprehensive study to date on the effect of traffic-related air pollution on children’s behavior. “It appears that air pollution is part of the story of childhood behavior, but it’s not the whole story,” says the study&#8217;s lead author Nicholas Newman, director of the Pediatric Environmental Health and Lead Clinic at Cincinnati Children&#8217;s Hospital Medical Center. “We don’t know if air pollution is causing this or if it’s something else that people who live near main roads are also being exposed to.” Researchers followed 576 children from the time they were born in the Cincinnati metro area until they reached the age of 7. The children were separated into two groups — those who lived near a major highway or bus route — defined as less than four football fields away — and those who lived more than a mile away from heavily trafficked areas. Cincinnati, it turned out was an ideal location to study the long-term effects of exposure to air pollution since it sees a relatively high amount of truck traffic and has many hills and valleys that encourage pollution to linger in the area. Previous research suggested that the effect of traffic-related air pollution is greatest within a few hundred meters — a football field, for example — of the source of the pollution. About 11% of Americans live within a football field’s length of a four-lane highway, and 40% of U.S. children go to school within four football fields of a bustling highway. (MORE: Car Pollution Linked to Childhood Cancers) When the children were 7, their parents were asked to fill out a questionnaire about their kids’ behavior, including symptoms that could indicate attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87038&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First Genetic Markers That Predict Postpartum Depression</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/21/first-genetic-markers-that-predict-postpartum-depression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers say that a blood test may soon identify which pregnant women are at highest risk of developing postpartum depression, so they can seek treatment that could control their symptoms. Up to 20% of new mothers may experience feelings of anxiety, hopelessness, and sadness after giving birth, but doctors don&#8217;t have a reliable way of predicting which expectant moms are most vulnerable. While those with a history of mood disorders may have a slightly higher risk of feeling postpartum depression, in most cases there are few signs that foretell which women will develop the disorder in the weeks and months after they deliver. (MORE: Pediatricians Should Start Screening for Postpartum Depression) But in a small study of 52 pregnant women described in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine found changes in certain genes, which they could pick up in the blood, that distinguished women who went on to suffer from postpartum from those who did not. The genetic changes were epigenetic modifications, which means they were not permanent alterations in the women&#8217;s genomes but instead reflected differences in the way these genes were activated. The scientists, led by Zachary Kaminsky, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Hopkins, were inspired to look for the genetic changes after studies in mice. They found that estrogen, which increases during pregnancy, triggers changes in the hippocampus, a region of the brain that&#8217;s responsible for memory and mood, and that two genes were affected in particular. Not much was known about these snippets of DNA, except that they played some role in processes that are important for regulating mood &#8212; such as adapting to new environments and reorganizing neural circuits to make such accommodations possible. (MORE: Study: Fish Oil May Prevent Symptoms of Postpartum Depression) It turned out the same genes were affected in women who experienced postpartum depression as well, and Kaminsky and his colleagues believe that the genes made the women more sensitive to the dramatic drop in estrogen that occured after birth. Without<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=87019&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marijuana: The Next Diabetes Drug?</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/21/marijuana-the-next-diabetes-drug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toking up may help marijuana users to stay slim and lower their risk of developing diabetes, according to the latest study, which suggests that cannabis compounds may help in controlling blood sugar. Although marijuana has a well-deserved reputation for increasing appetite via what stoners call “the munchies,” the new research, which was published in the American Journal of Medicine, is not the first to find that the drug has a two-faced relationship to weight. Three prior studies have shown that marijuana users are less likely to be obese, have a lower risk for diabetes and have lower body-mass-index measurements. And these trends occurred despite the fact that they seemed to take in more calories. Why? “The most important finding is that current users of marijuana appeared to have better carbohydrate metabolism than nonusers,” says Murray Mittleman, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the lead author of the study. “Their fasting insulin levels were lower, and they appeared to be less resistant to the insulin produced by their body to maintain a normal blood-sugar level.&#8221; The research included over 4,600 men and women participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey between 2005 and 2010. Among them, 48% had smoked marijuana at least once in their lives, and 12% were current cannabis smokers. The authors controlled for other factors like age, sex, income, alcohol use, cigarette smoking and physical activity that could also affect diabetes risk. Even after these adjustments, the current marijuana users showed fasting insulin levels that were 16% lower than those of former or never users, along with a 17% reduction in another measure of insulin resistance as well. Higher levels on both tests are associated with Type 2 diabetes, which is linked with obesity. Marijuana users also had higher levels of high-density lipoprotein, the so-called good cholesterol, which can protect against heart disease. And the regular smokers also boasted smaller waistlines: on average, they were 1.5 in. (3.8 cm) slimmer than the former users and those who had never smoked cannabis. Researchers don’t<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86996&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labs Fail to Detect Cases of Bacterial Food Contamination</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/21/labs-fail-to-detect-cases-of-bacterial-food-contamination/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foodborne illnesses are a continuing problem in the U.S., but labs that are supposed to detect the presence of pathogens aren&#8217;t up to snuff, according to a new report. The analysis, presented at the 113th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, revealed worrisome gaps in the ability of food laboratories to detect or rule out the presence of common disease-causing bacteria such as E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, and Campylobacter. The study involved about 40,000 food laboratory proficiency tests conducted over the last 14 years and showed that food microbiology laboratories that are supposed to identify pathogens in food submit a disturbing number of false negative and false positive results. The data was compiled by the American Proficiency Institute (API), a private institute that monitors the accuracy of bacterial testing among labs that voluntarily submit to the review. (MORE: Food Safety: CDC Report Shows Rates of Foodborne Illness Remain Largely Unchanged) API&#8217;s reviews occur up to three times a year and assess both the accuracy of the labs&#8217; testing methods and the competency of their testing personnel. The tests determine, for example, whether the laboratory technicians can correctly identify pathogens that API officials add to food sample&#8211;or the absence of any bacteria. Over the 14 year study period, API determined that on average, food laboratories had a false negative result rate (failing to identify the presence of a pathogen) of 9.1% for Campylobacter and 4.9% for Salmonella. On average, the labs reported false positive results (suggesting bacteria was in a food sample when it wasn&#8217;t) in 3.9% of cases for Salmonella and 2.5% for E. coli and L. monocytogenes. Currently, API says that its testing is used in over 700 food laboratories in 43 countries. Widespread monitoring, its scientists say, could lead to more reliable and standardized monitoring for common food contaminants and ensure a safer food supply in the U.S., as well as lower rates of food related illness. And addressing such foodborne disease remains an important public health concern; last month, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86971&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mediterranean Diet Better Than Low-Fat Diet in Keeping Aging Brains Sharp</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/21/mediterranean-diet-better-than-low-fat-diet-in-keeping-aging-brains-sharp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra Sifferlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank the olive oil or the nuts, but something about the Mediterranean diet could help older brains act young again. There&#8217;s plenty of evidence that the Mediterranean diet can contribute to a lower risk of heart attacks, stroke, childhood asthma and even cancer. In fact, in a recent study, researchers assessed about 200 traditional Greek Mediterranean foods and reported that taken together, the foods could make 1,024 relevant health claims. (MORE: Mediterranean Diet Improves Memory, but Not in Diabetics) And in May, a team of researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the University of Athens found that people around age 64 who primarily ate a Mediterranean diet had a lower risk of memory loss. So perhaps it&#8217;s not that surprising that in the latest study, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, researchers reported similar brain-boosting findings. Except this time, the results showed that the Mediterranean diet was significantly better than a low-fat diet in preserving brain function. The researchers, from the University of Navarra in Spain, studied 522 men and women between the ages of 55 and 80 who did not have heart disease, but were at a higher risk of having circulation-based events like a stroke because of diabetes or a combination of risk factors such as high blood pressure, a family history of stroke, or being overweight. The participants were split into three diet groups: one consumed a Mediterranean diet with extra-virgin olive oil, another ate a Mediterranean diet supplemented with mixed nuts, and the control group was assigned a low-fat diet. The typical Mediterranean diet includes plenty of olive oil, fruits, vegetables, grains and fish, with moderate amounts of dairy and meat. All of the participants agreed to complete extensive cognitive tests after about 6½ years, in which the researchers assessed their higher cognitive functions such as their language skills, their ability to orient themselves to time and place, their capacity for abstract thinking and their memory. (MORE: It’s the Olive Oil: Mediterranean Diet Lowers Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke) By the end of the study, 60 of the participants<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86989&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10,000 Hours May Not Make a Master After All</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/10000-hours-may-not-make-a-master-after-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 17:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maia Szalavitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many roads to greatness, but logging 10,000 hours of practice to help you perfect a skill may not be sufficient. Based on research suggesting that practice is the essence of genius, best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell popularized the idea that 10,000 hours of appropriately guided practice was “the magic number of greatness,” regardless of a person&#8217;s natural aptitude. With enough practice, he claimed in his book Outliers, anyone could achieve a level of proficiency that would rival that of a professional. It was just a matter of putting in the time. But in the years since Gladwell first pushed the &#8220;10,000-hours rule,&#8221; researchers have engaged in a spirited debate over what that rule entails. It&#8217;s clear that not just any practice, but only dedicated and intensive honing of skills that counts. And is there magic in that 10,000th hour? In an attempt to answer some of these questions, and to delve further into how practice leads to mastery, Zach Hambrick, associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University, and his colleagues decided to study musicians and chess players. It helps that both skills are amenable to such analysis because players can be ranked almost objectively. So in their research, which was published in the journal Intelligence, they reanalyzed data from 14 studies of top chess players and musicians. They found that for musicians, only 30% of the variance in their rankings as performers could be accounted for by how much time they spent practicing. For chess players, practice only accounted for 34% of what determined the rank of a master player. “We looked at the two most widely studied domains of expertise research: chess and music,” says Hambrick. “It’s clear from this data that deliberate practice doesn’t account for all, nearly all or even most of the variance in performance in chess and music.” Two-thirds of the difference, in fact, was unrelated to practice. And while one player took two years to become a grandmaster; another achieved that level only after 26 years, giving them huge variance in the hours<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86952&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live-chat: Belinda Luscombe on the End of Alimony</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/live-chat-belinda-luscombe-on-the-end-of-alimony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lombard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week&#8217;s issue, TIME&#8217;s Belinda Luscombe looks at the wave of alimony reform sweeping across the U.S. and the women driving the change: the first and second wives who think it&#8217;s time for the old rules to go. Today, from 12:30 PM [ET], Luscombe will be taking over our Facebook page to discuss divorce&#8217;s changing future. There are multiple factors in question, as she writes: Should men still have to pay alimony when women can now make (almost) as much as men? And if we abolish alimony, how do older women without job skills get by? Care to join us? Follow along with the conversation here and let us know what you think.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86939&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Overweight? You&#8217;re Not Welcome at this Gym</title>
		<link>http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/20/not-overweight-youre-not-welcome-at-this-gym/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 11:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Francine Russo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you live in Chicago or Dallas and have a few pounds to lose, you might spot Downsize Fitness and think you’ll give this new gym a try. Forget it. This is a club that won’t take you as a member—unless you have at least fifty pounds to lose. And they weigh you to make sure. A gym that rejects the svelte and toned?  Could this work?  When Downsize’s founder Francis Wisniewski got his brainstorm almost two years ago, he couldn’t believe it wasn’t already out there. Weighing 360 pounds, the 39-year-old hedge fund manager wouldn’t set foot in a regular gym. He was all too aware that most clubs were filled with “women in tight clothes running 5-minute miles” while he struggled to do 15 minutes on the elliptical machine. “I was also embarrassed about how I looked,“ he said, “and how much I sweated.” His business partner got him a full-time trainer to work with him at home. In November 2011, a 299-pound Wisniewski opened the first Downsize Fitness In Chicago and in September 2012, another in Dallas. The gym’s program is inspired by the approach used on &#8220;The Biggest Loser&#8221; reality show, which tailors workout regimens to help overweight individuals drop pounds. Downsize&#8217;s stated goal is to help the obese lose weight in an environment where they feel comfortable and free of judgment. A complete membership of $250/month (with a 6-month contract) includes personal training and nutrition counseling in small groups of three to six members.  Most trainers know what it takes to shed pounds since they were formerly obese themselves. And while they won’t judge you, they will hold you “accountable.” Skip a few workouts?  Expect a call or text to check up on you. Oh, and you can also compete for a prize in the $25,000 weight loss challenge. Forest McKinney, a 42-year-old audio-visual engineer in Plano, TX, who recently joined the Dallas gym, may be exactly who Wisniewski had in mind. At standard gyms, neither the machines nor the exercises worked for him. At<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=healthland.time.com&#038;blog=8684427&#038;post=86924&#038;subd=timewellness&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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