Here’s Liz Atwood with this week’s Tween Tuesday:
Folks are still talking about the Super Bowl commercials. While the Clint Eastwood car commercial appears to be the most controversial ad this year, the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth is more concerned with the 14 million kids under age 21 who watched the Super Bowl and saw the alcohol ads.
Dr. David Jernigan, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health who heads the center, opposes the tactics companies such as Budweiser use to market their products. Their ads often feature dogs and horses, making them appealing to kids, his group says. This year, one of the most popular commercials aired during the Super Bowl included Weego, a rescue dog who fetched beer for his owner.
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New research presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that 77 percent of trauma patients had deficient or insufficient levels of vitamin D.
Researchers have linked a lack of vitamin D with muscle weakness, bone fractures, and the inability of bones to fully heal. In a new study, investigators sought to determine the prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among orthopaedic trauma patients.
Investigators reviewed the medical records of 1,830 adult (ages 18 and older) patients at a university Level 1 trauma center from Jan. 1, 2009 to Sept. 30, 2010.
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Low Vitamin D Linked to Depression Posted on 2012-01-24 06:00:00 in Depression | Vitamins |
A number of previous studies have linked low levels of Vitamin D with a number of diseases, from cardiovascular to neurological. E. Sherwood Brown, from The Cooper Institute (Texas, USA), and colleagues examined the results of 12,594 men and women seen at the Cooper Clinic from from late 2006 to late 2010. The team observed that higher vitamin D levels (measured as serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D]) associated with a significantly decreased risk of current depression, particularly among people with a prior history of depression. R
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I wake in the morning with the taste of sour milk on my tongue. I’m sweating, extremely weak and disoriented. My muscles ache at the thought of moving. I have a sick feeling in my stomach, and it’s threatening to come up my throat. I’m not sure what day it is. Nausea hits in a wave, sending chills down my spine.
My husband’s voice is drifting over me, covering me in a blanket of warm words, keeping me safe.
He’s reading a book aloud, and his voice is steady and calming. Something bad must have happened. I silently start to cry because I know: I’m waking from a cold hell and I’ve dragged my husband with me, again.
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Scientists are one step closer to repairing the damage caused by brain metastasis, a major challenge in cancer treatment, according to data published in , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
“We are making progress from the neck down in cancer treatment, but brain metastases are increasing and are often a primary reason patients with breast cancer do not survive,” said Patricia S.
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Coffee May Lower Women’s Cancer Risk
Coffee has been reported by previous studies to lower levels of estrogen and insulin, two hormones implicated in endometrial cancer. Youjin Je, from Harvard School of Public Health (Massachusetts, USA), and colleagues analyzed data collected on 67,470 women, ages 34 to 59 years, enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study. The team used food surveys to group study participants by the amount of coffee drank daily, and tracked the subjects for 26 years for the onset of endometrial cancer. Women who drank at least four cups of coffee daily had a 25% lower risk of endometrial cancer, as compared with women who consumed less. The reduction in relative risk increased to 30%, as compared with women who consumed one cup or less of coffee daily. The apparent benefit was limited to regular (caffeinated) coffee, absent of added sugar and cream.
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