On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of this past week’s (December 8, 2012 through December 15, 2012) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. Falling TVs Killing & Injuring More Kids
Over 25,000 kids are injured by furniture tip-overs each year, a rate of three per hour, or 71 per day, and 70% of these injuries involve TVs. One ironic cause: parents moving heavier old TVs to kids’ rooms when they buy new, lighter flatscreens.
2. Gazpacho Associated with Lower Blood Pressure
Regular consumption of gazpacho, a popular cold Mediterranean soup, may help to reduce high blood pressure, a major public health problem affecting about 25 percent of the adult population and a primary risk factor for heart attack and stroke.
3. Synthetic Pot Sending Thousands to ERs
Over 11,400 people, mostly aged 12 to 29, went to U.S. emergency rooms in 2010 to deal with problems caused by “synthetic marijuana,” such as nausea, vomiting, rapid heartbeat, seizures, paranoia, hallucinations, tremors, and elevated blood pressure.
4. Your Meat May Hold Unwanted Surprises
Meat products may be contaminated more than previously known with E. coli bacteria, finds a new report. An investigation has found that the beef industry uses a process to tenderize meat which then drives surface pathogens deeper into the meat.
5. Childhood Obesity Rates Drop
Childhood obesity rates are down in several US cities. Could it be the beginning of a trend?
6. How to Handle Holiday Critics
If one or more of your expected holiday guests has a habit of sapping the joy out of your celebrations, tell them you’re not interested!
7. Little Boys Want Easy-Bake Ovens Too
McKenna Pope wanted to buy an Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven for her little brother, who is only four years old and loves to cook, but she found that Hasbro markets the product to girls only.
8. Pepsi and Chicken Flavored Lay’s Chips
Pepsi-Cola chicken-flavor Lay’s potato chips may be the newest snack innovation in China.
9. Video Leads Most with Cancer to Say No CPR
Providing information to terminally ill patients by describing CPR and showing them a short video can change a person’s wishes as they relate to end-of-life care.
10. Iron Helps Behavior of Kids Born Small
New research suggests that iron supplementation helps babies who are small but not quite underweight become better behaved young children.
11. Urban Pollution May Limit Exercise Benefits
New research in Belgium indicates that urban pollution leaves city joggers with significantly higher levels of inflammation markers in their blood, and with lower scores on tests of cognition, comprehension and mental health than rural joggers.
12. Coffee Lowers Oral Cancer Risk
Regular coffee drinking may help lower the risk of developing oral and pharyngeal cancer. Study participants who drank four cups per day had a 49 percent lower risk of developing the disease, regardless of other factors that normally raise the risk.
13. Bedroom TV Viewing Linked to Kid Obesity
Bedroom TV viewing significantly raises risk of childhood obesity.
14. Brown Fat Transplants May Aid Weight Loss
Brown fat transplanted in the gut may lead to weight loss, say researchers who found that mice given brown fat transplants lost weight.
15. Meat Producers to Test and Hold
Meat producers will soon be required to “test and hold” before shipping meat.
16. Older Brains Too Trusting, Invite Fraud
New research suggests that the elderly are the primary victims of fraud not because of decreased mental ability or advancing senility, but because older brains tend to focus on the positive aspects of life and overlook negative behavioral warning signs.
17. Fruit and Vegetable Nutrients Cut Cancer Risk
Researchers have found that women whose blood has higher levels of carotenoids – the orange, yellow and red pigments in fruits and vegetables – have a reduced risk of developing breast cancer, especially lowering the risk of aggressive disease.
18. New Diagnosis for Hoarders
Hoarding gets its own diagnosis which may result in more people having access to treatment, say mental health pros.
19. Study Finds Knee Surgery Tied to Weight Gain
Being overweight is a factor that increases the likelihood for knee replacement surgery, but a new study suggests that the knee replacement surgery is a risk factor of gaining weight.
20. Bariatric Surgery Linked to Liver Damage
Persons who’ve had bariatric weight-loss surgery are cautioned that they are much more susceptible to acetaminophen poisoning and resultant liver failure as a result. Acetaminophen is sold as Tylenol but is also present in over 200 other medications.
(By CalorieLab editors)
Lab Notes: Falling TVs Killing & Injuring More Kids; Gazpacho Associated with Lower Blood Pressure is a post from: CalorieLab - Health News & Information Blog
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