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 yesterday’s (July 21, 2012) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. Most Slothful Country Is Malta
Maltese are lazy, while Bangladesh citizens get a workout. Americans are in the middle, closer to lazy than active. These are some of the results of a new study in The Lancet on national inactivity.
2. Three HIV Drugs Taken by Mom Get to Baby
New research shows that three HIV drugs can be transmitted to babies during pregnancy, one of them also through breast milk, which may lead to a better understanding of how to prevent in utero transmission of the virus and drug resistance in infants.
3. Claim: Sports Drink Researchers Compromised
Gatorade and other sports drinks makers propagate false notions of the need for hydration and do so partly by funding research that produces results favorable to them, says a British Medical Journal investigation. Moral: Drink only when you feel thirsty.
4. Bounty Mutiny Descendants’ Amazing Eyesight
A genetic cure for myopia, or nearsightedness, may lie with the descendants of the famed Bounty mutineers, who live on isolated Norfolk Island in the South Pacific and who suffer from the condition just one-fourth as often as the world population.
5. Cosmetics May Double Users’ Diabetes Risk
Women who test positively for high concentrations of certain phthalates — chemicals found in many cosmetic products, such as soaps, shampoos, hairspray and nail polish — run twice the risk of developing diabetes as those with low concentrations.
6. Chick-fil-A Gay Marriage Comment Bad for Biz
Boston’s mayor vows to ban fast food chain Chick fil A from his city after company’s anti-gay-marriage comments
(By CalorieLab editors)
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