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 (August 4, 2012 through August 11, 2012) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. Texas College Cafeteria Bans Pork Products
Paul Quinn College in Dallas has announced that “to improve the lives and health of our students,” the school will no longer serve pork products. Its cafeterias already limit fatty and sweetened foods, and the former football field is an organic garden.
2. One Week of Speech Therapy Helps Stutterers
Just one week of speech therapy can significantly improve stutterers’ speech.
3. Gonorrhea Becoming Resistant to Treatment
Gonorrhea, the sexually transmitted disease, is becoming increasingly resistant to the only class of drugs known to effectively treat it.
4. Blood Test for Alzheimer’s Closer to Reality
By linking changes in four biomarkers to Alzheimer’s disease and comparing these changes in three different groups of people, researchers are hoping they can advance in their goal of developing a blood test to detect the most common form of dementia.
5. Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail – Now Open
As if the hot summer temperatures weren’t enough to tempt you into eating ice cream, now Maryland farmers are doing their part as well.
6. Stressed Men May Go for Heavier Ladies
Men experiencing psychological stress may prefer heavier women, suggest researchers.
7. The Key to Successful Weight Loss
High fructose corn syrup is no worse than regular sugar when it comes to weight loss.
8. Kids’ Cholesterol Is Down
While childhood obesity rates remain steady, a new government study finds that kids’ cholesterol levels are down.
9. We’re Walking More, but Not Enough
The proportion of U.S. adults who say they walked for 10 or more minutes at least once in the past week is up by 15 million people since 2005, from 56% to 62%. But the average amount of time that people say they spent walking actually fell a bit.
10. Type 1 Diabetes Often Misdiagnosed As Type 2
Adult onset type 1 diabetes is on the rise – and it’s often misdiagnosed as type 2.
11. Weight Training Cuts Diabetes Risk in Men
Weight training can significantly reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes in men.
12. Soda Gone While Sports Drinks Stay in School
Many schools have banned sodas, but still allow other drinks with added sugar, such as sports drinks.
13. Tendency to Faint May Be Genetic
Twenty-five percent of people have a tendency to faint which, according to a new study, may be genetic.
14. Parents Flout Child Passenger Safety Rules
Few parents follow child passenger safety guidelines, putting tens of thousands of kids at risk each year.
15. Tell the Truth and Improve Your Health
An “honesty experiment” conducted by Notre Dame psychologists found that the more a person lies, the greater the negative impact on his or her mental and even physical health, and vice-versa: those who cut down on their lying improved their health.
16. Counterfeit Drug Ring Busted in China
The Chinese government busted a counterfeit drug ring that sold fake drugs over the internet.
17. More Overweight Americans Suffering from Gout
While obesity is a risk factor for gout, new research suggests that just being overweight also increases the risk of developing the arthritic condition.
18. Chemo Promotes Resistance from Healthy Cells
The powerful drugs designed to attack cancer cells may be causing damage to the nearby healthy cells that result in promoting growth and resistance to those same drugs, according to the results of a new study.
19. Chile’s Ban on Kids Meal Toys Being Flouted
Two months after Chile passed a law barring fast food restaurants from offering toys or other goodies with children’s meals, fast food companies continue the practice by using “fraudulent and abusive means” to skirt the law, says one Chilean senator.
20. Israel Planning to Tax Junk Food
The Israeli government will support a tax on junk food in an effort to curb obesity and encourage healthy eating. And they are not the only country to do so …
21. IUD Use Is Up among American Women
While the use of IUDs is up among American women, the Pill and condoms are still the most popular forms of birth control.
22. Fewer Americans Are Smoking Cigarettes
Cigarette sales are down in the US but smokers are turning to alternative tobacco products to feed their habit.
23. Drought Means Fewer but Tastier Foods
The extraordinary drought that has devastated many U.S. food crops has at least one silver lining for food aficionados: heightened flavor in fruits and vegetables, including sweeter peaches and melons, tangier onions and garlic, and hotter chili peppers.
24. Chocolate and Pizza Can Be Addictive Foods
According to Yale University researchers, food can be addictive for some people the way drugs and alcohol are for others, especially foods high in fats, sugar and salt, with the most addictive specific food items being ice cream, chocolate, and pizza.
25. FDA Approves Generic Singulair
The US Food and Drug Administration grants approval for generic Singulair.
(By CalorieLab editors)
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