Archive for May, 2009
HEALTH TIPS: Self-weighing
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Self-weighing” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Physical Activity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Stepping on the scale makes many people anxious, and that can include teens. But a study says some overweight teens may benefit from weighing themselves once a week or more. Dr. Mary Alm at [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Targeted for smokeless
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Targeted for smokeless” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Fact Sheets: Tobacco/Smoking Cessation (National Cancer Institute) Between 2000 and 2006, moist snuff tobacco sales increased by about a quarter. Who’s using it, and why? Gregory Connolly of the Harvard School of Public Health looked into that. Connelly says manufacturers [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Getting started, keeping going
A few extra pounds and convenient access to exercise equipment might make a person start exercising. But what influences people to continue over time? The answer is self-efficacy – your confidence in your ability to get it done. David Williams of the Miriam Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, looked into that. His study in Annals [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Living and caring
There’s science to support the idea that it is better to give. A researcher at the University of Michigan found it in the lifespans of older people who took care of a disabled spouse. Stephanie Brown reviewed data on close to 1,700 couples ages 70 and older, in the Health and Retirement Study supported by [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Relaxing, surviving and breast cancer
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Relaxing, surviving and breast cancer” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PDQ®) (National Cancer Institute) A diagnosis of breast cancer is almost a prescription for stress. But one researcher finds a different prescription – including relaxation techniques – seems to reduce stress and reduce somewhat the [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Secondhand smoke and boys, bad and sad
Boys with asthma seem to have more behavior problems if they’ve been around secondhand smoke. Researcher Kimberly Yolton of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center found that in data on kids ages 6 to 12 who were around an average of 13 cigarettes a day. Scientists don’t understand why children with asthma would have behavior problems [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Vitamin protection?
Health Tip – Audio Version – “Vitamin protection?” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Prostate Cancer (National Cancer Institute) Vitamin E and the mineral selenium don’t seem to give men the protection against prostate cancer that they might have hoped for. Previous studies indicated the supplements could help. So researchers across the United States and [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Overdosing–no prescription
Overdosing – no prescription Health Tip – Audio Version – “Overdosing – no prescription” Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Prescription Drug Abuse (National Library of Medicine) West Virginia, the Mountain State, has one of the nation’s highest rates of death from overdoses of prescription drugs, many of them well-known painkillers. Where are those drugs [...]
HEALTH TIPS: Strong as iron
Health Tip – Audio Version – Strong as iron Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Nutrition for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Even though little kids are not strong as iron, they should be strong in iron – having all they need of the mineral that helps to keep their brains developing as [...]
HEALTH TIPS: On an average day
Health Tip – Audio Version – On an average day Health Tip – Healthy Next Step: Substance Abuse Treatment: Facility Locator (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) On any given day, nearly 1.2 million teenagers smoke, 631,000 drink, and 586,000 use marijuana. These figures come from a report called “A Day in the Life [...]