15 Questions
Most-Googled health questions in NY How do you stop diarrhea? How long does the flu last? How many calories should I eat in a day? New Yorkers have a lot of questions about their health. These are the New York area’s most-Googled health questions, answered by Dr. Alan Mensch, a pulmonologist and senior vice president of medical affairs at Plainview and Syosset hospitals. Click here to read the full...
Read MoreTeen Drug Potential
Teens Dependent On Marijuana, Alcohol Likely To Have Lower “Social Economic Potential,” Study Suggests. The New York Daily News (11/6, Dziemianowicz) reports University of Connecticut researchers in a new study using data from the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism “found that teens who are dependent on marijuana and alcohol ‘achieved lower levels of education, were less likely to be employed full time, were less likely to get married and had lower social economic potential.'” The investigators “underscored that their study focused on...
Read MoreObesity Rates Rising
Health Experts Call For Changes To Food Environment As CDC Research Shows Rising Obesity Rates. With obesity rates in the US at “a new high,” public health experts are calling for “an aggressive shift in strategy – one that would change the food environment through initiatives such as soda taxes,” USA Today (10/17, Toy) reports. Traditional “public health efforts have centered on communicating messages about what is healthy in the hopes of changing people’s behavior,” but new research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics shows a steady...
Read More“Fat but Fit”?
A Healthy Heart Needs a Normal Body Weight In this week’s Medscape advisor primary care news story, we’re asking the question: Is “fat but fit” a myth? A new study challenges the idea of “healthy obesity.” An analysis of more than half a million people in Europe with 12 years of follow-up showed that compared with normal-weight individuals, overweight and obese patients had a higher risk for heart attacks, regardless of their metabolic health (lipids, glucose, and blood pressure). The study also found that metabolically unhealthy persons are at a higher...
Read MoreSlow weight loss
Slowly But Steadily Shedding Pounds Each Week May Be More Beneficial For Long-Term Weight Loss, Study Indicates. CNN (8/28, Howard) reports research indicates that “slowly but steadily shedding pounds each week can be more beneficial for long-term weight loss than seeing…weight drastically drop, only to rise again.” The findings were published online in the journal Obesity. Also covering the story are the New York Daily News (8/28, Dziemianowicz), Forbes (8/28, Lee), and HealthDay (8/28,...
Read MoreHelp for Obesity
Eating Large Meals Earlier In The Day May Help Prevent Obesity On the front of its Science Times Section, the New York Times (8/22, D1, Rabin, Subscription Publication) reports a recent review of 50,000 adult Seventh Day Adventists over seven years offers the latest evidence that “we should front-load our calories early in the day to jump-start our metabolisms and prevent obesity, starting with a robust breakfast and tapering off to a smaller lunch and light supper, or no supper at all.” In the article, Mark P. Mattson, chief of the National Institute on Aging’s laboratory of neurosciences,...
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