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Written by Barbara E. Riley, Director, Ohio Department of Aging
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:13 |
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By Every day, you may be adding more salt to your diet than you know. Seemingly healthy staples, such as breakfast cereal, pasta sauce and sandwich bread often contain more salt than most of us get from the salt shaker. Processed foods account for 75 to 80 percent of the salt we all eat.
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report found that almost nine out of 10 Americans consume more salt than is good for them, with the average American eating 50 percent more salt than recommended. And those most at risk for chronic disease fared the worst, with one in 20 consuming too much sodium. Healthy adults should consume only about one teaspoon of salt a day, according to the CDC.
Research has shown that excessive salt intake is associated with high blood pressure, which can damage the arteries and lead to heart disease, stroke and kidney disease. Health officials advise that 70 percent of adults, including people with high blood pressure, all African-Americans and everyone over 40, should actually limit their salt intake to two-thirds of a teaspoon.
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Written by Press Staff Writer
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:11 |
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Sixty-seven percent of parents asked to rate the most effective treatments for ADHD identified drug therapy as most helpful, followed by 45 percent who said switching to a school better suited to help with ADHD helped a lot. The analysis of treatments for ADHD, based on a Consumer Reports Health survey of more than 900 parents of children with ADHD, comes as parents are starting to plan for the new school year.
The report, available at www.ConsumerReportsHealth.org, provides detailed guidance on two classes of drugs to treat ADHD (stimulants and non-stimulants).
In a related blog, Consumer Reports’ medical adviser, Dr. Orly Avitzur, discusses how the ADHD label has evolved, as evidenced by the small fraction of parents – only 22 percent – who said it was problematic having a child labeled as having ADHD. “The result is that students and surprisingly professionals in several fields, including medicine, are seeking out an ADHD diagnosis in order to excel through the use of drugs or accommodations, such as more time to take tests,” said Dr. Avitzur.
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Written by Press Staff Writer
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:10 |
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Life Connection of Ohio debuted its Donate Life Education Vehicle July 28 atWestfield Franklin Park Mall.
The non-profit organ-procurement organization based in Maumee, teamed up with Community Tissue Services and Lions Eye Bank of West Central Ohio to design a 25-foot mobile education experience. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about the history of transplantation; get informed about common myths through an interactive question-and-answer game; visualize what can be donated on a computerized interactive human body and listen to stories of Ohioans, including some from northwest Ohio, whose lives have been touched by organ and tissue donation.
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Visitors to the Donate Life Education Vehicle will
learn about the history of organ transplantation
and hear the story of Ohioans whose lives have been
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In addition to the hands-on activities, the vehicle provides an opportunity for people to join the Ohio Donor Registry via the Internet.
Currently, there are more than 108,000 people on the National Transplant Waiting List. Of the more than 3,100 Ohioans waiting for a transplant, 220 people await a kidney at the University of Toledo Medical Center.
For more information about organ and tissue donation, contact Life Connection of Ohio at 419-893-4891. To register as an organ and tissue donor, visit www.DonateLifeOhio.org. |
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Written by Press Staff Writer
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 13:09 |
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Ohioans now can get the food safety information they need thanks to a new Ohio State University food safety website.
The website, http://foodsafety.osu.edu, offers consumers, health professionals and people who are at high risk of food-borne illness easy-to-understand, “plain talk” information that they can incorporate easily in their day-to-day life, said Lydia Medeiros, food safety specialist with Ohio State University Extension and one of the leaders in developing the site.
“We focused on information that helps people build skills,” said Medeiros, who is also a scientist with the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center and professor of human nutrition in the College of Education and Human Ecology. “Knowledge is good, but having the proper skills is the necessary factor that people need to implement their knowledge.”
The site contains numerous photos to illustrate food safety concepts for consumers in the “Ask Mom” area of the site, Medeiros said, including how to properly wash hands, test meat with a food thermometer and prevent cross-contamination in the kitchen. The area for health professionals, “Ask the Doc,” provides food safety fact sheets that can be downloaded and shared with patients or clients who have been diagnosed with cancer or HIV/AIDS, who have had an organ transplant, who are pregnant or who have chronic conditions that make them more vulnerable to food-borne disease. In the “Ask the Teacher” portion of the site, educators have access to a PowerPoint presentation they can download to teach food safety concepts.
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Written by Press Staff Writer
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Thursday, 05 August 2010 12:57 |
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Newswise — If college students gain weight during their first year in school, it might have a lot to do with how close they live to their campus dining halls and exercise facilities, a new study reports.
Researchers wondered if college freshmen assigned to dormitories with onsite dining halls gained more weight than did their peers who have to walk a little further for meals.
Although the average weight gain in freshmen has been widely called “the freshman 15,” lead author Kandice Kapinos, an assistant research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, said they anticipated less gain.
“We know that there are other factors that influence weight gain – such as genetics and social environment – so we were not even expecting the physical environment effects to be close to five pounds,” she said.
The study, which appears online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, included 388 freshmen who were assigned randomly to seven different dormitories, four of which had onsite dining halls that served three meals a day. All students had access to two campus gymnasiums with state-of-the-art exercise equipment.
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