HbA1c Levels and Risk of Heart Disease
Chronic high blood sugar levels are related to increased risk of coronary heart disease. This is best known in people with diabetes who are at very high risk for coronary heart disease. What is not generally known is that people without diabetes but who have mildly elevated glucose (100-110 mg/dL) are also at increased risk of a heart attack, whether they ever develop diabetes or not.
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Diet and Skin Cancer
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. It is closely linked to excess sun exposure. Now, a new study also links the risk for reoccurring skin cancer with certain foods in our diet.
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Exercise in Youth and Bone Cancer
Young men who participate in athletics (compared to less active controls) have stronger bones - even 5 years after they quit exercising - says a new study from Sweden. Research indicates that youth reach peak bone mass soon after puberty and that exercise is a primary stimulus for building stronger bones during these years. This study followed 63 athletes, all 17 years old, for about 8 years. The young men trained by lifting weights, running, and playing soccer.
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Determining Fitness
How fit are you? When you ask this question to most people they reply, "I'm pretty fit." But how do you know? University of Washington researchers studied this question by analyzing treadmill test data conducted on 1,978 adult men and women in the National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey (NHANES). These people are a stratified sample of the entire United States.
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Obesity and Mortality
The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study reported on the risk of obesity to health. This study has created controversy on the role of overweight to health risks. The study included more than 90,000 women followed for 7 years. The researchers reported that obesity, but not overweight, was linked to increased risk of death from all causes.
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The Burden of Cancer Attributable to Alcohol Drinking
The public often hears that a moderate intake of alcohol may decrease the risk for heart disease. What people seldom hear, however, is that regular alcohol use increases the risk for many cancers.
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Reducing Stress by Improving Communication Skills
Learn how to listen and how to say what you mean. Good communication is the glue that can help you get through crises and other stressful situations at home and at work.
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Protect Your Vision
Cataracts and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) are the leading causes of vision impairment and blindness in the United States. Maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, and eating healthfully, may reduce your risk of vision loss by 2 or 3 times.
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Keep from Getting Headaches
It could be said that the best way to treat a headache is to prevent it. Here are a few ways you can reduce the number of headaches you experience - or at least lessen their intensity.
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Health Links
An excellent guide for starting and maintaining a physical activity program. Written by the National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. (50-page PDF, or you can order the book).
See this site for new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pod casts. For example, listen to health experts discus "Working with Stress: How to reduce the stress and pressures related to our job."
Updated August 2006. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gives current facts about bird flu. See the Pandemic flu resource site for latest news and guidelines for preparation for home and business.
Employees who have children with substance abuse problems are more likely to suffer from decreased morale and productivity. This 30-page booklet by the Office of National Drug Control Policy gives busy parents tips to help keep their kids off drugs.
Featured Handout
An excellent 2-page handout by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that can be used in a health presentation for men or simply to send to someone attached to an email.
Healthy Recipes
Hot soup, baked vegetables, and fruit cobblers smell like home, help take the bite out of autumn's air, and are an antioxidant's heaven - cooking vegetables makes the antioxidants more accessible to digestion. Yes, you'll lose a bit of vitamin C, but drink a bit of orange juice to make up for it. Antioxidants come in onions and garlic as well as in vegetables of rich color. Here are some suggestions for adding more antioxidant-rich foods, including deep orange and dark green vegetables, to your family's favorite foods.
Soups
To any soup to increase flavor, blend one or more large onions and cook with the vegetables or add to legumes or beans, depending on the amount of soup. You can hardly have too much onion! To vegetable soups made from scratch, add proportionately more sliced carrots or chunked dark orange winter squash. Cook with the other vegetables. Make the size of the pieces appropriate to the other vegetables in the soup. Some sliced collard greens, kale, or Swiss chard leaves (omit the stalk) added the last 15 minutes of cooking look interesting and add flavor and nutrients. About half-way through cooking add minced garlic or leeks. Near the end add fresh or dried herbs. Make the soup taste good without adding excess salt. To canned vegetable soups, add left-over vegetables of deep color appropriately-sized, or pre-cook carrot slices and chunks of winter squash along with diced onions and fresh or dried herbs. To commercial tomato soup prepared according to directions, add extra tomatoes blended to bits (not mush!). For broccoli or cauliflower soup, use a recipe! Add very little bits of fresh or pre-cooked to vegetable soup
Baked vegetables
Dark orange winter squash. There are fancy recipes, but who has time? Cut squash in half or quarters depending on size, scoop out the seeds, and lay face down on a glass baking dish. Bake until fork tender. Serve as is — family members can add salt and butter as desired. Chopped spinach or other wilted greens. Add a little extra to your favorite recipe. It will add more flavor and nutrients. If you like the look and taste of the final product, add a little more next time.
Serve soups with whole-grain crackers and/or a sandwich, a protein source (for example, legumes/beans alone or in some other dish), or a salad.
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