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WINE CAN HELP YOUR HEART, PREVENT CANCER AND FIGHT DIARRHEA
DAVE MOSHER, LIVE SCIENCE - Drinking wine can maintain heart health,
prevent cancer and even settle a mean case of diarrhea. Research now
shows it's also good for your teeth and throat. According to a new
study, a cocktail of compounds found in both red and white wine fights
germs that can cause dental plaque as well as sore throats.
"Exposure to wine had a persistent antibacterial effect," the authors
wrote in their study, detailed in an upcoming issue of the Journal of
Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Prior to their research, the authors
said the effects of wine against germs found in the mouth hadn't been
studied.
Red wines have stronger bacteria-fighting effects than white wine,
although not by much. Curiously, the acidity and alcohol isn't
responsible for wine's germ-fighting properties-'instead, it's a
collection of organic (carbon-containing) compounds found in the drink
http://www.livescience.com/health/070705_wine_mouthwash.html
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AP FINDS OUT WHAT KIDS KNEW ALL ALONG
AP - The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on
nutrition education -- fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing
fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel
if you eat well. But an Associated Press review of scientific studies
examining 57 such programs found mostly failure. Just four showed any
real success in changing the way kids eat -- or any promise as weapons
against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. . .
Last year, a major federal pilot program offering free fruits and
vegetables to school children showed fifth-graders became less willing
to eat them than they had been at the start. Apparently, they didn't
like the taste.
In Pennsylvania, researchers went so far as to give prizes to school
children who ate fruits and vegetables. That worked while the prizes
were offered, but when the researchers came back seven months later, the
kids had reverted to their original eating habits: soda and chips.
In studies where children tell researchers they are eating better or
exercising more, there is usually no change in blood pressure, body size
or cholesterol measures; they want to eat better, they might even think
they are, but they're not.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_fat.5929917jul05,0,877151.
story?coll=all-news-hed
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GREAT MOMENTS IN RESEARCH
ANNALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH - When new college graduates visit a big
company, and are subsequently offered a job, which of them will accept?
The answer, as discovered by three high-powered American researchers,
may be more subtle than it appears:
· The people who say they are "likely" to accept the job offer probably
will.
· The people who say they are "unlikely" to accept the job offer
probably won't.
The research team - Professor Daniel Turban, of the University of
Missouri school of business, Professor James Campion, of the University
of Houston, and Alison Eyring, of Texaco - spent two years on this
question. Their 20-page report was published in 1995 in the Journal of
Vocational Behavior. . . .
MORE ON THESE EXCITING RESULTS
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2116576,00.html
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HEALTH PRIVACY LAW TURNS AGAINST PATIENTS
NY TIMES - [The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] was
designed to allow Americans to take their health insurance coverage with
them when they changed jobs, with provisions to keep medical information
confidential. But new studies have found that some health care providers
apply Hipaa regulations overzealously, leaving family members,
caretakers, public health and law enforcement authorities stymied in
their efforts to get information.
Experts say many providers do not understand the law, have not trained
their staff members to apply it judiciously, or are fearful of the
threat of fines and jail terms -' although no penalty has been levied in
four years.
Some reports blame the language of the law itself, which says health
care providers may share information with others unless the patient
objects, but does not require them to do so. Thus, disclosures are
voluntary and health care providers are left with broad discretion.
The unnecessary secrecy is a "significant problem," said Mark Rothstein,
chairman of a privacy subcommittee that advises the Department of Health
and Human Services, which administers Hipaa. "It's drummed into them
that there are rules they have to follow without any perspective," he
said about health care providers. "So, surprise, surprise, they approach
it in a defensive, somewhat arbitrary and unreasonable way."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/health/policy/03hipaa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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WINE CAN HELP YOUR HEART, PREVENT CANCER AND FIGHT DIARRHEA
DAVE MOSHER, LIVE SCIENCE - Drinking wine can maintain heart health,
prevent cancer and even settle a mean case of diarrhea. Research now
shows it's also good for your teeth and throat. According to a new
study, a cocktail of compounds found in both red and white wine fights
germs that can cause dental plaque as well as sore throats.
"Exposure to wine had a persistent antibacterial effect," the authors
wrote in their study, detailed in an upcoming issue of the Journal of
Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Prior to their research, the authors
said the effects of wine against germs found in the mouth hadn't been
studied.
Red wines have stronger bacteria-fighting effects than white wine,
although not by much. Curiously, the acidity and alcohol isn't
responsible for wine's germ-fighting properties-'instead, it's a
collection of organic (carbon-containing) compounds found in the drink
http://www.livescience.com/health/070705_wine_mouthwash.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
AP FINDS OUT WHAT KIDS KNEW ALL ALONG
AP - The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on
nutrition education -- fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing
fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel
if you eat well. But an Associated Press review of scientific studies
examining 57 such programs found mostly failure. Just four showed any
real success in changing the way kids eat -- or any promise as weapons
against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. . .
Last year, a major federal pilot program offering free fruits and
vegetables to school children showed fifth-graders became less willing
to eat them than they had been at the start. Apparently, they didn't
like the taste.
In Pennsylvania, researchers went so far as to give prizes to school
children who ate fruits and vegetables. That worked while the prizes
were offered, but when the researchers came back seven months later, the
kids had reverted to their original eating habits: soda and chips.
In studies where children tell researchers they are eating better or
exercising more, there is usually no change in blood pressure, body size
or cholesterol measures; they want to eat better, they might even think
they are, but they're not.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_fat.5929917jul05,0,877151.
story?coll=all-news-hed
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GREAT MOMENTS IN RESEARCH
ANNALS OF IMPROBABLE RESEARCH - When new college graduates visit a big
company, and are subsequently offered a job, which of them will accept?
The answer, as discovered by three high-powered American researchers,
may be more subtle than it appears:
· The people who say they are "likely" to accept the job offer probably
will.
· The people who say they are "unlikely" to accept the job offer
probably won't.
The research team - Professor Daniel Turban, of the University of
Missouri school of business, Professor James Campion, of the University
of Houston, and Alison Eyring, of Texaco - spent two years on this
question. Their 20-page report was published in 1995 in the Journal of
Vocational Behavior. . . .
MORE ON THESE EXCITING RESULTS
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2116576,00.html
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HEALTH PRIVACY LAW TURNS AGAINST PATIENTS
NY TIMES - [The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act] was
designed to allow Americans to take their health insurance coverage with
them when they changed jobs, with provisions to keep medical information
confidential. But new studies have found that some health care providers
apply Hipaa regulations overzealously, leaving family members,
caretakers, public health and law enforcement authorities stymied in
their efforts to get information.
Experts say many providers do not understand the law, have not trained
their staff members to apply it judiciously, or are fearful of the
threat of fines and jail terms -' although no penalty has been levied in
four years.
Some reports blame the language of the law itself, which says health
care providers may share information with others unless the patient
objects, but does not require them to do so. Thus, disclosures are
voluntary and health care providers are left with broad discretion.
The unnecessary secrecy is a "significant problem," said Mark Rothstein,
chairman of a privacy subcommittee that advises the Department of Health
and Human Services, which administers Hipaa. "It's drummed into them
that there are rules they have to follow without any perspective," he
said about health care providers. "So, surprise, surprise, they approach
it in a defensive, somewhat arbitrary and unreasonable way."
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/03/health/policy/03hipaa.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
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