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Up to 95 percent of infants are vitamin D deficient but only 1 percent get vitamin D supplements |
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Tuesday, 03 August 2010 00:00 |
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Two studies published in the journal Pediatrics highlight that although vitamin D deficiency is widespread among infants in the United States, most pediatricians remain unaware of the problem.
The first study, conducted by researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found that only 5 to 13 percent of breast-fed infants were receiving at least 400 IU of vitamin D per day, the amount currently recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Human breast milk is actually relatively low in vitamin D, probably because during our evolutionary history most babies got plenty of exposure to sunlight.
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Gulf of Mexico Has Long Been a Sink of Pollution |
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Friday, 30 July 2010 10:45 |
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Loulan Pitre Sr. was born on the Gulf Coast in 1921, the son of an oysterman. Nearly all his life, he worked on the water, abiding by the widely shared faith that the resources of the Gulf of Mexico were limitless.
As a young Marine staff sergeant, back home after fighting in the South Pacific, he stood on barges in the gulf and watched as surplus mines, bombs and ammunition were pushed over the side.
He helped build the gulf's very first offshore oil drilling platforms in the late 1940s, installing bolts on perilously high perches over the water. He worked on a shrimp boat, and later as the captain of a service boat for drilling platforms.
The gulf has changed, Mr. Pitre said: "I think it's too far gone to salvage."
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Excessive Intake of Omega 6 and Deficiencies in Omega 3 Induce Obesity Down the Generations |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 12:19 |
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Chronic excess of linoleic acid (omega 6), coupled with a deficiency in alpha-linoleic acid (omega 3), can increase obesity down the generations. This has been demonstrated for the first time by Gérard Ailhaud (Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis) working in collaboration with three CNRS laboratories and one INRA laboratory. The researchers exposed several generations of male and female adult and young mice to a "Western-like" diet of this type, and then assessed the consequences of such a lipid environment in the human diet.
These findings are published on the website of the Journal of Lipid Research.
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The FDA warns about pneumonia caused by antibiotic Cubicin |
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Thursday, 29 July 2010 00:00 |
The Food and Drug Administration Thursday warned physicians and patients that the intravenous antibiotic Cubicin can cause life-threatening eosinophilic pneumonia, which is marked by the accumulation of a type of white blood cells called eosinophils in the lungs. Symptoms include fever, cough, shortness of breath and difficulty breathing.
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NOAA: last decade was warmest, global warming "undeniable" |
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Wednesday, 28 July 2010 00:00 |
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As July continues to sizzle in much of the United States, a new U.S. report says the 2000-2009 decade was the Earth's warmest on record and "global warming is undeniable."
About 300 scientists from 48 countries contributed to the 2009 State of the Climate report released Wednesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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More evidence that BPA laces store receipts |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:00 |
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People interested in limiting exposure to bisphenol A - a hormone-mimicking environmental contaminant - might want to consider wearing gloves the next time a store clerk hands over a cash-register receipt. A July 27 report by a public-interest research group has now confirmed many of these receipts have a BPA-rich powdery residue on their surface. But you can't tell which ones on the basis of a visual inspection.
A building block of polycarbonate plastics, bisphenol A is also a biologically active estrogen mimic. Less well known, many thermal- and carbonless-copy papers also employ BPA to print images, generally store receipts.
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Banned chemical found in food |
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010 00:00 |
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A study has found concerning levels of chemical residues in the vegetable bok choy with some samples containing residues of a chemical banned last year.
The results released today by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority (NZFSA) looked at locally-produced and imported crops, which were prone to exceeding chemical limits, and found no health or safety concerns.
But the study by the Food Residue Surveillance Programme found a number of bok choy samples exceeded the maximum residue limits (MRL) for agricultural chemicals, with 10 out of 23 examples containing the fungicide chlorothalonil or the insecticide thiamethoxam over the allowable limit.
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Environmental Toxins Cost Michigan Nearly $6B Annually |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 00:00 |
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Childhood illnesses linked to environmental toxins are costing the state billions of dollars, according to a new study by the Ecology Center and the Michigan Network for Children's Environmental Health.
The study looked at four different diseases that have been linked to environmental toxins: lead poisoning, asthma, pediatric cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and cerebral palsy.
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Childhood Cancer Leaves Cardiac Legacy |
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Monday, 26 July 2010 00:00 |
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An alarmingly high percentage of childhood cancer survivors have abnormal cardiac function even in early adulthood, a long-term Dutch study found.
By age 23, 27% of five-year survivors had subclinical cardiac dysfunction, as shown by left ventricular (LV) shortening fraction below 30%, Helena J. van der Pal, MD, of Emma Children's Hospital in Amsterdam, and colleagues, reported in the July 26 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
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Child Cancer Survivors May Have Trouble Having Kids Later |
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Friday, 23 July 2010 00:00 |
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Although more children are surviving a cancer diagnosis, there may be unintended long-term effects from treatment on reproduction, a study published Thursday found.
Female survivors who had irradiation of the uterus and ovaries at a high dose when they were children had a significantly elevated risk of stillbirth or neonatal death during a subsequent pregnancy, according to Lisa Signorello of the International Epidemiology Institute in Rockville, Md., and colleagues.
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