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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_3021\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/05/535612522_IwateBuddy_flickr_640x360.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2013/05/535612522_IwateBuddy_flickr_640x360.jpg\" alt=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucewood/535612522/\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3021\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph courtesy of \u003ca href=\"http://www.flickr.com/photos/brucewood/535612522/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IwateBuddy\u003c/a> via Creative Commons licensing\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Research involving the diet seems complicated. One study says that drinking wine or eating chocolate is bad for you. The next says \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/video/the-sweet-science-of-chocolate/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it is good for you in moderation\u003c/a>. Wait, no it’s bad. This yo-yo effect often continues, arising from the limitations of each study. But there are some foods with a more consistent reputation. Eating green vegetables, for instance, is generally considered to be healthy. And eating a lot of red meat is thought to be unhealthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3045642/\" title=\"Trends in meat consumption in the United States\">meat consumption\u003c/a> continues to rise in the U.S., and 58% of the meat consumed is red meat. People in the U.S. eat 5 ounces of meat per day on average, while the \u003ca href=\"http://www.choosemyplate.gov/food-groups/\" title=\"USDA dietary recommendations: choose my plate\">USDA recommends\u003c/a> that adults take in about 6 ounces daily from the entire meat/beans group: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, nuts, seeds, beans and peas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eating a lot of red meat is known to contribute to heart disease, presumably due to the large amount of saturated fats and cholesterol in the meat. Or that is what we used to think. New research \u003ca href=\"http://www.nature.com/nm/journal/v19/n5/full/nm.3145.html\" title=\"Nature Medicine journal article\">published in \u003cem>Nature Medicine\u003c/em> \u003c/a>indicates that the real culprit is a chemical in the red meat called L-carnitine. In a series of experiments on humans and mice, the researchers found that L-carnitine is broken down by gut bacteria to produce trimethylamine-N-oxide (TMAO), which previous research has linked to heart and artery damage. TMAO alters how cholesterol is metabolized so less is eliminated from the body, allowing more cholesterol to deposit and harden into the artery walls (atherosclerosis).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the researchers also found that frequent meat eaters produced significantly more TMAO than vegetarians after consuming the same amount of L-carnitine. For instance, L-carnitine supplements (250 mg) were given to 80 healthy volunteers, including 24 who were long-term vegetarians or vegans. Several of the meat eaters and 1 committed vegan were also given an 8-ounce steak, containing 180 mg of L-carnitine. The lab tests showed that consuming L-carnitine increased the level of TMAO in the blood, but meat eaters made far more TMAO than vegetarians or vegans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fecal studies also showed that meat eaters and vegetarians had different types of bacteria in their guts, and the meat eaters had more of the bacteria involved in breaking down L-carnitine into TMAO. This was confirmed by giving the volunteers antibiotics for one week to suppress the gut bacteria, then repeating the L-carnitine supplement experiment. With suppressed levels of gut bacteria, the volunteers produced very little TMAO. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> “The bacteria living in our digestive tracts are dictated by our long-term dietary patterns,” explained the lead researcher Dr. Stanley Hazen in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/cc-ccr040513.php\" title=\"Cleveland Clinic press release\">press release\u003c/a>. “A diet high in carnitine actually shifts our gut microbe composition to those that like carnitine, making meat eaters even more susceptible to forming TMAO and its artery-clogging effects.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main \u003ca href=\"http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Carnitine-HealthProfessional/\" title=\"Office of Dietary Supplements: carnitine fact sheet\">food sources for carnitine\u003c/a> are red meat and full-fat dairy products. It is also found in fish, poultry, tempeh, wheat, asparagus, avocados and peanut butter. L-carnitine is also commonly available as a dietary supplement, which is advertised as a weight loss and body building tool despite a lack of supporting scientific evidence. Plus L-carnitine is added to many energy drinks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So eating all this L-carnitine is bad, right? Unfortunately it isn’t that simple. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carnitine plays a vital and complex role in cardiac metabolism. Some people have diseases that cause a carnitine deficiency, so they need to take carnitine supplements. Studies have also shown that carnitine may help treat some heart conditions, such as angina, arrhythmias, heart attacks and heart failure. For instance, a meta-analysis \u003ca href=\"http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0025-6196/PIIS0025619613001274.pdf\" title=\"Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal article\">review study\u003c/a> in the \u003cem>Mayo Clinic Proceedings\u003c/em> recently showed that taking L-carnitine supplements reduces your risk of ventricular arrythmias by 65% and risk of angina by 40%, although no reduction in risk was seen for heart attacks and heart failure. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In general, scientific studies have shown both positive and negative effects on cardiac health from taking carnitine. These discrepant findings may be due to differences in how the carnitine is administered and the dose. For instance, carnitine given by an intravenous or intramuscular injection would bypass the gut bacteria, so it may not form TMAO. Larger carnitine studies are needed, which also take into account the volunteers’ long-term diet and the bacteria ecosystem in their guts.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_14199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-14199\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/RS170_108160554-scr-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"RS170_108160554-scr\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Joe Raedle/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update: Aug. 7, 2013: \u003c/strong>Covered California announced Wednesday that 12 insurance companies have formally signed contracts with the agency to offer plans on the new marketplace. Since the initial announcement (below), one company, Ventura County Health Plan, has withdrawn from offering coverage on the marketplace. The following companies will offer plans on the marketplace, although not all companies will offer plans in every region of California:\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/health/obamacare/obamacare-guide.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Learn more about Obamacare; check out KQED's guide, specifically for Californians\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>· Alameda Alliance for Health\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Anthem Blue Cross of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Blue Shield of California\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Chinese Community Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Contra Costa Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Health Net\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Kaiser Permanente\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· L.A. Care Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Molina Healthcare\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Sharp Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Valley Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Western Health Advantage\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Covered California \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/01/covered-california-sets-small-business-marketplace-plans-premiums/\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> tentative plans and premiums for its small business marketplace, also called SHOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ORIGINAL POST:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's health insurance exchange, Covered California, announced Thursday morning the plans and premiums that will be available to millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what everyone wants to know is: how much will it cost. Experts had warned of \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/03/27/health-care-overhaul-actuaries-say-costs-could-go-up-32-percent/\">rate shock\u003c/a>,\" that premiums might skyrocket for all kinds of reasons. That has not happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California says that individuals will pay an average premium of $321 per month for a \"silver\" plan. (More on silver plans below.) Many people will be eligible for subsidies to reduce that cost further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, people who had been working toward this day seemed to heave a collective sigh of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a home run for consumers in every region of California,\" said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, in a release to reporters. \"Californians should be proud of how not only health plans in this state, but doctors, medical groups and hospitals have stepped up -- creating a market that will allow millions of consumers to enroll in affordably priced products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CC_Health_Plans_Booklet.pdf\">Look up a sample of plans, premiums offered in your area.\u003c/a> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Charles Bacchi, executive vice president with the California Association of Health Plans called it an \"important day\" and commended both insurance companies and providers for working together \"to deliver quality, affordable health care. We couldn't have done this without providers willing to join us to make the Affordable Care Act a success,\" he said in a reference to provider groups working to keep rates low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans on the exchange are required to offer a standard set of comprehensive benefits. It's hard to compare premiums next year to what's in place this year, since there is no standard set of benefits at present. Covered California chose as the best comparison the average premium for a small business plan. The rates in Covered California range from 2 percent above to 29 percent below that benchmark.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's nice to have a good news day in California,\" said Daniel Zingale, senior vice president of The California Endowment. \"It turns out there's power in numbers when it comes to … health plans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>13 Plans Selected for the Insurance Exchange\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The selected plans and premiums are still subject to review by state regulators. Covered California has picked 13 plans, including Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California, Health Net and Kaiser as well as many regional plans and some country-sponsored health plans. Those include Alameda Alliance for Health, Chinese Community Health Plan, Contra Costa Health Services, L.A. Care Health Plan, Molina Helathcare, Sharp Health Paln, Valley Health Plan, Ventura County Health Care Plan and Western Health Advantage. \u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CC_Health_Plans_Booklet.pdf\">You can look up your own region\u003c/a> and see what plans and premiums you can choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"Everything will be quite standardized and literally charted out. So you can look across lines and compare plans.\" -- \u003cem>Betsy Imholz, Consumers Union\u003c/em>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Plans will be offered in tiers of coverage: platinum, gold, silver, bronze. The platinum plans have the highest premiums but you will pay less when you see the doctor; the bronze plans have the lowest premium, meaning you will pay more when you see the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \"silver\" plan mentioned above is in the middle. It has the same standard set of benefits as the other plans, and has a $2,000 annual deductible. Still, preventive care and some other services are outside the deductible -- people would pay only a co-pay when they see the doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When setting an individual's premium, insurance plans in the exchange may look at only three factors: age, where you live and family size. Insurance companies may no longer use your health condition or your health history to set premiums. People may no longer be turned down for pre-existing conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Subsidies are available for people making from 138 to 400 percent of the federal poverty level – or about $15,500 to $45,000 for an individual or about $31,000 to $92,000 for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Breakdown on Premiums, Before and After Subsidy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California provided tables of average rates for a 21-year-old and a 40-year-old single person. For the 21-year-old buying the most affordable silver plan, the premium is $216 per month. But depending on income, the 21-year-old may get a subsidy, making the price that person would pay range from $44 per month to $216 per month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The premium for a 40-year-old buying the most affordable silver plan will be $276. But depending on the subsidy, that 40-year-old will pay from $40 to the full $276.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting this fall, people will be able to go online and look up plans and rates across the board for themselves or their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everything will be quite standardized and literally charted out,\" said Betsy Imholz, special projects director for Consumers Union. \"So you can look across lines and compare plans.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, people in the larger metropolitan areas in California will be able to choose from among five different plans. Covered California says that even in rural areas where options have typically been sparse, people will have two or three health plans to choose from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were particularly concerned about Californians in rural parts of the state,\" Zingale said. \"So it's a relief to see that they will have doctors, hospitals and health benefits available in those areas.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But not everyone was delighted. Jay Nelson is a 33-year-old attorney who lives with his wife and three children in Oakland. Nelson does not have employer-based insurance, although his firm is looking into options. He has been unable to afford insurance for his family. Nelson said he was disappointed the premiums were not cheaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're exactly in that income level that is essentially uninsurable,\" he said. \"We make too much money to qualify for any help, but we don't make enough money to pay for this … comfortably.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bacchi acknowledged that while the Covered California premiums are generally \"positive news,\" that's not the case for everyone. \"The reality is that there are some people who will pay more than they currently pay. That's because the Affordable Care Act requires increased benefits and it also imposes less cost sharing on the enrollee through deductibles and co-pays.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans and premiums for Covered California's small business exchange are expected to be announced in June, and a major \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/05/14/californias-health-insurance-exchange-builds-critical-outreach-network/\">education and outreach campaign\u003c/a> will launch this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Learn More:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to a discussion of the new plans and premiums on KQED's Forum:\u003cbr>\n\u003cobject width=\"335\" height=\"85\" classid=\"d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\">\u003cparam name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201305240900.xml\">\u003cparam name=\"src\" value=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\">\u003cembed width=\"335\" height=\"85\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http://www.kqed.org/assets/flash/kqedplayer.swf\" flashvars=\"file=http://www.kqed.org/radio/archives/R201305240900.xml\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/object>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Contra Costa Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Health Net\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Kaiser Permanente\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· L.A. Care Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Molina Healthcare\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Sharp Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Valley Health Plan\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>· Western Health Advantage\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Covered California \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/08/01/covered-california-sets-small-business-marketplace-plans-premiums/\" target=\"_blank\">announced\u003c/a> tentative plans and premiums for its small business marketplace, also called SHOP.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>ORIGINAL POST:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state's health insurance exchange, Covered California, announced Thursday morning the plans and premiums that will be available to millions of Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what everyone wants to know is: how much will it cost. Experts had warned of \"\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/03/27/health-care-overhaul-actuaries-say-costs-could-go-up-32-percent/\">rate shock\u003c/a>,\" that premiums might skyrocket for all kinds of reasons. That has not happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Covered California says that individuals will pay an average premium of $321 per month for a \"silver\" plan. (More on silver plans below.) Many people will be eligible for subsidies to reduce that cost further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the state, people who had been working toward this day seemed to heave a collective sigh of relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is a home run for consumers in every region of California,\" said Peter Lee, executive director of Covered California, in a release to reporters. \"Californians should be proud of how not only health plans in this state, but doctors, medical groups and hospitals have stepped up -- creating a market that will allow millions of consumers to enroll in affordably priced products.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.coveredca.com/news/PDFs/CC_Health_Plans_Booklet.pdf\">Look up a sample of plans, premiums offered in your area.\u003c/a> \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Charles Bacchi, executive vice president with the California Association of Health Plans called it an \"important day\" and commended both insurance companies and providers for working together \"to deliver quality, affordable health care. We couldn't have done this without providers willing to join us to make the Affordable Care Act a success,\" he said in a reference to provider groups working to keep rates low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plans on the exchange are required to offer a standard set of comprehensive benefits. It's hard to compare premiums next year to what's in place this year, since there is no standard set of benefits at present. Covered California chose as the best comparison the average premium for a small business plan. 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"content": "\u003cp>By Julie Rovner, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/22/183903991/Boomer-Housemates-Have-More-Fun\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12895\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-12895\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/goldengirls_01-a6aea59e62f67d0b27c946f3e4fd27bf9061a677-s3-300x224.jpg\" alt='Lorene Solivan moved into the \"Golden Girls\" house in October after seeing an ad on Craigslist. An event manager at a food company, Solivan says she often cooks dinner for the group. (Maggie Starbard/NPR)' width=\"300\" height=\"224\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lorene Solivan moved into the \"Golden Girls\" house in October after seeing an ad on Craigslist. An event manager at a food company, Solivan says she often cooks dinner for the group. (Maggie Starbard/NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today more than 1 in every 3 baby boomers — that huge glut of people born between 1948 and 1964 — is unmarried. And those unmarried boomers are \u003ca href=\"http://www.geron.org/About%20Us/press-room/Archived%20Press%20Releases/80-2012-press-releases/1329-single-baby-boomers-facing-increased-challenges-as-they-age\">disproportionately women\u003c/a>. As this vast generation rushes into retirement, there's a growing concern among experts on aging: Who will take care of all these people when they're too old to care for themselves?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's a question many of the experts take personally. \"\u003cem>That\u003c/em> is what scares me,\" says Sara Rix, who works for the AARP Public Policy Institute, studying the economic prospects of women in the workforce. \"Because I am one of those people,\" she says, \"and I do think about it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Oh, I've got wonderful nieces and nephews,\" Rix says, noting that's what a lot of her boomer peers claim, too. \"Well, in fact, they've got their families. They've got their in-laws. They've got their parents. And I don't think it's reasonable to expect much out of them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Kelly, who runs the \u003ca href=\"http://www.caregiver.org/caregiver/jsp/home.jsp\">Family Caregiver Alliance and the National Center on Caregiving in San Francisco\u003c/a>, says she's seeing the same sort of concern in her social circle. \"I'm in my 50s, and my friends are all talking about, 'Could we all move in together? Could we buy an apartment building and all live together?' There are all sorts of permutations of this conversation,\" Kelly says. \"But it really is something that people are thinking about, particularly women.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, because boomers are boomers, some are doing more than just thinking about it. Already, there's a small but apparently growing movement of boomer women forming group houses with their single peers.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those homes belongs to Bonnie Moore. She's a pert, 60-something divorcee who lives in a well-kept, five-bedroom house in Bowie, Md., a cozy suburb of Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In order to stay in her house after her divorce, Moore needed financial help. But she wanted to do more than just add boarders who would help pay the bills, she says. The home she's organized instead is \"a little bit like family, a little bit like roommates, a little bit like a sorority house,\" she says from the sofa of her softly lit living room. \"It just evolves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore, an attorney, isn't actually childless. She has a grown son who lives in Utah and has been urging Moore to move there to be closer to him and his family. \"He's just sort of saying, 'Well, Mom you're old now; we have to take care of you,' \" Moore says. \"And I'm saying, 'I'm not old. I've got 20 years out there in my yard, thank you very much,' \" she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore has been careful about selecting as housemates women who get along, but who also have a sense of independence. \"All of us, we have our own separate lives,\" she says. \"We do our own separate things, but we'll meet up in the kitchen and chitchat. And then we'll all go our different ways, which makes it nice. None of us are joined at the hip, and yet we all live together and do our own thing and live in the same house.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lorene Solivan is one of Moore's three current roommates — \"the youngest,\" Solivan says proudly, having just turned 60.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solivan, an event manager for a food company, had been living in an apartment in Northern Virginia. But she was having financial troubles of her own and was looking to downsize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And then I saw the ad on Craigslist: GOLDEN GIRLS HOUSE. I said, 'Oh, that looks like fun,' \" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solivan, who does much of the group's cooking, says it's been a nice transition for her. To live with a built-in social group of people your own age is \"a big plus,\" she says, \"whether you're 20, 40, or 60 — whatever the case may be.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's why Bonnie Moore is trying to take her concept and expand it. She already has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengirlsnetwork.org/\">website\u003c/a> and is working on a guide to help other single boomer women set up houses like hers. \"I think it'll be fun,\" she says. \"And I'd like to be part of various seminars and workshops for women [about] the whole idea of living communally and learning to get along in this kind of environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are a lot of obstacles. One big one is that most boomers don't realize they might need help getting or paying for long-term care if their health falters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I call it the 70-70-70 conundrum,\" says Bruce Chernof, president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://thescanfoundation.org/\">The SCAN Foundation\u003c/a>, which focuses on long-term health care issues. \"Seventy percent of people over the age of 65 will need some form of long-term care supports as they age,\" he says. But when you look at polling, \"roughly 70 percent of Americans don't actually think they're likely to need it, and roughly 70 percent think Medicare will probably cover it when they get there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem, of course, he adds, is that \"those last two 70 percents are not true.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there's the numbers problem. \"We know that ... about a third of baby boomers are single,\" says Kathleen Kelly. \"But we also know that there's a large percentage of those that are in their 50s and 60s [who] are getting divorced, and so we're going to have more single individuals in the future. We just haven't seen this before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, most boomers have had fewer children than previous generations did, and many boomers have no children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So there's less adult children to take the place of the caregiving cohort that currently is providing ... caregiving to their parents,\" she says. And today, family caregiving provides an estimated $450 billion a year worth of unpaid care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Sara Rix of AARP says a big problem for single boomer women is that they're not financially prepared to hire the caregivers they might need if they don't have family members to volunteer the time. \"[These single women] are still likely to be concentrated in what we've traditionally called the 'pink collar' jobs,\" she says, which are \"the lower wage, low benefit occupations. So when they reach old age, they often reach old age without pension coverage.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of these women will have Social Security, Rix says — assuming that they are eligible, and that the rules don't change between now and when they retire. But for many older women, that will be all, or nearly all the money they have to live on, she says, \"and it's not going to pay for a lot of care — formal care. So it's a frightening future for a lot of women.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are things women can do to make that future a little less frightening, says Kelly. Some suggestions are pretty obvious, like maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But another bit of advice may be less intuitive, Kelly says, \"and that is to invest in social relationships and networks.\" She doesn't mean the sort of social networks people create on the Internet, but rather, \"a community of individuals [living with or near you, so] that you may be able to share tasks and responsibilities as you grow older.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That brings us back to Bonnie Moore, who says that deciding to form a group house was about more than just financial necessity. \"I think women naturally are more community oriented,\" Moore says. \"It's just part of the woman's nature.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And besides, she adds, \"to come home and have someone say, 'Hi, how was your day?' ... 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She has a grown son who lives in Utah and has been urging Moore to move there to be closer to him and his family. \"He's just sort of saying, 'Well, Mom you're old now; we have to take care of you,' \" Moore says. \"And I'm saying, 'I'm not old. I've got 20 years out there in my yard, thank you very much,' \" she says with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moore has been careful about selecting as housemates women who get along, but who also have a sense of independence. \"All of us, we have our own separate lives,\" she says. \"We do our own separate things, but we'll meet up in the kitchen and chitchat. And then we'll all go our different ways, which makes it nice. 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She already has a \u003ca href=\"http://www.goldengirlsnetwork.org/\">website\u003c/a> and is working on a guide to help other single boomer women set up houses like hers. \"I think it'll be fun,\" she says. \"And I'd like to be part of various seminars and workshops for women [about] the whole idea of living communally and learning to get along in this kind of environment.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, there are a lot of obstacles. One big one is that most boomers don't realize they might need help getting or paying for long-term care if their health falters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I call it the 70-70-70 conundrum,\" says Bruce Chernof, president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"http://thescanfoundation.org/\">The SCAN Foundation\u003c/a>, which focuses on long-term health care issues. \"Seventy percent of people over the age of 65 will need some form of long-term care supports as they age,\" he says. 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So maybe the answer would be “your doughnuts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_6852.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-54321\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/IMG_6852-337x253.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_6852\" width=\"337\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>Palm oil is one of those commodities that is mostly used as an edible oil. In Asia, it’s the most commonly used oil for frying things. But in our supermarkets, it’s in, like, half the products, ranging from shampoo to peanut butter to doughnuts. And so that’s probably the greatest threat to tropical forests right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is palm oil a relatively new commodity, at least on this scale?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palm oil has been produced on an industrial scale in Indonesia and Malaysia for a long time, but the price of it has rapidly escalated. 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It feels like almost every day I read a news release about another deal being done for tens or hundreds of thousands of hectares in Central Africa to be converted to an oil palm plantation. And the particular concern in a place like Indonesia is that a lot of this palm oil is being planted on peatland swamp forests. These peat swamps can be standing on layers of organic matter that has accumulated over thousands of years. They can be more than 30 feet deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thirty feet deep. That’s incredible.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think about that for a minute. When you drain and burn a peatland forest in order to plant palm oil or pulp and paper—not only do you have the pulse of emissions from the initial burning of the surface vegetation going into the atmosphere, but that organic matter that was locked up underground is suddenly liberated, releasing greenhouse gases into the air as it oxidizes and decomposes. And so the amount of carbon per hectare released into the atmosphere is many, many, many times greater than an equivalent hectare of forest not on peat swamp soils.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s the best way to balance sustaining the health of a forest and giving forest-dependent communities control of their resources?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-53769\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2013/03/DSCN0831-198x253.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN0831\" width=\"153\" height=\"197\">I guess I would challenge the premise of the question in the following way: one of the great misconceptions about tropical deforestation is that it’s the local people who are responsible for deforestation. Communities don’t need to be convinced of the value of forest because they’re the ones who hunt in the forest and fish in the forest and gather rattan from the forest. They’re the ones who suffer when the logging trucks come in. 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And so that’s probably the greatest threat to tropical forests right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is palm oil a relatively new commodity, at least on this scale?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palm oil has been produced on an industrial scale in Indonesia and Malaysia for a long time, but the price of it has rapidly escalated. 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But, while mutations in the BRCA genes are fairly rare, the majority of women opting for preventive mastectomy are not at elevated risk, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/14/183892507/angelina-jolie-and-the-rise-of-preventive-mastectomies\" target=\"_blank\">NPR's Shots blog notes\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We found that women who have cancer in one breast overestimate their risk of cancer in the other breast by sixfold,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.surg.umn.edu/Faculty_Alpha/tuttle_todd_m/home.html\">Todd Tuttle\u003c/a>, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota. \"It's very exaggerated.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased awareness of breast cancer due to the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaigns could be fueling the rise in prophylactic mastectomies, some people say. \"Women have this exaggerated perceived risk of getting breast cancer,\" Tuttle told Shots. \"They see breast cancer everywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has not been an increase in prophylactic mastectomy in Europe, Tuttle notes, though women there have access to the same surgery and reconstruction. \"I wonder if part of the difference is this hyperawareness of breast cancer.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Berkeley-based journalist Peggy Orenstein \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/04/26/berkeley-journalist-takes-on-the-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer/\" target=\"_blank\">took on the hyperawareness\u003c/a> of breast cancer in another New York Times venue, its Sunday magazine. 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You can read everything about her history in her New York Times piece, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/opinion/my-medical-choice.html\" target=\"_blank\">My Medical Choice\u003c/a>.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the key here is a\u003cem> specific\u003c/em> BRCA1 mutation. There are many different mutations that can occur in the BRCA gene. Jolie is very careful to walk through all her personal decisions stemming from her unusually high risk, but emphasizes that \"the risk is different in the case of each woman.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Risk/BRCA\" target=\"_blank\">10 percent\u003c/a> of all breast cancers are due to those many BRCA mutations. 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Under the Affordable Care Act, new plans are required to cover the costs of counseling and testing for breast cancer risk. There is no such mandate for the coverage of surgery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A prophylactic (preventive) mastectomy, removing both breasts before cancer is diagnosed, can greatly reduce the risk of breast cancer, by as much as 97%. It does not completely prevent breast cancer because even a very careful surgeon will leave behind a small amount of breast tissue, which can go on to become cancerous.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women with BRCA mutations associated with a high risk of breast cancer, confirmed by testing, and with a strong family history of breast cancer, a previous breast cancer, and who show signs of certain pre-cancerous conditions are among those who could benefit from the surgery. 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But, while mutations in the BRCA genes are fairly rare, the majority of women opting for preventive mastectomy are not at elevated risk, as \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/14/183892507/angelina-jolie-and-the-rise-of-preventive-mastectomies\" target=\"_blank\">NPR's Shots blog notes\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"We found that women who have cancer in one breast overestimate their risk of cancer in the other breast by sixfold,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.surg.umn.edu/Faculty_Alpha/tuttle_todd_m/home.html\">Todd Tuttle\u003c/a>, chief of surgical oncology at the University of Minnesota. \"It's very exaggerated.\" ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased awareness of breast cancer due to the ubiquitous pink ribbon campaigns could be fueling the rise in prophylactic mastectomies, some people say. \"Women have this exaggerated perceived risk of getting breast cancer,\" Tuttle told Shots. \"They see breast cancer everywhere.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has not been an increase in prophylactic mastectomy in Europe, Tuttle notes, though women there have access to the same surgery and reconstruction. \"I wonder if part of the difference is this hyperawareness of breast cancer.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Berkeley-based journalist Peggy Orenstein \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/04/26/berkeley-journalist-takes-on-the-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer/\" target=\"_blank\">took on the hyperawareness\u003c/a> of breast cancer in another New York Times venue, its Sunday magazine. Orenstein was first diagnosed with breast cancer 16 years ago. She had a lumpectomy plus radiation, then suffered a recurrence last year. Her only option was mastectomy, which she had on the affected breast. Yet she opted against preventive mastectomy on the other side. \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/magazine/our-feel-good-war-on-breast-cancer.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">From her article\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>My first instinct this round was to have my other breast removed as well — I never wanted to go through this again. My oncologist argued against it. The tamoxifen would lower my risk of future disease to that of an average woman, he said. Would an average woman cut off her breasts? I could have preventive surgery if I wanted to, he added, but it would be a psychological decision, not a medical one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I weighed the options as my hospital date approached. Average risk, after all, is not zero. 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"content": "\u003cp>By \u003ca href=\"http://kvpr.org/people/rebecca-plevin\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Plevin\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/05/13/181880987/cases-of-mysterious-valley-fever-rise-in-american-southwest\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 462px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-12696\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/Emily-.jpg\" alt=\"(Daniel Casarez/Vida en el Valle/Reporting on Health Collaborative)\" width=\"462\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/Emily-.jpg 462w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/Emily--400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2013/05/Emily--320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 462px) 100vw, 462px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Daniel Casarez/Vida en el Valle/Reporting on Health Collaborative)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When she was just 6, Emily Gorospe became very tired and sick. The spunky girl, now 8, developed a fever that wouldn't go away, and red blotches appeared across her body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She's got so much energy usually,\" says Emily's mother, Valerie Gorospe. \"Just walking from one part of the house ... she was drained.\" The little girl was also very pale. \"She just didn't look like herself,\" Valerie recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emily, who lives in the Central Valley town of Delano, was eventually diagnosed with \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/fungal/coccidioidomycosis/\">valley fever\u003c/a>, also known as coccidioidomycosis. She's one of an estimated 150,000 people nationwide who get the fungal disease every year. There is no cure and no vaccine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Valley fever has afflicted about four times more people than West Nile virus, with thousands more going undiagnosed.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Valley fever is well known in the Central Valley and other areas of California and Arizona. Tiny fungal spores live in the soil throughout much of this arid region. When the spores are disturbed, they can be inhaled into the lungs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.childrenscentralcal.org/OurDoctors/Pages/jmccarty.aspx\">James McCarty\u003c/a>, the medical director of infectious diseases at Children's Hospital Central California, says most people feel nothing, or experience symptoms similar to the flu. Common symptoms include fever, night sweats, weight loss, chest pain, cough and sometimes skin rashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Valley fever can be a very serious disease for some people, McCarty says. It can spread from the lungs to other parts of the body, like the central nervous system, bones or skin. It can be life-altering or even fatal.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About five out of 100 patients will develop pneumonia,\" McCarty said. \"Then in about one out of 100 patients, valley fever will spread outside of the lungs and go to other parts of the body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Valley fever cases up nearly 900 percent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, valley fever numbers have soared so high that some health officials are calling it an epidemic. The disease has become \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=179895982\">a huge problem\u003c/a> in California's prisons. The state is being ordered to move inmates at high-risk of contracting the illness from two prisons where the fungus is rampant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the total number of valley fever cases nationwide \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2013/03/29/valley-fever-cases-skyrocketing-says-cdc/\" target=\"_blank\">rose by nearly 900 percent\u003c/a> from 1998 to 2011. Researchers don't have a good explanation for the dramatic increase. Even when accounting for growing populations throughout the Southwest, the numbers are still staggering.\u003cem>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What's really interesting ... is that the number of cases — the incidence of these cases — increased steadily throughout this time period, and really accelerated over the last few years,\" says Benjamin Park, a medical officer at the CDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Relatively little is known about valley fever. No one knows how much exposure to the fungus it takes to contract the illness, or why some people die and others never know they have spores in their lungs. It's also unclear why the illness seems to strike African-Americans and Filipinos harder than the rest of the population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers do know this: People who work outside — like workers in construction and on farms — are at higher risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificcoastvineyards.com/about-us/\">Todd Schaefer\u003c/a>, a winemaker in Paso Robles, was running a bulldozer in his vineyard about 10 years ago. A few days later, he became very sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors said he had an ordinary form of pneumonia, and recommended that he go home and eat chicken soup. It took them a month to realize he had valley fever, and to start him on anti-fungal medication. By that time, the fungal infection had spread to his central nervous system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think if they had caught it early, it would not have been allowed to disseminate through my body and set up shop in my brain and spinal cord,\" Schaefer says. \"That's the killer right there.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaefer is 48; he'll take anti-fungal medication for the rest of his life. The medication has horrible side effects. One of the worst ones, for a winemaker, is that Schaefer can't drink his own wine while on the drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drugs are keeping him alive, he says, but not necessarily healthy. The disease saps his energy and prevents him from working more than four or five hours a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's an anti-fungal poison,\" he says. \"It doesn't kill it. It just keeps it down to a low roar.\"\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McCarty says if the disease is caught early, physicians have a better chance of keeping it at bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do see patients in whom there's been a delay in diagnosis, and we believe this leads to more complicated and difficult-to-treat disease,\" McCarty says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say most cases are misdiagnosed or missed entirely. 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Consider this: In the past 12 years, the National Institutes of Health has granted valley fever just 4 percent of the research funding it has directed toward \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/08/02/157832358/west-nile-virus-makes-a-comeback-this-summer\">West Nile virus\u003c/a>. But valley fever has afflicted about four times more people than West Nile, with thousands more going undiagnosed. Valley fever has killed many more people, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he contracted valley fever 10 years ago, Schaefer, the Paso Robles winemaker, has continued making award-winning pinot noirs. But even as his boutique winery prospers, his health is faltering. 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It can be life-altering or even fatal.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"About five out of 100 patients will develop pneumonia,\" McCarty said. \"Then in about one out of 100 patients, valley fever will spread outside of the lungs and go to other parts of the body.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Valley fever cases up nearly 900 percent\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, valley fever numbers have soared so high that some health officials are calling it an epidemic. The disease has become \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=179895982\">a huge problem\u003c/a> in California's prisons. 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