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They were more likely to have grown up with two married parents, more likely to have completed high school and more likely to be in a stable relationship before the birth of their first child.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Those last three items are true for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a separate study of 122 working folks, both men and women, Damaske had volunteers collect saliva samples during the day. Researchers then measured the levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The levels were fine during the day -- and spiked when the people got home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income people and those without children were especially likely to report lower levels of the stress hormone when they were at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Damaske has new research that sheds light on another factor that might be in play:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>It's a factor that sociologists such as [UC Berkeley's] \u003ca href=\"http://sociology.berkeley.edu/professor-emeritus/arlie-r-hochschild\" target=\"_blank\">Arlie Hochschild\u003c/a> and psychiatrists such as Sigmund Freud have examined in the past. Hochschild, for one, found that many people find work to be less stressful than their home lives. Work was, in fact, a haven. Freud once said work and love were two wellsprings of emotional satisfaction in life.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Damaske also pointed out that work can be less stressful \"because we are emotionally entangled at home in a way that we aren't at work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Um, yes. I admit to being more emotionally entangled at home than I am at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More from NPR:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Damaske said the study offered a different window into why women who work steady jobs might experience better physical and mental health than those who work part time, or not at all. 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Those hormones also flow to memory centers in the brain, to help the critter remember those notable moments and places.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If it turns out to be dangerous and if the animal actually turns out to survive danger, then it will be aware of this as a potentially dangerous place,\" explains Bruce McEwen, head of the neuroendocrinology laboratory at The Rockefeller University. \"In that sense, stress is good.\"\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People also experience this good kind of stress. It's your body's reaction as you get pumped up to speak in public, for example, or compete in an athletic event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We do something that takes a little bit of a risk and has a good outcome, we feel exhilarated — that's good stress,\" McEwen says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, that's not what most people were thinking of when pollsters called them earlier this year. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/07/327322187/stressed-out-americans-tell-us-about-stress-in-their-lives\" target=\"_blank\">NPR conducted a poll\u003c/a> that focused on stress in America, with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those responding talked mostly about the downside of stress — the sort that comes from tension at work or family friction. The biological mechanisms that help us in the short run, it turns out, aren't so useful when the stress grinds on for weeks or months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McEwen, who wrote The End of Stress As We Know It, says often people find ways to tolerate that stress. But it can also be overwhelming, \"and then, we have something that's been called toxic stress,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stress system gone awry can literally make you sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When stress is sustained or repeating or extreme, then all [the usual systems] get disrupted,\" says Huda Akil, co-director of the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan. \"And eventually, you do it long enough and it starts impacting other systems ... immune responses; it can affect the heart; it affects brain cells. It depends how long we're talking about.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In our poll, many Americans responding said that to cope with excessive stress they end up eating more or sleeping more. 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Sometimes these reactions can help reduce stress, research shows — but other times not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Linden, a professor of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and author of The Compass of Pleasure, has been thinking about the source of all this stress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think a lot of people imagine that our modern lifestyle — with constantly chirping cellphones and email and all these demands — has led to more stress,\" Linden says. \"And the truth is, it really doesn't seem to be that way.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Think how stressful it must have been for our forebears, who lived in constant worry that their children would die of infectious diseases (still a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/03/30/262730420/ending-polio-paves-the-way-for-india-to-stop-a-childhood-killer\" target=\"_blank\">constant threat\u003c/a> in some parts of the world).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's not like stress is mounting up in our modern age — it's just [that] the flavor of it is changing,\" Linden says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that flavor isn't changing as much as you might think. Our poll finds that over the past year, the major causes of stress in Americans are still those age-old troubles: illness, disease and the death of a loved one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, 14 percent of the people we polled said they didn't feel stressed at all. But that doesn't mean a few people have found a secret Eden right here on Earth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huda Akil says some people are simply more tolerant of stress than others. She sees this clearly in \u003ca href=\"http://www.experts.umich.edu/pubDetail.asp?n=Huda+Akil&u_id=2801&oe_id=1&o_id=44&id=84890908540\" target=\"_blank\">her animal studies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Some animals like risky situations, actually go seek them, and other animals cower away from them,\" Akil says. \"And it's clearly genetic. We can breed for it. And it shows up very, very early in life. And it is in humans what we define often as temperament.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That temperament is shaped by both biology and our experiences as young children. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19133\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 635px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/KQED_sweets.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19133\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/KQED_sweets.jpg\" alt=\"Recent research suggests that cutting down on sugar does more to protect the heart than avoiding saturated fats. (Alex/Flickr)\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Recent research suggests that cutting down on sugar does more to protect the heart than avoiding saturated fats. (Alex/\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/ajagendorf25/5557425274\">Flickr\u003c/a>)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Most of us know that too much cholesterol promotes heart disease. And many know that cholesterol comes in good and bad forms. “Bad” (low-density lipoprotein, or LDL) cholesterol clogs the arteries that pump blood to the heart and feed the brain, raising the risk of heart attack and stroke. “Good” (high-density lipoprotein, or HDL) cholesterol removes excess cholesterol and fat from the bloodstream, keeping arteries healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing: this good versus bad scenario offers a simplistic view of cholesterol’s role in heart disease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doctors assess cardiac health with routine blood tests that estimate LDL and HDL cholesterol levels along with total cholesterol and triglycerides. But cholesterol is just one component of the lipoprotein particles (spherical balls made of proteins and other lipids) that transport the water-phobic molecules through the blood. Most blood tests reflect how much cholesterol the particles carry but don’t provide any information about the particles themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It turns the cholesterol story upside down.”\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“But it all starts with the particle,” says Ronald Krauss, senior scientist and director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute. “The LDL particles go into the artery wall and carry the cholesterol with them. So we see the cholesterol in the plaque but it’s the particle concentration and the number of particles that really determine the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller LDL particles carry less cholesterol than larger LDL particles, yet it’s the smaller particles that are most strongly associated with heart disease risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because smaller particles are more likely to glom on to artery walls and do so more often because they circulate in the blood longer. Once they get stuck, they undergo chemical changes that make them more toxic to arteries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you have mostly small LDL particles, your cholesterol levels could be normal, but you may still be at risk for heart disease, Krauss says. “It turns the cholesterol story upside down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>New methods for evaluating risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why more researchers are turning to methods that can measure the size and density of lipoprotein particles to better understand how heart disease develops. In a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24852168\">study, published in the Journal of Lipid Research\u003c/a> last month, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh used a method (called nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy) designed to measure the characteristics of lipoprotein particles as a first step to understanding how menopause may facilitate cardiovascular disease in women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Risk of heart disease increases with age as decades of inactivity and unhealthy eating habits promote plaque formation inside artery walls, ultimately blocking blood flow and causing a heart attack. Estrogen has a beneficial effect on arteries, which helps explain why women have a lower risk of heart disease than men—until they stop menstruating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19154\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/Blausen_CoronaryArteryDisease-216x162.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19154\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2014/07/Blausen_CoronaryArteryDisease-216x162.png\" alt=\"Athlerosclerosis, the formation of yellowish plaque made mostly of cholesterol inside artery walls. blocks blood flow and can lead to cardiac arrest. (Blausen/Wikipedia)\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Athlerosclerosis, the buildup of cholesterol-laden yellowish plaque inside artery walls, restricts blood flow and can lead to cardiac arrest. (Blausen/Wikipedia)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Why that edge disappears around menopause isn’t entirely clear. Lower estrogen levels may alter cholesterol abundance or metabolism, as suggested by studies linking menopause to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16810536\">higher levels of total cholesterol\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12027776\">LDL cholesterol \u003c/a>and triglycerides. In the new study, the researchers found an association between lower levels of estrogen and “low quality” cholesterol carriers, including the smaller LDL particles associated with increased risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was small—it examined just 120 women of the 3,302 women enrolled in an ongoing study of menopausal change (the \u003ca href=\"http://www.swanstudy.org/\">Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation\u003c/a>). But it lends support to the notion that as women approach midlife, their falling estrogen levels may help drive a shift from high-quality lipoproteins, which can clear excess cholesterol from the bloodstream, to lower-quality molecules that can’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That doesn’t mean boosting estrogen is a good idea. The \u003ca href=\"http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf05/ht/htpostmenrs.htm\">U.S. Preventive Services Task Force\u003c/a> recommends against using hormone replacement therapy to reduce cardiac risk. Instead, women over 45 should get their cholesterol levels checked every five years. Routine blood tests will spot signs of trouble in most people, Krauss says, though more physicians are using the specialized tests for both women and men with diabetes, obesity or a family history of early heart disease to better assess their health status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reducing risk\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year about \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm\">600,000 people will die of heart disease\u003c/a>, the leading cause of death in the United States since 1921, when it surpassed pneumonia and flu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These numbers are particularly troubling because heart disease is largely preventable. And though people can reduce their risk—primarily by exercising, losing weight and not smoking—many don’t. \u003ca href=\"http://my.clevelandclinic.org/Documents/About-Cleveland-Clinic/newsroom/love-your-heart-results.pdf\">Cleveland Clinic researchers\u003c/a> reported in February that a third of adults wouldn’t change their exercise or eating habits and just half of respondents said they’d stop smoking, despite a two- to fourfold increased risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though logic suggests that raising good cholesterol through drugs or supplements could help those not inclined to change bad habits, the\u003ca href=\"http://journals.lww.com/co-cardiology/Abstract/2013/07000/Recent_clinical_trials_evaluating_benefit_of_drug.3.aspx\"> evidence suggests otherwise\u003c/a>. There’s no doubt that HDL has protective features, Krauss says, but there’s no guarantee that raising HDL levels will reduce your risk of heart disease. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17715\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-320x200.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update September 2, 6:05 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A judge ruled Tuesday that Berkeley officials must change the soda tax measure language because it is currently misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Soda tax advocates say this change \"doesn't concern us at all.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said the city's statement that the tax would only be imposed on \"high-calorie, sugary drinks\" is \"a form of advocacy and therefore not impartial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo ordered the city to change the summary to say that the tax would apply to \"sugar-sweetened beverages,\" which he said is more neutral and less likely to create prejudice for or against Measure D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Johnson and Leon Cain \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/08/15/lawsuit-filed-over-berkeley-soda-tax-ballot-language/\" target=\"_blank\">filed the lawsuit in August\u003c/a>. Cain has previously attended Berkeley council meetings on behalf of the No Berkeley Beverage Tax campaign.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax opponents had also argued that ballot language that says the tax would be paid by distributors, not by consumers, is misleading because they believe distributors would pass on the extra cost to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grillo ruled against tax opponents on that issue, saying they failed to provide clear and convincing evidence based on the ballot statement that the tax won't be paid by consumers is misleading or partial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said tax opponents \"only speculate that it is like that such cost will be passed down to consumers, but it is unknown at this point whether or not any of the tax will eventually be passed down to consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo said the city correctly pointed out that distributors and retailers could choose to absorb the cost of the tax in order to better compete with other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley school board member Joshua Daniels, who is co-chair of the campaign in favor of Measure D, said Grillo's order that the ballot language be changed is only a \"relatively minor\" development and \"doesn't concern us at all\" because \"everyone knows that the measure is focused on preventing diabetes,\" and he thinks it will still be approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said that overall Grillo's ruling is \"a victory\" for Measure D supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo's ruling came one day before the deadline on Wednesday for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office to send ballot arguments to the printer so that voters can receive them well in advance of the election on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post July 2, 2014 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Charles Siler\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/02/berkeley-puts-sugar-tax-on-november-ballot-could-be-first-in-country-to-take-on-big-soda/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to include a proposal that would tax distributors of sugar-sweetened beverages on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Voters will decide on penny-per-ounce tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The measure, which proposes a one-cent-per-ounce charge at the distributor level, would be the first such tax passed in the country. Richmond tried to pass a similar tax in 2012, but it was voted down after a $2.7 million campaign by the soda industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax point to studies linking sugary drinks to childhood obesity and diabetes. Members of community organization Berkeley vs. Big Soda gathered on the steps of city hall before the Tuesday night meeting to voice their support of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support our kids. We don’t want our kids to be sick with diabetes,” said Dr. Vicki Alexander, co-chair of the Berkeley Healthy Child Foundation, at the council meeting. “We know that we can change that trend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the tax said the measure would prove ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that diabetes and childhood obesity are big issues. I just don’t necessarily agree that taxation on sweetened beverages or soda is the best way to deal with that,” said Jennifer Skidmore of J&J Vending. “Statistics show that purchasing of sweetened beverages is already on the decline, without taxation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also say the tax is a social justice issue, pointing to the higher rates of obesity in black and Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research shows diabetes rates in Latino, African-American communities have reached epidemic proportions,” said Xavier Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “That’s not an exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Soda will claim that we are attacking a product that is beloved by low-income folks,” said Councilmember Laurie Capitelli, “but those are the people who are coming to us and asking us to put this on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Mundorff, CEO and president of Landmark Theaters, which owns both the Shattuck Cinemas and the California Theater, said revenue from the tax would not be earmarked for any healthy initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could solve obesity and diabetes with a one-cent tax I’d say bring it on, let’s do two cents,” Mundorff said. “But the reality is that this cent is going into the general fund, and it is not earmarked to do anything, except to hurt business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the measure proposes a general tax, as opposed to a special tax, revenue from the tax would go into the general fund and cannot be reserved for any special purpose. With a special tax, the money could be designated for anti-obesity initiatives, such as nutrition programs in schools — but a special tax requires a two-thirds majority vote, while a general tax requires only 50 percent plus one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sugar tax on San Francisco’s November ballot is a special tax, and so will require a two-thirds majority to pass, unlike the Berkeley proposal. The San Francisco measure also proposes a tax of two cents per ounce, rather than Berkeley’s one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s November ballot will read: “Shall an ordinance imposing a 1¢ per ounce general tax on the distribution of high-calorie, sugary drinks (e.g., sodas, energy drinks, presweetened teas) and sweeteners used to sweeten such drinks, but exempting: (1) sweeteners (e.g., sugar, honey,syrups) typically used by consumers and distributed to grocery stores; (2) drinks and sweeteners distributed to very small retailers; (3) diet drinks, milk products, 100% juice, baby formula, alcohol, or drinks taken for medical reasons, be adopted?” Councilmember Linda Maio proposed the new, slightly different language at the Tuesday meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax acknowledged that in the coming months, the soda industry will likely campaign heavily against the tax measure in Berkeley and in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think even if they spent a million dollars they could confuse the people of Berkeley. So I’m not really worried about how much money they spend,” said Councilmember Kriss Worthington. “The people of Berkeley are too smart to be confused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a lot of opposition, there’s going to be lot of lies,” said Mayor Tom Bates. “They’re going to be sending people door to door with distortions, with misinformation, and it’s going to be tough. So we all need to work. This is the beginning, this is not the end.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem style=\"color: #4d4d4d\">KQED News Associate \u003ca style=\"color: #336699\" href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a> is an independently owned news website based in Berkeley, Calif. \u003ca style=\"color: #336699\" href=\"http://berkeleyside.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=4851428a10883a05193b1dd6c&id=aad4b5ee64\" target=\"_blank\">Click here\u003c/a> if you would you like to receive the latest Berkeley news in your inbox once a day for free with Berkeleyside’s Daily Briefing email.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_17715\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-17715\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-400x250.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/02/RS7242_136799870-1-hpf-320x200.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update September 2, 6:05 p.m.:\u003c/strong> A judge ruled Tuesday that Berkeley officials must change the soda tax measure language because it is currently misleading.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Soda tax advocates say this change \"doesn't concern us at all.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said the city's statement that the tax would only be imposed on \"high-calorie, sugary drinks\" is \"a form of advocacy and therefore not impartial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo ordered the city to change the summary to say that the tax would apply to \"sugar-sweetened beverages,\" which he said is more neutral and less likely to create prejudice for or against Measure D.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Johnson and Leon Cain \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/08/15/lawsuit-filed-over-berkeley-soda-tax-ballot-language/\" target=\"_blank\">filed the lawsuit in August\u003c/a>. Cain has previously attended Berkeley council meetings on behalf of the No Berkeley Beverage Tax campaign.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tax opponents had also argued that ballot language that says the tax would be paid by distributors, not by consumers, is misleading because they believe distributors would pass on the extra cost to consumers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Grillo ruled against tax opponents on that issue, saying they failed to provide clear and convincing evidence based on the ballot statement that the tax won't be paid by consumers is misleading or partial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge said tax opponents \"only speculate that it is like that such cost will be passed down to consumers, but it is unknown at this point whether or not any of the tax will eventually be passed down to consumers.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo said the city correctly pointed out that distributors and retailers could choose to absorb the cost of the tax in order to better compete with other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley school board member Joshua Daniels, who is co-chair of the campaign in favor of Measure D, said Grillo's order that the ballot language be changed is only a \"relatively minor\" development and \"doesn't concern us at all\" because \"everyone knows that the measure is focused on preventing diabetes,\" and he thinks it will still be approved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniels said that overall Grillo's ruling is \"a victory\" for Measure D supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grillo's ruling came one day before the deadline on Wednesday for the Alameda County Registrar of Voters Office to send ballot arguments to the printer so that voters can receive them well in advance of the election on Nov. 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post July 2, 2014 \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Charles Siler\u003c/strong>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/07/02/berkeley-puts-sugar-tax-on-november-ballot-could-be-first-in-country-to-take-on-big-soda/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeleyside\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to include a proposal that would tax distributors of sugar-sweetened beverages on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Voters will decide on penny-per-ounce tax on soda and other sugar-sweetened beverages.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The measure, which proposes a one-cent-per-ounce charge at the distributor level, would be the first such tax passed in the country. Richmond tried to pass a similar tax in 2012, but it was voted down after a $2.7 million campaign by the soda industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax point to studies linking sugary drinks to childhood obesity and diabetes. Members of community organization Berkeley vs. Big Soda gathered on the steps of city hall before the Tuesday night meeting to voice their support of the tax.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to support our kids. We don’t want our kids to be sick with diabetes,” said Dr. Vicki Alexander, co-chair of the Berkeley Healthy Child Foundation, at the council meeting. “We know that we can change that trend.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents of the tax said the measure would prove ineffective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that diabetes and childhood obesity are big issues. I just don’t necessarily agree that taxation on sweetened beverages or soda is the best way to deal with that,” said Jennifer Skidmore of J&J Vending. “Statistics show that purchasing of sweetened beverages is already on the decline, without taxation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters also say the tax is a social justice issue, pointing to the higher rates of obesity in black and Latino communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Research shows diabetes rates in Latino, African-American communities have reached epidemic proportions,” said Xavier Morales, executive director of the Latino Coalition for a Healthy California. “That’s not an exaggeration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Big Soda will claim that we are attacking a product that is beloved by low-income folks,” said Councilmember Laurie Capitelli, “but those are the people who are coming to us and asking us to put this on the ballot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ted Mundorff, CEO and president of Landmark Theaters, which owns both the Shattuck Cinemas and the California Theater, said revenue from the tax would not be earmarked for any healthy initiatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we could solve obesity and diabetes with a one-cent tax I’d say bring it on, let’s do two cents,” Mundorff said. “But the reality is that this cent is going into the general fund, and it is not earmarked to do anything, except to hurt business.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the measure proposes a general tax, as opposed to a special tax, revenue from the tax would go into the general fund and cannot be reserved for any special purpose. With a special tax, the money could be designated for anti-obesity initiatives, such as nutrition programs in schools — but a special tax requires a two-thirds majority vote, while a general tax requires only 50 percent plus one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sugar tax on San Francisco’s November ballot is a special tax, and so will require a two-thirds majority to pass, unlike the Berkeley proposal. The San Francisco measure also proposes a tax of two cents per ounce, rather than Berkeley’s one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley’s November ballot will read: “Shall an ordinance imposing a 1¢ per ounce general tax on the distribution of high-calorie, sugary drinks (e.g., sodas, energy drinks, presweetened teas) and sweeteners used to sweeten such drinks, but exempting: (1) sweeteners (e.g., sugar, honey,syrups) typically used by consumers and distributed to grocery stores; (2) drinks and sweeteners distributed to very small retailers; (3) diet drinks, milk products, 100% juice, baby formula, alcohol, or drinks taken for medical reasons, be adopted?” Councilmember Linda Maio proposed the new, slightly different language at the Tuesday meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the tax acknowledged that in the coming months, the soda industry will likely campaign heavily against the tax measure in Berkeley and in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t think even if they spent a million dollars they could confuse the people of Berkeley. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19962\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS10502_86541005-hpf.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-19962\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS10502_86541005-hpf.jpg\" alt=\"In the U.S. 95 percent of mammography machine are now digital.(Mychele Daniau/AFP/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS10502_86541005-hpf.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS10502_86541005-hpf-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/RS10502_86541005-hpf-320x214.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the U.S. 95 percent of mammography machine are now digital.(Mychele Daniau/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Kara Manke,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/02/327320236/costlier-digital-mammograms-may-not-be-better-for-older-women\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medicare spending on breast cancer screening for women age 65 and older has jumped nearly 50 percent in recent years. But the rise in price was not associated with an improvement in the early detection of breast cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\"We did not see a change in the detection of early or late stage tumors.\" \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Researchers at the Yale School of Medicine found that Medicare spending on breast cancer screening rose from $666 million in the years 2001-2002 to $962 million in the years 2008-2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why the big increases in costs?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The way that we screen for breast cancer has changed dramatically,\" explains Yale's Dr. Cary Gross, an internist and a co-author of the study. The study was \u003ca href=\"https://secure.oxfordjournals.org/licensing/index.html?doi=10.1093/jnci/dju159\" target=\"_blank\">published this week\u003c/a> in the Journal of The National Cancer Institute.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the past decade, many hospitals and clinics have switched to using digital mammography machines, which, like digital cameras, provide clearer, more detailed images that are easier to store, share and enhance than their film-based counterparts. They have also adopted computer-aided detection, which can help radiologists spot tumors they might otherwise miss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But buying new machines and training people to use them can be expensive. To offset the costs, Medicare reimburses doctors and hospitals around 50 percent more for digital mammograms than for film mammograms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Yale review of the data, the use of digital mammograms and of computer-aided detection increased nationally from around two percent to 30 percent between 2000 and 2010. As a result, the cost per screening mammogram rose from $75 to $101 during this period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They estimated that for each Medicare recipient, the average cost of all screening-related tests, including follow-up biopsies, MRIs, and ultrasounds, increased from $76 to $112 during the time period. Almost all of that increase in cost came from digital mammography and computer-aided detection.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">How much did you pay for a mammogram? \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2014/06/23/share-your-bill-make-health-costs-transparent-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\">Join KQED's PriceCheck and share what you paid!\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>But switching to the more expensive technology didn't seem to help doctors spot cancer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The purpose of a screening test is hopefully to catch malignancy at an earlier stage when it is more treatable. But we did not see a change in the detection of early or late stage tumors,\" says Dr. Brigid Killelea, a breast surgeon at Yale and lead author on the study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This study adds to the mixed report card on digital mammography since the technology first came into general use in the mid-2000s. Studies show that it\u003ca href=\"http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/detection/mammograms\" target=\"_blank\"> can be more accurate\u003c/a> at detecting cancer in younger women because it allows doctors to more easily identify tumors in denser breast tissue. But it is about as accurate as film scans for older women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radiologists argue that digital screening offers many benefits for patients, even if it doesn't always find more tumors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think digital is better all around,\" says Dr. Daniel Kopans, a professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School, speaking on behalf of the American College of Radiology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With digital mammography, he explains, technologists can see the images right away and can easily adjust the contrast. Patients don't have to wait for film to be developed, or submit to additional scanning if the images were overexposed or underexposed. 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(Maigh/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>No more dreaded pelvic exam? New guidelines say most healthy women can skip the yearly ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Routine pelvic exams don't benefit women who have no symptoms of disease and who aren't pregnant, and they can cause harm, the American College of Physicians said Monday as it recommended that doctors quit using them as a screening tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's part of a growing movement to evaluate whether many longtime medical practices are done more out of habit than necessity, and the guideline is sure to be controversial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientific evidence \"just doesn't support the benefit of having a pelvic exam every year,\" said guideline coauthor Dr. Linda Humphrey of the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Oregon Health & Science University.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There will be women who are relieved, and there are women who really want to go in and talk with their doctor about it and will choose to continue this,\" she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendations aren't binding to doctors — or insurers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a different doctors' group, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, still recommends yearly pelvic exams even as it acknowledges a lack of evidence supporting, or refuting, them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelvic exams have long been considered part of a \"well-woman visit,\" and some 62 million were performed in the United States in 2010, the latest available data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's what put the test under the microscope: Pap smears that check for cervical cancer used to be done yearly but now are recommended only every three to five years. So if women weren't going through that test every year, did they still need the pelvic exam that traditionally accompanied it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a pelvic exam, a doctor feels for abnormalities in the ovaries, uterus and other pelvic organs. But two years ago, scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the internal exams weren't a good screening tool for ovarian cancer and shouldn't be required before a woman was prescribed birth control pills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The American College of Physicians, specialists in internal medicine, took a broader look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pelvic exams are appropriate for women with symptoms such as vaginal discharge, abnormal bleeding, pain, urinary problems or sexual dysfunction, the ACP said. And women should get their Pap smears on schedule — but a Pap doesn't require the extra step of a manual pelvic exam, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For symptom-free women, years of medical studies show routine pelvic exams aren't useful to screen for ovarian or other gynecologic cancers, they don't reduce deaths, and there are other ways, such as urine tests, to detect such problems as sexually transmitted infections, the doctors' group reported in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moreover, pelvic exams can cause harm — from unnecessary and expensive extra testing when the exam sparks a false alarm, to the anxiety, embarrassment and discomfort that many women report, especially survivors of sexual abuse, the guidelines said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No one knows how many women postpone a doctor's visit for fear of a pelvic exam, Humphrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Ranit Mishori, a family physician and associate professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine, said the new guideline \"gets rid of an unnecessary practice\" that takes up valuable time that could be put to better use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many women will be happy to hear that, and I think also, frankly, many physicians will be happy to hear it. Many of us have stopped doing them for a long time,\" said Mishori, who wasn't involved with the recommendations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite its continued recommendation for annual pelvic exams, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/12/18/et-tu-pelvic-exams/\" target=\"_blank\">said in 2012\u003c/a> that patients should decide together with their providers whether to have them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sometimes that exam lets the doctor spot, say, problems around the uterus that might lead to questions about incontinence that the supposedly asymptomatic patient was too embarrassed to bring up, said ACOG vice president Dr. Barbara Levy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Women have an expectation that they're going to have an exam\" if they choose a gynecologist, Levy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An editorial published alongside the guidelines Monday cautioned that pelvic exams also look for noncancerous uterine and ovarian growths, and the scientific review didn't address whether that's beneficial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, editorial coauthors Drs. 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You would have seen all this information and more from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.23andme.com/\">23andMe\u003c/a> test.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This all changed in November of 2013 when the Federal Drug Administration (FDA)\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2013/12/09/consumer-genetic-testing-company-23andme-faces-its-own-test-from-the-fda/\"> forced 23andMe to stop giving out these types of results\u003c/a>. Now it may seem like that until the FDA and 23andMe work out their differences, there simply isn’t any way to get a hold of the kind of data you used to be able to get. 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