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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/07/96977928-e1374863072693.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-13885\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2013/07/96977928-620x415.jpg\" alt=\"(Getty Images)\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Nile virus is hosted primarily by birds -- and spread by mosquitos. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Brittany Patterson\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year ago this month, my 80-year-old grandmother, an active and healthy woman, began feeling feverish, lethargic and complained of a headache. A trip to the emergency room after days of suffering from a persistent fever yielded nothing, and the doctors sent her home with some Tylenol and an order to rest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that night, my grandfather awoke to anguished screams from my grandmother. He rushed to call 911 and as he waited for the ambulance to arrive he watched in agony as my grandmother cried and babbled incoherently on the floor next to their bed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandmother was hospitalized for 32 days. For the first 20 or so the doctors couldn’t deduce the cause of her mysterious symptoms. Finally, after rounds of tests and antibiotics and scans, we had our diagnosis: West Nile virus.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Nile virus is a neurotropic arbovirus, meaning that it is a virus spread by blood-feeding insects. In some cases the virus can infect the brain. 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The first case of the season originated in Contra Costa County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s hard to predict a West Nile outbreak or how bad a season will be. Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director of the California Department of Public Health says that many factors influence the level of West Nile virus activity, including temperature, rainfall, and the number and types of mosquitoes and birds in an area. He adds, that in addition, if an area has not experienced a lot of virus activity in several years, then more birds will be susceptible to infection, which in turn will increase the amount of virus-carrying birds for mosquitoes to feed on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this time last year, California was reporting just one confirmed case of the disease, but Chavez says it’s hard to say what the rest of the season might have in store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although more mosquitoes and dead birds have tested positive for West Nile virus this year than last year to date, it is not possible to predict the extent of West Nile virus activity for 2014,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most people who contract West Nile, won’t know that they did. Typically it takes between 2 and 15 days from being bitten by an infected mosquito and contracting the virus to see symptoms. Of those who are infected with West Nile, only about 1 in 5 persons will show symptoms, which include include fever, headache, fatigue, muscle pain, and rash.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer than one percent of those who do get West Nile will develop the neuroinvasive form of the disease, in which a patient will contract a serious neurological illness such as encephalitis or meningitis. People age 50 and older have a \u003ca href=\"http://www.westnile.ca.gov/news.php?id=125\" target=\"_blank\">higher chance of getting sick \u003c/a>and are more likely to develop complications.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of those who do contract the neuroinvasive variant of West Nile, about 10 percent die — \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/westnile/faq/genQuestions.html\" target=\"_blank\">usually the elderly and the very young\u003c/a>, according to the Centers for Disease Control..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>West Nile-induced meningitis helped explain my grandmother’s delusions and confusion. Sometimes she was barely responsive and very weak. She could recognize her family, and later, as she regained some of her strength, could launch into a story from her college day. But more often than not, she seemed lost in space and couldn’t grasp that she was in the hospital fighting off this virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fighting West Nile both in the hospital and at a rehabilitation facility, last September my grandmother suffered a massive stroke and passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retrospect my grandfather says he should have guessed it was West Nile earlier. Earlier in the week that my grandmother had fallen ill, my grandfather had found both a dead bird and a dead squirrel on their 20-acre ranch in Northern California. Since birds carry West Nile virus, finding dead birds are a clue to the spread of the disease. California's Department of Public Health encourages people to report all dead birds they find. To help track the spread of the disease, Californians are encouraged to report all dead birds by \u003ca href=\"http://www.westnile.ca.gov/report_wnv.php\" target=\"_blank\">filling out an online form\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even if my grandfather had alerted doctors of his suspicions, there would have been nothing for them to do. There is no human vaccine or treatment for West Nile. \u003ca href=\"http://westnile.ca.gov/prevention.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The only real steps are prevention\u003c/a>: use insect repellent containing DEET, avoid being outdoors at dawn and dusk when mosquitoes are most active, check your property and eliminate or drain sources of standing water including buckets, birdbaths and pet bowls. \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/HealthInfo/discond/Documents/NeglectedSwimmingPoolsandWNV2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Neglected swimming pools \u003c/a>also pose a risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As to whether the West Nile infection was the cause of my grandmother’s stroke, two of her doctors gave my family a strong yes and two said absolutely not. One thing is for sure: For my family one bite from a mosquito changed everything.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Sometimes she was barely responsive and very weak. She could recognize her family, and later, as she regained some of her strength, could launch into a story from her college day. But more often than not, she seemed lost in space and couldn’t grasp that she was in the hospital fighting off this virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After fighting West Nile both in the hospital and at a rehabilitation facility, last September my grandmother suffered a massive stroke and passed away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In retrospect my grandfather says he should have guessed it was West Nile earlier. Earlier in the week that my grandmother had fallen ill, my grandfather had found both a dead bird and a dead squirrel on their 20-acre ranch in Northern California. Since birds carry West Nile virus, finding dead birds are a clue to the spread of the disease. California's Department of Public Health encourages people to report all dead birds they find. 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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I love it when my job intersects with the rest of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/15/330191097/when-work-becomes-a-haven-from-stress-at-home\" target=\"_blank\">NPR is reporting Tuesday\u003c/a> about a fascinating survey that found that women who work full time \"reported significantly better physical and mental health than moms who part time.\" They heard from more than 2,500 mothers in the\u003ca href=\"http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/53/4/396.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"> 2012 survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In addition, people appear to be more stressed at home than they are at work.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oh, and mothers who worked part time said they enjoyed better health than their counterparts who didn't work at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? As the mother of two children who worked part time for several years before taking this job, I was all-in on this story. Could I really be enjoying peak health while working full time and -- yes -- still raising those kids. (Disclosure that my husband does help: Thanks, dear!)\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR pointed out that one explanation could be self-selection.\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/15/330191097/when-work-becomes-a-haven-from-stress-at-home\" target=\"_blank\"> From the story\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mothers who were in better health to begin with may have chosen to work regularly. Researchers Adrianne Frech and Sarah Damaske, who conducted the 2012 study, also found that moms who worked steadily had other advantages. 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. It is still possible that women who are healthier to begin with are more likely to hold steady jobs, but Damaske said it might also be the case that work had positive effects on women's health.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Last week NPR published the results of\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/07/323351759/for-many-americans-stress-takes-a-toll-on-health-and-family\" target=\"_blank\"> its nationwide poll\u003c/a> on stress -- and reported that \"juggling busy family schedules\" ranked right up there as a top source of stress for many people -- other sources were the death of a loved one and health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are tough jobs and difficult bosses such a common topic of conversation? Damaske told NPR that it could be because it's more socially acceptable to complain about work than to discuss health problems or troubles at home.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_20188\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/479941429.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-20188\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/07/479941429-640x461.jpg\" alt=\"Life at the office can look really appealing sometimes. (Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"461\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Life at the office can look really appealing sometimes. (Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I love it when my job intersects with the rest of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/15/330191097/when-work-becomes-a-haven-from-stress-at-home\" target=\"_blank\">NPR is reporting Tuesday\u003c/a> about a fascinating survey that found that women who work full time \"reported significantly better physical and mental health than moms who part time.\" They heard from more than 2,500 mothers in the\u003ca href=\"http://hsb.sagepub.com/content/53/4/396.abstract\" target=\"_blank\"> 2012 survey\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">In addition, people appear to be more stressed at home than they are at work.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Oh, and mothers who worked part time said they enjoyed better health than their counterparts who didn't work at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Really? As the mother of two children who worked part time for several years before taking this job, I was all-in on this story. Could I really be enjoying peak health while working full time and -- yes -- still raising those kids. (Disclosure that my husband does help: Thanks, dear!)\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>NPR pointed out that one explanation could be self-selection.\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/15/330191097/when-work-becomes-a-haven-from-stress-at-home\" target=\"_blank\"> From the story\u003c/a>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Mothers who were in better health to begin with may have chosen to work regularly. Researchers Adrianne Frech and Sarah Damaske, who conducted the 2012 study, also found that moms who worked steadily had other advantages. 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>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. It is still possible that women who are healthier to begin with are more likely to hold steady jobs, but Damaske said it might also be the case that work had positive effects on women's health.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Last week NPR published the results of\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/07/323351759/for-many-americans-stress-takes-a-toll-on-health-and-family\" target=\"_blank\"> its nationwide poll\u003c/a> on stress -- and reported that \"juggling busy family schedules\" ranked right up there as a top source of stress for many people -- other sources were the death of a loved one and health problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why are tough jobs and difficult bosses such a common topic of conversation? Damaske told NPR that it could be because it's more socially acceptable to complain about work than to discuss health problems or troubles at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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(Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Richard Harris,\u003c/strong> \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/07/09/325216030/like-all-animals-we-need-stress-just-not-too-much\" target=\"_blank\">NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ask somebody about stress, and you're likely to hear an outpouring about all the bad things that cause it — and the bad things that result. But if you ask a biologist, you'll hear that stress can be good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, it's essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">But people who responded to NPR's poll talked mostly about the downside of stress.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>For example, the adrenal glands of all animals have evolved to pump out \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3079864/\" target=\"_blank\">stress hormones\u003c/a> in unexpected situations — the hormones spur action and increase fuel to the brain, helping the animal react to danger appropriately. 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. Yet others said they end up sleeping less and eating less. 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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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. 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And Gardner's challenge attracted attention from major media outlets, including \u003ca href=\"http://gma.yahoo.com/woman-starts-worlds-largest-exercise-class-facebook-182854875--abc-news-topstories.html\" target=\"_blank\">Good Morning America\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge features a daily series of progressively longer sets of crunches, planks, sit ups and leg lifts. Participants have taken to the Facebook event's wall, reporting their progress and encouraging each other to stick with it. The challenge lasts through the end of June.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, don't count on the 30-day challenge to give you the abs of Heidi Klum or Channing Tatum in a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't selectively burn body fat,\" says Dixie Stanforth, a member of the University of Texas, Austin's kinesiology faculty and the Fitness Institute of Texas who has worked as a personal trainer for 26 years. \"If you could, people who chew gum would have really thin jaws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it will do, though, is tone the abdominal muscles, and it might serve as an exercise starting point for people who aren't otherwise very active, Stanforth and other fitness experts tell Shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To become leaner, abdominal work would be a piece of that puzzle,\" says Brian Focht, an associate professor in the human sciences department at Ohio State University. \"But you'd have to add other components — such as more well-rounded training, aerobic activity and changing dietary habits — to really lose weight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge might be too strenuous for some people. Stanforth cautions that particularly the crunches and sit-ups could be hard on a person's back. Similarly, Focht says people might need to modify the workout to suit their needs and ability levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardner, who recently lost 59 pounds, echoes a similar warning on her event page. She's careful to note that participants might need to modify the exercises or consult a doctor. She also encourages participants looking to lose weight and strengthen their core to integrate diet and additional exercise into their routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just being able to do as much as you can is an accomplishment, especially for people who haven't done a crunch or a sit-up in 20 years,\" she tells Shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, she says she has been overwhelmed by the response. She says she has received thousands of messages, some from as far away as Nepal, from people seeking advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardner says she hopes the challenge helps her tone up and encourages her to continue daily ab workouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, for those who complete the program, Michelle Segar, director of University of Michigan's Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center, says the trick is building on the success. \"In general, when you ask people to do a short-term activity, you're going to get a short-term behavioral result,\" says Segar, who researches fitness motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She suggests that participants consider ways the competition improves their daily lives. Does it give them more energy? Do they feel stronger and more confident?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encouraged by the attention her 30-day challenge has drawn, Gardner hopes to host other challenges that focus on different muscle groups. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, don't count on the 30-day challenge to give you the abs of Heidi Klum or Channing Tatum in a month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why not?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't selectively burn body fat,\" says Dixie Stanforth, a member of the University of Texas, Austin's kinesiology faculty and the Fitness Institute of Texas who has worked as a personal trainer for 26 years. \"If you could, people who chew gum would have really thin jaws.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What it will do, though, is tone the abdominal muscles, and it might serve as an exercise starting point for people who aren't otherwise very active, Stanforth and other fitness experts tell Shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"To become leaner, abdominal work would be a piece of that puzzle,\" says Brian Focht, an associate professor in the human sciences department at Ohio State University. \"But you'd have to add other components — such as more well-rounded training, aerobic activity and changing dietary habits — to really lose weight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The challenge might be too strenuous for some people. Stanforth cautions that particularly the crunches and sit-ups could be hard on a person's back. Similarly, Focht says people might need to modify the workout to suit their needs and ability levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardner, who recently lost 59 pounds, echoes a similar warning on her event page. She's careful to note that participants might need to modify the exercises or consult a doctor. She also encourages participants looking to lose weight and strengthen their core to integrate diet and additional exercise into their routine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Just being able to do as much as you can is an accomplishment, especially for people who haven't done a crunch or a sit-up in 20 years,\" she tells Shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, she says she has been overwhelmed by the response. She says she has received thousands of messages, some from as far away as Nepal, from people seeking advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gardner says she hopes the challenge helps her tone up and encourages her to continue daily ab workouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, for those who complete the program, Michelle Segar, director of University of Michigan's Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Center, says the trick is building on the success. \"In general, when you ask people to do a short-term activity, you're going to get a short-term behavioral result,\" says Segar, who researches fitness motivation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She suggests that participants consider ways the competition improves their daily lives. Does it give them more energy? Do they feel stronger and more confident?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Encouraged by the attention her 30-day challenge has drawn, Gardner hopes to host other challenges that focus on different muscle groups. For now, though, Gardner is working to complete the task at hand. She says she has stuck with the challenge so far, and she plans to see it through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"How can I not be motivated now?\" Gardner laughed.\u003cbr>\n[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"9AKfsAh6UBnq9tVtshh0pocZ32VhBajl\"]\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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But to be fair, the National School Lunch Program — which provides free or reduced lunches to about 31 million kids every day — has never aimed to dazzle as much as to fill little bellies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, Congress gave the Federal School Lunch Program a nutrition make-over. New regulations called for:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Increasing the amount of whole grains served in school cafeterias\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shifting to fat free or low-fat milks\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Limiting the amount of calories that can come from saturated fats to 10 percent\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Offering fruits and vegetables on a daily basis\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Implementing caloric minimums and maximums for each meal\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Those were just the first steps. By the school year starting this fall, schools are also required to:\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Reduce the amount of sodium school cafeterias can serve to a maximum of 1,230 to 1,420 milligrams a day for lunch (depending on age group) and 540 to 640 milligrams a day for breakfast.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Shift to 100 percent \"whole grain-rich\" products, which means that they are mostly whole grain.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>In the agriculture appropriations bill, which may come to a vote on Thursday, schools would also receive additional support for making the transition to a healthier menu, including provisions to help them purchase new equipment to prepare fresher foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=\"gJWHEusGINj4Z7JafteoUw4hYBsSxLZ4\"]Sam Kass, senior advisor for nutrition policy at the White House, says 90 percent of schools have already — or are in the process of — implementing the new standards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, half of all products served in the school lunch program must be \"whole-grain rich,\" which USDA defines as products made of at least 50 percent whole grain. According to the new standards, by the start of the next school year, schools must use only products that are whole-grain rich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But GOP leaders, as well as the School Nutrition Association, which represents school food service directors and several companies that supply school cafeterias, say the upcoming requirements are unworkable. They claim that kids don't want the healthy options and, as a result, too much food is being wasted. They also say that the cost of reducing sodium and other preservatives are placing an undue burden on schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alabama Republican Congressman Robert Aderholt introduced a provision that would give school districts a year-long waiver from both old and new standards if they can show that they are losing money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">[\u003ca href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/06/11/lobbyists-loom-behind-the-scenes-of-school-nutrition-fight/\" target=\"_blank\">Related: Lobbyists Loom Behind the Scenes of School Nutrition Fight\u003c/a>]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First Lady Michelle Obama, who helped spearhead the new regulations, is vehemently opposed to delaying or softening the new regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So is Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19454\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/novembering/2681267111/in/photolist-7z8Yef-6nqoBm-4wgxYd-4qcHuZ-55WceT-63fWPV-55Wcii-5evmjg-bqmBok-bqmExM-bqmDcR-4Xdf6M-55Wbze-8PymWv\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-19454\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/06/2681267111_74c66105ba_b-640x415.jpg\" alt=\"Minute Maid 100 percent apple juice has more fructose per liter than Coke and Pepsi. (Trisha Weir/Flickr)\" width=\"640\" height=\"415\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minute Maid 100 percent apple juice has more fructose per liter than Coke and Pepsi. (Trisha Weir/Flickr)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Eliza Barclay,\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/09/319230765/fruit-juice-vs-soda-both-beverages-pack-in-sugar-and-health-risk\" target=\"_blank\"> NPR\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to choosing between sodas and juices in the beverage aisle, the juice industry has long benefited from a health halo.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'100 percent fruit juice is as bad as sugar-sweetened beverages for its effects on our health.' \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>We know that juice comes from fruit, while soda is artificial. In particular, the sugars in juice seem more \"natural\" than high fructose corn syrup — the main sweetener in so many sodas. After all, we've gotten rid of most of the soda we used to offer kids at school, but schools can \u003ca href=\"http://www.fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/allfoods_summarychart.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">still offer juice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutritionjrnl.com/article/S0899-9007(14)00192-0/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\">a study\u003c/a> published online in the journal Nutrition, shows that on average fruit juice has a fructose concentration of about 45.5 grams per liter, only a bit less than the average of 50 grams per liter for sodas. The sneakiest — and sweetest — juice is Minute Maid 100 percent apple, with nearly 66 grams of fructose per liter. That's more than the 62.5 grams per liter in Coca-Cola and the 61 grams per liter in Dr. Pepper.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_19450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/06/Screen-Shot-2014-06-09-at-11.28.59-AM.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-19450\" title=\"\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2014/06/Screen-Shot-2014-06-09-at-11.28.59-AM-640x664.png\" alt=\"Source: Nutrition journal (Graphic Credit: Alyson Hurt/NPR)\" width=\"640\" height=\"664\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Nutrition journal\u003cbr>(Graphic Credit: Alyson Hurt/NPR)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Michael Goran, the director of the Childhood Obesity Research Center at the University of Southern California, led the study. He says he decided to measure the fructose, specifically, in juices and sodas because of a growing body of evidence suggesting fructose is a riskier substance than glucose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The human body isn't designed to process this form of sugar at such high levels,\" Goran said in \u003ca href=\"http://news.usc.edu/63696/soda-consumers-may-be-drinking-more-harmful-sugar-than-labels-reveal/\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a>. \"Unlike glucose, which serves as fuel for the body, fructose is processed almost entirely in the liver where it is converted to fat, which increases risk for diabetes, cardiovascular disease and liver disease.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goran's assertion is not universally accepted. Other health researchers, like Fred Brouns at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, say sugar is basically sugar. He has argued that we should spend less time fixating on fructose and its role in the emerging chronic disease epidemics, and more time looking at sugar and energy over-consumption overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goran says that while high fructose corn syrup in soda and food has become a focal point for researchers and public health advocates in recent years, there's been less attention on the link between fruit juice and obesity and diabetes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But it's hard to imagine why any there's reason why juices wouldn't be as harmful as sodas if they're delivering the same amount of sugar,\" he tells us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest problems, Goran notes, is that nutrition labels only tells us the total grams of sugar — so it's hard to know how much fructose is in any product. 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With just 3,000 people, it's the big city on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like other Native American groups, the Hupa suffer from high rates of obesity and diabetes. That's where Meagan Baldy comes in. She runs the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/hfpc.ag\">Hoopa Community Garden\u003c/a> and sought to educate her fellow Hupa people about eating local, traditional foods. But trying to change people's habits is never easy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She started by offering a \"farm box\" – a box of free produce, whatever is in season. But people failed even to pick up their boxes. Baldy discovered that people didn’t know how to prepare most produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Serving the vegetables to her own family was a battle at first, so it must have been for others as well, Baldy reasoned. So, she snuck in greens and tried cooking them in creative ways.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she posted a picture of kale and eggs to Facebook, people asked her how she made it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From there, the brainstorm: Baldy launched her own YouTube channel -- \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/user/Meagen18/videos\">Cooking Healthy in Indian Country\u003c/a> -- to show people how to cook easy, nutritious meals for their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003ca class=\"embedly-card\" href=\"http://youtu.be/sLHcwUybmJU\">Cooking Healthy in Indian Country\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003cbr>\nPeople who might have been suspicious of kale and beets can learn how to make a stir-fry of local Trinity River salmon, trumpet mushrooms and a side of kale or beet pancakes, complete with a strawberry and honey sauce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I developed the show, it was mainly to say that our local vegetables are not hard to use,” Baldy said. “I like to take comfort food and add these vegetables.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On YouTube and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cooking-Healthy-in-Indian-Country/1421557641431515\">Facebook\u003c/a>, she’s taught viewers how to make creamy kale and artichoke dip, black bean salsa, chard tacos and kabocha muffins. She also featured a venison stir-fry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldy cooks with traditional Hupa foods – deer, salmon, berries and mushrooms – to encourage the American Indian community to integrate them back into their diets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really emphasize native and traditional foods because why do we have high diabetes and high heart disease rates?” she said. “As native people, we sustained on a traditional diet for thousands of years. Acorns are high in fiber, which we now lack. Berries and roots are high in antioxidants, iron – stuff we desperately need that we aren’t getting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humboldt County as a whole has some of the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/04/26/humboldt-county-%E2%80%93-amid-stunning-beauty-sad-health-profile/\">worst health outcomes\u003c/a> of any of California's 58 counties. For Native Americans, the statistics are even worse. According to \u003ca href=\"http://co.humboldt.ca.us/hhs/phb/documents/community_health_assessment_2013.pdf\">Humboldt County’s 2013 Community Health Assessment\u003c/a>, the diabetes death rate for Native Americans is nearly triple that of whites in Humboldt County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The diabetes prevalence rate in Hoopa is at 9.9 percent, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kimaw.com/DepartmentPages/DeptDiabetes.htm\">K'ima:w Diabetes Program\u003c/a>in Hoopa. The program’s coordinator, Dr. Terry Raymer, said that number only accounts for the known cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high prevalence is due to a combination of loss of traditional culture and loss of traditional foods,” Dr. Raymer said. “There’s certainly some pretty good evidence that the chronic long-term effects of historical trauma has some impact on the prevalence of diabetes. It’s really quite complicated. It’s not just that people don’t exercise.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldy’s show addresses the many causative factors and the complexity of diabetes in Hupa. In the videos, she explains the nutritional value of foods, naming their different vitamins and benefits. A collaboration of local health organizations help support the cooking show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baldy also emphasizes supporting the community. She often gives shout-outs to local farmers and artisans, showing off their handmade aprons and hats. One local elementary school teacher plays “Cooking Healthy in Indian Country” in her class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely think nutrition needs to be more of an issue here,” said Amy Davis, who teaches sixth grade at Hoopa Valley Elementary, adding that Baldy helps shed light on issue in an interesting way to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first the audience was local, but through social media shares and buzz in the American Indian community, Baldy has viewers nationwide. \u003ca href=\"http://www.unitedindianhealthservices.org/\">United Indian Health Services\u003c/a> promoted her, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.goodhealthtv.com/news?start=42\">Good Health TV\u003c/a>, a national American Indian and Alaska Native education network that promotes health literacy through programming, is about to pick up her shows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it's the comments on videos and compliments on the street that make her day, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s on the menu next? 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