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"content": "\u003cp>An annual screening test for colon cancer that can be done at home showed strong effectiveness over several years, and patients who were sent the kits in the mail were very likely to participate year after year, \u003ca href=\"http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2484289\" target=\"_blank\">a large study\u003c/a> from Kaiser in both Northern and Southern California found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colorectal cancer is the third-leading cause of death from cancer in the United States, with about 50,000 deaths and 130,000 new cases annually. Current screening guidelines recommend either colonoscopy, where a flexible tube is threaded into the colon, or a stool sample test, which can be done at home and mailed to a lab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home test, fecal immunochemical test or \"FIT,\" is recommended to be done annually but no study had looked at its performance over many years. 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(It's common for the first round of a screening program to detect more cancers.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This study provides additional support,\" said Corley, \"that FIT can be an important tool for getting people screened that is both sensitive for picking up cancer and that people can comply with.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine and funded by a program of the National Cancer Institute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>National advocacy groups generally recommend that a person at average risk begin colorectal cancer screening at age 50. While colonoscopy is commonly referred to as a gold standard, it is not infallible. Both the colonoscopy and FIT have benefits and drawbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colonoscopy is an invasive test done once every 10 years for screening purposes. Many people find it unpleasant. The day before the procedure, the patient must cleanse the bowel by drinking a gallon or more of special solution. On the flip side, cancer can be prevented through colonoscopy, because non-cancerous polyps can be identified and removed. It is thought that many colon cancers begin as these polyps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because FIT is a non-invasive test, patients who choose this option forgo removal of non-cancerous polyps. Colon cancer is generally very slow-growing. While a single colonoscopy is more sensitive than a single FIT test, if a cancer is missed in the first year of FIT screening, it is likely to be picked up the next year. In addition, some colon cancers are very rapid-growing. It's possible that someone with a clean colonoscopy may develop a rapid-growing cancer in the 10 years before the next screening test. 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Each has strength and limitations, but the stool testing should not be regarded as a second-class test as opposed to colonoscopy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser's overall colon cancer screening rate is above 80 percent, Corley said, well above the national average of about 60 percent. \"That's because we offer a variety of different tests so that people can complete the ones that are acceptable and work for them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the rest of the country reached an 80 percent screening rate for colorectal cancer, 200,000 deaths and 280,000 new colorectal cancer cases would be avoided by 2030, \u003ca href=\"http://Public%20Health%20Impact%20of%20Achieving%2080%%20Colorectal%20Cancer%20Screening%20Rates%20in%20the%20United%20States%20by%202018\" target=\"_blank\">a previous study found. \u003c/a>A national effort is underway to\u003ca href=\"http://nccrt.org/tools/80-percent-by-2018/\" target=\"_blank\"> increase screening rates\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The takeaway is, if you are 50 years of age and older, you need to be screened for colon cancer,\" Smith said. \"If you are put off by colonoscopy, then (FIT) might be the right test for you.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lower-back pain is very democratic in the people it strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a universal experience. You'd be a really uncommon person never to have had an episode of back pain,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/people/academics/profiles/christopher.maher.php\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Maher\u003c/a>, a physical therapist turned health researcher at the University of Sydney in Australia. \"It's a common problem across the whole of the globe,\" he says, whether it's North America, sub-Saharan Africa or rural India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bouts of low-back pain can last between days and years, and \u003ca href=\"http://www.bprclinrheum.com/article/S1521-6942(10)00088-4/abstract\" target=\"_blank\">frequently\u003c/a> hit again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All sorts of gizmos and treatments exist to alleviate the pain, from ergonomic chairs to special shoe inserts and Velcro back belts. According to Maher's research, those don't seem to do squat to prevent it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher and his colleagues in Australia and Brazil wanted to know if there were approaches that would reduce people's risk of getting an episode of acute \u003ca href=\"http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/backpain/detail_backpain.htm\" target=\"_blank\">low-back pain\u003c/a>. So they rounded up 21 studies done around the world, involving over 30,000 participants in total, on how to treat and prevent lower-back pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found no apparent benefit from back belts and shoe insoles. But, in the year following an episode of low-back pain, people who exercised reduced the risk of a repeat between 25 and 40 percent. It didn't really matter what kind of exercise — core strengthening, aerobic exercise, or flexibility and stretching. The \u003ca href=\"http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7431\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> was published Monday in \u003cem>JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/em>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there were a pill out there that could reduce your risk of future episodes of back pain by 30 percent, I'd probably be seeing ads on television every night,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.med.unc.edu/im/patients/outpatient-faculty-profiles/general-medicine-internal-medicine-clinic/timothy-s-carey-md-mph\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Tim Carey\u003c/a>, an internist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who \u003ca href=\"http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7636\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a> an accompanying commentary in the journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, he says, health care providers \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339066/\" target=\"_blank\">don't prescribe\u003c/a> exercise nearly enough, given its effectiveness. Carey says fewer than half of patients participate in an exercise program, even if they have long-term back pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In researching what docs do and don't prescribe, Carey found that passive treatments were much more common, like ultrasound or traction treatments, back belts and orthotic insoles. \"Prescribing ineffective treatments for patients may actually distract them and give them a false sense of security away from treatments that are actually beneficial,\" Carey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between what's most effective and what's most prescribed highlights a bigger problem: The health industry is centered on sellable products, and exercise isn't one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are we not prescribing an inexpensive, effective treatment? Some of it is, I think, we don't think of exercise as being a treatment the way a tablet or a procedure or a physical therapy treatment might,\" says Carey. \"We're a fairly pill-oriented society. Pills are easy to take, and as a doctor, pills are easy to prescribe,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher agrees. \"We've got this perverse incentive in our health care system where we encourage people to innovate in terms of drugs, but we don't have the same system to get people to innovate in terms of physical activity,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carey thinks the industry focus is one of the issues that hold back rational medical care — by failing to fund large-scale trials on cheap interventions like physical activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the studies Maher reviewed involved relatively small numbers of subjects, which continues to prevent conclusive research on the effect of exercise and what kind in particular is needed, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a problem, because physical activity can be incredibly cheap to provide to patients, whereas a lot of these drugs that are being developed are incredibly expensive,\" says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is massive costs — and likely a lot of avoidable back pain. By some estimates, in some years the country \u003ca href=\"http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=181453\" target=\"_blank\">has spent\u003c/a> about $80 billion on spine problems including lower back pain, money lost on treatments, imaging, surgery, pain medicines and the cost of missed work days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you start packaging it all up, the costs around the world are horrendous in terms of how much low-back pain costs, and that's why prevention is so important,\" says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What everyone can agree on is this: Above all, avoid rest. \"What we do understand about the back it that the more you use it, the more likely you are to keep it strong, fit and healthy,\" says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education about lower-back pain also helps, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and another thing that helps prevent back pain — \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136137\" target=\"_blank\">ditching\u003c/a> cigarettes. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They found no apparent benefit from back belts and shoe insoles. But, in the year following an episode of low-back pain, people who exercised reduced the risk of a repeat between 25 and 40 percent. It didn't really matter what kind of exercise — core strengthening, aerobic exercise, or flexibility and stretching. The \u003ca href=\"http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7431\" target=\"_blank\">review\u003c/a> was published Monday in \u003cem>JAMA Internal Medicine\u003c/em>\u003cem>. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If there were a pill out there that could reduce your risk of future episodes of back pain by 30 percent, I'd probably be seeing ads on television every night,\" says \u003ca href=\"https://www.med.unc.edu/im/patients/outpatient-faculty-profiles/general-medicine-internal-medicine-clinic/timothy-s-carey-md-mph\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Tim Carey\u003c/a>, an internist at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill who \u003ca href=\"http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jamainternmed.2015.7636\" target=\"_blank\">wrote\u003c/a> an accompanying commentary in the journal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And yet, he says, health care providers \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339066/\" target=\"_blank\">don't prescribe\u003c/a> exercise nearly enough, given its effectiveness. Carey says fewer than half of patients participate in an exercise program, even if they have long-term back pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In researching what docs do and don't prescribe, Carey found that passive treatments were much more common, like ultrasound or traction treatments, back belts and orthotic insoles. \"Prescribing ineffective treatments for patients may actually distract them and give them a false sense of security away from treatments that are actually beneficial,\" Carey says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discrepancy between what's most effective and what's most prescribed highlights a bigger problem: The health industry is centered on sellable products, and exercise isn't one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Why are we not prescribing an inexpensive, effective treatment? Some of it is, I think, we don't think of exercise as being a treatment the way a tablet or a procedure or a physical therapy treatment might,\" says Carey. \"We're a fairly pill-oriented society. Pills are easy to take, and as a doctor, pills are easy to prescribe,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maher agrees. \"We've got this perverse incentive in our health care system where we encourage people to innovate in terms of drugs, but we don't have the same system to get people to innovate in terms of physical activity,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carey thinks the industry focus is one of the issues that hold back rational medical care — by failing to fund large-scale trials on cheap interventions like physical activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the studies Maher reviewed involved relatively small numbers of subjects, which continues to prevent conclusive research on the effect of exercise and what kind in particular is needed, he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That's a problem, because physical activity can be incredibly cheap to provide to patients, whereas a lot of these drugs that are being developed are incredibly expensive,\" says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is massive costs — and likely a lot of avoidable back pain. By some estimates, in some years the country \u003ca href=\"http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=181453\" target=\"_blank\">has spent\u003c/a> about $80 billion on spine problems including lower back pain, money lost on treatments, imaging, surgery, pain medicines and the cost of missed work days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you start packaging it all up, the costs around the world are horrendous in terms of how much low-back pain costs, and that's why prevention is so important,\" says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What everyone can agree on is this: Above all, avoid rest. \"What we do understand about the back it that the more you use it, the more likely you are to keep it strong, fit and healthy,\" says Maher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Education about lower-back pain also helps, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, and another thing that helps prevent back pain — \u003ca href=\"http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0136137\" target=\"_blank\">ditching\u003c/a> cigarettes. Just as smoking tends to dry out the skin, it also dries out the jelly-like discs that act as the spine's shock absorbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Forget+The+Gizmos%3A+Exercise+Works+Best+For+Lower-Back+Pain&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>With January comes lots of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/05/462036387/best-diets-2016-from-fastest-weight-loss-to-conquering-cravings\" target=\"_blank\">diet advice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And today comes the official advice from the U.S. government: The Obama administration has released its much-anticipated update to the Dietary Guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines, which are revised every five years, are based on evolving nutrition science and serve as the government's official advice on what to eat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One concrete change: Americans are being told to limit sugar to no more than 10 percent of daily calories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we've reported, lots of Americans consume up to \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/02/03/271130613/sweet-tooth-gone-bad-why-22-teaspoons-of-sugar-per-day-is-deadly\" target=\"_blank\">22 teaspoons a day\u003c/a>. To meet the new 10 percent target, they'd need to cut their sugar intake by nearly half — to no more than 12 teaspoons a day on a 2,000-calorie daily diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135768\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/dietary-guidelines-3_enl-3b6d77ab9d1748e166f4a2d3ac684fd4f299ee2e-400x608.jpg\" alt=\"These two muffins each contain 35 grams (about 8 teaspoons) of sugar. Add in a cup of sweetened blueberry Greek yogurt (18 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, of sugar) and you've got 22 teaspoons of sugar – the amount many Americans eat per day. Under the new Dietary Guidelines, we should eat no more than 10 percent of daily calories from sugar. 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Add in a cup of sweetened blueberry Greek yogurt (18 grams, or about 4 teaspoons, of sugar) and you've got 22 teaspoons of sugar – the amount many Americans eat per day. Under the new Dietary Guidelines, we should eat no more than 10 percent of daily calories from sugar. On a 2,000-calorie daily diet, that's about 12 teaspoons. \u003ccite>(Morgan McCloy/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over the past five years, a growing body of evidence has linked high levels of sugar consumption to an increased risk of Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, even among Americans who are not overweight or obese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the dietary advice included in the new guidelines will sound very familiar and remains unchanged from 2010. For instance, there's a focus on consuming more fruits and vegetables, more fiber and whole grains, and less salt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top administration officials within the U.S. departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services, who were tasked with writing the guidelines, decided not to include some of the recommendations made by a Dietary Guidelines advisory panel that reviewed the latest nutrition science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance, the advisory committee had recommended including \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/12/15/370427441/congress-to-nutritionists-dont-talk-about-the-environment\" target=\"_blank\">sustainability\u003c/a> as a factor in making food choices. But administration officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/06/446369955/new-dietary-guidelines-will-not-include-sustainability-goal\" target=\"_blank\">nixed that idea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee had also advised telling Americans to cut back on red and processed meats. But that recommendation sparked a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/24/393859592/why-theres-a-big-battle-brewing-over-the-lean-meat-in-your-diet\">vigorous challenge\u003c/a> from the meat industry, and the final dietary guidelines do not include any specific advice to cut back on these sources of protein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendation \"was certainly controversial,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=jtb4\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brenna\u003c/a>, a nutrition professor at Cornell University and member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The red and processed meat recommendation, I think, has morphed a bit into a different kind of message,\" Brenna tells us. \"A little bit like turning a coin over, in a sense, where if you eat less red meat, one is eating more of other protein foods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the guidelines emphasize a \"shift towards other protein foods\" — including more nuts and seeds and about 8 ounces of seafood per week, based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-07 at 8.31.26 AM\" width=\"820\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png 820w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-400x367.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-800x735.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-768x705.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\">The suggestion to limit meat intake comes in more subtle form. For instance, the guidelines point out that many teen boys and adult men consume more than the recommended 26 ounces a week of protein from animal sources, so they should \"reduce overall intake of protein foods by decreasing intakes of meat, poultry, and eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also an overall recommendation — unchanged from 2010 — to reduce saturated fat intake to less than 10 percent of daily diet, a shift that could, in practice, require limiting intake of red meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The message to eat more seafood, legumes and other protein foods really does mean substitute those for red meat,\" Brenna says. \"So I think the message is more or less there, it's just not as clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message to cut the red meat should have been stated more directly, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/nutrans/popkin\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Popkin\u003c/a>, a nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. \"I am disappointed that the USDA once again is cutting out recommendations to truly limit red meat intake,\" he tells us in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major change to the government's nutrition advice: dietary cholesterol. The new guidelines drop a long-standing recommendation to limit cholesterol from foods to 300 milligrams a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/faculty/lichtenstein-alice\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Lichtenstein\u003c/a>, vice chairwoman of the the expert panel that advised the government on the guidelines, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/19/387517506/nutrition-panel-egg-with-coffee-is-a-ok-but-skip-the-side-of-bacon\" target=\"_blank\">told us\u003c/a> last February, there isn't strong evidence that limiting cholesterol-rich foods lowers the amount of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol that ends up in the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines also call on Americans to cut sodium to no more than 2,300 milligrams per day. 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But administration officials \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/06/446369955/new-dietary-guidelines-will-not-include-sustainability-goal\" target=\"_blank\">nixed that idea\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The committee had also advised telling Americans to cut back on red and processed meats. But that recommendation sparked a \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/03/24/393859592/why-theres-a-big-battle-brewing-over-the-lean-meat-in-your-diet\">vigorous challenge\u003c/a> from the meat industry, and the final dietary guidelines do not include any specific advice to cut back on these sources of protein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recommendation \"was certainly controversial,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=jtb4\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Brenna\u003c/a>, a nutrition professor at Cornell University and member of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The red and processed meat recommendation, I think, has morphed a bit into a different kind of message,\" Brenna tells us. \"A little bit like turning a coin over, in a sense, where if you eat less red meat, one is eating more of other protein foods.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the guidelines emphasize a \"shift towards other protein foods\" — including more nuts and seeds and about 8 ounces of seafood per week, based on a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-135771\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-07 at 8.31.26 AM\" width=\"820\" height=\"753\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM.png 820w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-400x367.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-800x735.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-07-at-8.31.26-AM-768x705.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\">The suggestion to limit meat intake comes in more subtle form. For instance, the guidelines point out that many teen boys and adult men consume more than the recommended 26 ounces a week of protein from animal sources, so they should \"reduce overall intake of protein foods by decreasing intakes of meat, poultry, and eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's also an overall recommendation — unchanged from 2010 — to reduce saturated fat intake to less than 10 percent of daily diet, a shift that could, in practice, require limiting intake of red meat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The message to eat more seafood, legumes and other protein foods really does mean substitute those for red meat,\" Brenna says. \"So I think the message is more or less there, it's just not as clear.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That message to cut the red meat should have been stated more directly, says \u003ca href=\"http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/nutrans/popkin\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Popkin\u003c/a>, a nutrition researcher at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. \"I am disappointed that the USDA once again is cutting out recommendations to truly limit red meat intake,\" he tells us in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major change to the government's nutrition advice: dietary cholesterol. The new guidelines drop a long-standing recommendation to limit cholesterol from foods to 300 milligrams a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"http://www.nutrition.tufts.edu/faculty/lichtenstein-alice\" target=\"_blank\">Alice Lichtenstein\u003c/a>, vice chairwoman of the the expert panel that advised the government on the guidelines, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/02/19/387517506/nutrition-panel-egg-with-coffee-is-a-ok-but-skip-the-side-of-bacon\" target=\"_blank\">told us\u003c/a> last February, there isn't strong evidence that limiting cholesterol-rich foods lowers the amount of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol that ends up in the blood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The guidelines also call on Americans to cut sodium to no more than 2,300 milligrams per day. 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"content": "\u003cp>It's not just football players or troops who fought in the wars who suffer from brain injuries. Researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in the U.S. get potentially serious brain injuries every year, too. Yet they and even their doctors often don't know it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One such doctor is \u003ca href=\"http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/results/directory/profile/10000041/Bryan-Arling\" target=\"_blank\">Bryan Arling\u003c/a>, an internist in Washington, D.C. His peers often vote to put him on those lists of \"top doctors,\" published by glossy magazines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So it's ironic that the brain injury he failed to diagnose was his own. And he could have died from it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, Arling went looking for some files in his walk-up attic. It was jammed with boxes of Christmas tree ornaments, old clothes and other odds and ends that define decades of family life. After an hour of searching, he found the files in a box, grabbed the folders and stood up. He then felt a shooting pain in the center of his back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a pain I've had before,\" says Arling, who has battled back problems for years. \"But it was more intense than I've ever had it before.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He took painkillers and went back to work. Weeks went by, and his back was still hurting him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Then I began noticing that I was shuffling. I was so weak I couldn't carry my plate out to the back deck. I would just drop things. And everybody commented on how I seemed different,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And gradually, Arling says, his thinking seemed different, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I could make sense of things, I could get things done, I could make decisions,\" he says. \"But I was slower at what I did.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arling thought he was having trouble focusing because his back pain was so intense. So a neurosurgeon, who had treated Arling's back problems before, ordered an MRI of Arling's spine — and also his brain. When the MRI technician saw Arling's pictures taking shape on his screen, he called the radiologist and said, \"You need to see this right away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images showed a big, white, lake-like shape where Arling's brain should have been, inside the top right side of his skull. It was a pool of blood that was pushing down on the brain, causing it to shift from right to left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They sent Arling straight from the MRI to the emergency room at Georgetown University Medical Center. He says as they started prepping him for open brain surgery, the medical staff kept asking about his fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I said, 'I haven't fallen,' \" Arling says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, just as they were wheeling him into the operating room, Arling remembered: The day he stood up in the attic and threw out his back, he had forgotten he was under the eaves, and had knocked the top of his head against a wood beam. But he didn't even get a cut, so he forgot about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everybody knows you can get hurt if you fall off a ladder, or slip and bash your head on the ice. But Arling got a kind of brain injury that's usually more insidious — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000713.htm\" target=\"_blank\">subdural hematoma\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subdural hematoma is different from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129726135\" target=\"_blank\">typical blast injuries\u003c/a> that affected hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In those cases, shock waves rattled their brains and caused microscopic damage that's hard or impossible to detect. It's also different from the usual football concussions, in which blows to the head damage the brain's electrical wiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main population at risk for a subdural hematoma is the elderly. To understand why, it helps to picture an aging brain. The brain is wrapped and protected by a membrane called the dura mater. Inside the dura, there's a network of veins that connect it to the surface of the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-135431 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-06-at-3.19.26-PM-400x324.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-06 at 3.19.26 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-06-at-3.19.26-PM-400x324.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-06-at-3.19.26-PM.png 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">Studies suggest that as you get older, your brain shrinks and pulls away from the dura, especially after you're 60 or 70 years old. But the veins keep holding on to both the dura and the brain. So as your brain pulls away, some of those veins become more exposed and more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say if you simply bump your head on the eaves of your attic, as Arling did, or if you simply start to fall and then catch yourself — so your head doesn't strike anything, but it jerks in the air — that can be enough force to jostle your shrinking brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And those veins stretch, and you'll get tearing in those veins,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.pmr.vcu.edu/Department/Directory/faculty/dcifu/dcifu.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. David Cifu\u003c/a>, who runs a joint research project studying brain injuries for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because blood from veins tends to ooze, instead of pump as it does from arteries, Cifu says, \"when the veins tear, we get a very low-pressure ribbon of blood that's layering on top of the surface of the brain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that blood starts to pool over days or weeks, it irritates the brain cells. And if the pool's big enough, it presses on the brain and damages it, much like a tumor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers studied the problem a few years ago at a sample of 20 percent of the nation's hospitals. As they \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/documents/2016/jan/rates-of-traumatic-subdural-hematoma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported in the Journal of Neurosurgery\u003c/a>, those hospitals alone diagnosed almost 44,000 subdural hematomas in one year. So the researchers estimate there could be more than 200,000 subdural hematoma injuries diagnosed annually at all the hospitals across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say an unknown additional number of subdural hematomas are misdiagnosed, or simply missed: Half the patients studied have trouble remembering they hit their heads at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Arling. And like Tom Feild, a retired computer systems analyst who used to work for the VA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-135405\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/tbi-at-home1-2bfc90dd1b879b954a1f0aa6ac297c5c1a7d10da-e1452122149567.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Feild looks at a brain scan with his doctor at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. Feild had brain surgery after experiencing a low-grade headache that wouldn't go away and difficulty driving.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Feild looks at a brain scan with his doctor at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. Feild had brain surgery after experiencing a low-grade headache that wouldn't go away and difficulty driving. \u003ccite>(Matailong Du for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feild says his own medical mystery began with headaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a constant headache — it was a low-grade headache. But it wouldn't go away,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he was driving his wife on an errand, and he kept drifting across the yellow line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'Tom, you're going on their side of the road.' He said, 'I know ... I can't seem to help it,' \" Jody Feild says.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Feild made an appointment with his local doctor. And the next thing he knew, a helicopter was rushing him to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond. Neurosurgeon Bill Broaddus drilled three holes into Feild's skull and vacuumed out roughly 8 ounces of blood that had pooled since he developed a subdural hematoma.\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broaddus says before the surgery, he asked Feild what type of accident had injured his head. It took awhile before Feild could remember. He had put a sprinkler away under his porch two months earlier and bumped his head against the floorboards when he stood up before backing out all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We may see 50 to 100 [similar subdural hematomas] here at this institution every year,\" says Broaddus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brain specialists say it's important to view these injuries in perspective: Most people who get a subdural hematoma will never know it. The brain will reabsorb the blood, the victim's symptoms will disappear, and life will go on as normal. But for tens of thousands of others, it's serious. Doctors say they often see families who think loved ones are getting dementia, and it turns out they hit their heads and have a bleed. Some victims die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Cifu say you don't need to consult a doctor the second you get a headache. But they say it's sensible, and responsible, to follow some simple guidelines: Consult a physician as soon as possible if the headaches don't go away, or if you begin to have trouble with your balance or feel weakness in your legs or arms. Also, if the way you think starts to seem \"different,\" Cifu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internist Arling says even if it turns out that you do have a bleed, he's living proof that these brain injuries can be cured if you catch them in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's so easy to come away from a story like mine, and to feel fragile, and so to worry unnecessarily,\" Arling says. \"The body is phenomenally well-designed, and it has a phenomenal ability to heal itself.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+A+Simple+Bump+Can+Cause+An+Insidious+Brain+Injury&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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When the MRI technician saw Arling's pictures taking shape on his screen, he called the radiologist and said, \"You need to see this right away.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The images showed a big, white, lake-like shape where Arling's brain should have been, inside the top right side of his skull. It was a pool of blood that was pushing down on the brain, causing it to shift from right to left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They sent Arling straight from the MRI to the emergency room at Georgetown University Medical Center. He says as they started prepping him for open brain surgery, the medical staff kept asking about his fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And I said, 'I haven't fallen,' \" Arling says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, just as they were wheeling him into the operating room, Arling remembered: The day he stood up in the attic and threw out his back, he had forgotten he was under the eaves, and had knocked the top of his head against a wood beam. But he didn't even get a cut, so he forgot about it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everybody knows you can get hurt if you fall off a ladder, or slip and bash your head on the ice. But Arling got a kind of brain injury that's usually more insidious — a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000713.htm\" target=\"_blank\">subdural hematoma\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A subdural hematoma is different from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129726135\" target=\"_blank\">typical blast injuries\u003c/a> that affected hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. In those cases, shock waves rattled their brains and caused microscopic damage that's hard or impossible to detect. It's also different from the usual football concussions, in which blows to the head damage the brain's electrical wiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The main population at risk for a subdural hematoma is the elderly. To understand why, it helps to picture an aging brain. The brain is wrapped and protected by a membrane called the dura mater. Inside the dura, there's a network of veins that connect it to the surface of the brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-135431 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-06-at-3.19.26-PM-400x324.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-01-06 at 3.19.26 PM\" width=\"400\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-06-at-3.19.26-PM-400x324.png 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/Screen-Shot-2016-01-06-at-3.19.26-PM.png 423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">Studies suggest that as you get older, your brain shrinks and pulls away from the dura, especially after you're 60 or 70 years old. But the veins keep holding on to both the dura and the brain. So as your brain pulls away, some of those veins become more exposed and more vulnerable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say if you simply bump your head on the eaves of your attic, as Arling did, or if you simply start to fall and then catch yourself — so your head doesn't strike anything, but it jerks in the air — that can be enough force to jostle your shrinking brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"And those veins stretch, and you'll get tearing in those veins,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.pmr.vcu.edu/Department/Directory/faculty/dcifu/dcifu.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. David Cifu\u003c/a>, who runs a joint research project studying brain injuries for the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And because blood from veins tends to ooze, instead of pump as it does from arteries, Cifu says, \"when the veins tear, we get a very low-pressure ribbon of blood that's layering on top of the surface of the brain.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As that blood starts to pool over days or weeks, it irritates the brain cells. And if the pool's big enough, it presses on the brain and damages it, much like a tumor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers studied the problem a few years ago at a sample of 20 percent of the nation's hospitals. As they \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/documents/2016/jan/rates-of-traumatic-subdural-hematoma.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">reported in the Journal of Neurosurgery\u003c/a>, those hospitals alone diagnosed almost 44,000 subdural hematomas in one year. So the researchers estimate there could be more than 200,000 subdural hematoma injuries diagnosed annually at all the hospitals across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They say an unknown additional number of subdural hematomas are misdiagnosed, or simply missed: Half the patients studied have trouble remembering they hit their heads at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Arling. And like Tom Feild, a retired computer systems analyst who used to work for the VA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135405\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-135405\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2016/01/tbi-at-home1-2bfc90dd1b879b954a1f0aa6ac297c5c1a7d10da-e1452122149567.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Feild looks at a brain scan with his doctor at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. Feild had brain surgery after experiencing a low-grade headache that wouldn't go away and difficulty driving.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Feild looks at a brain scan with his doctor at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond, Va. Feild had brain surgery after experiencing a low-grade headache that wouldn't go away and difficulty driving. \u003ccite>(Matailong Du for NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Feild says his own medical mystery began with headaches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a constant headache — it was a low-grade headache. But it wouldn't go away,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then he was driving his wife on an errand, and he kept drifting across the yellow line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I said, 'Tom, you're going on their side of the road.' He said, 'I know ... I can't seem to help it,' \" Jody Feild says.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tom Feild made an appointment with his local doctor. And the next thing he knew, a helicopter was rushing him to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center in Richmond. Neurosurgeon Bill Broaddus drilled three holes into Feild's skull and vacuumed out roughly 8 ounces of blood that had pooled since he developed a subdural hematoma.\u003cstrong>\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Broaddus says before the surgery, he asked Feild what type of accident had injured his head. It took awhile before Feild could remember. He had put a sprinkler away under his porch two months earlier and bumped his head against the floorboards when he stood up before backing out all the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We may see 50 to 100 [similar subdural hematomas] here at this institution every year,\" says Broaddus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brain specialists say it's important to view these injuries in perspective: Most people who get a subdural hematoma will never know it. The brain will reabsorb the blood, the victim's symptoms will disappear, and life will go on as normal. But for tens of thousands of others, it's serious. Doctors say they often see families who think loved ones are getting dementia, and it turns out they hit their heads and have a bleed. Some victims die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers like Cifu say you don't need to consult a doctor the second you get a headache. But they say it's sensible, and responsible, to follow some simple guidelines: Consult a physician as soon as possible if the headaches don't go away, or if you begin to have trouble with your balance or feel weakness in your legs or arms. Also, if the way you think starts to seem \"different,\" Cifu says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Internist Arling says even if it turns out that you do have a bleed, he's living proof that these brain injuries can be cured if you catch them in time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tampon or pad? That's all you get when you stroll through the feminine care aisle of any big supermarket chain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But times are a changin'.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year has been epic for menstruation, with news and social media catapulting the once hush-hush topic into the open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's the woman who ran the London marathon without using feminine hygiene products, and the #PeriodsAreNotAnInsult hashtag that erupted after presidential candidate Donald Trump referred to GOP debate moderator Megyn Kelly as having had \"blood coming out of her wherever.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers say all the hullabaloo may help give women better and eventually more eco-friendly options in menstrual care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For people like me who have been studying menstruation for decades, we've never enjoyed this kind of attention before,\" says Chris Bobel, associate professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.menstruationresearch.org/about-the-society/\" target=\"_blank\">Society for Menstrual Cycle Research\u003c/a>. \"I wrote a book on menstrual activism five years ago that got no attention. But now it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it? Even though \u003cem>Cosmopolitan\u003c/em> magazine says it's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/news/a47609/2015-the-year-the-period-went-public/\" target=\"_blank\">the year the period went public\u003c/a>,\" we were skeptical. But social media's been awash with the p-word, and when we checked the number of times the word \"menstruation\" was mentioned in five national news outlets, it more than tripled from 2010 to 2015, from 47 to 167.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134429\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/kiran-gandhi-1_enl-51041d81eb10a65274612b3f5b57e8b1d2103cb4-400x509.jpg\" alt=\"Kiran Gandhi didn't use feminine hygiene products while running the London Marathon, and finished the race with a stain on her leggings -- part of her efforts to fight the stigma surrounding menstruation\" width=\"400\" height=\"509\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiran Gandhi didn't use feminine hygiene products while running the London Marathon, and finished the race with a stain on her leggings -- part of her efforts to fight the stigma surrounding menstruation \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kiran Gandhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big moment came in April, when \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/absurdist/going-with-the-flow-blood-sisterhood-at-the-london-marathon-f719b98713e7\" target=\"_blank\">Kiran Gandhi\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based musician and feminist, ran the London Marathon while on her period, without using any hygiene products. She wanted to let her blood flow freely to encourage women not to feel embarrassed about their periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that we've been able to talk about periods openly is the biggest step in the revolution,\" says Gandhi, who finished the race with a blot of blood on the crotch of her neon orange leggings. \"So many people are weighing in about the problems they currently face with their periods. It makes people empowered to speak about their own bodies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23periodsarenotaninsult\" target=\"_blank\">#PeriodsAreNotAnInsult\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a huge watershed moment for me,\" says Bobel of the online reaction to Trump's comment after the GOP candidates' debate in August. \"Women were refusing to take the bait that menstruation is a put-down or a silencer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, when we looked on Twitter the other day, we found that women are still toying with Trump with statements like: \"It's normal and natural. Let's change the conversation. Let's break the taboo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe in an odd way this controversial candidate will help improve the options we women have for absorbing our periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In America we have a new iPhone every year, but in the past two centuries there have only been three innovations in menstrual care. It's baffling,\" says Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about the disposable sanitary pad, which was first marketed in 1888; the tampon, which became commercially available in the 1930s; and the menstrual cup, which has been around for decades but didn't become popular until softer versions were developed in the 1980s. (The adhesive pad was introduced in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of American women use pads, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502470/\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while one-third use tampons. Those proportions include women who use both. And while most women use conventional products, entrepreneurs are busy creating new options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The interest in alternatives is greater than ever before,\" says Cynthia Pearson, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nwhn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Women's Health Network\u003c/a>. \"The number of questions we get about it — it seems like there's a new surge in interest. More folks are questioning whether to use tampons or push for getting more info about what's in them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, has been trying to find that out for almost 20 years. In April, she reintroduced legislation — \u003ca href=\"http://fox4kc.com/2015/11/13/congresswoman-wants-more-info-about-tampons-contents-saying-women-will-use-approx-13000-in-their-lifetime/\">for the ninth time\u003c/a> since 1997 — that would require manufacturers to label the fabrics, colorants, dyes and preservatives used in pads and tampons. Some women have expressed concern that trace amounts of the toxic chemical \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/dioxin/learn-about-dioxin\">dioxin\u003c/a> could be in tampons as a byproduct of rayon processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the manufacture of menstrual products, says changes in manufacturing processes intended to reduce dioxin pollution in the environment have made the materials in the products essentially free of dioxin. \"FDA's risk assessment indicates that this exposure is many times less than normally present in the body from other environmental sources, so small that any risk of adverse health effects is considered negligible,\" according to the agency's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there's the question of the cost and environmental impact of using disposables. Women bought $3 billion of disposable sanitary products in 2014, according to the market analysis firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.euromonitor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Euromonitor\u003c/a>, a cost per woman of about $33 a year. Reusable products could cut into both purchase and disposal costs, and there are growing numbers on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, CVS started carrying the $40 \u003ca href=\"http://divacup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DivaCup\u003c/a>, a reusable menstrual cup made of health care-grade silicone. Sales in dollars and units have been growing in double-digit rates, says Daniela Masaro, brand marketing manager of Diva International, the product's manufacturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also \u003ca href=\"http://www.shethinx.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Thinx\u003c/a>, underpants that use patented technology that the company says absorbs up to two tampons' worth of liquid while keeping women's clothes dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-134430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/period-products-1g_enl-0a2b8a63aa919d9b889eaf4ca465229dedf8dc9c-e1451938528585.jpg\" alt=\"New products include a reusable pad made of fleece, a pair of THINX underwear and a DivaCup with carrying case.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1409\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New products include a reusable pad made of fleece, a pair of THINX underwear and a DivaCup with carrying case. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the startup launched in May with funding from a Kickstarter campaign, Thinx has sold 200,000 pairs of thongs, boy shorts and panties, which sell for about $30 a pop on its website. Most of its customers are women ages 24 to 34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women are also making their own reusable, washable pads, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.cla.purdue.edu/facultystaff/profiles/new/newfaculty-13/Vostral,_Sharra.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sharra Vostral\u003c/a>, an associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of \u003cem>Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a quick search on Etsy, the online marketplace for homemade goods, yields nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/search?q=reusable%20menstrual%20pads\" target=\"_blank\">4,500 results\u003c/a> for an array of menstrual pads made out of fabrics like flannel and hemp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supermarket pads and tampons aren't going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new reusable products haven't solved all the hangups that come with being on your period. Women who have a heavier flow may need to use a backup tampon or pantyliner while wearing Thinx underwear, the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And women who use a menstrual cup may have to clean the device in the sink of a public bathroom, making it an awkward choice for work or school. The cup might also dislodge an IUD, the manufacturer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional menstrual care brands are trying to innovate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Procter and Gamble, the dominant force in the market with its Always and Tampax brands, pays close attention to the features its consumers want, says Laura Dressman, a company spokeswoman. In 2008, the company \u003ca href=\"http://news.pg.com/press-release/pg-corporate-announcements/procter-gambles-always-brand-delivers-innovation-feminine-c\" target=\"_blank\">introduced\u003c/a> the Always Infinity pad, a superthin foam pad that absorbs 10 times its weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in October, P&G and Kimberly-Clark — which together control the biggest segment of the $3 billion feminine care industry in the U.S. — decided to \u003ca href=\"http://news.pg.com/press-release/pg-corporate-announcements/procter-gambles-always-brand-delivers-innovation-feminine-c\" target=\"_blank\">list ingredients\u003c/a> for their pads and tampons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a big win for activists including Gandhi, who had traveled to P&G's headquarters in Cincinnati to take part in protests demanding disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for her, the fight won't be over until society conquers the stigma of menstruation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What I've learned over the past few months is that taboo removes the vocabulary for people to talk about their own bodies,\" she says. \"If you can't talk about the problem, how can you talk about the solution?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"For people like me who have been studying menstruation for decades, we've never enjoyed this kind of attention before,\" says Chris Bobel, associate professor of women's and gender studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and president of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.menstruationresearch.org/about-the-society/\" target=\"_blank\">Society for Menstrual Cycle Research\u003c/a>. \"I wrote a book on menstrual activism five years ago that got no attention. But now it is.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Is it? Even though \u003cem>Cosmopolitan\u003c/em> magazine says it's \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.cosmopolitan.com/health-fitness/news/a47609/2015-the-year-the-period-went-public/\" target=\"_blank\">the year the period went public\u003c/a>,\" we were skeptical. But social media's been awash with the p-word, and when we checked the number of times the word \"menstruation\" was mentioned in five national news outlets, it more than tripled from 2010 to 2015, from 47 to 167.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134429\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-134429\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/kiran-gandhi-1_enl-51041d81eb10a65274612b3f5b57e8b1d2103cb4-400x509.jpg\" alt=\"Kiran Gandhi didn't use feminine hygiene products while running the London Marathon, and finished the race with a stain on her leggings -- part of her efforts to fight the stigma surrounding menstruation\" width=\"400\" height=\"509\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kiran Gandhi didn't use feminine hygiene products while running the London Marathon, and finished the race with a stain on her leggings -- part of her efforts to fight the stigma surrounding menstruation \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Kiran Gandhi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One big moment came in April, when \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/absurdist/going-with-the-flow-blood-sisterhood-at-the-london-marathon-f719b98713e7\" target=\"_blank\">Kiran Gandhi\u003c/a>, a Los Angeles-based musician and feminist, ran the London Marathon while on her period, without using any hygiene products. She wanted to let her blood flow freely to encourage women not to feel embarrassed about their periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The fact that we've been able to talk about periods openly is the biggest step in the revolution,\" says Gandhi, who finished the race with a blot of blood on the crotch of her neon orange leggings. \"So many people are weighing in about the problems they currently face with their periods. It makes people empowered to speak about their own bodies.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came the hashtag \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23periodsarenotaninsult\" target=\"_blank\">#PeriodsAreNotAnInsult\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a huge watershed moment for me,\" says Bobel of the online reaction to Trump's comment after the GOP candidates' debate in August. \"Women were refusing to take the bait that menstruation is a put-down or a silencer.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, when we looked on Twitter the other day, we found that women are still toying with Trump with statements like: \"It's normal and natural. Let's change the conversation. Let's break the taboo.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So maybe in an odd way this controversial candidate will help improve the options we women have for absorbing our periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In America we have a new iPhone every year, but in the past two centuries there have only been three innovations in menstrual care. It's baffling,\" says Gandhi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She's talking about the disposable sanitary pad, which was first marketed in 1888; the tampon, which became commercially available in the 1930s; and the menstrual cup, which has been around for decades but didn't become popular until softer versions were developed in the 1980s. (The adhesive pad was introduced in the 1970s.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About two-thirds of American women use pads, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502470/\" target=\"_blank\">data\u003c/a> from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while one-third use tampons. Those proportions include women who use both. And while most women use conventional products, entrepreneurs are busy creating new options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The interest in alternatives is greater than ever before,\" says Cynthia Pearson, executive director of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nwhn.org/\" target=\"_blank\">National Women's Health Network\u003c/a>. \"The number of questions we get about it — it seems like there's a new surge in interest. More folks are questioning whether to use tampons or push for getting more info about what's in them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, has been trying to find that out for almost 20 years. In April, she reintroduced legislation — \u003ca href=\"http://fox4kc.com/2015/11/13/congresswoman-wants-more-info-about-tampons-contents-saying-women-will-use-approx-13000-in-their-lifetime/\">for the ninth time\u003c/a> since 1997 — that would require manufacturers to label the fabrics, colorants, dyes and preservatives used in pads and tampons. Some women have expressed concern that trace amounts of the toxic chemical \u003ca href=\"http://www.epa.gov/dioxin/learn-about-dioxin\">dioxin\u003c/a> could be in tampons as a byproduct of rayon processing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the manufacture of menstrual products, says changes in manufacturing processes intended to reduce dioxin pollution in the environment have made the materials in the products essentially free of dioxin. \"FDA's risk assessment indicates that this exposure is many times less than normally present in the body from other environmental sources, so small that any risk of adverse health effects is considered negligible,\" according to the agency's \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/\" target=\"_blank\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there's the question of the cost and environmental impact of using disposables. Women bought $3 billion of disposable sanitary products in 2014, according to the market analysis firm \u003ca href=\"http://www.euromonitor.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Euromonitor\u003c/a>, a cost per woman of about $33 a year. Reusable products could cut into both purchase and disposal costs, and there are growing numbers on the market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June, CVS started carrying the $40 \u003ca href=\"http://divacup.com/\" target=\"_blank\">DivaCup\u003c/a>, a reusable menstrual cup made of health care-grade silicone. Sales in dollars and units have been growing in double-digit rates, says Daniela Masaro, brand marketing manager of Diva International, the product's manufacturer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are also \u003ca href=\"http://www.shethinx.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Thinx\u003c/a>, underpants that use patented technology that the company says absorbs up to two tampons' worth of liquid while keeping women's clothes dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_134430\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-134430\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2015/12/period-products-1g_enl-0a2b8a63aa919d9b889eaf4ca465229dedf8dc9c-e1451938528585.jpg\" alt=\"New products include a reusable pad made of fleece, a pair of THINX underwear and a DivaCup with carrying case.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1409\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">New products include a reusable pad made of fleece, a pair of THINX underwear and a DivaCup with carrying case. \u003ccite>(Meredith Rizzo/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the startup launched in May with funding from a Kickstarter campaign, Thinx has sold 200,000 pairs of thongs, boy shorts and panties, which sell for about $30 a pop on its website. Most of its customers are women ages 24 to 34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women are also making their own reusable, washable pads, says \u003ca href=\"https://www.cla.purdue.edu/facultystaff/profiles/new/newfaculty-13/Vostral,_Sharra.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sharra Vostral\u003c/a>, an associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of \u003cem>Under Wraps: A History of Menstrual Hygiene Technology.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Indeed, a quick search on Etsy, the online marketplace for homemade goods, yields nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.etsy.com/search?q=reusable%20menstrual%20pads\" target=\"_blank\">4,500 results\u003c/a> for an array of menstrual pads made out of fabrics like flannel and hemp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But supermarket pads and tampons aren't going away anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new reusable products haven't solved all the hangups that come with being on your period. Women who have a heavier flow may need to use a backup tampon or pantyliner while wearing Thinx underwear, the company says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And women who use a menstrual cup may have to clean the device in the sink of a public bathroom, making it an awkward choice for work or school. The cup might also dislodge an IUD, the manufacturer says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Traditional menstrual care brands are trying to innovate, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Procter and Gamble, the dominant force in the market with its Always and Tampax brands, pays close attention to the features its consumers want, says Laura Dressman, a company spokeswoman. In 2008, the company \u003ca href=\"http://news.pg.com/press-release/pg-corporate-announcements/procter-gambles-always-brand-delivers-innovation-feminine-c\" target=\"_blank\">introduced\u003c/a> the Always Infinity pad, a superthin foam pad that absorbs 10 times its weight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in October, P&G and Kimberly-Clark — which together control the biggest segment of the $3 billion feminine care industry in the U.S. — decided to \u003ca href=\"http://news.pg.com/press-release/pg-corporate-announcements/procter-gambles-always-brand-delivers-innovation-feminine-c\" target=\"_blank\">list ingredients\u003c/a> for their pads and tampons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was a big win for activists including Gandhi, who had traveled to P&G's headquarters in Cincinnati to take part in protests demanding disclosure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for her, the fight won't be over until society conquers the stigma of menstruation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And when parents participate, too, it tends to help kids have more active, healthy lifestyles, doctors say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If kids are using these devices with their families, they are a great tool,” says Dr. Zoey Goore, president of the Northern California chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a pediatrician in Roseville. “Even if the children are not competitive about fitness, it just encourages them to be more engaged in activities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Boosting Activity, Protecting Privacy\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html\" target=\"_blank\">17 percent of American children from age 2 to 19 are obese\u003c/a>, a rate that has remained fairly steady over the last decade. 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I didn’t walk or try to get out as much before.'\u003ccite>Zachary Berston, 12\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Products like \u003ca href=\"http://www.fitbit.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Fitbit\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.leapfrog.com/en-us/products/leapband\" target=\"_blank\">LeapFrog LeapBands\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://geopalz.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Geopalz\u003c/a> are among dozens of gadgets that keep track of physical activity, create a social network of friends with whom to compete on physical challenges or allow parents to program goals and games for their kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With kids, anything that is a game ends up being more interesting,” Goore says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Using apps and wearable tech could help cajole kids to go on longer hikes, or try new types of physical activities. As an added bonus, she says, these devices often get the whole family to exercise more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It points out to parents and children how sedentary they are,” Goore says. “It brings awareness and helps create family fitness goals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fitness trackers sync up with programs online that help kids track their steps, exercise, miles—even hours of sleep. Some allow kids to create a social network of friends to encourage or “taunt” them about their progress. Taunting may inspire some kids, while others may be hurt by that kind of interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goore cautioned parents to be aware of the online element of some wearable fitness trackers to make sure the children’s needs are respected and privacy is protected. Fitbit, for example, doesn’t allow kids under 13 to create online accounts. But older kids can register and link up to friends who also have accounts that display their number of steps, and allow them to compete in challenges with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kids Helping Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global children’s aid group \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicefusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">UNICEF\u003c/a> launched a new product last month in time for the holidays. It’s calling the \u003ca href=\"http://unicefkidpower.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kid Power Band\u003c/a> “the first wearable for good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"YdRnQogIkrWQHx7o6OO9Q0UhxIvF4QoU\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids use the Power Bands along with an app that sends them on “missions” where they learn about new cultures and earn points by completing physical activity challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The points “unlock” funding for UNICEF to use to deliver packets of therapeutic food to malnourished children around the world. Funding for the food packets comes from the sale of the bands, corporate sponsors and donations from friends, parents and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One in four American kids are inactive, and one in four kids worldwide suffers from malnutrition,” says Rajesh Anandan, the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and UNICEF Ventures. “So we decided to put the problem in the hands of the children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But can these really make a difference in children’s fitness? Some kids will try using a fitness tracker and lose interest quickly, say parents and doctors, while others will make using the device a part of daily life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Didn’t Walk as Much Before’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 12-year-old Zachary Berston started wearing his Fitbit fitness tracker, he says he’s more conscious of being physically active every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berston is a seventh-grader at Kent Middle School in Kentfield, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. He gets emails sent to his phone from the Fitbit app nudging him to reach his daily goal of 10,000 steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80086\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-80086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender.jpg\" alt=\"Zachary Berston, 12, says his FitBit encourages him to get out more.\" width=\"588\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender.jpg 588w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender-400x335.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachary Berston, 12, took a walk around town the day he got his Fitbit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gail Berston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really motivates me and keeps reminding me I have to complete my goal,” he says. “It helps me out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Berston did when he got the Fitbit as a birthday present from his parents, he says, was walk to the grocery store for something to drink, and walk around town to get steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It got me to do a lot more things than I would have if I had not had it,” he says. “I didn’t walk or try to get out as much before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zachary’s father, Dr. Emanuel Berston, says the fitness trackers could even help provide doctors with useful data on patients who are trying to lose weight and get in shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are absolutely beneficial and it’s helpful to have data for patients, especially teenagers, to be accountable,” says the pediatrician, who practices at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Daly City. “We live in such a digital age, and teenagers like information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devices have encouraged some patients to jump-start weight-loss efforts, he says, and work well combined with a nutrition program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something on their wrists that is very encouraging,” he says. “They get to see you don’t have to go to the gym. 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Taunting may inspire some kids, while others may be hurt by that kind of interaction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goore cautioned parents to be aware of the online element of some wearable fitness trackers to make sure the children’s needs are respected and privacy is protected. Fitbit, for example, doesn’t allow kids under 13 to create online accounts. But older kids can register and link up to friends who also have accounts that display their number of steps, and allow them to compete in challenges with each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Kids Helping Kids\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The global children’s aid group \u003ca href=\"http://www.unicefusa.org\" target=\"_blank\">UNICEF\u003c/a> launched a new product last month in time for the holidays. It’s calling the \u003ca href=\"http://unicefkidpower.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Kid Power Band\u003c/a> “the first wearable for good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The kids use the Power Bands along with an app that sends them on “missions” where they learn about new cultures and earn points by completing physical activity challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The points “unlock” funding for UNICEF to use to deliver packets of therapeutic food to malnourished children around the world. Funding for the food packets comes from the sale of the bands, corporate sponsors and donations from friends, parents and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One in four American kids are inactive, and one in four kids worldwide suffers from malnutrition,” says Rajesh Anandan, the Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and UNICEF Ventures. “So we decided to put the problem in the hands of the children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But can these really make a difference in children’s fitness? Some kids will try using a fitness tracker and lose interest quickly, say parents and doctors, while others will make using the device a part of daily life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I Didn’t Walk as Much Before’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 12-year-old Zachary Berston started wearing his Fitbit fitness tracker, he says he’s more conscious of being physically active every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berston is a seventh-grader at Kent Middle School in Kentfield, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. He gets emails sent to his phone from the Fitbit app nudging him to reach his daily goal of 10,000 steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80086\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 588px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-80086\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-80086\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender.jpg\" alt=\"Zachary Berston, 12, says his FitBit encourages him to get out more.\" width=\"588\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender.jpg 588w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/13/2015/12/FullSizeRender-400x335.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zachary Berston, 12, took a walk around town the day he got his Fitbit. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Gail Berston)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It really motivates me and keeps reminding me I have to complete my goal,” he says. “It helps me out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first thing Berston did when he got the Fitbit as a birthday present from his parents, he says, was walk to the grocery store for something to drink, and walk around town to get steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It got me to do a lot more things than I would have if I had not had it,” he says. “I didn’t walk or try to get out as much before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zachary’s father, Dr. Emanuel Berston, says the fitness trackers could even help provide doctors with useful data on patients who are trying to lose weight and get in shape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are absolutely beneficial and it’s helpful to have data for patients, especially teenagers, to be accountable,” says the pediatrician, who practices at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Daly City. “We live in such a digital age, and teenagers like information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The devices have encouraged some patients to jump-start weight-loss efforts, he says, and work well combined with a nutrition program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something on their wrists that is very encouraging,” he says. “They get to see you don’t have to go to the gym. It just takes walking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Berston’s patients, a 16-year-old girl who weighed 248 pounds, recently lost 11 pounds with the help of a fitness tracker, he says. The teen was so motivated to reach her goal of 10,000 steps a day that once when she was short at around 10:30 p.m., he says she paced the hallway to make sure she reached it by midnight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berston says he doubts the devices create too much pressure for kids to meet their goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can always take it off,” he says. “It’s not glued to your wrist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>If you go by their declarations and promises, meat producers are drastically cutting back on the use of antibiotics to treat their poultry, pigs and cattle. Over the past year, one big food company after another has announced plans to stop using these drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if you go by the government's data on drugs sold to livestock producers, it's a different story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Food and Drug Administration, which compiles \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/downloads/ForIndustry/UserFees/AnimalDrugUserFeeActADUFA/UCM476258.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">these numbers\u003c/a>, sales of antibiotics for use on the farm increased in 2014, just as they had for most years before that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And most alarming to public health advocates, sales of antibiotics important in human medicine went up three percent from 2013 to 2014, the FDA found. That's just slightly less than the five-year trend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to treating sick animals, meat producers use antibiotics to prevent disease and also to get animals to grow faster. The FDA has taken steps to stop the use of these drugs for growth promotion purposes by the end of 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FDA, and a lot of scientists and health advocates, are concerned that the livestock industry's excessive use of antibiotics will raise the risk that bacteria will become resistant to these drugs, and bacteria carrying those resistance genes could then infect people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing pressure from consumers around this issue has prompted several Big Food companies to pledge to reduce their reliance on antibiotics or announce reductions they've already made. Among them are the giant agribusinesses \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/04/28/402736017/tyson-foods-to-stop-giving-chickens-human-used-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">Tyson Foods\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/03/345315380/perdue-says-its-hatching-chicks-are-off-antibiotics\" target=\"_blank\">Perdue Farms\u003c/a> and Foster Farms and restaurant chains like McDonalds, Chick-fil-A and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/20/450314991/subway-joins-the-fast-food-antibiotic-free-meat-club\" target=\"_blank\">Subway\u003c/a>. Many of those companies made commitments in 2015, so reductions in antibiotic use by their suppliers may not be reflected in the latest FDA data from 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2015/10/10/california-now-has-strictest-limits-in-u-s-on-livestock-antibiotics/\" target=\"_blank\">passed the toughest law in the nation\u003c/a> on the use of antibiotics healthy livestock. The law,\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB27\" target=\"_blank\"> SB 27\u003c/a> which takes effect in 2018, bars the routine use of antibiotics to promote growth or prevent illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As in previous years, a class of older antibiotics called tetracyclines dominated the statistics on antibiotic use. Tetracyclines accounted for 70 percent of all \"medically important\" antibiotics used in animal agriculture. Tetracyclines are no longer considered first-line drugs in human medicine. But sales of other classes of antibiotics, including widely used human drugs such as cephalosporins and macrolides, also increased.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public health groups that have demanded the industry to curb antibiotic use say the latest data confirms that more regulation is still needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no indication that FDA's change in policy has yet resulted in any meaningful reductions on antibiotic sales and usage in food animal production,\" Susan Vaughn Grooters, a policy analyst for \u003ca href=\"http://www.keepantibioticsworking.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Keep Antibiotics Working\u003c/a>, a coalition of advocacy groups, said in a \u003ca href=\"http://static1.squarespace.com/static/5519650ce4b01b71131cb5f9/t/566a54cdc21b86abf16e79e0/1449809101600/KAW+ADUFA+Statement_12.10.15.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">statement\u003c/a>. \"As the coalition has been saying for years, FDA must set clear targets for the reduction in antibiotic use. Otherwise, industry will continue to conduct business as usual, while the crisis of resistance continues to loom large and consumers pay the price.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2015 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Antibiotic+Use+On+Farms+Is+Up%2C+Despite+Promises+To+Kick+The+Drugs&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\" alt=\"\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many media began to report \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2015/12/06/458699540/jimmy-carter-announces-that-his-cancer-is-gone\" target=\"_blank\">on Sunday\u003c/a> that former president Jimmy Carter had informed his church in Plains, Georgia, that his cancer is now gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately, I felt joy and dismay in equal parts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The joy is easy to explain. Carter is undergoing radiation and immune-based drug treatment for metastatic melanoma at Emory University's Winship Cancer Institute. He announced back in August that in addition to a tumor in his liver, malignancies had been detected in his brain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news that Carter's most recent MRI scan shows that he has no detectable cancer is splendid. As the Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2015/12/06/jimmy-carter-told-his-sunday-school-class-that-he-has-no-signs-of-cancer/\" target=\"_blank\">reports\u003c/a>, pembrolizumab or Keytruda, the expensive drug Carter is receiving, does in some melanoma patients lead to sustained positive responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why, then, the dismay? It's that celebratory responses built around Carter's cancer being \"gone\" are in real danger of swamping an accurate understanding of cancer biology and of what many patients experience as they cope with cancer or cancer recovery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter himself does not use the word \"gone\" in the short video filmed in his church that accompanies the Post article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My primary point here is the idea that Carter's cancer is \"gone\" is out there now, even in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35022128\" target=\"_blank\">international headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on my reading and my personal experience, I can't imagine that any oncologist would suggest that cancer of a patient under active treatment is gone or has disappeared. I did reach out to Emory directly but they were not able to comment. In Sunday's Atlanta Journal Constitution \u003ca href=\"http://www.ajc.com/news/news/carter-cancer-is-gone/npdFQ/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement of the news\u003c/a>, a physician clarified the situation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>'It doesn't mean that there is no cancer in his body; it means that there is no indication that they can find cancer for the present,' said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society, who stressed he was speaking about cancer in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the scans of Carter's brain and liver show no signs of the disease, cancerous cells could still be in his bloodstream, said Lichtenfeld. Still, he said, the news is encouraging for Carter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the same piece, Carter's grandson James Carter is quoted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>'There's no cancer in his body at this point,' said James Carter. 'He's not going to stop doing the treatment, but at this point, there's no cancer. It's incredible news.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'See?' he added. 'I knew he wasn't really human.'\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>James Carter gets the cancer language almost right — \"there's no \u003cem>detectable \u003c/em>cancer in his body at this point\" would have been better — but then goes on to imply that Carter fought off the melanoma because he's superhuman. As understandable as this testimonial is, offered from a loving grandson, it's exactly the kind of language that's harmful to cancer patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those of us who become cancer survivors don't live on because we fought bravely; those of us who die from cancer don't perish because we didn't fight bravely enough. Lisa Bonchek Adams, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/breast_cancer_blogger_lisa_adams_didnt_lose_a_battle/\" target=\"_blank\">died in March\u003c/a> from metastatic breast cancer, \u003ca href=\"http://lisabadams.com/2012/07/13/when-i-die/\" target=\"_blank\">expressed\u003c/a> this beautifully in her poem \"When I Die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to cancer patients depends on a complex choreography among the type and stage of our cancers, our general state of health, and the resources available to and affordable by us for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2013, I was diagnosed with an aggressive gynecological cancer called papillary serous carcinoma that accounts for only 5 percent of all \u003ca href=\"http://www2.mdanderson.org/depts/oncolog/articles/10/4-5-aprmay/4-5-10-compass.html\" target=\"_blank\">endometrial cancers\u003c/a>. For the next eight months, I tumbled from one unexpected experience to the next: a radical hysterectomy orchestrated by a brilliant surgeon-robot team; minor surgery to implant a port in my chest to make delivery of chemotherapy drugs easier; three rounds of chemo both before and after 28 sessions of radiation (three of which were delivered internally).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Discovered at Stage 1, that cancer has shown no sign of recurrence nearly two years after my treatment's finish. I'm still scanned, imaged and invasively examined at regular intervals, to be sure that the chemo and radiation blasted away every last malignant cell. So far, so good. Despite some apparently permanent debilitating side effects, ranging from chemo-induced neuropathy in both feet to a form of radiation enteritis and altered blood cell counts, I'm incredibly lucky. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Carter himself does not use the word \"gone\" in the short video filmed in his church that accompanies the Post article.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My primary point here is the idea that Carter's cancer is \"gone\" is out there now, even in \u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35022128\" target=\"_blank\">international headlines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on my reading and my personal experience, I can't imagine that any oncologist would suggest that cancer of a patient under active treatment is gone or has disappeared. I did reach out to Emory directly but they were not able to comment. In Sunday's Atlanta Journal Constitution \u003ca href=\"http://www.ajc.com/news/news/carter-cancer-is-gone/npdFQ/\" target=\"_blank\">announcement of the news\u003c/a>, a physician clarified the situation:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>'It doesn't mean that there is no cancer in his body; it means that there is no indication that they can find cancer for the present,' said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, deputy chief medical officer for the Atlanta-based American Cancer Society, who stressed he was speaking about cancer in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the scans of Carter's brain and liver show no signs of the disease, cancerous cells could still be in his bloodstream, said Lichtenfeld. Still, he said, the news is encouraging for Carter.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>In the same piece, Carter's grandson James Carter is quoted:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>'There's no cancer in his body at this point,' said James Carter. 'He's not going to stop doing the treatment, but at this point, there's no cancer. It's incredible news.'\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>'See?' he added. 'I knew he wasn't really human.'\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>James Carter gets the cancer language almost right — \"there's no \u003cem>detectable \u003c/em>cancer in his body at this point\" would have been better — but then goes on to imply that Carter fought off the melanoma because he's superhuman. As understandable as this testimonial is, offered from a loving grandson, it's exactly the kind of language that's harmful to cancer patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those of us who become cancer survivors don't live on because we fought bravely; those of us who die from cancer don't perish because we didn't fight bravely enough. Lisa Bonchek Adams, who \u003ca href=\"http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/breast_cancer_blogger_lisa_adams_didnt_lose_a_battle/\" target=\"_blank\">died in March\u003c/a> from metastatic breast cancer, \u003ca href=\"http://lisabadams.com/2012/07/13/when-i-die/\" target=\"_blank\">expressed\u003c/a> this beautifully in her poem \"When I Die.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens to cancer patients depends on a complex choreography among the type and stage of our cancers, our general state of health, and the resources available to and affordable by us for treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May 2013, I was diagnosed with an aggressive gynecological cancer called papillary serous carcinoma that accounts for only 5 percent of all \u003ca href=\"http://www2.mdanderson.org/depts/oncolog/articles/10/4-5-aprmay/4-5-10-compass.html\" target=\"_blank\">endometrial cancers\u003c/a>. 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