Sleep Disorder Multiplies Depression Risk

Sleep Disorders, Attention Problems Linked

This group, too, had a threefold higher risk of depression compared to people who had no trouble breathing at night. Health.com: 12 surprising causes of depression “We’re underdiagnosing this problem,” says Carl Boethel, M.D., a sleep specialist at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, in Temple, who was not involved in the study. “Physicians in the sleep community and in the psychiatric community need to do a better job of screening and getting effective treatment.” Coffee may lower risk of depression Sleep apnea and related problems occur when the airway becomes blocked during sleep, restricting breathing. The disorder can be caused by several factors, including oversized tonsils, the structure of a person’s airway, or excess fat surrounding the windpipe.
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Medical conditions such as cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes are associated with obstructive sleep apnea. Smoking is also linked to this sleeping disorder. The researchers studied 34 people with obstructive sleep apnea. Nearly half of the group (16 people) showed signs of possible or probable attention deficit disorder. All the participants were then given continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), the most widely used treatment for obstructive sleep apnea. CPAP uses a machine that delivers forced air through a mask over the nose (and sometimes also the mouth) to keep the airway open.
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‘reassuring’ Findings Released In National Study Of Influenza Vaccine Safety In Pregnancy

The other VAMPSS research team from UC San Diego followed 1,032 pregnant women across the U.S. and Canada who either chose to receive an influenza vaccine or were not vaccinated during one of the three seasons from 2009 – 2012. Women were recruited through MotherToBaby, a service of the non-profit Organization of Teratology Information Specialists (OTIS) that provides counseling to the public about pregnancy and breastfeeding exposures. Researchers found that women vaccinated during pregnancy were no more likely to experience miscarriage, have a baby born with a birth defect, or have a baby born smaller than normal compared with those who did not receive a vaccination. In addition, those who were vaccinated delivered infants three days earlier than unvaccinated women. “The overall results of the study were quite reassuring about the safety of the flu vaccine formulations that contained the pandemic H1N1 strain given in these three seasons,” said Christina Chambers, PhD, lead investigator of UC San Diego’s team.
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Pregnancy as a Rite of Passage

Findings showed that women with a BMI that was too high or too low were at increased risk for complications. “Longer-term benefits of reducing maternal obesity will show improvements, not only in the health outcomes of mothers and their babies, but the workload and cost to current maternity services,” said study co-author Dr. Fiona Denison of Queens’s Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh. In the study, pregnant women were divided into five groups based on BMI. Compared to normal-weight (a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9) women, those in other weight categories — both underweight and overweight — had more complications and longer hospitalizations after birth. Severely obese women (a BMI higher than 35) had a three-fold increased risk of hypertension and gestational diabetes compared to normal women, the findings showed.
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A healthy BMI during pregnancy leads to fewer complications: study

A woman who has a baby is never a single woman again, even if she loses her little one. The mentality of one who has gone through pregnancy and childbirth will always retain the transformative power of womanhood at its height. Many women today have started to recreate ceremonies which initiate women into the rite of motherhood called Blessingways or something similar. A Blessingway is an opportunity for other mothers and women to bless a new mom and help her make the mental and emotional shifts necessary to embrace motherhood anew. It is a releasing ceremony for the single woman who has existed, an opportunity for a woman to let go of her old ways, her old life and surrender to something completely new.
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The Great Gop Mental-health Hypocrisy

Mental health, guns are difficult issues

Tom Coburn, a physician who isnt hostile to tighter regulation in this case, acknowledged to The New York Times that its all politicswhich in this case means that no one has the stomach or stones to take another gun-related vote. Its a party of nihilism that has no desire to solve any social problem. They did, however, have the stomach and stones to cast votes over the past few years that have sliced away at funding for mental-health services. Decreased federal grants have forced states to make massive cuts to mental-health services.
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NRA chief Wayne La Pierre wants ‘broken’ mental health system fixed but rejects calls for more gun control legislation

Peel away the rhetoric and horror, and youre left with the reality that Aaron Alexis needed help and didnt get it. There, but for the grace of God, go too many of our invisible citizens. Would that legislators advocating fiscal responsibility at the expense of humane social policy read Mr. Krauthammers column with the same clear reasoning and sincere compassion he used to write it. Gordon Berg, Greenbelt The otherwise excellent editorial An urgent need [Sept.
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RELATED: NAVY YARD SHOOTER’S MOM ‘SO VERY SORRY’ AS LAWMAKERS DO NOTHING But he was never convicted of a felony and may never have been committed to a psychiatric facility, so he wasnt disqualified during his federal background check for the shotgun. On Sunday, LaPierre was quick to return to familiar talking points, assigning most of the blame for the massacre on there not being sufficient security at the Navy Yard. There werent enough good guys with guns, he said. “When the good guys with guns got there, it stopped.” RELATED: SAME COMPANY PERFORMED BACKGROUND CHECKS ALEXIS, SNOWDEN Victims of gun violence objected to LaPierres comments. More guns, that’s certainly not the answer, Sandy Phillips, whose daughter was killed in the July 2012 movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., said on Meet the Press. More guns and more people that may be triggered by violence, or the predisposition to it, just muddies the issue. The defiant LaPierre has repeatedly pitched more guns as a solution to an epidemic of firearm violence.
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Vitamins & Supplements: Are They Really Bad For Us?

ESSAY; When ‘Health’ Supplements May Do Harm

Two things must be mentioned with regard to these results. First, men should not begin cutting this vitamin out of their diets; there is a role for the vitamin at the proper dose. And second, as is often the case, more is not always better. Historically, although not all believed in the power of vitamins, among skeptics it was thought that these compounds were at the worse benign, now there are reports that beg to differ. Recently, another study came out which disputed the health benefits of vitamins. The study followed 20,000 post-menopausal women over 19 years and found that multivitamins, copper and iron were associated with an increased risk of death. Of the many vitamins and minerals examined, only calcium was found to provide any health benefit.
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I asked the clerk about proof that these pills worked and about risks when taking these various agents together. She assured me that they were ”all completely natural and very extensively tested.” After all, she went on, ”they are mostly vitamins.” In truth, only half of the bottles she recommended contained any vitamins at all. One of these was a combination of vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid to lower blood levels of homocysteine, an amino acid byproduct associated with increased cardiovascular risk when it is elevated. The remaining products were neither vitamins nor minerals — some were pulverized plant leaves or seeds. Others were from crushed bacteria.
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‘dancing’ Pro Announces Pregnancy

Gwen Stefani Conceals Baby Bump in Baggy Outfit as Pregnancy News Hits

She was missing from the big Dancing With the Stars announcement this morning. And now we know one reason why. Anna Trebunskaya, 32, is pregnant, reports Us Weekly. The dance floor favorite, who has never been a mirrorball trophy winner, says she was surprised by the news. “It wasn’t planned, but when it happened, I thought, ‘This is perfect I’m ready to be a mom,'” the Russian dancer says in the new issue of Us Weekly , on stands Friday. “This is something really good for me and fulfilling, and it’ll give me a whole new meaning in life.
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. . and another baby! Us Weekly confirmed on Wednesday Sept. 4 that Gwen Stefani is pregnant with her third child — and, hours before, the singer and designer, 43, stepped out in Los Angeles with a look that stylishly concealed up any pregnancy curves.
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Warning over pregnancy lead levels

Academics have followed the health and development of the women and their children in detail ever since. This study looked at 4,285 mother-child pairs in the Children of the 90s study and found that women with blood lead levels above 5 micrograms per decilitre were more likely to have attended university, and to smoke and consume alcohol and coffee. The researchers say the unexpected finding that higher educational levels were associated with higher lead levels supports recent evidence that it should not be assumed that more disadvantaged populations have higher exposure to environmental pollutants. Dr Caroline Taylor, the lead author, said: “Pregnant women should not be concerned by this new report.
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Sleep Disorder Multiplies Depression Risk

Early Childhood Sleep Problems, a Precursor to Eating Disorders?

Sleep apnea is closely associated with obesity, a fact the researchers took into account by controlling for body mass index in their analysis. The study, which appears in the April issue of the journal SLEEP, is the first of its kind to look at a representative cross-section of the U.S. population. The data was drawn from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), an annual survey conducted by the CDC. Health.com: 7 tips for the best sleep ever Six percent of men and 3% of women had received a sleep apnea diagnosis, the survey found, while 7% of men and 4% of women reported breathing problems on at least five nights per week. Depression was assessed using a standard questionnaire that asked how often during the past two weeks the participants had “little interest or pleasure in doing things” or felt “down, depressed or hopeless,” for instance.
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A recent research study done in Norway and published by the Journal of Eating Disorders sought to do just that. Researchers used results from a 15-year-long longitudinal community study to investigate risk factors from early childhood (before age 5) for adolescent eating problems. The study began with 921 mothers completing questionnaires regarding their 1 year old child. 784 mothers completed questionnaires at age 2 and 737 at age 4 . When the children were 16 years old, 373 mothers also completed a questionnaire about eating problems called the Eating Attitudes Test.
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Sleep disorders

You might have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. Perhaps you sleep too much, cannot stay awake, or you fall asleep at inappropriate times. Your sleep schedule could also be naturally out of synch with what is considered “normal” sleeping hours – or it might be “disordered” due to work or travel. Some kinds of sleep disorders, called parasomnias, are characterised by abnormal behaviours during sleep, like sleepwalking or talking in your sleep. And breathing problems during sleep fall into a category of sleep disorders called sleep apnea. Getting the right amount of quality sleep is vital to your health.
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High Blood Pressure Risk Rising Among U.s. Youths

U.S. dietary guidelines suggest people eat no more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium per day, while the AHA recommends an even lower threshold of 1,500 daily milligrams. The AHA estimates 97 percent of children and teens eat too much salt, putting them at risk for high blood pressure and eventual heart disease. For the study, researchers compared more than 3,200 kids between ages 8 and 17 who were part of a nutritional survey from 1988 and 1994 and compared them to more than 8,300 kids who were surveyed from 1999 to 2008. Researchers accounted for differences between the group that could affect the results, such as race, gender, body mass index and daily sodium intake.
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Experiments On Rats’ Neck Nerves Could Point To High Blood Pressure Solutions

And, a study from Florida State University researchers shows that an amino acid found — called L-citrulline/L-arginine — in watermelon could also have blood pressure-lowering effects. The researchers had nine people with prehypertension take 6 grams of the L-citrulline/L-arginine amino acid a day over a six-week period. They found that the study participants had lower blood pressure, as well as better functioning of their arteries. Flickr photo by Gudlyf. (Purple) Potatoes Spuds may get a bad rap in the foodsphere, but a small study presented last year at a meeting of the American Chemical Society showed that the purple-hued root vegetables have blood pressure-lowering powers that are nearly as effective as oatmeal, without packing on pounds.
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‘Hypervigilance’ about race linked to blood pressure

“Given the socially dominant status of whites in the United States, higher levels of race consciousness could reflect greater awareness of white privilege,” the authors note in the study. “Another explanation, particularly among whites who reside in areas with a high black population, is that race consciousness reflects a heightened fear of victimization, an anxiety-provoking stressor. Scholars of critical race theory are still debating whether race consciousness enhances or adversely affects the health of whites.” Cooper notes that it can be stressful for black people to go in a store and feel they are being watched more closely than others. Another example that is equally stressful, she says, is waiting a long time to be served at a restaurant and being ignored, possibly because of one’s race. More research is needed to understand the biological consequences of race consciousness, including those related to stress, she adds, with a goal of developing interventions to help people effectively cope with environmental stressors. “We need to help people of all races cope with race-related stress in a healthier way,” she says.
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Nutrition Tips

Danone Says China Recalls Hurt Baby-Nutrition Sales in Asia

Remind yourself about the food, drinks and timing that have been best for breakfast and on-the-bike nutrition. On event day, you shouldn’t have to worry about eating and drinking. With a well-practised nutrition strategy, it will come easily to you, and you can focus on enjoying the challenge, the company, and the views. As you roll into the finish line, remember to eat a recovery meal soon afterwards, and take in the great festival atmosphere in Whistler!
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Danone will conduct communication campaigns for its Dumex baby-nutrition brand to rebuild trust through both the mass media and the Internet, spokeswoman Agnes Berthet-dAnthonay said by phone today. The company is confident these action plans will show results, she said. Maintaining Forecast Maintaining its forecast for 5 percent organic sales growth in the third quarter may indicate a better-than-expected recovery in Danones dairy business, according to Jon Cox, head of European consumer equities at Kepler Cheuvreux in Zurich. I presume sales in the impacted region have fallen over 20 percent in August and there has been no improvement in the trend, Cox said.
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Dealing with child nutrition, malnutrition challenges

Most people like white loaves of bread and not brown ones. Some working mothers have no time to care for the nutritional needs of their children. They instead instruct their next-of-kin or house maids to feed children but such maids can have little or no technical knowledge of childrens nutritional needs. Others eat childrens food. And when respective working mothers come back home, they rarely analyse how the child is fed and rarely monitor the childs growth in relation to age, height and weight at regular intervals.
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‘healthy’ Vitamins To Avoid If You’re Ill

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However, high doses (our recommended intake is 13mg a day for women and 17 mg a day for men) could be problematic for diabetics. Diabetes is a long-term condition caused by too much sugar (glucose) in the blood. But too much vitamin B3 more than 100 mg a day can raise glucose levels even further by reducing glucose uptake into the cells. OSTEOPOROSIS: AVOID VITAMIN A and PHOSPHORUS Working closely together with calcium, phosphorus is extremely important to bone health and, although not routinely prescribed, people often self-medicate.
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