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Chronic disease can affect cancer survival and the $10 Ritz Cracker fine
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for November 19, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: Chronic Diseases Hinder Good Cancer Survival Rates Parents Fined For Not Sending Ritz Crackers In Kids’ Lunches Reference: Chronic Diseases Hinder Good Cancer Survival Rates
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Online dietary screening tool provides flawed advice
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for April 4, 2013 [display_podcast] Source: Online tool helps seniors improve nutrition
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Investing in children's health has long-term societal benefits: study
Madely Health Headlines Commentary for June 9, 2011 [display_podcast] Source: How a child’s breakfast can improve health in old age Reference: Trajectories of health-related quality of life by socio-economic status in a nationally representative Canadian cohort
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Helping vegetarian teens thrive
Increasing numbers of adolescents, especially girls, are adopting vegetarian diets. Their reasons for choosing a vegetarian diet vary from animal welfare, health benefits and food safety to environmental and sociopolitical concerns. Surveys suggest that approximately 8% of adolescents in the United Kingdom and 6% of older elementary and high-school students in the midwestern United States…
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Great variety of drugs helps treatment of diabetics
Last week’s column outlined how type 2 diabetes develops and causes harm: the liver produces too much sugar, the muscle, liver and fat cells poorly absorb sugar because they are less responsive to insulin and the insulin producing beta-cells of the pancreas eventually burn out.
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Infant nutrition
Several nutrients essential to proper growth and development may require supplementing — for example, vitamin D and iron.