Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 The prevalence increased 30 percent between 1988 and 1994, with the greatest increase among teenagers, and quintupled among white teenagers and doubled among whites in their twenties. Some 25.6 percent of women and 17.8 percent of men test positive for the virus in their blood, and blacks have a higher prevalence (45.9 percent) than do whites (17.6 percent).4 Testing positive in the blood is different than having a genital herpes eruption history. |
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| STUDY: teenagers AND ALLERGIES
Another study found that teens took risks with their food allergies.
"Teenagers are at high risk of dying from food anaphylaxis, and we wanted to see why," says study senior author Dr. Scott Sicherer, an associate professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. "Is it because they think they are invincible or because they are forgetful?"
Researchers asked 174 participants, ages 13 to 21, to fill out questionnaires. |
| While we are glad to know the FDA finally ended its foot-dragging on this issue, Planned Parenthood is troubled by the scientifically baseless restriction imposed on teenagers," says Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. "The US has one of the highest rates of teen pregnancy in the Western world. Anything that makes it harder for teenagers to avoid unintended pregnancy is bad medicine and bad public policy."
Plan B opponents fear that requiring a doctor's prescription for women younger than 18 will do little to limit teen promiscuity. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| The prevalence increased 30 percent between 1988 and 1994, with the greatest increase among teenagers, and quintupled among white teenagers and doubled among whites in their twenties. Some 25.6 percent of women and 17.8 percent of men test positive for the virus in their blood, and blacks have a higher prevalence (45.9 percent) than do whites (17.6 percent).4 Testing positive in the blood is different than having a genital herpes eruption history. |
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| STUDY: teenagers AND ALLERGIES
Another study found that teens took risks with their food allergies.
"Teenagers are at high risk of dying from food anaphylaxis, and we wanted to see why," says study senior author Dr. Scott Sicherer, an associate professor of pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. "Is it because they think they are invincible or because they are forgetful?"
Researchers asked 174 participants, ages 13 to 21, to fill out questionnaires. |
Jack Challem
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 In a study of eight thousand teenagers at nine juvenile-correction facilities, sociologists arranged to have snack foods that were high in sugar and refined carbohydrates replaced with fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. The change was attributed to budget cuts, so the juveniles didn't realize they were part of an experiment. During the year in which the juveniles' diets were improved, violent and antisocial incidents decreased by almost half. Imagine the benefit to society if at-risk juveniles had enjoyed a nutritious diet all of their lives. |
David R. Montgomery
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 Most parents of teenagers know that involuntary labor rarely produces quality results. It is hardly surprising that even the best slaves genetally do not exhibit initiative, care, and skill. Instead, slaves generally want to maintain competence sufficient to avoid corporal punishment. They cannot be fired from their job and have no incentive to do it well. The very nature of servitude discourages creative expression or expertise at work.
Agriculture tailored to fit the needs of the land requires close attention to detail and flexibility in running a farm. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Still additional researchers writing in Pediatrics reported that they found dramatic evidence that the empty calories in soda and noncarbonated soft drinks promote weight gain in overweight teenagers.
Researchers Speculate That Too Much HFCS Leads to Diabetes
For years, fructose has been considered safe for diabetics because it doesn't trigger a rapid rise in blood sugar. Now, however, research reveals that over-consuming fructose and high-fructose corn syrup could actually be more harmful than sucrose for the very reason that it was originally considered safe. |
| If you're a parent, you might want to start carefully observing your soda-guzzling, candy-downing children and teenagers. As we well know, diabetes is striking our nation's young with frightening frequency. This also holds true for hypoglycemia.
Teens, in particular, who flock with their pals to the mall or fast-food eateries for donuts, candy bars, cookies, corn chips, French fries, and other much-like-sugar carbs, can develop low blood sugar, which could potentially hurt their social life, hinder their school performance, and, of course, harm their health over the long term. |
Jack Challem
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| Indeed, the high incidence of bipolar disorder in teenagers might reflect inadequate brain development resulting from a low intake of fish oil.
Psychological Tips
People with bipolar disorder will benefit from a stable home and work environment. Watchful family members and friends can help by recognizing down-shifting and up-shifting moods in a person with bipolar disorder, leading to better tailoring of medications. Calming activities, such as those described in chapter 7, may be helpful.
Helpful Supplements
Omega-3 fish oils. |
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| Anything that makes it harder for teenagers to avoid unintended pregnancy is bad medicine and bad public policy."
Plan B opponents fear that requiring a doctor's prescription for women younger than 18 will do little to limit teen promiscuity.
"If the FDA thinks that enacting an age restriction will work, or that the drug company will enforce it...then they are living in a dream world," says Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, which led the opposition to the contraceptive.
. - For more information on Plan B, visit the US Food and Drug Administration at www.fda. |
Jack Challem
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| For example, studies have shown powerful mood-enhancing benefits for teenagers, young adults, middle-aged adults, and seniors. Again, the benefits are comparable to the best medications—and without side effects.
Similarly, physical activity reduces anxiety levels. In one study of forty-three anxiety patients, researchers reported that regular aerobic exercise improved heart function, glucose metabolism, and mood. Another study found that even small amounts of routine daily physical activity—not exercise, per se—led to less anxiety and better moods. |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 Floaters usually first appear when we're teenagers and tend to increase in frequency as we get older. This is because the vitreous humor starts to pull away from the retina as we age. Small shreds of the gel then break off and float across our field of vision.
Floaters are usually just an annoying sign of aging. They can, however, sometimes signal a serious problem, especially if: you start seeing a lot more than usual, you see larger ones, you notice them when looking at dark as well as light backgrounds, or they cluster in one spot. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 The list of stressors typically cited by patients include the following: daily time-management issues, juggling work and family, being laid off or fired, experiencing major money worries, losing a parent, going through a divorce, and dealing with difficult infants, angry teenagers, or aging parents. Can you identify?
How does stress impact hormone levels? When the brain perceives some form of danger, it signals the adrenal glands to pump out more adrenaline, often referred to as the "fight-or-flight" hormone. The sudden surge in adrenaline levels signals fat cells to quickly release energy. |
Stacy Malkan
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 Cosmetics and personal care products are a lightning rod issue for teenagers, she realized. "It's one thing everybody does every day. We all wash our hair and brush our teeth and put on deodorant, and girls wear makeup. It's a metaphor for looking and thinking about every aspect of our lives."
The girls started to make changes right away. As Branson High School sophomore Jessica Assaf told me, "The first thing I did is that I went home and looked at my products and started looking at the ingredients.
I was using about 15 products a day. |
| The question was on the minds of teenagers, actors and corporate CEOs alike: would the Republican governor sign or veto one of the most heavily lobbied bills of the 2005 legislative session? The California Safe Cosmetics Act of
2005, sponsored by Senator Carol Migden (D-San Francisco), would require cosmetics manufacturers to disclose to the state if they were using chemicals linked to cancer or birth defects. Despite heavy lobbying by the cosmetics industry, the bill known as SB 484 had passed the legislature with bipartisan support in a 43-35 vote in August of 2005. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
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 It has been used as a tea to help teenagers overcome the shyness and self-consciousness that sometimes accompanies puberty, and it can also be used to help adults overcome sexual "performance anxiety."
As a flower essence, damiana diminishes feelings of inadequacy and restores feelings of sensuality and energy.
DANDELION
Botanical Name
Taraxacum officinale
Family
Asteraceae (Daisy Family) Etymology
Opinions differ on the origin of dandelion's genus name, Taraxacum. Some believe that it derives from the Persian talkh chakok, "bitter herb. |
Ray D. Strand
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 It has amazed me how many of these young teenagers already have full-blown insulin resistance.
The Second National Health and Nutritional Survey evaluated twelve thousand American adults and their eating habits. Here are some of their findings:
• Seventeen percent of the population did not eat any vegetables.
• Excluding potatoes and salads, 50 percent of the population did not eat any vegetables. In other words only half of the population ate garden vegetables.
• Only 41 percent consumed any fruit or fruit juices. |
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| IMPLICATIONS
Previous studies have shown that not enough sleep in older children, teenagers and adults may lead to physical and cognitive problems, including decreased physical performance, lower academic performance and other daytime problems. And several studies in adults have linked a lack of sleep to "neuroendocrine abnormalities" that may lead to overeating and obesity, according to the researchers. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Sweeping her hand in front of her, she describes a scene of 50,000 teenagers at Golden Gate Park, each paying $10 to see a Rock SAFE, concert sponsored by Radio Alice with Pink kicking off the concert. "We could totally expand our campaign!" Judi is nodding, "Sort of like a teen Woodstock," she agrees, and then holds up her hand. "OK, OK, this is good. For once I'm being the grounded one," she says. First, they have to get a couple of hundred kids and some press coverage at Rock SAFE so the radio station can see the benefit of sponsoring a larger event next year. |
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 It is a disease that causes flaking of the skin on the scalp in adults and teenagers, most commonly occuring in 30-60 year olds. It can also affect the skin on other parts of the body, making it look greasy and scaly. The cause isn't known. t It may be related to hormones, or a fungus present on the skin that grows excessively.
Shampoos: The treatment of dandruff depends on the age of the person affected. In adolescents and adults, it is usually treated with an over-the-counter shampoo that has salicylic acid such as X-Seb™ or Scalpicin™. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 There are teenagers with osteoporosis, and teenage children with obesity are now common. In fact, diabetes has gotten so bad in young people that they had to change the name. That used to be the name. Now they just have to call it diabesity, and that applies to children, teenagers and adults alike.
Returning to health would bankrupt the economy
We have created so much disease in this country, and we have based our economy on it to such a degree that, frankly, we cannot untangle this situation without causing economic distress. |
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| They are very common, occurring mostly in children and teenagers, and are often spread by close physical contact. The frequency of developing warts drops drastically on reaching adulthood.
Plantar warts (or verrucas, see p. 120) are generally found on the soles of the feet. Genital warts can affect both men and women. They are sexually transmitted but are still caused by HPV. The virus can stay in the body for life, periodically flaring up.
Some types of genital wart virus (particularly HPV types 16 and 18) are linked with an increased risk of developing cervical cancer. |
| To treat testicular swelling: In teenagers or adults suffering from mumps, particularly males, severe joint pain and swelling, as well as testicular pain and swelling, may occur. Prednisolone is sometimes prescribed to treat this complication. If significant pain and swelling of the testicles is present, a testicular bridge (available from drug stores) can be used to support the scrotum. A drug known as interferon alpha 2b has been used to prevent infertility in men who experience severe swelling of the testicles. |
Devra Davis
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 What about the growing number of young children and teenagers who have their own cell phones, despite the fact that Scandinavia and many other countries warn that children should not use cell phones at all? We hope that today's digital technologies are safer than the older analog phones and other wireless systems. The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association reports that in 2007 there are more than 180 million subscribers in the United States, up from 110 million users just three years earlier. Experts estimate that by 2010 there will be 2.2 billion subscribers worldwide. |
| Most were young men and women from the surrounding farms, some still teenagers. Their job, for which they received no particular training, was to produce poison gas, place it into steel vats set in caves that were dug into the local mountains, and take care that nothing and nobody slipped up while doing so. These were good-paying military jobs for hard-working men and women who otherwise had few opportunities in the rural, Jim Crow South. At first only local white men and women were hired for the plants, along with a few black men. |
| Teenagers with untreated learning disabilities tend to fare poorly in school and in the community. Often they end up in legal trouble or in jail.
Some people have asked whether the rise in these problems is tied to exposure to heavy metals, such as lead, to modern chemicals, or to endocrine-disrupting chemicals that can affect the brain. The brain doubles in size in the first two years of life, and dulling metals can impair irrevocably the ability to see, hear, think and learn for the rest of people's lives. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 For example, the makers of certain antidepressants have been ordered to place "black box" warnings on labels, warning of potential for suicidal thinking in children and teenagers who take those drugs.
Still, despite all the bad news that's hit the media about pharmaceuticals, the public's use of them has continued to rise at a rapid clip. It's clear that some people really do require medicines for survival. Others find that they depend on medications to help them live normal, active, joyful lives. |
Jack Challem
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 The counselor also advised Laurie to set firm boundaries relating to work and home: not to work overtime or take work home and to let her teenagers know that she needed one uninterrupted hour each night to read and relax.
Meanwhile, the nutritionist provided explicit guidelines on foods to eat and avoid. She also asked Laurie to reduce her intake of coffee and caffeine-containing soft drinks. Although Laurie was tired for the first few days after cutting back on caffeine, her energy levels rebounded after that. She also had less tension and was less panicky from the usual stresses in her life. |
| Children and teenagers can also help, even if it's just setting the table. Cooking should be considered family time—and a good time to turn off the television and put away cell phones and MP3 players. Relish both the serenity and the activity that make a kitchen a fun place.
Decide What You're Going to Cook
Cooking requires some advance planning. It's not like a fast-food drive-thru where your meal materializes in sixty seconds.
The first step is deciding what you will prepare. |
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