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- La. hospitals focus on smoking cessation
The second phase of a Louisiana Hospital Association workplace wellness initiative will focus on smoking cessation. As part of the Smart Choices, Better HealthHospital Campaign, hospitals chose Campaign Champions who received training and resources to be able to incorporate smoking cessation into employee and community wellness programs. KATC-TV (Acadiana, La.)
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- Study: Dementia risk is lower for those who are more fit at midlife
People who are more physically fit at middle age have a lower risk of dementia later, according to research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study included about 19,500 people who were followed for an average of 25 years, and found that participants with the highest fitness levels at midlife had a 36% lower risk of developing dementia compared with those who had the lowest fitness levels. Medscape (free registration)
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- Flu particularly dangerous for seniors this year, CDC data show
Although influenza is beginning to taper nationwide, the outbreak remains serious and seniors are at particular risk, CDC epidemiologist Michael Jhung reported Friday. Jhung said the rate of deaths associated with laboratory-confirmed influenza was 116 per 100,000 cases among patients older than 65. "We've still got several weeks of the season yet, so it's going to be much worse," Jhung said. USA Today
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- Review links men's kidney-stone risk, vitamin C supplements
Researchers looked at data from 23,355 men in Sweden and found that those who took high-dose vitamin C supplements were almost twice as likely to develop kidney stones as those who didn't take any nutritional supplements. The risk of kidney stones was highest among men who took vitamin C supplements at least once a day, according to the study published online in JAMA Internal Medicine. MedPage Today (free registration)
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- Made-from-scratch school meals worth the extra time to prepare
School nutrition professionals in a Connecticut district are using some recipes from the "Recipes for Healthy Kids Cookbook," developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to prepare made-from-scratch meals for students. As part of a new pilot program to provide healthier meals for students, nutrition professionals will prepare one hot and one cold meal for students daily through the end of the year. It's estimated the made-from-scratch meals will take an additional hour to prepare, but nutrition professionals say it is worth it. Greenwich Time (Conn.)
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