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Welcome to HHS HealthBeat. Launched on July 11, 2005, this service provides health promotion and disease prevention tips 5 days a week in audio and text formats.

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December

December 31, 2007 - speaker icon

"Smoking, drinking and hearts" [read tip]

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Secondhand Smoke Causes Heart Disease (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"The payoff for fit kids " [read tip]

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Are there special recommendations for young people? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"Shoes and knees" [read tip]

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Foot Health (National Library of Medicine)

December 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Good stuff about the kids " [read tip]

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Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

December 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Moving with the holiday spirit" [read tip]

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Holidays the Healthy Way (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"Drinking sugar" [read tip]

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Holidays the Healthy Way (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Walking it off with a pedometer" [read tip]

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General Guidance for Pedometer Use (Division of Nutrition Research Coordination)

December 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Cutting the odds" [read tip]

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Diabetes Prevention (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

December 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"Seniors paying attention" [read tip]

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Seniors’ Health (National Library of Medicine)

December 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Weighing on your blood vessels" [read tip]

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Healthy Weight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Women’s drinking; children’s problems" [read tip]

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Having a Healthy Pregnancy (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Fear of fat " [read tip]

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You Can Control Your Weight as You Quit Smoking (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

December 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Healthy living and babies" [read tip]

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Pregnancy-planning Education Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Move more, eat better" [read tip]

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Sisters Together: Move More, Eat Better (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

December 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Active kids, good blood pressure" [read tip]

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BAM! Body and Mind (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Researcher Steve Blair of the University of South Carolina says
- If the kids who are more physically active tend to have lower blood pressure, perhaps they will retain that as they go on to become adults. [read tip]
- We know kids need physical activity to be healthy. This is just another bit of evidence that activity seems to be associated with health benefits – in this case, lower blood pressure. [read tip]

December 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Growing into heart trouble" [read tip]

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We Can! (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

December 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Activity and disability" [read tip]

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Current Disability and Health Team Activities (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Fighting a strong bug" [read tip]

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Healthcare-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (HA-MRSA) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Walking away from the side effects" [read tip]

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Physical Activity and Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

December 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Risky cocktails" [read tip]

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College Drinking – Changing the Culture (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

December 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Eat right, Baby " [read tip]

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Eat and Exercise for Two (Office on Women's Health)
Researcher Julie Mennella of the Monell Chemical Senses Center says
- They would lower their brows during feeding, or raise them. They would wrinkle their noses. They would squint and they would gape. Although infants ate more green beans after they were repeatedly exposed to this food for eight days, mothers were unaware of this difference. [read tip]
- The best predictor of how much fruits and vegetables children eat is whether they like the taste of these foods. If we can get babies to learn to like these tastes, we can get them off to an early start of healthy eating. [read tip]

November

November 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"Unequal asthma" [read tip]

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Asthma (National Library of Medicine)

November 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Personal foul!" [read tip]

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Small Step Kids (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services)

November 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"Low-fat eating versus ovarian cancer" [read tip]

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Aim For A Healthy Weight (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute)

November 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"Huffing and suicidality" [read tip]

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Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

November 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Working with arthritis" [read tip]

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Arthritis: Intervention Programs (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention))

November 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Weight, sickness and death " [read tip]

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Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

November 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"So how’s the family?" [read tip]

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Family History (National Library of Medicine)

November 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Doing right, not smoking" [read tip]

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Smoking and Youth (National Library of Medicine)

November 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Yoga and breast cancer" [read tip]

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Breast Cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

November 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"On an average day" [read tip]

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Substance Abuse Treatment: Facility Locator (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

November 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"Strong as iron" [read tip]

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Nutrition for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

November 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"The parenting mind" [read tip]

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Health & Outreach (National Institutes of Health)

November 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Thinking about exercise" [read tip]

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Physical Activity for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

November 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Healthier kids through immunizations" [read tip]

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Vaccines & Immunizations (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

November 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Too little sleep, too much weight" [read tip]

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Star Sleeper (National Institutes of Health)

November 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Buckling knees" [read tip]

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Get moving: Arthritis and Exercise (Administration on Aging)

November 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"Make the kidney connection " [read tip]

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What African Americans Need To Know: Diabetes & High Blood Pressure - Make the Kidney Connection (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

November 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breastfed baby benefits" [read tip]

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Breastfeeding (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Researcher Nisha Parikh of Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center says:
- We found that adults who were breastfed as infants had lower mean body mass index and higher mean HDL, or good cholesterol, levels in adulthood. On the other hand, we found that breastfeeding in infancy was not related to blood pressure or total cholesterol levels in adulthood. [read tip]

November 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"The early bounce-back" [read tip]

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Tips for Raising Safe and Healthy Kids (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Researcher Tom Kimball of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center says:
- These changes began in childhood, and these lifestyle changes need to begin in childhood. [read tip]
- The earlier we intervene in our children’s lives, the less likely they are to become obese adults. [read tip]

November 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breathing and breastfeeding" [read tip]

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National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign — Babies were Born to be Breastfed (Office on Women’s Health)
Researcher Hawley Montgomery-Downs of West Virginia University says:
- Longer breastfeeding lowered the measures of sleep-disordered breathing, the longer the children were breastfed. But importantly, we cannot say breastfeeding eliminated sleep-disordered breathing. [read tip]
- Consistent with many other research groups, we would indicate that the breastfeeding is really critical for their health in terms of sleep disorders. [read tip]

November 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"What kids eat at school" [read tip]

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Nutrition for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

November 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Men, women, and hearts" [read tip]

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Nutrition for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

October

October 31, 2007 - speaker icon

"They sense your fear" [read tip]

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Getting Help: Locate Services (National Institute of Mental Health)

October 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"Having a plan about a health plan" [read tip]

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Questions and Answers About Health Insurance (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

October 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Keeping weight off kids" [read tip]

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Weight Control (National Library of Medicine)

October 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Growing old with diabetes" [read tip]

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NIH Senior Health: Diabetes (National Institute on Aging)

October 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Surviving breast cancer" [read tip]

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Women’s Health: Healthy Living (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

October 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breastfeeding and cavities" [read tip]

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Child Dental Health (National Library of Medicine)

October 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Taking one for the family" [read tip]

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Seasonal Flu (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

October 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"Quit, wherever you are" [read tip]

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You Can Quit Smoking Now! (smokefree.gov)

October 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"What binge drinkers drink" [read tip]

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Alcohol Consumption (National Library of Medicine)

October 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Millions of doses" [read tip]

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Preventing Seasonal Flu (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

October 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Shrinking cases of breast cancer" [read tip]

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National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

October 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"Apples and asthma" [read tip]

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Nutrition for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

October 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Cleaning your kids’ air" [read tip]

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Children and Secondhand Smoke Exposure-Excerpts from The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke (U. S. Surgeon General)

October 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Not just a craving" [read tip]

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Body Image: Loving Yourself Inside and Out (Office on Women's Health)

October 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Updates on asthma" [read tip]

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Living With Asthma (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

October 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Thinking twice about smokeless" [read tip]

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Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer (National Cancer Institute)

October 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Too heavy before pregnancy" [read tip]

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Preconception Care (National Library of Medicine)

October 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"Talk with the doc" [read tip]

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Talking with Your Doctor (National Institute on Aging)

October 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Stress stealing years" [read tip]

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Stress (National Library of Medicine)

October 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"What marks a successful quitter" [read tip]

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Tobacco Cessation - You Can Quit Smoking Now! (U.S. Surgeon General)

October 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Survivors work" [read tip]

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Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment (National Cancer Institute)

October 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"A life of worry" [read tip]

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Alzheimer's Disease Education and Referral Center (National Institute on Aging)

October 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Teens who start to smoke" [read tip]

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Smoking and Youth (National Library of Medicine)
Researcher Joseph DiFranza of the University of Massachusetts Medical School says
- The brain reacts immediately. Changes occur within the nerves in the brain. And we believe that these changes that occur with the first cigarette are the beginnings of addiction. [read tip]
- Ten percent of the kids who became addicted felt symptoms of addiction after their first cigarette. So we advise all kids don’t try that first cigarette to see if you’re relaxed. [read tip]

September

September 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"NSAIDs and colon cancer" [read tip]

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Colorectal Cancer Prevention (National Cancer Institute)

September 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"Blocked before the college gate" [read tip]

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Tips for Parents – Ideas and Tips to Help Prevent Childhood Overweight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

September 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Statins and lifestyles" [read tip]

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Be Heart Smart! Eat Foods Lower in Saturated Fat and Cholesterol (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

September 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Encouragement to drink" [read tip]

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Start Talking Before They Start Drinking (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

September 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"Better health and breastfeeding" [read tip]

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The CDC Guide To Breastfeeding Interventions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

September 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Living with a good example" [read tip]

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Health Check Tools (National Library of Medicine)

September 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Check your levels" [read tip]

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How You Can Lower Your Cholesterol Level (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

September 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"The colon cancer survivor diet" [read tip]

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Nutrition for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

September 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Soy and blood pressure" [read tip]

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Your Guide To Lowering Your Blood Pressure With Dash (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

September 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breast cancer and active living" [read tip]

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Energy Balance: Weight and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (National Cancer Institute)

September 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Drinking mothers, premature babies" [read tip]

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"Stop and think. If you're pregnant, don't drink." (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)

September 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Watch Your Feet" [read tip]

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Take Care of Your Feet for a Lifetime (National Diabetes Education Program)

September 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Trouble with fats" [read tip]

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Diabetic Diet (National Library of Medicine)

September 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Look beneath the surface" [read tip]

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Look Beneath the Surface (Administration for Children and Families)

September 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Children with high blood pressure?" [read tip]

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Prevent and Control America’s High Blood Pressure: Mission Possible (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

September 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Tell your doctor what to do" [read tip]

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20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

September 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Keep your head in the game" [read tip]

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Heads Up: Concussion in Youth Sports (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

September 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Odds on the flu shot " [read tip]

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Protecting Children From Flu (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Researcher Elizabeth Lewis of Mass General Hospital for Children says
- If we assume that the influenza vaccine is 50 percent, or half, efficacious – which is a very small estimate – upwards of 650,000 doctors’ visits could be prevented per year. [read tip]

September 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Moms smoke - babies don’t sleep" [read tip]

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Independence from Smoking (Office on Women's Health)
Researcher Julie Mennella of the Monell Chemical Senses Center says
- Clearly, breastfeeding is the ideal way to feed and nurture babies. So what is a mother to do? Try not to start smoking again. Although many women like those in the study are motivated to quit or cut down on smoking while pregnant, they often relapse after the baby is born. [read tip]
- Minimize the baby’s exposure. Don’t smoke in the baby's presence, so that you minimize the baby’s exposure to the harmful chemicals of tobacco smoke. [read tip]

September 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Stay sharp" [read tip]

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Can Alzheimer’s Disease Be Prevented? (National Institute on Aging)

August

August 31, 2007 - speaker icon

"Heads up" [read tip]

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What is Traumatic Brain Injury? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"What is Healthy Living?" [read tip]

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Pocket Guide to Good Health for Adults (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

August 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Babies’ hearing" [read tip]

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Early Hearing Detection & Intervention (EHDI) Program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"When germs get in the food" [read tip]

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Foodborne Illnesses (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"Born in the U.S.A." [read tip]

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Immigrant, Refugee and Migrant Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"Men, women, dying and diabetes" [read tip]

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Diabetes Control (National Diabetes Education Program)

August 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Don’t bring back malaria" [read tip]

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Malaria and Travelers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"Old but on their feet" [read tip]

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Preventing Falls Among Older Adults (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Kids with diabetes " [read tip]

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Overview of Diabetes in Children and Adolescents (National Diabetes Education Program)

August 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Pet the bunny? Wash your hands" [read tip]

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Healthy Pets Healthy People (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Learn the signs" [read tip]

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Autism (National Library of Medicine)

August 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"The meat-sweet diet" [read tip]

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Breast Cancer Prevention (National Cancer Institute)

August 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Girls on ‘roids " [read tip]

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Anabolic Steroids (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

August 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Four healthy habits, and what they get you" [read tip]

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Seniors' Health Issues (National Library of Medicine)

August 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Read the Yellow Book before you turn green" [read tip]

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Travelers’ Health: Yellow Book (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"More weight, more diabetes" [read tip]

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Diabetes & Me (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Young and wanting to quit" [read tip]

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Smoking Gun: Three Teens Speak Out (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

August 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"Playing with the kids" [read tip]

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Limiting Screen Time — More Energy OUT (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

August 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Fruits, veggies and breast cancer" [read tip]

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Fruits and Veggies Matter (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

August 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Kids heading for adult problems" [read tip]

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Overweight and Obesity (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)
Researcher Courtney Gray-McGuire of Case Western Reserve University says
- What this might indicate is that sustained metabolic dysfunction – or having metabolic syndrome, being obese, over time – can have prolonged effects. [read tip]
- A child is not going to be willing to eat their broccoli if Mom and Dad are having pizza every meal. [read tip]

August 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Whispering stroke" [read tip]

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Researcher George Howard of the University of Alabama, Birmingham says
- We found these in about 18 percent – so nearly one out of five of these participants had these signs of a stroke. [read tip]
- Most likely, they’re symptoms that either don’t raise the level of awareness in the patient to the level that they would go to the doctor, or there are barriers that would stop the patient from going to the doctor – such as income, and access to health care. [read tip]

August 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"Cutting our risk of heart disease" [read tip]

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Heart and Vascular Diseases (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

August 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Heads-up on flu season" [read tip]

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What You Should Know About the Flu (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

July

July 31, 2007 - speaker icon

"Staying fit and trim" [read tip]

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Exercise for Older Adults (National Institute on Aging)

July 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"More whole grain goodness" [read tip]

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Eat whole grains (Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion)

July 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"No smoking in this home" [read tip]

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Quit Smoking (smokefree.gov)

July 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Is obesity contagious?" [read tip]

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President’s Challenge (The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)
Researcher James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego says
- If your friend – someone that you name as a friend – becomes obese, it increases your likelihood of becoming obese in the next two to four years by 57 percent. [read tip]
- This phenomenon of one person’s obesity affecting another person’s obesity extends out three degrees of separation. What that means is no only is it the case that my obesity affects my friends, it affects my friend’s friends; it also affects my friend’s friends’ friends. [read tip]

July 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Getting it off, keeping it off" [read tip]

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Controlling Your Weight (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

July 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"Have a soda" [read tip]

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Metabolic Syndrome (National Library of Medicine)
Dr. Ramachandran Vasan of Boston University School of Medicine says
- We know that obesity is the fundamental driver of several metabolic risk factors. And body weight is a function of how many calories you take in, and how many calories you spend on exercise. So eating healthy and exercising regularly are key steps. [read tip]

July 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Are hair relaxers the cause?" [read tip]

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Estimating Breast Cancer Risk: Questions and Answers (National Cancer Institute)

July 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Summer drinking time" [read tip]

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Alcohol and Youth (National Library of Medicine)

July 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"Clean water" [read tip]

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Safe Water System (SWS) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

July 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Weighing in" [read tip]

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Eating Disorders and Obesity (Office on Women's Health)

July 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Nailed" [read tip]

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Injury Center (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

July 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"Being a player?" [read tip]

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Physical Activity for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

July 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breastfeeding versus breast cancer" [read tip]

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Breastfeeding — Best For Baby. Best For Mom. (Office on Women's Health)

July 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Women and arthritis" [read tip]

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Living with Arthritis (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

July 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"To use it or not" [read tip]

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Herbal Supplements: Consider Safety, Too (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

July 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Making old genes young again" [read tip]

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Exercise for Older Adults (National Institute on Aging)

July 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Moms’ drugs and kids’ speech" [read tip]

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Child Development (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

July 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Does everything cause cancer?" [read tip]

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What You Need To Know About (National Cancer Institute)

July 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Guns in the home" [read tip]

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Youth Fire-Related Violence Fact Sheet (SafeYouth.org)

July 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Smoking and wrinkles" [read tip]

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You Can Quit Smoking Now! (smokefree.gov)

July 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Heavy breathing" [read tip]

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Weight-control Information Network (National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

July 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"Bad to the bone" [read tip]

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Exercise and Physical Fitness (National Library of Medicine)

June

June 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Going swimming?" [read tip]

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Healthy Swimming (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"Lifestyle and a woman’s heart" [read tip]

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Eating Right and Physical Activity (Office on Women's Health)

June 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"No help for the colon" [read tip]

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Aspirin May Reduce Risk of Colon Polyps (National Cancer Institute)

June 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"A woman’s heart" [read tip]

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The Healthy Heart Handbook for Women ’07 - 20th Anniversary Edition (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

June 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Fruit versus cancer" [read tip]

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Fruits & Veggies — More Matters (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"Done yet?" [read tip]

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Safer Sunning in Seven Steps (Food and Drug Administration)

June 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Marriage and motherhood" [read tip]

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Body Image: Loving Yourself Inside and Out (Office on Women's Health)

June 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Diabetes and memory" [read tip]

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National Diabetes Education Program (National Diabetes Education Program)

June 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"Buying what they see" [read tip]

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Got A Minute? Give It to Your Kid—Ten Tactics (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Sun safety" [read tip]

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Protect Yourself from the Sun (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Trashing old drugs" [read tip]

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Your Medicine Cabinet Needs an Annual Checkup, Too (Food and Drug Administration)

June 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"High-fat and breast cancer" [read tip]

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Breast Cancer (PDQ®): Prevention (National Cancer Institute)

June 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Multivitamins and lung cancer" [read tip]

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Lung Cancer (PDQ®): Prevention (National Cancer Institute)

June 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Hope to keep it off" [read tip]

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Healthy Weight (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"Worried life" [read tip]

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder (National Institutes of Health)

June 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Overweight and injury-prone " [read tip]

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Overweight and Obesity (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Staph trouble" [read tip]

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Healthcare-Associated Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

June 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Tomatoes" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Prostate Cancer: Prevention (National Cancer Institute)

June 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Whole grain wholesomeness" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
A Closer Look at the Foods We Eat (National Institutes of Health)

June 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Life after breast cancer" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment (National Cancer Institute)

May

May 31, 2007 - speaker icon

"Death by overdose" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Consumer Education: What You Need to Know to Use Medicine Safely (Food and Drug Administration)

May 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"Doesn’t take much" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Staying Active and Eating Healthy (Office on Women’s Health)

May 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Older folks, vitamin D and active living" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Dietary Supplement Fact Sheet: Vitamin D (Office of Dietary Supplements)

May 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"Tai chi versus shingles" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Tai Chi for Health Purposes (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

May 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Aspirin and colon cancer" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Colorectal (Colon) Cancer (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

May 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"The handoff" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:

May 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Doing something about high blood pressure" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Your Guide to Lowering High Blood Pressure (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

May 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"Tough teens" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:

May 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Ever heard of aerobics?" [read tip]

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The President’s Challenge (The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)

May 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Magical moose" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Defensive Driving (National AG Safety Database)

May 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breast cancer, high risk, and black women" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool (National Cancer Institute)

May 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"What’s in a name" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Learn the Signs. Act Early. (National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities)

May 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Going strong" [read tip]

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President’s Challenge (The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)

May 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Smoking in the movies" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Nicotine (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

May 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Who goes home" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
NINDS Transient Ischemic Attack Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)

May 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Need an antibiotic?" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

May 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Fruits, vegetables, exercise? Who, me?" [read tip]

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Eat a Variety of Fruits & Vegetables Everyday (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

May 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"A video childhood" [read tip]

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Television Programming to Support Literacy (Administration for Children and Families)

May 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Timing eating and fast food" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Take Charge of Your Health! (Weight-control Information Network)
Researcher Cara Ebbeling of Harvard-affiliated Children’s Hospital Boston says
- We found that decreasing portions and slowing eating rate had no effect on how many calories the teens ate during the fast food meal. [read tip]
- If it is not the portioning or rate of delivery, then we need to look at other characteristics of fast food that cause overeating. These include a lot of calories per bite, high amounts of fat and sugar, and low levels of dietary fiber. Fast food also tastes good to many teens. [read tip]

May 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Losing the pregnancy weight" [read tip]

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After the Baby is Born (womenshealth.gov)

May 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Gut fat" [read tip]

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Exercise Reduces Dangerous Fat Levels (National Center for Research Resources)

May 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"Twitch on" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Growing Stronger – Strength Training for Older Adults (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

May 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Rabies" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Rabies Infection and Animals (National Center for Infectious Diseases)

April

April 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"Huffing" [read tip]

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Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents (National Institute on Drug Abuse)

April 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"Violence and older women" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Elder Rights & Resources (Administration on Aging)

April 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Cutting the odds of cancer" [read tip]

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Prevention, Genetics, Causes (National Cancer Institute)

April 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Coping with tragedy" [read tip]

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Understanding Mental Illness – after the Virginia Tech Tragedy (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration)

April 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"Good habits and healthy blood pressure" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Prevention: Guide to Lower High Blood Pressure (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

April 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Walking Works" [read tip]

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Walking Works (President’s Council on Physical Fitness & Sports)

April 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Stressed families, feverish kids" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
From Family Stress to Family Strengths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

April 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"More smoke, more cancer" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Lung Cancer: Risk Factors (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

April 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Early weight, early puberty" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Puberty (girlshealth.gov)

April 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"What heavy smokers breathe" [read tip]

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You Can Quit Smoking Now! (smokefree.gov)

April 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"The skinny on diet pills" [read tip]

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Losing Weight Safely (Food and Drug Administration)

April 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Learning from their parents" [read tip]

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Youth Development as a Violence Intervention Model Fact Sheet (National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center)

April 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"What to watch for in a woman's heart" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
The Heart Truth (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

April 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Do you tell the doctor what you take?" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
CAM: What People 50 and Over Are Using and Discussing with Their Physicians (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

April 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Tobacco, race and kids" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke (Office of the Surgeon General)

April 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Life in black and white" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Eliminating Health Disparities Among Minority Populations (Office of Minority Health)

April 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Half the students" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
College Drinking: Changing the Culture (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism)

April 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Sleepless in America" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Your Guide To Healthy Sleep (PDF - KB) (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

April 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Hard-working back" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Lifting Materials Can Hurt Your Back (Electronic Library of Construction Occupational Safety and Health)

April 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"The vaccine and HPV" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
HPV Vaccine Questions and Answers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

April 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"The prostate and losing weight" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Energy Balance: Weight and Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (National Cancer Institute)

March

March 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"Did the exercise do it?" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Questions and Answers about Arthritis and Exercise (National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

March 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Tai chi and good nerves" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Tai Chi for Health Purposes (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

March 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"Low carbs " [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Study compares year-long effectiveness of four weight-loss plans (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine)

March 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Older and fatter" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
NIH Senior Health (National Institute on Aging)

March 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Getting teens to quit" [read tip]

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Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative)

March 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"HIV and Native Americans" [read tip]

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American Indian Health (National Library of Medicine)

March 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"The stages of grief" [read tip]

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Bereavement (MedlinePlus)

March 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Skipping and snacking" [read tip]

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Nutrition (HealthierUSA.gov)

March 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"Fruits and veggies – more matters" [read tip]

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Eat a Variety of Fruits & Vegetables Everyday (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

March 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"Breast cancer and a good workout" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Strenuous Long-Term Physical Activity Lowers Risk of Breast Cancer (National Cancer Institute)

March 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"Out in the park" [read tip]

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Energize Your Life (Center for Diease Control and Prevention)

March 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Questions are the answers" [read tip]

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Questions are the Answers (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)

March 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"Healthy as the Healthier Feds" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
The President's Challenge (President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)

March 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Exercise versus breast cancer" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Exercise May Reduce Breast Cancer (National Institutes of Health)

March 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Still too many" [read tip]

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HPV Vaccine Questions and Answers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

March 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Should the baby get cold medicine?" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Infant Deaths Associated with Cough and Cold Medications (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

March 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"The heart and a bowl of cereal" [read tip]

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Breaking it Down: Eat Whole Grains (www.Health.gov)
Luc Djoussé of Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital says
- A high consumption of whole grain products in general – not just cereal – would be beneficial in helping reduce the risk of heart failure. [read tip]
- Cereal intake of seven or more times per week was associated with a 28 percent reduction of heart failure risk compared with no consumption of cereal. And the risk reduction was 22 percent and 14 percent for people consuming two to six servings per week, and up to one serving per week, respectively. [read tip]
- We did observe a graded response. The more cereal people consumed, the larger the risk reduction was observed in our study. [read tip]

March 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"A Call to Action on underage drinking" [read tip]

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Six Goals of the Call to Action (www.SurgeonGeneral.gov)

March 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Kids, weight and TV" [read tip]

March 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Teens, working, hours, and safety" [read tip]

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Are you a Working Teen? What you Should Know About Safety and Health on the Job (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
Carol Runyan of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill says
- Overall, across all of the ages, most of them were working after 7 – about 82 percent. Half were working after 9. And about 10 percent worked after 11. Those were mostly the 16- and 17-year-olds. [read tip]
- Using slicers is of course a danger in terms of serious cuts. And that’s not allowed for workers under age 18. Similarly, box crushers and dough mixers are very dangerous in that they can result in amputations, usually of hands or arms. [read tip]
- In terms of what’s legal and what’s not, those teens under age 16 are not supposed to be working after 7 o’clock on a school night. And for that group, 37 percent indicated that they had worked after 7 on a school night. [read tip]

March 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"Light reading" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Body Wise, Eating Right the Girl Power! Way (Girl Power!)

March 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Teens, fruits and vegetables" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Take Charge of Your Health: A Teenager's Guide to Better Health (Weight-control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

February

February 28, 2007 - speaker icon

"Working down the risk " [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Physical Activity and Cancer: Fact Sheet (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health)

February 27, 2007 - speaker icon

"Folic acid works" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Why Folic Acid is So Important (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Listen to Donkey" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
We Can! Ways to Enhance Children's Activity & Nutrition (National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health)

February 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Bigger older brains" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Healthy Brain Initiative (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"Loving care" [read tip]

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Child Welfare (Administration for Children and Families)

February 21, 2007 - speaker icon

"Deadly drugs" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Depression, Substance Abuse: Significant Risk Factors for Suicide (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration)

February 20, 2007 - speaker icon

"More help from folic acid" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Folic Acid (WomensHealth.gov)

February 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"Sprawled out" [read tip]

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Take Charge of Your Health: A Teenager's Guide to Better Health (Weight-control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

February 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"Finding a balance" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Preventing Falls and Fractures - Personal Changes (NIHSeniorHealth.gov)

February 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Kids swallowing magnets" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Prevent Your Child from Choking (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

February 14, 2007 - speaker icon

"A drink or two" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Preventing and Controlling High Blood Pressure (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 13, 2007 - speaker icon

"Losing weight, keeping bone" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Bone Health and Weight Loss (Medline Plus)

February 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Keeping up with Steve " [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Physical Activity for Everyone (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"Take stroke seriously" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Stroke Information Page (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke)
Researcher Virginia Howard of the University of Alabama-Birmingham says
- Concerningly, only about 58 percent of these people actually sought care [read tip]
- The symptom that was the most commonly ignored was the sudden numbness or a dead feeling on one side of the body. The second one was a sudden painless weakness on one side of the body. And the inability to express yourself verbally or in writing. And the key here is the suddenness of the symptoms [read tip]
- If you have stroke symptoms, you should immediately call 911 and have, immediately, evaluation, to err on the side of caution [read tip]

February 07, 2007 - speaker icon

"Church air" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Promoting Healthy Lifestyles (Administratoin on Aging)

February 06, 2007 - speaker icon

"Looking harder for breast cancer" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Breast Cancer Screening (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health)

February 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Parents' fights" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Adventures in Parenting: How Responding, Preventing, Monitoring, Mentoring and Modeling Can Help You Be a Successful Parent (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National institutes of Health)
Researcher Janice Probst of the University of South Carolina says
- I would advise them to get friends and support. Parents who say that their community has people in it who can help them with their children are less likely to engage in violent or heated argument than parents who don’t see that in their community [read tip]
- Thirty-two percent of families in the U.S. – families with children – have heated arguments; yelling, shouting, that sort of thing [read tip]
- It’s about 10 percent of families. And we defined a violent argument as one, when asked, how often do you end up hitting or throwing things – if they ever hit or throw things [read tip]

February 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"Hep B" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Hepatitis B Frequently Asked Questions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

February 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Working it off" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Exercise: A Guide from the National Institute on Aging (National Institute on Agin)

January

January 31, 2007 - speaker icon

"Growing toward trouble" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Helping Your Overweight Child (National Institutes of Health)

January 30, 2007 - speaker icon

"Lead hurts" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
General Lead Information: Questions and Answers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 29, 2007 - speaker icon

"Cold comfort for hot flashes" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Menopause and Hormone Therapy: Treatment and Talking to your Doctor (Womenshealth.gov)

January 26, 2007 - speaker icon

"Mind games" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Mental Exercise May Aid Aging Minds (National Cancer Institute)

January 25, 2007 - speaker icon

"Weighted odds" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Obesity and Cancer: Questions and Answers (National Cancer Institute)

January 24, 2007 - speaker icon

"What a difference" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Mental Illness - What a Difference a Friend Makes (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administratio)

January 23, 2007 - speaker icon

"Low fat and breast cancer" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Reduced Levels of Fat in the Diet May Decrease the Risk of Breast Cancer Recurrence According to New Clinical Trial (National Cancer Institute)

January 22, 2007 - speaker icon

"Do what the feds do" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
The HealthierFeds initiative: HealthierFeds Through Healthier Workplaces (U.S. Office of Personnel Management)

January 19, 2007 - speaker icon

"Happy and healthy" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Mind-Body Medicine: An Overview (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health)

January 18, 2007 - speaker icon

"Weight on the knees" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Growing Stronger - Strength Training for Older Adults: Why Strength Training? (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 17, 2007 - speaker icon

"Taking the test" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Testing for AIDS (AIDS.gov)

January 16, 2007 - speaker icon

"Smoking, genes and cleft palate" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Scientists Discover How Maternal Smoking Can Cause Cleft Lip and Palate (National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health)

January 15, 2007 - speaker icon

"Radon: Can you tell it's there?" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
A Citizen's Guide to Radon: The Guide to Protecting Yourself and Your Family from Radon (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency)

January 12, 2007 - speaker icon

"Keeping going" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Exercise: The Key To The Good Life (The President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports)

January 11, 2007 - speaker icon

"Diabetes and getting glasses" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Take Charge of Your Diabetes (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 10, 2007 - speaker icon

"Sleeping easier" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Youth Media Campaign (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 09, 2007 - speaker icon

"Safer in many ways" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Adolescent Health Data (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

January 08, 2007 - speaker icon

"Smoke-free around the nation" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
How to Protect Yourself and Your Loves Ones from Secondhand Smoke (U.S. Surgeon General)

January 05, 2007 - speaker icon

"Scared to be active" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
A Tale of Two Cities (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)

January 04, 2007 - speaker icon

"Weight and the prostate" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Prostate Cancer (National Cancer Institute)

January 03, 2007 - speaker icon

"Eyes and exercise" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Age-related Macular Degeneration (NIHSeniorHealth.gov)

January 02, 2007 - speaker icon

"Drinking, bingeing, and more teen trouble" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Tips for Teens: Know the Truth about Alcohol (National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information)
Dr. Jacqueline Miller of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says
- A survey shows drinking is common among high school students, and that binge drinking is common among drinkers [read tip]
- A survey finds binge drinkers could face other problems [read tip]
- The nation needs to work harder, using tools that can fight teen drinking [read tip]

January 01, 2007 - speaker icon

"Left in the medicine chest" [read tip]

Take the Next Step:
Your Medicine Cabinet Needs an Annual Checkup, Too (Food and Drug Administration)

Last revised: January 26, 2009