Healthy Living

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  Talley Vinyards hosting memorial run

  Posted 9:09 PM 5/29/2012 by Jeanette Trompeter

  You can run through the Edna Valley wine country this weekend at the 19th Annual Marianne Talley Memorial Fun Run. It is this Sunday, June 3. This year's fun run offers a 10K in addition to the 5K, 1 mile youth run and 1 mile walk.

  Online registration, with late registration pricing, will (More)

  
  

• HEALTH NEWS

  UO study links water with healthy food choices

  Posted 11:48 AM 5/28/2012 by Associated Press

  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) - A new study by researchers at the University of Oregon suggests a relatively easy way to get children to eat more vegetables - serve water with meals. The authors of the study say behavioral research has found people correlate a glass of water with healthy food (More)

  
  

• CALIFORNIA NEWS

  Sequoia National Park suffers from worst air of all National Parks

  Posted 10:12 AM 5/28/2012 by Associated Press

  SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - The Sierra Nevada forest that is home to the biggest and oldest living things on earth - the giant Sequoia redwoods - also suffers a dubious distinction. It has the worst air pollution of any national park in the country. Mountaintops that should (More)

  
  

• HEALTH NEWS

  Hoping to conceive? Try this doctor-approved, baby-making diet

  

  Posted 11:10 AM 5/24/2012 by NBC News (CC)

  The dream of having a healthy baby starts long before the infant is brought home.

  The website www.whattoexpect.com has narrowed down the key foods to help women and men up their baby-making odds.

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  C-section babies are twice as likely to be obese

  

  Posted 10:43 AM 5/24/2012 by NBC News (CC)

  Babies born by Cesarean section are twice as likely to be obese by the age of three, according to a new study from Children's Hospital in Boston.

  Of the more than 1,200 mother-child pairs studied, C-section babies had a higher body mass index and skin fold thickness by three years old.

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• INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  Italian doctors describe what went into the world's smallest heart transplant

  

  Posted 10:17 AM 5/24/2012 by NBC News (CC)

  Doctors in Italy are describing the amazing implant surgery that saved the life of a 16-month-old baby boy.

  Doctors implanted the world's smallest artificial heart in the young boy in March and now almost two months later the baby is doing well.

  The tiny titanium implanted heart (More)

  
  

• HEALTH NEWS

  Do you really want to know how dirty the break room might be at your work?

  

  Posted 10:09 AM 5/24/2012 by NBC News (CC)

  Even if you have just used the break room sink to wash your hands they could be dirty by the time you leave, according to a new study.

  Researchers at Kimberly-Clark, one the largest personal care product companies, swabbed nearly five thousand surfaces in several office buildings.

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• HEALTHY LIVING

  Twin Cities Community Hospial honored

  

  Posted 4:47 PM 5/23/2012 by Jeanette Trompeter, KSBY News

  Twin Cities Community Hospital has been honored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Critical Care Societies Collaborative for its successful and sustained efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

  HAIs, a leading cause of death in the (More)

  
  

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• INTERNATIONAL NEWS

  UN global health agency chief wins 2nd term

  Posted 9:22 AM 5/23/2012 by Associated Press, (CC)

  GENEVA (AP) - Dr. Margaret Chan, who has steered the World Health Organization through crises over bird flu and the respiratory SARS bug, has won a second five-year term as its director-general. The World Health Assembly, which oversees the U.N. health agency, on Wednesday reappointed (More)

  
  

• HEALTH NEWS

  People with sleep apnea more likely to die from cancer

  

  Posted 9:11 AM 5/23/2012 by NBC News (CC)

  A new study reveals the problems associated with sleep apnea go way beyond loud snoring.

  Researchers at the University of Wisconsin in Madison found people with severe sleep apnea are five times more likely to die from cancer.

  The association was stronger among people who were not (More)