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Volume 6, Number 17 | August 20, 2008
HIV/AIDS | Social and Emotional Learning |
Obesity
Personal Finance | Bullying and Suicide
HIV/AIDS
HIV Shown to Attack Immune System More Quickly Than Believed
A new Duke University Medical Center study has uncovered evidence that HIV attacks the immune system much more quickly than was previously understood. Researchers had believed that interventions worked best in the three to four weeks after infection, "[b]ut this new study shows that HIV-I does a lot of damage to the immune system very early in that time frame, and now we feel that the opportunity to intervene most effectively may range from about five to seven days after infection," said Barton Haynes, M.D., senior author of the study and director of the Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology (CHAVI) at Duke University Medical Center.
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Social and Emotional Learning
Children Naturally Prone toward Empathy, Moral Reasoning
Researchers at the University of Chicago have used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans to examine children's brain activity in relation to their empathy and moral reasoning. The results? The scans showed that the brains of 7- to 12-year-olds were active in the same areas as adult brains when the children were shown pictures of people in pain or being intentionally hurt -- suggesting that children ages 7-12 are naturally inclined to feel empathy. Results of the study appear in the journal Neuropsychologia.
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Obesity
U.S. Rate of Adult Obesity Continues to Rise
"The epidemic of adult obesity continues to rise in the United States indicating that we need to step up our efforts at the national, state and local levels." That's according to Dr. William Dietz, director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A recent CDC report finds a nearly 2 percent increase between 2005 and 2007 in the number of U.S. adults who report being obese. Also, not a single state has met the Healthy People 2010 goal to reduce obesity prevalence to 15 percent or less.
Read the full article at:
http://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2008/r080717.htm
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Reader-friendly text and interactive sections cover the importance of nutrition, exercise, committing to a personal weight-maintenance program, healthy dieting, and other essentials.
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Personal Finance
Surprising Findings Could Help People Make Better Budgets
A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research has produced some surprising findings that could help people create more accurate budgets. According to the study, people who created annual budgets were more accurate than people who created monthly ones -- even when they logged expenses on a weekly basis. This finding runs counter to standard advice that suggests making a monthly budget. The study also uncovered some interesting findings on the relationship between people's perceived level of difficulty of budgeting and their accuracy.
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Bullying and Suicide
Review of International Research Finds Links between Bullying and Suicide
A new review of 37 studies from 13 countries has found that there may indeed be a connection between bullying and suicide. Virtually all of the studies found links between being the victim of bullying and having suicidal thoughts -- and victims weren't the only ones at risk. The research also shows a connection between bullies themselves and an increased risk of suicidal behavior. Said review lead author Young-Shin Kim, M.D., assistant professor at Yale School of Medicine's Child Study Center, "While there is no definitive evidence that bullying makes kids more likely to kill themselves, now that we see there's a likely association, we can act on it and try to prevent it."
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