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Smarter Students

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Students at Montana’s Whitefish Central School are calmer, more respectful, and smarter thanks to a change in their diet. School officials replaced the sugar and synthetic additive-filled snacks in the school’s vending machines with milk, yogurt, peanuts, fruit, and string cheese. In the cafeteria, fresh fruit and homemade salads, sandwiches, burritos, as well as other “from scratch” selections, supplanted processed foods.

“There has been a tremendous change in our students’ behavior,” reports school principal Kim Anderson. He notes that, in the past, 10-12 students were sent to him each day for behavior problems. Now that number is 4-8 per week.

Teachers report 10 to 15 percent more teaching time since their charges have calmed down and are more alert and focused. Grade scores are up, and food service is making money.

The Feingold Association at www.feingold.org

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Ladies, Move It!

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Participants at a recent International Research Conference on Food, Nutrition, and Cancer in Washington, D.C., heralded some good news in the fight against cancer.

1. Being physically active may be more important than body weight or body fat to your risk of breast cancer. Leslie Bernstein, Ph.D., professor of preventive medicine and cancer researcher at the University of Southern California, said that in a study of postmenopausal women, those who exercised nearly four hours a week saw their breast cancer risk drop more than 50 percent. Exercise offers benefits even after menopause by reducing circulating estrogen as well as body fat.

2. Failing to limit adult weight gain may account for up to one third of all breast cancers. Henry J. Thompson, Ph.D., director of the Cancer Prevention Laboratory at Colorado State University, found that weight gain of more than 11 pounds as an adult, along with getting less than 30 minutes of physical activity per day, is linked to increased risk of breast cancer.

3. Eating protective foods together seems to boost their cancer-protective effects. John W. Erdman, Jr., Ph.D., professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois, found that a diet consisting of a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and beans offered the greatest anticancer effect. “Supplements,” he added, “cannot provide the synergistic action you get from whole foods.”

Environmental Nutrition

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Sleep On It

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Got a problem? Go to bed.

Researchers recruited 66 people to discover if sleep spurred creative problem solving. They taught the participants two simple rules to help them convert a string of eight numbers into a new pattern. A third rule that required additional insight and would improve performance was kept secret.

After initial training, some participants slept eight hours, while others were forced to stay awake—some during the day, some at night. Those with sufficient shut-eye proved twice as likely as those who stayed awake to figure out the third rule and solve the problem.

The age-old advice to “sleep on it” now enjoys scientific support.

Massachutes Medical Society

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Its Gotta Be Brisk

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You can get fit by walking. But it needs to be “determined,” or brisk walking. What’s brisk? If you’re just starting out, walk at a 3.5 mph pace (one mile in just over 17 minutes). Work up to a 4 mph pace (a mile in 15 minutes).

Archives of Internal Medicine

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Down but Not Out

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Approximately four out of every five newly disabled older people regain the ability to live independently within six months of their disability episode––a higher recovery rate than previously reported. “Our study offers good news to older people,” say researchers Susan E. Hardy, M.D., and Thomas M. Gill, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine. “It offers compelling evidence that becoming disabled in old age is not necessarily a life sentence.”

The majority of people in this study who recovered from disability maintained their independence for at least six months. But, for many, recovery was short-lived, especially for those with a disability lasting two months or more. While the short-term prognosis for recovery is good, the findings of recurring disability suggest the need to prevent disability in the first place and also to prevent recurrence.

The study measured disability in terms of “activities of daily living,” such as bathing, dressing, walking, or getting out of a chair. 

National Institutes of Health

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