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| Birth month affects being a sports star BRISBANE, Australia (UPI) -- Researchers in Australia found a child's birth month could influence his or her future health, fitness and sports ability.
Dr. Adrian Barnett, a senior research fellow at Queensland University of Technology's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, and Annette Dobson of the University of Queensland say the month of your birth influences your chances of becoming a professional athlete.
The researchers analyzed the birthdays of professional Australian Football League players and found a disproportionate number of the soccer players had their birthdays in the early months of the year, while many fewer were born in the later months -- especially December.
The Australian school year begins in January.
"Children who are taller have an obvious advantage when playing the [soccer] code of AFL," Barnett said in a statement. "If you were born in January, you have almost 12 months' growth ahead of your classmates born late in the year, so whether you were born on Dec. 31 or Jan. 1 could have a huge effect on your life."
The results mirror other international studies that found a link between being born near the start of school year and the chances of becoming a professional player in the sports of ice hockey, soccer, volleyball and basketball.
"Research in Britain shows those born at the start of the school year also do better academically and have more confidence," Barnett said.
The findings are published in the book "Analyzing Seasonal Health Data."
Copyright 2010 by United Press International |
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| Caregivers of ICU patients suffer, too PITTSBURGH (UPI) -- Family and friends who are caregivers to intensive care unit patients are collateral damage of critical illness, U.S. researchers say.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine who monitored patients and caregivers during a one-year period for predictors of depression and lifestyle disruption say family and friends who are caregivers also suffer.
The study, published in the journal Chest, concludes informal caregivers of intensive care unit patients endure even more stress than those caring for Alzheimer's disease patients.
"This research reveals that loved ones of critically ill patients have profound and unmet needs for assistance even after hospital discharge," Dr. Michael Pinsky said in a statement. "The emotional and economic burden is enormous, and these issues must be addressed."
The senior study author says previous studies show caregivers often change their lives profoundly to care for patients.
"These are highly stressful choices, and it is imperative that we develop interventions to help families cope with the burden of critical illness even after they have left the hospital," Pinsky said.
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| Groups advocate for better school lunches WASHINGTON (UPI) -- More than 100 food advocates are working to incorporate healthier food choices for U.S. school lunches as Congress prepares to reauthorize the program.
Margo G. Wootan, director of nutrition policy at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington, says the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee and the House Education and Labor Committee have held several hearings concerning the reauthorization of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's school lunch, school breakfast and other child nutrition programs -- a process that occurs about every five years.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is working with some 100 members of the National Alliance for Nutrition and Activity to get junk food out of schools.
The national standards for foods sold out of vending machines and a la carte are out of date -- they were developed back in the 1970s -- and are out of sync with current science.
The groups say Congress should:
-- Increase the reimbursement rates for school meals to help schools add more fruits, vegetable and whole grains and reduce saturated and trans fat, added sugars and sodium.
-- Strengthen accountability to ensure that schools meet school nutrition standards. Currently, compliance with school meal nutrition standards is assessed in only one school per school district every five years.
-- Allow only low-fat milk to be served with school meals.
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| Survey: Most think stress hair loss cause MORRIS PLAINS, N.J. (UPI) -- Forty percent of married Americans would rather their spouse be overweight than bald and 45 percent try to hide thinning hair, a U.S. survey indicates.
The survey of 1,001 U.S. adults, conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of Rogaine, an over-the-counter brand-name version of minoxidil made by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary McNeil-PPC Inc. that promotes hair regrowth, also says 57 percent say they are not physically attracted to people with thinning hair.
Seventy-five percent of Americans incorrectly cite stress as a leading cause of hair loss, while 35 percent say frequently wearing a hat thins hair and 24 percent blame over-styling of hair.
"What people don't always know is that hereditary hair loss accounts for 95 percent of all hair loss, and can affect men as early as their late teens and early 20s," Dr. Robert Leonard, founder and chief surgeon of Leonard Hair Transplant Associates and member of the board of governors for the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, said in a statement. "By age 40, approximately 40 percent of women will experience some degree of thinning hair."
Unfortunately most don't realize their hair is thinning until they have lost 50 percent of it, but it's easier to keep the hair you have than to restore what you have lost, Leonard adds.
The online -- by invitation -- survey was conducted Nov. 12-17 and has a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points.
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