Here I am showing off my "Authors' Cup!" Thanks to John Cacioppo for making it such a success!
Here are my readings for today:
“Under some conditions, the brains of embryonic chicks appear to be awake well before those chicks are ready to hatch out of their eggs. That’s according to an imaging study published online on May 3 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, in which researchers woke chick embryos inside their eggs by playing loud, meaningful sounds to them. Playing meaningless sounds to the embryos wasn’t enough to rouse their brains.”
“Vogue magazine, perhaps the world’s top arbiter of style, is making a statement about its own models: Too young and too thin is no longer in. The 19 editors of Vogue magazines around the world made a pact to project the image of healthy models, according to a Conde Nast International announcement Thursday.”
“Last summer a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology set out to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity. They were following up on the results of a long-term study from the Harvard School of Public Health that had suggested yogurt, more than any other food, helped to prevent age-related weight gain. The M.I.T. team, led by cancer biologist Susan Erdman and evolutionary geneticist Eric Alm, wanted to replicate the work in mice. The researchers took a group of 40 males and 40 females and either fed the animals a high-fat, low-fiber, low-nutrient diet meant to mimic junk food or fed them standard mouse meals. They then supplemented half of each diet group with vanilla-flavored yogurt.”
“Older adults who actively use their mind and body may be less apt to develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) down the road, according to new data from the population-based Mayo Clinic Study of Aging (MCSA).
“We observed that engaging in computer use and moderate physical exercise is associated with decreased odds of having MCI and we have controlled for age, sex, education, and caloric intake. Therefore these findings cannot be explained by these factors,” Yonas Geda, MD, from the Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona, commented in a Mayo Clinic podcast.”
“The annual rates of maternal opiate use and of drug withdrawals in newborns in the United States has increased dramatically over the past decade, new research suggests.In a large nationally representative study, investigators found that the rate of opiate use by pregnant women at time of delivery increased by nearly 5-fold between 2000 and 2009.
In addition, the annual rate of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) diagnoses increased almost 3-fold during the same period. This finding was linked to a substantial increase in hospital-related charges.”By 2009, about 1 baby born every hour in this country had NAS,” lead author Stephen W. Patrick, MD, MPH, fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the CS Mott Children’s Hospital at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, told Medscape Medical News.”
” For a third and final time, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) has opened up the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) for public comment.
This final period of public feedback will last 6 weeks and will close on June 15.”
3 Comments
alimgarrison · May 6, 2012 at 9:23 pm
I read “vogue says too skinny models…NO!” and I am so glad to see a positive change in the views of health and bodies of women, especially in fashion. As a college student, I have seen how the very skinny, and sometimes incredibly unhealthy models have had an effect on young women. I believe that making a small change toward having healthier models, even in one magazine, can start new thoughts toward women’s bodies.
fnmagno · May 7, 2012 at 9:52 pm
After reading “vogue says too skinny models… NO!” I am glad to say I agree that it is time that a major magazine corporation take a stand and address this issue. Images of super skinny models gives young girls a false image of what beautiful should be. I can only hope that other magazines and the media follow in Vogue’s footsteps.
LyudmilaFeldsher · May 8, 2012 at 3:06 pm
I read this article and it’s nice to see that such a big name in fashion actually cares about this problem. Those models are unhealthy and should not be something young girls look up to. In Europe actually the models are not allowed to have a BMI lower than 18.5. Hopefully this is only the first step to making a difference in the model industry and media overall.
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