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Study shows talking with college students about binge drinking makes them think about it

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College students who hear warnings about binge drinking from family or friends are more likely to be concerned about their own alcohol use, ...

Kids Count report shows where children in your county and school district rank, in a huge number of measures

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Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state's overall well-being ranking ...

New study finds texting and driving kills and injures more teens than drinking and driving, and is becoming more prevalent

Posted by | 8:29 PM
A new study finds that texting while driving has become more dangerous among teenagers than drinking and driving, and it says the number of ...

Bankruptcy filing by mental-health agency is a loser for Kentucky, where such services can be scarce and little used

Posted by | 2:15 PM
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News The decision of  Seven Counties Services Inc . to file bankruptcy to avoid paying into the Kentucky E...

Parents should talk to children about alcohol; study shows teens do listen

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Two recent studies highlight how important it is for parent to talk with their teens about the risks of alcohol use, which leads to more tha...

How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think

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I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...

If you're dieting, remember that alcohol has calories too

Posted by | 11:11 AM
Alcoholic beverages could throw a wrench into your 2013 diet plan.  The National Center for Health Statistics reported late last year that A...
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U.S. teens' cigarette use drops to a new low, but use of alcohol goes up a bit and more 12th graders are smoking marijuana

Posted by | 8:50 AM
Teenagers' cigarette smoking dropped to a record low this year but alcohol use rose slightly after seven years of decline, according to ...

Annual health ratings of states still puts Kentucky 44th

Posted by | 10:49 AM
Kentucky ranks 44th among the 50 states in overall health in United Health Foundation 's America's Health Rankings. Darla Carter of ...

Kentucky teens attempt suicide more often than those in all U.S.

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In a 2011 update of a study done four years ago, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) surveyed...

The “pork paradox”? National pork consumption and obesity

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In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of the datasets us...

Does pork consumption cause cirrhosis? Perhaps, if people become obese from eating pork

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The idea that pork consumption may cause cirrhosis has been around for a while. A fairly widely cited 1985 study by Nanji and French ( ) pro...

Alcohol consumption, gender, and type 2 diabetes: Strange … but true

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Let me start this post with a warning about spirits (hard liquor). Taken on an empty stomach, they cause an acute suppression of liver glyco...

How much dietary protein can you store in muscle? About 15 g/d if you are a gifted bodybuilder

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Let us say you are one of the gifted few who are able to put on 1 lb of pure muscle per month, or 12 lbs per year, by combining strength tra...