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Study shows talking with college students about binge drinking makes them think about it
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3:35 PM
College students who hear warnings about binge drinking from family or friends are more likely to be concerned about their own alcohol use, ...
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Kids Count report shows where children in your county and school district rank, in a huge number of measures
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9:01 PM
Conditions have improved slightly for Kentucky children, especially in education and health, and the state's overall well-being ranking ...
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New study finds texting and driving kills and injures more teens than drinking and driving, and is becoming more prevalent
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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 ...
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Bankruptcy filing by mental-health agency is a loser for Kentucky, where such services can be scarce and little used
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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...
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Parents should talk to children about alcohol; study shows teens do listen
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3:15 PM
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...
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How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think
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4:00 AM
I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...
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If you're dieting, remember that alcohol has calories too
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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
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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 ...
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Annual health ratings of states still puts Kentucky 44th
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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 ...
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Kentucky teens attempt suicide more often than those in all U.S.
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7:29 PM
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...
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The “pork paradox”? National pork consumption and obesity
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4:00 AM
In my previous post ( ) I discussed some country data linking pork consumption and health, analyzed with WarpPLS ( ). One of the datasets us...
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Does pork consumption cause cirrhosis? Perhaps, if people become obese from eating pork
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4:00 AM
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...
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Alcohol consumption, gender, and type 2 diabetes: Strange … but true
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4:00 AM
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...
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How much dietary protein can you store in muscle? About 15 g/d if you are a gifted bodybuilder
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7:00 AM
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...
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Not only may you not get to keep your plan under Obamacare, you might not be able to keep your doctor; there are reasons
By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
Trying to Make Sense of the Covered California Numbers
I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
"If You Like Your Doctor You Will Be Able to Keep Your Doctor. Period"
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Dried mussels: A little plate with 160 g of protein (plus some comments on high-protein low-carbohydrate dieting)
Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ...
Humana allows policyholders to keep old plans without paying more; Anthem is still deciding
Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
Small Group Health Insurance "Cancellations"––The Next Shoe to Drop But a More Complicated One
Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
Can a Statin Neutralize the Cardiovascular Risk of Unhealthy Dietary Choices?
The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
Almost 1/4 of Ky. inmates have mental-health issue; lockups are becoming the 'new asylums,' Wall Street Journal says
Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
Beshear to study nursing-home staffing minimums, suggests homes' high liability costs are related to poorly ranked care
Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
On EHR's: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil: Part 2
Part 1 is here . This is the second a series of posts I plan on the issue of "See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil" regarding...