** Early Detection by Dr. Robert Osgoodby

** Overweight In America: Not A New Problem by Dr. Earl Mindell

** Smiles - Some Thoughts

** When To Keep Your Sick Child Home From Daycare, Nursery Or School by Frank Barnhill, M.D.

** Trivia

** Stress Tips by Dr. Rae Baum

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All opinions presented in this publication are those of the authors. Articles in this newsletter are for information only. If you have a medical problem, see your Medical Doctor.

If you have been listening to the radio or reading the newspaper lately, chances are you have heard or seen an advertisement for full-body imaging.  The ads are enticing.  "A simple 15 minute, non-invasive exam can save your life.  It's quick, painless, and easy.  Why take a chance?"

Radiologists who conduct full body computed tomography scans say they can detect the earliest stages of several conditions, even if the patient is asymptomatic.  The conditions range from brain tumors, cancer, heart disease, to kidney stones.  Who wouldn't be attracted to a procedure that would let them look into a crystal ball and see their medical future?  It's a great concept, but many physicians disagree with full body scans for patients who have no symptoms.  The scan exposes the patients unnecessarily to radiation and can also subject them to risky follow-up procedures for conditions that often turn out to be false or harmless.

Good reports can also create a false sense of security. There are many health risks that a full-body scan will not reveal. There is no substitute for a comprehensive health assessment.  Another problem with a scan that provides a patient with a clean bill of health is they may skip their annual comprehensive physical examination.

I am a firm believer in early detection, but a body scan is a screening study and, like all other screening studies may uncover so-called problems that turn out to be nothing.  In support of full body imaging, let's compare it with mammography.  Since mammography has been introduced, studies show that the mortality rate for breast cancer has gone down significantly.

Thousands of people are bypassing their doctors and lining up for scans that run from $800 to $1,300.  People have the right to spend their money on any costly health care procedure they choose - but who pays for biopsies and follow-ups?  The health insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid.  So in other words, you pay for it with increased premium prices.

Early detection is great, but do full body scans allow you to take charge of your health and make smart decisions, or are you being played by the medical marketing machine?  Unfortunately, both are true.  No doubt these scans save lives, and Americans will not stand for a health care system that denies access to today's latest technology.  But most of us will live long healthy lives without full body scans and will probably be better off eating a healthy diet, exercising, and not missing our annual physical examination.

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Overweight In America: Not A New Problem
by Dr. Earl Mindell

Despite all the hype over the Obesity Crisis in 2005, the statistics on obesity have remained pretty much the same since 2001. So far, it looks like the problem is not continuing to worsen. A survey by market research firm NPD Group found that:

* 62 percent of adults are overweight or obese.
* 34 percent of children are overweight or obese.
* statistics have not changed substantially since 2001.
* about 25 percent of 5,000 adults surveyed reported that they were on a diet—the same results found in a similar survey in 1985.

If we're holding fast since 2001 in terms of the rate of overweight and obesity, does this suggest that the tide is turning? Not exactly.

Once people pass that threshold to overweight [one or more pounds beyond healthy weight for their height, or a BMI (body mass index between) 25 and 29.9] or obesity (30 pounds or more over healthy weight or BMI of 30 or greater), they tend to continue to put on the pounds. As Cynthia Ogden, a CDC (Centers for Disease Control) epidemiologist, put it in Nanci Hellmich's USA Today article on the subject, “The heavy are getting heavier.”

Further research—more rigorous than NPD Group's, done by the CDC—finds that more overweight people pass the threshold to obesity with each passing year. According to their research, the percentage of obese adults in the United States has doubled since the 1970s: 15 percent of adults were obese then, and just over 31 percent are obese now.

Okay, so we know we have a lot of people walking around who have excess weight to contend with. With all the press on obesity, all the shouting about how overweight people are putting undue stress on the healthcare system, doctors, family, friends, and women's and men's magazines barking at them to lose weight, it's likely that many of these folks are getting tired of this state of affairs.

Add to this recent evidence that the CDC has dramatically overestimated the mortality risks of being overweight with its figure of 300,000 excess deaths per year attributable to overweight and obesity. Some current analyses suggest that being overweight is not a health risk as long as one leads a healthy lifestyle and gets plenty of exercise. (Obesity, on the other hand, is widely agreed upon as a significant health risk.)

Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D.'s Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight And Your Health makes an excellent argument in favor of a more relaxed attitude about a few extra pounds. So, too, does well-respected researcher Steven N. Blair, who heads the renowned Cooper Institute in Texas—a foundation focused on the study and promotion of physical activity. In a Washington Post article, Blair states that “[t]he impression is that everyone who is overweight faces an elevated risk for mortality. That's simply not true.” In other words, you can be fat, fit, and healthy.

Others—including Walter Willett, head of the Harvard School of Public Health— criticize this perspective, saying that fat people are more at risk for injuries that make exercise difficult, that the evidence clearly links increased risk of mortality from diabetes, heart disease, and some cancers with even moderate overweight, and that even small weight losses can make a dramatic difference in overall health.

The take-home message: whether you're a few pounds overweight or teetering on the brink of obesity, don't think only in terms of attaining the centerfold-perfect body. That end is unattainable for all but a few. Think instead about remaining within a healthy weight range, between a BMI of 18.5 and 25. Think instead about moving your body on a regular basis and having that be a joy instead of a self-punishing ritual that gets tossed out the window when the pounds fail to melt away.

Steer clear of yo-yo diets, which make the problem worse in the end, and let 2006 lead you to a comfortable, healthful weight. Make the lifestyle adjustments that promote health, and let the scale dial fall where it may. Chances are good that if you do everything you can to be healthier, you'll lose weight, too.

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Some Thoughts
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* One of life's mysteries is how a two pound box of candy can make A person gain five pounds.
* Brain cells come and go but fat cells live forever.
* Life not only begins at forty, it begins to show.
* I had to give up jogging for my health. My thighs kept rubbing together and setting my pants on fire.
* Amazing! You just hang something in your closet for a while and it shrinks two sizes.

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At an international conference, an American, a Brit, and a Russian were discussing the shortcomings of their diagnoses.
"I can't stand it some time. We treat people for cancer, and then they die of AIDS".
"I know what you mean." said the Brit. "We treat them for yellow fever, and it turns out they had malaria. Then, of course, they die".
"That is not a problem in our country" said the Russian doctor. "When we treat people for a disease, they die of *that* disease."

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A guy walks into the psychiatrist's and says "Doctor, doctor, you've got to help me! I keep thinking that I'm a deck of cards!"
The shrink says "Sit over there and I'll deal with you later."

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It used to be much easier to squeeze all that toothpaste from the tube when they were metal - now that most toothpaste comes in a plastic tube that springs back to its original shape, it can be a chore. Use a jumbo paper clip (two, one on each side, if the tube is large) and slide it up from the bottom as the tube empties.

Since we provide medical care for so many kids, we’re asked this question at least a dozen times a week in our family medicine practice. While there are no hard and fast rules about when to keep a sick child home from school, over the last five years, more and more references can be found in Pediatrics literature that hopefully will give you the parent some loose guidelines to follow.

Contagious illnesses in schools, nurseries and daycare centers are usually passed from child to child by droplets suspended in the air from coughing and sneezing, direct contact with objects that have those droplets or “snot” deposited on them, or from hand contact with contaminated bowel movement. In defense of daycare centers and other schools, it’s virtually impossible to keep a child from coughing or sneezing on other kids or scratching his butt and handling toys before his hands can be washed. That’s why preventing the spread of childhood disease should start at home before the illness goes too far.

Medical reports clearly state that children should not be kept home from school for mild respiratory illnesses such as head colds without fever or a productive cough. However, you should use the following “guidelines” to judge the difference between mild and more severe illnesses.

You should not send your child to school if he or she:

* Has a fever above 100.4 degrees orally or 99.4 degrees rectally (please note that skin and ear digital thermometers are very unreliable!)
 
* Is irritable, cries constantly, or seems very sleepy or difficult to awaken
 
* Is hard to keep awake and refuses to eat normally
 
* Has difficulty breathing or seems to be breathing more rapidly than usual
 
* Had diarrhea in the past twelve hours that would run out of a diaper, has a foul infected type odor, or would be so difficult to control that your child could not make it to the toilet without soiling clothing or messing up the bathroom or classroom
 
* Has vomited two or more times in the past 24 hours or once in the past eight hours
 
* Complains of constant stomach pains or walks stooped over and holding his stomach
 
* Has sores in the mouth or is drooling because it hurts to swallow
 
* Has a skin rash that includes pus bumps, water blisters, or oozing crusty areas (impetigo), or is associated with fever
 
* Has pinkness or redness in the whites of eyes with crusting or drainage of yellow or green pus
 
* If skin or whites of eyes become yellow or jaundiced
 
* Has untreated head lice, scabies, or strep throat
 
* Has an unexplained swollen joint, arm or leg and won’t move the arm or stand on the leg
 
* Has a headache for more than twelve hours not relieved by Tylenol
 
* Has a croupy or wheezy cough or coughs up a lot of green or yellow phlegm
 
* Has a change in behavior or doesn’t act “normal”
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There are many other signs of serious illness in children that we have not covered. Our advice is simply to use common sense in deciding whether your child acts “normal enough” to send him or her to school.

Hopefully you can use these rough guidelines to help decide when to keep your sick child home from school or daycare. Since you know your child’s normal appetite, how energetic he is, how often she urinates or poops, and how he or she ordinarily “looks” when not sick, you are the best judge of when to keep them home.

When our kids were in daycare, we developed a feel for when to keep them at home and trusted that other parents would do the same to avoid spreading diseases throughout the entire nursery and daycare population. I’m sure you’ll do the same, since I know that you would not do anything to place someone else’s child at risk of a contagious illness.

For further information, please see articles on “How to choose a daycare provider for your child” and “When can I send my sick kids back to school?”.

Good luck in continuing to be a great parent!
Dr. Frank

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Frank Barnhill, M.D.
Certified American Board of Family Medicine
http://www.drhuggiebear.com

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If you need to lose weight, you must be in caloric deficit. This can be accomplished by cutting down your caloric intake, or increasing the amount of calories you burn by exercising. I recommend both. Even though a calorie is a calorie when it comes to weight loss, a calorie is not a calorie when it comes to your health. Make sure your daily diet includes several servings of fruit and vegetables and whenever possible, avoid foods that contain trans fat.

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