On our Lab Notes page CalorieLab’s editors select and rank the day’s essential health news items in real time. Readers can suggest, vote and comment on items. Below are brief summaries of yesterday’s (March 18, 2010) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.
1. FDA Launches Crackdown on Youth Smoking
Every day 4,000 kids under 18 try out smoking, and a quarter of those become daily smokers. The FDA today announced regulations that attempt to reduce youth smokers via various restrictions on marketing and sale.
2. Irritable Bowel Syndrome Helped by Hypnotherapy
Hypnosis has been shown to significantly reduce or even completely eliminate the symptoms of Irritable Bowel Disease.
3. Accidental Drug OD Deaths up Fivefold
Unintentional drug overdose deaths in 2006 were 500 percent the levels they were in 1990, according to reports received by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
4. Gold Medalist Says Athletes Really Do Eat McDonald’s
Two-time U.S. Olympic swimming gold medalist Garrett Weber-Gale says that McDonald’s isn’t lying in its advertising when it claims Olympians eat its food: Weber-Gale has seen it firsthand, even among medalists before events, and he doesn’t approve of it.
(By CalorieLab editors)
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Lab Notes: FDA Launches Crackdown on Youth Smoking; Irritable Bowel Syndrome Helped by Hypnotherapy