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show first aired July 17, 2008
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For a Monday morning press release on a clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics...it certainly got a lot of attention. But did it come as a surprise? On this week’s Health Show, we’ll hear about the AAP’s new recommendations for treating kids as young as 8 with cholesterol lowering drugs. We’ll also hear how watching sheep get fat is helping researchers fight obesity in kids, you know, the human kind. And a growing trend in college towns around the country is making health officials unhappy...hookah bars.
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NEW CHOLESTEROL GUIDE LINES FOR KIDS
The press release starts innocently enough: “The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new cholesterol screening and treatment recommendations for children.” The sentence that’s getting the most attention is somewhere in the middle: “For children who are more than eight years old and who have high LDL concentrations, cholesterol medications should be considered.” That’s when the headlines began. We got a hold of a couple of experts in the field of childhood obesity to find out what they thought of the recommendations. Dr. Susan Woolford, the medical director of the University of Michigan’s pediatric comprehensive weight management center; and Dr. Christopher Bolling, the medical director of the comprehensive weight management center at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. As you heard in the beginning of the program Dr. Bolling wasn’t surprised by the report, including the recommendations of treating kids as young as eight years old with statins...
Fat Sheep = Skinny Kids?
A group at the University of Wyoming is looking at the link between how pregnant women eat, and the health of their babies. The group is the Center for the Study of Fetal Programming, and the babies...are baby sheep. It turns out that sheep are helping explain why so many Americans are obese. Addie Goss reports.
HEALTH UPDATE with Dr. Philip Stieg
New research has uncovered patterns in brain activity that can predict when someone will make a mistake, up to a half-minute before it happens. On this week’s Health Update, Dr. Philip Stieg takes a look at the study using brain scans to detect mistakes before they happen.
Unhappy Hookahs
A hookah is a water pipe...usually a pretty elaborate, communal water pipe. Originally used in smoking rituals practiced by mostly Arab men, or caterpillars in Wonderland...the hookah is becoming trendy among American college students. Nearly four thousand so-called hookah lounges are operating in the US, primarily in urban centers or college towns. Jacqueline Froelich reports on the health concerns associated with smoking a hookah.
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