Lab Notes: Curved Beer Glass May Cause Quicker
Drinking; Limiting Calories May Add Health, Not Years

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 this past week’s (August 25, 2012 through September 1, 2012) Lab Notes items. To see today’s items, visit Lab Notes.

1. Curved Beer Glass May Cause Quicker Drinking

The shape of your beer glass may affect how quickly you drink its contents, say researchers from the University of Bristol.

2. Limiting Calories May Add Health, Not Years

Health span may be separate from life span, suggest scientists who restricted calories among a colony of rhesus monkey that were tracked for more than 20 years.

3. Being Only Child Linked with Being Overweight

Kids without siblings may be up to 50 percent more likely to be overweight compared to kids with siblings, say researchers.

4. Alcohol Users Exercise More Than Nondrinkers

People who drink alcohol are more likely to engage in regular vigorous exercise than nondrinkers, and those defined as heavy drinkers spend more time exercising than moderate drinkers or nondrinkers, who are the most likely to have not exercised lately.

5. Phthalates Found in Kids? School Supplies

Phthalates, chemicals linked to birth defects and other serious health issues, have been found in kids? back to school supplies.

6. Bacterial Cause Found for Rosacea

Rosacea may be triggered by bacteria from mites that live on facial skin.

7. US Pediatricians Give Okay to Circumcision

The American Academy of Pediatrics says evidence now shows that infant male circumcision can help prevent HIV and other genital diseases and infections, and that the benefits warrant the procedure being made available to all families that prefer it.

8. Internet Addiction Is Real

Can you be addicted to the internet? Sure can, says new research.

9. Legionnaires’ Disease in Chicago JW Marriott

A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak at the downtown Chicago JW Marriott has caused two deaths and six additional illnesses since August 14.

10. Obesity Caused by Calories, Not Inactivity

Research comparing the energy burned by a hunter-gatherer tribe in Tanzania with that burned by sedentary American and European populations finds no overall difference, indicating that caloric intake, not physical inactivity, is the cause of obesity.

11. Doctor Refuses to Treat Obese Patients

Massachusetts doctor refuses to treat obese patients. AMA says it?s not only legal but ethical too.

12. Pot Use Before 18 Causes Lasting Harm

Persistent and dependent usage of marijuana before the age of 18 can cause lasting harm to the user’s memory, attention and intelligence, finds an international research team.

13. Study Shows Metabolite of Alcohol Damages DNA

Results from a new study shows that the breakdown product of alcohol can bind to DNA, which likely explains the link between regular consumption and an increased risk of certain cancers.

14. Semen Has Anti-Depressive Effect on Women

Research finds that sexually active women who never use condoms display fewer symptoms of depression than those who usually or always use them or women who abstain from sex, possibly due to mood-elevating chemicals present in semen.

(By CalorieLab editors)

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