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Health & Wellness * ealthb ' TYiathlon to benefit ] The fourth annual Kids for Kids Triathlon, I nner Children's Hospital, will be I , July IS at 8 a m at Wake Fon s 7 to 10 will compete in a 100 ) r bike ride anda 1 kilometer ran. 1 1 compete in a 200 yard swim, a ' l and a 2 kilometer run on the i y Kids for Kids Triathlon bei 's Hospital, which is part of ty Baptist Medical Center. before June 30 and $30 on the day of the r information is available on-line and Multi-Sport Club of Wii S) website, www.tricows.com. it to encourage children at a be physically active," said Keith Davis president. "This is also a way for the local ??Mpter to be involved in the community and mdents of the importance of leading a ' active lifestyle." year, more than 1 50 children partici event. T-shirts are given to all participants ai are presented to the top three finishers in i. For more information, visit www.trico' NCCU professor Allen is named the president of the NHFA Dr. Beverly Allen, professor and cat Education and Recreation I Carolina Central University (NCCU) icy of the National Health tion (NHFA) during its annual mission of NHFA is to /?nllort anH research regarding racia ities in health and ?ttociated medical obesity, diabetes, heart stroke, and also breast, and prostate cancers. It will be Allen's ity to manage the scheduled for March in Baltimore, Maryland. ; AUm presented at this conl be published Association's biannual journal titled The ' In addition to her assumption of the ile April Yneeting, Allen was awarded lenderson award for her service to the by the Ethnic Minorities Coui Alliance, for Health, Physical and Dance. in joins a developing cadre of in the study of the elevated es for African Americans who si list of life-threatening diseases, received Iwr bachelor's degree in education and recreation at North State University and eamedher master's degrees in dance and physical of North Carolina at Greensboro State University, respectively. Frito-Lay increases olestra I WASHINGTON (AP) - Frito-Lay said 1 Thursday its chips that contain olestra will I prominent labeling alerting consumers to the | of the fat substitute The change wards off a lawsuit that a < group had threatened on behalf of a woman who i the snacks gave her stomach cramps and forced J rush to the bathroom. Piano, Texas-based company, a div -Inc., will disclose on the fronts and of its Light line of potato and corn ( made with olestra, company Gonzalez said. Previously, was noted only in the list of ing with a logo bearing its brand name, Olean. The Center for Science in the Public F to sue Frito-Lay unless it better < its Light chips ? including versions of 1 '? and Ruffles ? contained the fake f D.C.-based consumer group it has received reports from more than 1 who have experienced adverse i eating products made with olestra. The Food and Drug Administration in 1996, despite concerns that it can < agency initially required | to carry a warning label. In 2003, t ed the labeling requirement. Moderate drinking linked to I mental function in older wo Research involving more than 7,000 okWf v found that those who drink a moderate amount o hoi have slightly higher levels of mental I non-drinkers, particularly in verbal abilities, I to researchers ai Wake f orest University Medical Center and colleagues. "Our research confirms other studies that for older women who choose to drink - a restricted from drinking for medical reasons - ate alcohol intake is not harmful for cognition I provide some mental benefits," said Mark f PhD .lead author. . The study, available on-line in the miology, found that compared , women who reported drinking up to < drinks per day performed better on I cognitive function, which includes i inguage, memory and abstract real [women were Itrongesi in verbal skills: reported having at least one drink i day did I vocabulary tests and on a word fluency test a # generate a list of words beginning with a i Study: Breast cancer in younger black women is likely to be very aggressive SPECIAL TO THE CHRONICLE CHAPEL HILL - For decades, researchers have tried Co understand why breast cancer in younger black women is such a significant public health problem. Black women have fewer breast cancers than white women, but their mortality is worse. Black women under the age of 50 have a 77 percent ? higher mortality rate from breast can cer than white women of the same age. Results of a study led by scien tists from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill schools of Public Health and Medicine and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer suggest one reason for these differences. When younger, premenopausal, black women get breast cancer, they are more than twice as likely as older women, black or white, to get an aggressive breast cancer subtype, the study found. They are also much less likely to get the ledst aggressive type. A report of the research appears in the June 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical ' Association (JAMA). "The present study adds an important piece to a large puzzle," said senior study author Dr. Robert Millikan. "Previous studies showed that many breast tumors in younger African American women are very fast-growing and hard to treat. "We found something new: younger African American breast cancer patients show a high frequen cy of one of the aggressive subtypes of breast cancer called basal-like," said Millikan, associate professor of epidemiology at the UNC School of Report: Restaurants should shrink portions BY ANDREW BRIDGES THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON - Those heaping potions at restau rants ? and doggie bags for the leftovers ? may be a thing of the past, if health officials get their way. i ne government is trying to enlist tne neip of the nation's eateries in fighting obesity. One of the first things on their list: cutting portion sizes. .With burgers, fries and pizza the Top 3 eat ing-out favorites in this country, restaurants are in a prime position to help improve people's diets and combat obesity. At least that's what is recommended in a government-commissioned report released Friday. kmvm4 M/inarfa/1 nnH fun/lart Kir tKki lilt icpuii, itijui^nu aiiu iuiiumj \jj uiv Food and Drug Administration, lays out ways to help people manage their intake of calories from the growing number of meals prepared away from home, including at the nation's nearly 900 XXX) restaurants and other establishments that serve food. "We must take a serious look at the impact these foods are having on our waistlines." said Penelope Slade Royall. director of the health promotion office at the Department of Health and Human Services. The 1 3?- page report prepared by The Keystone Center, an education and public group based in Keystone, Colo., said Americans now consume fully one-third of their daily intake of calories outside the home". And as of 2000, the average American took in 300 more calories a day than was the case' 15 years earlier, according to Agriculture Department statistics cited in the report. Today, 64 percent of Americans are over weight, including the 30 percent who are obese, according to the report. It pegs the annual med ical cost of the problem at nearly $93 billion. Consumer advocates increasingly have heaped some of the blame on restaurant chains like McDonald's, which bristles at the criticism while offering more salads and fruit. The report Cohn aoes not explicitly mik aimng out witn me rising tide of obesity, but does cite numerous studies that suggest there is a connection. The National Restaurant Association said the report, which it helped prepare but does not support, unfairly tar geted its industry. The report encourages restaurants to shift the emphasis of their marketing to lower-calorie choices, and include See Portions on A13 Mental health and social stigma The People's Clinic The Maya Angooi Research Cents* on Minomty HeaitA Wake Fores! University Baptist According to the United States Department of Health and Human Services, mental disorders account for about 15 percent of the overall burden of disease in the US, which is higher than the burden of disease associated with all forms of cancer. It is esti mated that one of every five Americans will experi ence a mental disorder at some point during their lives. Minorities bear a greater burden from unmet mental health needs, which can result in unnecessary suffering and impact overall health and productivity. It is alarming to note that suicides among African American youth (ages 10-14) increased at a rate nearly double the rate of increase among white youth of the same age. What Is mental health, and why is it important? a Mental health may be defined as a state of psy chological. social, and emotional well-being. See Menial Health on A16 Public Health, a UNC Lineberger member and principal investigator of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (CBCS). The CBCS, one of the largest black breast cancer databases in the United States, is a population-based i^ise-control study that enrolled women with breast cancer from 24 counties pf North Carolina as cases, and an equal number of women with out breast cancer as controls. Women who consented to the study were interviewed about their histories, and their tumor tissue was collected. The study required extensive cooperation from all of the women who partici pated in the study, their physicians and pathologists, and a large number of hospitals in Noith Carolina. According to JAMA study lead author Dr. Lisa A. Carey, associate professor of medicine in the hematol ogy-oncology division at UNC's School of Medicine, modern tech nologies such as microarray analysis can reveal the molecular characteris tics of cancers and have shown that breast cancer is not one disease. "It is See Cancer on A14 NAACP joins AIDS struggle SPECIAL TO THE CHROMCLE National Association for the Advancement of Colored People President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bruce S. Gordon was slated to join 24 other influen tial black Americans in New York Monday morning to announce the National Black AIDS Mobilization effort and further solidify the Association's commit ment to battling the disease. Led by the Black AIDS Institute, the National Black AIDS Mobilization is aimed at building a mass U 1 ? I, u f a v. R response to the deadly AIDS epi demic ' - culminat ing in a rollback of alarm inn Aitvs trends in Gordon 4 the next five years. NAACP says that Black Americans now account for 54 percent of annual new HIV infec tions in the U.S. Black women represent 67 percent of female AIDS cases, and black teens make up two-thirds of new infections in their age group. Once positive, African Americans are seven times more likely to die from the vims than according to statis tics. "The NAACP has been in the forefront of every V III O j U I Wilson ;ssue gjnj crisis fac ing blacks in this country for near ly a century,", said Myisha Patterson, the NAACP's National Health Coordinator. "We will not shrink in the face of this modem plague. We must promote person al dialogue on this issue, encour age testing and support additional programs that literally will save our lives." There are an estimated 13 million Americans living with AIDS today - nearly half of them are black. "AIDS is not just a health issue. It is a human rights issue. It is an urban renewal issue. It is an economic justice issue," said Phill Wilson, the Black AIDS Institute's CEO. "If we are to have any chance of winning the battle for racial justice, we must confront the AIDS epidemic, tyi army rav aged by disease cannot fight. A dead people cannot reap the bene fits of a battle won." '
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