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2006 diet news brought us fish, veggies, wine, chocolate
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO—Order from a
menu of vegetables, fish, wine
and chocolate, but hold the
trans fats and sugary sodas.
That might best sum up the
diet headlines of 2006.
The year’s biggest nutrition
news sometimes echoed what
moms and food scientists
have been harping on for
years. Othm" times, it seemed
too good to be true.
Often, the news centered on
food choices many want
removed firom the table, but
in a year that included white-
bread icon Wonder Bread
bakmg two whole-wheat ver-
. sions, there were still plenty
of healthy options available.
The year started out
sweet—more data suggesting
dark chocolate mi^t be good
for the heart— and ended with
trans fats grabbing big head
lines—New York City became
the first in the nation to ban
these unhealthy fats in
restam*ant food.
Although moms say save
dessert for last, chocolate
news deserves the first look. It
made lots of mouths water,
but nutrition experts say it
needs to be taken with a grain
of salt.
A study pubhshed in
February found lower blood
pressxu^ and lower risk of
Poet Adele V. Holden, 87, dies
THEASSOC/AIED PRESS
BALTIMORE-Adele V
Holden, a retired teacher who
wrote of growing up in segre
gated Pocomoke City died
Dec. 22 at the Gilchrist
Center for Hospice Care, she
was 87,
In her book, “Down on the
Shore: The Family and Place
lliat Forged a Poet’s Voice,”
published in 2000, she wrote
of Pocomoke City in the
1920s and ‘30s, where her
father worked as an auto
mechanic and vowed that his
children would get a proper
high school education.
He persuaded Worcester
Coimty officials to add a 10th-
grade teacher for black stu
dents and drove his daughter
20 miles to Snow Hili High
School, where she graduated
in 1936.
“I never doubted my worth
as-a person. My father was a
good person, but he was veiy
stem about certain things,”
Holden said in a 1999 Svm
inteiview. “He taught us to
value ourselves. We had
enoxxgh guidance to know we
were as good as anybody else
out there, black or white.”
Holden moved to Baltimore
in the 1930s, graduated firom
what is now Morgan State
University and joined the city
school system. She later
edined a master’s degree in
writing fiom Johns Hopkins
University
Survivors include a brother
New year brings smoking
bans at N.C. hospitals
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOREHEAD CITY -
Smoking at a hospital in the
nation’s top tobacco-producing
state will become more diffi
cult startir^ New Year’s Day
On Monday, Carteret
General Hospital goes com
pletely tobacco fi:ee. It joins 59
of the state’s 134 hospitals
that have adopted poheies
against smoking and tobacco
use anywhere on campus and
have started or are in the
process of starting those poli
cies. Another 26 hospitals
have publicly announced their
intention to pass such poli
cies.
‘We think it makes a strong
statement as a role model in
the community about how
serious the effects of tobacco
are on the community,” said
A LfTTLE TOO PUBLIC?
Beth Besweick, spokes
woman for Carteret Genial
Hospital.
In tobacco-rich eastern
Noi1h Carolina, Pitt County
Memorial Hospital in
Greenville has already
banned all smoking on its
property Craven Regional
Medical Center has designat
ed smoking areas outside the
building.
Ihe smoking restrictions
have been promoted by the
Healthy Hospital Initiative,
funded by The Duke
Endowment in partnership
with the NC Hospital
Foimdation.
“Ibbacco-free policies
encourage people to quit
smoking and protect patients,
visitors and employees fium
second-hand smoke,” said
Jennifer Hastings, preven
tion and communications
manager for NC Prevention
Partners.
In June, the U.S. Surgeon
General issued a strong
warning on the dangers of
secondhand smoke. The
report said even a small
amount can cause health
problems such as heart dis
ease and lung cancer, and
called for a smoking ban in
public places.
Dozens of hospitals in the
western part of the state
eitiier bar all tobacco or plan
to do so.
Cleveland Regional Medical
Center, Kings Mormtain
Hospital and Gaston
Memorial Hospital are
among those who will rii^ in
the New Year by becoming
100-percent tobacco-firee. By
July 4, Duke University
Health System, UNC Health
Care and WakeMed health
care systems will restrict
smoking.
Raab Clinic file clerk Dottie
Gowens was among the 40 or
so employees who participat
ed in a hypnosis class offered
by Carteret General Hospital
in May to quit smoking.
The 74-year-old said she
smoked fiom the timp she
was a teen but has quit.
“There have been three
occasions since then that Fd
crave one, light it and put it
out,” Gowens said.
She sees the hospital’s new
pohey as an educational
opportunity for the communi
ty
‘T just feel that ifl quit, any
one could,” she said.
Privacy a concern as social
online sites become fair game
THE ASSOC/ArED PRESS
CHICAGO -Walls of an
auditorium were covered with
thousands of sheets of paper
—printouts'from MySpace,
Facebook, YouTube and other
online sites tiiat were filled
with back-stabbing gossip,
unfiattering images, and
details about par-tying and
dating ejqrloits.
Each posting was easily
accessed onfine, no password
needed. But seeing them on
paper—and in some cases,
being asked to read them
aloud—grabbed the attention
of members of the North
American Federation of
Tfemple Youth, who gathered
earlier thi.s year at a camp
outside New York City That
each of the pages mentioned
their organization in some
way only made it that much
more embarrassing.
“Tliey saw themselves and
often their fiiends, completely
open, all the way around the
room,” said Dean Carson,
president of the group for
Jewish youth and a fireshman
at George Washington
University “It was very
shocking for a lot of people.”
Ifs just one of a growing
number of instances in which
people who blog and use
social-networking and video
sites are realizing just how
public those spaces can be.
That realization, in turn, is
causing many of them to
reconsider what tiiey post —
or at the very least, to do more
to protect their privacy
Chuck Sanchez, a 25-year-
old Chicagoan, recently delet
ed references to his public
relations firm on his Mj^pace
page after everyone fiom a job
applicant to his fiancee’s
mother found the page.
‘It’s simply not worth it,” he
says. “I want my personal site
to be just that: personal.”
Rachel Hutson removed
some photos from her college
sorority days after she took a
job as a civilian working for
the military She’s also made
her Facebook and MySpace
profiles private, so that only
fiiends she approves can see
it.
“I just don’t want certain
people to find me,” says
Hutson, who’s 23 and lives in
Newport News, Wiginia.
When it comes to posting
personal information onfine,
predators and other criminals
are, of course, always a con
cern.
But it goes well beyond that
as more adults—teachers,
parents, university admis
sions counselors and prospec
tive employers—become
savvy about searching online
spaces. Sometimes, personal
information fives on in the
archives of Google and other
search engines, no matter
how much people tiy to get
rid of it.
‘Dveryone at this point-
even if it hasn’t happened to
them—has heard about
someone who’s gotten in trou
ble at school, with a parent, a
coach, because of something
that’s been posted online,”
says Susannah Stem, an
assistant professor of commu
nication studies at the
University of San Diego who
studies young people’s onfine
habits.
“They’re now more con
scious that information they
post online can be used in
ways they didn’t intend it to
be,” she says. “And I think
this awareness is healthy—
for adults or kids.”
Tbday the rule of thumb is:
If it’s in the public domain, it’s
fair game.
Jeff Krakauer, human
resources director for the legal
services company Juriscape in
Pasadena, California, says he
recently began looking at
social-networking profiles—
especially for candidates for
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death in older Dutch men
who ate the equivalent of one-
third of a chocolate bar daily
And research later in the year
found improved blood flow in
adults who drank fiavanol-
enriched cocoa. Flavanols are
compoimds also foxmd in red
wine that researchers believe
help keep blood vessels
healthy
The two studies build on
previous suggestions that
chocolate, especially the dark
variety might be good for the
heart. But the research is not
condxisive and scientists still
don’t know if there really is a
connection.
whom he’s “on the fence."
So far, what he’s seen hasn’t
swayed him one way or anoth
er.
‘Dut if something was really
wild and way out there, it
would cause me some con
cern,” he says.
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