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Thursday, January 31, 2013
Reese Witherspoon out and about in LA
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Safe Sex After 50: Preventing STDs, Using Condoms, and More
The must-ask questions if you're dating after 50.
When dance instructor Joan Price of Sebastopol, Calif., met the love of her life in her line dancing class at the age of 57, she was already wise to the steps and spins of modern dating, especially when it came to sex. She had been dating for years following her divorce, mostly short-term relationships, and was always careful to use condoms in bed.
Price, author of Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk about Sex After Sixty, says that when she and her now husband were ready to get intimate, she asked him point blank: "Shall I get the condoms or will you?"
Talking openly about safe sex and a partner's past may be unfamiliar territory for the over-50 crowd. Many are finding themselves single after years of marriage. The last time they had to deal with meeting a partner they were more concerned with getting pregnant than catching a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
Still, the sex life of the 50-plus set is alive and well. "Society's view of aging women as sexless is wrong, wrong, wrong," Price writes. "Many of us are having the best sex of our lives. We're the Love Generation. We practically invented sex."
At monthly gatherings called "Sex on the Porch," sex educator and coach Katherine Forsythe hosts an open forum for women 50 and older to discuss sexuality. She urges these women to ask their partners to prove they've been tested for STIs.
"Many of them say, 'I can't ask that,'" Forsythe says. "I ask them how they'll feel telling every sexual partner for the rest of your life you have HIV. These women have to realize it's a matter of protecting their most precious possession -- their bodies."
Forsythe wants to educate the generation who was taught good girls don't have to ask. "Good girls really will finish last," she says. "This is no time for coyness, pleasing, and unbartered trust."
She says she gives them the same message she’s taught teenagers in sex ed classes: "If you're going to play grown-up games, you have to play by grown-up rules. Today, that means a condom until you see the paperwork and have been monogamous for three months. No papers, no naked penis."
Even though safe sex for older adults doesn't garner much media attention, the risks are real An estimated 16% of new U.S. HIV/AIDS cases are among those age 50 and older, and 25% of people living with HIV/AIDS are over 50, according to the CDC.
Younger adults are seen as the highest risk group for HIV and STIs, so most messages in public health campaigns skew younger. But a number of sex education programs are now targeting older adults.
Adrien Brody out and about in Hong Kong
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FDA Panel Backs New Type of Diabetes Drug
Jan. 16, 2013 -- An FDA advisory panel has given its blessing to canagliflozin (Invokana) for the treatment of type 2 diabetes.
The panel voted 10 to 5 in favor of the drug’s approval, but did express concern about heart and stroke risks. The FDA is not obligated to follow the advice of its panels, but it usually does. The FDA is expected to give its decision in March.Taken by mouth once a day, the drug could be the first in a new class of diabetes drugs called sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors. Canagliflozin works to reduce the amount of blood sugar (glucose) reabsorbed by the kidneys. This results in glucose being expelled in the urine.
Preliminary data suggest that people who take the new medication have lower glucose levels and also lose weight. Studies of the new drug are ongoing.
The drug is being developed by Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Research & Development.
Despite recommending approval of the new drug, panel members expressed concerns about risks of heart disease and stroke. But data on studies evaluating this risk were insufficient.
They also expressed concerns about the use and safety of this drug in people with kidney disease. As such, some panel members recommended that people with kidney damage do not use this drug if it is approved.
In January 2012, the FDA voted against another SGLT2 inhibitor, dapagliflozin, due to concerns about a cancer risk. This drug was approved in the European Union in November 2012. There is no cancer risk seen with canagliflozin.
Dappy found guilty of assault and affray
N-Dubz star Costadinos "Dappy" Contostavlos has been found guilty of assault and affray in court today.Continue reading...
Bradley Cooper at a screening of Silver Linings Playbook in Spain
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'Xtreme Eating Awards': And the Winner Is?
Jan. 16, 2013 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has announced its seventh annual Xtreme Eating Awards, and as usual, there are some eye-popping, belt-busting, and artery-clogging stats behind these oversized restaurant meals.
Some of this year’s biggest offenders are dishes even savvy diners might not suspect:
Despite healthy ingredients like mushrooms, arugula, and tomatoes, the Bistro Shrimp Pasta from the Cheesecake Factory has more calories (3,120) than any other entree on the menu. It even has more calories than the cheesecake. Loads of butter and cream in the sauce deliver 89 grams of saturated fat.There are more than 1,460 calories and 22 teaspoons of added sugar swirled into a large Peanut Power Plus Grape Smoothie from Smoothie King.The Cheesecake Factory makes a second appearance in this year’s awards with the Crispy Chicken Costoletta: a single dish that has more calories and fat than an entire bucket of KFC Original Recipe Fried Chicken. A bucket of 12 pieces has 2,550 calories. Chicken Costoletta tips the scales at 2,610 calories.Other orders that could quickly send you up a dress size:
The Bacon Cheddar Double from Johnny Rockets has 1,770 calories, more than three McDonald’s Quarter Pounders with cheese. It also packs 50 grams of saturated fat and 2,380 milligrams of sodium.Also from Johnny Rockets, the Big Apple Shake, which mixes a piece of apple pie into a vanilla milkshake, has 1,140 calories, 37 grams of saturated fat, and 13 teaspoons of added sugar.With 2,710 calories, 45 grams of saturated fat, and 3,700 milligrams of sodium, the Veal Porterhouse with red potatoes from Maggiano’s Little Italy is like eating four Pizza Hut Personal Pan Pepperoni Pizzas.Country-Fried Steak & Eggs from IHOP packs almost a full day's worth of calories and fat right into breakfast -- 1,760 calories.“Years ago, if you went out and splurged, you ruined your diet for the day. With items like this, you’re ruining your diet for the week in some cases,” says Jayne Hurley, RD, a nutritionist at the CSPI who worked on the list.
“A lot of these chain restaurants, to be fair, do have a healthy or light section on their menu,” Hurley says, “but it’s like less than a handful of items. And then they’ve got pages of these 2,000- and 3,000-calorie monster meals.”
“Clearly, restaurants need to work on doing a menu makeover and slenderizing some of these,” she says.
The National Restaurant Association says that’s already happening. According to its 2013 industry forecast, over 85% of adults say there are more healthy options at restaurants than there were two years ago.
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