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I have Special K original crisp rice cereal. On the side, it says 1 serving is 1 cup (or 31 grams). Just for the heck of it, I scooped up roughly 1 cup of cereal and measured it. It only weighed 21 grams. So I added the proper amount needed to get to 31 grams.
Even though the measurement simply said 1 cup, would it still be equivalent to the given nurtritional information of the cereal if 31 grams was a bit more than a cup? Haha, do you see my dilemma? Thank you very much! :)
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Many more American women are living with their partners rather than tying the knot, a new government survey finds.
And they live together longer than couples in the recent past, and many more get pregnant before marriage, according to the survey released Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics, which is part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nearly half of women aged 15 to 44 years old "cohabited" outside of marriage between 2006 and 2010, compared with 43 percent in 2002 and 34 percent in 1995. The report is based on in-person interviews with more than 12,000 women in that age group.
One reason more people are living together is a well-documented delay in the age at which people are marrying, said study lead author Casey Copen, a demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics.
"Cohabiting couples may be waiting for improved financial stability before they make a decision to marry and, in the process, become pregnant and have a baby," she said. "As you cohabit longer, there's more of a chance to become pregnant."
Many of these arrangements occur at a young age, with one-quarter of women cohabiting by age 20 and three-quarters saying they had lived with a partner by age 30.
During the first year of living together, nearly 20 percent became pregnant and went on to give birth, according to the report.
Along with this trend, fewer women reported getting married in the period from 2006 to 2010 than in either 2002 or 1995 (23 percent, 30 percent and 39 percent, respectively). Of those who became pregnant the first year, 19 percent got married within six months of the pregnancy, versus 32 percent in 1995.
Education and income play a role in how long women cohabit and whether they get pregnant or marry, Copen said.
"Those who have less than a high school degree are cohabiting for longer periods of time," Copen said. "Women who have a bachelor's degree or higher are more likely to move into marriage."
Less educated women were also more likely to become pregnant while they were living with their partner.
The rate of cohabitation increased in all racial and ethnic groups except for Asian women.
Here are some highlights of the report:
For the period between 2006 and 2010, 23 percent of recent births happened while the couple was living together, up from 14 percent in 2002.The length of time couples lived together averaged 22 months in 2006 to 2010, compared with 13 months in 1995.About 40 percent of people living together got married within the first three years, while 32 percent continued to live together and 27 percent broke up.More white women (44 percent) and foreign-born Hispanic women (42 percent) married their partners within the first three years of living together compared with only 31 percent each for black women and Hispanic women born in the United States.Women who had not finished high school were more likely to live with someone (70 percent) than women who had finished college or beyond (47 percent).Women with more education were more likely to marry than those with less education, 53 percent within three years versus 30 percent.
“Floaters” and flashes are a common sight for many people. Floater is a catchall term for the specks, threads, or cobweb-like images that occasionally drift across the line of vision. Flashes are sparks or strands of light that flicker across the visual field. Both are usually harmless. But they can be a warning sign of trouble in the eye, especially when they suddenly appear or become more plentiful.
A floater is a tiny cluster of cells or fleck of protein lodged in the vitreous humor. This clear, stable gel, which looks like raw egg white, supports and fills the rear two-thirds of the eyeball (see “The inside story”). The vitreous provides a pathway for light coming into the eye through the lens. The vitreous connects to the retina, the patch of light-sensitive cells along the back of the eye that captures images and sends them to the brain via the optic nerve.
What you see isn’t actually the floater itself, but the shadow it casts onto the retina. Floaters move as your eyes move. They appear to zoom away when you try to look directly at them, and drift slowly when your eyes stop moving.
The vitreous slowly shrinks with age, causing it to become a bit stringy. The strands cast shadows on the retina, causing floaters. About one-quarter of people have some vitreous shrinkage with floaters by their 60s; that rises to about two-thirds of 80-year-olds. Floaters also appear more often in people who are nearsighted, those who have had cataract surgery or a previous eye injury, and those with diabetes. Although most people tolerate floaters just fine, others feel that floaters affect their vision and disrupt their ability to read.
Flashes occur when the vitreous gel bumps, rubs, or tugs against the retina. Like floaters, flashes are generally harmless and require no treatment.
Sometimes floaters and flashes signal a condition that can lead to vision loss.
“A new onset of floaters may herald retinal disease,” said Dr. Jeffrey Heier, director of the retina service at Ophthalmic Consultants of Boston and clinical instructor in ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, in the June issue of the Harvard Health Letter.
The shrinking vitreous can tug on the retina and pull away from it. This event, called a posterior vitreous detachment, is common, and usually doesn’t threaten vision. In about one in six people, a posterior vitreous detachment causes the retina to tear. Fluid from inside the eye can then seep through the tear and separate the retina from the tissues that nourish it. This separation, called retinal detachment, can lead to permanent vision loss.
Retinal tears and detachments are painless. Key warning signs include:
a new onset of floaters and flashesgradual shading of vision from one side (like a curtain being drawn)rapid decline in sharp, central vision. This occurs when the macula — the area of the retina responsible for central vision — detaches.
Laser photocoagulation is usually done in a doctor’s office. The ophthalmologist uses a laser to make a series of tiny burns around the retinal tear. This creates a barrier of scar tissue that stops the tear from getting bigger.If you experience any of these warning signs, call your doctor right away. You will need to see an ophthalmologist for an eye exam as soon as possible. If a tear is detected early, treatment can prevent the retina from detaching. Tears can be treated several ways. Pinpoints of laser light can be used to fuse the retina to the back wall of the eye (see “Laser photocoagulation”). Extreme cold, a procedure called cryopexy, does much the same thing.
Cold and laser light can also be paired with the injection of a gas bubble into the eye (pneumatic retinopexy) to repair a detached retina. Two operations, scleral buckling and vitrectomy, can also be used to reattach a retina.
If your floaters aren’t a sign of retinal damage, they may disappear, become less noticeable, or stay and become irritating. Some clinicians perform and promote laser treatment for benign floaters, but this approach hasn’t been carefully studied in a clinical trial, says Dr. Heier. Floaters can be removed, but for most people the risk to vision of the surgery is greater than the problem posed by the floater. If floaters become a nuisance, Dr. Heier recommends this trick in The Aging Eye, a Special Health Report from Harvard Medical School for which he is a medical editor: move your eyes up and down, or left and right. That can shift the floater and provide temporary relief.
By Brenda Goodman
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, April 4 (HealthDay News) -- Living near asphalt that's sealed with coal tar may raise the risk of getting cancer, a new study shows. The potential threat appears to be greatest for young children.
Coal tar, a byproduct of steel manufacturing, is a common ingredient in sealants that are used in the Eastern part of the United States to refresh worn parking lots and driveways.
"People like it because it makes the asphalt look like new. The striping shows up really clearly if you have a parking lot," said study author Barbara Mahler, a research hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Austin, Texas.
The problem, she added, is that shiny black sealcoats are a concentrated source of cancer-causing chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs.
"When tires drive across it, it's the grinding action of the tires that breaks up the little particles and grinds it up to a dust, essentially," Mahler said.
That dust gets carried into homes on shoes and hands. It's also washed into the surrounding soil and waterways after a rain, she said.
Previous studies have found high levels of PAHs in dust vacuumed from homes that sit near sealcoat-covered asphalt, according to study background information.
For the new study, published recently in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, researchers compared the levels of PAHs in house dust swept from 23 ground-level apartments in Austin. About half of the apartments sat on parking lots that were coated with coal-tar sealants; the rest did not.
The researchers combined those levels with measurements of PAHs in soils sampled near parking lots with and without coal tar-based sealants in New Hampshire and Chicago.
Next, they plugged those numbers into models used by the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assess what is called excess cancer risk. They wanted to know how many people would get cancer because of their exposure to PAHs who would otherwise not be expected to.
Based on the models, for every million people who live near unsealed asphalt for 70 years, or roughly their whole lives, there would be three extra cases of cancer because of exposure to PAHs. Bare asphalt emits some PAHs, but at far lower levels than are found in sealcoat.
That risk is 38 times greater, however, for people living near asphalt sealed with coal tar, the study found. For every million people who spend 70 years living next to sealed pavement, researchers said they would expect about 110 cases of cancer because of the exposure to PAHs.
Most of that risk appears to accrue in childhood. The study found that 50 percent of the cancer risk from PAHs in sealcoated asphalt is acquired within the first six years of life. About 80 percent of a person's risk adds up before age 18.
First off, I'm sorry if I offend anyone or trigger some people from this post. I just want help! And sorry for the long post; I just want to get my story straight so that their aren't any misunderstandings.
I'm 15 years old, and I have/had anorexia nervosa for the past year. I started a mild diet 2 years ago when I was about 168cm and 52kg AT MOST, and gradually lost weight to 48kg. That time, I didn't really know what calories were, so I just dieted by restricting my self from junk food, and high fat stuff. THEN I got a little intense in my diet (started counting calories and ate 800~1200 cal MAX) and I suddenly dropped to 45kg, last spring (I also grew to 170cm). Right at that time, I also got a stomach virus and everything I tried to eat came out of my system (UNINTENTIONALLY).
By May, I was 42.5kg, and of course, my mom and I headed straight to the doctors where I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. However, my doctor said that all I have to do is increase my calories, and I didn't have to do any I.P. treatment.
I slowly increased my calories, and I gained to 44~45kg. But sometimes I notice my E.D. counting calories, and making me only eat around 800 cal. This continued for a year, and I'm still 45kg.
I WANT to get better by the end of summer, so I can become a normal sophomore. For the past week, I've been eating 1000 cal (I know it's still not enough) , and indulging in healthy deserts and LOTS of peanut butter.
SO, the question is, am I supposed to continue upping my calorie intake a little at a time, or am I supposed to suddenly eat 2500+ cal??
The calorie counter calculator of this site tells me to eat 1500 cal, so I'm really confused. Would my metabolism work after the crappy things I've done to it?
Please comment, I'm really desperate to recover!
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So my weights pretty low and I know I need to gain however, Ive gone up 1kg in a week on 1400 cal (set out by dietician as start)
Ive stuck to the meal plan, not used laxatives as before and eaten quite late, is the gain due to this?
btw I never went below 1000 a day...
Please advise and help me see the science!
Edited Jun 10 2013 13:51 by bierorama
I had an eating disorder from about 2010 to 2012. During that time period my weight was around 117 (I'm 5' 4''). I lost my period and a lot of my hair fell out. I only at around 700 calories a day maximum. I didn't feel any hunger at all.
I started eating 2000 calories a day since August 2012. It's almost been a year of me eating 2000 calories a day and my weight is now at 150 pounds. My hair has stopped falling out and I got my period back. However, I still don't feel hunger. My metabolism seems to not have changed at all since my eating disorder. Does anyone have any advice for me? It's getting really frustrating since I'm now "slightly overweight."
