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| New Yorkers live longer than other Americans, says mayor Posted: 12 Dec 2012 06:14 AM PST  Since 2001, New Yorkers' life expectancy has increased by three years. — shutterstock.com pic A New Yorker born in 2010 has a life expectancy of 80.9 years, 2.2 years longer than the national life expectancy of 78.7 years at the time. Since 2001, New Yorkers' life expectancy has increased by three years, against 1.8 years at the national level, according to data released by Bloomberg and the city's health department. Women in New York are now expected to live 83.3 years and men are expected to live 78.1 years. Bloomberg has aggressively pushed for sweeping public health policies. In 2003, he banned smoking in bars, restaurants and places of work, a measure widely reproduced elsewhere. He again stirred controversy this year by announcing a limited ban on super-sized soda drinks he blamed for a national obesity crisis. "Not only are New Yorkers living longer, but our improvements continue to outpace the gains in the rest of the nation," Bloomberg said. "Our willingness to invest in health care and bold interventions is paying off in improved health outcomes, decreased infant mortality and increased life expectancy." — AFP-Relaxnews |
| A TV in the bedroom may boost a kid’s risk for obesity Posted: 12 Dec 2012 05:40 AM PST  Letting your children bask in the glow of a television or computer in their bedrooms at night doesn't benefit their waistlines, research finds. — AFP pic Researchers from Pennington Biomedical Research Centre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, looked at data on nearly 370 children ages 5 to 18. Rather than rely on body mass index readings, they had all of the subjects undergo body scans to measure their fat mass. Results showed that children who had a television in their bedroom were twice as likely to have a high fat mass than kids who didn't have a TV in their room. Kids with a bedroom television were also more likely to have a large waist circumference. Viewing TV for more than two hours a day was linked to these same risks, the study found. "A bedroom TV may create additional disruptions to healthy habits, above and beyond regular TV viewing," says study coauthor Dr. Amanda Staiano. "For instance, having a bedroom TV is related to lower amounts of sleep and lower prevalence of regular family meals, independent of total TV viewing time." She adds: "Both short sleep duration and lack of regular family meals have been related to weight gain and obesity." The average American child from age 8 to 18 watches about 4.5 hours of TV each day, the researchers said. Seventy percent have a TV in the bedroom and about one-third are considered obese. The new study, announced Tuesday, will be published in the January issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. In a separate study published in October in the journal Paediatric Obesity, researchers from the University of Alberta in Canada found that electronic devices -- televisions, computers, and mobile phones -- in kids' bedrooms are linked with both poor sleep and obesity. — AFP-Relaxnews |
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