{"id":238,"date":"2009-03-19T15:05:43","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/health-in-the-news-this-week.html"},"modified":"2009-03-19T15:05:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T15:05:43","slug":"health-in-the-news-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/health-in-the-news-this-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Health in the News This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of health items in the news this week.&nbsp; For your perusal, thoughts, and comments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Religious people who are suffering from terminal cancer<\/b> are three times as likely to pursue aggressive, life-prolonging treatments like mechanical ventilators than those who do not profess a religious faith, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/18\/health\/research\/18faith.html?_r=1&amp;em\">according to a new study<\/a>. &#8220;People think that spiritual patients are more likely to say their<br \/>\nlives are in God&#8217;s hands &#8212; &#8216;Let what happens happen&#8217; &#8212; but in fact we<br \/>\nknow they want more aggressive care,&#8221; the study&#8217;s senior author told The New York Times.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Home-cooked meals are healthier than restaurant meals<\/b>, but how healthy they are depends on who cooks them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/17\/health\/17well.html?em\">according to Cornell University researchers<\/a>. A family&#8217;s &#8220;food gatekeeper&#8221; has great influence over the quality&#8211;and quantity&#8211;of food consumed in the household. Even the choice of serving vessels influences portion control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>The blood test that measures the protein PSA and screens for prostate cancer saves few men&#8217;s lives<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/19\/health\/19cancer.html?hp\">two large new studies have found<\/a>. The findings call into question whether PSA changes should lead to prostate treatments like radiation or surgery, which can lead to other complications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Is your carbon footprint shrinking?<\/b> Scientists are racing to develop a standard measure of how green your lunch, car, and home really are. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/lifestyle\/green\/articles\/2009\/03\/18\/en_route_to_greener_life_youll_need_a_map\/\">Some of their findings are surprising<\/a>,<br \/>\nlike how buying bottled water shipped in from Fiji can actually produce<br \/>\nless greenhouse gas than buying American ( Fiji&#8217;s bottling plants use<br \/>\ngeo-thermal power, America&#8217;s uses fossil fuels).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of health items in the news this week.&nbsp; For your perusal, thoughts, and comments: Religious people who are suffering from terminal cancer are three times as likely to pursue aggressive, life-prolonging treatments like mechanical ventilators than those who do not profess a religious faith, according to a new study. &#8220;People think that spiritual patients&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-holly-lebowitz-rossi","category-current-events","category-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Health in the News This Week - Fresh Living<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/03\/health-in-the-news-this-week.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Health in the News This Week - Fresh Living\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lots of health items in the news this week.&nbsp; 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