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The Claim: Margarine Is Healthier Than Butter.

The debate has been around nearly as long as butter and margarine themselves: Is one truly healthier than the other? The confusion persists for good reason. Butter, which has been used for thousands of years, is made from animal products, making it high in cholesterol and saturated fat, which have been linked to heart disease.

Margarine is made from polyunsaturated vegetable oils like corn oil, which do not contain saturated fats. Most people assume that makes it heart-healthy. Not exactly. The process of turning polyunsaturated oils into semisolid table spreads creates trans fats, which are just as bad as saturated fats, if not worse.

But most studies and health experts suggest that margarine, selected carefully, can be a safer choice. Because higher levels of trans fat make margarines more solid, it is best to choose those that are liquid or sold in tubs. Many varieties now contain water or liquid vegetable oil instead of partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, which can make them virtually free of trans fats. Even better, experts say, is to choose an alternative, like olive or canola oil.

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Stubborn Ear Infections Resistant to Antibiotics.

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- A new strain of a common bacteria known to cause ear infections has been detected, and it's resistant to every FDA-approved antibiotic on the market.

Researchers from the University of Rochester and Legacy Pediatrics in Rochester, N.Y., have pinpointed a strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae that is a new genotype, making it resistant to all antibiotics approved by the FDA to treat acute otitis media (AOM), or middle ear infection.

AOM is the most commonly treated bacterial infection in children. Because of its prevalence, a vaccine called pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate (PCV7) was developed in 2000 to preemptively treat middle ear infections. PCV7 helped quiet growing concerns over the overuse of antibiotics to treat AOM in children, which experts worry could lead to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains.

Despite the popularity of PCV7, an antibiotic resistant strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae has presented itself. Researchers discovered the strain while studying children who had received PCV7. Data showed the vaccine did not prevent the new strain, and, once diagnosed, the children who were infected with the strain underwent multiple treatments before their AOM was resolved.

Researchers report they believe these findings are worrisome and suggest an expanded PCV7 vaccine may be needed sooner than previously thought.

SOURCE: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007;298:1772-1778

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Staph Fatalities May Exceed AIDS Deaths
Oct 17, 2007
By LINDSEY TANNER

CHICAGO (AP) - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ.

Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. Tuesdays report shows just how far one form of the staph germ has spread beyond its traditional hospital setting.

The overall incidence rate was about 32 invasive infections per 100,000 people. That's an "astounding" figure, said an editorial in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association, which published the study.

Most drug-resistant staph cases are mild skin infections. But this study focused on invasive infections - those that enter the bloodstream or destroy flesh and can turn deadly.

Researchers found that only about one-quarter involved hospitalized patients. However, more than half were in the health care system - people who had recently had surgery or were on kidney dialysis, for example. Open wounds and exposure to medical equipment are major ways the bug spreads.

In recent years, the resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and it has been spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and in poor urban neighborhoods.

The new study offers the broadest look yet at the pervasiveness of the most severe infections caused by the bug, called methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA. These bacteria can be carried by healthy people, living on their skin or in their noses.

An invasive form of the disease is being blamed for the death Monday of a 17-year-old Virginia high school senior. Doctors said the germ had spread to his kidneys, liver, lungs and muscles around his heart.

The researchers' estimates are extrapolated from 2005 surveillance data from nine mostly urban regions considered representative of the country. There were 5,287 invasive infections reported that year in people living in those regions, which would translate to an estimated 94,360 cases nationally, the researchers said.

Most cases were life-threatening bloodstream infections. However, about 10 percent involved so-called flesh-eating disease, according to the study led by researchers at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There were 988 reported deaths among infected people in the study, for a rate of 6.3 per 100,000. That would translate to 18,650 deaths annually, although the researchers don't know if MRSA was the cause in all cases.

If these deaths all were related to staph infections, the total would exceed other better-known causes of death including AIDS - which killed an estimated 17,011 Americans in 2005 - said Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft of the Los Angeles County Health Department, the editorial author.

The results underscore the need for better prevention measures. That includes curbing the overuse of antibiotics and improving hand-washing and other hygiene procedures among hospital workers, said the CDC's Dr. Scott Fridkin, a study co-author.

Some hospitals have drastically cut infections by first isolating new patients until they are screened for MRSA.

The bacteria don't respond to penicillin-related antibiotics once commonly used to treat them, partly because of overuse. They can be treated with other drugs but health officials worry that their overuse could cause the germ to become resistant to those, too.

A survey earlier this year suggested that MRSA infections, including noninvasive mild forms, affect 46 out of every 1,000 U.S. hospital and nursing home patients - or as many as 5 percent. These patients are vulnerable because of open wounds and invasive medical equipment that can help the germ spread.

Dr. Buddy Creech, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University, said the JAMA study emphasizes the broad scope of the drug-resistant staph "epidemic," and highlights the need for a vaccine, which he called "the holy grail of staphylococcal research."

The regions studied were: the Atlanta metropolitan area; Baltimore, Connecticut; Davidson County, Tenn.; the Denver metropolitan area; Monroe County, NY; the Portland, Ore. metropolitan area; Ramsey County, Minn.; and the San Francisco metropolitan area.

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LENA'S COMMENT: I really wish I had been wrong about this but when I wrote the book "Antibiotic Alternatives to Preventing MegaBacteria" I could see this day coming as only about 1% of people will listen and learn a different way of fighting bacteria and viruses!

Catch Some Rays, Avoid Breast Cancer?

(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- While too much sun may be bad for your skin, increased exposure to sunlight may cut your risk of advanced breast cancer in half.

Researchers reveal women who had high exposure to sunlight had half the risk of developing advanced breast cancer -- breast cancer that has spread beyond the breast -- compared to women with low sun exposure. This only held true for women with naturally light skin color.

Exposure to the sun increases levels of vitamin D in the body. This difference was only seen in women with advanced stages of the disease, suggesting vitamin D may play a role in slowing the growth of breast cancer cells.

?We believe that sunlight helps to reduce women?s risk of breast cancer because the body manufactures the active form of vitamin D from exposure to sunlight,? Esther John, Ph.D., lead researcher on the study from the Northern California Cancer Center, was quoted as saying. ?It is possible that these effects were observed only among light- skinned women because sun exposure produces less vitamin D among women with naturally darker pigmentation.?

Researchers caution sunlight is not the body?s only source of vitamin D. Multivitamins, fatty fish and fortified foods, like milk, cereals and fruit juices, also contain the vitamin. Women should not try to reduce their risk of developing breast cancer by baking in the sun, the study authors write, due to the increased risk of sun-induced skin cancer. Rather, spending some time outside during the day or adding a vitamin D supplement to your diet could be beneficial.

SOURCE: The American Journal of Epidemiology, 2007;166