West Newsmagazine 12-14-16

38 I HEALTH I
December 14, 2016
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Results of a large-scale analysis suggests that eating a handful of nuts a day
reduces the risk of heart disease and cancer.
health
capsules
New imaging center
St. Luke’s Center for Diagnostic Imaging
[CDI] has opened in Ellisville. The new
facility offers MRI equipment designed to
help improve comfort and reduce stress
for people who have difficulties with traditional
MRI.
St. Luke’s CDI offers low-dose CT and
X-ray, plus high-field open MRI, which
provides quality images at faster scan
times with a spacious, comfortable, opensided
design.
The new center is located at 19 Clarkson
Road, at the corner of Manchester
and Clarkson. For more information, visit
stlukescdi-stl.com.
A handful a day
Eating a handful of nuts every day offers
substantial health benefits, a recent analysis
suggests.
Researchers looked at data from 29 studies
from around the world involving more
than 800,000 people and concluded that
eating 20 grams of nuts per day can reduce
coronary heart disease risk by almost 30
percent, reduce cancer risk by 15 percent,
reduce the risk of dying from a respiratory
disease by roughly half and from diabetes
by about 40 percent.
The nutritional content of nuts is what
makes them so beneficial, researchers said.
“Nuts and peanuts are high in fiber, magnesium
and polyunsaturated fats – nutrients
that are beneficial for cutting cardiovascular
disease risk and which can reduce cholesterol
levels,” study co-author Dagfinn Aune
said. “Some nuts, particularly walnuts and
pecan nuts, are also high in antioxidants,
which can fight oxidative stress and possibly
reduce cancer risk. Even though nuts are
quite high in fat, they are also high in fiber
and protein, and there is some evidence that
suggests nuts might actually reduce your
risk of obesity over time.”
Apparently, only 20 grams – about a
handful – is the amount to aim for each day,
as eating more than that did not seem to be
associated with any additional health benefits,
researchers said.
The study was conducted by researchers
at Imperial College London and the Norwegian
University of Science and Technology.
ATV warning
Injuries to children riding all-terrain
vehicles [ATVs] are not uncommon, with
the Consumer Product Safety Commission
reporting that in 2014, nearly 25,000
kids younger than 16 were treated for ATV
injuries in U.S. emergency rooms. Many
of those injuries were to the chest and were
serious.
“The sheer incidence of chest injuries
in pediatric patients evaluated after ATV
accidents is rather alarming and not necessarily
the type of injuries patients and
their families give much forethought to
when considering the risks of ATV use,”
said Kelly Hagedorn, M.D., study author
and a radiology resident at the University
of Texas Health Sciences Center in
Houston.
For the study, researchers reviewed
records of 102 patients aged 18 and
younger treated at a Houston trauma center
for ATV-related chest injuries. The most
common injury was bruising of the lung,
which can lead to oxygen deficiency and
occurred in about 60 percent of patients.
Forty-five percent of patients were treated
for a collapsed lung and about 34 percent
suffered fractured ribs. Forty percent of
patients required treatment in the intensive
care unit and eight patients with chest injuries
died.
Researchers noted also that children