Singapore teen jailed for YouTube rant. Food, glorious food: Olympic athletes' extreme eating habits. Athletes face big food temptations in the Olympic Village dining hallIt is open 24 hours and can seat 5,000 people, serving 60,000 daily mealsMany competitors have extreme eating habits but taper off at Games timeThey have to be responsible for everything they put in their mouth, says dietitian (CNN) -- Swimming superstar Michael Phelps once claimed he scoffed up to 12,000 calories a day. Usain Bolt's big sprint rival Yohan Blake says he chomps 16 ripe bananas every 24 hours. A tiny Japanese athlete easily tucked away 50 pieces of sushi after training, while another marathon runner gobbled plates of raw mince.
Or how about the weightlifter who drinks the first milk of a cow that has just given birth? With extreme eating habits like these, it may be some surprise to learn that within the Olympic Village there lurks a culinary trap that can potentially tip athletes over the fine line between success and failure at London 2012. A wide variety of foods from around the world is available. Teen arrested over Twitter abuse of UK diver Tom Daley. British police arrest a 17-year-old over Twitter messages to British diver Tom DaleyRileyy_69 sent Daley a message saying that he had let his father downDaley's father died last year of brain cancerPolice issue teenager with harassment warning and bailed him to return to station (CNN) -- British police have arrested a teenager suspected of sending an offensive Twitter message to British Olympic diver Tom Daley. Officers detained a 17-year-old man at a guest house in "the Weymouth area" of the county of Dorset in the early hours of Tuesday morning, they said.
The unnamed teenager was questioned on "suspicion of malicious communications," a police spokeswoman told CNN, and later issued with a harassment warning. "In addition to the warning the teenager has been bailed to return to the police station at a later date whilst Dorset Police investigate other communications on his Twitter account," police said in a statement.
Read more: Olympians in the social media spotlight. How to choose a healthy breakfast cereal. Are the 'healthy' cereals really healthy or just misleadingly advertised? Cereal makers offer 'healthy' options, but some are better options than others. Learning to search nutrition labels for misleading information can help you make smarter choices.
Whole grain cereals that are low in sugar (and fake sugar!) Are your best bets. (Time.com) -- Health experts offer tips for navigating the cereal aisle and finding the most nutritious -- and tastiest -- options among the fruity flakes and fiber twigs Added sugar vs. natural sugar Increasingly, breakfast-cereal makers are offering more nutritious, low-sugar options. "Companies have made it harder for shoppers to find a good cereal. First look at the Nutrition Facts panel on the side of the cereal box (ignore any health claims made on the front), which lists the grams of sugar contained. Time.com: What's the healthiest breakfast? That same cereal might boast that it's "High in Fiber! " Time.com: Figuring out food labels Load up on whole grains. The 5 rules of working from home. Before you commit to working from home, make sure it's a good fit for your lifestyle.
Create a work-friendly environment with an ergonomic and streamlined spaceSchedule your day with a structured routine to help adapt to a new working environmentMaximize your time by monitoring how you actually spend your time (Health.com) -- Figure out if it's right for you "Many of us would opt to work from home to save on child-care and commuting expenses, but it isn't for everyone," says Tory Johnson, author of "Fired to Hired" ($14, Berkley Trade, amazon.com). If you thrive on the camaraderie of watercooler chitchat or are tempted to rush off to a sale at the mall without a watchful eye to tether you down, you probably aren't the best candidate. 21 Ideas for Organizing Your Home Office If you do think it's for you and you currently work in an office, find out if there is any established protocol, like having a certain title to warrant tele-commuting. How to Make a Good First Impression Schedule your day.
4 Cambodian temples that aren't Angkor Wat. At the turn of the millennium, when Cambodia was still reeling from decades of civil war, one could spend hours walking around Angkor Wat Archaeological Park without seeing a single foreigner. But Cambodia today -- and the 12th-century temple complex that sits at its geographic, historic and spiritual heart -- is awash with tourists. More than 640,000 visited in the first three months of 2012, with archaeologists claiming the UNESCO World Heritage Site is being loved to death. Yet there are dozens of Angkor-era temple complexes in Cambodia that receive a fraction of the visitors Angkor Wat gets, some of which you can have all to yourself. These are four of the most impressive.
Phnom Chissor Start training now. To get to the top of Phnom Chisor, visitors have to climb 412 steps.Set on a hill not far from Phnom Penh, with knockout views of the fertile deltas and emerald green rice fields of Cambodia’s deep south, this small but impressive Hindu temple predates Angkor Wat by 100 years. Koh Ker. 10 shocking medical mistakes. Click through this gallery to see stories of ten patient cases involving medical mistakes. "Mistakes are happening every day in every hospital in the country that we're just not catching," says Dr. Albert Wu, an internist at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Kerry Higuera was given a CT scan of her abdomen even though she was three months pregnant. The hospital had confused her with another patient also named Kerry, who was actually supposed to get the scan. The needless imaging increased the risk that Higuera's unborn baby would get leukemia or have birth defects. Fortunately, her son, Nathan, is doing fine. Nelson Bailey left surgery with a sponge still inside his abdomen -- a foot long by a foot long.
When doctors eventually discovered the mistake and re-opened his wound to remove the sponge, it was rotting and had created perforations in his intestines, Bailey says. Nursing home patient Mary Cole turned up missing during a bed check. Copes was eventually found guilty of insurance fraud. 1. 2. 3. General anesthesia in infancy linked to higher risk of ADHD. The good news is that the window in which a child's brain is susceptible to this type of damage appears to be relatively brief. Higher chance of ADHD found in infants who had two surgeriesHaving a single surgical procedure did not appear to increase riskThe longer a child was unconscious, the greater the ADHD risk (Health.com) -- Infants who undergo surgical procedures requiring general anesthesia in their first two years of life may be at increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as they grow older.
A new study of 5,357 children born in Rochester, Minnesota, between 1976 and 1982 found that kids who underwent at least two such surgeries before their second birthday were roughly twice as likely as their peers to develop ADHD by the time they were 19. Having a single surgical procedure did not appear to increase risk. Health.com: What causes ADHD? Health.com: 9 food additives that may affect ADHD Health.com: ADHD linked to pesticide exposure. 7-year-old Georgia girl died of head trauma, stabbing, investigators say. NEW: Jorelys Rivera likely died 1 to 1 1/2 hours after she disappearedShe died of blunt force trauma to the head, investigators sayJorelys, 7, had also been stabbed and sexually assaultedThe killer likely lives in or has ready access to the apartment complex , authorities say Atlanta (CNN) -- A 7-year-old girl whose body was found in a trash bin outside her Georgia apartment building died of blunt force trauma to the head, was stabbed and had been sexually assaulted, authorities said Tuesday.
The killer probably lives in the apartment complex where the child lived or had ready access to it, said Vernon Keenan, director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. "We have multiple leads we feel are valuable and we're going to carry those out," he said. Jorelys likely died between an hour and an hour and a half after she disappeared, Keenan said. Keenan also said that investigators uncovered what they believe is blood in a vacant apartment unit. Neighbors hold vigil for slain girl. Young vegetarians: Getting the nutrition they need.
It's important to have enough variety in your diet that you can be well-nourished, experts say. Parents worry whether vegetarian or vegan children will receive adequate nutrition Such diets may provide health benefits in the prevention and treatment of certain diseasesNumber of vegetarians in the United States is expected to increase over the next decade (CNN) -- Niki Gianni was 11 or 12 when she found a video on YouTube called "Meet Your Meat. " Saddened and disgusted by the footage from a slaughterhouse, the Chicago girl announced she was no longer going to eat meat. Her parents were less than thrilled. "When she first said she wanted to be a vegetarian, we were just looking at each other and we said, 'We can't be switching meals for you. You are not going to get your protein.' 10-year-old: Why I became vegetarian in first grade Now an 18-year-old college freshman, Niki Gianni said her eating habits expanded her palate and turned her away from processed foods.
Moving out of high-poverty areas may lower obesity, diabetes risk. Research has linked obesity to neighborhood features such as the number of supermarkets and fast-food restaurants. Rates of diabetes and severe obesity are about one-fifth lower in the women who movedFactors could contribute to better health in low-poverty areas, including healthy foods Just 16% of the women who moved to low-poverty areas had diabetes (Health.com) -- When federal housing officials created a program in the mid-1990s to help single-mother households in poor neighborhoods relocate to low-poverty areas, they weren't merely interested in providing access to better homes, jobs, and schools.
They also wanted to study how the families who moved out changed over time compared to those who stayed put. After more than a decade, moving from high- to low-poverty areas seems to have had little impact on economic measures such as employment and income. "For this program, health improvements were not the primary goal," Ludwig says.
Health.com: 11 ways to save money on healthy food. Why teens are wired for risk. Hillary Tillotson, 19, and Tessa, 15, are sisters who have acted out as teens. Teenagers' brains are still growing, rewiringThe prefrontal cortex doesn't finish developing until age 25, research has shownParents should emphasize rewarding good behavior, not punishment, professor says (CNN) -- It was hot at 3 a.m. in a small town in North Carolina, and there wasn't a lot for a group of teenagers to do. So, Hillary Tillotson, her brother and three other guys sneaked under a fence to go swimming at a private pool down the street. Only Tillotson and her then-boyfriend kept their clothes on, she said. Two days later, a cop showed up at Tillotson's house.
"Sometimes I wonder where their brains are at," Tillotson's mother, Lori Lee, said of her children. Neuroscientists confirm that teenagers do have brains, but they're wired differently from those of adults. The way that brain regions talk to one another in teenagers may explain teens' sometimes confounding behavior, scientists say. Fewer U.S. babies being born early, report says. The report says 40,000 fewer babies were born prematurely in the U.S. between 2006 and 2009The report says 16 states received a B and 19 received a CThe report says 11 states along with the District of Columbia were given a D, and three states and Puerto Rico failedThe report says Vermont was the only state to get an A (CNN) -- When it comes to babies being carried to full term, the United States is improving, according to the most recent March of Dimes report card.
This year the United States achieved a C grade, a grade higher than the D grade of 2010. Each year, the March of Dimes compares each state's pre-term birth rate with the goal birth rate. The report says 40,000 fewer babies were born prematurely in the United States between 2006 and 2009. "We set a goal of 9.6% by 2020, and it's a realistic goal we can get to and it would be a tremendous accomplishment," says Douglas A.
Staples, senior vice president of strategic marketing and communications for the March of Dimes. N.C. officials lower number of E. coli infections linked to state fair. Number of confirmed and suspected cases is at 24Figures revised because of new criteria applied to the outbreakThe outbreak appears to be slowing, a health official says (CNN) -- North Carolina public health officials revised Monday the number of confirmed and suspected cases of E. coli infection in an outbreak that appears to be linked to the state fair. Nine cases have been confirmed and another 15 cases are under investigation, according to North Carolina Division of Public Health spokeswoman Julie Henry. That's two fewer cases than health officials initially released.
The revision comes as a result of new criteria applied to the outbreak, including lab evidence showing the same genetic fingerprint, whether patients have had symptoms since October 13 and whether patients attended the fair during the incubation period, Henry said. The first illnesses were reported around October 15, Henry said last week. The bacteria are found in the feces of animals such as cattle, sheep and goats. Stupid things parents do that put their kids at risk.
Julie Perrault shares a moment with her kids, clockwise from top, Claire, David, Cate and Edwin. Experts: Parents should slow down when it comes to car seats and stay in right size Sleeping too long in sitting position makes it hard for a baby to get enough oxygen, they sayPediatricians' group warns parents not to heat baby bottles in microwaves (CNN) -- Julie Perrault shudders when she remembers some of the dumb things she did when her kids were babies.
The mother of four recalls in horror how she used to put her twin babies, David and Cate, in chairs and then put the chairs on top of the dining room table to feed the kids. She thought it was the right thing to do because it kept their older brother and sister from bothering the babies. "It never occurred to me that the twins could have fallen off the table, but I later found out it happened to a friend of mine," she says. Elizabeth Cohen How safe is your car seat? Doctors: Baby bumpers have got to go Letting baby sleep in swing. Why is infant mortality still a U.S. problem? The U.S. infant mortality rate is one of the highest among all developed countries. Deborah Klein Walker says infant mortality rates in U.S. remain unacceptably highThe U.S. ranks 31st in developed nations for infant mortalityWalker: Rate for blacks in U.S. highest; funds for prevention programs regularly face cutsShe says policymakers must make funding for women and infant programs a policy priority Editor's note: Deborah Klein Walker, vice president and senior fellow at Abt Associates, a global research and program implementation firm, is a past president of the American Public Health Association and also the Association for Maternal and Child Health Programs.
(CNN) -- If a measure of a successful society is its ability to prevent infant deaths, then there is an ugly truth in the United States today that public health officials know but the public largely does not: Too many of our babies are dying, and they don't have to. Deborah Klein Walker We need it all.