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Despite Decreases In Appetite And Consumption, Sleep Restriction Results In Weight Gain
According to a research abstract presented on June 8 at SLEEP 2009, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, in the presence of free access to food, sleep restricted subjects reported decrease in appetite, food cravings and food consumption; however, they gained weight over the course of the study. Thus, the finding suggests that energy intake exceeded energy expenditure during the sleep restriction
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Link Between Vitamin D Insufficiency And Bacterial Vaginosis In Pregnant Women
Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is the most common vaginal infection in US women of childbearing age, and is common in pregnant women. BV occurs when the normal balance of bacteria in the vagina is disrupted and replaced by an overgrowth of certain bacteria. Because having BV puts a woman at increased risk for a variety of complications, such as preterm delivery, there is great interest in understanding how it can be prevented. Vitamin D may play a role in BV because it exerts influence over a number of aspects of the immune system. This hypothesis is circumstantially supported by the fact that BV is far more common in black than white women, and vitamin D status is substantially lower in black than white women. This relation, however, has not been rigorously studied. To assess whether poor vitamin D status may play a role in predisposing a woman to BV, Bodnar and coworkers at the University of Pittsburgh and the Magee-Womens Research Institute studied 469 pregnant women. The results of their investigation are published in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of Nutrition.
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Also In Global Health News: Cholera Risk In Zimbabwe; Nigeria MDG; Arab World Development; Chagas Disease

OCHA Report Warns Of Possible, New Cholera Outbreak In Zimbabwe In a report released on Tuesday, the U.N."s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said that Zimbabwe remained at risk of a fresh outbreak of cholera when the next rainy season starts in about five months, ZimOnline reports. According to the OCHA report, structural causes that resulted in the most recent epidemic that killed more than 4,000 people over the past 11 months have not been addressed and could trigger another outbreak (Nzou, 7/22). Nigeria Still Not Making Progress Toward MDGs, WHO Official Says Despite the recent signing of a $100 million malaria control agreement between Nigeria and the World Bank, Nigeria is still "not making progress" towards the Millenium Development Goal targets, Coordinator of the Malaria Control Unit of the WHO in Nigeria Bayo Fatoyinbo said, This Day/allAfrica.com reports. According to the publication, "[i]n addition to the $1.3 billion budgeted to halve the impact of malaria by 2013, donor agencies have so far realised $800 million, while a funding gap of $436 million remained" (Nwezeh, 7/22). Poverty, Hunger, Public Health Addressed In Arab Human Development Report 2009 The U.N. Development Program released the Arab Human Development Report 2009 on Tuesday, which aims to address some of the obstacles to human development in the region, AP/Washington Post reports (Lederer, 7/22). "Among the topics detailed in the report, recommendations are proffered on how the Arab world can tackle poverty and end hunger, boost public health services and end armed conflict that has forced an estimated 17 million Arabs from their homes over the past 60 years," the Daily Star writes (Galey, 7/22). According to the report, "which was drafted mainly by Arab academics," refugees, displaced persons, women and children are at the "forefront of vulnerable groups states must protect," AFP/Google.com reports (Yazbeck, 7/21). SciDev.Net Examines Chagas Disease SciDev.Net examines the "forgotten disease" Chagas, which affects 14 million people worldwide and kills 15,000 people annually. The article describes how people get the disease, who it primarily affects, its global spread and the outlook for treatment (Kilby, 7/17). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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