Findings could someday help scientists engineer tooth enamel
(HealthDay News) — Scientists have identified the way a simple amino acid makes human teeth strong and resilient.
Proline is repeated in the center of proteins found in tooth enamel. When the repeats are long, such as in humans, they contract groups of molecules that help enamel crystals grow. When the repeats are short, such as in frogs, teeth don’t have the enamel prisms that provide strength, the researchers explained.
The research offers clues on how to engineer tooth enamel.
“We hope that one day, these …

Mouth Area Wrinkles More in Women Than Men
Dermatologists discover gender differences that explain the aging inequity
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
(HealthDay News) — Dermatologists have discovered yet another gender inequity: Women develop more and deeper wrinkles around their mouths as they age than men do.
The disadvantage had long been suspected, but a new study provides “irrefutable scientific evidence,” said Dr. Foad Nahai, a plastic surgeon practicing in Atlanta and editor-in-chief of the Aesthetic Surgery Journal. The study appears in the November/December issue of the journal.
The authors of the paper believe they even …

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Over 45 Million Americans Now Lack Health Insurance
About 8 percent of children are uninsured, government report finds
(HealthDay News) — In the first six months of this year, 45.4 million Americans of all ages — or 15.1 percent of the population — had no health insurance, according to new National Health Interview Survey statistics released Wednesday.
In addition, 58.4 million (19.4 percent) people of all ages had been uninsured for at least part of the year prior to the interview, and 31.9 million (10.6 percent) had been uninsured for more than a …

Oversized College Football Players May Face Heart Risks
Linemen especially likely to have metabolic syndrome, study finds
(HealthDay News) — Exercise alone isn’t enough to keep overweight college football players from being at higher risk for a medical condition that can lead to heart disease, a new study suggests.
Researchers studied linemen at Division I colleges and found that two-thirds were obese. Of those, 42 percent had metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions that raise the risk for heart disease and diabetes. Some researchers believe that metabolic syndrome is more likely than smoking …

Looking Younger Than Your Age May Mean Longer Life
Study links perceived age to physical, mental functioning
(HealthDay News) — People who look younger than their age tend to live longer than those who look older than their years, a new study suggests.
The finding came from research that involved 1,826 Danish twins, aged 70 and older, who were given physical and cognitive tests and then had their faces photographed. Three groups of volunteers looked at the photos and indicated the age they perceived the participants to be. Twins were assessed individually, and …

Kids in Home-Based Day Care Lack Exercise
Most providers meet nutrition but not physical activity needs, study finds
(HealthDay News) — Most home-based child-care providers meet nutrition standards but don’t give children enough physical activity, allowing them to spend too much time in front of the TV, a new study contends.
Oregon State University researcher Stewart Trost surveyed about 300 home-based child-care providers who looked after children ages 2 to 5. Though 78 percent offered more than an hour a day of active play, 41 percent said children sat for extended periods during …

The Mummies’ Curse: Heart Disease
Finding suggests atherosclerosis is as old as the pyramids, and not an ill of the modern world
By Amanda Gardner
HealthDay Reporter
(HealthDay News) — Hardening of the arteries may have more of a family history — the human family tree — than was once thought.
Modern-day imaging techniques have unearthed hardening of the arteries — or atherosclerosis, which causes heart attacks and stroke — in mummies up to 3,500 years old.
Experts have long believed that atherosclerosis is a scourge of modern society, caused by meals snatched at fast-food restaurants …

Middle-aged women have more heart attacks than in past, but are more likely to survive, studies show
By Ed Edelson
HealthDay Reporter
(HealthDay News) — Hearts attacks have increased among middle-aged American women in the past two decades, but their chance of survival has improved, two new studies show.
“We found that men still have a higher prevalence than women, but what has happened is that the gap has narrowed,” said Dr. Amytis Towfighi, assistant professor of clinical neurology at the University of Southern California, lead author of one of two reports in the …

Eating Too Much is a Problem
You don’t have to spend much time with teenagers to know that the average adolescent would rather devote an afternoon to sitting in front of the TV, computer or video-game console than working out in a gym. And in recent years, as physical-education classes have been progressively cut from cash-strapped public-school curriculums, teens have had even more time to lounge, slouch, hang out or do anything but break a sweat.
It’s no surprise, then, that obesity rates among U.S. youngsters have skyrocketed, tripling from 1976 to …