Health Buzz: Tylenol May Lessen Vaccines’ Benefit and Other Health News
Tylenol May Lessen Benefit of Vaccination in Children
A new study suggests that giving children Tylenol soon after vaccinations might interfere with the shots' effects, Bloomberg reports. Tylenol, a brand of the painkiller acetaminophen, is often given to prevent fever after vaccination. Of 459 children who participated in the study, half received acetaminophen after being vaccinated. Though fewer of them had a fever, those who got the medication also had a significantly lower immune response, according to Bloomberg. The study appears in the journal the Lancet.
[Read How to Use Tylenol So It's Safe for Your Kids and What You Need to Know About Pain Medications.]
Body Image Lessons From a Fired-For-Being-Too-Fat Model
Filippa Hamilton wants the world to know that she, a perfect size 4, was fired from Ralph Lauren for being too fat. Appearing on the Today show earlier this week, the 5-foot-10, 120-pound supermodel said that she decided to go public about her April firing after recently seeing a photo-shopped image of her in a Ralph Lauren ad looking anorexic.
What's going on here, and why have those Cindy Crawford types become extinct? Are designers really trying to tell us that anorexia is in? Perhaps yes, writes U.S. News's Deborah Kotz, if Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld is representative of his industry. In a Sunday interview expressing his displeasure over a German magazine's decision to ban superskinny models, Lagerfeld said, "No one wants to see curvy women." He added, "You've got fat mothers with their bags of chips sitting in front of the television and saying that thin models are ugly."
Body image expert Robyn Silverman tells Kotz that fashion designers just don't care about women. "It's all about the clothes," she says. "Models are supposed to be hangers, allowing clothes to drape straight down without curves or bumps getting in the way." Designers now require virtual beanpoles to fit into their ever-shrinking sample sizes. The problem, Silverman says, is that couture clothes set the standard, like the popular girls in school. Read more.
[Read Negative Body Image? Blame Photoshop and 5 Ways to Improve Your Body Image.]
What's Your Weakness? A Functional Movement Screen May Help You Find Out
How well do you move? It sounds like an easy question—or one that might be answered by your performance on the dance floor. But it's neither. Whether you can perform a deep squat or leg lift, for example, can indicate areas of the body that are tight or weak and show if you're compensating in a way that might be harmful even if you aren't consciously aware of it.
That's the philosophy behind the Functional Movement Screen, a tool used to root out those weaknesses before they hamper your sports performance or become full-fledged injuries, U.S. News's Katherine Hobson writes. Hobson, who runs, swims, and strength-trains several times a week, decided to try out the screen, figuring her regular workouts had prepared her well for it. Not really, she found out. Read more.
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