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Most American women should not consume more than 100 calories of added sugar a day, while men should limit their intake to no more than 150 calories, according to a new recommendation from the American Heart Association.

“Added sugar” refers to sugars added to foods during processing, during cooking or when a food is consumed.

The recommendation works out to about six teaspoons of added sugar a day for women and about nine teaspoons for men. In the United States, people take in more than 22 teaspoons of added sugar (355 calories) on average, each day, according to the 2001-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Excess intake of added sugars has been linked to numerous health problems, including obesity, high blood pressure and other risk factors for heart disease and stroke. The Heart Association said that soft drinks and other sugar-sweetened beverages are the major source of added sugar in Americans’ diets. Its new recommendations are in a scientific statement issued Aug. 24.

One 12-ounce can of regular soda contains about eight teaspoons of sugar and 130 calories, noted the statement’s lead author, Rachel K. Johnson, associate provost and a professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont in Burlington.

“Sugar has no nutritional value other than to provide calories,” Johnson said in a news release from the Heart Association. “Consuming foods and beverages with excessive amounts of added sugars displaces more nutritious foods and beverages for many people.”

The statement, published in the Aug. 24 issue of Circulation, also recommends that added sugars should account for no more than half of a person’s daily discretionary calorie allowance.

People should eat a diet rich in fruit, vegetables, low-fat dairy products, high-fiber whole grains, lean meat, poultry and fish, the association says.

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For those middle-aged folks who cringe at the memory of their adolescence, new Swedish research suggests that social standing as a teenager has long-term health consequences.

And in a related study, British scientists have found that children whose mothers work outside the home are more likely to engage in unhealthier lifestyles — including eating less healthy foods and getting less exercise — than kids whose mothers are at home.

Both studies appear online Sept. 29 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

“I think that the results highlight the importance of recognizing that school is not only about performance and grades, but equally so about the social interplay between children,” said study author Ylva Almquist, a sociologist at the Centre for Health Equity Studies in Stockholm.

The researchers studied data from 14,000 children who participated in the Stockholm Birth Cohort Study, which tracked the long-term health of Swedes born between 1953 and 2003. Specifically, Almquist and her team examined levels of popularity, power and status reported by study participants who were in sixth grade in 1966.

Using that information as a personality baseline, the team then examined the students’ health records during a 30-year-period from 1973 and 2003, focusing on hospital discharge records. Researchers noted that the students who reported lower levels of social acceptance as young teens tended to have a higher risk of serious health issues as adults; the same was true for males and females.

Specifically, the study found that:
Children who were the least popular and powerful at school were more than four times as likely to require hospital treatment for hormonal, nutritional and metabolic diseases as their most popular and powerful classmates.
They were more than twice as likely to develop mental health and behavioral problems, including suicide attempts and self-harm.
They were more than five times as likely to be admitted for unintentional poisoning.
They were also significantly more likely to develop drug and alcohol dependency problems, and nine times more likely to develop heart disease.

Almquist said she is not sure why low social status has such noticeable and long-term health consequences, but there are theories.

“Most likely it is a combination of various aspects,” she said. “Our hypothesis is that lower peer status is linked to less social support, influence and integration, which could result in a more negative self-image and self-confidence. This could in turn influence the child’s future ambitions, expectations and choices. For example, health behaviors such as smoking may be a relevant explanation as to why peer status influences ischemic heart disease. Stress and coping abilities may also be potentially important aspects.”

Kiti Freier Randall, a pediatric neurodevelopmental psychologist from California, said there is a growing body of evidence pointing to the negative consequences of social isolation.

“Our experience of low power and status affects our self-esteem,” she said. “How you feel about yourself affects your health. In many ways, we are hardwired to connect with others.”

Stress physically harms the body, said Freier Randall, who added that people who feel bad often try to comfort themselves with potentially self-destructive behaviors, such as smoking, over-eating and substance abuse.

Freier Randall was also intrigued with the British study that looked at the behavioral impact of mothers working outside the home. To her, the issue is less about moms, who often have no choice but to work, than about the lack of overall adult supervision of young people, especially after school.

Young women who make poor shoe choices risk foot pain later in life, U.S. researchers warn.

The study authors analyzed data from 1,900 women and 1,472 men enrolled in the Framingham Foot Study between 2002 and 2008. The participants were asked about pain, aching, or stiffness in either or both feet. They also provided information about current and past footwear.

Footwear was classified as: good (low-risk shoes, including athletic and casual sneakers); average (mid-risk shoes, such as hard- or rubber-soled shoes, special shoes and work boots); and poor (high-risk shoes that lack support and sound structure, such as high-heeled shoes, sandals and slippers).

The researchers found that one-quarter of participants reported generalized foot pain on most days, with 19 percent of men and 29 percent of women falling into this category.

“In women, we found an increased risk between hindfoot pain and shoewear,” wrote the researchers from Boston University School of Public Health and the Institute for Aging Research at Hebrew SeniorLife.

Less than 2 percent of men wore poor shoes, which means that shoe type wasn’t a major factor in the development of foot pain in men, the researchers noted.

“While more research is needed, young women should make careful choices regarding their shoe type to avoid hindfoot pain later in life, or perform stretching exercises to alleviate the effect of high heels on foot pain,” the researchers recommended.

Very light-skinned children who tan in the sun develop significantly more moles than their peers who stay pale in the sun, new research shows.

The number of moles a person has is among the strongest risk factors for developing melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, so the findings suggest that parents of these children should take extra care to protect them from the sun’s rays, Dr. Lori A. Crane of the University of Colorado in Denver and her colleagues conclude in a report in the Archives of Dermatology.

While sunburns are known to increase melanoma risk, Crane and her team note in the report, the effect of tanning on skin cancer risk isn’t clear; in fact, some studies suggest it’s protective.

To investigate, they looked at 131 very-light-skinned children and 444 darker-skinned white kids born in Colorado in 1998. All underwent full-body mole counts at age 6, 7 and 8 years.

The researchers gauged their skin color using a device called a colorimeter. To determine whether or not the children tanned, they used the device to compare the color of their skin at the inside of their upper arm to the color of the skin on the outside of their lower arm.

At age 6, the average number of moles for the minimally tanned light-skinned children was 14.8, compared to 21.2 for the more darkly tanned children. At age 7, the paler kids had 18.8 moles, on average, while the tanned kids had 27.9 moles. By age 8, the untanned children had 22.3 moles, compared to 31.9 for the tanned kids.

But among the darker-skinned children, whether or not they were tanned made no difference in the number of moles they had on their bodies.

The current study didn’t determine whether the untanned children were simply unable to tan, or had been protected from the sun, Crane told Reuters Health. No matter what, she added, the findings suggest “there should be more careful protection of those children, which is probably not very surprising.”

And parents shouldn’t rely on sunscreen alone for shielding kids from the sun, the researcher added; while it can protect against sunburn, it doesn’t do a good job of preventing tanning.

Also, she added, parents may let their children stay out in the sun longer when they wear sunscreen, which could be harmful. Crane suggests protecting kids with lightweight, loose clothing, including hats, and avoiding the strong mid-day sun.