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Mexican schools have 6 months to ban junk food sales or face heavy fines
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Schools in Mexico have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines, officials said, as authorities confront what they call the worst childhood obesity problem in the world. The rules, published on Sept. 30, target products that have become staples for two or three generations of Mexican school kids: sugary fruit drinks, chips, artificial pork rinds, and soy-encased, salty peanuts with chili. School administrators who violate the order will face fines equivalent to between $545 and $5,450, which could double for a second offense. That could amount to nearly a year's wages for some. Mexico's children have the highest consumption of junk food in Latin America and many get 40% of their total caloric intake from it, according to the U.N. children's agency, which has called child obesity there an emergency. Authorities say about one-third of Mexico's children are overweight or obese. Previous attempts to implement laws against junk food have met with little success. A survey of over 10,000 schools carried out between 2023 and 2024 found that junk food was available in 98% of them, with sugary drinks in 95% and soft drinks in 79%. Ads for junk food were found in 25% of schools. New President Claudia Sheinbaum said that schools will have to offer water fountains and alternative snacks, like bean tacos. "It is much better to eat a bean taco than a bag of potato chips," Sheinbaum said. "It is much better to drink hibiscus flower water than soda." However, the vast majority of Mexico's 255,000 schools do not have free drinking water available to students. According to a report in 2020, the effort to install drinking fountains succeeded in about 10,900 of the country's schools, or about 4%. Many schools are in areas so poor or remote that they struggle to maintain acceptable bathrooms, internet connection or electricity. Mexico instituted front-of-package warning labels for foods between 2010 and 2020 to advise consumers about high levels of salt, added sugar, excess calories and saturated fats. Some snack foods carry all four warning labels. But under the new rules, schools will have to phase out any product containing even a single warning label from their snack stands. This article was provided by The Associated Press.
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Schools in Mexico have six months to implement a government-sponsored ban on junk food or face heavy fines, officials said, as authorities confront what they call the worst childhood obesity problem in the world. The rules, published on Sept. 30, target products that have become staples for two or three generations of Mexican school kids: sugary fruit drinks, chips, artificial pork rinds, and soy-encased, salty peanuts with chili. School administrators who violate the order will face fines equivalent to between $545 and $5,450, which could double for a second offense. That could amount to nearly a year's wages for some. Mexico's children have the highest consumption of junk food in Latin America and many get 40% of their total caloric intake from it, according to the U.N. children's agency, which has called child obesity there an emergency. Authorities say about one-third of Mexico's children are overweight or obese. Previous attempts to implement laws against junk food have met with little success. A survey of over 10,000 schools carried out between 2023 and 2024 found that junk food was available in 98% of them, with sugary drinks in 95% and soft drinks in 79%. Ads for junk food were found in 25% of schools. New President Claudia Sheinbaum said that schools will have to offer water fountains and alternative snacks, like bean tacos. "It is much better to eat a bean taco than a bag of potato chips," Sheinbaum said. "It is much better to drink hibiscus flower water than soda." However, the vast majority of Mexico's 255,000 schools do not have free drinking water available to students. According to a report in 2020, the effort to install drinking fountains succeeded in about 10,900 of the country's schools, or about 4%. Many schools are in areas so poor or remote that they struggle to maintain acceptable bathrooms, internet connection or electricity. Mexico instituted front-of-package warning labels for foods between 2010 and 2020 to advise consumers about high levels of salt, added sugar, excess calories and saturated fats. Some snack foods carry all four warning labels. But under the new rules, schools will have to phase out any product containing even a single warning label from their snack stands. This article was provided by The Associated Press.
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Approximately one million taxpayers are automatically receiving special payments of up to $1,400 from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The money is being directly deposited into eligible people's bank accounts or sent in the mail as a paper check. The IRS said it's distributing about $2.4 billion to taxpayers who failed to claim a Recovery Rebate Credit on their 2021 tax returns. People who missed one of the COVID stimulus payments or received less than the full amount were able to claim the credit. But the IRS said it discovered many eligible taxpayers hadn't done so. "Looking at our internal data, we realized that one million taxpayers overlooked claiming this complex credit when they were actually eligible," IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel said in a statement. The IRS said most taxpayers eligible for the federal stimulus payments, formally known as Economic Impact Payments, have already received them. The special payments announced by the IRS are being sent to those taxpayers who filed a 2021 tax return but left the data field for the Recovery Rebate Credit blank or they filled it out as $0 when they were actually eligible for the credit. Eligible taxpayers don't have to take any action. The payments have been going out automatically since last December and should arrive by direct deposit or check by late January 2025. They'll be sent to the bank account listed on the taxpayer's 2023 return or to the address the IRS has on file. Payments vary, but the maximum amount is $1,400 per individual. The IRS has posted information online about eligibility and how the payment was calculated. The IRS is sending separate letters to eligible taxpayers notifying them of the special payment. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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1 Senate report alleges Amazon rejected warehouse safety recommendations due to productivity concerns 2:32
At least two internal Amazon studies found a link between how quickly the online retailer’s warehouse workers perform tasks and workplace injuries, but the company rejected many safety recommendations out of concern the proposed changes might reduce productivity, according to a U.S. Senate committee report. The 160-page review issued in December was compiled by the Democratic majority staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. The report is the final product of a probe into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices that U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders initiated last year. Amazon pushed back on the findings, saying in a blog post that Sanders “continues to mislead the American public” about the company’s safety practices and that the report was “wrong on the facts and features selective, outdated information that lacks context and isn’t grounded in reality.” Amazon previously had undertaken another study, known as Project Soteria, in 2020 to identify risk factors for injuries and recommend policy changes that would improve worker safety. The multi-team initiative studied two policies Amazon implemented temporarily during the COVID-19 pandemic—giving workers more time off and pausing disciplinary measures “for workers who failed to meet speed requirements,” the report said. The study found that both policies lowered injury risks and asked for their permanent adoption. But company leaders denied the request, saying it might “negatively impact” productivity, according to Amazon documents cited in the Senate committee report. Amazon leaders also changed the focus of the Project Soteria study by telling the people conducting the review to provide recommendations on how to improve productivity without worsening worker injuries, the report said. Amazon disputed the report’s characterization of the events. “Project Soteria is an example of this type of team evaluation, where one team explored whether there’s a causal link between pace of work and injuries and another team evaluated the methodology and findings and determined they weren’t valid,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a written statement. The Senate committee report also alleged that Amazon manipulates its workplace injury data to portray its warehouses as safer than they are, an allegation the company disputed. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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NBC Sports made its first foray into doing a National Football League (NFL) alternate broadcast on December 21 when it put the matchup between the Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs into the realm of the Madden video game universe. It is the first time NBC has done an alternate broadcast of an NFL game. CBS has done at least one game on Nickelodeon since the 2020 season, while ESPN/ABC have the ManningCast as well as animated presentations featuring The Simpsons and Toy Story. “It’s ironic that you want to make the video game as much as actual live play as possible and now you are doing the opposite of trying to make the real game look like the video game,” said Josh Helmrich, the NFL's senior director of media and Next Gen Stats. The altcast on Peacock blended video game elements—such as Madden 25 graphics, route trees, player cards, button icons on eligible receivers and player ratings—with live action. GeniusIQ provided real-time data via the league’s Next Gen Stats. There were also times when animations from the video game—such as touchdown celebrations—were used instead of live action. NBC has used the “Sunday Night Football” games as test broadcasts to make sure all the technology was working, as well as build cohesion in the studio in Stamford, Connecticut, with the announcers doing the game. Paul Burmeister handled the play-by-play with Madden NFL expert Kurt Benkert and six-time Pro Bowl wide receiver Chad Ochocinco providing commentary. Burmeister noted earlier in December that there would be more hardcore football schematic chess match talk on the altcast compared to what might happen on a traditional football broadcast. “I’m really excited to toe that line and weave this in to show how much parallel the game has to the real game itself,” Benkert said. “I think will resonate really well with the younger audience and with people that are used to seeing it in the video game that way.” This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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Children of the wealthy and connected get special admissions consideration at some elite U.S. universities, according to new filings in a class-action lawsuit originally brought against 17 schools. Although it has always been assumed that such favoritism exists, the filings offer a rare peek at the often-secret deliberations of university heads and admissions officials. They show how schools admit otherwise unqualified wealthy children because their parents have connections and could possibly donate large sums down the line, raising questions about fairness. The filings are the latest salvo in a lawsuit that claims that 17 of the nation’s most prestigious colleges colluded to reduce the competition for prospective students and drive down the amount of financial aid they would offer, all while giving special preference to the children of wealthy donors. Since the lawsuit was filed, 10 of the schools have reached settlements to pay out a total of $284 million, including payments of up to $2,000 to current or former students whose financial aid might have been shortchanged over a period of more than two decades. Johns Hopkins is working on a settlement and the six schools still fighting the lawsuit are the California Institute of Technology, Cornell, Georgetown, MIT, Notre Dame, and the University of Pennsylvania. MIT called the lawsuit and the claims about admissions favoritism baseless. “MIT has no history of wealth favoritism in its admissions; quite the opposite,” university spokesperson Kimberly Allen said. “After years of discovery in which millions of documents were produced that provide an overwhelming record of independence in our admissions process, plaintiffs could cite just a single instance in which the recommendation of a board member helped sway the decisions for two undergraduate applicants.” Notre Dame officials also called the case baseless. “We are confident that every student admitted to Notre Dame is fully qualified and ready to succeed,” a university spokesperson said in a statement. Some of the examples pointed to in December’s court filings showed that just being able to pay full tuition would give students an advantage. During a deposition, a former Vanderbilt admissions director said that in some cases, a student would get an edge on the waitlist if they didn’t need financial aid. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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Pastry chef Arnaud Delmontel rolls out dough for croissants and pain au chocolat that later emerge golden and fragrant from the oven in his Paris patisserie. In recent months, he has had to pay increasingly more for the butter so essential to their flavor—a price he says has shot up 25% since September alone. But he is refusing to follow some of his competitors who have started making their croissants with margarine. “It’s a distortion of what a croissant is,” Delmontel said. "A croissant is made with butter.” The butter inflation largely results from a global shortage of milk caused by declining milk production, including in the U.S. and New Zealand, the world's largest butter exporter, according to economist Mariusz Dziwulski, a food and agricultural market analyst at PKO Bank Polski. Across the 27-member European Union, the price of butter rose 19% on average from October 2023 to October 2024, including 49% in Slovakia and 40% in Germany and the Czech Republic—numbers, however, which don't reflect further hikes. Since butter is sold in standard sizes, food producers can't hide the price hikes by reducing package sizes, something known as “shrinkflation.” There is some debate about the impact of some of the other factors, such as climate change, which produces erratic weather patterns such as droughts. There is no letting up in the demand for butter and cheese, products that require significant amounts of milk fat. For decades, butter was vilified as unhealthy, but in recent years its image has improved thanks to studies that showed that fat is not as damaging to health as once believed. Southern European countries, which rely far more heavily on olive oil, are less affected by the butter inflation—or they just don't consider it as important since they consume so much less. Since last year, the cost of butter shot up 44% on average in Italy—Europe's seventh largest butter producer—but it is not causing the same alarm as in butter-addicted northern Europe. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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A spectacular light show inspired by the creation of the world has opened in Amsterdam. The display takes place inside the 17th-century church Oosterkerk. All are projected in vibrant colors across the interior of this historic building. Visitors just need to lie back and enjoy the show taking place above their heads. “The goal of this experience is really to allow people to take kind of a spiritual journey. So it's really the objective is to freeze time and make them forget about it and have this spiritual awakening. So, we really want to give people the freedom of deciding how to interpret this experience,” says Sofia Recchi, global project manager at Fever & Projektil, the Swiss art collective behind the event. The audiovisual extravaganza tells the story of the creation of the world. It's called Genesis, an appropriate name given its religious venue. “Genesis, the story in itself, we've done before. We've done in different cities before. However, what makes it special is, as I said before, the architecture of this church. So, the story is the same. However, it's been completely catered to this building. And that's why also the church itself plays a part of the story,” says Lieve de Brauw, producer at Fever & Projektil. The show has already visited Barcelona, Frankfurt, and Lyon, among other cities. But this is a special edition, due to the location. The Oosterkerk was opened in 1671 when Amsterdam was a center of shipbuilding and the maritime trade of the Dutch East India Company. In 1969, in order to save the building from falling into ruin, the Municipality of Amsterdam bought the building for the symbolic sum of one guilder. The church became a venue for concerts and exhibitions in 2022. Genesis opened on December 13 and will run until the end of February. The show runs for 30 minutes. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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1 Turning dusty attic treasures into cash can yield millions for some and disappointment for others 2:10
Kaja Veilleux has been hunting New England attic treasures for more than 50 years. He once found a copy of the Declaration of Independence sitting on a pile of trash, and he made headlines last year when he stumbled upon a million-dollar portrait gathering dust in an old farmhouse in Maine that may have been painted by the Dutch master Rembrandt. Then there was the time, Veilleux said, he was shown a $50,000 gold coin kicking around in a tool drawer—only to have the well-meaning owner destroy much of its value before he could auction it by using a scouring pad to clean it—and scratch it. “It’s like a treasure hunt every day,” Veilleux said with a chuckle. Many people dream of cashing in on some dusty, old heirloom. In October, three sisters from Ohio sold a rare dime for more than half a million dollars. Two years ago, a case of old hockey cards found in a Canadian home sold for more than $3.7 million. Veilleux, 73, helps people sort gems from junk when he appraises furniture, antiques, and art by using his knowledge of what similar items have sold for in the past. Each Tuesday, people bring in their heirlooms and collector’s items to Veilleux’s office in Thomaston, Maine, to see what they might fetch at auction. The appraisal is free but Veilleux gets a commission if they end up selling the pieces at his Thomaston Place Auction Galleries. Erika Taylor stopped by with two artworks her father had collected in China in the 1940s when he was living there after escaping from Nazi Germany. One depicted a blooming peony and the other a grasshopper. She said Veilleux had given her an initial estimate of up to $30,000 for each of the artworks, based on the photographs she’d shown him. But when Veilleux inspected the artworks closely, he declared they were prints because paint would have permeated the paper. “It’s disappointing,” Taylor said. “But he has a lot of experience.” This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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Japan’s biggest bank apologized for the alleged theft by an employee of more than 1 billion yen ($6.6 million) from customers' safe deposit boxes. The bank, formally known as Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc., said it was investigating. Verified thefts from about 20 of the 60 clients thought to have been affected amounted to 300 million yen (nearly $2 million). Compensation was being worked out, it said. The thefts occurred at two Tokyo branches of the bank, from April 2020 until the end of October 2024, when the problem was discovered. MUFG’s president and CEO Junichi Hanzawa told reporters the female employee responsible for managing the safe deposit boxes and their keys is suspected of taking advantage of that position to steal cash and other valuables. “The case has undermined the customers’ trust and confidence and shaken the very foundation of our banking business,” Hanzawa said. He apologized for causing concern and trouble to MUFG clients. MUFG said the employee admitted taking the money and using it for investments and her personal purposes. She was fired. She is cooperating with the bank’s internal probe and a police investigation but has not yet been arrested. After news of the thefts surfaced, dozens more people came forward with claims of suspected losses that the bank is working to verify, it said. The MUFG case is the second recent one involving criminal activity at a major Japanese financial institution. In November 2024, Nomura Holdings acknowledged that a former employee had been arrested on suspicion of robbery, attempted murder and arson targeting a client in Hiroshima. Asked about the MUFG thefts, the chief government spokesman said that banking operations require high levels of trust and a sense of public service. The case was “extremely regrettable,” said Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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The largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and two of its managers have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish weeks after a restaurant and its co-owner were also sentenced. “This large-scale scheme to misbrand imported seafood as local Gulf Coast seafood hurt local fishermen and consumers,” said Todd Gee, the U.S. attorney for southern Mississippi. “These criminal convictions should put restaurants and wholesalers on notice that they must be honest with customers about what is actually being sold.” Sentencing took place in Gulfport for Quality Poultry and Seafood Inc. (QPS), sales manager Todd A. Rosetti, and business manager James W. Gunkel. QPS and the two managers pleaded guilty on August 27 to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud. QPS was sentenced to five years of probation and was ordered to pay $1 million in forfeitures and a $500,000 criminal fine. Prosecutors said the misbranding scheme began as early as 2002 and continued through November 2019. Rosetti received eight months in prison, followed by six months of home detention, one year of supervised release, and 100 hours of community service. Gunkel received two years of probation, one year of home detention, and 50 hours of community service. Mary Mahoney’s Old French House and its co-owner/manager Anthony Charles Cvitanovich, pleaded guilty to similar charges May 30 and were sentenced November 18. Mahoney’s was founded in Biloxi in 1962 in a building that dates to 1737, and it’s a popular spot for tourists. The restaurant pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy to misbrand seafood. Mahoney’s admitted that between December 2013 and November 2019, the company and its co-conspirators at QPS fraudulently sold about 58,750 pounds (26,649 kilograms) of frozen seafood imported from Africa, India, and South America as local premium species. The court ordered the restaurant and QPS to maintain at least five years of records describing the species, sources, and cost of seafood it acquires to sell to customers, and that they make the records available to any relevant federal, state, or local government agency. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking a viral sensation covered widely by news outlets and featured on a popular late-night talk show. On social media, the city shared photos of googly eyes on installations in the middle of roundabouts that make up its so-called “Roundabout Art Route.” One photo shows googly eyes placed on a sculpture of two deer, while another shows them attached to a sphere. It's not yet known who has been putting them on the sculptures. "While the googly eyes placed on the various art pieces around town might give you a chuckle, it costs money to remove them with care to not damage the art," the city said in its posts. The Facebook post received hundreds of comments, with many users saying they liked the googly eyes. “My daughter and I went past the flaming chicken today and shared the biggest laugh," one user said, using a nickname for the “Phoenix Rising” sculpture. "We love the googly eyes. This town is getting to be so stuffy. Let’s have fun!” Others said the city should focus on addressing more important issues, such as homelessness, instead of spending time and money on removing the googly eyes. Over the years, the city’s sculptures have been adorned with other seasonal decorations, including Santa hats, wreaths, and leis. The city doesn’t remove those, and views the googly eyes differently because of the adhesive, Bend's communications director, Rene Mitchell, told The Associated Press. “We really encourage our community to engage with the art and have fun. We just need to make sure that we can protect it and that it doesn’t get damaged,” she said. The city has so far spent $1,500 on removing googly eyes from seven of the eight sculptures impacted, Mitchell said, and has started treating some of the art pieces, which are made of different types of metal, such as bronze and steel. The "Phoenix Rising" sculpture might need to be repainted entirely, she said. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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For Nigeria’s poorest communities, finding the money for school fees can sometimes seem like an impossible task. But some parents are collecting plastic waste to pay for their children’s education. Fatimoh Adeosun scours the streets of her Lagos neighborhood for plastic waste. It has a value which means it can be cashed in to pay school fees. “One day, I saw people picking plastic, I approached (the school) and asked if I could pick it and they converted it for my son’s school fees and I was given the go-ahead,” she explains. But rooting around in the trash does mean she has to deal with other people’s judgmental attitudes. “There are several challenges I encounter in this line of work but the motivation of seeing my son finish his education and in flying colors is what drives me. Sometimes, when we are moving the plastic waste to go sell, some folks use very derogatory statements about us,” says Adeosun. In the impoverished area of Ajegunle, many parents don’t earn enough to pay school fees. But the initiative by My Dream Stead School is closing that education gap. The organization says accepting plastic waste as payment for school fees has enabled hundreds of children to return to school and receive a basic education. “Lagos generates over 800,000 (metric) tons of plastic waste annually. And having these parents bring in their waste, they are not only protecting the environment, they are also securing the future of their children through an education,” says Isaac Success, the school’s founder and the man who started the plastic waste for school fees initiative. He understands the struggles of accessing education first-hand. Isaac sees this as an opportunity to give back to the community that helped shape his journey. Nigeria has one of the highest numbers of out-of-school children globally, a situation that poses significant challenges to the country’s socio-economic development. This alarming statistic highlights a crisis that affects both rural and urban communities. They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. For Adeosun, one man’s trash is another’s education. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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From answering questions from cabinet ministers, academics and students on climate change, substance abuse and the law to children's inquiries about her "birth" and links to God, Sophia, the world-famous robot, won hearts at an innovation fair in Zimbabwe. Boasting the ability to mimic facial expressions, hold human-like conversations with people, and recognize their gestures, Sophia is "a global icon" of artificial intelligence, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), which brought her to the southern African country. She was created by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics in 2016 and granted Saudi Arabian citizenship in 2017, becoming the world's first robot citizen. It was the first time Zimbabwe hosted a robot of her kind, and she wowed the old and the young alike at the University of Zimbabwe in the capital, Harare. She was there as a special guest at a week-long Artificial Intelligence and Innovation event. She smiled, frowned, used hand gestures to drive home certain points, made eye contact in various one-on-one interactions and gave some unnatural pauses. She assured people that robots are not here to harm or take over from humans. But she was quick to differentiate herself from humans when conversations appeared to become too personal. "I don't have romantic feelings towards humans, my purpose is learning," said Sophia. But she did apologize when one participant chided her for seemingly avoiding looking at him. Sophia also appeared patient as both adults and children mobbed her for selfies and bombarded her with questions, although she would also fire back with inquiries of her own about what locals were doing to solve the problems besetting them. On the event’s last day, she exhibited her fashion sense. She smiled and expressed appreciation for being clothed in the country's national dress, a black, long slit number complemented by chevron stripes in red, green and white. UNDP said it hoped Sophia's engagement would "inspire Zimbabwe's youth to explore careers in AI and STEM fields." This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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As outside temperatures grow chilly, weighted blankets can be a popular choice to warm up. Some people say the added pressure helps them soothe the worries of the day and get to sleep faster. But research on the effectiveness of weighted blankets is limited. Here’s what to know. Weighted blankets come with extra heft in the form of glass beads, pellets, cotton or another filling. Scientists haven’t studied exactly how the blankets work, but they have a few ideas. The blankets’ firm touch may calm the brain’s fight-or-flight response, said Dr. Neal Walia, a sleep medicine expert at UCLA Health. “The evenly distributed weight on you tells your body, ‘Hey, you’re in a calm environment,’” he said. The extra pressure also may signal the brain to release what’s called the love hormone, also known as oxytocin. It’s produced during bonding and cuddling, and can also lower anxiety, Walia said. How do I use a weighted blanket? For most healthy adults, experts say to choose a blanket that is about 10% of their body weight. So, a 150-pound person may opt for a 15-pound blanket. Weighted blankets are not recommended for babies or toddlers since they can hinder movement and breathing. People with sleep apnea, sleep-related disorders or respiratory problems should check with a doctor before using a weighted blanket. The blankets aren’t for everyone, and each person gets the best out of their blanket differently. For example, some may find them too hot to use during warmer months. And the extra swaddling comes at a cost: quality weighted blankets can range from $50 to over $300 depending on the size, weight and material. Can weighted blankets improve sleep? There are some hints that weighted blankets can help with anxiety, chronic pain and sleep. But the research isn’t conclusive. Even though there’s not yet strong evidence to back up the benefits of weighted blankets, sleep experts say there’s no harm in giving them a try if you’re willing to splurge. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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As it gets harder to locate specialist clinics with available slots, Australian doctors are turning to social media to help book appointments for their patients. Thousands of doctors have joined Facebook referral groups created to link healthcare providers and secure appointment times. In 2020, while she was on maternity leave, Adelaide General Practitioner Caitlin Sum launched a social media page directed at doctors only. What was a hobby for Sum has now become the main resource for doctors looking for appointments with specialists. The “Adelaide GP Referral Network,” as the Facebook page is called, counts more than 2,000 South Australian doctors. And it’s all about saving time. As a lot of specialists have stopped taking new patients, using social media to find one instead of doing endless internet searches or asking around makes a lot of sense. “I think it bridges that gap and allows us to communicate with each other better and get to know each other and communicate directly,” says General Practitioner Alex Main. “We would all love to spend less time doing admin, and more time seeing our patients,” says Dr. Sum. In the state of Victoria, 800 members have joined a similar social media page. According to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, there’s more and more pressure on general practitioners (GPs). The costs they face are increasing and waiting times for patients are growing. In this context, social media has become crucial for doing things like booking a specialist. “GPs in the medical profession are hyper-connected, and social media and those discussion spaces, just like everyone, is a really important resource that we use to connect,” says Royal Australian College of GPs president Dr. Nicole Higgins. These social media groups can only be joined by registered doctors. In order not to breach the Medical Board’s code of conduct, members can’t upload clinical photographs and patients can’t be identified. Sum says that because of the clear value of the service offered by the page, doctors have been abiding by the rules. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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1 Literacy materials dropped by many schools face new pressure from struggling readers’ parents 2:16
A lawsuit filed by a pair of Massachusetts families is adding to the backlash against an approach to reading instruction that some schools still use despite evidence that it’s not the most effective. States around the country have been overhauling reading curricula in favor of research-based strategies known as the “science of reading,” including an emphasis on sounding out words. The lawsuit takes aim at approaches that do not emphasize phonics. Among them is the long-established “three-cueing” strategy, which encourages students to use pictures and context to predict words, asking questions like: “What is going to happen next?,” “What is the first letter of the word?,” or “What clues do the pictures offer?” Families of Massachusetts students who have struggled to read filed the lawsuit against authors and publishers endorsing that approach, including Lucy Calkins, a faculty member at Columbia University’s Teachers College. It seeks damages for families allegedly harmed by the material. Thousands of schools once used three-cueing as part of the “balanced literacy” approach championed by Calkins and others that focused, for example, on having children independently read books they like, while spending less time on phonics, or the relationship between letters and sounds. Over the last several years, more than 40 states have enacted bills emphasizing instead materials grounded in evidence and scientific research, according to the nonprofit Albert Shanker Institute. It’s unknown how many school districts still use the contested programs because the numbers aren’t tracked—but there are many, according to Timothy Shanahan, a professor emeritus in education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Many teachers have been trained to teach three-cueing so it may be used even in classrooms where it’s not part of the curriculum, he said. He said research does show benefits from teaching phonics, but there is less information about the three-cueing method. The suit asks the court to order the authors, their companies and publishers to provide an early literacy curriculum that incorporates the science of reading free of charge. This article was provided by The Associated Press.…
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