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An umbilical cord blood transplant from an unrelated or unmatched donor can still help children with deadly conditions such as cancer and sickle cell anemia, Duke University Medical Center researchers report.

They noted that unrelated cord blood may be easier to obtain than adult bone marrow, which means more patients would be able to receive treatment.

“Our study found that using cord blood can be effective, without increased complications, and can provide more matches for patients, including ethnic minorities,” lead investigator Dr. Vinod Prasad, a pediatric oncologist in the Duke Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program, said in a university news release. “Based on the findings of our study, we believe that unrelated cord blood transplant should be considered as an option for many of our young patients in need of a transplant.”

Prasad and colleagues analyzed data on 314 patients treated at Duke between 1993 and 2007. The patients, ages 6 months to 21 years, had malignant and non-malignant conditions.

“In order to match a donor to a recipient, doctors compare HLA typing, a test usually performed on a blood sample,” Prasad explained. “In every individual, HLA typing includes the specific genetic make-up at three locations — within those locations, you are looking at one set from the mother and one from the father, so it ends up to be a six-point comparison.”

“In this analysis of children whose donor units were matched at four of six points, the transplant was successful in many patients, with low incidence of complications. Results were similar to those seen in patients receiving closer matched transplants. Thus the use of the 4/6 matched donors improved access to transplant for patients, especially those of ethnic and racial minorities,” Prasad said.

The study was expected to be presented Friday at an American Society of Bone Marrow Transplantation meeting in Tampa, Fla.

“We have done a terrific job in this country of increasing the number of volunteer donors listed in the National Marrow Donor Program registry over the past several years,” Prasad said. “But the fact remains that, for many patients, finding a matched donor can be difficult. Ethnic and racial minorities have the hardest time finding a fully matched donor.”

Children tend to eat what their parents eat, finds a new study that suggests a parental contribution to the growing obesity problem among young children and teenagers.

Researchers found adolescents are more likely to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day if their parents do. Contrarily, teens whose parents eat fast food or drink soda are more likely to do the same.

Every day, more than 2 million California adolescents (62 percent) drink soda and 1.4 million (43 percent) eat fast food, but only 38 percent eat five or more servings of fruits and vegetables, say the researchers at UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

The cause of the deficit of healthy foods in teen diets has been attributed in part to the high concentration of fast food restaurants in certain cities and neighborhoods and other environmental factors.

The new research is a reminder, however, that “good dietary habits start at home,” said research scientist Susan H. Babey, a co-author of the policy brief. “If parents are eating poorly, chances are their kids are too.”

Nearly one-third (30 percent) of California’s teenagers are overweight or obese. Poor dietary habits, along with environmental and other factors, are strongly linked to obesity.

The policy brief, which was funded by a grant from the California Endowment, drew upon the responses of thousands of California teenagers queried by the center-administered California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the nation’s largest state health survey. Among the brief’s findings:

• Teens whose parents drink soda every day are nearly 40 percent more likely to drink soda every day themselves than teens whose parents do not drink soda.
• Teens whose parents eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily are 16 percent more likely to do the same than teens whose parents do not eat five servings a day.
• Nearly half of adolescents (48 percent) whose parents drink soda every day eat fast food at least once a day, while only 39 percent of teens whose parents do not drink soda eat fast food at least once daily.
• 45 percent of teens whose parents do not eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily eat fast food at least once a day, while only 39 percent of teens whose parents eat five servings a day eat fast food at least once daily.

“The research shows us that one of the keys to solving the teen obesity crisis starts with parents, but we must also improve the abysmal food environments in many low-income communities,” said Robert K. Ross, president and chief executive officer of the California Endowment. “While parents are the primary role models for their children and their behavior can positively - or negatively - influence their children’s health, it is also essential that local officials representing low-income communities work to expand access to fruits, vegetables and other healthful foods.”

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A peanut processing plant in Texas run by the same company blamed for a national salmonella outbreak operated for years uninspected and unlicensed by government health officials, The Associated Press has learned. The Peanut Corp. of America plant in Plainview was never inspected until after the company fell under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, according to Texas health records obtained by AP.

Once inspectors learned about the Texas plant, they found no sign of salmonella there. But new details about that plant — including how it could have operated unlicensed for nearly four years — raised questions about the adequacy of government efforts to keep the nation’s food supply safe. Texas is among states where the FDA relies on state inspectors to oversee food safety.

The problem is “not a completely uncommon occurrence,” said Cornell University food science professor Joseph Hotchkiss.

The salmonella outbreak was traced to the company’s sister plant in Blakely, Ga., where inspectors found roaches, mold, a leaking roof and internal records of more than a dozen positive tests for salmonella.

The outbreak so far has resulted in more than 500 reported illnesses, led to an expansive recall and caused as many as eight deaths. The government is working on a criminal investigation in the case.

In Texas, inspector Patrick Moore of the Department of State Health Services was sent to Plainview, in the sparsely populated Texas Panhandle, after salmonella was traced to the company’s plant in Georgia. Moore said the Texas plant wasn’t licensed with health officials and had never been inspected since it opened in March 2005. Texas requires food manufacturers to be licensed every two years and routinely inspected.

“I was not aware this plant was in operation and did not know (what) type of products processed,” Moore wrote in an inspection report obtained by AP.

The plant is registered with the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts to do business as Plainview Peanut Co. LLC, according to state records. But the company “was unable to present evidence at the time of the inspection of a current food manufacturers license,” Moore wrote in his report.

The plant was properly registered with the FDA as a food processing plant, said David Glasgow, director of the agency’s investigations branch in Dallas.

Margaret Glavin, a retired senior FDA official, said those registrations don’t help much. She said food producers are required to register under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, but there is no reliable database that is regularly updated to aid food inspectors. Some companies are listed multiple times, and others remain on the government’s list even after they go out of business.

“The database is terrible,” said Glavin, who recently stepped down as associate commissioner for FDA’s regulator affairs.

FDA inspectors went through the Texas plant two weeks ago after the state inspection and did not find salmonella or other problems, Glasgow said.

The latest revelation underscores the need for changes at FDA, said U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro,D-Conn., who oversees the agency’s funding.

“I think this is one more example of the real breakdown in the process of regulating food safety and making sure public safety is ensured,” said DeLauro, who is offering legislation to separate food safety from the FDA and create a national food czar.

Texas ordered its inspection Jan. 12 during the FDA’s investigation of the Georgia plant, after it received reports that Peanut Corp. was operating the plant in Plainview, health services spokesman Doug McBride said. Texas requires food companies to obtain two-year licenses but doesn’t have enough money or inspectors to catch companies that don’t.

“We can’t drive up and down the street to know what people are doing behind closed doors,” McBride said.

Moore reported some unsanitary conditions, such as unclean sections of a peanut roasting line. But several internal company laboratory tests dating back to November found no salmonella or other contaminants, according to documents included in Moore’s report.

Plant manager Jesus Garrocho told Moore that he sent Texas health department forms to the company’s Virginia headquarters more than a year ago and did not know why the licensing forms were not completed.

Moore said the plant manager promised during the January inspection to register the plant with state health officials: “He will make sure this gets in and paid,” Moore wrote.

McBride said the company still hasn’t done so.

“Our first preference is not to go out and shut somebody down and wipe out jobs and income,” he said. “Our philosophy in any of our regulatory programs is to try to get a company in compliance.”

The plant is the subject of a complaint filed since the state’s inspection Jan. 12, and is scheduled for a new inspection in coming weeks, McBride said. He would not provide details about the complaint.

Garrocho referred questions to company lawyers. Amy Rotenberg, a Minneapolis lawyer representing Peanut Corp., declined to comment.

The Texas plant blanches, dry roasts, oil-roasts and chops peanuts, then ships them to food companies across the country. The Georgia plant also processes peanuts, and produces peanut paste and peanut butter.

About a third of U.S. children ages 2 to 17 take a multivitamin or other vitamin or mineral supplement, but many of them may not need to, according to a study published on Monday.

And the children who may benefit the most from such supplements, including those with overall poor health or diet, may be the least likely to take them, the researchers wrote in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.

Dr. Ulfat Shaikh of the University of California Davis School of Medicine and colleagues analyzed government health survey data on 10,828 U.S. children ages 2 to 17.

About 34 percent took a multivitamin supplement or supplement with individual vitamins such as vitamin C or minerals such as iron or calcium in the past month.

Children who were reported to be the healthiest and most active with a balanced diet, greater access to health care and higher family income were more likely to take supplements, the researchers found.

Shaikh said many of the children who take vitamin supplements do not appear to need them because they are receiving adequate nutrition from the foods they eat.

“Our key findings were that in children and teenagers who seem to face the greatest risk for nutritional deficiencies, these were the groups that tend to actually use such supplements the least,” Shaikh said in a telephone interview.

“And, in general, children and teenagers who face the least risks for such deficiencies tend to use them the most.”

Children who may benefit from supplements include those with a poor diet, lower family income, too little exercise, obesity, overall poorer health and less access to health care, the researchers said.

Douglas MacKay of the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a dietary supplement industry group, took issue with some of the researchers’ conclusions.

“It comes as no surprise that those individuals who use vitamin and mineral supplements also engage in other healthy behaviors, such as trying to eat a well-balanced diet and being physically active,” MacKay said by e-mail.

“Vitamin supplements are one component of a total health package and cannot be teased out of the overall wellness equation,” MacKay added.

Sedentary seniors can improve their motor function and decrease their risk for insulin resistance by starting an exercise program that includes both aerobics and resistance training, new Canadian research suggests.

“For a long time, the standard recommendation for people of moderate age — those under 65 — has been 150 minutes a week of aerobic type activity,” noted study co-author Robert Ross, a professor in the school of kinesiology and health studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. “But for older adults, we haven’t had a standard, and there has been little evidence to base guidelines on.”

“So now we have found, as a first-time observation, that elderly men and women whose objective is to manage their blood sugar, reduce both diabetic and cardiovascular risk, and simultaneously maintain an ability to live independently, should do both aerobic and resistance training.”

On a weekly basis, this optimal training formula would be comprised, said Ross, of 90 minutes of simple aerobics — such as walking — alongside 60 minutes of resistance exercise of some kind.

Ross and his colleagues reported on their work — funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research — in the Jan. 26 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.

The authors pointed out that elderly Americans currently comprise about 12 percent of the country’s population — a figure set to rise to about 20 percent by 2030.

They further underscored the fact that the risk for developing insulin resistance — a pre-diabetic condition in which the body does not properly utilize the hormone insulin to break down food sugars — has long been associated with growing older.

Ross and his team also noted that American Heart Association and the American College of Sports Medicine advocate routine physical exercise as critical means of achieving healthier aging.

To examine the impact of exercise on insulin resistance and motor function, between 2002 and 2006, the authors focused on 117 sedentary Canadian men and women between the ages of 60 and 80, all of whom were diagnosed as obese in their abdominal region.

None of the participants had a prior history of heart disease, and none had been dieting when the study was launched. Almost all were white.

Over six-month study periods, the participants were put into one of four activity groups: those who did not exercise; those engaged in resistance exercise alone (20 minutes/three times per week); those performing aerobic exercise alone (30 minutes/five times per week); and those who did a combination of both resistance (60 minutes per week) and aerobic exercise (30 minutes/three times per week).

While tracking dietary intake throughout the study period to maintain each participant’s initial weight, the researchers assessed skeletal muscle mass and fat composition, as well as insulin resistance, at the beginning and end of the various exercise programs.

The researchers found that among the two groups engaged in aerobic exercise — either alone or in combination with resistance training — insulin resistance improved as compared with those who didn’t exercise at all. Resistance training alone, however, did not produce any improvements.

The same dynamic held in terms of improvements in cardio-respiratory fitness, in which aerobic or combined aerobic-resistance training produced benefits, while resistance training alone did not.

However, any form of exercise, alone or in combination, appeared to significantly boost motor function among the participants — although combining aerobic with resistance exercise provided the most benefit.

The authors concluded that older men and women have the most to gain by engaging in a routine exercise program that includes both aerobic and resistance training, while maintaining a healthy diet. And they encouraged health-care providers to advocate this kind of lifestyle to their elderly patients.

“It would certainly be wrong to say that aerobic exercise alone doesn’t provide a substantial benefit,” noted Ross. “It certainly does. And if an older individual can’t get access to resistance training, aerobics alone is much better than doing nothing. It’s just that optimal results are obtained from doing both aerobics and resistance.”

Dr. Roger H. Unger, a professor of internal medicine and emeritus director of the Touchstone Center for Diabetes Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, indicated that the findings are strongly in line with what he would expect.

“The reason you have muscle is to move around,” he said. “Not to sit still all your life. And you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure this out. For two and a half million years of evolution, our species always had to use its muscles, until about a hundred years ago. Now we have inactivity 16 hours a day, because we no longer move our muscles to get to work, and no longer move our muscles when we’re at work, and when we get home, we watch television.”

“So, when we overeat and under-exert, when we don’t use our muscles over long periods of time, we obviously will ultimately suffer the consequences and go on to develop all sorts of irregularities, including insulin resistance,” added Unger. “So, anything that gets people to move is going to be beneficial.”