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Their quick response can make all the difference in the case of a crash like the one Sebastien Bourdais went through at IMS. IndyCar

Sebastien Bourdais struck a wall during qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 this year. He suffered a broken pelvis, but acknowledges that without numerous safety improvements over the years, such a crash could have been fatal.(Photo: Tom Figura/for the Star)Buy Photo

The car straightened out around the turn at full throttle and Sebastien Bourdais lost control of the steering wheel. He didnt have time to react. The No. 18 car went into the wall at 227 mph.

He lost consciousness fortwo or three seconds but was conscious by the time the flaming vehicle reached a stop. As soon as Bourdais was alert, it was clear to him: He was broken.

Holmatro Safety Team members at Indianapolis Motor Speedwaywere talking and keeping things light beforeit happened, but they were ready.

They were listening for sounds that didnt quite seem right. Watching for smoke or sprays that didnt quite look right. It took milliseconds for them to react when Bourdais went into the wall during Indianapolis 500 qualifying.

Twelve emergencyworkers jumped into three trucks, four in each. Bourdais team asked him on the radio whether he was OK Kind of. The first paramedic arrived about 20 seconds after the initial hit and started to help Bourdais with his helmet. Bourdais predicted it right away.

Bourdais blacked out momentarily after the crash. As soon as he was alert, it was clear to him: He was broken.(Photo: Bob Goshert/for the Star)

I broke my pelvis, he said.

Are you sure?

Believe me, Im sure.

Two men sprayed the sides and bottom of the car with fire extinguishers. The crew commander spoke with Bourdais and communicated with fire control. The second truck was there 50 seconds after the crash. Soon five trucks surrounded him.

Eventually, Bourdais was strapped to a foot-wide board and placed in an ambulance. Straps wrapped around him in what he later called "not very pleasant places" and the safety workers cut off his fire suit and soon Bourdais was naked and feeling very small.

But he was alive. His car, the response teams and the SAFER barriers around the track kept Sbastien Bourdais alive. That might not have been the case 20 years ago.

Its pretty straightforward simple that Id be dead.

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Dr. Terry Trammell, center, is IndyCars safety consultant and one of the founding fathers of the safety initiatives implemented in racing across the past few decades.(Photo: Provided by OrthoIndy)

When Terry Trammell heard Bourdais had fractured his pelvis and hip, he stormed into the engineering office livid. Jeff Horton, IndyCars director of engineering and the calmer of the two, was confused. The car and SAFER barrier did exactly what they were designed to do. Why was Trammell so upset?

Because Ive got to go talk to Sebastien and say'We kind of let you down,' Trammell said.

No, you didnt let him down, Hortonsaid. Hed be dead.

Trammell known as Dr. T is IndyCars safety consultant. That title downplays his significance a bit. Hes one of the founding fathers of the safety initiatives implemented in racing across the past few decades. He was one of the most renowned orthopedic surgeons in racing in the 1970s and '80s, but eventually pivoted from what he called the repair business to the prevention business.

He had a hand in the development of the Head and Neck Support system (HANS), the Holmatro Safety Teams, crash data tracking, impact foams in the cars, the SAFER (Steel and Foam Energy Reduction) barriers and so on.

Trammell takes it personally when a driver gets hurt. So does Mike Yates, the IndyCar manager of track safety operations.

They become friends with the drivers. They see each other every day. Yates almost walked away after seeing one too many friends die in the car. Trammell married a racer. Back in his surgeon days, the drivers would stay at his home while they rehabbed.

Theres a responsibility involved in keeping these drivers safe, and theres a weight. Trammell and Yates and so many others have done plenty to lessen the dangers drivers face, but there will always be risk. They keep fighting to reduce that risk.

If you get hurt," Trammell says to the drivers during an annual talk about safety, "I take it very personally, because I should have thought about how this could happen and taken measures to prevent it. On the other hand, if theres something we tell you that you can do to make your car safer, and you choose not to do it and get hurt, I take that equally personally, and I will be in your face.

* * *

Trammell felt like the grim reaper walking down the pits when he first started out in racing.The seas would part as he passed through.

No driver wanted to talk to the doctor. Somebody might think something was wrong with him.

The Holmatro safety team was ready to roll if needed on May 21, 2017, at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.(Photo: Randy Crist/for the Star)

When Yates started with the safety teams in 1985 after years as a firefighter, his team would jump in the back of a pickup with no seats. Their equipment lay unsecured in the bed of the truck. Team members held on to what they could.

There was no real plan, there were no set roles for each person.

We got to the scene and just did what we had to do, Yates said.

Now they have a system down. Three primary trucks, four seats in each, each seat holding a crew member with a specific role. If safety team members in a rush ever have to jump into the wrong seats, they take on that seats responsibility.

Seatbelts werent used in IndyCar until 1922. Helmets werent required until the 1930s. Fire suits came in the 1960s. Safety didnt really become a science until the 1980s and '90s.

Trammell and his medical partner Steve Olvey started cataloging every racing injury they could find. Drivers would come in for their physicals and the two played 20 questions with them.

Have you ever been seriously injured? No. What about that time we operated on you? That wasnt serious? No. Drivers had their own ways of looking at injuries.

Trammell and Olvey went back to the drawing board. They brought in printouts of a skeleton and had drivers circle every broken bone they had suffered for any reason. It looked as if the skeletons had chicken pox.

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Holmatro Safety responds to a crash at IMS during a 2009 practice. The first person to approach the vehicle is a paramedic, who is ultimately responsible for the driver. IndyCar

Then came the 1992 month of May at the Speedway when 12 drivers were injured and Jovy Marcelo died. Trammell and John Melvin of General Motors went out to the track a few days after the 500 and measured every inch of the track to begin collecting crash records.

They took that data to General Motorsand it played a large part in engineer Robert Hubbard and driver Jim Downings development of the HANS, which restricts the head and neck from whipping around excessively in a crash.

Drivers were slow to embrace the HANS until the 1999 death of Gonzalo Rodriguez from a basilar skull fracture. Ananalysis found the HANS likely would have saved his life.Soon the HANS became mandatory in CART and Formula One.

The moment Trammell remembers as a sort of breakthrough was a mandatory Formula One driver meeting to introduce the HANS in Sao Paolo, Brazil, in the early 2000s. The meeting wasn't starting, so Trammell went up to the podium and asked why.

Well start when Mr. Schumacher gets here, aman said bluntly.

Trammell sat back downand eventually Formula One surgeon Sid Watkins came in dragging driverMichael Schumacher by the ear. You may begin, Watkins said.

After the presentation, Schumacher stood and asked a few questions. Ill take three, he said before walking out.

All the other drivers lined up. If Schumacher was wearing it, they wanted one, too.

* * *

Mike Yates didnt know whether he could keep going after Dan Wheldon died in a 2011 crash. Hed been doing the job so long, and hed seen so many drivers die, he thought it was time to walk away. He and Wheldon were good friends.

I didnt want to see another buddy go through that, Yates said.

A few weeks later he was in Sebring, Fla., talking to drivers. He told them he was thinking about leaving.

You need closure, one said. If you walk away now, you wont get that closure.

So Yates stayed on, and maybe he truly got that closure when James Hinchcliffe's life was saved during 500 practice in 2015. Hinchcliffe went into a walland a Code 05 was called, meaning a seriously injured driver.

Hinchcliffe was stuck, and they struggled to get him out.

Then they noticed the pool of blood between his legs.

A piece of the suspension had broken through the chasis and impaled his leg. Hinchcliffe was hemorrhaging. They had to move quickly.

They pulled him out and got him in the ambulance.

The bloodkept coming.

They tried packing the holes,wrapping a compression diaper around his stomach to limit the bleeding. Yates said they lost Hinchcliffe's pulse at one point.

Luckily the surgeons were able to hop in the ambulance,evaluate the situation and create a game plan for the moment they reached the hospital. Hinchcliffe is still racing two years later.

Hinchcliffe told Yates he was glad the track safety directorhad stayed on after Wheldons death. Maybe if Yates hadn't been there, things would have gone differently for him.

Hinchcliffe later took the Holmatro Safety Team to dinner in St. Petersburg as a thank you. He brought his parents along, as well. They talked about life and discussed beer.

It was a reminder of why the safety team fights to save lives. Yates is retiring this year.

* * *

When Scott Dixon went into the air and his car shattered into pieces at the 500 this year, Trammell said it looked far worse than it was. The chassis held up pretty well with only a little break on the bottom.

Bourdais crash was as bad it looked. He smashed into the SAFER barrier at 114 G's, three times as much force as Dixons crash. Bourdais pushed the wall back 40 feet, nine inches at the apex, five layers into the foam.

Cars have foam side panels in the door to protect drivers as well, but they canbecome a danger themselveswhen theres too much force. The foam panel can absorb up to 2,000 pounds of pressure before it becomes activated. In the Bourdais crash, the forces were so high, the foamfractured his pelvis.

Safety work is constantly evolving. The 2012 chassis, which Trammell calls the safest race car ever made, has front and side foam protections. The head surrounds can withstand 70 G'sof impact to the point drivers genuinely dont know they hit their head after taking on 50 G's.

But more can always be done.

Trammell said the biggest issue right now is protecting drivers spines in frontal impacts. Theres an epidemic, he said, of spinal fractures in Europe. IndyCar has lessened the risk for rear and vertical impacts, but frontal impacts are still a concern.

They are still working to prevent the kind of contact from a loose part that killed Justin Wilson in 2015. They are trying to tether parts to the car so the nose, wheels, wings, nose cones, etc., dont fly off. Trammell said they have reduced the riskbut cant eliminate it.

One of the issues all over the world about open cockpit cars is, should they exist? Trammell said. Should they have a total enclosure?

IndyCar is set to take delivery of a prototype windscreen in July. He said the pre-testing is done;now its time for ballistic testing. The windscreens are remarkably simple and look like '70s-style Indy-car windshields.

The other large issue is fencing. It costs a fortune to replacebut is needed to make sure cars stay on the track and spectators stay safe.

Dario Franchitti suffered a career-ending injury in Houston in 2013 when his car hit a fence post and the webbing was torn off the post, exposing fans to the damage and adding flying pieces of the fence tothe danger.

Thats a much bigger project thats going to require a lot of time, effort and money, Trammell said.

* * *

Bourdais went swimming last week. Scott Dixon raced at Le Mans. The worst can still happen to these drivers, but they are emerging from crashes safely more and more often.

The 2017 Indianapolis 500 was Yates last. After working more than 30 Indy 500s in his career, it was time. Six years after almost walking away on painful terms, he is walking away for reasons that sit better with him.

At the 500, the team got Yates a Holmatro helmet and had everybody sign it. He admits that caused a little catch in his throat. He took in the straightaway one last time.

Then he watched Dixon do his little flying act, and it reminded himit was time to go. That was scary, he said.

Yates said the Holmatro Safety Team is in better hands with guys such as Jim Norman, Matt Stewart, Tim Baughman and others. He loves the changes they are already making.

Trammell doesnt appear to be going anywhere. What makes him happy is how the culture of safety has changed in his decades at tracks. No longer is he the grim reaper walking the pits.

Now, he has people approaching him looking for help. Like in Sao Paolo in 2012, when Kanaan came up to him displaying his phone. Kanaan was showing photos of how the steering wheels were breaking drivers' fingers and hurting their thumbs.

Within 10 minutes, nine drivers were at his breakfast table saying their fingers were hurt. The problem was fixed by 2014.

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With obesity still rising among certain groups of kids, a government panel is renewing its advice that all children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 be screened for obesity.

Screening is just the first step. Kids who are obese should then be referred to treatment programs that use a variety of approaches to change their behavior and help them slim down.

The recommendations were issued Tuesday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a group of experts appointed by the Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The task forces advice influences healthcare providers and the coverage offered by health insurers.

The new recommendations, which were published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., earned a B grade from the task force. That means the experts determined with moderate certainty that the overall benefit of obesity screening and treatment referral is moderate.

Read on for more details about the new recommendations.

Not necessarily. As extra pounds become the new normal, fewer parents are able to recognize when their childs weight is too high.

Besides, the medical definition of childhood obesity is pretty specific. You start by measuring a childs height and weight and using that to calculate his or her body mass index. Thats weight (measured in kilograms) divided by height (measured in meters) squared. There are online calculators to help you, like this one from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

To determine if a child meets the criteria for obesity, you compare his or her BMI to the BMIs of other kids who are the same age. Doctors use growth charts from 2000 as a baseline for these comparisons. If a childs BMI is high enough to land him or her in the top 5%, he or she is considered obese. Today, about 17% of Americans ages 2 to 19 are in this category, according to the CDC.

Children with obesity are at greater risk for a variety of health conditions. These include asthma, high blood pressure, insulin resistance, high cholesterol, orthopedic problems and obstructive sleep apnea.

The task force also noted that obese children are more likely to experience mental health and psychological issues, as well as to be teased or be targeted by bullies.

Not necessarily. Tracking studies show that about 64% of pre-teens who are obese grow up to become obese adults. By the time kids become teenagers, the odds are even more stacked against them nearly 80% of obese teens go on to become obese adults.

Adults who are obese (defined as having a body mass index of 30 or higher) are more likely to develop serious chronic diseases like Type 2 diabetes and heart disease as well as certain types of cancer.

The task force advises doctors to help their patients find a comprehensive, intensive behavioral intervention. Thats a fancy way of describing a weight-loss counseling program.

In clinical trials, the programs that were most effective shared several features:

They included at least 26 contact hours with patients, spread out over a period of months. The ones with the best results had 52 contact hours, enough for one hour per week for an entire year.

They involved not just the child but his or her parents and siblings.

They included instruction on healthful eating, including steps like how to read nutrition information on food labels.

They showed kids how to exercise safely and supervised some of their workouts.

They taught kids the value of reducing their access to junk food, limiting their screen time and steering clear of other triggers that could undermine their progress.

They helped kids learn how to set goals for themselves, monitor their progress and reward themselves when appropriate.

A program like this can involve not just doctors but dietitians, psychologists, exercise physiologists and other kinds of specialists. The task force acknowledged that some families would have limited access to programs like this, but it didnt dwell on this problem.

Others did. In an editorial published Tuesday in JAMA Internal Medicine, Drs. Jason Block and Emily Oken of Harvard Medical School pointed out that in most areas of the United States, programs like this simply arent available. Among childrens hospitals, for instance, only 60% have something that meets the task forces criteria, and only 25% have a program that lasts a full year.

Even if a kid is fortunate enough to live near one of these hospitals, his or her family might not be able to afford to use it, Block and Oken added.

Three other doctors from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine were even more critical. In a JAMA editorial, Drs. Rachel Thornton, Raquel Hernandez and Tina Cheng wrote that the task forces recommendations could wind up diverting resources from more practical public health measures that would probably do more to reduce childhood obesity.

Thornton, Hernandez and Cheng touted efforts to keep junk foods out of schools and prevent companies from marketing sugary drinks to kids.

Block and Oken mentioned some other policies that have been shown to improve kids eating habits, such as taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages or changes in the rules governing the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

Greater focus on policies that support healthful behaviors across all settings will be essential not only in ensuring the sustained success of treatment for established obesity, but also in preventing its onset, the Harvard pair wrote.

The task force considered two medications that are sometimes used to help kids lose weight, orlistat and metformin. Clinical trials have found that both drugs helped children lose about five to seven pounds. But that wasnt enough to reduce their BMIs by even 1 point. However, the drugs did cause side effects, such as vomiting, cramping and uncontrolled passage of stool, according to the panels report.

Overall, the experts concluded that the clinical benefit of these drugs was uncertain.

Thats true for American kids overall its been around 17% for about the past decade, according to data from the CDCs National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. At the turn of the century, that figure was about 14%; in the 1970s, it was under 6%.

But some groups of kids are still getting fatter. For instance, obesity rates are still rising among African American girls and Latino boys. Also, the proportion of kids who are severely obese continues to grow.

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Heart disease, which includes coronary heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure) and stroke, is the number one cause of death in the United States.

And yet, the American Heart Association and American Stroke Association both assert that a whopping 80 percent never have to happen.

Thats because prevention can reverse these numbers and improve your life and life expectancy.

If youre not sure of your risk level for heart disease or stroke, the AHA has a simple (and free) online Lifes Simple 7 risk assessment tool.

But regardless of your risk level, these seven ways to reduce heart attack and stroke risk can get you on the right path

Lucky #7 Seven is a widely popular lucky number in many cultures and religions. Its also what you want to see when playing the slots in Vegas. But when it comes to promoting health and preventing illness theres no room to gamble.

Heart disease and stroke share many of the same causes, including high blood pressure, smoking, obesity, diabetes, lack of exercise, poor diet and high cholesterol.

But turning these unlucky risk factors around with these 7 lifesaving habits can reduce your risk by 80% and thats a win you can take to the bank

1 Get Active Increasing physical exercises is the first step because it can reduce blood sugar, lower cholesterol, lower weight and makes you feel great! You can begin by taking walks, parking further form the store and taking the stairs instead of the elevator.

The AHA recommends the following programs:

1) Moderate-to-high-intensity muscle-strengthening activity, at least two days per week.

2) 150 minutes per week total of moderate-intensity exercise (30 mins a day, 5 days a week);

3) OR 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity per week (25 minutes, 3 days per week).

Examples of moderate intensity activity include:

Walking briskly (3 miles per hour or faster, but not race-walking) Water aerobics Bicycling slower than 10 miles per hour Tennis (doubles) Ballroom dancing General gardening Vigorous activity would include something like:

Race walking, jogging, or running Swimming laps Tennis (singles) Aerobic dancing Bicycling 10 miles per hour or faster Jumping rope Heavy gardening (continuous digging or hoeing) Hiking uphill or with a heavy backpack

2 Balance Your Cholesterol While statin drugs are the mainstay of modern medicine for lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol, they may be doing more harm than good. Thats why I believe when it comes to balancing cholesterol, natural solutions are the most gentle and are effective.

If your LDL (bad) cholesterol is too high it may increase your risk of heart attack and stroke. You need to keep the LDL in check and increase the HLD (good) cholesterol, which helps shuttle the bad out of your body.

Its well established that simply losing weight has cholesterol lessening effects. Much of this success could be due to the nature of how weight is lost: through exercise (above) and diet (see below). Exercise metabolizes fats in the body and a healthy diet should decrease inflammation-causing processed foods from entering your body.

3 Control Your Blood Pressure Keeping an eye on blood pressure is key to preventing it from getting too high and being a risk factor in heart disease and stroke. Again, exercise and diet are your friends here. Get up and move more to reduce HBP and lose weight. You can also limit your alcohol consumption and eat a heart-healthy diet. You might consider these 5 supplements for healthy blood pressure, start drinking beet juice and be sure to eat these 20 foods for a strong heart.

4 Eat Better Along with exercise, diet is a pillar of any wellness program and certainly has direct effects on many facets of the causes and prevention of heart disease and stroke. This is often difficult for people to change because we are creatures of habit. But making a change to a heart healthy diet is essential.

East more fresh fruit and vegetables. Choose lean proteins over fatty meats. Eat more whole grains and less processed ones. Avoid added salts, fats and sugars. Eat more wild Alaskan salmon. Limit your intake of saturated fat and full-fat dairy and avoid trans fats (found mostly in processed, packaged foods).

5 Lose Weight Losing weight is important for controlling diabetes and risk of stroke and heart attack. With heart disease being the No. 1 killer, its no surprise that 70% of Americas are overweight or obese. The AHA recommends losing 2 pounds a month to total 24 pounds per year to get you there safely and avoid the rebound weight gain of many fad diets.

Increasing exercise, making healthier eating choices, and increasing fiber intake will all help you lose weight. But also consider portion control. Researchers at Cornell University found that junk food is not the cause of obesity in America. In fact, it is simply our lack of portion control; that is, the vast quantity of food we eat daily.

6 Reduce Blood Sugar Dropping your blood sugar is essential to reducing your risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke. Not only that, but elevated blood sugar can increase your risk of heart disease and stroke by 4 times! Exercise and diet are the key to reducing blood sugar. Click here for more tips on naturally lowering your blood sugar.

7 Stop Smoking A no-brainer Smoking causes one in five deaths and these are all preventable by quitting. Quitting smoking can help prevent heart disease, stroke, cancer and lung disease. There are several methods to help you quit, and this Free Guide can help you!

Motivation So, Americas No. 1 disease is preventable in 80% of cases. And the prevention model is steeped in making healthier choices in these seven areas weve just outlined. But these seven areas all are affected directly by exercising more and adopting a healthier diet. So what more do you need to get started?

How about a little motivation

The chilling statistics from the AHA and ASA are a scary wake-up call to everyone. Have a look at these deadly 7 deadly facts, then, get busy turning your 7 risk factors into 7 lucky lifesaving habits:

Coronary heart disease accounts for 1 in 7 deaths in the US, killing over 360,000 people a year. About 790,000 people in the US have heart attacks each year. Of those, about 114,000 will die. There are 580,000 new attacks and 210,000 recurrent attacks each year in the US. Each year, about 795,000 people experience a new or recurrent stroke. Approximately 610,000 of these are first attacks, and 185,000 are recurrent attacks. Stroke is a leading cause of serious long-term disability in the US. In 2013, worldwide prevalence of stroke was 25.7 million, with 10.3 million people having a first stroke. Stroke was the second-leading global cause of death behind heart disease in 2013, accounting for 11.8 percent of total deaths worldwide.

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ANDERSON, Ind. A new study claims to have found a connection between drinking diet soda and being at higher risk of developing dementia and stroke.

However, the study's author is calling for more research to be done.

The study found an association between drinking at least one artificially sweetened beverage daily and having an increased risk of stroke or dementia by three times the risk of someone who drinks diet soda less than once a week.

The researchers who conducted the study analyzed the Framingham Heart Study Offspring Cohort. The 2,888 people in the group for the stroke study were primarily Caucasian, over the age of 45. The 1,484 people in the dementia study were over the age of 60.

The authors quickly cautioned in the American Heart Association press release that the research only shows a trend among one group of people rather than an actual cause and effect.

The people who participated in the study had researchers check in with their drinking habits periodically over a seven-year period, according to the press release. The researchers then followed up 10 years later to see who developed the targeted diseases.

At the end of the 10-year period, 3 percent of the people had had a stroke and 5 percent had been diagnosed with dementia.

Matthew Pase, a senior fellow in the department of neurology at Boston University School of Medicine, Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, and the Framingham Heart Study, said more research needs to be done to confirm the findings since the sampling of people were primarily white and older. He also said they did not track how much regular soda the participants were drinking as well.

Even if someone is three times as likely to develop stroke or dementia, it is by no means a certain fate, Pase said in a press release. In our study, 3 percent of the people had a new stroke and 5 percent developed dementia, so we're still talking about a small number of people developing either stroke or dementia.

However, the study is one of many that point to artificially sweetened sodas, or diet soda, as not being a healthy option and even causing additional health issues of its own.

Studies since 2010 have showed various health concerns that could be linked to drinking diet soda, such as increased risks of Type 2 diabetes, heart attack and a slower metabolism. Diet sodas may have fewer calories, but some of the artificial sweeteners have been questioned.

Aspartame is one of the most commonly used artificial sweeteners, and its about 200 times sweeter than sugar, meaning much less of it needs to be used. Rumors and unscientific studies have claimed for years that the sweetener causes cancer, but the Food and Drug Administration and other agencies have found it to be safe, according to the American Cancer Society.

Marianne Spangler, patient navigation services director and dietitian at Community Hospital Anderson, said in 2016 that dietitians generally follow the guidelines of the FDA. She said while the FDA has said diet soda is safe, she encourages her patients to drink more water anyway.

Michelle Richart, registered dietitian at St. Vincent Anderson Regional Hospital, said she encourages her patients to drink less diet soda because it cuts down how much water they are drinking. If they are drinking enough water, a little diet soda is fine, she said in 2016.

What authors of the study published in the American Heart Associations journal Stroke are really trying to iterate is that while more research needs to be done, diet sodas may not be better for people than their sugary counterparts, said senior editorial author Ralph Sacco, a former president of the American Heart Association and the chairman of the Department of Neurology at the Miller School of Medicine at University of Miami in Florida.

Both sugar and artificially sweetened soft drinks may be hard on the brain, Sacco said in a press release.

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Youve been trained from a young age to avoid fat. To this day, you probably drink 2 percent milk, jelly your toast instead of buttering it, and buy packaged food with reduced fat as much as possible. Even though doctors usually recommend low fat, is it really that bad for you? Some doctors are now saying the exact opposite, and heres why.

For decades, people have eaten low-fat foods in an effort to promote a healthy heart. The fatty and starchy diets of most Americans have led to higher cholesterol and, presumably, an increased risk of heart disease. However, research is showing just the opposite effect when people consume healthy fats like olive oil alongside healthy carbs.

One obesityexpert, Dr. Aronne, says that slightly low-fat diets might help people lose weight. On the other hand, it might also cause people to turn to more carbs when theyre hungry. The decreased fat intake simply does not satisfy a persons hunger as long as a diet with healthy fats.

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As a result, dieters eating less fat to lose weight might actually be thwarting their efforts. Any extra carbs they consume will only add to their weight, especially if they eat highly processed white breads and sugar.

Maybe reducing fat in your diet wont help with weight loss, but is it really good for you? Onestudyby the National Institutes of Health analyzed the effects that a high-fat diet has on weight loss and heart disease risk. The researchers instructed participants to get a high amount of carbs from vegetables, and they told everyone to avoid trans fats.

In the low-fat group, participants had to keep their total fat intake below 7 percent of their daily calories. They could still eat breads and cereals, though. For the high-fat group, however, participants reduced the amount of carbs they were eating and did not avoid fats like meat and butter.

After one year of these protocols, researchers analyzed the health of participants in each group. They found that those who had reduced their fat intake had only lost an average four pounds. Participants who ate a high-fat diet actually lost twelve pounds, without counting calories.

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Next, researchers analyzed heart health, also finding that those in the high-fat group had improved their cholesterol more than those in the low-fat group.

Scientifically speaking, thisresultmakes sense. Those who reduce their fat intake likely fill the gaps with more carbohydrates. The carbohydrates then turn into sugar in the body.

Since theres more carbs than the body needs, it stores the sugar into fat cells. Unlike a high-fat diet, however, the body doesnt use the stored fat because it burns the carbs for energy. At that point, people are just adding on weight without the body needing to burn any of the excess.

On the other hand, a high-fat diet forces the body to burn fat as a source of energy. If it doesnt get enough energy from the food you eat, it then burns excess fat stored on the body. In addition, the healthy fats keep people feeling full longer, avoiding the temptation of eating more carbs.

For now, this subject still holds some debate among health professionals. New research does indicate that more healthy fats improve a persons health.

However, scientists have not done much research on the exact effects of a high-fat diet over a prolonged period. They also need more studies on the direct link between increasing saturated fat and its effects on heart health.

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For now, you can simply eat healthy fats without trying to avoid them in your diet. You might not want to increase your fat intake exponentially just yet.

Recently, a high-fat diet has shown more benefits to a persons health and weight loss than a diet meant to avoid fats. Also, healthy fats like olive oil lower bad cholesterol while raising good cholesterol, potentially lowering heart disease risk. How can you benefit from this research right now? Eat olive oil, meat, nuts, and other fats in a healthy balance, and youll get the benefits they provide.

This article first appeared on AskDrManny.com.

Dr. Manny Alvarez serves as Fox News Channel's senior managing health editor. He also serves as chairman of the department of obstetrics/gynecology and reproductive science at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. Click here for more information on Dr. Manny's work with Hackensack University Medical Center. Visit AskDrManny.com for more.

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Michelle ObamaMichelle ObamaMichelle Obama holds fitness 'bootcamps' for friends Obama marks Fathers Day: I'm most proud to be Sasha and Malia's dad Obamas invited to be honorary football coach at University of Michigan MORE fitness drill sergeant?

The former first lady says shes been hosting bootcamps for her friends to help whip them into shape and be healthy together.

Obama is seen participating in a series of workout routines in snapshots she posted on Instagram on Monday.

When I was at the White House, I often hosted bootcamp weekends for my close girlfriends, Obama, 53, wrote. It didnt matter that we were all at varying fitness levels. Our bootcamp weekends were a reminder that if we want to keep taking care of others, we need to take care of ourselves first.

And even though Im no longer at the White House, Ive continued this tradition and wanted to share some photos, Obama said in her post. My girlfriends have been there for me through all kinds of life transitions over the years including a pretty big one recently! and weve done our best to stay healthy together.

Obamas bootcamp companions include about a dozen old and new friends of varying age and fitness levels, People reported Monday.

Obama is well-known for promoting health and fitness, championing her anti-childhood obesity Lets Move! initiative as first lady.

She went tricep-to-tricep with Ellen DeGeneres in a push-up contest on Ellen back in 2012. Obamas also been eyed at a number of spinning classes around Washington over the years.

Whether its a bootcamp or a walk around the neighborhood, I hope you and your crew can find some time this summer to be healthy together, Obama wrote.

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Now that summer is here, is there any better place to break a sweat than the beach? Aside from all the energizingbenefits of your workout, you'll get an extra boost just from beingnear the water. Research suggests the simple act of taking in an ocean vistais enough to improve yourmental health. And best of all, you can cool down by diving under the waves.

Lucky for us, some of our favorite fitness influencers feel the same way about training by the sea. Keep scrolling for made-for-sand moves to steal on your next beach day or vacay.

@ebonny_fowler

This personal trainer is all about making fitness fun, and her most recent Insta post is no exception. Yesterday she shared a Pilates flow performed at the edge of lapping waves ona beach in Jamaica, set to Ed Sheeran's"Shape of You." We cant get enough of her killercore moves.

@katieaustin

Want to focus on your abs and arms? Check out this workout by Katie Austin.All you need is a set of dumbbells, and enough space on the sand to fit a yoga mat.

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@beachyogagirl

Kerri Verna, better known as Beach Yoga Girl to her onemillion followers, has been teaching yoga for more than 16 years. Her perfect Crow Posein the clip above is serious fitness goals, with or without a gorgeous backdrop. "I feel that sometimes we can get caught up in the 'I can't'rather than just working towards 'I can,'" Vernawrote in the caption to the post, which shows the full progression of Crowin stages.

Looking for more moves to help you shape up for summer? Try this total-body routine from Health's contributing fitness editor, Tracy Anderson.

The workout designed to tone all over, withsix dynamic exercises.

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Welcome to the latest installment of The Struggle, a series where we examine the mental-health issues that students encounter during the grueling law school experience. We are posting these stories because sometimes what law students really need is to know that theyre not alone in their pain. Sometimes what law students need is to know that theyve got a friend who is willing to share not just in their triumphs, but also in their struggles. These are real messages weve received from real readers.

If these issues resonate with you, please reach out to us. Your stories need to be heard. You can email us, text us at (646) 820-8477, or tweet us @atlblog. We will share your stories anonymously. You may be able to help a law student who needs to know that someone else has been there before and survived.

I was a non-traditional (second career) law student. I have two disabilities, PTSD (from child abuse by a parent growing up) and dyslexia. These two disabilities are difficult enough for trying to succeed in law school, but a bar exam requires much more time and effort to overcome them. However, I never failed a law school class, and I graduated with honors. I spent my last year prepping for the bar exam by reviewing 25 years of past state bar exams. I spent two full months of 14 hours a day studying for the bar exam. I passed the bar exam on my first attempt in a state that had a 58% pass rate for my seating.

Because of the character and fitness process, I have not been allowed to practice. The bar used my PTSD to claim that I challenged authority and that was not something that is allowed of an attorney.

For four years now since graduation I have been looking for employment. I cant practice law because I was denied admission. Trying to get a job in a law office with my J.D. and two LL.M.s has met with not one real interview. I have had calls talking with me about why I am not admitted to practice. Older attorneys have told me I must have a criminal record or a substance abuse issue as that is the only reason for C&F denial. When I try to say no and show them the reasons, I am now told things like, We cant use you because we dont want to be on the Bars radar. I have applied to over 2,000 jobs (not just in the legal field). I have applied to fast food jobs, retail jobs, teaching jobs, etc. Most people see my J.D. and Masters degrees and even refuse to call. I have paid to have my rsum and cover letter be professionally done, with no improvement. To make a minimum income, I have tried to go back into IT, but that effort has been met with statements like, you have been out of IT too long, or your skills are no good.

Many people tell me to just leave my J.D. and LL.M.s off my rsum and applications. The problem is that 90% of all applications are signed under penalty of perjury. So as I am still under an open character and fitness review, if I apply for a job without those degrees and a signed statement under perjury, the Bar would have a reason to keep me from practicing.

The only job I have been able to secure is substitute teaching for $80 a day. In my area, these jobs have been outsourced to a private company. So I cant even use the last two-and-a-half years to help discharge my ballooning student loan debt under public service because even though I work in K-12 schools, my employer is a for-profit outsourcing company and thus not a non-profit.

I have been battling depression on these issues, but am fearful that if I seek help it will be listed that I could not handle stress with my PTSD, and that I will be denied admission to practice when my 18-month review window is up.

When high school students ask me about my legal education, I dont hold back and I tell them. It adds insult to injury to have high school students make fun of you about not being a lawyer.

Somehow I am still fighting this. I cant afford to pay my basic bills. I cant find money for an attorney. So the feelings and emotions that I have been left with sometimes they overwhelm me. I try to do stress relief, but sometimes it feels overwhelming.

Most colleges and universities have counseling and psychological services resources that students and graduates can turn to if they are in crisis or would like counseling, even after hours. If these services are not available at your school, and if youre depressed and in need help, please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255) or a lawyer assistance program in your state. Remember that you are loved, so please reach out if you need assistance, before its too late. Dont become a statistic please seek help.

Staci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. Shed love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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