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Like my mom, some 34 million Americans have osteopenia, according to Surgeon General Richard Carmona, who released a survey of the state of America's skeletal system last week. It was the first Surgeon General's report on bone health, and the news wasn't good. According to Carmona, 10 million Americans age 50 or older already have osteoporosis, and 1.5 million each year suffer osteoporosis-related fractures--typically in the hip, spine or wrist. Treating these fractures cost between $12 billion and $18 billion in 2002, the most recent year for which figures are available. And the situation will...
...There is a gap between what we know and what we do for bone health," says Carmona...
...gather the smartest thinkers on the problem and propose solutions to end it in our lifetimes. We are inviting leaders from food, beverage, insurance, pharmaceutical and health-care companies, along with doctors, nutritionists, educators, elected officials and concerned citizens. Among the experts who have agreed to attend are Richard Carmona, U.S. Surgeon General; Eric Hentges, who is redesigning the food pyramid for the U.S. Department of Agriculture; Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, one of America's leading child psychiatrists; Kelly Brownell, Yale's top expert on eating disorders; Brock Leach, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at PepsiCo; Ann Fudge...
...last week convened a distinguished group of scientists, academics and business innovators for a conference in Monterey, Calif., called the Future of Life. Over three days of spirited debate, participants, including Watson, examined such issues as stem-cell research, cloning, biowarfare and nanotechnology. Near the end, Surgeon General Richard Carmona offered this piece of wisdom: "Science must take care not to leave the public behind...
...answer, Carmona said, was to persuade kids to eat better and exercise more rather than to look to fancy new biomedical technologies. Said he, "We should not have to rely on good science to undo the bad choices people have made." He also called for incentives that would encourage physicians and other health care providers to stress prevention and wellness rather than always looking to drugs and surgery to alleviate chronic disease...