Move of the Week: Circles in the Sky

Why just tone one part of your body when you go for double-duty? Luckily, the Circles in the Sky move not only tones your abs, but also your inner thighs! Watch Health‘s resident fitness expert Kristin McGee demonstrate how to get the most out of this exercise.

 

Here’s how to do it: Lie down on your back, take your hands behind your head, and lift your shoulders off the floor just so they’re hovering. Extend your left leg straight up to the ceiling. Now lift your right leg off the floor and let it hover. Without moving anything, make four circles with the left leg in one direction. Stop and then do four in the opposite direction. Lower down, relax for a second. Then come up and switch to the other side. Go for three reps total.

Trainer tip: Pull your abs in super tight throughout this exercise. Keep your body as still as possible, and focus on just moving your leg.

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A Newborn’s Heart Attack Shows Heart Can Regrow, Recover

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Scientists who saved the life of a newborn after a massive heart attack say the case shows that the human heart can fully recover after suffering major damage.

The heart attack suffered by the infant in the first hours of life was caused by a blockage in one of the heart’s main blood vessels.

“The baby’s heart was severely damaged. Astonishingly, the baby recovered very quickly,” study author Bernhard Haubner, from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology in Vienna, Austria, said in an institute news release.

Findings from the study were published online Dec. 9 in the journal Circulation Research.

“One and one-half months after his severe illness, we were able to release the child. His heart is functioning normally. This observation proves for the first time that the human heart can fully recover after suffering massive damage,” Jorg-Ingolf Stein, head of pediatric cardiology at the Innsbruck Medical University in Austria, said the news release.

“This discovery has enormous potential. After all, cardiovascular diseases are among the most frequent causes of death worldwide,” he added.

Heart disease kills 17 million people worldwide each year, the researchers said.

Animal research has shown that regeneration of heart cells is possible, but after seeing how well this baby’s heart recovered, the researchers now say it’s possible in humans, too.

“Every cardiologist dreams of being able to restore full function to a damaged heart, and now we have seen that this works in principle in humans,” Josef Penninger, director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, said in the news release.

Penninger added that if the researchers can figure out the mechanisms that control heart repair in mice and other organisms, it would help them figure out how to repair damaged heart muscle in humans in the future.

More information

The American Academy of Family Physicians has more about heart attack.

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Moderate Drinking May Benefit Early Stage Alzheimer’s Patients

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2015 (HealthDay News) — A couple of drinks a day may lower the risk of premature death in people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study.

The study included just over 320 people in Denmark with early stage Alzheimer’s disease. Those who had two to three alcoholic drinks a day had a 77 percent lower risk of dying during the study period than those who had one or fewer drinks a day, the investigators found.

“The results of our study point towards a potential, positive association of moderate alcohol consumption on mortality in patients with Alzheimer’s disease,” Sine Berntsen, from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, and colleagues wrote.

“However, we cannot solely, on the basis of this study, either encourage or advise against moderate alcohol consumption in [these] patients,” the study authors concluded.

The study did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship between drinking and a lower risk of death from early Alzheimer’s, it only showed an association.

The report was published in the Dec. 10 edition of the online journal BMJ Open.

The study participants were followed for three years, and their caregivers let the researchers know how many drinks a day were consumed. During that time, 53 (16.5 percent) of the study patients died.

Most of the study volunteers had one or fewer alcoholic drinks daily. About 17 percent had two to three drinks a day. Eight percent didn’t drink at all, and about 4 percent drank more than three alcoholic drinks a day, the study authors reported.

The reduced risk of death among moderate drinkers remained after the researchers accounted for a number of significant factors, including age, gender, other health problems, education level, smoking, quality of life and whether a person lived alone.

One explanation for the finding may be that moderate drinkers have a larger social network, which has been linked to improved quality of — and possibly longer — life, the study authors suggested.

But, they added, more research is needed to get a better idea of how alcohol affects mental decline and disease progression in people with early stage Alzheimer’s disease.

More information

The U.S. National Institute on Aging has more about Alzheimer’s disease.

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Two Drugs Equal in Preventing Early Breast Cancer’s Return: Study

By Kathleen Doheny
HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Postmenopausal women who have an early, noninvasive form of breast cancer had similar recurrence rates of disease whether they took the drug tamoxifen or the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole after surgery, new research shows.

However, the side effects of the two medications differed greatly, said study author Jack Cuzick, director of the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine at Queen Mary University of London, England.

His team looked at nearly 3,000 women, all past menopause, who had hormone-receptor positive ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) breast cancer and underwent surgery to excise it. With DCIS, the cells that line the milk ducts have changed but not spread into the surrounding breast tissue.

Half the women were randomly assigned to take 1 milligram (mg) a day of anastrozole (Arimidex), while the other half took 20 mg a day of tamoxifen (Nolvadex). Each group also took a placebo pill to look like the pill they were not assigned to take, so they wouldn’t be biased about side effects.

The aim of the study was to look at breast cancer recurrence, and to see whether it was more likely with one drug than the other.

The researchers said that aromatase inhibitors such as anastrozole have been shown in other studies to be better than tamoxifen in postmenopausal women who have invasive cancers. The less-researched area, Cuzick explained, is DCIS.

After a follow-up of about seven years, those who took anastrozole had an 11 percent lower breast cancer recurrence rate than those who took tamoxifen, but that difference was not substantial from a statistical point of view, Cuzick said.

“Our results show anastrozole to be slightly better, but it was not significant,” he said. However, the side effect profiles were slightly better with anastrozole, he added.

“Tamoxifen has [potential] blood clot problems, and those don’t occur with anastrozole,” Cuzick said. And while those on anastrozole reported more aches and pains, those on tamoxifen were more likely to have hot flashes.

Tamoxifen blocks estrogen receptors in the breast cells to hamper cancer growth. Anastrozole stops estrogen production in fat tissue, which makes small amounts of hormone.

Cuzick plans to present the findings Friday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, in Texas. The study is also being published simultaneously in The Lancet.

In a related study to be reported at the same meeting on Friday, UCLA researchers led by Dr. Patricia Ganz found no difference in quality-of-life measures among women who took the two drugs after treatment for DCIS.

But they did find the expected differences in side effects. Those patients on tamoxifen had more hot flashes, while those on anastrozole had more vaginal problems and muscle aches. Research presented at meetings is considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.

The results of the new DCIS research “are exactly what we see in invasive breast cancer,” said Dr. Joanne Mortimer, director of the Women’s Cancer Programs and co-director of the Breast Cancer Program at the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center, in Duarte, Calif.

DCIS has been in the news recently, she said, “because it is not an invasive cancer, yet is treated as aggressively.”

Some have challenged the need to even treat DCIS, Mortimer said, suggesting doctors wait until invasive cancers develop. The new findings suggest that approach is not warranted, she added.

“The fact that DCIS and invasive cancer both respond to endocrine therapy [tamoxifen and anastrozole] suggests that we should treat DCIS, so that invasive cancers don’t develop,” she said.

For women trying to decide with their doctor which drug to take, Mortimer said the message is this: “Both of these hormonal therapies are effective and if one causes side effects, switching to the other is reasonable.”

More information

To learn more about hormone therapy for breast cancer, visit the American Cancer Society.

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U.S. Abortion Rate Hits Record Low: CDC

By Dennis Thompson
HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Dec. 11, 2015 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. abortion rate has declined by more than one-third over the past two decades to a record low, federal officials reported Friday.

Abortions fell 35 percent between 1990 and 2010, reaching 17.7 procedures per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, said report lead author Sally Curtin, a statistician for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.

That’s the lowest abortion rate since the CDC began tracking the procedure in 1976, Curtin said.

“Abortion has been on a nearly steady decline since the rate peaked in 1980,” she said.

The pregnancy rate also hit an all-time low in 2010, according to the report.

Many factors likely contribute to the reduction in abortions, but increased use of highly effective birth control is one of the most important trends, said report co-author Kathryn Kost, principal research scientist at the Guttmacher Institute, a sexual and reproductive health think-tank.

Pregnancy rates have been declining across the board for women under age 30, according to the CDC report. That includes a 67 percent reduction for teens 14 or younger and a 50 percent reduction for teens 15 to 19.

At the same time, pregnancy rates increased for women 30 and older between 1990 and 2010, suggesting that men and women are using effective contraception and choosing to start families later in life, Kost said.

“Across the states, the rate of unintended pregnancy is going down,” Kost said. “That suggests that fewer women are getting pregnant when they don’t want to. It’s happening across the board, and affects the birth rate and the abortion rate.”

Eric Ferraro, vice president of communications for Planned Parenthood, agreed, adding that “there is more that can be done to improve access to contraception, which will help further reduce the rate of unintended pregnancy.”

Randall O’Bannon, director of education and research for the National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund, said the abortion rate is declining because “people’s attitudes and actions regarding abortion have changed.”

“It is clearly the case that women who are pregnant are now more likely to choose life for their babies than was the case 20 or even 30 years ago,” O’Bannon said.

Pro-life pregnancy care centers have provided alternatives to abortion such as adoption, financial assistance and school assistance, he said.

O’Bannon added that legislation requiring women to consider alternatives to abortion has played a role as well, but Kost is doubtful of that.

She said the latest statistics in the report are for 2010, before state legislatures passed the most recent wave of abortion restrictions.

“We’re looking at 2010, and the upturn in the restrictions on abortions really took off in 2011 and 2012,” Kost said. “You’re seeing these declines in the absence of any of that. We had already been seeing these declines.”

The CDC report covered the rate of pregnancy in America, plus the rate of the three possible results of pregnancy: live birth; abortion; or fetal loss through miscarriage or stillbirth.

The pregnancy rate reached a record low in 2010, with 98.7 pregnancies for every 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, the report found.

“Since we’ve been compiling these numbers, the pregnancy rate was the lowest on record,” Curtin said. “This is the first time it dropped below 100.”

Live births declined by 10 percent between 1990 and 2010, while fetal loss rates remained relatively constant, according to data in the report.

In 2010, for every 100 pregnancies, 65 ended in birth, 18 in abortion and 17 in fetal loss, Curtin said.

More information

For more on abortion, visit the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

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15 Stocking Stuffers for the Beauty Lover in Your Life

Holiday shopping can be a hassle, but with so many gift sets available, this year you can hold the title of the “Perfect Gift Giver.” Here, you will find stocking stuffers for every beauty lover you know—whether she’s a skincare snob or a blowout queen there’s something for her on this list!

Caudalie Beauty Elixir Ornament ($18; sephora.com)

Wrapped in an ornament that can be hung on a tree or stashed in a stocking, a spritz of this cult-fave mist revives skin throughout the day. It’s formulated with grapeseed extract and rose oil to help lessen the appearance of pores, freshen up makeup, and hydrate dry winter skin.

Kiehl’s Since 1851 Lip Balm Giftables Limited Edition Peter Max ($31; bluemercury.com)

Lip balm is a stocking staple, and this limited edition set offers four varieties with lip-loving ingredients like soothing Vitamin E and hydrating squalane. The bright packaging designed by artist Peter Max makes them extra fun to swipe on.

Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb Travel Duo ($35; sephora.com)

This scent is sweet and feminine and fitting for all seasons. It has notes of sambac jasmine, ballerina freesia and patchouli, making it the perfect everyday fragrance. This set couldn’t make it easier to take on the go—with a rollerball and a refillable sample, she’ll always be prepared.

Diptyque Seasonale Candle Set ($70; us.spacenk.com)

Slip this set into someone’s stocking and they will love you forever. There are five 35g candles with festive scents: Feu de Bois, Opopanax, Ambre, Pomander and Cyprès. Each offer their own festive notes for the holiday season. It’s sure to satisfy and soothe even the pickiest gift recipient.

PARLOR by Jeff Chastain Salon-Sleek Blowout Travel Kit ($18; birchbox.com)
We all have that friend who isn’t herself without sporting a bouncy blowout. Enter this kit. Included are three easy to use products: a blowout spray for smoothing, a finishing spray that holds the blowout style, and workable paste for body and texture. Just like that, no more bad hair days!

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Glow on the Go ($20; sephora.com)

Everybody could use a little lit-from-within glow, and this duo comes with a pressed powder and liquid version to achieve such radiance. The pressed powder is perfect for a dusting of subtle shimmer while the liquid version makes it easy to paint on certain areas for a more prominent highlight.

Milk & Sass Sugar Twists ($8; amazon.com)

“I have too many hair ties,” said no girl ever. But these aren’t any old scrunchies. Sugar Twists are colorful stretchy coils that won’t crease or tug on your strands. They’re fun to wear on your wrist or in your hair!

Shu Uemura x Maison Kitsuné Limited Edition Gold Eyelash Curler ($24; shuuemura-usa.com)

This cult favorite curler got a festive new gilded look, thanks to a collab with French fashion house Maison Kitsuné. A pro fave for its mushroom shape that fits all eye shapes and the unique hinge that applies the perfect amount of pressure to enhance lashes and keep them curled all day.

e.l.f. Mattifying Blotting Papers ($5; elfcosmetics.com)

Blotting papers are a dime a dozen, but this little case comes with a sponge adhesive to pick up the paper (perfect for germophobes!) and a mirror for on-the-go touch ups. Genius!

L’Occitane Shea Butter Holiday Bauble ($14; usa.loccitane.com)

This festive ornament is filled with shea butter-rich products that’ll help heal and hydrate dry winter skin. When she hangs the bauble on her tree, she’ll be reminded to moisturize daily.

Benefit REAL Cheeky Party Blush Palette ($42; benefitcosmetics.com)

It’s the ultimate palette to achieve a subtle glow and fierce eye look. Packed with Benefit best sellers like the Hoola bronzer, four different blushes ranging from pretty pink to a beachy coral along with Watts Up highlighter and They’re Real Push Up Liner and Mascara, you’ll have everything needed to fake a sun-kissed complexion and a sexy cat eye.

Algenist Kiss & Wink Collection ($25; algenist.com)

Give the gift of anti-aging with this eye cream and lip balm duo. They keep both areas moisturized to discourage the development of fine lines and to help repair damage that may have already been caused.

Clarins Extra-Firming Travel Incentives ($52; clarinsusa.com)

This is the ultimate anti-aging kit for your jetset friend. With an exfoliator to slough off dead skin and a lifting cream for night and day, she’ll be looking radiant and rested upon return. The cute pouch it comes in is clear and TSA friendly, making it an instant staple in her travel bag.

bareMinerals Precious Pearls ($15; dermstore.com)
What’s better than eyeshadow? A trio of shadows! These three limited edition, loose pigment shades with a pearlized finish—there’s a dusty pink, taupe-y brown, and espresso. They can be worn alone or mixed together to create a dazzling smokey eye.

Too Cool For School Egg Cream Sheet Mask ($6; sephora.com)

For the friend who is the life of the party, this sheet mask is made from egg yolk and egg white to brighten tired skin and hydrate tired skin. A hangover never looked so good.

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Nigella Lawson Calls Clean Eating “A Way to Hide an Eating Disorder.” Is She Right?

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For the second time this fall, the British chef and cookbook author Nigella Lawson has spoken out about the clean eating trend. “People are using certain diets as a way to hide an eating disorder or a great sense of unhappiness and unease with their body,” she said earlier this week at JW3 Speaker Series in London. “There is a way in which food is used either to self congratulate—you’re a better person because you’re eating like that—or to self-persecute, because you’ll not allow yourself to eat the foods you want.”

In an October interview with the BBC, Lawson said, “I think behind the notion of ‘clean eating’ is an implication that any other form of eating is dirty or shameful.”

RELATED: Subtle Signs of Eating Disorders

Lawson’s strong feelings may stem from personal experience. On The Late Late Show last Friday, she explained that watching her own mother suffer from an ultimately fatal eating disorder makes her question health trends and the strive to be skinny. “I think my views are slightly different because I’ve seen people get very ill and very thin, so I don’t equate thinness with healthiness.”

RELATED: 4 Easy Clean Eating Recipes

So if you’re following a clean eating diet, do you have an eating disorder? Nutrition experts agree you can’t jump to that conclusion. Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD and Health’s contributing nutrition editor says that proponents of clean eating consider it more of a lifestyle than just a diet: It promotes whole, natural ingredients such as fresh produce, whole grains, natural sugars, and legumes in lieu of refined or processed foods like white flour, white sugar, and fatty meat.

“While I understand [Lawson’s] concerns that some people may be using the concept of clean eating as a way to restrict their diet, that’s not the primary driver of the clean eating movement,” Sass says. “In my experience, clean eating is about wanting to eat foods that are as close to their natural state as possible—knowing where your food comes from, how it was made, and eating in a way that optimizes human health and the health of the planet.”

RELATED: 5 Signs You’re Eating Too Little for How Much You Work Out

Sass points out that weight loss isn’t necessarily the main motivation to eat clean, and that many of her clients adopt the lifestyle in hopes of benefiting from reported side effects such as increased energy, better immunity, digestive health, and improved sleep. “Many of the people I work with who eat clean are very focused on what they do eat rather than what they don’t—it’s not a restrictive approach to food,” she explains. “In fact, they tend to get very excited about embracing new foods and cooking homemade versions of the things they used to buy pre-made, such as salad dressing and granola.” Sass adds that many people also choose to eat clean to make it easier to eliminate foods they have sensitivities to, such as gluten or dairy.

Keri Gans, RDN, a New York City-based nutrition consultant and author of The Small Change Diet, agrees. “In a way I understand what Lawson is trying to say, but clean eating is more about staying away from foods with additives and preservatives, which can be a healthy way of eating,” she says.

Gans adds that although it’s possible for someone to take clean eating to an unhealthy level, it’s not common. “Certainly someone could use clean eating as a way to restrict their food intake, and it could potentially segue into an eating disorder,” she says. “But that can hardly be a blanket statement.” One such disorder is orthorexia, a disordered way of eating that’s characterized by an obsession with healthy foods. People who suffer from this disorder often stick to a strict diet and are extremely concerned with how their food is prepared and how much they consume.

The bottom line? “There should never be any guilt associated with eating,” says Gans. “Instead, we should focus on just generally making better food decisions—eating more fruits and veggies, whole grains, and healthy fats.”

RELATED: When Eating Turns Obsessive 

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Brain’s Signaling Systems Might Determine PTSD Severity: Study

THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2015 (HealthDay News) — People with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) appear to have an imbalance between two of the brain’s signaling systems, a new study suggests.

The greater the imbalance between the two neurochemical systems — serotonin and substance P — the more severe the PTSD symptoms, the Swedish researchers reported.

For the study, published recently in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, the researchers used PET scanners to measure the relationship between the two brain signaling systems.

Previous research has shown that people with PTSD have changes in brain anatomy and function. And while some experts had suggested that PTSD might also involve a shift in the balance between brain signaling systems, the study authors believe this is the first study to actually show that.

The findings improve understanding of PTSD and could lead to better treatments for the condition, the study authors said.

An anxiety disorder, PTSD affects as many as 8 percent of people who experience traumatic events such as war, violence or a serious accident, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

“At present, PTSD is often treated with selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors (SSRIs) which have a direct effect on the serotonin system. SSRI drugs provide relief for many, but do not help everybody,” study author Andreas Frick, a researcher in the department of psychology at Uppsala University, in Stockholm, said in a university news release.

“Restoring the balance between the serotonin and substance P systems could become a new treatment strategy for individuals suffering from traumatic incidents,” he suggested.

More information

The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health has more about post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Vitamin D Won’t Guard Against Colds in People With Asthma

THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2015 (HealthDay News) — If you have asthma, vitamin D supplements won’t protect you against colds, new research suggests.

The study found that taking vitamin D supplements didn’t reduce the number or severity of colds in adults with mild-to-moderate asthma.

More than 400 participants, all of whom had low vitamin D levels, took either vitamin D supplements or a placebo for 28 weeks. During that time, about half of them got at least one cold. Eighty-two percent of those in the supplement group had sufficient levels of vitamin D after 12 weeks, but that didn’t boost their resistance to colds, the research revealed.

The study was published recently in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.

The findings surprised the researchers because they had previously shown that asthma flare-ups fell 40 percent in patients who took vitamin D supplements to increase low levels of the vitamin. Colds often cause asthma flare-ups, and the study authors thought vitamin D supplements would reduce the number and severity of colds in asthma patients.

“Other studies of vitamin D and colds have produced mixed results. Most of those studies were conducted among healthy patients. We wanted to ask the same question of a patient population in which the impact of a cold carries greater risk,” study leader Dr. Loren Denlinger, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin, said in a journal news release.

Based on the findings, “we can’t recommend vitamin D for the prevention of colds,” Denlinger said.

More information

The U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has more about asthma.

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Fewer Teens, Young Adults Driving After Drinking, Smoking Pot: Report

By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Reporter

THURSDAY, Dec. 10, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Fewer teens and young adults are driving under the influence of alcohol or a combination of alcohol and marijuana, U.S. health officials reported Thursday.

From 2002 to 2014, self-reported driving under the influence of alcohol alone dropped by 59 percent among those aged 16 to 20 and by 38 percent among those aged 21 to 25, the study found.

“The decline in driving under the influence of alcohol is probably due to a combination of factors,” said lead researcher Dr. Alejandro Azofeifa, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Among these factors are the decline in drinking overall and the decline in binge drinking among high school students, he said.

In addition, underage drinking laws have been more strictly enforced, and graduated driving license laws have required that young drivers don’t drink and drive, Azofeifa said.

The researchers also found that driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana combined declined by 39 percent across both age groups.

However, driving drunk did increase with age, Azofeifa said. Among 16-year-olds, only 1.5 percent drove under the influence of alcohol, but 18 percent of 21-year-olds did, according to the report.

And although there were significant drops in the prevalence of driving under the influence of alcohol and alcohol and marijuana combined, there was little decrease in the number of young adults driving under the influence of marijuana alone, Azofeifa said.

Though driving under the influence of marijuana alone declined 18 percent, from 3.8 percent in 2002 to 3.1 percent in 2014, this drop was seen only among those aged 16 to 20, researchers found.

The reasons why driving under the influence of marijuana alone hasn’t declined among other drivers aren’t clear, Azofeifa said.

“Driving under the influence of alcohol and marijuana is a risky behavior, and can result in a fatal car accident,” he said. “Regardless of the encouraging numbers we are seeing in this report, there are still too many people driving under the influence and too many people dying in car accidents.”

Car crashes are the leading cause of death among American teens and young people, he noted.

J.T. Griffin, chief government affairs officer at Mothers Against Drunk Driving, called it “good news that the prevalence of drunk driving is down among young people. It’s proof that things like the 21 minimum drinking age are working.”

But, he added, “alcohol remains the number one drug that is killing people on the road. There are still too many people dying at every age. We are making good progress, but until we get to a place where there are no more fatalities we still have a lot of work to do.”

The study findings appear in the Dec. 11 issue of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

More information

For more on drinking and driving, visit Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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