Health Headlines - July 4

Happy Independence Day!Vegetarian diet 'weakens bones'People who live on vegetarian diets have slightly weaker bones than their meat-eating counterparts, Australian researchers said Friday.A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters, said lead researcher Tuan Nguyen.The issue was most pronounced in vegans, who excluded all animal products from their diet and whose bones were six percent weaker, Nguyen said.There was "practically no difference" between the bones of meat-eaters and ovolactovegetarians, who excluded meat and seafood but ate eggs and dairy products, he said.---Bedwetting, being overweight linked to sleep apneaChildren who are overweight and wet the bed at night may have obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), researchers report.Both being overweight and wetting the bed are associated with the nighttime breathing disorder, they found. However, overweight and bedwetting are not associated with each other.---Study: New flu inefficient in attacking peopleWith swine flu continuing to spread around the world, researchers say they have found the reason it is — so far — more a series of local blazes than a wide-raging wildfire. The new virus, H1N1, has a protein on its surface that is not very efficient at binding with receptors in people's respiratory tracts, researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.---Uganda to outlaw female circumcisionUganda will pass a law banning female genital mutilation, which is rampant among pastoralist tribes in the country's eastern region, the president said in a statement Friday.Health Headlines - July 4

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