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There are a number of conditions I could list thatwould easily illustrate some of the dramaticchanges that have occurred in our approach tomedical matters over the last 2 decades such as,for example, asthma, ulcers, even breast cancer,but the one that stands out for me for a couple ofreasons is ear infections in kids.So, when my first son was yet a toddler and he

got his nearly mandatory early-childhood middleear infection (the middle ear is the cavity behindthe outer ear drum), he was nearly immediatelysmothered by his treating doctor (and no, thankGod, that was not me because even I am not foolenough to treat my own family, especially not myin-laws) with the standard practice back then: aprescription for a “broad-based” antibiotic, that is,an antibiotic meant to kill as many differentpathogens as can be killed with only one drug.There is an obvious major problem with that ap-proach, however, even when it works properly asit happily did for my son: sure, a blast from a how-itzer is likely to kill a fly that’s unfortunate enoughto be in the vicinity of that blast, but it will also killeverything else in the vicinity, including a lot ofthings that you don’t really want to kill but whichget caught up in the blast’s fallout anyway.Even worse, though, and this is especially true

in the infection-fighting world but also interest-ingly, it probably holds true (at least to an extent)in the insurgent-fighting world, whatever survives

that blast is going to be very tough indeed, andwhen it comes back at you, or more likely whenthey come back at you, as they surely will, hey, youbetter watch out because at the very least, you arevery likely to need a much bigger gun to wardthem off, not to mention, of course, that they mayhave learned enough tricks to evade yourweapons even more easily the next time.So in the case of using an antibiotic for ear infec-

tions in kids, the fallout problems were quite obvi-ous from the start although they became muchclearer over the last 2 decades or so.Number one, a lot of kids who were diagnosed

with an ear infection (for which the official nameis otitis media) didn’t actually have an ear infec-tion, which may surprise many of you reading this,but here’s the problem: even when an eardrumlooks “red” that doesn’t necessarily mean there’san infection behind the drum. It can be – it toooften is, I’m afraid - a bit of a guess as to what’s ac-tually happening in that space that the doctorcan’t see into.Two, it became increasingly evident from stud-

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This is one of my favourite vitamins to talk about.I feel this supplement is often overlooked. Othersbelieve that it is much more fun to talk about lutein,beta carotene and theanine. These vitamins are ex-citing, exotic, perhaps even sexy. You might saythese supplements are in vogue. Vitamin D isso boring; we can make our own supplywhenever we look at the sun. Right? Wrong.Vitamin D should be stylish, because, oftenwe do not have enough exposure to thesun to make enough vitamin D. This is truefor those living above the 49th parallel. Itis certainly true during the winter monthsand for shut ins. Every time I read about vi-tamin D, it recommends that peopleshould take more. Now if that isn't excit-ing, I don't know what is. Perhaps I shouldget out more.Where to begin, vitamin D is useful for

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health. I'm not sure if they published the results re-garding bone health, as the vitamin D and cancerfinding was the big news. These findings evenprompted the Canadian Cancer Society to issue astatement which said that some people should con-sider taking 1000IU of vitamin D. Some peoplethought that this was a once off finding. But laterthat year, a study published in the Archives of In-ternal Medicine found that people who took at least528IU of vitamin D per day had a 7% lower risk ofdying from all causes. Also in the same year, an ar-ticle in the Journal of the National Cancer Institutefound that people who had a higher amount of vi-tamin D in their blood, had a lower risk of develop-ing colorectal cancer. They are not sure whyvitamin D helps to prevent cancer, but the studiesshow positive results.There is so much news about vitamin D that it is

hard to keep track of it all. I found this report in thejournal Pediatrics very interesting. It followed theconnection between respiratory illness in newborns

and vitamin D exposure during pregnancy. Morethan ? of the 156 newborns studied did not getenough vitamin D while in the womb. These babieswere then followed for one year. What the re-searchers found was that infants with low levels ofvitamin D at birth were six times more likely to con-tract a respiratory infection than babies who wereborn with adequate amounts of this vitamin. Thiswas the first time that vitamin D exposure duringpregnancy was shown to help prevent a commoninfant disease.Another study linked low levels of vitamin D to

childhood obesity. In a study that appeared in theJournal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism,237 healthy children were checked for their levels ofvitamin D. Most of these children were found to bevitamin D deficient. Low levels of vitamin D was as-sociated with a higher body mass index (greaterweight) and lower levels of good HDL cholesterol intheir blood. The researchers even went so far to saythat, “Vitamin D deficiency is rampant in American

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youth.” Keep in mind that vitamin D was notshown to cause obesity or lack of good cholesterol,it was only associated with these conditions.There are few side effects with vita-

min D use. In theory, it might causestomach upset, but none of my pa-tients have mentioned any side effectswith using vitamin D. The recom-mended dosage of vitamin D variesdepending on whom you ask. In thepast, the recommended dosage was400IU per day; it was believed thatanything higher might be toxic. Thatthinking has been replaced with thecurrent recommendation of 2000IUper day. This is what I currently rec-ommend. If you are concerned aboutbone health or have darker skin, I usuallyrecommend that you take more. Health Canadacurrently recommends that infants (0-12 months)receive 400IU of vitamin D per day.There are many ways to get extra vitamin D. Cod

and halibut liver oils are good sources of vitamin D.Be careful because they are also good sources ofvitamin A. Ask your Peoples Pharmacist if cod or

halibut liver oil supplements are right foryou. I have not been able to find anysources, which could tell me if thereis vitamin A or D in other fish oils(salmon, sardine, mackerel). Theremay be, but I do not think theseother oils are a significant source ofVitamin A or D. One new producton the market is a Vitamin D drop. Itcomes in a 400IU per drop strengthfor infants and a 1000IU strength foradults. This is a handy product forpeople who don't like to swallowtablets. With all these great findings

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still the most common bacterial infection in youngkids, some of them are due to viruses, which ofcourse do not respond at all to the antibiotics weuse, and even when an ear infection is caused bybacteria, because it’s difficult to get a sample fromthe middle ear, we have to make an educatedguess as to what the real culprit is, and an “edu-cated” guess, as anyone who lost money on edu-cated guesses in the financial meltdown willconfirm, is often a very inexact – and wrong – es-timate to base your tactics on.So using antibiotics in kids in all those three cir-

cumstances is not only a gross waste of money,way more important, because those kids don’tneed an antibiotic to get better, they can actuallyonly suffer the risks of taking an antibiotic withoutever getting any benefit.But that’s not all.Thus, even when an antibiotic is effective in

clearing an ear infection, the “tougher” and morebroad-spectrum the antibiotic, the greater the riskof complications, some of which are potentiallyquite severe (for example, there’s been a hugespike all across the world with C. difficile infections,much of that spurred by the overuse ofbroad-spectrum antibiotics).Andmost important, of course, the more antibi-

otics we use, the quicker the bacteria out therelearn to adapt and develop resistance to thosedrugs, so we’ve now bred strains of super-bacteriathat are resistant to nearly all (a few are in fact to-tally resistant) of the antibiotics we can throw atthem, thus bringing us back in many ways to theera before we were even able to use anyantibiotics on a mass scale.For a real world example of what this means, as

I write this, Hong Kong is experiencing an out-break of rheumatic fever, a complication of a strepinfection that we have rarely seen these past 50 orso but which is staging a comeback because ofnew and hardier strains of strep that are of course,resistant to many antibiotics.So we no longer use antibiotics for ear infections

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in kids nearly as often as we used to.Rather, here’s what we do now: although any

child under the age of 6 months is still routinelytreated with an immediate antibiotic cover, olderkids are now generally only treated with antibi-otics under a few specific situations.One is if they have certain complicating fac-

tors such as a cleft palate, for example, or an im-mune disorder.Two is if the infection is deemed – by the treat-

ing doctor - to be producing severe symptoms,although again that’s not very easy to determine.For example I can still recall just how loudly myson howled until his ear pain was relieved, and tome, that surely was a severe infection, although tosomeone who wasn’t the father of that howlingboy, maybe it wasn’t.Three is – and again this depends a lot on the

individual circumstances and the prescribing doc-tor - if the infection is not improving much after2-3 days.So do we just let a kid howl, you ask, for

72 hours before doing anything?Of course not, in part because all parents would

go mad from listening to the painful cries, and inpart because a howling kid will surely bring SocialServices to your house, sooner rather than later.Rather, most ear infections are now treated asmost milder infections should be, with lots of TLC,lots of fluids (you know of course, which liquidsource this Jewish doctor thinks is even better thanpenicillin), medication for pain, as well fever-re-ducing meds, if, that is, it’s even necessary to re-duce fever, which it often is not (again, consultyour pharmacist, who is often a parent’s bestfriend in terms of picking the right drugs for yourkids).Will that new strategy stop the steady march of

resistance in bacteria? No, but it will surely pre-vent some needless complications in some young-sters, and that can only be a very good thing.

Dr. Art Hister can be heard on CKNW and other Corus Radio Networkstations on House Calls on Saturdays at 10 AM, as well as seen onGlobal TV news on Saturday mornings at 9:20.

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Darlene BoothR.H.N

I have always said that parenting is not for sissies. If youthink that surviving the terrible two’s was the whole aim of thegame, forget about it; you obviously have not entered theteen years yet. The teen years are unlike no other when itcomes to growth spurts and hormonal surges. Your usuallyupbeat offspring may become about as predictable as a class5 tropical cyclone and emotions will always rule over logic.Not to worry too much - developmentally, they are right onschedule so just prepare for a few bumps in the road. Thegood news is that you can smooth out some of those pot-holes by providing a healthy diet at home and teaching themthe value of choosing nutritious foods when out and about.I guess better late than never could apply here but the best

way to instill good eating habits in your children is to be themodel right from birth. If they are raised in a home atmos-phere where nutritious food is the focus, they will develop apreference for it. I learned this when my daughter was inschool and I would send her off with a healthy lunch only tofind processed food litter in her lunch bag when she returnedhome. When I questioned her she explained that one of thekids in her class really coveted her healthy lunch and wouldpressure her to trade. At first the processed food was a nov-elty, but my daughter also confessed that she really did notlike the taste of it. I began to pack a little extra for her to sharewith her friend and then everyone was happy.The teen years are about an increase in muscle and bone

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young menstruating females. This essential mineral isneeded for producing energy, immune response, concen-tration, muscle function and much more. The daily require-ment for teen boys is 11 mg and 15mg for girls. Animalsources for iron include beef, poultry, shellfish and eggs;vegetarian sources include blackstrap molasses, green leafyvegetables, beans, nuts and fortified grain products.Teens are busy people and they usually spend much of

their day in the company of peers rather than parents. Itis hard to control what they eat outside of the home andthis is why it is best to educate them from an early agerather than try to control them in later years. Power con-trols over food choices usually end badly with both partiessuffering. Know that they may experiment with food fadsand it is a natural progression to establishing some auton-omy. Keep the food sources at home healthy and knowthat resilience is their best friend at this age; most teens willmake it through this period intact.And not all teens need to be taught. Sometimes it is the

teen who may bring home a desire to eat a healthier diet.Too often we forget that our children are out in the worldassimilating valuable information from their peers and en-vironment. Listen to what they have to say, it might justbe what you need to hear.

Good Health to You!

The Teen Years

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A dense, moist bread with delicious

bacon bites—another way to use up gar-

den zucchini! Serve with soup for lunch

or a light dinner.

All-purpose flour 1 cup 250 mL

Whole-wheat flour 1 cup 250 mL

Grated sharp cheddar cheese 1⁄4 cup 60 mL

Baking powder 2 tsp. 10 mL

Baking soda1⁄2 tsp. 2 mL

Salt1⁄4 tsp. 1 mL

Pepper1⁄4 tsp. 1 mL

Large eggs, fork-beaten 2 2

Grated zucchini (with peel) 11⁄2 cups 375 mL

Buttermilk (or soured milk) 3⁄4 cup 175 mL

Bacon slices, cooked crisp 2 2

and crumbledCanola oil 2 tbsp. 30 mL

Thinly sliced green onion 2 tbsp. 30 mL

Boiling water 2 cups 500 mL

Combine first 7 ingredients in large bowl. Make a well in

centre.

Combine next 6 ingredientsin medium bowl. Add to

well. Stir until just moistened. Spread evenly in greased 8

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clean. Transfer pan to wire rack. Cool. Cuts into 12

wedges.1 Wedge: 129 Calories; 4.9 g Total F

at (2.2 g Mono, 1.0 g

Poly, 1.3 g Sat); 40 mg Cholesterol; 17 g Carbohydrate

; 2 g

Fibre; 5 g Protein; 259 mgSodium

Recipes For Good Health

Zucchini Cheddar Bacon Bread

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