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dr. ashton is breaking down that new study.eling she'll said it's good for you unless you bathe it with heavy whipping cream, butter and parmesan cheese. >> it's not pasta if you don't do that. >> yes, it is, beautiful pasta. >> also ahead, just six weeks until the royal wedding. new images of prince harry and meghan out for a very important event. we'll have all of the details just ahead on this friday. >>> first those spring storms are on the move. the midwest to the northeast bracing for more record cold and for more snow. rob, please tell us when will it end. >> i don't know about you but i'm tired of this story line but it's my job so here we go. snow across parts of chicago yesterday. that snow in april is now moving through detroit. it's going to get up towards the northeast. a couple of storms through this very mid-february like jet stream and looking at snow across pennsylvania, parts of new york today, some severe storms across parts of the south with the second system today and this will ride that front, get into the

dr. jennifer ashton is talking about it on "good morning america." says if you're looking for a just case to eat more chocolate, you'll probably find it in this next study funded by researchers at loma linda university. >> a small study, looked at five people, eegs to measure brain activity, 48 grams of 78% cac cow. >> the study of five people, but still, dr. ashton says there are other benefits. it has tons of antioxidants, anti-inflammatory benefits, too. on the flip side it's high in sugar and calories. >> take the good, you take the % bad. it seems like something out of a james bond movie. starting this week, gmail will allow e-mails to self-destruct. the feature is called confidential mode. it allows you to send a message to expire in one day up to five years. it requires the recipient to enter a pass code before they can read it. the tool works with e-mails sent to non-gmail accounts as part of an effort by google to increase security. >> isn't that what snapchat is for? >> that's what i thought. it's a crazy and new world. >>> tim cook goes to

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dr. jen ashton joins us from massachusetts. jen, good morning. i spoke to the white sox.y tell me he was exhibiting no signs prior to the aneurysm. he just pitched the previous inning, but there are typically warning signs people should look for, right? >> right, and when you talk about the brain, we have to remember it's exquisitely sensitive to injury. the skull is unforgiving to swelling and rupture of an aneurysm. it's a ballooning of a blood vessel causes swelling of the brain. most times this happens without warning. there are some classic signs. the biggest is something we call w.h.o.l. it's the worst headache of your life. then there are things like nausea. dizziness. stiff neck. sensitivity to light. double vision. difficulty speaking. we have to note. obviously, someone can have these signs or symptoms and not be having a ruptured aneurysm. >> what do we know about the treatment? >> this is a surgical emergency. the patient goes to the emergency room. they get a c.a.t. scan. to find out where the bleeding is. they go right to the o.r. to try to stop the bleeding

dr. jennifer ashton is here with more.tected and untreated. >> potentially massive news for women's health because we're talking about the number one killer of women, heart disease. and we're talking about the number one most common congenital birth defect which is a heart defect. this was a massive study done in quebec, canada, looked at over 1 million women who had just given birth to babies with congenital heart defects -- both critical and noncritical, or less severe. followed them for 25 years to find out is there an association for the moms? we know about the babies. and they actually found that the moms who have had babies with heart defects were 25% more likely to be hospitalized for a cardiovascular event. we're talking anything from stroke, heart attack, to needing a heart transplant. and what was interesting is the more critical or severe the defect in the baby, the sooner that cardiac event manifested in the mom. >> what do you know about what is putting the them more at risk? >> we don't understand. the theori

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dr. jen ashton has all the details and, dr. jen ashton, welcome from massachusetts. the carotid artery. that's what it is referencing. >> exactly, so this study is really all about veggies and vascular health and mini med school anatomy. the common carotid artery, there's two of them. they are the major arteries that take oxygenated blood from the heart to the head and neck. normally, we study them in heart disease because they can be a marker for what's going on in the blood vessels in our heart and so we can check the thickness of those arteries which is not a good thing with a simple ultrasound, but i want to show you what this looks like. i know it's passover but i'll show bread. if you imagine this as the carotid artery, you want as much space in here as possible for blood to be able to go through. when it gets thickened, this is kind of what it looks like, less blood, less oxygen going to vital organs including the brain and heart. so good, not good. >> striking visual. and what can you tell us about this particular study and cruciferous vegetables. >> this was

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dr. jen ashton is here.disorder that is characterized by big swings in your mood, your energy and activity level, and if you look at the juxtaposition here, there's manic episodes where someone feels really up with an increased activity level. maybe they're not sleeping during the night and feel superproductive, and then a depressive episode where they feel down or have a decrease, the opposite energy level, and the key, george, is that cycling. so, if someone has a manic episode, the theory is in some period of time they will eventually fall down to have a depressive episode and it's the closeness of that cycling that really determines those swings. >> are there treatments to even things out? >> there are. and this is not one size fits all but the mainstay of treatment is medication. then there's things like cognitive behavioral therapy, psychoeducation, educating the patient about how to recognize their own symptoms so they can get good treatment. electroconvulsive therapy could be a good option for those

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dr. jen ashton. >> good morning. >> you have a degree in nutrition. you're board certified.our mouth is. finances can be a motivation. that's notless new. i think the problem here is that we know conclusively in the world of obesity medicine and nutritional science, the cause of obesity is a complex disease. with genetic causes. environmental causes. behavioral. how much you're drinking. what you're eating and drinking. hormonal and metabolic. so, to imply that lack of will power, lack of dedication and lack of commitment is on the list is not just harmful in an emotional and social sense, it's inaccurate from a medical sense. >> matt is the brother who had to gain a significant amount of weight, is that healthy? >> that's the story behind the story here. we hear about people trying to lose a significant amount of weight. in the short term, it's possible. long term is a different story. gaining weight in a healthy way can be just as hard and it can be just as unhealthy to be significantly underweight. just as it to be significantly overweight. i counsel people about the safe

dr. jen ashton described it as the worst headache of your life, nausea, dizziness, stiff neck, sensitivityble vision, and then difficulty speaking. these are all warning signs that this may be happening and you need to seek medical attention immediately. >> right away. >> yeah, all right, amy, thanks for bringing this to us. >>> coming up, we have that 12-year-old who took his mom's credit card, booked a dream getaway, he made it all the way to bali by himself. how authorities finally tracked him down. come on back. ♪ for all the noses that stuff up around daisies. for all the eyes that get itchy and watery near pugs. for all the people who sneeze around dust. there's flonase sensimist allergy relief. it relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills don't. it's more complete allergy relief. and all from a gentle mist you can barely feel. flonase sensimist helps block 6 key inflammatory substances. most pills only block one. and 6 is greater than 1. flonase sensimist. tso why binge in here, when you can do it out there. with this clever little app called audi

dr. jen ashton is here with the details.g headline from the cdc. they tracked the rates of autism roughly every two years and over the last two years they've seen a concerning jump. it used to be overall incidence of one in 69. now it's jumped to 1 in 58. they looked at 11 sites throughout the country and 8-year-olds at those sites so it's not representative of the rates overall in the country. there are big state by state differences but again that's concerning number. >> so does it mean there's more autism or just better testing? >> that's the key question. the short answer is we don't know. there definitely is better diagnosis and saw particularly an increase rate of diagnosis amongst african-american and hispanic children which is good and bad because we know early diagnosis is so important for treatment and intervention and prognosis, but, again, we're more aware of it so diagnostic methods are definitely better but they vary. new jersey has much higher rates than arkansas so they're obviously able to detect, screen and