tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29914097479682640722024-03-12T18:02:45.091-07:00Dr EcofrenYehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-47048535280812785872016-02-14T17:33:00.001-08:002016-02-14T17:33:01.895-08:00Zika Virus Transmission from French Polynesia to Brazil<h1 class="content-title">
Zika Virus Transmission from French Polynesia to Brazil</h1>
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<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Musso%20D%5Bauth%5D">Didier Musso</a><sup><img alt="corresponding author" src="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/corehtml/pmc/pmcgifs/corrauth.gif" /></sup></div>
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<strong>To the Editor:</strong> Campos et al. (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R1" id="__tag_478923545" rid="R1" role="button"><em>1</em></a>)
reported a Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreak in Brazil in 2015. This response
adds complementary data related to the propagation of this mosquitoborne
disease.</div>
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To date, the largest ZIKV outbreak occurred in
French Polynesia during 2013–2014. The outbreak spread to other Pacific
Islands: New Caledonia, Cook Islands, Easter Island, Vanuatu, and
Solomon Islands (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R2" id="__tag_478923542" rid="R2" role="button"><em>2</em></a>).
The origin of introduction of ZIKV to French Polynesia remains unknown;
introduction of ZIKV in New Caledonia was after imported cases from
French Polynesia (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R3" id="__tag_478923541" rid="R3" role="button"><em>3</em></a>);
introduction to Easter Island was suspected to have occurred among
attendees of the annual Tapati festival, including those from French
Polynesia (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R4" rid="R4" role="button"><em>4</em></a>).
The virus was likely transmitted to New Caledonia, Cook Islands, and
Easter Island when infected travelers from French Polynesia were bitten
by vectors while on the islands. Frequent travel between New Caledonia
and Vanuatu is likely related to the introduction of ZIKV in the latter
country.</div>
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Phylogenetic studies showed
that the closest strain to the one that emerged in Brazil was isolated
from samples from case-patients in French Polynesia and spread among the
Pacific Islands (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R1" id="__tag_478923544" rid="R1" role="button"><em>1</em></a>);
both strains belong to the Asian lineage. It has been assumed that ZIKV
was introduced to Brazil during a World Cup soccer competition in 2014 (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R5" id="__tag_478923546" rid="R5" role="button"><em>5</em></a>),
although no ZIKV-endemic Pacific countries competed. However, in August
2014, the Va’a World Sprint Championship canoe race was held in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. Four Pacific countries (French Polynesia, New
Caledonia, Cook Islands, and Easter Island) in which ZIKV circulated
during 2014 had teams engaged in this contest in several categories.
These data combined with phylogenetic studies by Zanluca et al. (<a aria-expanded="false" aria-haspopup="true" class=" bibr popnode tag_hotlink tag_tooltip" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4593458/#R5" id="__tag_478923543" rid="R5" role="button"><em>5</em></a>)
suggest that ZIKV introduction in Brazil may have been a consequence of
this event. In areas where potential vectors are present, vigilance
should be enhanced to detect imported cases of ZIKV, and laboratory
capacity to confirm suspected ZIKV infections should be strengthened.</div>
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<em>Suggested citation for this article</em>: Musso D. Zika virus transmission from French Polynesia to Brazil [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2015 Oct [<em>date cited</em>]. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2110.151125" ref="reftype=extlink&article-id=4593458&issue-id=258754&journal-id=782&FROM=Article%7CBody&TO=External%7CLink%7CURI&rendering-type=normal" target="pmc_ext">http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2110.151125</a></div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-88306919764084904802015-04-18T18:33:00.001-07:002015-04-18T18:33:10.888-07:00Health Benefits of White Tea<h1 style="background-color: #ffffbf; color: #cc0066; font-family: 'Eras Light ITC', sans-serif; font-size: 26px; letter-spacing: 0.08em; line-height: 28.15999984741211px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;">
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 8px 5px;"><b>White tea has impressive anti-bacterial and anti-viral qualities</b>, which means it can deactivate bad bacteria, viruses, and fungi. In fact, white tea is even more powerful than green tea in disarming bacterial viruses! White tea also kills the bacteria that cause plaque, tooth decay, and bad breath.</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 8px 5px;"><b>The health benefits of white tea include weight management</b>. White tea has caffeine, which may enhance weight loss, and white tea's high levels of antioxidants can help to boost your metabolism and curb your appetite. Even better, <a href="http://www.theteatalk.com/benefits-of-white-tea.html#whiteteaweightloss" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">research about white tea and weight loss</a> has shown that white tea can prevent new fat cells from developing and encourage the breakdown of fat in existing fat cells, as well. (Just remember, if you're thinking of adding white tea to your overall weight loss plan, be sure to check with your healthcare provider first.)</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 8px 5px;"><b>White tea fights the effects of aging</b> (like wrinkles and loss of skin elasticity). Time, too much sun exposure, stress, and poor dietary choices can damage our skin, causing it to age - sometimes prematurely. White tea's antioxidants and anti-aging properties protect and help reverse this damage to skin, and can even help skin build resistance to stress. For healthy, firmer, radiant skin, sip white tea - and consider adding it to your skin care routine, too (<a href="http://www.theteatalk.com/white-tea-for-health.html#topicalwhitetea" style="color: blue; text-decoration: none;">research has shown white tea to have topical benefits for skin</a>, as well)!</li>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 8px 5px;"><b>The benefits of drinking white tea extend to bone health</b> - regular intake of white tea can improve bone density and strength, and may provide relief from the symptoms of osteoporosis.</li>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-17553061946078536262015-03-21T19:04:00.002-07:002015-03-21T19:04:33.594-07:00I Knew Sugar Was Bad, But This Blew Me Away! <h1 class="yt watch-title-container">
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNtjV3j3Tp4Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-83523212994416018402015-03-21T19:02:00.002-07:002015-03-21T19:02:25.697-07:00Jackfruit<strong>Botanical Name(s):</strong> Artocarpus Heterophyllus<br />
<strong>Kingdom:</strong> Plantae<br />
<strong>Division:</strong> Magnoliophyta<br />
<strong>Class:</strong> Magnoliopsida<br />
<strong>Order:</strong> Rosales<br />
<strong>Family:</strong> Moraceae<br />
<strong>Subfamily:</strong> Asteroideae<br />
<strong>Tribe:</strong> Artocarpeae<br />
<strong>Genus:</strong> Artocarpus<br />
<strong>Species:</strong> A. heterophyllus<br />
<strong>Popular Name(s):</strong> Jakfruit, Jaca, Nangka<br />
<strong>Parts Used:</strong> Seeds, fruit, leaves<br />
<strong>Habitat:</strong> Rainforests of India<br />
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Jackfruit</h1>
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<strong>Description</strong><br />
The largest tree-borne fruit in the world, jackfruit (artocarpus
heterophyllus) is grown on a species of tree in the mulberry family. The
evergreen trees are large, often reaching a height of above 20 m. The
jackfruits can sometimes weigh over 75 lbs. however, the average sized
fruits are 1-2 feet long, and 9-12" wide. The exterior of the fruit is
green-yellow, with small spiky knobs, while the flesh is custard yellow,
with a banana-like flavor. The leaves are oblong, oval or elliptic,
usually 4 to 6 inches in length and leathery, glossy and deep green in
color. <br />
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There are two varieties of jackfruits: one that is small, fibrous, soft,
and mushy and the carpels are sweet, with a texture like that of a raw
oyster. The other variety is crisp and crunchy, but not very sweet.
Jackfruits are believed to have originated in the rain forests of the
Western Ghats in India. They are vegetated in other parts of India,
South-east Asia, East Indies, Philippines, Brazil and Surinam also.
Jackfruit is known as kanthal in Bangla, panasa in Sanskrit, katahal in
Hindi, pala in Tamil and chakka in Malayalam.<br />
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<strong>Plant Chemicals </strong><br />
(+)- all-trans-lutein (24-44%), all-trans-beta-carotene (24-30%),
all-trans-neoxanthin (4-19%), 9-cis-neoxanthin (4-19%),
9-cis-violaxanthin (4-10%)<br />
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<strong>Uses & Benefits of Jackfruit</strong></div>
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<li>The leaves of jackfruit tree are useful for curing fever, boils
and skin diseases. When heated, they prove useful in curing wounds. </li>
<li>The latex of the fruit is helpful in treating dysopia, opthalmities and pharyngitis.</li>
<li>The latex can also be mixed with vinegar to heal abscesses, snakebites and glandular swellings. </li>
<li>The wood of jackfruit tree is widely used in manufacturing musical
instruments, furniture, doors, windows and roof constructions.</li>
<li>The seed starch is useful in relieving biliousness, while the roasted seeds are regarded as aphrodisiac. </li>
<li>To heal ulcers, the ash of jackfruit leaves is burnt with corn and
coconut shells and used either alone or mixed with coconut oil.</li>
<li>The root of jackfruit tree forms the remedy for skin diseases, fever and diarrhea.</li>
<li>The heartwood of the tree is used by Buddhist forest monastics in
Southeast Asia, for dying the robes of the monks to light brown color. </li>
<li>In China, the pulp and seeds of jackfruit are considered as a
cooling and nutritious tonic. The fruit is useful in overcoming
the influence of alcohol on a person’s body system.</li>
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<li>The wood of jackfruit tree has sedative properties, due to which its pith can result in abortion. </li>
<li>Jackfruit can increase coagulation.</li>
<li>People who are allergic to birch pollen can show signs of allergy towards jackfruit.</li>
<li><cite class="_Rm bc">www.iloveindia.com</cite></li>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-59902215247459223712014-12-30T17:33:00.001-08:002014-12-30T17:33:12.041-08:001987: WHO Admits Its Smallpox Vaccine Caused AIDS - WHO Omits That It Requested The Virus<h3 class="entry-header">
1987: WHO Admits Its Smallpox Vaccine Caused AIDS - WHO Omits That It Requested The Virus</h3>
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<em> "[A] 1972 report (Bulletin #47) issued by the World Health Organization .... referred to an immune virus <strong>requested</strong>
[Emphasis added] which would selectively destroy the Human T Cell
System, to be distributed in conjunction with a Nationwide vaccination
program "to observe the results". This coincided precisely with the
extensive Small Pox vaccination program in central Africa - shortly
preceding the outbreak of Aids in Africa, America & elsewhere. The
determining factor most common in Aids victims is the breakdown of the T
Cell System in the body.</em>"<br /><br />
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From http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/a-universal-declaration-of-resistance-to-mandatory-vaccinations/</div>
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Below is an article describing how the WHO attempted to deal with those
who saw and questioned the obvious connection between the WHO's massive
smallpox vaccine campaign and the outbreak of AIDS in all the places it
gave it.</div>
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Before reading the following article about the WHO and the smallpox vaccine, please be aware of seven things. <br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>1.</strong></span>
People have seen that ebola suddenly broke out in each of the places
the WHO (and UN and UNICEF and Doctors without Borders) recently ran
vaccine campaigns in West Africa.<br /></div>
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<strong><span style="font-size: 13pt;">2.</span> </strong> Ebola is a man-made bioweapons owned and patented by the US government and the CDC.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>3.</strong></span>
The WHO now, on the basis of ebola outbreaks that coincided with its
own vaccine campaign, now plans a massive vaccine campaign against
ebola with untested vaccines that will contain the ebola virus (a
bioweapon) that can cause ebola and mass deaths.<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>4.</strong></span>
The US is interested in the oil, diamonds and minerals in West Africa,
has been stopped by people living there, but, because of an "ebola
emergency" claimed by the WHO after there were outbreaks of ebola
following the WHO vaccine campaigns there, now has 1000s of troops in
West Africa.<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>5.</strong> </span>
The US and other countries who contribute to the WHO were also
interested in the mineral wealth of Central Africa prior to the WHO's
smallpox vaccination campaign.<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>6.</strong></span> The pharmaceutical industry which was <a href="http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/PHARMACEUTICAL_BUSINESS/history_of_the_pharmaceutical_industry.htm">the main supporters of Hitler</a>
and intensely interested in genocide, became the main supporters of the
WHO, coincidentally formed immediately after WWII, was involved in
killing millions with the smallpox vaccines. They coincidentally made
an immense fortune on AIDS drugs and research funding, all the while not
revealing that the WHO had requested an AIDS-like virus just prior to
the pharmaceutical industry making the small pox vaccine and AIDS
breaking out immediately afterwards.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;"><strong>7.</strong></span>
This WHO vaccine campaign issue is not a historical issue because
Bush's pandemic laws and the WHO International Health Regulations would
make vaccines mandatory now if the WHO declares a pandemic emergency
(with no proof needed) and even if people believed they could cause more
AIDS or cause ebola and deadly. Then, it would be Americans, not just
Africans hiding from vaccines or <a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-cia-fake-vaccination-campaign-endangers-us-all/" target="_self">killing vaccine teams</a> because the vaccines are <a href="http://www.vacfacts.info/failure-of-the-continued-polio-vaccine-campaign.html" target="_self">killing tens of thousands of children</a>. </div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-29486062565079846952014-11-01T19:15:00.001-07:002014-11-01T19:15:38.291-07:00 Top 3 Medicine Brands for a Dry Cough<h1 class="post-title">
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The cough and cold medicine aisle is often confusing, and
determining which product is the best cough medicine for a dry cough can
be a challenge. There are cough suppressants, expectorants,
decongestants, and a host of other medicines available. When you have a
persistent dry cough, the best thing to do is to consult a doctor so
that you can treat the underlying cause. If you need something soothe
the symptoms you can take something that will fight off your body’s urge
to <a href="http://thebestcoughmedicine.com/" title="Coughing and Cough Medicine Explained">cough</a>.
If the major symptom you are dealing with is a dry cough, and you are
an adult with no other health problems, consider choosing one of these
cough medicines, which get great reviews from doctors as well as
patients. Remember that these don’t cure your cough they only suppress
your body’s natural urge to cough. You should talk to your doctor and
your pharmacist before taking any medications, especially if you also
take prescription medication.<br />
<strong><em>Always follow the directions on the product and consult a physician before trying any new medicinal products.</em></strong><br />
<h2>
Best Cough Medicine for a Dry Cough: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009VEMM2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=am2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0009VEMM2">Mucinex</a></h2>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0009VEMM2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0009VEMM2"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignleft" height="110" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL110_&ASIN=B0009VEMM2&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eslconque-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px;" width="69" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eslconque-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B0009VEMM2" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
Mucinex is a powerful cough suppressant that controls your cough for 12
hours. While its clever commercials talk about the dramatic results it
has when breaking up mucus, this medicine also works extremely well for a
dry cough, where no mucus or phlegm is present. If a minor cold,
allergy, or simple throat irritation is causing you to cough
uncontrollably, take Mucinex as indicated on the box every 12 hours and
you will begin feeling better as soon as your first dose sets in.<br />
The active ingredient in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0009VEMM2/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=am2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0009VEMM2">Mucinex</a>
is Guaifenesin, which is provided in a convenient time extended tablet.
If you look at a Mucinex pill, you will see one side is white. That is
the medicine that is released immediately. The other side is a colored
layer, which releases additional cough medicine into your system every
hour to combat your cough. It is so much easier than remembering to take
another dose of medicine every few hours. You can chose between Mucinex
DM and Maximum Strength Mucinex, for your worst cough that seems
impossible to shake.<br />
Mucinex is a little more expensive than many other cough medicines on
the market. Depending on the dosage and size of the box you buy, you
can expect to spend between $15 and $20 on a package of 14 to 20 600mg
pills. Be prepared to show some identification at the pharmacy or
retailer where you buy it. Although it is an over-the-counter (OTC)
medication, its strength requires that you be an adult in order to
purchase it. Mucinex gets the first-place rating because it works
immediately and you only have to take it every 12 hours.<br />
<h2>
Second Best Cough Medicine for a Dry Cough: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000GCE7QK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=am2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000GCE7QK">Robitussin</a></h2>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GCE7QK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000GCE7QK"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignleft" height="110" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL110_&ASIN=B000GCE7QK&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eslconque-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px;" width="60" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eslconque-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B000GCE7QK" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
Another popular brand, Robitussin, contains Guaifensin as well. It also
contains suppressants that will calm your cough, and help your body
reduce the impulse to cough. Most of Robitussin’s cough medicines are
combined with medicine to treat chest congestion. Although you can get <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000GCE7QK/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=am2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000GCE7QK">Robitussin cough gels</a> and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004ZIAVBQ/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B004ZIAVBQ">Robitussin Lingering Cold Long Acting cough gels</a> which only contain cough suppressant. Your unproductive/productive cough will benefit from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GCJS28/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000GCJS28">Robitussin Cough + Chest Congestion</a>, but keep in mind that it contains an expectorant you may not need for your dry cough.<br />
You can purchase Robitussin in bottles that are 4 ounces, 8 ounces,
or 12 ounces as well as gel capsules. It will cost you less than $10 in
most drug stores. Robitussin is in second place because while it isn’t
as effective as Mucinex it is just as effective as Tylenol (our third
recommendation) in treating your dry cough, but offers products that
work only on suppressing coughs without unnecessary additional medicine.<br />
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Third Best Cough Medicine for a Dry Cough: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001IH0MIE/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=am2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001IH0MIE">Tylenol</a></h2>
<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IH0MIE/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001IH0MIE"><img alt="" border="0" class="alignleft" height="110" src="http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL110_&ASIN=B001IH0MIE&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=eslconque-20&ServiceVersion=20070822" style="border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px;" width="110" /></a><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=eslconque-20&l=am2&o=1&a=B001IH0MIE" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /><br />
Tylenol is a well-known brand for a host of medications that treat pain,
fever, coughs, and colds. It is reliable and easily accessible. While
the Tylenol Cold & Cough for Daytime, as well as Tylenol Cold &
Cough for Nighttime are currently (and perhaps temporarily) off the
market, the Tylenol Cold medicine can still be obtained. You might also
benefit from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GCHT5G/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B000GCHT5G">Tylenol Cold & Sore Throat</a> if your dry cough is irritating your throat, and causing it to hurt.<br />
Tylenol Cold comes in a liquid form and is available as a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B001IH0MIE/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=am2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001IH0MIE">Daytime</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001I9TEUE/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=eslconque-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B001I9TEUE">Nighttime</a>
product. You can also get it in capsule form, and there is a package on
the market that provides both Tylenol Cold Daytime and Tylenol Cold
Nighttime dosages. Tylenol treats many different symptoms that show up
during the common cold, including a headache, fever, stuffy nose, and
cough. While the medicine is not specifically targeted for a dry cough,
it will still help you when you are suffering from such a cough. The
Tylenol Cold Nighttime will help you sleep, and with the Daytime dose,
you will find you are better able to control and manage your cough.<br />
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Tylenol contains Dextromethorphan HBr, which works to suppress your
cough. It also has Guaifenesin, like Mucinex, but not in a time release
format. You will need to take Tylenol every four hours in order to keep
your cough suppressed. It will cost you under $10 in any local drugstore
or department store. Tylenol came in third place because it is reliable
in treating your dry cough, but it has a lot of extra medicine that you
don’t necessarily need when you just have a dry cough.<br />
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414456750129_17748" style="color: black; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Stroke has a New Indicator</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414456750129_17749" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">They say if you email this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along?</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414456750129_17750" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the<span style="color: #cd232c; line-height: 1.22em;"><b style="line-height: 1.22em;">Tongue</b></span></span><span style="color: #cd232c; line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="line-height: 1.22em;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414456750129_17752" style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />I will continue to forward this every time it comes around!<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><span style="color: #cd232c; line-height: 1.22em;">STR</span>OKE:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Remember the 1st Three Letters.....</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: #cd232c; line-height: 1.22em;">S. T. R.</span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />STROKE IDENTIFICATION</span></b><b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />It only takes a minute to read this.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...<u style="line-height: 1.22em;">totally</u>. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />RECOGNIZING A STROKE<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />Thank God for the sense to remember the '3' steps - STR.</span></b></div>
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<b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Read and Learn!<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:</span></b><b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />S *</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Ask the individual to SMILE.</span><b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />T *</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Ask the person to TALK and SPEAK<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /> <br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />A SIMPLE SENTENCE (Coherently)<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /> </span><b style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;">(i.e. Chicken Soup)<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />R</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;"> *</span><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414456750129_17729" style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, call emergency number<u style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>immediately</u><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />New Sign of a Stroke -------- Stick out Your Tongue</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;"><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out his tongue. If the tongue is<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other</span><span style="color: black; line-height: 1.22em;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 1.22em;">that is also an indication of a stroke.<br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /><br clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" />A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to 10 people; you can bet that at least one life will be saved.</span></div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-68197267999308664362014-05-24T21:57:00.002-07:002014-05-24T21:57:54.587-07:005 Things You Should Know About Chicken Pox and Shingles<span class="entry-byline">By <a href="http://healthland.time.com/author/asifferlin/" rel="author" title="Posts by Alexandra Sifferlin">Alexandra
Sifferlin</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">5 Things You Should Know About Chicken Pox and
Shingles</span></h1>
The news raised questions about how likely adults are to get chicken pox and
how chicken pox is related to a condition that’s more common among adults,
shingles. So here are some quick facts about the infections.<br />
<br />
<strong>If you never had chicken pox as a child, can you still get the
infection as an adult?</strong><br />Yes. Although most cases of chicken pox occur
before age 10, adults who have never contracted the infection are still at
risk.<br />
<strong>Can chicken pox be more severe in adults?</strong><br />Most people get
chicken pox when they are young, but the symptoms can be more severe among
people who catch the infection in an older age. They include loss of appetite,
fever, headache, tiredness and rashes, all of which can be more taxing on the
health of elderly adults.<br />
<strong>What is shingles, and how is it different from chicken
pox?</strong><br />Shingles, also known as zoster or herpes zoster, is a painful
skin rash caused by the same virus responsible for chicken pox: the varicella
zoster virus. Even if you had chicken pox in the past, you can still contract
shingles. That’s because the chicken-pox virus remains in the body, lying
dormant in the roots of nerves, and can reactivate many years later. It’s not
clear why the virus reawakens — in some people it never does — but researchers
believe that the virus is triggered as the immune system weakens with age or in
conditions of <a href="http://topics.time.com/stress/">stress</a>.<br />
About 1 out of 3 people in the U.S. is affected by shingles at some point in
their lives, with the majority of cases occurring in men and women ages 60 and
older.<br />
Shingles is less contagious than chicken pox and cannot be passed from person
to person. However, the varicella zoster virus can be spread from a person with
shingles to someone who has never had chicken pox. The unfortunate recipient
might develop chicken pox, but not shingles.<br />
<strong>How long is a person contagious with the chicken pox or
shingles?</strong><br />The infection can take anywhere from 10 to 21 days to
develop after exposure to someone with chicken pox or shingles. People with
chicken pox are contagious a couple days before their rash appears and remain so
until all of their blisters have scabbed. A person with shingles, on the other
hand, can only spread their infection while their skin rash is still blistering.
They’re not contagious before the blisters occur, and are no longer contagious
once the rash starts to scab.<br />
<strong>What’s the best way to prevent chicken pox and
shingles?</strong><br />To avoid chicken pox, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/chickenpox/vaccination.html" target="_blank" title="recommends">recommends</a> two doses of the chicken-pox vaccine — which is 98%
effective — for kids, adolescents and adults who have not had chicken pox.
Adults who have not had the disease and may be in close contact with young
children who are likely to be infected should consider getting vaccinated.
Children should receive the first dose when they are between 12 months old and
15 months old, and a second dose when they are 4 years old to 6 years old. The
U.S. started chicken-pox immunizations in 1995, so Walters would not have been
vaccinated as a child.<br />
There is also a shingles vaccine. Zostavax is <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/shingles/vaccination.html" target="_blank" title="recommended">recommended</a> for people ages 60 and older since they are most
vulnerable to the infection. Currently, the CDC doesn’t have
a recommendation for the vaccine in people ages 50 to 59, but the <a href="http://topics.time.com/food-and-drug-administration/">Food and Drug
Administration</a> did approve the shot for this age group as well. According to
the CDC, shingles-vaccination rates among adults are low, but there was a 16%
increase in people ages 60 and older who were immunized in 2011. While the
vaccine cannot protect you completely from a bout with shingles, it can make the
rashes less painful and help clear them up more quickly.<br />
<span class="entry-byline"> http://healthland.time.com/2013/01/29/5-things-you-should-know-about-chickenpox-and-shingles/</span>Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-1736775694132034322014-03-22T19:07:00.000-07:002014-03-22T19:07:00.904-07:00Antibiotics and the Meat We Eat<h1 class="articleHeadline" itemprop="headline">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">By <span itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">DAVID A.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">SCIENTISTS at the Food and Drug Administration
systematically monitor the meat and poultry sold in supermarkets around the
country for the presence of disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to
antibiotics. These food products are bellwethers that tell us how bad the crisis
of antibiotic resistance is getting. And they’re telling us it’s getting worse.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">But this is only part of the story. While the F.D.A.
can see what kinds of antibiotic-resistant bacteria are coming out of livestock
facilities, the agency doesn’t know enough about the antibiotics that are being
fed to these animals. This is a major public health problem, because giving
healthy livestock these drugs breeds superbugs that can infect people. We need
to know more about the use of antibiotics in the production of our meat and
poultry. The results could be a matter of life and death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In 2011, drugmakers sold nearly 30 million pounds of
antibiotics for livestock — the largest amount yet recorded and about 80 percent
of all reported antibiotic sales that year. The rest was for human health care.
We don’t know much more except that, rather than healing sick animals, these
drugs are often fed to animals at low levels to make them grow faster and to
suppress diseases that arise because they live in dangerously close quarters on
top of one another’s waste. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It may sound counterintuitive, but feeding antibiotics
to livestock at low levels may do the most harm. When he accepted the Nobel
Prize in 1945 for his discovery of penicillin, Alexander Fleming warned that
“there is the danger that the ignorant man may easily underdose himself and by
exposing his microbes to nonlethal quantities of the drug make them resistant.”
He probably could not have imagined that, one day, we would be doing this to
billions of animals in factorylike facilities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The F.D.A. started testing retail meat and poultry for
antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 1996, shortly before my term as commissioner
ended. The agency’s most recent report on superbugs in our meat, released in
February and covering retail purchases in 2011, was 82 pages long and broke down
its results by four different kinds of meat and poultry products and dozens of
species and strains of bacteria. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was not until 2008, however, that Congress required
companies to tell the F.D.A. the quantity of antibiotics they sold for use in
agriculture. The agency’s latest report, on 2011 sales and also released in
February, was just four pages long — including the cover and two pages of
boilerplate. There was no information on how these drugs were administered or to
which animals and why. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We have more than enough scientific evidence to
justify curbing the rampant use of antibiotics for livestock, yet the food and
drug industries are not only fighting proposed legislation to reduce these
practices, they also oppose collecting the data. Unfortunately, the Senate
Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, as well as the F.D.A., is
aiding and abetting them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Senate committee recently approved the Animal Drug
User Fee Act, a bill that would authorize the F.D.A. to collect fees from
veterinary-drug makers to finance the agency’s review of their products. Public
health experts had urged the committee to require drug companies to provide more
detailed antibiotic sales data to the agency. Yet the F.D.A. stood by silently
as the committee declined to act, rejecting a modest proposal from Senators
Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York and Dianne Feinstein of California, both
Democrats, that required the agency to report data it already collects but does
not disclose. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In the House, Representatives Henry A. Waxman of
California and Louise M. Slaughter of New York, also Democrats, have introduced
a more comprehensive measure. It would not only authorize the F.D.A. to collect
more detailed data from drug companies, but would also require food producers to
disclose how often they fed antibiotics to animals at low levels to make them
grow faster and to offset poor conditions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This information would be particularly valuable to the
F.D.A., which asked drugmakers last April to voluntarily stop selling
antibiotics for these purposes. The agency has said it would mandate such action
if those practices persisted, but it has no data to determine whether the
voluntary policy is working. The House bill would remedy this situation, though
there are no Republican sponsors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Combating resistance requires monitoring both the
prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in our food, as well as the use of
antibiotics on livestock. In human medicine, hospitals increasingly track
resistance rates <em>and</em> antibiotic prescription rates to understand how
the use of these drugs affects resistance. We need to cover both sides of this
equation in agriculture, too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I appreciate that not every lawmaker is as convinced
as I am that feeding low-dose antibiotics to animals is a recipe for disaster.
But most, if not all of them, recognize that we are facing an antibiotic
resistance crisis, as evidenced by last year’s bipartisan passage of a measure
aimed at fighting superbugs by stimulating the development of new antibiotics
that treat serious infections. Why are lawmakers so reluctant to find out how 80
percent of our antibiotics are used? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">We cannot avoid tough questions because we’re afraid
of the answers. Lawmakers must let the public know how the drugs they need to
stay well are being used to produce cheaper meat. </span></div>
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1997. </div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-21821943714435927572014-03-22T18:54:00.002-07:002014-03-22T18:54:56.493-07:00FDA to crack down on antibiotics in animals reared for meat<div id="main-article-info">
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Regulators announce new guidelines for
drug firms to phase out some antibiotics as a growth enhancer in
livestock.The Food and Drug Administration is taking steps toward phasing out the use
of some antibiotics in animals processed for meat in the US, citing a potential
threat to public health.</div>
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Many cattle, hog and poultry producers give their
animals antibiotics regularly to ensure that they are healthy and to make the
animals grow faster. Now, the agency has announced that it will ask
pharmaceutical companies to voluntarily stop labeling drugs important for
treating human infection as acceptable for that growth promotion in animals.<br />
If the companies sign on — and one major company has already said it will —
using those antibiotics to promote growth in animals would be illegal.
Prescriptions would be required to use the drugs for animal illnesses.<br />
The FDA has been debating how to address the issue of antibiotics in meat for
several years as consumers have become more aware of the issue and are clamoring
for antibiotic-free meat. McDonald's, among other companies, has moved to limit
the drugs in their meat, pushing many animal producers to go along.<br />
The FDA move is designed to limit antibiotic-resistant diseases in humans.
Repeated exposure to antibioticscan lead germs to become resistant to the drug
so that it is no longer effective in treating a particular illness.<br />
Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem. In September the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released sobering estimates that more
than 23,000 people a year are dying from drug-resistant infections.<br />
The biggest risk is from germs spread in hospitals, and it's not clear how
much of the problem is related to the use of drugs in meat. Still, the FDA says
this is one step toward decreasing resistance.<br />
"We need to be selective about the drugs we use in animals and when we use
them," said William Flynn of FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
"Antimicrobial resistance may not be completely preventable, but we need to do
what we can to slow it down."<br />
The new guidance will give the companies three years to comply.<br />
Michael Taylor, FDA's deputy commissioner of foods, said he believes asking
industry to make the changes is the fastest way to help phase the drugs out. If
the FDA made the process mandatory, he said, the agency would have had to move
forward with a complex regulatory process that could take years.<br />
"We have high confidence based on dialogue with industry that this initiative
will succeed," Taylor said.<br />
Drug company Zoetis, a leading manufacturer of animal antibiotics, has
already said they will comply.<br />
"This reflects our continued commitment to antibiotic stewardship and
represents the many ways that Zoetis promotes the responsible use of
antimicrobial drugs in animals," the company's statement said.<br />
Animal agriculture groups will not have much of a choice in the matter if
drug companies sign on and make the drugs' use illegal. But
many antibiotics will still be available for those producers to use, just not
those that the FDA has classified as most important for treating human
infections. Some of the antibiotics that could not be used in animals are
penicillins and tetracyclines, the FDA said.<br />
Many animal groups signaled support for the FDA guidance after it was
announced Wednesday, including the National Pork Producers Council. Still, Dr.
Liz Wagstrom of the pork producers' group said the FDA action will mean "real
change" in the way antibiotics are used on the farm, as some animals may not
grow as quickly and producers may see more disease. She said she does not know
how much it will cost the industry.<br />
Some advocates pushing to rid the animal food supply of antibiotics said the
FDA did not go far enough. Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter of New York, a
microbiologist, said the FDA should have made the action mandatory. The guidance
"falls woefully short of what is needed to address a public health crisis," she
said.<br />
Others hailed the agency move as progress.<br />
"We commend FDA for taking the first steps since 1977 to broadly
reduce antibiotic overuse in livestock," said Laura Rogers of The Pew Charitable
Trusts' human health and industrial farming campaign. "There is more work to do,
but this is a promising start, especially after decades of
inaction."<br />
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-90696768426656379612013-12-17T19:03:00.001-08:002013-12-17T19:03:57.422-08:00Are you an oyster lover?<h2>
Here are some benefits of eating oysters:</h2>
<strong>1. Oysters contain more zinc than any other food.</strong> Zinc is
necessary for proper growth and development, strengthens the immune system and
promotes healing.<br />
<strong>2. Oysters are heart healthy.</strong> They are high in omega – 3
fatty acids, potassium and magnesium which can help reduce your risk of heart
attack, stroke and lower blood pressure.<br />
<strong>3. Oysters can help you lose weight!</strong> They are low in
calories, low in fat and a good source of protein which makes you feel fuller
after eating.<br />
<strong>4. Oysters are a good source of other essential
nutrients. </strong>These include vitamins A, E, and C, zinc, iron, calcium,
selenium, and vitamin B12.<br />
<strong>5. Oysters can help improve your energy</strong>. They are a good
source of iron which helps the body transport oxygen to individual cells giving
you more energy.<br />
<strong>6. Oysters can help lower your cholesterol.</strong> A study done by
the University of Washington found that eating oysters can help raise the HDLs
(good cholesterol levels) and lower the LDL’s (bad cholesterol levels).<br />
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Other interesting tidbits about oysters:</h2>
<strong>1. Oysters taste better in cooler weather.</strong> Spawning, which
occurs in the warmer months of May, June, July and August, affects the taste.
They are not bad, just not as tasty as in the cooler months.<br />
<strong>2. Oysters are considered to be an aphrodisiac.</strong> American
and Italian researchers found that they were rich in amino acids which trigger
increased levels of sex hormones. Their high zinc content aids the production of
testosterone.<br />
<strong>3. Oysters can be safely eaten in non “R” months.</strong> The rule
of thumb before refrigeration was not to eat oysters in months whose names have
no “R”. This would be May through August when the hot weather would not allow
for safe storage of the oysters. Thankfully, for all us oyster lovers,
refrigeration makes it possible to eat them all year round!<br />
<strong>4. Oysters are good for your garden.</strong> Oyster shells are high
in calcium which helps balance your soil’s pH. Calcium also helps build strong
cell walls which leads to healthier plants. BUT – don’t just throw your oyster
shells in the garden though, they should be ground – or you could just purchase
the ground oyster shell lime at the local garden center.<br />
<strong>5. Oysters can contain harmful bacteria.</strong> Be sure of your
source! Oysters are filter feeders meaning that they concentrate anything
present in the surrounding water. In the gulf coast area, there would
occasionally be warnings (after heavy rains causing the potential for water
contamination), not to eat the bay seafood.<br />
<strong>6. Shucking (opening) oysters is a competitive sport.</strong>
Shucking oyster competitions are held worldwide. There is even a Guinness World
Oyster Opening Championship in Galway, Ireland.<br />
<strong>7. Eating oysters is environmentally friendly.</strong> They are on
the Seafood Watch list as a “best choice”. This means that seafood in this
category is abundant, well-managed and caught or farmed in environmentally
friendly ways.<br />
I knew I liked oysters – now I have other reasons besides just the taste!<br />
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How about you – are you an oyster lover?Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-49256510002661376842013-12-17T18:32:00.002-08:002013-12-17T18:32:39.271-08:00 Pineapple Smoothie for acne problems and constipation Pineapple Smoothie<br />Mix the following in a blender.<br />1-2 cups of fresh
pineapples <br />1/2 cups apple slices <br />1/4-cup fresh apple juice <br />1/2-cup
almond milk (more or less as needed) <br />1 banana <br />1-tablespoon lecithin
<br />2-tablespoons flax seeds <br />2 teaspoons bran (wheat, oat or rice)<br />You
can add more lecithin if you like. Lecithin does not have a taste. This smoothie
is jam packed with fiber.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Homemade Moisturizing Body Scrub</span></h1>
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<em><strong>Homemade Moisturizing Body Scrub,</strong></em> that I am going to
share with you today, is probably my absolute favorite! It leaves your skin
feeling <em><strong>SOFT and SMOOTH</strong></em> like you’ve never experienced
before! (At least like I had never experienced before! <img alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://adelightfulhome.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" /> ) It
is meant to be used<strong><em> in the shower</em></strong>, and you honestly
don’t even need to use any moisturizer when you get out. You will absolutely be
glowing!</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$Ingredients14.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ScrubIngredients1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-727" height="300" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ScrubIngredients1-225x300.jpg" title="ScrubIngredients" width="225" /></a></div>
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To get started on making the body scrub, you will
only need four simple ingredients. If you don’t have some of these ingredients
on hand, a great place to purchase them from is <a href="http://www.mountainroseherbs.com/index.php?AID=087293" target="_blank">Mountain Rose Herbs</a>. I highly recommend their products, and I
know that Stacy does too. (And yes, all of these ingredients are edible,
although I don’t think I have ever actually eaten shea butter!)</div>
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<strong>INGREDIENTS:</strong></div>
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1/2 cup <a href="http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/AIDLink.cfm?AID=087293%20&Redirect=/butter/butter.php#but_but_s" target="_blank">Shea Butter</a></div>
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<li>
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3 TBSP Olive Oil</div>
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<li>
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3 TBSP <a href="http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/AIDLink.cfm?AID=087293%20&Redirect=/bulkoil/a-c.php#oac_coc_u" target="_blank">Coconut Oil</a> (melted, but not hot)</div>
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<li>
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1/2 cup Brown Sugar</div>
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</ul>
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<strong>METHOD:</strong></div>
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Begin by filling a 1/2 C measuring cup with <a href="http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/AIDLink.cfm?AID=087293%20&Redirect=/butter/butter.php#but_but_s" target="_blank">shea butter</a>, making sure to pack it down tightly. Transfer the
shea butter to a small pan, and gently heat, using the double boiler method,
until the butter is nice and soft. You don’t want to melt the butter, but just
soften it to make it easier to work with.</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$SoftenedSheaButter6.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SoftenedSheaButter1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-728" height="336" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SoftenedSheaButter1-1024x768.jpg" title="SoftenedSheaButter" width="448" /></a></div>
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Next, transfer the <a href="http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/AIDLink.cfm?AID=087293%20&Redirect=/butter/butter.php#but_but_s" target="_blank">shea butter</a> to a stand mixer, and beat on high speed until it
has a whipped consistency and doesn’t feel grainy when rubbed between your
fingers. This will take around 3-4 minutes. It should look like firm whipped
cream when it is done. (If you think your tempted to eat it now, just wait till
later!)</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$WhippedSheaButter6.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WhippedSheaButter1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-729" height="336" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WhippedSheaButter1-1024x768.jpg" title="WhippedSheaButter" width="448" /></a></div>
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Combine the olive oil and melted coconut oil
together in a small container with a spout. SLOWLY pour the oil into the bowl of
shea butter, while beating on high speed. You may need to stop and scrape down
the sides as you go.</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$PouringOil7.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PouringOil1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-730" height="336" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/PouringOil1-1024x768.jpg" title="PouringOil" width="448" /></a></div>
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Once all of the oil is incorporated into the <a href="http://coldfusion.affiliateshop.com/AIDLink.cfm?AID=087293%20&Redirect=/butter/butter.php#but_but_s" target="_blank">shea butter</a>, continue mixing on high speed for 1-2 minutes
until it is nice and fluffy and looks like a soft, delicious whipped cream. If
desired, you could also add some essential oils now. I usually don’t, because I
like the smell of just the coconut oil and brown sugar, but you could experiment
with adding some if you would like.</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$WhippedOilsButter7.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WhippedOilsButter1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-731" height="336" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WhippedOilsButter1-1024x768.jpg" title="WhippedOilsButter" width="448" /></a></div>
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At this point, you really could just stop, and
use this as an after-shower moisturizer. I have done this before, but my
favorite way to use this is as an <strong><em>in-shower</em></strong>
moisturizing body scrub. It is just so nice, and makes your skin feel
<strong><em>AMAZING!</em></strong> (Have I already said that? Please excuse me
if I’m repeating myself!)</div>
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To turn this into a body scrub, you just need to
add something that will exfoliate. This step is very flexible, and there are
many things that could be added here. <em><strong>My favorite thing to use is
brown sugar</strong></em>. It gives it a wonderful smell, and it does a great
job at exfoliating. Some other things that you could consider using instead of
sugar would be salt, coffee grounds, ground up oats, etc. Anything that will
provide you with a gentle scrub can be used in place of the sugar. You could
even do a combination of exfoliators if you would like.</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$BrownSugar13.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BrownSugar1.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-732" height="336" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BrownSugar1-1024x768.jpg" title="BrownSugar" width="448" /></a></div>
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So add the brown sugar (or whatever you decide to
use) to your whipped butter and gently mix it in. (If you use brown sugar, make
sure that there are no clumps of sugar before you add it to your bowl. It will
be a lot easier to mix in this way, and you will not end up with any big sugar
clumps in your exfoliator.)</div>
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<a href="http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/$FinishedProduct17.jpg"></a><a href="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FinishedProduct2.jpg"><img alt="" class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-733" height="598" src="http://thepurposedheart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FinishedProduct2-767x1024.jpg" title="FinishedProduct" width="448" /></a></div>
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That is all there is to it! And although, you
<strong><em>could </em></strong>eat this, I think it would serve it’s purpose
better on your skin! To use, simply rub the body scrub all over yourself while
you’re in the shower, rinse off, and dry. You don’t need to use a lot –
<strong><em>a little bit will go a long way.</em></strong> When you get out of
the shower, your skin will feel like silk, and you will be glowing!</div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
This recipe makes around two cups of moisturizing
body scrub. I like to store mine in glass ball jars. For a simple gift idea,
fill up a 1 cup ball jar with your homemade body scrub, sprinkle a little brown
sugar over the top (just for fun!), seal it with a lid, and decorate the jar
with a cute ribbon and/or a homemade gift tag. <strong><em>Everyone loves
receiving handmade gifts!</em></strong> I made some recently as a special treat
for my friend who just had a baby, and she loved it! <strong><em>But make sure
to save some for yourself, so you can have beautiful, glowing, soft, smooth,
radiant skin too! Enjoy!</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em><br /></em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>http://adelightfulhome.com/homemade-moisturizing-body-scrub/</em></strong></div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-44760742818703852092013-12-17T18:22:00.003-08:002013-12-17T18:22:52.551-08:00The Olive Oil Hair Treatment<h3>
The Olive Oil Hair Treatment</h3>
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Olive oil isn’t just for cooking — it’s great for your hair, too! Olive oil
has been proven to give hair a healthy sheen, help to repair split ends, and
reduce frizz.<br />
To give your hair a conditioning treatment, <strong>massage about 2
tablespoons of olive oil into your hair and scalp. </strong>The amount you’ll
use should vary depending on the length and thickness of your hair. And remember
to massage it in well – the massaging feels really nice on your scalp, but is
also important to the treatment, as massage stimulates helps promote a healthy
scalp.<br />
Next, <strong>take a warm, damp towel and wrap it around your head and
treated hair (“turban” it). Leave it on for about 30-45 minutes. </strong>This
allows the olive oil to work into your hair to have the full effect.<br />
<br />
Finally, <strong>rinse out the olive oil with shampoo. This might take a few
shampoo-ings (when I tried it, it took 2 rounds.)</strong> Give your hair
further rest by allowing it to air dry, if you have the time. Then say hello to
your luscious locks!<br />
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http://www.collegefashion.net/beauty-and-hair/dorm-room-spa-3-easy-diy-beauty-recipes-to-try/Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-27947117571460506382013-12-06T17:59:00.001-08:002013-12-06T17:59:29.648-08:0010 Bad Habits That Can Harm Your Teeth<div class="top" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; line-height: 22px;">
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10 Bad Habits That Can Harm Your Teeth</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Common Dental Health Troublemakers</span></h1>
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Do you crunch on ice or clench your jaw? Stop — you could be damaging your teeth. In fact, you should nix all 10 of these dental health no-nos.</h2>
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By <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/contributing-writers-and-editors.aspx" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Krisha McCoy, MS</a></div>
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Medically reviewed by <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/medical-reviewers.aspx" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;">Niya Jones MD, MPH</a></div>
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Are you wrecking your teeth without even knowing it? If you suck your thumb or suck on lemons, you’re doing your pearly whites wrong. And did you know that biting your nails is not only bad for your fingers, it can actually hurt your teeth, too?</div>
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While some of these <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/101.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">dental health</a>“don’ts” can do immediate damage to your teeth (by cracking or breaking them), the effects of others may add up over time, harming your dental health in the long run. So put all 10 of these bad habits to rest — for your teeth’s sake.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Thumbs Down on Thumb Sucking</span></h3>
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Children who still suck their fingers or thumbs after their permanent teeth start coming in — usually around the age of 5 or 6 — could be causing permanent changes that affect tooth and jaw structure. Specifically, thumb sucking can cause a <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health-specialist/misaligned-jaw.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">misalignment of the teeth</a>, explains Richard Price, DMD, a retired dentist from the Boston area who is a consumer advisor and spokesperson for the American Dental Association. This misalignment can lead to a number of issues, including difficulty chewing and breathing problems — so help wean your child off his thumb.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lay Off the Lemons</span></h3>
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People who suck lemons may be putting their dental health in jeopardy. Why? Lemons are very acidic, says Elisa Mello, DDS, a cosmetic dentist at NYC Smile Design in New York City. "The acidity corrodes the enamel [of the teeth]." Repeated exposure to acidic substances can cause <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/oral-conditions/specialist/jacobs/tooth-enamel-loss.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">tooth enamel to erode</a>, creating a rough texture on the surface of your teeth, adds Dr. Price.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't Brush Too Hard</span></h3>
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<a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/101/brushing.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Brushing your teeth</a> regularly is part of good oral hygiene, but if you brush too vigorously, you can cause more harm than good. Brushing your teeth too hard can wear down enamel, irritate your gums, make your teeth sensitive to cold, and even cause cavities. To avoid these problems, Price recommends using a soft bristled toothbrush. "Just look for the letters ADA [American Dental Association] on the box, which means the bristles are firm enough to remove plaque, but soft enough not to cause damage," he advises.</div>
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For some people, stress can trigger frequent clenching of the jaw or <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/oral-conditions/specialist/jacobs/nightly-tooth-grind.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">grinding of the teeth</a>. "There is a severe amount of pressure on your teeth when you do that, and you can get microfractures or actual fractures in your teeth," warns Dr. Mello. Microfractures are weakened areas in your teeth that puts them at risk for further damage. Jaw clenching or tooth grinding can also damage dental work.</div>
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Ice cubes may seem harmless, but Price has these words of advice: "Beware of the killer cube." The cold temperature and the hardness of ice cubes can cause serious<a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/oral-conditions/top-oral-health-problems.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">damage to your teeth</a>. "Our teeth are designed to crush through things, not against something," says Mello. Even though crunching ice with your teeth may be easy, keep in mind, says Price, that "your blender needs special blades to crush ice."</div>
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Many people use their teeth to break off a tag on clothing, rip open a package of potato chips, or even unscrew bottle tops. But according to Price, teeth are meant to help us do three things: Chew food, speak properly, and <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/101/better-smile.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">look better when we smile</a>. "Teeth are not pliers, teeth are not hooks," he says. Using your teeth as a tool is a threat to dental health and can damage dental work or cause your teeth to crack.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Don't Park Your Pencil Between Your Teeth</span></h3>
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Some people have a habit of holding objects — such as pens, pencils, or eyeglasses — between their <a href="http://www.everydayhealth.com/dental-health/101/beyond-your-teeth.aspx" style="color: #005cb7; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;">teeth</a> when concentrating on a difficult task. But they might not realize how much pressure they’re placing on their teeth as they bite down on a non-food object, says Mello. Biting on a pen or a similar object can cause your teeth to shift or even crack. "[It can also] break existing dental work that you have in your mouth," warns Mello.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Boycott Nail Biting</span></h3>
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<strong>Most of us have suffered through food poisoning at one time or
another. Food poisoning is caused by bacteria or other toxins in food. Some of
the symptoms are nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness, abdominal cramps and
diarrhea. Food poisoning should not be ignored. </strong><strong><span id="more-64"></span></strong><br />
When you are suffering from food poisoning, your body will lose more water
than normal. So try to stay well hydrated by drinking at least eight glasses of
water throughout the day. The water will help flush out the toxins and bacteria
causing your symptoms. Along with water, you can also drink diluted fruit juice
and broth. <strong>You can also start treatment immediately with simple and
readily available ingredients from your kitchen. </strong><br />
Here are the top 10 home remedies for food poisoning.<br />
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<li>
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Ginger</h2>
Ginger is an excellent home remedy for curing almost all types of digestive
problems related to food poisoning.<br />
<ul>
<li>You can drink one cup of ginger tea after eating lunch or dinner to stop
heart burn, nausea and other symptoms associated with food poisoning. To make
ginger tea, boil one teaspoon grated ginger in a cup of water for a few minutes,
add sugar and your tea is ready</li>
<li>Add a few drops of ginger juice to one teaspoon of honey and swallow it
several times a day to reduce inflammation and pain.</li>
<li>Eating raw ginger increases the acid level in your stomach, which will help
you digest your food more quickly.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
Apple Cider Vinegar</h2>
Due to its alkaline nature, apple cider vinegar can alleviate various food
poisoning symptoms. Apple cider vinegar will soothe the gastro-intestinal lining
and kill the bacteria, giving you instant relief.<br />
<ul>
<li>Just mix two tablespoon of apple cider vinegar in a cup of hot water and
drink it before eating any solid food to prevent acid indigestion.</li>
<li>Alternatively, you can drink two tablespoons of undiluted apple cider
vinegar.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
Fenugreek Seeds and Yogurt</h2>
Yogurt is another anti-bacterial agent that can counter attack the bacteria
that cause food poisoning. You can take one teaspoon fenugreek seeds along with
a tablespoon of yogurt. You just need to swallow the seeds and need not chew
them. The combining effect of fenugreek seeds and yogurt will give you an
immediate relief from stomach pain as well as vomiting.</li>
<li>
<h2>
Lemon</h2>
The anti-inflammatory, antiviral, and antibacterial properties in lemons can
give you much relief. The acid in lemons helps kill bacteria that cause food
poisoning.<br />
<ul>
<li>Just add a pinch of sugar to one teaspoon of lemon juice and drink it two to
three times a day.</li>
<li>You can also sip on warm water with lemon juice to clean out your
system.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
Basil</h2>
Basil is an excellent herb that can cure infections caused by food poisoning.
You can get the benefits from basil in several ways.<br />
<ul>
<li>Drink basil juice witha tablespoon of honey several times a day.</li>
<li>Put a few drops of basil oil in one liter of drinking water. Drink it slowly
throughout the day to kill bacteria causing stomach pain and other
problems.</li>
<li>Add basil leaves, some sea salt, and a pinch black pepper to three
tablespoons of plain yogurt. Eat this three to four times a day until your
symptoms are gone.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
Garlic</h2>
Garlic is also very effective in fighting food poisoning due to its strong
antiviral, antibacterial and antifungal properties. It relieves symptoms such as
diarrhea and abdominal pain by destroying unhealthy microbes in the
intestines.<br />
<ul>
<li>Eat one fresh garlic clove, swallowing it with water. If you can tolerate
the smell of garlic, you can also try garlic juice.</li>
<li>Alternatively, you can make a mixture of garlic oil and soybean oil and rub
it on your stomach after eating.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
Banana</h2>
Bananas are a rich source of potassium that greatly helps reduce the various
effects of food poisoning. Because bananas are very soft,they are easy on the
stomach. Eating just one banana will also help restore your energy level. You
can simply eat a ripe banana or make a tasty and healthy banana shake and drink
it two to three times a day.</li>
<li>
<h2>
Cumin</h2>
Cumin seeds can control stomach inflammation due to food poisoning.<br />
<ul>
<li>Just crush one tablespoon of cumin seeds and swallow it, then drink a glass
of water.</li>
<li>You can also make an herbal drink from cumin seeds, salt, and asafetida.
Drink it two to three times a day. This will cleanse the system and relieve your
symptoms.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
Herbal Tea</h2>
Sipping on different types of herbal tea can help soothe your disturbed
system and keep your body well hydrated. Peppermint tea has a soothing effect on
your stomach and can relieve stomach cramps. Comfrey root and meadow sweet tea
will treat your stomach infection. If you are experiencing nausea, try licorice
tea or chamomile tea as these teas will reduce inflammation and calm your
stomach.</li>
<li>
<h2>
Honey</h2>
Honey has both antifungal and antibacterial properties that can be effective
for treating indigestion and other food poisoning symptoms. Honey as a natural
remedy can be taken in its pure form or added to tea. A teaspoon of honey three
times a day can do wonders to heal an upset stomach due to food poisoning and
indigestion. It also controls the formation of excessive acid in the
stomach.</li>
</ol>
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<strong>These natural treatments are sure to alleviate the symptoms of food
poisoning and help you get instant relief. However, if symptoms continue,
consult a doctor immediately.</strong><strong></strong><br />
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As tragedies like Boston and Newtown mount, scientists and
criminologists are trying harder than ever to understand the minds behind the
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<span class="entry-byline">By <a href="http://science.time.com/author/jkluger/" rel="author" title="Posts by Jeffrey Kluger">Jeffrey Kluger</a> </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_7_2_40_1384567817290_38323">Homicidal madmen don’t have much of a capacity for gratitude, but if they did, they’d offer a word of thanks to Charles Whitman. Whitman was the 25-year-old engineering student and former Marine who, in 1966, killed 17 people and wounded 32 in a mass shooting at the University of </span><a href="http://topics.time.com/texas/" style="color: blue; cursor: text !important;">Texas</a><span id="yui_3_7_2_40_1384567817290_38321">, before being shot and killed himself by police. Earlier that day, he also murdered his wife and mother. Criminal investigators looking for a reason for the rampage got what seemed to be their answer quickly, in the form of a suicide note Whitman left at his home:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">"I do
not really understand myself these days. I am supposed to be an average
reasonable and intelligent young man. However, lately (I cannot recall when it
started) I have been a victim of many unusual and irrational thoughts … please
pay off my debts [and] donate the rest anonymously to a mental-health
foundation. Maybe research can prevent further tragedies of this
type." Whitman<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Whitman got his wish — after a fashion. With the approval of his family, an
autopsy was conducted and investigators found both a tumor and a vascular
malformation pressing against his amygdala, the small and primitive region of
the <a href="http://topics.time.com/brain/">brain</a> that controls emotion. A
state commission of inquiry concluded that the tumor might have contributed to
the shootings, earning Whitman a tiny measure of posthumous redemption — and
providing all killers since at least the fig-leaf defense that something similar
might be wrong with them too.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">For as long as evil has existed, people have wondered about its source, and
you don’t have to be too much of a scientific reductionist to conclude that the
first place to look is the brain. There’s not a thing you’ve ever done, thought
or felt in your life that isn’t ultimately traceable to a particular webwork of
nerve cells firing in a particular way, allowing the machine that is you to
function as it does. So if the machine is busted — if the operating system in
your head fires in crazy ways — are you fully responsible for the behavior that
follows?</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even before Whitman made it into the medical texts, scientists were already
familiar with the case of Phineas Gage, the 25-year-old railroad worker who, in
1848, was helping to blast a path for a new rail line in <a href="http://topics.time.com/vermont/">Vermont</a> when an errant explosion
drove an iron rod into the top of his head, through his left frontal lobe and
out his cheekbone. Gage, incredibly, didn’t die and nor did he even exhibit much
loss of function. But after the bar was removed, there was a sudden change in
his personality. Always a peaceable man, he become volatile, combative and,
after a lifetime of polite speaking, wildly profane. It was science’s first
glimpse at the seemingly direct cause-and-effect connection between trauma to
the brain and the very essence of personality. As our ability to image and
repair the brain has improved, we’ve been able to detect far less obvious damage
than a railroad spike through the skull — damage that nonetheless has every bit
as great an effect.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a celebrated 2003 case published in the <em>Archives of Neurology</em>,
for example, a 40-year-old Virginia schoolteacher with no history of pedophilia
developed a sudden interest in child pornography and began making sexual
overtures to his stepdaughter. His wife reported his behavior, and he was
arrested and assigned to a 12-step program for sex offenders. He flunked out of
the course — he couldn’t stop propositioning staff members — and was sentenced
to prison. Only a day before he was set to surrender, however, he appeared in a
local emergency room with an explosive headache and a range of other
neurological symptoms. Doctors scanned his brain and found a tumor the size of
an egg in the right orbitofrontal cortex, the region that processes
decisionmaking and other so-called executive functions. The tumor was removed
and the compulsive sexuality vanished along with it. Less than a year later, the
tumor returned — and so, almost in lockstep, did his urges.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“There’s no one spot in the brain for pedophilia,” says Stephen J. Morse,
professor of both law and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. “But
damage to the orbitofrontal region is known to be associated with disinhibition.
We know that various forms of brain damage can contribute to difficulties in
being guided by reason.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other, more recent studies are finding roots of criminality in other parts of
the brain. As Maia Szalavitz <a href="http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/03/brain-scans-can-predict-which-criminals-are-likely-to-get-re-arrested/">reported
in April</a>, a team of researchers led by Kent Kiehl, associate professor of
psychology at the University of New Mexico, published a study in the
<em>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences</em> in which the brains of
96 male felons sentenced to at least a year in jail for crimes including
robbery, drug dealing and assault were scanned in a functional magnetic
resonance imager (fMRI). While they were in the fMRI, the men performed a task
that required them to hit a key on a computer when they saw the letter X on a
screen, but refrain when they saw the letter K. Since the X appeared 84% of the
time and since the two letters look awfully similar to begin with, it was easy
to get into the habit of overclicking. The ability to avoid hitting the key too
much calls for a measure of impulse control, a faculty processed in a region of
the brain known as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). The inmates who did
worse on the test turned out to have lower levels of activity in the ACC; the
ones who performed better had higher levels. Kiehl tracked all of the inmates
for four years after their release from prison and found that those with the
sleepy ACCs were also more than four times likelier to be rearrested than the
others. If you can’t control your impulse to click, the study suggested, you
might have equal difficulty controlling the impulse to run afoul of the law.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“There are more papers coming out that show how MRIs predict who reoffends,”
said Kiehl in a follow-up e-mail with TIME. “We are examining treatments that
increase activity in the anterior cingulate. The goal is to see if we can help
identify the best therapies to reduce recidivism.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Koenigs, who has collaborated with Kiehl, has conducted other work with
inmates linking both the amygdala and a region known as the ventromedial
prefrontal cortex as possible accomplices in crime. The amygdala is the wild
child of that pair, the brain’s seat of fear, suspicion, anger and more. Those
are not always bad emotions, provided the ventromedial is able to do one of its
assigned jobs, which is to keep the amygdala on a short leash. Working with the
Wisconsin Department of Corrections, Koenigs was given access to two groups of
volunteer prisoners at a medium-security facility: one diagnosed as
psychopathic, one nonpsychopathic.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the first of two tests, Koenigs scanned the men’s brains with a diffusion
tensor imager, a type of MRI that detects how water molecules interact with
tissue. In this case, he was trying to determine the soundness of the white
matter — the fatty insulation — that protects the neural circuits connecting the
ventromedial and the amygdala. In a second test, he used an fMRI to study more
directly how clearly the two regions were communicating. In both cases, the
brains of the psychopaths were in worse shape than those of the nonpsychopaths,
with less robust white-matter insulation and the nerves beneath it doing a
poorer job of transmitting signals.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">“You can use the findings of this study as a proxy for the connectedness
between these two structures,” Koenigs says. “The remorselessness and violence
seen in psychopaths may be attributable to the regions not communicating
effectively.”</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Other studies make a similar case for the mechanistic roots of crime. Enzymes
known as monoamine oxidases (MAO) are essential to keeping human behavior in
check, breaking down neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine and
ensuring that the brain remains in chemical balance. Babies born with a defect
in an MAO-related gene — known colloquially as the warrior gene — have been
shown to be at nine times higher risk of exhibiting antisocial behavior later in
life. Adrian Raine, professor of criminology at the University of Pennsylvania,
has found that infants under 6 months old who have a brain structure known as a
cavum septum pellucidum — a small gap in a forward region between the left and
right hemispheres — are similarly likelier to develop behavioral disorders, and
face a higher risk of arrest and conviction as adults as well.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">All of this makes the case for a neurological role in many violent crimes
hard to deny, but all of it raises a powerful question too: So what? For one
thing, brain anomalies are only part of the criminal puzzle. A rotten MAO gene
indeed may play a role in later-life criminality, but in most cases it’s only
when children have also been exposed to abuse or some other kind of childhood
trauma. A child with a stable background and bad genetics may handle his warrior
impulses just fine. Koenigs may have found cross-talk problems between the
ventromedial and the amygdalae of psychopaths, but he also acknowledges that he
didn’t get a look at the men’s brains until they were, on average, 30 years old,
and a lot could have gone on in that time. “They’ve had a lifetime of poor
socialization, drugs, alcohol, they’ve had their bell rung,” he says. “You don’t
know what causes what.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even the case of the pedophile schoolteacher, whose pathology switched
cleanly off and cleanly on depending on the presence of his tumor, was less
clear than it seems. “He touched his stepdaughter only when his wife was not
around, and his wife and co-workers had not noticed any problems,” says Morse.
“Clearly he had some control or some rational capacity. You can’t say that just
because the tumor caused him to have pedophiliac desires, he wasn’t
responsible.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s the zone in which science and the law always collide — the causation
question that can’t simply be brain-scanned or tissue-sampled or longitudinally
tested away. People like Morse believe where once we attributed all crime to
moral laxity or simple evil, we’ve now overcorrected, too often looking to
excuse criminal behavior medically. “I call it the fundamental psycholegal
error,” he says. “The belief that if you discover a cause you’ve mitigated or
excused responsibility. If you have a bank robber who can show that he commits
crimes only when he’s in a hypomanic state, that does not mean he deserves
excuse or mitigation.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Koenigs takes a more forgiving view: “I’ve been part of a Department of
Justice project to help inform judges about how to assess culpability,” he says.
“The legal system currently goes about it the wrong way, relying on whether
criminals know right from wrong. Maybe they do, but the kinds of things that
would then give most people pause just don’t register on some of them.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Where the two camps do agree is on the need to keep society safe from the
predations of people whose raging brains — no matter the cause — lead to so much
death and suffering. Here legal theory yields a little more easily to hard
science. Scanning every inmate’s ACC before making parole decisions will surely
raise privacy issues, but if the science can be proven and perfected, isn’t
there a strong case for trying it — especially if, as Kiehl suggests, it might
lead to therapeutic and rehabilitative strategies? Babies taken from abusive
parents might similarly be scanned as part of a routine medical check, just in
case a telltale gap in the brain hemispheres could exacerbate the trauma they’ve
already endured, making therapeutic intervention all the more important.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Evil is far too complex and far too woven into our natures for us to think
that we can always adjudicate it fairly. But the better we can understand the
brains that are home to such ugliness, the more effectively we can contain it,
control it and punish it. Now and then, with the help of science, we may even be
able to snuff it out altogether.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /><br />Read more: <a href="http://science.time.com/2013/05/03/evil-brain/#ixzz2klwBQODw" style="color: #003399;">Evil Brains:
Can Science Understand Them? | TIME.com</a> <a href="http://science.time.com/2013/05/03/evil-brain/#ixzz2klwBQODw" style="color: #003399;">http://science.time.com/2013/05/03/evil-brain/#ixzz2klwBQODw</a></span></span></div>
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-34761080757144729542013-10-18T19:04:00.003-07:002013-10-18T19:04:56.515-07:00Dolphin meat - Who eats dolphin meat?First up, dolphin meat (イルカ肉) is pretty bizarre even by Japanese
standards, and second, Taiji is a hurting fishing town smack dab in the
middle of nowhere that's gotten a <em>lot</em> of bad press thanks to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cove_%28film%29">The Cove</a>.<br />
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Much of the dolphin meat sold around Japan is actually mislabeled or
sold as counterfeit whale meat from larger a whale, which sells for far
more money than dolphin meat. Hundreds of samples of dolphin meat
tested from around Japan has all been shown to be toxic and far exceeds
their own ministry of health recommendations. Some internal organ meat
for sale at the Okura markets near Taiji was analyzed to have 5000
times more mercury than the health advisory of 0.4 ppm. <br />
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The oceans
around industrialized countries such as China, Japan and the United
States is some of the most polluted in the world and the dolphins
residing in those waters are some of the most toxic in the world. For
instance, if fish has more than 2 ppm (parts per million) of PCB’s, the
EPA requires that it not be fit for human consumption. Bottlenose
dolphins off the East Coast of the United States can have up to 6800
ppm and if one washed up on the shores it would be eligible for
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<span style="font-size: small;">'Don't blame obese people for being fat', the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence warms </span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><strong>DOCTORS have been warned not to blame obese patients for being fat, under new health guidelines in the UK.
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<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10382775/Dont-blame-obese-patients-for-being-fat-doctors-told.html"><em>The Telegraph</em></a>
reports that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
(Nice) wants doctors to refer obese patients to "lifestyle weight
management" programs like WeightWatchers, but only if the schemes can
change their behaviour for good rather than provide a "quick fix".<br />
These people should be "respectful and non-blaming" in order to "minimise harm", it said.<br />
They
should also explain to patients "how much motivation and commitment" is
needed to complete weight management schemes and that enrolling on one
will not be a "magic bullet".<br />
About a quarter of adults in England are classes as obese, and a
further 41 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women are overweight.<br />
Obesity is estimated to cost the the UK's NHS about 5.1 billion pounds each year.<br />
Nice has previously asked doctors to avoid using the word "obese" because it can be a derogatory term.<br />
"I
think [the issue] is the wording. Doctors have not got to be
patronising, but they have got to form their words very carefully in
order to not alienate patients," Tam Fry of the National Obesity Forum
told the <em>Telegraph</em>. "Doctors are terrible at bringing up the
subject of weight because it is such a sensitive issue with
patients...but once the doctor has got the confidence of a patient, then
their duty is to start to toughen it up and explain what the
consequences are."<br />
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http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/dont-blame-obese-for-being-fat-the-national-institute-for-health-and-care-excellence-warms/story-fneuzlbd-1226741350871<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The healing power of yogurt and kefir</span></h1>
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If someone suggested that you swallow a spoonful of live organisms,
you’d probably think Fear factor auditions had come to town…but what if
they told you that every spoonful would provide extraordinary
improvements in your health?<br />
Well, billions of people willingly eat billions of live organisms
every day when they eat yogurt or drink kefir! Both are absolutely
brimming with bacteria, the live and active cultures you read about on
the label. And that’s a really good thing, because research has shown
that these “friendly” bacteria can provide an abundance of benefits such
as:<br />
· Strengthen your immune system. <br />· Help ulcers heal more quickly. <br />· Help prevent recurrent yeast infections. <br />· Aid in weight loss, belly fat in particular.<br />· Reduce several risk factors for cardiovascular disease.<br />· Reduce several risk factors for intestinal cancers.<br />· Alleviate microbe-induced traveler’s diarrhea.<br />· Reduce the rate of childhood respiratory infections.<br />· Help prevent tooth decay.<br />
Even if you took out the bacteria, it’s still an excellent source of
calcium. Yogurt can be especially important for people who lack the
enzyme lactase that’s needed to digest the lactose, or sugar, in milk.
Even though yogurt does contain lactose, the live bacteria in yogurt
help your body break lactose down so it’s less likely to cause
discomfort. One cup of plain low-fat yogurt provides 40 percent of the
Daily Value.<br />
Kefir, if you’re not familiar, is a fermented, probiotic milk drink
that means “good feeling” when translated from the Russian language
spoken in the mountains where it originated. It has a distinctive mild
but tangy taste. Best-selling author and world-renowned dermatologist
Dr. Nicholas Perricone has named kefir as one of his top 10 superfoods.
Dr. Perricone’s research has uncovered that hospitals in the former
Soviet Union used kefir “to treat conditions ranging from
atherosclerosis, allergic disease, metabolic and digestive disorders,
and tuberculosis to cancer and gastrointestinal disorders.” Dr.
Perricone points out that scientists have discovered that many
inflammatory diseases (including some types of heart disease) can be
triggered by bacteria. “That provides all the more reason to enjoy
kefir as part of your daily diet.” Dr. Perricone recommends Helios or
Lifeway kefir.<br />
<strong>Top tips for getting the most</strong><br />
<strong>Eat it cold</strong><br />The bacteria in yogurt or kefir are
destroyed by heat. When using them in recipes, add after the dish is
finished cooking and removed from the heat.<br />
<strong>Eat it first</strong><br />Dr. Perricone suggests starting each
day by making a quick smoothie made with two tablespoons of POM
Wonderful pomegranate juice (pure pomegranate extract) and a glass of
unsweetened whole-milk kefir. I’ve been drinking this breakfast brew
for years, mixing either <a href="http://www.myreferer.com/mydb/?M=sambazon&ID=lwiker&L=1" target="_blank">Sambazon </a>acai or pomegranate juice into kefir and I credit it for making huge improvements in my own health.<br />
A lower carb alternative to pomegranate juice is Jarrow Formulas
Pomegranate Juice Concentrate, which has only 9 grams of carbs per
serving.<br />
<strong>Buy it fresh, and organic</strong><br />Fresh yogurt contains
about 100 million bacteria per gram. However, after a few weeks on the
shelf, that number quickly dwindles. Therefore, it’s best to buy it
from health food stores since these stores usually sell a lot of yogurt
and you have a much better chance of getting it fresh. I like Seven
Stars Farm low-fat organic yogurt. Stonyfield Farm yogurt is widely
available in most grocery stores.<br />
Avoid yogurt that contains added sugars, sweetened fruit or things
you can’t pronounce like stabilizers and thickeners. These ingredients
will actually detract from the live cultures by disturbing the balance
that enables the cultures to thrive.<br />
If you’re not a yogurt fan, and the idea of eating plain yogurt
doesn’t thrill you, try mixing it in with cold soups or in to smoothies
blended with fresh fruit to mask the taste. It’s a great substitute for
sour cream too.<br />
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<a class="inline_link omniture-click-processed" href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/walmart-1">Walmart</a> is on a detox plan. The world's largest retailer, <a href="http://mindthestore.saferchemicals.org/walmart.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Walmart, announced today</a>
(Sept. 12, 2013) it would begin disclosing chemicals in many product
categories, while phasing out approximately ten chemicals from products
they sell in favor of safer alternatives. Walmart declined to say which
specific chemicals would be phased out but has confirmed they all appear
on the list of chemicals that Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
published in April as part of its <a href="http://mindthestore.saferchemicals.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mind the Store</a> campaign. The campaign asked the top ten retailers to a phase-out the "Hazardous Hundred+" in the products they sell.<br />
“This is an unusually substantive announcement and Walmart deserves
credit for that. We're encouraged that they've described this is as just
the beginning of action on chemicals rather than an end,” said <a href="http://www.saferchemicals.org/andy-igrejas.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Andy Igrejas</a>, executive director of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families.<br />
“Clearly, the problem is much bigger, but Walmart's announcement
today appears to be a meaningful down payment on an enhanced chemical
policy. We urge other the other retailers to both learn from and improve
upon it," said Igrejas.<br />
Headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas, is the world's biggest
multinational retailer, with 2011 U.S. retail sales of over $316
million—the highest in the country. The decision many lead to other
large retailers following suit. In April 2013, Safer Chemicals, Healthy
Families, sent a letter to Walmart requesting that they begin take steps
to remove hazardous chemicals from the products that pose a health risk
to customers.<br />
“While the number of chemicals is limited, the action is meaningful.
They are not just moving away from several known toxic chemicals but are
going deeper, using their position to make sure the alternatives are
safer,” Igrejas said. “That's progress that can ripple across the
marketplace.”<br />
Walmart also announced that it will pursue EPA's Design for the
Environment (DfE) imprimatur for it's private label products. The
disclosure practices will begin in 2015 and apply to cleaners, personal
care products, cosmetics and baby care.<br />
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Yehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15072363326228300052noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2991409747968264072.post-89180766873314315882013-09-15T19:51:00.001-07:002013-09-15T19:51:55.669-07:00People with Mental Illness<div id="page_content">
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<span style="font-size: small;">People with Mental Illness</span></h1>
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by <a href="http://www.popcenter.org/bios/cordner">Gary Cordner</a><br />
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<h2>
<span style="font-size: small;">The Problem of People with Mental Illness</span> </h2>
Problems associated with people with mental illness pose a significant challenge for modern policing.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote1" id="endref1">[1]</a>
This guide begins by describing the problem and reviewing factors that
increase the challenges that police face in relation to the mentally
ill. It then identifies a series of questions that might help you
analyze your local policing problems associated with people with mental
illness. Finally, it reviews responses to the problems and what we know
about these from evaluative research and police practice. <br />
Police officers frequently encounter people with mental
illness—approximately 5 percent of U.S. residents have a serious mental
illness,<sup>§ </sup> and 10 to 15 percent of jailed people have severe mental illness.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote2" id="endref2">[2]</a> An estimated 7 percent of police contacts in jurisdictions with 100,000 or more people involve the mentally ill.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref3"></a><a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote3" id="endref3">[3]</a>
A three-city study found that 92 percent of patrol officers had at
least one encounter with a mentally ill person in crisis in the previous
month,<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote4" id="endref4">[4]</a>
and officers averaged six such encounters per month. The Lincoln
(Nebraska) Police Department found that it handled over 1,500 mental
health investigation cases in 2002, and that it spent more time on these
cases than on injury traffic accidents, burglaries, or felony assaults.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote5" id="endref5">[5]</a> The New York City Police Department responds to about 150,000 “emotionally disturbed persons” calls per year.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref6"></a><a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote6" id="endref6">[6]</a> <br />
It is important to recognize at the outset that mental illness is
not, in and of itself, a police problem. Obviously, it is a medical and
social services problem. However, a number of the problems caused by or
associated with people with mental illness often do become police
problems. These include crimes, suicides, disorder, and a variety of
calls for service. Moreover, the traditional police response to people
with mental illness has often been ineffective, and sometimes tragic. <br />
<div class="guide-footnote">
§ Unfortunately there is not one standard
definition of mental illness. Medical doctors, research scientists,
psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers define it differently
depending on whether their focus is more on organic conditions,
personality, or behavior. One working consensus definition designed for
policy makers is “Mental illness is a biopsychosocial brain disorder
characterized by dysfunctional thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors that
meet DSMIV diagnostic criteria” <a href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/PDFs/Kelly2002.doc">(Kelly, 2002)</a>. The same report identifies the main examples of serious mental illness as: </div>
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<li>All cases of schizophrenia (a psychotic disorder)</li>
<li>Severe cases of major depression and bipolar disorder (mood disorders)</li>
<li>Severe cases of panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder (anxiety disorders) </li>
<li>Severe cases of attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (typically, a childhood disorder) </li>
<li>Severe cases of anorexia nervosa (an eating disorder). </li>
</ul>
<div class="guide-footnote">
Timothy A. Kelly (2002) “<a href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/PDFs/Kelly2002.doc">A Policymaker’s Guide to Mental Illness.</a>” Washington, DC: The Heritage Foundation.</div>
Over the last decade, many police agencies have sought to improve
their response to incidents involving people with mental illness,
especially emergency mental health situations. These new developments,
however, have been targeted almost exclusively at improved handling of
individual incidents. Little attention has been devoted to developing or
implementing a comprehensive and preventive approach to the issue. <br />
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Common Situations</div>
Police officers encounter people with mental illness in many
different types of situations, in roles that include criminal offenders,
disorderly persons, missing persons, complainants, victims, and persons
in need of care (see table). According to one Texas study,<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote7" id="endref7">[7]</a> the five most frequent scenarios are as follows: <br />
<ul>
<li>A family member, friend, or other concerned person calls the police for help during a psychiatric emergency. </li>
<li>A person with mental illness feels suicidal and calls the police as a cry for help. </li>
<li>Police officers encounter a person with mental illness behaving inappropriately in public. </li>
<li>Citizens call the police because they feel threatened by the
unusual behavior or the mere presence of a person with mental illness. </li>
<li>A person with mental illness calls the police for help because of imagined threats. </li>
</ul>
Of these typical situations, ones involving the threat of suicide
were rated as the most difficult to handle. Each of the others listed
above was rated as somewhat difficult to handle. The two behaviors that
were rated as most problematic overall were threatening suicide and
nuisance behaviors. <br />
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<td class="table-subtitle">Role</td>
<td class="table-subtitle">Examples</td>
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</thead>
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<td><strong> Offender </strong></td>
<td><ul>
<li>A person with mental illness commits a personal or property crime.</li>
<li>A person with mental illness commits a drug crime.</li>
<li>A person with mental illness threatens to commit suicide.</li>
<li>A person with mental illness threatens to injure someone else
in the delusional belief that that person poses a threat to him or her.</li>
<li>A person with mental illness threatens to injure police as a
means of forcing police to kill him (commonly called “suicide by cop”). </li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Disorderly person </strong></td>
<td><ul>
<li>A family or community member reports annoying or disruptive behavior by a person with mental illness. </li>
<li>A hospital, group home, or mental health facility calls for police assistance in controlling a person with mental illness.</li>
<li>A police officer on patrol encounters a person with mental illness behaving in a disorderly manner. </li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td><strong> Missing person </strong></td>
<td><ul>
<li>A family member reports that a person with mental illness is missing. </li>
<li>A group home or mental health institution reports that a person with mental illness walked away and/or is missing. </li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Complainant </strong></td>
<td><ul>
<li>A person with mental illness calls the police to report real or imagined conditions or phenomena.</li>
<li>A person with mental illness calls the police to complain about care received from family members or caretakers. </li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr class="odd">
<td><strong> Victim </strong></td>
<td><ul>
<li>A person with mental illness is the victim of a personal or property crime.</li>
<li>A family member, caretaker, or service provider neglects or abuses a person with mental illness. </li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong> Person in need of care </strong></td>
<td><ul>
<li>Police are asked to transport a person with mental illness to or from a hospital or mental health facility. </li>
<li>Police encounter a person with mental illness who is
neglecting his or her own basic needs (food, clothing, shelter,
medication, etc.). </li>
</ul>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
These are the most common situations in which police encounter people
with mental illness. It is important to realize, though, that when
police officers handle some of these situations they do not always
realize that mental illness is involved (such as a shoplifting or a
disorderly person). Officers may try to handle the situation as usual
(by giving directions, issuing commands, or making an arrest, for
example) but not get the cooperation or compliance expected, sometimes
leading to escalating tension. This highlights the importance of
training in mental illness recognition as well as crisis management
techniques. <br />
<div class="header">
Dangerousness</div>
A fairly common perception is that people with mental illness are
disproportionately involved in violent crime. This is true in one
respect but not in another. A small subset of people with mental
illness, those who are actively experiencing serious psychotic symptoms,
are more violent than the general population. Research suggests several
factors associated with this group’s violent behavior, including drug
and alcohol abuse, noncompliance with medication requirements, and
biological or biochemical disorders.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref8"></a><a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote8" id="endref8">[8]</a>
In general, however, “violent and criminal acts directly attributable
to mental illness account for a very small proportion of all such acts
in the United States. Most persons with mental illness are not
criminals, and of those who are, most are not violent.”<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref9"></a>
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote9" id="endref9">[9]</a> <br />
Police interactions with people with mental illness can be dangerous,
but usually are not. In the United States, 982 of 58,066 police
officers assaulted in 2002, and 15 of 636 police officers feloniously
killed from 1993 to 2002, had “mentally deranged” assailants.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref10"></a>
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote10" id="endref10">[10]</a>
These represent one out of every 59 assaults on officers and one out of
every 42 officers feloniously killed—relatively small portions of all
officers assaulted and killed. <br />
Encounters with police are more likely to be dangerous for people
with mental illness than for the police. An early study found that an
average of nine New York City police shootings per year between 1971 and
1975 involved emotionally disturbed people.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote11" id="endref11">[11]</a> Between 1994 and 1999, Los Angeles officers shot 37 people during encounters with people with mental illness, killing 25.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote12" id="endref12">[12]</a>
A review of shootings by the police from 1998 to 2001 in the United
Kingdom indicated that almost half (11 out of 24) involved someone with a
known history of mental health problems.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote13" id="endref13">[13]</a> It is estimated that people with severe mental illness are four times more likely to be killed by police.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote14" id="endref14">[14]</a>
Serious injury and death of people with mental illness at the hands of
the police are especially tragic, for obvious reasons. Reduction of such
injuries and deaths should be a high-priority objective for every
police agency.<br />
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Harms</div>
The harms associated with the police handling of people with mental
illness are implicit in the situations and examples the table provides,
but deserve some discussion. A person with mental illness may harm other
citizens by committing personal or property crimes or engaging in
disorderly and disruptive behavior. Alternatively, a person with mental
illness may be harmed as a crime victim, as an abused family member or
patient, as a person who suffers through self-neglect, or as a person
whose mental health problem has left him or her erroneously subjected to
criminal charges and jail confinement. Society in general may be harmed
if excessive police, criminal justice, and/or medical resources are
consumed by problems associated with people with mental illness. <br />
It is important to keep the concept of harm in mind when addressing
this particular problem, because there is a tendency to simply define
people with mental illness as the problem, and getting them out of sight
as the solution. In contrast to most police problems, however, this is
not one that involves wholly voluntary behavior— rather, it involves
behavior that medical conditions cause or compound. Consequently, police
have to be careful not to blame people with mental illness, but instead
focus on behavior that causes harm to self or others. <br />
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Related Problems</div>
The police problem of people with mental illness is closely
connected to three other problems noted below. This guide does not
specifically address these problems, but addressing people with mental
illness in your jurisdiction may require that you take on these
problems, as well: <br />
<ul>
<li>homelessness </li>
<li>drug abuse </li>
<li>alcohol abuse </li>
</ul>
The people the police encounter who have mental health problems or
emergencies are also frequently homeless. For example, a Honolulu study
found that 74 percent of law violators who the police believed to have a
mental disorder were also homeless.<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote15" id="endref15">[15]</a>
In London, about 30 percent of minor offenders referred for admission
to a station-house diversion program for the “mentally disordered” were
living on the streets.
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote16" id="endref16">[16]</a> <br />
Similarly, the people with mental illness the police encounter are
likely to have substance abuse problems. About three-quarters of jail
and prison inmates with mental illness also have a substance abuse
problem.<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref17"></a>
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote17" id="endref17">[17]</a> Current substance abuse was identified for about half of psychiatric emergency room referrals in New York State,<a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_endref18"></a>
<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote18" id="endref18">[18]</a>
and nearly two-thirds of psychiatric emergency patients evaluated by a
police-mental health outreach team in Los Angeles were known to be
serious substance abusers.<a class="guide-superscript" href="http://www.popcenter.org/problems/mental_illness/endnotes/#endnote19" id="endref19">[19]</a><br />
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When it comes to nutrition, it must be mentioned that there are all sorts of foods: some super-foods are your greatest allies against extra pounds, while others stimulate your cognitive function and improve your memory. On the other hand, some foods are known to have a devastating effect on your brain functioning, and nutritionists advise us to consume them moderately in order to limit their negative impact. Having said that, here are the top 11 foods that kill your intelligence, slowly but surely:</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Sugary Products</strong></div>
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Sugar and sugary products are bad not only for your waistline, but for your brain function as well. Long-term consumption of sugar can create a wealth of neurological problems, and it can also interfere with your memory. On the other hand, sugar can also interfere with your ability to learn, this is why it is recommended to avoid pre-baked goods, sugar, corn syrup and products that are high in fructose.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Alcohol</strong></div>
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Alcohol is known to harm your liver in the long run, and it also causes what is known as “brain fog”. Like the name suggests, the term of brain fog refers to a feeling of mental confusion, it acts like a cloud that impacts your ability to think clearly, as well as your memory. Have you ever noticed that you cannot remember common item names, or you cannot recall certain events or you are not sure whether they were dreams or they actually happened? This might be influenced by the high alcohol intake which impacts the balance of the brain. Fortunately, these symptoms are reversible provided that you stop consuming alcohol, or you limit your intake to one or two drinks per week.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Junk Food</strong></div>
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A recent study that was performed at the University of Montreal has revealed that junk food can change the chemicals in the brains, thus leading to symptoms associated with depression and anxiety. Besides, foods that are high in fat can also trigger some symptoms that are similar to the signs of withdrawal when you stop consuming them. These foods affect the production of dopamine, an important chemical that promotes happiness and an overall feeling of well-being. Moreover, dopamine also supports the cognitive function, the learning capacity, alertness, motivation and memory. This is why it is important to avoid all foods that contain excessive fat.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Fried Foods</strong></div>
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Almost all processed foods contain chemicals, dyes, additives, artificial flavors, preservatives and such – these can affect the behavior and the cognitive functioning due to the chemical that causes hyperactivity, both in children and in adults. Fried or processed foods slowly destroy the nerve cells located in the brain. However, some oils are more dangerous than others – sunflower oil is considered to be among the most toxic ones.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Processed Or Pre-Cooked Foods</strong></div>
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Just like fried foods, processed or pre-cooked foods also impact your central nervous system and they also increase the risk of developing a degenerative brain disorder later in live (such as Alzheimer’s disease).</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Very Salty Foods</strong></div>
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Everybody knows that salty foods affect your blood pressure and they are very hard on your heart. However, as research suggests, foods that contain high amounts of salt (sodium) can affect your cognitive function and impair your ability to think. Otherwise stated, salty foods affect your intelligence!</div>
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As a matter of fact, the consumption of salty foods and nicotine have been shown to have the same effects as drugs, as they cause harsh withdrawal symptoms and cravings for salty foods.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">7. Grains, Except 100% Whole Grain</strong></div>
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All sorts of grains have an impact on your brain functioning and your overall health, except for 100% whole grain which is very rich and fiber and it is known to prevent arterial aging. If you consume regular grains, your body risks to age quicker than it is supposed to and you can also experience memory loss and brain fog. Having said that, try swapping the regular carbs for the complex carbohydrates – all you need to do is to opt for whole grain bread!</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Processed Proteins</strong></div>
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Proteins are the building blocks of muscles and they are very important for the proper functioning of your body. Meat is the richest source of high-quality protein, but avoid overly processed protein such as hot dogs, salami, sausages and such. Unlike the natural proteins that help your body insulate the nervous system, processed proteins do exactly the opposite. Opt for natural fish (especially tuna and salmon), dairy, walnuts and seeds as these are natural, high-quality protein sources.</div>
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Trans fats cause a series of problems, from heart-related issues to elevated cholesterol and obesity. However, they are bad for your brain as well, as they make your brain more sluggish, they affect your reflexes and the quality of your brain response – not to mention that they increase the risk of stroke!</div>
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Trans fats can also have other effects on your brain: if consumed for too long, they can result in a sort of brain shrinkage that is somewhat similar to the shrinkage caused by Alzheimer’s disease. This brain shrinkage takes place due to the fact that trans fats slowly damage the arteries – you can prevent this and lower the stroke risk by simply limiting your intake of trans fats.</div>
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<strong style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Artificial Sweeteners</strong></div>
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When people try to lose weight, they tend to think that they will become slim overnight by simply replacing sugar with artificial sweeteners. It is true that artificial sweeteners do contain less calories, but they can actually do more harm than good! If used for an extended period of time, artificial sweeteners can cause brain damage and interfere with your cognitive capacity, especially if you use high amounts of sweetener.</div>
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Despite the fact that nicotine is not really a food product, it still wreaks havoc on your brain by restricting the blood flow to this important organ, along with the regular flow of glucose and oxygen. Nicotine not only causes premature aging, bad breath and poses an increased risk for lung cancer, but it also affects the production and the function of neurotransmitters by tightening the capillaries, the tiny blood vessels that play a pivotal role when it comes to your brain function.</div>
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