Under the Shell of the Egg Crack Challenge for Diabetes
Last summer, the world seemed to go bananas over the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise money for ALS.I participated, in large part due to a family member who's living with that illness. Not everyone was keen on taking part in that online effort though... (Source: Diabetes Mine)
Source: Diabetes Mine - April 15, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: Mike Hoskins Source Type: blogs
The ABCs of your post-grain experience
Wheat/grain elimination is an exceptionally powerful tool for restoring health, reducing inflammation, returning metabolic distortions such as high blood sugar and blood pressure back to normal, and for losing weight. But many of the adverse health effects of years of grain consumption do not fully reverse with their elimination. Specific efforts may therefore need to be undertaken to accelerate your return to full health. Taking these extra steps stacks the odds heavily in your favor that you will enjoy full recovery from abnormal health conditions.
Among the strategies to consider are:
Cultivate and nourish healthy bowel...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora fish oil iodine probiotics resistant starch Thyroid vitamin D Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Sampson engages through Chop Chop
I love Sally Sampson's enthusiastic persistence with regard to teaching kids about tasty good food. She has been publishing Chop Chop magazine for some time now, and each issue is a treasure of ideas and stories. The magazine is widely endorsed by pediatricians and is distributed through children’s hospitals, health centers, public schools, afterschool programs, Indian reservations, and community organizations. ChopChop is also available at newsstands and by subscription.Here's the latest set of blog posts. I like this one on knife skills, with this introduction:Slicing, dicing, chopping, and cutting: it’...
Source: Running a hospital - January 29, 2015 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Rethinking Currency Manipulation
Daniel R. Pearson
Interest groups in the United States have focused on the possibility of including provisions in trade agreements with the intent of countering currency manipulation. The concern is that another country may choose to reduce the value of its currency relative to the U.S. dollar in order to encourage its businesses to export more goods to the United States. Such currency realignment also would tend to make it more expensive for the devaluing nation to import products from this country.
It’s true that an adjustment in currency exchange rates – regardless of the reason for the adjustment...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 28, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel R. Pearson Source Type: blogs
Remember: Cultivate healthy bowel flora!
CB chimed in on the Wheat Belly Facebook page with this interesting observation after taking efforts to cultivate healthy bowel flora:
“Added green bananas and raw potatoes to my fare: cannot believe how much better I am sleeping and dreaming! I was not getting enough sleep this last year. Now, every night, technicolour vibrancy and fully under.
“I also notice my running has improved, as my joints feel looser and don’t hurt afterwards as they normally do, and I do not tire as easily.
“I was skeptical about the whole resistant starch thing, especially as I was complacent with my food habits after 3 y...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 28, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: News & Updates bowel flora fiber glluten microbiota prebiotic resistant starch wheat Source Type: blogs
Do you have a WOOD deficiency?
I can hear the titters now. But, seriously, do you have a deficiency of wood fiber, i.e., cellulose?
No? Then why were you following the common advice to include breakfast cereals such as All Bran, Fiber One, and Raisin Bran that, yes, are rich in fiber, but mostly rich in the cellulose fiber that is a constituent of wood?
Cellulose fiber undoubtedly bulks up bowel movements, as humans lack the digestive apparatus to break it down. Likewise, very little cellulose is broken down by bowel flora. Cellulose therefore simply passes through, relatively inert, though suspected to yield a damaging abrasive effect on the delicate...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat-Free Lifestyle colon cancer fiber gluten-free grains high-fiber resistant starch Source Type: blogs
Yeah, I harp on this
The headline on every news site today is still the crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 on Sunday. Yep, for 5 whole days that's been the most important event on the planet. It's even more important than the 92 people who die in motor vehicle crashes in the U.S. every day, which means that the deaths of 162 people are infinitely more important than the deaths of, we can surmise, about 460 people in the same 5 days, and those are even Murricans, since CNN isn't reporting on them at all.Al Qaeda just had to somehow or other bomb airplanes in flight, hence the shoe bomber and the undie bomber, even though it's much easier to put a s...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 2, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Hairdresser, cook or cleaner?
I was struggling to get to sleep last night so I passed the time by pondering a very deep question:
If given the choice of a weekly visit from a hairdresser, cook or cleaner, which would I take?
Sleep grew even more elusive as I got carried away with the terms and conditions of this fantasy scenario (kind of like when you imagine what you’d do if you won the lottery. How to keep it private, how much is too much, how far out on the family tree do you go paying off mortgages, which charities would you donate to, would you buy a sports team… to the point where you decide being a pretend millionaire is too hard...
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl - November 6, 2014 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Shauna Tags: Doctor G Everyday Life Source Type: blogs
Because monkeys
Sharing a link to a new Nature article (with video embedded below in this post) about monkeys learning by watching videos: http://www.nature.com/news/marmoset-see-marmoset-do-1.15818 (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - September 3, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs
Things Happening Around Here (food centric)…
Mom and I just went to Sonic and drank two large strawberry/banana milkshakes and they were divine. They actually used real strawberries and bananas to make the milkshakes. We couldn’t settle on large shakes alone and ordered two Asiago chicken club sandwiches before we left. Mom tipped the female carhop, a middle-aged frumpy looking little lady, $3 dollars and she acted like we told her she won the lottery. She was so very thankful. Dad has arrived at the beach house. He just called me and told me it is beautiful on the Gulf of Mexico this evening -- almost kind of overcast and chilly with the sea br...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - August 2, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
Fertilize the garden called “bowel flora”
I like to think of bowel flora, the thousand or so species of microorganisms that inhabit the human gastrointestinal tract, as a garden. Probiotics, i.e., anything that provides microorganisms believed to be among the desired inhabitants such as the various Lactobacillus or Bifidobacteria species, are like planting seeds for peppers and zucchini in your garden in spring time.
But what if you planted your seeds, then neglected to water and fertilize your garden? If you’re lucky, you might have a few peppers and zucchini after a few weeks, but you’re more likely to have a few stunted vegetables or nothing except ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 2, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle butyrate microbiota prebiotic resistant starch Source Type: blogs
