Data For Improving Healthcare vs Data For Exasperating Healthcare Workers
BY TOM BURTON The phrase “healthcare data” either strikes fear and loathing, or provides understanding and resolve in the minds of administration, clinicians, and nurses everywhere. Which emotion it brings out depends on how the data will be used. Data employed as a weapon for purposes of accountability generates fear. Data used as a teaching instrument for learning inspires trust and confidence. Not all data for accountability is bad. Data used for prescriptive analytics within a security framework, for example, is necessary to reduce or eliminate fraud and abuse. And data for improvement isn’t without its own fault...
Source: The Health Care Blog - January 29, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Data HealthCatalyst Tom Burton Source Type: blogs

World's Largest Banana Collection in Belgium is Adding Potatoes
Belgium is home to the world's largest banana collection. It is now expanding into potatoes.Read more on sciencespacerobots.com (Source: HealthNewsBlog.com)
Source: HealthNewsBlog.com - January 23, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: bananas Source Type: blogs

Marketing A-Z
To amuse myself I went to Google and typed in “Marketing is” and then added on the letters of the alphabet, one by one, to see how it auto-completed. Summary: LOL. (Source: Organization Monkey)
Source: Organization Monkey - January 13, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Marie Kennedy Tags: monkeys/bananas Source Type: blogs

7 Simple Smoothies to Boost Your Mood
I have mentioned in some of my posts that drinking a green smoothie is one of my more effective sanity tools. For fear of sounding like an infomercial, I must say that I realize there is no simple cure for depression. But I do think chugging down two or three of these leafy-green concoctions a day has significantly impacted my health and begun the healing process for some of my conditions. The Benefits of Green Smoothies Why green smoothies? “Greens are the primary found group that matches human nutritional needs most completely,” explains Victoria Boutenko in her book Green for Life. They are nutrition powerhouses, pa...
Source: World of Psychology - January 10, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Therese J. Borchard Tags: Alternative and Nutritional Supplements Health-related Mental Health and Wellness Diet Digestion green smoothie juicing Source Type: blogs

Brexit, the EU, and the WTO
The Economist is one of my favorite news sources. The writing is always clear and interesting, and I often agree with them on substance. Nevertheless, while I hate to give them a public reprimand, arecent piece by their Free Exchange columnist on Brexit contains a misleading point that needs to be addressed.  The author appears to equate the EU and the WTO, and says, in effect, why would UK voters accept being part of the WTO when they could not accept being part of the EU? Here’s the passage in question:  It is puzzling that Brexiteers, whose campaign was summed up as “Vote Leave, take back control”, seem happy wi...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 10, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Simon Lester Source Type: blogs

Fat Blasters: Ketosis ’ best friend
After elimination of virtually all dietary carbohydrates/sugars, the key to achieving physiologic ketosis is to maintain high fat intake. Not increased protein intake that can, in fact, “turn off” ketosis, since liberal protein intake modestly increases blood insulin and sugar levels, thereby undoing the process that generates ketosis. The key is to increase fat intake and thereby feel satiated and turn off all desire for carbs while not provoking insulin release. If accelerated weight loss or breaking a weight loss plateau is among your goals, increased fat intake—counterintuitively—encourages mobi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle carbs fat blasters gluten grains ketosis low-carb Source Type: blogs

How to Understand the Difference Between Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease
Dementia describes a group of symptoms and is not a disease. Alzheimer's is a disease that evidences symptoms of dementia.Alzheimer's Reading RoomOne of the most frequently asked questions I receive (FAQ) is,What is the Difference Between Alzheimer ’s and DementiaSome believe Alzheimer's is worse than dementia. Some people use the words interchangeably (like me). This of course is the source of much of the confusion about how dementia and Alzheimer's differ.Let's get right to it.Touch and Kindness in Dementia CareBy Bob DeMarcoAlzheimer's Reading RoomSubscribe to the Alzheimer's Reading RoomWhen you to the grocery store ...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - November 10, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: alzheimers care alzheimers caregiving dementia help for caregivers difference between alzheimers and dementia family caregiving help alzheimer's help with dementia Source Type: blogs

13 Foods That Are as Inexpensive as They Are Healthy
You're reading 13 Foods That Are as Inexpensive as They Are Healthy, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles. Eating a quality, nutritious diet is critical to health and wellbeing. Without the right foods, your body and mind cannot function as nature intended them to. Unfortunately, a small budget can make eating well seem impossible. Nutritious but expensive foods are not an option for those with limited resources. Thankfully, there are plenty of foods that are as inexpensive as they are healthy. Here are thirte...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: jaketyler Tags: featured health and fitness self improvement best self-improvement blogs diet tips healthy inexpensive foods most healthy foods pickthebrain Source Type: blogs

What ’ s wrong with that banana?
Once you’ve eliminated the ugliest, smelliest, rottenest, most foul carbohydrate of all, wheat, why do we restrict other carbohydrates in the diet on the Wheat Belly lifestyle? Wheat Belly, of course, exposes the disastrous effects of widespread consumption of this genetically-altered grain. Remove all modern wheat from the diet and weight plummets, blood sugar drops, arthritis reverses in many people, chronic sinus infections improve, asthma improves, acid reflux disappears, cramps and diarrhea of irritable bowel syndrome are gone . . . on and on. So why bother to limit carbohydrates after wheat? Because the overwhelmin...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 9, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle gluten glycation grains Inflammation lchf low-carb Weight Loss Source Type: blogs

“ This pill could make your dog (and maybe you) live longer ”
That is the title of a FASCINATING article by CNN’s senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, about an experiment involving a few very sick dogs and a compound–also a drug–called rapamycin, discovered in the dirt of Easter Island (it’s a bacterial by-product…yum yum!) and mainly intended for humans with cancer and transplant patients. The article is so full of twists and turns that I am not even going to try writing a synopsis…Here is the link: goo.gl/Tdsis8 But I do have a few comments, as always. Ah yes, rapamycin is being studied in myeloma treatment, too…A number o...
Source: Margaret's Corner - October 6, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll Elizabeth Cohen myeloma rapamycin Source Type: blogs

How does Tresemme Beauty-Full Volume Reverse Wash haircare system work? Episode 151
This study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology says that citrus products contain psoralens and fur-O-coumarins which can stimulate certain cancers when they’re exposed to light. The study looked at the diets of over 100,000 people over the course of 4 years. After controlling for other factors, the melanoma risk was found to by 36% higher in people who ate citrus fruits more than 1.5 times per day. So I’m sure it won’t be long before some enterprising beauty company starts selling sunscreen in the produce aisle of the grocery store. Millennials aren’t buying soap bars Link Remember back in the early ...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - September 20, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs

Changes I Can Make
My therapist asked me an interesting question the other day - do I eat specific items that could help with my fibromyalgia? I actually thought about it for a minute. (Me, taking other people ' s advice???? LOL) An email came through my inbox on foods that are beneficial for people with fibromyalgia - I got as far as seeing bananas on the list and I eat one every day.However that did prompt me to wonder what other changes I could make to my life to help me in some ways. I had thought that once I left my pastry filled job I would lose a few pounds. I did lose a couple pounds but then they reappeared. This indicates to me tha...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 16, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being healthy eating exercise healthy lifestyle Source Type: blogs

Water Fasting Summary
I completed my water fast yesterday. I fasted for 17 days and 3 hours, which is longer than I’ve ever fasted before. This post is a summary of the experience, building upon what I shared on Day 6 of the fast. Motivation This isn’t the same world people lived in 100 years ago. The unfortunate truth is that we now live in an environment filled with toxins that our bodies weren’t evolved to efficiently eliminate. These toxins include pesticides, herbicides, pollution, heavy metals, plastics, animal hormones, pharmaceuticals, radiation, and more. We’re exposed to such toxins merely by drinking water, br...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - September 12, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Source Type: blogs

Confidence-Building and the Special Olympics
Tommy was terrified to travel to Columbus. He was scheduled to compete in the Special Olympics that weekend. Tommy has anxiety disorder, ADHD and autism, and anything out of the ordinary such as a road trip to a place he’d never been before threw him way off. “Talk to Daddy,” he kept telling me. “I don’t want to go. Can you tell him I don’t want to go?” Steve was not surprised at Tommy’s resistance to going to a new place and doing a new activity. It was the story of our lives. We made it clear that he didn’t have a choice. “Well, let me see a schedule,” Tommy said. Autistic kids love schedules. They...
Source: World of Psychology - July 18, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: ADHD and ADD Anxiety and Panic Autism Caregivers Children and Teens Disorders Family General Motivation and Inspiration Parenting Personal Self-Esteem Sports Eunice Kennedy Shriver Special Olympics Source Type: blogs