5 Myths and Truths About Choking
As a pediatric feeding therapist, I often encounter parents with misconceived notions about choking, especially when their children are between 6 months and 4 years old and just learning to eat a variety of solid foods. Below, I list five common myths SLPs can dispel, along with five truths we can share to raise awareness and keep “learning eaters” safe.
Myths:
Coughing while eating signals choking. Typically, occasional coughing while eating means the child experienced difficulty coordinating the swallowing mechanism, and is attempting to expel any residue from the airway and surrounding area. In order to cough, air...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - June 23, 2016 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Melanie Potock MA Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of June 2016
Unity Farm is now an organic certified producer of vegetables, herbs, mushrooms, nuts, fruits and seedlings! Here’s our official designationAs I mentioned last week, I’m now doing increased documentation - daily logs of compost temperature and comprehensive recordkeeping about mushroom innoculation dates.Yearly inspection for organic certification compliance is just one of our regulatoryequirements. At the moment we also have*Commercial kitchen designation with yearly health department inspection (including refrigeration facility review)Massachusetts 61A working farming designation with specific doc...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - June 23, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of June 2016
The baby geese are now old enough to free range with their parents, so they are wandering through the forest and barnyard from 7am to 7pm, occassionally stopping for a pool party in the pond. We believe we have two male and one female young geese, bringing our total to 3 males and 4 females. Will be interesting to watch their dynamics and relationships as they age. Every week on the farm has some unique learning experience. What should you do when you find a baby blue jay on the ground, either fallen from the nest or having failed its initial flight? The general rule of thumb is to do...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - June 16, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Obama and the TREAT Act
I just read an article in the Daily Beast that reads like a better version of something I would write about the value of medication-assisted treatment of opioid dependence. I appreciate Christopher Moraff telling a story that has been untold far too long, and I hope the story raises questions across the country.
But I have something else on my mind that deserves a story of its own. I am just a small-town psychiatrist in the Midwest, of course, and so I could be missing something. I watch Veep and House of Cards, but I assume that the political games in those shows are grossly exaggerated. I’ll offer a bit of ...
Source: Suboxone Talk Zone - May 12, 2016 Category: Addiction Authors: Jeffrey Junig MD PhD Tags: Addiction Buprenorphine Legal Public policy Suboxone treatment heroin addiction Obama patient cap TREAT Act Source Type: blogs
Economic Lesson from Europe: Higher Tax Rates Are a Recipe for More Red Ink
We can learn a lot of economic lessons from Europe.
Never adopt a VAT unless you want much bigger government.
Bigger government means lower living standards.
Don’t believe Bernie Sanders about the Nordic nations.
Today, we’re going to focus on another lesson, which is that higher taxes lead to more red ink. And let’s hope Hillary Clinton is paying attention.
I’ve already made the argument, using European fiscal data to show that big increases in the tax burden over the past several decades have resulted in much higher levels of government debt.
But let’s now augment that argument by considering what’s happene...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 28, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Daniel J. Mitchell Source Type: blogs
“A stuffed wild boar greeted customers at a butcher in...
"A stuffed wild boar greeted customers at a butcher in Chianti, in the heart of the rolling hills of Tuscany. Wine growers and farmers say that an exploding population of voracious wild boars and deer is threatening a delicate Tuscan ecosystem, in addition to damaging the production of their treasured #Chianti Classico. The ungulates have been savoring the sugary grapes and the vines' tender sprouts, resulting in an estimated at $11 million to $16 million in lost harvest every year. In February, after years of lamenting, the region approved a law aimed at drastically reducing the number of wild boars and deer over the next...
Source: Kidney Notes - March 8, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
What's Your Inspiration?
Guest Post by DeeHi all, it's Crabby McSlacker, and yes, I'm still alive. Doing great actually! Just a bit too dithery and preoccupied to do much on the blog lately. So I'm thrilled to bring you another great guest post from Dee over at Break out the Skinny Girl. Remember not that long ago, she'd just started her blog, and was taking baby steps back into fitness? Well, I guess I'm not the only one who thinks she's hilarious and inspiring, because she's already made it as a finalist in the UK Blog Awards. Yay! Anyway, please welcome Dee back, and don't forget to stop over at her place too on your blog ...
Source: Cranky Fitness - February 21, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Crabby McSlacker Source Type: blogs
Five Resolutions to Share With Parents of Picky Eaters
With the New Year upon us, many parents of picky eaters reflect on what they can do to help their families lead a healthier lifestyle in 2016. If you treat a kiddo stuck in the chicken nugget rut, share these five resolutions with the parents, so they can better guide their child toward more adventurous eating in 2016:
Make the kitchen the heart of the home. One of the best ways to connect as a family is what I call “parenting in the kitchen.” Ask parents to encourage their kids to chop veggies, mix a dip or line up sweet potato fries on a pan. Suggest they make a meal as a family, but it’s not always possible with ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 31, 2015 Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Melanie Potock MA Tags: Speech-Language Pathology Feeding Disorders Swallowing Disorders Source Type: blogs
A Wheat Belly Guide to Vodkas
We’ve previously discussed wine, the near-perfect alcoholic beverage for the Wheat Belly wheat- and grain-free lifestyle. Let’s now discuss another great choice, vodka.
First of all, the process of distillation (heating, evaporating, condensing the liquid) purportedly reduces the protein content of the end-product to very low levels. This is why vodka is so crystal clear, no murkiness from proteins. Even when vodkas are sourced from wheat, rye, or barley, the gluten content is reportedly very low, even low enough to qualify as “gluten-free,” meaning no more than 20 parts per million and low enough p...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 7, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle alcoholic gluten grains vodka Source Type: blogs
The Healthcare System Link in the San Bernardino Shootings
By JOE FLOWER
Another day, another mass shooting. At this point the news reports say nearly 30 down, 14 or more dead, multiple perps, at a banquet for the San Bernardino, California, Department of Public Health.
And instantly the argument is all about the guns. I understand that, and I’m not even saying that it’s not about the guns.
And instantly we want to say these folks are crazy and of course that’s true. It doesn’t matter if they frame their reasons around Allah or “no more baby parts” or Obama’s impending takeover of the U.S. using ISIS fascist armies disguised as Syrian refugees pouring over the border...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 2, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Simon Nath Tags: THCB Joe Flower Source Type: blogs
4 Tips for Managing Carbs on Wheat Belly
There is NOT a lot of counting on the Wheat Belly lifestyle, but keeping an eye on your carb intake is among the keys to success. This is especially true when you are just starting out, including starting out on your Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox when you need to reverse the metabolism/insulin/blood sugar/inflammation effects of years of wheat/grain consumption.
While we do not count calories or fat grams, we count carbs because 1) the majority of people begin this process with diabetes, pre-diabetes, high blood sugars and insulin resistance that all have to be reversed to regain control over health and weight, and 2) man...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 30, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle blood sugar carbs glucose gluten glycemic grains insulin net Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Narrative Matters: Poems By Patients And Consumers
Editor’s note: This spring, Health Affairs held its first ever poetry contest. Three winning poems were published in the journal. We’re also featuring some of our other favorites on the Blog throughout the month of October.
You Are A Job
You forget that you are someone’s job
something they want to hurry away from
a way to pay bills, daycare, college fees
You remember when your butt goes numb
45 minutes of hard plastic pressed in soft flesh
You remember when supper comes late,
tea cup, empty, soup cold, or missing,
no tater tots, no salad, no grapes
each and every day, irksome things you cannot undo
&nbs...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - October 29, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Jessica Bylander Tags: Elsewhere@ Health Affairs Narrative Matters Narrative Matters poetry patient experience Source Type: blogs
RightCare Action Week — a broken healthcare system
I am proud to be part of the Lown Institute. Founded by Bernard Lown, a cardiologist, mentor, activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Lown Institute is an organization committed to making things right in the US healthcare system.
In case you wondered, yes, there is right and wrong in healthcare. At this point in my career, more than anything, I need to be on the right side of history.
The Lown Institute seeks the basics in a healthcare system. We think healthcare should be affordable, effective, rational and available to all.
This is hardly the case now in America.
Today, October 18th, begins Right Care Action W...
Source: Dr John M - October 18, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Foods that Nourish, Replenish and Repair
The food we eat serves many purposes. It satisfies a primal need to fuel our bodies and quell hunger. It connects us to family and friends in lovely ways, during the holidays, in social situations and at the nightly dinner table. It encourages us to be creative, to try new things, explore different cultures, and savor interesting tastes. And it comforts us, at least temporarily, when we are lonely, sad, anxious or otherwise spent.
Food has another very important purpose: it cleanses, repairs, replenishes our body at the most basic cellular level. In fact, the latest research from the field of nutrigenomics[1], reve...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - August 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
No Markets, Then No Water. California's Avoidable Crisis
This is what happens in a world without markets for water, as Eli Saslow reports in the Washington Post:
Their two peach trees had turned brittle in the heat, their neighborhood pond had vanished into cracked dirt and now their stainless-steel faucet was spitting out hot air. “That’s it. We’re dry,” Miguel Gamboa said during the second week of July, and so he went off to look for water….
For a few days now, they had been without running water in the fifth year of a California drought that had finally come to them. First it had devastated the orchards where Gamboa and his wife had once picked grapes. Then it drain...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 21, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: David Boaz Source Type: blogs
