In new book, Aegis Living CEO will theorize you can live to be 120
What do you name a book about the aging process? Aegis Living Co-founder Dwayne Clark, calls his latest book, “Grapes to Raisins.”
“That’s just the working title,” he says with a laugh about the book he is co-writing with Dr. Shirley Newell, Aegis Living’s chief medical officer. “She was the natural partner in writing this."
Kirkland-based Aegis Living has about 30 senior assisted living and memory care facilities in three states, with seven more opening within the next 36 months.
“We… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 13, 2016 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Patti Payne Source Type: news
In new book, Aegis Living CEO will theorize you can live to be 120
What do you name a book about the aging process? Aegis Living Co-founder Dwayne Clark, calls his latest book, “Grapes to Raisins.”
“That’s just the working title,” he says with a laugh about the book he is co-writing with Dr. Shirley Newell, Aegis Living’s chief medical officer. “She was the natural partner in writing this."
Kirkland-based Aegis Living has about 30 senior assisted living and memory care facilities in three states, with seven more opening within the next 36 months.
“We… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - September 13, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Patti Payne Source Type: news
Osteoporosis Treatment Alternatives To Bisphosphonates
Big Pharma employs a lot of very serious spin-doctors. I’ll give you a good example.
Bisphosphonates For Osteoporosis?
A new study just came out on bisphosphonate drugs. These are the most commonly prescribed drugs for osteoporosis. They’re worth about $8.5 billion per year to the drug companies.
But this new study says that one-third of the women taking these drugs are still at high risk for fractures.
Now here’s what you have to understand. The study was done by a subsidiary of Merck & Co. They make Fosamax, one of the biggest bone drugs. So instead of saying the drugs don’t work ...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - September 6, 2016 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Al Sears Tags: Health Source Type: news
AI guides your daily life, but is it liberal or conservative?
Recommender systems influence our cultural, social and political lives, but are they agents of diversity or conservative guardians?Imagine you ’re a billionaire, with your own film studio. You’re sitting there on your golden throne, eating peeled grapes offChanning Tatum ’s abs. Your assistant has just handed you the script for The Expendables 7 or yet another Spider-Man reboot. You yawn theatrically in his face. Surely, you think yourself, in this data-driven age there has to be a better way. Couldn ’t we use machine learning to design the optimum new film? Something guaranteed to be a box office hit?So you toss t...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 26, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Martin Robbins Tags: Science Artificial intelligence (AI) Culture Netflix Online TV Internet Digital media Computing Technology Source Type: news
Help! I Am Gaining Weight Watching The Food Network?
I just have to stop channel surfing while working out in the gym! If I'm stuck with the news channels, I might actually pay attention to my exercise. But when I click on the cooking show button, I become mesmerized watching overweight chefs prepare dishes that, if consumed in typical amounts, will certainly add to the growing rate of obesity in the country. To be sure, some of the skinny chefs cook, most of the time, with skinny ingredients. But there are a few whose girth is testimony to the copious quantities of extremely high-fat ingredients comprising their dishes.
One recently caught my attention. A charming, articu...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 24, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
What will California's strawberry industry do without methyl bromide?
2016 is the final year for the soil fumigant to be used in California crop fields. A new article examines the impact of the methyl bromide phaseout on strawberries, California ' s third most valuable crop, behind only almonds and grapes, with annual farmgate sales of $2.5 billion. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 16, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
9 Types of Food You Should Never Feed Your Dog
Macadamia nuts, onions and grapes make the list. (Source: U.S. News - Health)
Source: U.S. News - Health - August 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Joan Salge Blake Source Type: news
Paraplegics Regain Some Feeling, Movement After Using Brain-Machine Interfaces
This study was funded by grants from the Brazilian Financing Agency for Studies and Projects (FINEP 01 ·12·0514·00), Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the Itaú Bank. The authors list additional acknowledgements in the manuscript. They declared no competing financial interests related to this work.### (Source: DukeHealth.org: Duke Health Features)
Source: DukeHealth.org: Duke Health Features - August 11, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Tags: Duke Medicine Source Type: news
Farmers grow grapes that taste like cotton candy
We're all familiar with fruit-flavored candy, but what about candy-flavored fruit? Two California farmers are enjoying the sweet success of growing grapes with unexpected tastes. One variety even mimics the flavor of cotton candy. Carter Evans visited their farm to see how they do it, and what other treats they have on the vine. (Source: Health News: CBSNews.com)
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - August 10, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Eco-friendly wines aren't just better for the planet - they taste better too, experts say
Next time you ’re looking for a tasty wine pairing, skip the reds, whites and rosés and just go for the green. An analysis of more than 74,000 wines found that those made with certified organic grapes got higher ratings from experts than those produced using conventional methods. “I was surprised... (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)
Source: Los Angeles Times - Science - August 6, 2016 Category: Science Authors: Megan Daley Source Type: news
Is Chocolate A Health Food?
Conclusions are based on extracted antioxidant compounds called flavonoids that occur naturally in cocoa beans, but may not be found in the processed chocolate that you are eating.
Flavonoids are a group of bioactive compounds associated with many health benefits. Flavonoids are common in many plant-based foods. Strawberries, blueberries, tea, apples and onions are excellent sources.
The flavonoid content of cocoa beans depends on the type of cocoa plant, the soil in which the crops grow, and the way the beans are processed. High temperatures used to make chocolate can destroy flavonoids.
Chocolate is made from processi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - August 4, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Directorate General of Foreign Trade unveils norms for human bio samples trade
In a separate trade notice, DGFT said that grapes packed in imported material do not fall under ineligible category under a norm of the foreign policy. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - August 4, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Do eco-friendly wines taste better?
It ' s time to toast environmentally friendly grapes. A new study shows that eco-certified wine tastes better -- and making the choice even easier, earlier research shows it ' s often cheaper, too. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - August 2, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Do eco-friendly wines taste better?
(University of California - Los Angeles) It's time to toast environmentally friendly grapes. A new UCLA study shows that eco-certified wine tastes better -- and making the choice even easier, earlier research shows it's often cheaper, too. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 2, 2016 Category: Biology Source Type: news
8 Surprising Facts About Concord Grapes
If you don & #39;t have grape expectations, you should. (Source: U.S. News - Health)
Source: U.S. News - Health - July 25, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Upton Source Type: news
