Americans Put Too Much Trust Into USDA Stamp of Approval
But Do Most Even Know What It Means?
When we go to the supermarket we look for the Grade A stamp on an egg carton, correct? I think that many of us do it without even thinking. Well, according to the Wall Street Journal article, most of us don’t really even know what the stamp means, but we put our trust in it that the USDA has approved this item for consumption, However, the truth about the stamp and how blindly we trust can be shocking.
The recent salmonella outbreak in our eggs did scare us as a society, sure, but did it change the way that we bought or researched our food. Probably not. Chances are that most of us as...
Source: Doctor Kalitenko antiaging blog - January 22, 2013 Category: Physicians With Health Advice Authors: admin Source Type: blogs
Pfizer Can Be Sued For Injury Caused By Generic
Here is a court ruling that is going to rile brand-name drugmakers. Late last week, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that Pfizer can be sued by a man who claimed he was injured by a generic version of its Reglan heartburn medicine, because the brand-name drugmaker purportedly failed to warn his physician about the risks.
This is one of the few instances in which a court has found that a brand-name drugmaker can be sued even though a consumer had taken only a generic, suggesting that consumers will be encouraged to file still more such lawsuits, especially in the wake of a 2011 ruling by the US Supreme Court that has limited...
Source: Pharmalot - January 14, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Actavis Generics Mensing Pfizer Pliva Reglan Teva Pharmaceuticals Wyeth Source Type: blogs
Nutritional supplements in the wake of wheat elimination
Consumption of modern wheat distorts health at many levels. Remove wheat, like removing a splinter that makes your finger hot, sore, and open to infection, and the body needs to readjust to this new lifestyle.
There are a number of strategies to consider to accelerate the adjustment. And there are other strategies worth considering that help recover overall ideal health. This last item, of course, is a huge issue, but there are several basic efforts that provide outsized benefits.
Among the issues/strategies to consider:
Bowel health
Remove this great disrupter of normal bowel flora called modern wheat and you need to tra...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - January 12, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Towards 2013: A Bullet List
Ah, 2013. A New Year...full of hopes & resolutions. Some people do 'em,some don't. I do, because I like to attempt to improve my personal habits..even if I fail.(to try & to fail is to better to have never tried at all) I want 2013 to be my year..& I want it to be others too. Here are some of my hopes for the coming year.1. I want to get my thyroid back in whack (still hypo)& my health back.( whatever that was) I've had recent issues with heartburn & difficulty swallowing, for which I just had an EGD done(biopsy results pending,normal appearing mucosa, a medium sized hiatal hernia)Diabetes related gastroparesis is,of cour...
Source: The D-Log Cabin - January 4, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: HVS Source Type: blogs
Anxiety About Testing, Medicine, and Doctors
It’s that time of year again — time for my yearly bone density check. I am really dreading the bone scan this year, but it is not because the test is hard. It is pretty much one of the easiest procedures that we, as Crohn’s patients, have to take. I am dreading the scan, because I am dreading the results. I just don’t want any more bad news. I don’t want to have to take the Reclast infusion again, and I know that if my test comes out worse, the rheumatologist is going to insist that I do.
Recently, the FDA has begun studying drugs like Reclast, Boniva, and Fosamax due to signs that the drugs can cause ab...
Source: Life with Crohn's - February 23, 2011 Category: Other Conditions Authors: Kelly R Tags: Crohn's disease bone density check Crohn's disease blog Crohn's disease community Crohn's disease1 Crohn's treatment reclast infusion Source Type: blogs
