Recipe: Vanilla poached peaches
(Source: MayoClinic.com Recipe of the Day)
Source: MayoClinic.com Recipe of the Day - June 4, 2015 Category: Nutrition Source Type: news
Dignity Health turns clinic over to Peach Tree Health
Dignity Health announced Wednesday that it is transferring operations of its MercyClinic Norwood clinic to Peach Tree Health, an operator of a federally qualified health center.
The partnership marks the second time Dignity Health -- the nonprofit parent of local Mercy hospitals -- has turned over a Sacramento region clinic to another provider due to increasing challenges in serving needy populations amid regulatory changes. In 2012, Dignity Health forged a similar partnership with WellSpace Health,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - February 19, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Allen Young Source Type: news
Love Thy Neighbor: Vaccinate (All Together Podcast)
Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how ethics, religion and spiritual practice is informing our personal lives, our communities and our world. ALL TOGETHER is hosted by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the executive editor of HuffPost Religion and the host of All Together. You can download All Together on iTunes, or Stitcher.
“In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her.”
Those words were written by Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and th...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 7, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
Love Thy Neighbor: Vaccinate (All Together Podcast)
Welcome to this week’s ALL TOGETHER, the podcast dedicated to exploring how ethics, religion and spiritual practice is informing our personal lives, our communities and our world. ALL TOGETHER is hosted by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, the executive editor of HuffPost Religion and the host of All Together. You can download All Together on iTunes, or Stitcher.
“In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her.”
Those words were written by Roald Dahl, who wrote Charlie and th...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - February 7, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Roald Dahl Wrote This Painful Plea For Vaccinations After His Own Daughter Died Of Measles
Author Roald Dahl penned a heartbreaking letter in 1988, urging parents to vaccinate their kids, in which he shared the story of his heartbreak over his own daughter's death from measles.
According to the author's website, Olivia "Twenty" Dahl, the oldest daughter of Roald and his wife, Patricia, died in November 1962. A letter written by Dahl about her death was featured in a pamphlet from The Sandwell Health Authority in 1988.
Read the full text of the letter below, via HuffPost UK:
Measles: A Dangerous Illness
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual cour...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - February 2, 2015 Category: Science Source Type: news
6 Ways We Can Use Taste and Smell to Optimize Our Nutrition
Let's be honest. Rarely a day passes when we are not bombarded with information on how we can improve our health. This usually takes shape in the form of new "fat free" foods, diet fads, and the latest fitness trends. Perhaps that eight-muscled meat snake housed in our pie hole and our discerning schnoz are far less exciting, but these under-appreciated appendages and their respective senses are inextricably linked to our body's nourishment in more ways that we even realize. Here are six tidbits of information we can use to hone our taste and smell to optimize our nutrition:
1. Understand how taste is linked to our evolut...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - January 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Common anticholinergic drugs like Benadryl linked to increased dementia risk
This study is another reminder to periodically evaluate the all drugs you’re taking. Look at each one to determine if it’s really helping,” says Dr. Sarah Berry, a geriatrician and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. “I’ve seen people who have been on anticholinergic medications for bladder control for years and they are completely incontinent. These drugs obviously aren’t helping.”
Many drugs have a stronger effect on older people than younger people. With age, the kidneys and liver clear drugs more slowly, so drug levels in the blood remain higher for a lon...
Source: New Harvard Health Information - January 29, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Beverly Merz Tags: Alzheimer's Disease Drugs and Supplements Mental Health anticholinergic drugs Source Type: news
Are Carbs Evil? Part Two
The nature of carbs may be one of the most contentious points in nutrition today. Carbs have been cited as the culprit behind certain cancers, heart disease, diabetes and premature brain aging. Due to such problems, some experts have encouraged complete avoidance of carbs. Yet, as bad as carbs can be, I showed in the last installment of this article, that too few carbs in the diet can lead to symptoms like insomnia and poor exercise performance. In short, carbs are not all bad.
If some carbs are bad, but you can't ditch them altogether, what are you supposed to do? It's easy with the three good carb rules: Eat good carbs...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - December 9, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Do you want your vagina to smell like a ripe peach?
OF COURSE you do! Fortunately an American start-up has created a product that will enable women to personalise their body odours (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - November 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Sweet Peach' Probiotic, Developed By Two Men, Will Make Women's Vaginas Smell Like Peaches
Two science startup dudes introduced a new product idea this week: a probiotic supplement that will make women's vaginas smell like peaches.
Austin Heinz and Gilad Gome, the founders of biotech startups Cambrian Genomics and Personalized Probiotics respectively, previewed their plans for a line of customer-specific probiotics, including the "Sweet Peach," at the Nov. 19 DEMO conference. The probiotic is designed to prevent yeast infections and UTIs, but will also make women's genitals smell like ripe fruit.
"The idea is personal empowerment," Heinz said during the presentation, according to Inc.'s Jeff Bercovici. "All yo...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 20, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
One Good Reason To Stop Mocking Gluten-Free Diets
Going gluten-free is an ever-so-mockable decision, despite the fact that an estimated 18 million Americans suffer from some kind of gluten sensitivity that results in embarrassing and painful symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation and urgent diarrhea.
Unlike celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disorder that damages the small intestines if gluten is present, there’s no blood test to confirm gluten sensitivity -- which contributes to even more skepticism about the condition. Gluten-free diets undertaken by people without celiac disease have been called the “new, cool eating disorder” or, more seriously, have bee...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 7, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
One Good Reason To Stop Mocking Gluten-Free Diets
Going gluten-free is an ever-so-mockable decision, despite the fact that an estimated 18 million Americans suffer from some kind of gluten sensitivity that results in embarrassing and painful symptoms like gas, bloating, constipation and urgent diarrhea.
Unlike celiac disease, which is an autoimmune disorder that damages the small intestines if gluten is present, there’s no blood test to confirm gluten sensitivity -- which contributes to even more skepticism about the condition. Gluten-free diets undertaken by people without celiac disease have been called the “new, cool eating disorder” or, more seriously, have bee...
Source: Science - The Huffington Post - November 7, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
What is a species? It could be difficult to reply if you work with aphids
(Pensoft Publishers) Karyotype analysis of strains of the green peach aphid Myzus persicae evidenced several populations possessing rearranged chromosomes, also within single individuals. Interestingly, a fusion between autosomes one and three has been observed to occur at the same end of autosomes one. Even if chromosomal rearrangements are generally randomly occurring, aphids suggest that chromosomal architecture can make some rearrangements less random than others. The study was published in the open access journal Comparative Cytogenetics. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - November 3, 2014 Category: Biology Source Type: news
How Words Can Kill in the Vaccine Fight
Chances are you wouldn’t sit down to a plate of sautéed thymus glands, to say nothing of a poached patagonian tooth fish; and the odds are you’d be reluctant to tuck into a monkey peach too. But sweetbreads, Chilean sea bass and kiwifruit? They’re a different matter—except they’re not. All of those scrumptious foods once went by those less scrumptious names—but few people went near them until there was something pleasant to call them. Words have that kind of power.
That’s true in advertising, in politics and in business too. And it’s true when it comes to vaccines as w...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - October 11, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized anti-vaxxers Autism controversy hashtag Ronan Farrow vaccines Source Type: news
Did fruit contribute to Apple's success?
Steve Jobs swore by a fruit diet, as he believed it improved his ideas. And he wasn't wrong: food with high levels of tyrosine, like bananas, peaches and almonds, allow us to think harder and more creatively. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - October 8, 2014 Category: Science Source Type: news
