Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Here’s a recipe from my new book, Undoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter Than Your Doctor.
Undoctored carries on the Wheat Belly tradition of providing recipes that allow you to indulge without paying a health or weight price. I learned long ago that asking people simply to eat real, whole foods like meats and vegetables quickly backfired. Someone would be doing great, for example, until Thanksgiving rolled around, and they’d return 14 pounds heavier, inflamed, with disastrous labs (sky-high small LDL, increased insulin and blood sugars, etc.)–a metabolic mess–from...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 11, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored cookies gluten grains health recipe Weight Loss wheat Source Type: blogs
New guidelines for preventing peanut allergy in babies
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In 2015, a study showed that giving peanut products to babies could help prevent peanut allergy. This was exciting news, given that 1-2% of children suffer from peanut allergy, an allergy that can not only be life-threatening but last a lifetime, unlike other food allergies that often improve as children get older.
This is a change for pediatricians and parents, who traditionally have thought that peanut products shouldn’t be given until children are a bit older. It’s also tricky in that babies can choke on peanuts and peanut butter. And to make it even trickier, the study cautioned that ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 17, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Asthma and Allergies Children's Health Parenting Prevention Source Type: blogs
New Clinical Guidelines to Prevent Peanut Allergy
An expert panel sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, issued clinical guidelines to aid health care providers in early introduction of peanut-containing foods to infants to prevent the development of peanut allergy. Development of the Addendum Guidelines was prompted by emerging data suggesting that peanut allergy can be prevented by the early introduction of peanut-containing foods. The addendum provides three separate guidelines for infants at various levels of risk for developing peanut allergy and is targeted to a wide variety of heal...
Source: BHIC - January 10, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Carolyn Martin Tags: Children and Teens Chronic Disease General Source Type: blogs
How Does a Person Living with Dementia Make a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich
Interestingly, when we ask people who don ’t have Alzheimer’s to tell us how they would begin a simple task, such as buttoning a shirt, or make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, we always, always, get different answers from different people.By Tom and Karen BrennerAlzheimer's Reading RoomWhat if you couldn ’t rememberhow to button your shirt? When you stop and analyze this activity, it can become quite involved. There are many steps to buttoning a shirt.What would the first one be?Touch and Kindness in Dementia CareInterestingly, when we ask peoplewho don ’t have Alzheimer’s to tell us how they would begin a si...
Source: Alzheimer's Reading Room, The - December 14, 2016 Category: Neurology Tags: care of dementia patients at home dementia care elderly dementia care help alzheimer's help with dementia care Source Type: blogs
Changes in the Price of Insulin, In Graphics!
In September 2016, the media was flooded with stories about the rediculously expensive price of EpiPens, which is basically epinephrine used to treat severe allergies (such as when some people get stung by bees or encounter peanuts), as the pens cost more than $600 for a package of two. The news was that the price of EpiPens had skyrocketed, which is a generic drug with an innovative delivery device that enables even people unfamiliar with doing so to give an epinephrine injection in order to rapidly address allergic reactions. Prices for the devices had increased by 600% over the past decade. Suddenly, ever...
Source: Scott's Web Log - November 2, 2016 Category: Endocrinology Tags: 2016 California propositions drug prices insulin insulin analogs Source Type: blogs
Skin Patch Helps Control Peanut Allergies in Year-Long Study
The National Institutes of Health is touting results of a study it sponsored investigating a skin patch designed to treat peanut allergy. The device, called Viaskin Peanut, was developed by DBV Technologies, a company based in the suburbs of Paris, France. It delivers a small amount of peanut protein through the skin, training the immune system to deal with the allergen so that it can handle accidental eating of peanut-based products in the future.
The results come from a year of following three groups of volunteers that are allergic to peanuts. One group received a placebo, while two other groups received 100 and 250 micr...
Source: Medgadget - October 27, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: blogs
Mix & Match Detox Plan for Cleansing, Health, and Weight Loss
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Looking for simple guide to detox for one week or more? Well here it is. It’s pretty simple. Prepare some of the items ahead of time to make it easy to put your meals together quickly, such as the dressings, beans, quinoa, etc. You can read the plan below and also download the pdf version for easy printout. Click here to download the plan as a PDF file >>> 1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
Key Ideas
Start day by cleaning and charging your mind.
Set your intention for the day.
Use positive affirmations all day long for the things you seek to be, do, and feel.
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Source: Life Learning Today - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living How To cleanse detox weightloss Source Type: blogs
Another LEAP Forward: Testing the Stability of Peanut Tolerance...
Another LEAP Forward: Testing the Stability of Peanut Tolerance after Early Peanut Exposure via Now@NEJM Posted on infosnack. (Source: Kidney Notes)
Source: Kidney Notes - March 7, 2016 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Joshua Schwimmer Source Type: blogs
Peanut Butter Cup Detox Shake
This version of a Detox Shake is your way to get a healthy peanut butter cup in a glass!
In my new book, Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox, I introduce recipes for quick and easy Detox Shakes that make incorporating prebiotic fibers into your daily routine a snap. Prebiotic fibers are crucial for restoration of bowel health and bowel flora, even yielding improvements in metabolic measures like blood sugar and blood pressure, while also adding to mental and emotional health and bowel regularity. You will therefore find several recipes for Detox Shakes in the 10-Day Grain Detox book.
Here is a recipe for a Detox Shake that uses...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 17, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle abdominal bowel flora detox shake detoxification gluten grains metabolic microbiota prebiotic probiotic withdrawal Source Type: blogs
Letter to my patient
These 'letters' were passed to me by colleagues. I guess I work with alot of...frustrated docs. (these were not written by me)Dear Patient:You came in at 11pm last night with a chief complaint of sore throat while munching on a sandwich at triage. Next time you choose a sandwich to bring with you to the ED, try something that will go down easier. Peanut butter and Jelly – while I’m sure was very tasty, made my ENT exam, well… a bit difficult. But alas, we did get through it and I got to see your very normal throat. While I was tempted to leave the diagnosis of “no real complaint” on your chart, after envisioning ...
Source: EM Physician - Backstage Pass - September 8, 2015 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Taylor Source Type: blogs
Mom ’s Diet while Breastfeeding
Mom’s diet while breastfeeding can change the composition of her breast milk. It’s no wonder nursing mothers have questions about what they should and shouldn’t eat.
Here’s a quick overview of the most commonly asked questions about mom’s diet while breastfeeding.
How Many Calories Do Mom’s Need while Breastfeeding?
One rule of thumb is to take in about (15 x your current weight) + 500 calories a day. So for a woman who weighs 125 pounds, this would be about 2375 calories a day. But this is just a rule of thumb. Choosing healthy foods, following your appetite, and paying attention to you...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - July 20, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Tips Source Type: blogs
Beyond SGR: Aligning The Peanut Butter Of Payment Reform With The Jelly Of Consumer Engagement
Increasingly, payment reform initiatives aim to achieve greater value from the provision of health care services. The emphasis on alternative payment models in the recent bipartisan, legislation reforming Medicare’s sustainable growth rate (SGR) physician payment mechanism highlights this momentum.
This shift toward value-based payment offers a significant opportunity for plans, clinicians, employers, policy makers, and other health system participants to better align provider and consumer incentives. When synchronized, quality-driven payment reform and person-centered engagement blend together as naturally as peanu...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 22, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Gary Bacher Tags: Costs and Spending Featured Insurance and Coverage Medicare Payment Policy Quality Consumers Health Reform legislation Payment Reform SGR Source Type: blogs
Preventing peanut allergies. What does the recent data mean?
Peanut allergy is a worldwide concern, but especially in Western countries, in which prevalence has doubled in the last ten years, to a rate of 1.4 to 3.0 percent of children. To prevent the development of peanut allergy, national guidelines have attempted to keep pace with this crisis, with recommendations, at first, of delayed exposure to peanut and, more recently, of earlier exposure. But a universally accepted and research-supported approach to the prevention of peanut allergy remains elusive.
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Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 3, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Brian Smart, MD Tags: Conditions Primary care Source Type: blogs
Does peanut oil enlarge breasts?
Annette asks…I have heard that peanut oil can make breasts bigger as a result of cutaneous hypernutrition. The are people who says that the only effect is the oil moisturizes the area making it seem bigger. What is the real effect of peanut oil?
The Beauty Brains reply
I recently received a question about breast pimples and now this. It must be “Booby Brains” week.
Nutty theory
We can’t find ANY references to peanut oil working in the way that you described. The idea doesn’t even make sense from a basic skin biology perspective – we don’t know of any mechanism for a topically applied oil impacting the metabo...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - March 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Randy Schueller Source Type: blogs
