Shakeology vs 310 Shake – Head to Head Comparison
Meal replacement shakes Shakeology and 310 Shake need little introduction. These two meal substitutes are among the most popular in the market, and there is a reason why they have finally been pitted against each other. Information on what each individual shake is capable of is widely available. What most people don’t know is how the two compare, specifically which one packs more bang for your buck. This in-depth review seeks to uncover just how the two compare toe-to-toe and what you should expect.
Shakeology reviews will tell you that it’s the best thing since sliced bread, whereas 310 Shakes reviews will als...
Source: Nursing Comments - May 30, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: M1gu3l Tags: Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
What Are Lectins? The Health Implications and How to Avoid It
Over the past few years, there has been so much hype and speculation around gluten, with many people considering it the number one gut health enemy. While you could genuinely be having gluten intolerance or any other health condition linked to gluten, sometimes this protein isn’t the real menace. Individuals claiming to have gluten intolerance may actually be suffering from lectin sensitivity. So if you have been experiencing symptoms of gluten intolerance especially after eating something that’s made from wheat, then lectin could be the cause of your problems. Read on to find out more about lectin and how you can avoi...
Source: Nursing Comments - April 9, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: M1gu3l Tags: Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Calcium, vitamin D, and fractures (oh my!)
When I saw the headlines about this recently published study on bone health saying “Vitamin D and calcium supplements may not lower fracture risk” I thought: Wait, that’s news? I think I remember seeing that headline a few years ago.
Indeed, in 2015, this very blog reported on similar studies of calcium supplements, noting that calcium supplements have risks and side effects, and are not likely indicated for most healthy community-dwelling adults over 50. These folks are not in a high-risk category for vitamin deficiencies, osteoporosis, and fractures, and we usually advise them to get their calcium from food. Dietar...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - February 12, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Drugs and Supplements Health Osteoporosis Source Type: blogs
A neurologist talks about kids and headaches
It’s not uncommon for a child to complain of a headache. But what should a parent do? When should you worry? What are features that are cause for concern and should prompt a call to the pediatrician, or even a trip to the emergency room? For kids with headaches, do they necessarily need to take medication, or are there other nondrug treatments that may be just as effective?
When to call your pediatrician
The cardinal rule for thinking about headaches is “first or worst.” In practical terms, if your child has never had a headache before, you need to evaluate carefully.
Did he have any recent head trauma, such as a fa...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 29, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carolyn A. Bernstein, MD, FAHS Tags: Children's Health Headache Parenting Source Type: blogs
The crucial brain foods all children need
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The first 1,000 days of life are crucial for brain development — and food plays an important role.
The ways that the brain develops during pregnancy and during the first two years of life are like scaffolding: they literally define how the brain will work for the rest of a person’s life. Nerves grow and connect and get covered with myelin, creating the systems that decide how a child — and the adult she becomes — thinks and feels. Those connections and changes affect sensory systems, learning, memory, attention, processing speed, the ability to control impulses and mood, and even the ...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 23, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Brain and cognitive health Children's Health Healthy Eating Parenting Pregnancy Source Type: blogs
NIH MedlinePlus Salud Magazine Now Available
The annual issue of NIH MedlinePlus Salud magazine is now available online and in print.
Salud, which means health in Spanish, is a free magazine of NIH and the Friends of the National Library of Medicine.
Salud brings accurate and timely information in Spanish and English on health topics to patients and helps explain how NIH turns “discovery into health.”
This issue covers—
Black Eyed Peas’ Taboo on music, research, and his fight against cancer
Journalist Liz Hernandez on how Alzheimer’s has affected her family
Breast cancer and Latinas
Latest asthma research
Tips for your doctor visit
Clinical trials
Sub...
Source: BHIC - January 17, 2018 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: Articles Minority Health Concerns Multilingual National Library of Medicine News Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly: Quick and Dirty #3
In view of the many new readers on the Wheat Belly Blog, many of whom have not yet had an opportunity to read the book but are eager to get started, here is the most recently updated Wheat Belly Quick & Dirty summary. It summarizes the essential dietary strategies of the Wheat Belly approach to 1) avoid all products made from high-yield, semi-dwarf wheat that wreak health destruction along with all other grains, and 2) create a diet that is otherwise healthy and appropriate for all members of the family. In particular, I’ve tried to clarify some items that were unclear in previous versions.
This is the lifestyle ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - September 28, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle autoimmune blood sugar bowel flora cholesterol Dr. Davis Gliadin gluten gluten-free grain-free grains Inflammation joint pain low-carb Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Cyclosporiasis in The United States
The following background information on Cyclosporiasis in the United States is abstracted from Gideon www.GideonOnline.com and the Gideon e-book series [1] (Primary references are available on request)
Cyclosporiasis is the least common reportable protozoan infection in the United States. In 2008, the reported disease rate among 10 states was 2.25 per 100,000 population.
The true incidence of food-borne cyclosporiasis in the United States has been estimated at 11,407 to 19,808 cases per year (15 hospitalizations), accounting for 0.1% of all food-borne illness. Approximately 42% of cases are imported.
1,110 individual...
Source: GIDEON blog - August 15, 2017 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Dr. Stephen Berger Tags: Epidemiology Graphs ProMED Source Type: blogs
Why is magnesium so important?
One of the six core strategies in the Undoctored Wild, Naked, and Unwashed program for health and weight loss is restoration of magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency is alarmingly common in today’s world. Why? Our reliance on filtered water that has had all of the magnesium removed, the reduced content of magnesium in modern crops, and the widespread use of proton pump inhibitors—-drugs prescribed to treat acid reflux and ulcers while reducing magnesium absorption.
Remember those darned phytates in wheat and other grains that bind magnesium and other positively charged minerals in the intestinal tract, preventing absorp...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle a fib constipation Dr. Davis grain-free grains health healthcare heart rhythm hydrochlorothiazide kidney stones oxalate sudden death Source Type: blogs
Foods rich in prebiotic fibers
Prebiotic fibers are essentially the “water” and “fertilizer” that nourish your bowel flora.These are fibers that you ingest but cannot digest, leaving them for microorganisms in the intestines to consume. Some call prebiotic fibers resistant starch since they are impervious to human digestion and digested by microorganisms. Getting prebiotic fibers is crucial to your health and the success of your diet.
Don’t confuse prebiotic fibers with the more commonly recognized cellulose fibers from bran cereals, bran muffins, and whole grains, not too different from wood fiber. Cellulose is not metabolized by you or by bo...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 5, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - First Week of July 2017
Admittedly, the pace of my writing has slowed this Summer since each day is filled with a combination of IT work, mentoring, and keeping 60 acres of farm/sanctuary running smoothly. How ’s it all going? Our trajectory is good.So much of what we ’re doing at the farm/sanctuary is improvisation that we have no choice but to create a vision and accept ambiguity on the daily journey.We received a request to adopt a house pig - Rue, who ’s 80 pounds at 4 years old and extremely well behaved. We ’ve been socializing her with the other pigs and thus far, all is proceeding as expected - they chall...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - July 3, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Best of Our Blogs: May 30, 2017
One of the most difficult things about illness, either physical or mental, is how much of an impact it can have on one’s life.
On rough days, it’s easy to fantasize about life free without the burdens that come with it. How nice it would be to go about your day with a sense of ease.
I know it’s hard to be you sometimes. It’s difficult to maneuver the world when your anxiety or disease prevents you from being your best self.
It may seem like what you’re struggling with is the hardest thing in the world. You may feel alone in dealing with your anger, your messy household, your narcissistic paren...
Source: World of Psychology - May 30, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Brandi-Ann Uyemura, M.A. Tags: Best of Our Blogs Abuse and narcissism Emotion Family Growing up with narcissist How to deal with anger Human Behavior messy household Narcissistic father Narcissistic parents Narcissistic Personality Disorder Neglect Reduce stress Source Type: blogs
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
So my life is having its normal ups and downs. There are definitely the good, the bad, and the ugly.What is good? A whole bunch of things:I actually got enough sleep for a couple of nights. I slept late two days this week which helped. Spring is actually springing. I planted some spinach and peas. Both are cold weather tolerant. Spinach actually will not grow in the heat of the summer. I finally see some progress on my SSDI claim. This means I actually heard back from SSDI for more information for the first time in six months. My husband and I went to the beach for a day last weekend when it was 80 degrees.&...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - April 22, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: being a patient life Source Type: blogs
Building Unity Farm Sanctuary - First Week of April 2017
In North America, Easter and Thanksgiving are traditionally associated with eating ham and turkey. You can imagine that a vegan sanctuary is very popular with creatures who want want to avoid being eaten.This week, we had the great turkeychautauqua . Every wild turkey in the local forests assembled at Unity Farm Sanctuary for an afternoon of companionship, dancing and gentle conversation. To put this photo in context, it ’s taken from the sanctuary loft - about a football field away from the turkeys. There are 17 turkeys in just this view. Yes, the Tom turkey in the middle of the ph...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - April 6, 2017 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
