A “Nutrition Prescription” For Fighting Cold and Flu
Medicine isn’t the only way to fight off cold and flu. Food can be your medicine too. I was on Let’s Talk Live recently sharing a nutrition prescription to help you stay healthy. Below are some highlights from the segment.
There are basically two big tricks to beating winter “bugs”: reducing inflammation and boosting immunity. So whether you’re trying to prevent sickness or recover ASAP, all the foods I mention below will help you.
Spicy Lamb Korma
I created this recipe for www.leanonlamb.com – it’s a spicy lamb korma that you make in the slow cooker. Lamb is nutrient rich, and packed ...
Source: Balanced Health and Nutrition Rebecca Scritchfield's Blog - February 4, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Authors: rebeccascritchfield Tags: cooking eating healthy food nutrition recipes anti-inflammatory digestive health fermented foods gut health immunity kefir korma lamb pistachios prevent colds prevent flu tumeric vegetables Source Type: blogs
Happy Purple Thoughts
Happy Super Bowl Sunday!!!
For the first Ravens haven't been in the Super Bowl for 12 years, and so today is an exciting day in Baltimore and purple lights are up everywhere.
My family members love football. I love my family, and I'm sort of getting the hang of some of the football after years of exposure. I know some of the player details, and the big ones for the day include the fact that the coaches of the competing teams -- The Baltimore Ravens vs. The San Fransisco 49ers -- are brothers. A first ever for the Super Bowl and in psychiatry we call this the ultimate in sibling rivalry. Ray ...
Source: Shrink Rap - February 3, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Dinah Source Type: blogs
Novo Nordisk's "Bait-and-Switch" Super Bowl Diabetes Marketing
Novo Nordisk's diabetes drug marketers are hitching on to the Super Bowl bandwagon. This morning, for example, I received an e-mail from Novo Nordisk's "Cornerstone4Care" program with the subject line "Delicious Big Game snacking for those with diabetes." I must have signed up for this e-mail list when I reviewed the "Diabetes and You" iBook published by Novo (see "Pharma 'eBooks': Imagining what COULD be, not what IS")."The traditional Big Game party is usually a down-to-earth, unpretentious affair, with everyone rooting for their favorite team and enjoying snacks that are easy to serve and eat," said Novo in the e-mail m...
Source: Pharma Marketing Blog - February 1, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Tags: Superbowl Victoza Novo Nordisk Celebrity Endorsement Paula Deen diabetes Source Type: blogs
Study Identifies Itch-specific Nerves
Scientists have been looking for itch-specific nerves for decades. New research from investigators at Johns Hopkins University and Yale University in the United States and several universities in China has identified sensory neurons in mice that are dedicated to relaying itchy sensations from the top layers of skin to the spinal cord [1].
In 1835, Johannes Peter Müller proposed the law of specific nerve energies. It stated that everything we feel and experience relies on the stimulation of particular neuronal pathways — and thus that the actual, external stimulus is irrelevant. He wrote:
The same cause, such as e...
Source: Highlight HEALTH - January 29, 2013 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Diana Gitig, Ph.D. Source Type: blogs
7 Reasons Why Photographs Can Boost Your Happiness
Photographs are such a joy, and I don’t know about you, but I’m much more focused on taking photographs now that cameras and phones have evolved to make taking photos so much easier. I used to begrudge the time that I spent on photos, but now I realize the role they can play in happiness.
1. Photos remind us of the people, places, and activities we love.
Many people keep photos in their homes, in their office, or in their wallet, and happy families tend to display large numbers of photos at home. In Happier at Home, I write about my “shrine to my family” made of photographs.
2. Photos help us remember the past.
On...
Source: World of Psychology - January 25, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Gretchen Rubin Tags: General Happiness Psychology Self-Help Artwork Beloved Father Desk Disclosure Family Photographs Great Memory Happy Families Happy Times Hardback Book Large Numbers Memento Mementos Occasions Plum Preserving Memories Source Type: blogs
More Of This and That…
Well, I procured more RAM yesterday. 3 sticks of Corsair XMS-3 RAM at 12 Gigs total. I was very pleased on the drive home. I couldn’t wait to get home and “play” which meant overclocking the RAM to 1866 MHz – the same speed my other 12 Gigs of Ram is clocked at.. I crossed my fingers that my computer would recognize the RAM and it did on the first boot. Computers and their various components can be so finicky at times. Maggie got a full Jim Bob’s chicken finger plate as a gift. Dad says I am wasting my money by doing that. “She’s got plenty of dog food to eat!” he will excl...
Source: The 4th Avenue Blues - January 24, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Andrew Quixote Source Type: blogs
New to Diabetes: What's Next? (Part 3)
By Amy Campbell
Last week I focused on blood glucose monitoring and logging as essential tools to help people new to diabetes (well, actually ANYONE with diabetes) get a handle on how factors like food, alcohol, physical activity, and illness affect blood glucose.
If you don't have a blood glucose meter, or if you have one but haven't been using it, now's the time to start. Remember that it's your diabetes, and it's up to you to learn how it affects you so that you can effectively manage it. Don't be afraid of the numbers, learn from them. And if you're not sure what they mean, take them to your doctor or to a diabetes ed...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - January 22, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
In the two days I've had off since the holidays. . .
. . .I've gotten into an Ancient Cookbook Frenzy.One thing I can say for people in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: they had one hell of a collective sweet tooth. Make a pie of artichoke bottoms? Strew it with sugar before you serve it to table. Boil a calve's chaldron (which I just found out is entrails) and spice it with mace and nutmeg and cinnamon? Sprinkle a little sugar over that mofo before you serve it up in a pasty. Roast a rooster? Sugar. Making a nice (meaning exacting) recipe for biskit? Sugar. Sheep's feet? Sugar.When a recipe starts with "Take a pound of sugar, seirced, and lay it onto four pounds of ...
Source: Head Nurse - January 5, 2013 Category: Nurses Authors: Jo Source Type: blogs
Saying Goodbye to Surgery Scars
If you’re planning to have cancer surgery in the near future or recently had surgery, your thoughts undoubtedly move to how you can minimize the trauma and scarring associated with treatment and speed the healing process. Healing wounds whether from accidental injury or surgical intervention requires a delicate interplay of multiple cell types, nutritional factors, immune processes and growth factors. Proper planning and prompt attention can promote normalization in appearance.
Healing -From the Inside Out
Wound healing is a stepwise process involving hemostasis, inflammation, and remodeling. During hemostasis, blood pla...
Source: Dr. Donna, MedicineWoman - January 25, 2009 Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Dr. Donna Tags: Personal Health healing scars supplements surgery wound healing Source Type: blogs
