Answer to Case 719
Answer to theParasite of the Week 719:Cyclosporasp. oocysts. WhileCryptosporidiumspp. oocysts have a similar appearance, they are smaller thanCyclosporaoocysts, measuring only 4-6 micrometers in diameter. Note thatCyclospora oocysts do not stain uniformly with either the modified acid fast or modified safranin methods, although there tends to be fewer unstained oocysts with the latter. The microwave modification of the safranin stain will also improve the staining uniformity (see the CDC procedureHERE).As Dr. Marc Couturier pointed out on Twitter, there are now three morphologically-identical species o...
Source: Creepy Dreadful Wonderful Parasites - June 19, 2023 Category: Parasitology Source Type: blogs
Here Is How Digital Health Devices Helped Me Recover From A Serious Infection
This article – like all our articles and technology reviews – was not sponsored by the company. However, having all these devices available allowed me to track a good amount of data on a single platform – which was comfortable, but by no means necessary, you could do the same with devices from a number of manufacturers)
Here is what I learned as the disease progressed
The sleep sensor showed my average heart rate (HR) was above 80 even during my sleep during the acute phase of the infection, while it is around 55 during my resting hours normally. I was able to track when the acute phase ended ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 6, 2022 Category: Information Technology Authors: Andrea Koncz Tags: TMF E-Patients Health Sensors & Trackers digital health digital health sensors recovery Source Type: blogs
4 essential nutrients — are you getting enough?
The newest dietary guidelines for Americans say that many Americans don’t get enough of four vital nutrients. Over time, a shortfall of these nutrients may affect different aspects of your health, from teeth and bones to your heart, gut, muscles, blood pressure, weight, and more.
What is a nutritional shortfall?
Nutritional advice can be confusing. Eat more of this, less of that. Make sure you get enough — but not too much. It’s no wonder many people have so-called nutritional shortfalls, where their diet lacks sufficient essential nutrients.
So, which nutrients do you really need and how much? And what key nutri...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 16, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Matthew Solan Tags: Health Healthy Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Home-cooked meals with less salt
With more people staying at home these days, there’s more opportunity to prepare homemade meals. Although home-cooked meals tend to be much lower in salt than what you’d get from a restaurant, you still need to be careful, says Liz Moore, a dietitian at Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC).
Why worry about salt?
Most Americans consume far too much sodium, which raises blood pressure and the risk of heart disease. On average, we consume around 3,200 milligrams (mg) per day. That’s about 30% more than is recommended by the federal dietary guidelines, which advise people to limit their dai...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 14, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Cooking and recipes Health Healthy Eating Hypertension and Stroke Source Type: blogs
Destiny shares her recipe for the best fat bombs she ’ s ever had: Strawberry Cheesecake
Destany shared her recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake Fat Bombs in the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Facebook page, re-posted here. People have gone wild for them!
“These were THE BEST fat bombs I’ve ever made: Strawberry Cheesecake!
“One of the hardest parts in the beginning of this WOE (way of eating) is consuming enough fat. After years of being taught ‘fat is bad’ it can be difficult to UN-learn that.
“I eat a couple for breakfast, 1 between lunch and dinner, and another before bed. Sunday is always a good day to prep for the week!”
Destany shared her recipe:
1 block cream che...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 12, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open fat blaster fat bomb Weight Loss wheat belly Source Type: blogs
7 Foods That May Help Your Productivity
You're reading 7 Foods That May Help Your Productivity, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Food is fuel to your productivity. Understanding this should revolutionize the way we eat. How often do you ask yourself “Am I eating what my body needs, or what my tastebuds want?”
When it comes to achieving productivity in your workday, the importance of eating well cannot be overemphasized. Here are 7 suggestions for healthy meals/snacks to improve your health and productivity at the same ti...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: BenTejes Tags: featured productivity tips food for brain food for the mind Source Type: blogs
Phytonutrients: Paint your plate with the colors of the rainbow
Did you know that adding color to your meals will help you live a longer, healthier life? Colorful fruits and vegetables can paint a beautiful picture of health because they contain phytonutrients, compounds that give plants their rich colors as well as their distinctive tastes and aromas. Phytonutrients also strengthen a plant’s immune system. They protect the plant from threats in their natural environment such as disease and excessive sun.
When humans eat plant foods, phytonutrients protect us from chronic diseases. Phytonutrients have potent anti-cancer and anti-heart disease effects. And epidemiological research sug...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Allotment Life, hashtag: #AllotmentLife
Some of the more astute among you may have spotted the occasional recent allusion to our acquisition of an allotment…well half an allotment to be precise, with a shed. For years, we had been toying with the idea of taking on an allotment, the site is just five minutes walk from our house, it’s almost a peppercorn rent, and it’s safe from the dog digging up seedlings and eating the veg.
So, back in February, I contacted the chair of the local charity that manages the allotments and as spring rolled on, got a reply from the trustee in charge of assigning them. We took a look at a possible “quarter...
Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - April 15, 2019 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: AllotmentLife Source Type: blogs
Healthy, wholesome easy lunches
Just the idea of packing a lunch elicits a stress response in so many of us. Maybe we’re packing lunch for our kids, maybe it’s for us, but the pressure is on to create a simple yet satisfying, healthy yet hearty, easily transportable meal. This seemingly impossible task is daunting to many people. So much easier to rely on the school cafeteria, lunch trucks, and takeout, right?
Wrong! Let us consider the short- and long-term effects of poor choices at lunchtime. Yes, the school cafeteria may offer some healthy-ish options. I can count on my kids not to choose any of them. Likewise our workplace food trucks and fast fo...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 5, 2018 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Food as medicine Health Healthy Eating 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
Madeline ’ s Wheat Belly success . . . in a real world
Madeline shared her story on our Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox private Facebook page. Her experience highlights many important aspects of this lifestyle, but especially how health can be transformed by sticking to this lifestyle and not being confused by “gluten-free” foods, the misguided advice of doctors, and overcoming stress that is inevitable in everyone’s lives.
Her reward? Magnificent transformation in her health and appearance, all achieved by rejecting conventional dietary advice.
“I’m posting to show that not everyone looses at the same speed–don’t be discouraged. I l...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 5, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle asthma diabetes gluten grains skin rash Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
April in Paris: Voyager Avec Enfants (Day One)
For the past six years, we ' d spent the kids Spring Break in Hilton Head, SC. It was a great family tradition--we ' d rent a house on the beach with pool, the kids would play in the sand and swim every day, we ' d cook, do a lot of reading, relax--it wasthat kind of thing. Simple, fun, kid-friendly, crowd-pleasing. However, now that my kids are getting somewhat older, we ' re trying to push ourselves a little bit more with our travel (in the somewhat limited time we have, around our work schedules and the kids school), and so after a very successful trip to London last summer, we decided,you know what, let ' s just go for...
Source: the underwear drawer - April 3, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Michelle Au Source Type: blogs
Fat Blasters: Ketosis ’ best friend
After elimination of virtually all dietary carbohydrates/sugars, the key to achieving physiologic ketosis is to maintain high fat intake. Not increased protein intake that can, in fact, “turn off” ketosis, since liberal protein intake modestly increases blood insulin and sugar levels, thereby undoing the process that generates ketosis. The key is to increase fat intake and thereby feel satiated and turn off all desire for carbs while not provoking insulin release. If accelerated weight loss or breaking a weight loss plateau is among your goals, increased fat intake—counterintuitively—encourages mobi...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - December 5, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle carbs fat blasters gluten grains ketosis low-carb Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of August 2016
I ’m on “vacation” this week, working remotely from the farm, so no Wednesday blog post, but here’s the Unity Farm update.I always tell my staff that management is balancing scope, time and resources. To much scope and not enough makes resources very grouchy unless they are augmented.The same thing is true about managing a farm. Unless you set a scope that is achievable with the resources you have, the time (defined as the seasons in the farming year), living things, including your own well being, will suffer.As we plan for 2017, something we ’re doing during my slack time this week, we’e set a...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 18, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - First Week of July 2016
When running a farm you sometimes feel like MacGyver - given a few 2x4s, a piece of hardware cloth, and a box of bags, create a compost bagging machine. Every year, we produce about 10,000 pounds of organic compost from alpaca manure (a 16:1 carbon to nitrogen ratio) and timothy hay (a 45:1 carbon to nitrogen ratio), resulting in a perfect blend of Unity Farm “Llama beans” which has a 25:1 carbon to nitrogen ratio. Alpaca compost has been described as “gardener’s gold” because of its perfect balance of nutrients. One cubic foot weighs 33 pounds, so we can produce 300 bags for sale each year. &...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - June 30, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
