Balkanization and Immigration in America
One common critique of immigration and multiculturalism is that it will cause Balkanization in the United States. Usually, the evidence that purportedly shows Balkanization in America is underwhelming. Real Balkanization, in the Balkans, quickly led to terrorism, civil war, genocide, and some of the uglier nationalist movement of recent centuries. By comparison, there is hardly any ethnic separatist nationalist terrorism in the United States inspired by immigrant groups or their descendants.
The best example of ethnic separatism from a migrant group is terrorism caused by Puerto Rican socialist-inspired nationalists ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - June 20, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
Safe sex on weekends only
“I think totally eliminating wheat is too hard! What if I cut back, say, 80 or 90%? Can I still get most of the benefits?”
The short answer: No.
Let me explain. If you cut back on sugar by 90%, you obtain 90% of the benefits, right? 90% less weight gain, 90% less insulin provocation, 90% less dental cavities, etc. Simple arithemetic.
But, as with many things in this wheat- and grain- distorted world, that simple arithmetic does not hold with cutting back. Instead, a bizarre calculus of metabolic distortions apply because of several long-lasting effects of modern semi-dwarf wheat and other closely related gra...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - March 9, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle acid reflux aging cataracts gastrointestinal gluten glycation grains heart disease IBS Weight Loss Source Type: blogs
Is Your Antacid Medication Ruining Your Gut?
Proton Pump Inhibitors are a class of Antacid Medication that are so common and considered to be so safe that they were even declassified as prescription drugs and are now available over-the-counter so that anyone can use them if they happen to have heartburn. With names like Omeprazole, Nexium, and Prilosec, the ‘little purple pill’ is advertised everywhere on billboards and TV ads with barely a mention that their might be consequences to suppressing stomach acid.
There are consequences of any Acid Reflux Medication, however, like the Side Effects of Omeprazole and other proton pump inhibitors can lead to osteoporosis...
Source: Immune Health Blog - March 2, 2016 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kerri Knox, RN Tags: Digestive Health Infections Source Type: blogs
Key Ingredient Left Out Of Food Safety Rules
The sign inside my favorite Trader Joe’s announced a recall of raw cashew pieces due to concern over Salmonella. The soup for my dinner party would switch from a cauliflower-cashew to a sweet potato one. Minor inconvenience for me; major one for the food producer and anyone potentially made ill from the contaminant.
Salmonella is a nasty pathogen. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted that most people infected with the pathogen will develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps within 12 to 72 hours. The illness continues for four to seven days. Yet, in some people the infection manifests as reactive...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - February 17, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Robin Stombler Tags: Featured Public Health Quality CDC e-coli Food and Health food quality Food Safety Modernization Act Salmonella Source Type: blogs
Group member profile - Haruna Imamura
Here is the second entry into what I hope will be a very long series where I introduce our lab's members. Next up is Haruna Imamura (pubmed), an interdisciplinary postdoc with experience in mass-spectrometry and informatics.What was the path the brought you to the group? Where are you from and what did you work on before arriving in the group? I first joined the biological network analysis group in my undergraduate course in the lab of Masaru Tomita at Keio University (Japan). I launched a project, which applied the concept of network analysis to a dataset of phosphorylation dynamics. Because of this experience, I gre...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - December 15, 2015 Category: Cytology Tags: group Source Type: blogs
Group member profile - Haruna Imamura
Here is the second entry into what I hope will be a very longseries where I introduce our lab's members. Next up is Haruna Imamura (pubmed), an interdisciplinary postdoc with experience in mass-spectrometry and informatics.What was the path the brought you to the group? Where are you from and what did you work on before arriving in the group? I first joined the biological network analysis group in my undergraduate course in the lab ofMasaru Tomita at Keio University (Japan). I launched aproject, which applied the concept of network analysis to a dataset of phosphorylation dynamics. Because of this experience, I grew i...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - December 15, 2015 Category: Cytology Tags: group Source Type: blogs
Glyphosate: not JUST a carcinogen
One of the most potentially harmful aspects of genetically-modified crops, or GMOs, are that such crops are often engineered to be resistant to an herbicide. A farmer therefore can spray the herbicide to kill weeds, while the GM crop plant survives. But it means that the plant now has herbicide residues in it. So GMO crops pose a double-whammy: the crop itself with new genetically-programmed components, especially proteins, coupled with an herbicide.
Glyphosate is the most widely applied herbicide in the world, in part because GM corn and soy have been engineered to be glyphosate-resistant. So much glysphosate is being use...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 12, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle bowel flora gluten glyphosate gmo grains herbicide microbiota soy Source Type: blogs
A Food Safety Test We Have Yet To Pass
Back in 1987 The Wall Street Journal shocked health care consumers and awakened the U.S. clinical community with these headlines:
“Lax Laboratories: The Pap test misses much cervical cancer through labs’ errors” (Walt Bogdanich, November 2, 1987)
“Physician’s carelessness with Pap tests is cited in procedure’s high failure rate” (Walt Bogdanich, December 29, 1987)
“Medical labs, trusted as largely error-free, are far from infallible” (Walt Bogdanich, February 2, 1987)
“Risk Factor: inaccuracy in testing cholesterol hampers war on heart disease” (Walt Bogdanich, February 3, 1987)
It took this...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - August 20, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Robin Stombler Tags: Featured Public Health Quality FDA Food Laboratory Alliance food safety Food Safety Modernization Act FSMA Source Type: blogs
Of Rotten Eggs and Guilty Minds
It isn’t every day that a person can go to his or her job, work, not participate in any criminal activity, and still get a prison sentence. At least, that used to be the case: the overcriminalization of regulatory violations has unfortunately led to the circumstance that corporate managers now face criminal—not just civil—liability for their business operations’ administrative offenses.
Take Austin and Peter DeCoster, who own and run an Iowa egg-producing company called Quality Egg. The DeCosters plead guilty to violating certain provisions of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act because some of the eggs that left thei...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 30, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Ilya Shapiro, Randal John Meyer Source Type: blogs
Sorry, Patients ARE Qualified to Yelp Doctors!
By CANCER GEEK
Last night my friend and mentor Marie Ennis-O’Connor (@JBBC) highlighted her recent post on Medium entitled: “Patients As A Prop.”
Marie’s post pointed me to an opinion piece written by Niam Yaraghi (@niamyaraghi) for US News and World Report. (Niam is a fellow at Brookings Institute’s Center for Technology Innovation with a special focus on healthcare economics and health information) Niam’s post titled, “Don’t Yelp Your Doctor” discusses whether or not patients are capable or qualified to evaluate their physicians.
Niam writes:
“Patients are neither qualified nor capab...
Source: The Health Care Blog - June 20, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: THCB Source Type: blogs
This is a BFD
The FDA has just announced that partially hydrogenated oils are no longer considered "generally recognized as safe," which means that artificial trans fats will be essentially gone from the U.S. food supply in three years. (There is a small amount of trans fats in beef and dairy products, but it isn't comparable to the added artificial trans fats in processed foods.)This corrects a scientific error. When I was a youngster, margarine was touted as a healthier alternative to butter. We now know the opposite is true. Yes, olive oil is the best, but saturated fats -- typical animal fats -- aren't really harmful. Certainly they...
Source: Stayin' Alive - June 16, 2015 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
State of the lab, year 2 – reaching steady state
CC BY ,Jason Paul SmithAt the end of last year I wrote up a short description of what it was like to start a group at the EMBL-EBI. I though it would be interesting to try to make it an yearly event so here is the second installment. It is always scary how fast a year passes by and it is interesting to note how my perspective of managing a research group is changing.During this year we said our first goodbyes as Vicky Kostiou (linkedin) finished her internship. We also welcomed several new members including Rahuman Sheriff (postodoc, linkedin) Haruna Imamura (postdoc, pubmed), Marta Strumillo (intern, linkedin) and Juan A ...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - December 20, 2014 Category: Cytology Tags: academia state of the lab Source Type: blogs
Dreamy and oh so creamy! Dairy free, Paleo coffee creamer
I've been meaning to blog about this creamer for quite some time, but now that I am embarking on a new sugar detox tomorrow, the timing is perfect! I don't remember where I got the recipe, as it was a long time ago, but probably off of Mark Daily's Apple or some other Paleo discussion forum. For me, my morning coffee is a really important part of my day, and dang it I wish I liked it black, but alas, bleh. I like it creamy with a slight coffee taste. This is super easy and makes the transition to being dairy free much easier. It only has 4 ingredients, one of which is optional: Coconut milk, a pastured ...
Source: the beautiful diabetic - September 27, 2014 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kathryn Source Type: blogs
Collaborative postdoc fellowship opportunities
I interrupt this long blogging hiatus to point out two potential postdoc fellowship opportunities to work with our group at the EMBL-EBI. One is the EIPOD program that is an EMBL wide interdisciplinary program. For this fellowship the project is collaboration with Nassos Typas (genetics) and Jeroen Krijgsveld's (proteomics) groups at the EMBL in Heidelberg. Successful candidates would be studying how Salmonella uses post-translational modification effector proteins to regulate and subvert the host cell. It is important to note that EIPOD applicants must be interested in doing both the computational and experimental as...
Source: Evolution of Cellular Networks - September 5, 2014 Category: Cytology Tags: positions Source Type: blogs
