A patient with yellow palms of hands ✋️
Yellow palms in a 55-year-old female. Some of the more common causes include:* Carotenemia: This is a condition that occurs when you have too much carotene in your blood. Carotene is a pigment found in many fruits and vegetables, such as carrots, sweet potatoes, and spinach. When you eat too much carotene, it can build up in your skin and give it a yellow tint.* Liver disease: Liver disease can cause a yellowing of the skin, including the palms of the hands. This is because the liver is responsible for breaking down carotene and other pigments. If the liver is not functioning properly, these pigments can build up in the sk...
Source: cochinblogs - July 23, 2023 Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs
10 Methods To Prevent Low Blood Pressure: Steps Toward Optimal Health
Conclusion
To sum things up, preventing low blood pressure is crucial for maintaining overall well-being and avoiding potential health complications.
By adopting preventive measures, individuals can take control of their health and make informed choices to promote stable blood pressure levels.
Incorporating practices such as staying hydrated, maintaining a balanced diet, engaging in regular physical activity, managing stress effectively, and monitoring medications can significantly reduce the likelihood of experiencing low blood pressure episodes and associated symptoms.
Prevention not only reduces immediate he...
Source: The EMT Spot - June 18, 2023 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Michael Rotman, MD, FRCPC, PhD Tags: Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
How healthy eating can protect us from extreme weather
Hurricane season starts June 1, and many of us in the Southeast and along the Gulf Coast are stocking up on bottled water and other supplies. As a physician focused on preventive medicine and public health, I recommend filling your pantry with healthful plant-based foods like black-eyed peas, sweet potatoes, pecans, canned soups, peanut butter,
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How healthy eating can protect us from extreme weather originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - June 10, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: R. Jason Newsom, MD, MPH Tags: Policy Public Health & Policy Source Type: blogs
TBTAM DIGEST – Nov 30, 2022
Cross-publishing here for those without a substack subscription (Which is free)…
Happy almost December! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving and are enjoying the in-between holiday time. Here’s what’s been going on in my neck of the woods….
What I’ve been cooking on the blog
Farro with Oyster Mushrooms and Onions – You call it Thanksgiving. I call it a chance for a sweet potato bake-off.
Spanish Stuffed Peppers – An original recipe from The Blog that Ate Manhattan. With a little help from my friends (and family)…
Where I Ate
Valley Green Inn in the Wissahickon Valley.&n...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - December 1, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
A Thanksgiving Sweet Potato Bake-Off
I hope your Thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine. We did our usual back-to-back Thanksgiving dinners, shuttling between mine and Mr. TBTAM’s families, trying not to eat too much or too little at either one.
This year, my family eschewed the homemade turkey and instead had a relaxed luncheon at the Valley Green Inn situated on Philadelphia’s Wissahickon Valley Forbidden Drive, one of my favorite places in the whole world.
I’ve biked, hiked, walked, or run that trail countless times over the years, alone and with friends and family. The place is so special to us that my sister Fran’s a...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 26, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Vegetables Candied Goguma Japanese sweet potatoes Korean sweet potatoes Thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup
I’m often asked to recommend recipes for Thanksgiving, so here’s a few suggestions for you all.
I’ve never actually cooked a turkey, so this will just be sides and desserts. To be honest, that’s pretty much are all I care to eat at Thanksgiving dinner anyway.
Noticeably missing from this list are recipes for cranberry sauce (I use the one on the cranberry bag – no need to mess with perfection), mashed potatoes (there is no recipe, it’s instinctual if you’re Patsy’s daughter), and stuffing (I’ve never made it, that gets assigned to someone else).
Hope the...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Gluten-free thanksgiving Holidays recipes Sides Thanksgiving desserts Thnksgiving recipes Vegetarian thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
Home Remedies for High Blood Pressure
Lower high blood pressure with these effective home remedies that are easy to apply, whether you’re dealing with mild or more severe cases of the condition.
If you’re searching for natural ways to lower your blood pressure, a few home remedies may help.
From making some lifestyle changes to eating mindfully, these tips can help you get your numbers down.
Talk to your doctor before trying new treatments, and read for more information.
Quick Summary
Regular exercise can help lower blood pressure by making the heart stronger and more efficient.
The DASH diet is a tried-and-tested eating pa...
Source: The EMT Spot - November 1, 2022 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: bpscore-sibera Tags: Guides Blood Pressure Source Type: blogs
8 Foods I ’ve Added to My Diet to Enhance My Health
Some nutritionists believe that food is medicine. I’m not sure if I want to go through life taking nothing but chicken soup every time I get sick, but I pay attention to what I put in my mouth and its effects on my body.
As a result, I’ve eliminated many products from my meals over the years, but what I gave up, I made up for in healthier additions. Here are eight foods I’ve added to my diet to enhance my health and why.
1. Beets
Your thoughts might not turn to this root vegetable until it’s time to make red beet eggs for your next picnic. However, including more of them in your weekly diet could help your...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - March 11, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kara Reynolds Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement food mental health pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Pondering a 365-Day Challenge for 2021
Are you thinking about doing a 365-day challenge for 2021?
I’m already thinking about doing another one.
I still have 4 weeks left on my 2020 daily blogging challenge, which actually started on December 24, 2019. It feels like an easy coast to the finish line after blogging for 345 days in a row.
Doing something every day for a year can be transformational, even if you stop after that year, because it creates an empowering reference experience. You gain a memory of achievement that you’ll have for the rest of your life.
Knowing that you can do something every day for a year helps you nuke any future exc...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - December 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Grain-Free, Legume-Free, Sugar-Free Experiment
For the month of August, I’ve been doing a new dietary experiment. I’m eating grain-free, legume-free, and sugar-free. I’m doing this mainly out of curiosity to see what effect it has. I think I’m far enough along (about four weeks) that this would be a good time to share what I’ve learned.
The biggest adjustment was switching some common food sources, especially carbs. Instead of brown rice or rice noodles, I’ve been eating more potatoes, sweet potatoes, and starchy squash. Instead of beans or tofu, I’m eating more fruit, nuts, and veggies.
While I’ve removed refined s...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Problems and Insights within NBC ’s Report on H-2A Abuses
ConclusionI have asked NBC to correct its report with respect to the claim that 5,000 H-2A workers were cheated out of their wages in 2019, since it is incorrect, but so far no correction has come. It would have been nice if they had quoted at least one worker supportive of the program (there are hundreds of thousands) or quoted a proponent of the program that wasn ’t an employer (which may have caught some of the issues above). Another bit of missing context is the fact that entirely aside from the H-2A program, some employers in every industry sometimes lie and defraud U.S. workers too. They fail to pay them what they ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 31, 2020 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Everyone has a role to play: Reducing your child ’s risk of developing food allergies
By RUCHI GUPTA, MD, MPH
The average American elementary school class includes two students living with one or multiple food allergies. That’s nearly six million children in the United States alone. And these numbers are climbing. There was a staggering 377 percent increase in medical claims with diagnoses of anaphylactic food reactions between 2007 and 2016, two-thirds of these were children.
As parents, we want the absolute best for our children. For many years, guidance around food introduction was unclear. Parents were told that babies, and especially those considered at risk for food allergies, should avoid...
Source: The Health Care Blog - July 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Medical Practice Public Health allergies Food Allergies Pediatrics Ruchi Gupta Source Type: blogs
Whole Foods as First Foods
It may seem overwhelming at first, but in reality baby’s first food could be as simple as a nice banana, mashed with a bit of breast milk or formula.
In the U.S. for many years the go-to for baby’s first food has been an instant white rice cereal. While there is nothing wrong with rice per se, white rice in particular has been stripped of many of its beneficial nutrients, including fiber, Vitamin E, magnesium, and a host of other trace minerals the body relies upon to function optimally. What is left is essentially a simple carbohydrate that quickly turns to glucose, resulting in spikes in blood sugar. It’s not exact...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - May 5, 2020 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog First Foods Infant & Baby Feeding Infant Feeding Starting Solids Source Type: blogs
A System that Fails Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers
Connie Chan
Brooke Warren
Phuoc Le
By PHUOC LE, MD, CONNIE CHAN, and BROOKE WARREN
I recently took care of Rosaria[1], a cheerful 60-year-old woman who came in for chronic joint pain. She grew up in rural Mexico, but came to the US thirty years ago to work in the strawberry fields of California. After examining her, I recommended a few blood tests and x-rays as next steps. “Lo siento pero no voy a tener seguro hasta el primavera — Sorry but I won’t have insurance again until the Spring.” Rosaria, who is a seasonal farmworker, told me she only gets access to health care during the strawberry season....
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Christina Liu Tags: Uncategorized Arc Health Brooke Warren Connie Chan migrant and seasonal agricultural workers Phuoc Le public health SDoH Social Determinants of Health Source Type: blogs
