Kilimanjaro Can Be Anywhere: How to Forget Excuses and Adopt a Healthy Lifestyle
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It's far too easy to come up with reasons not to embark on an outdoor adventure — or even a simple nature hike. The weather’s bad. There are no mountains nearby. The trails are closed.
But there are a host of reasons those barriers shouldn't stand in our way.
I've always wanted to hike the full John Muir Trail — so much so that I made a pact with the c...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - October 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Munjal Shah Tags: featured health and fitness health tips healthy living hiking Source Type: blogs
Interventionists Evade Responsibility for Their Policy Disasters
Ted Galen CarpenterAs I point out in a newNational Interest Onlinearticle, a multi-sided struggle for power in Libya continues to fester more than eight years after the United States led an air war to help rebels oust longtime dictator Muammar Qaddafi.Libya joins Iraq and Syria as a classic example of the failed U.S. regime-change strategy.Fighting between Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar ’s so-called Libyan National Army (LNA) and the even more misnamed Government of National Accord (GNA) has intensified in and around the capital, Tripoli. The LNA boasted on September 11 that its forces had routed troops of the Sarraj milit...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 20, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Capital Gains Taxes: Already Too High
Chris EdwardsDemocrats are proposing to raise capital gains taxes. Ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee, Ron Wyden, wants to tax capital gains on an annual basis, not the current realization basis. He also wants to hike the top capital gains tax rate for high earners to match the top rate on ordinary income. CNBCreports“Almost every major Democratic presidential candidate supports taxing capital gains as ordinary income . . .Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Thursday outlined an even more aggressive planthat would impose a new 14.8 percent tax on investment income to help finance Social Security.”These are radical and...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - September 18, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Chris Edwards Source Type: blogs
Can You Form an Addiction to Suboxone?
While Suboxone can be a helpful tool for many, it is important to also understand its addictive nature. Because it is an opioid, wondering if you can form an addiction to Suboxone can be answered simply: Yes. Although the rates of addiction are much smaller than those of other opioids, it is still important to take their addictive properties seriously and get help if you start to notice the signs and symptoms of addiction to Suboxone.
What is Suboxone?
According to their own website, Suboxone is a prescription medicine that contains the active ingredients buprenorphine and naloxone. It is used to treat adults who are depe...
Source: Cliffside Malibu - September 13, 2019 Category: Addiction Authors: Jaclyn Uloth Tags: Addiction Addiction to Pharmaceuticals Substance Abuse addiction treatment addictionologist detox drug detox medical detox medicated-assisted detox prescription drug detox prescription medication suboxone Source Type: blogs
Michigan Ban on Flavored E-Cigarettes is a Terrible Policy with Devastating Public Health Consequences
Yesterday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmersigned into law an executive order that bans the sale of all flavored e-cigarettes in the state. The ban includes both retail sales and online sales of all e-cigarettes, with the sole exception of tobacco-flavored products. In doing so, Michigan becomes the first state in the nation to promulgate a complete ban on the sale of the overwhelming majority of vaping products.In defending the ban, state health officials " pointed to studies indicating that young people who vape are more likely to start smoking regular cigarettes. "The Rest of the StoryI cannot overemphasize how insane...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 5, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
American Lung Association Condemns 2.5 Million Ex-Smokers for Using E-Cigarettes to Quit
What do you say to a person who smoked two packs of cigarettes per day for 30 years and then quits completely by switching to vaping?I would say: Congratulations on this amazing and difficult accomplishment. You ' ve saved your life and done a huge service not only to yourself but to your family and friends.The American Lung Association, in contrast, is saying to vapers: Shame on you! You shouldn ' t have done that. You ' re a bad person because you ' re still using a tobacco product. And you ' re at risk of dying from acute respiratory failure.Specifically, the American Lung Associationstated: " The bottom line is that e-...
Source: The Rest of the Story: Tobacco News Analysis and Commentary - September 1, 2019 Category: Addiction Source Type: blogs
Impossible and Beyond: How healthy are these meatless burgers?
Plant-based burgers are not a novel concept. But new products designed to taste like meat are now being marketed to vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger are two such options. Eating these burgers is touted as a strategy to save the earth, casting meat as a prehistoric concept. Both brands also offer up their products as nutritious alternatives to animal protein.
But how do they stack up? It turns out the answer may depend on whether your priorities lie with your personal health or the health of the planet.
The good news: Meatless burgers are a good source of protein, vitami...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - August 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Emily Gelsomin, MLA, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Managing Mutually Antagonistic Allies Is Like Herding Cats
One problem (among many) the United States has experienced in leading a vast array of allies and security dependents is that periodic quarrels break out among such clients. Even when the disputes are parochial and petty, the degree of animosity generated frequently is not. Not only does Washington then face the prospect of one or more of those allies breaking ranks and undermining U.S. policy objectives, but the danger exists that a confrontation might escalate to a cold war —or even a hot one.Deteriorating relations between two of Washington ’s prominent allies in East Asia–Japan and the Republic of Korea–are now ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - August 8, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: Ted Galen Carpenter Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Sexual Side Effects Caused by Psychiatric Medications
It’s common knowledge that psychiatric medications are prone to sexual side effects. It’s often referenced in the advertising. Since most people living with mental illness want to be both happy and have a satisfying sex life, this creates a bit of a quandary
Are the two things mutually exclusive? What does a person on psychiatric medications do when the cure seems worse than the illness? Listen in to find out now!
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“The sexual side effects of [psychiatric] medications are the number one reason people stop taking them.”
– Gabe
Highlights from ‘Medication Sexual Side Effects’ Ep...
Source: World of Psychology - July 29, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: A Bipolar, a Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Tags: A Bipolar, A Schizophrenic, and a Podcast Antidepressant Antipsychotic Medications Schizophrenia Women's Issues Source Type: blogs
Decoding Physical Patterns of Our Bodies via Conformable Devices: Interview with MIT ’s Canan Dagdeviren
Nature is full of physical patterns – from our breathing and the heart beating in our chests to the tides that lap the shore. The Conformable Decoders group at MIT believe that if such patterns can be “decoded,” they can provide a rich seam of information that can help in designing a variety of devices that can better integrate with and affect natural systems, such as the human body.
The group members have numerous ongoing projects
that reflect this ethos. A major focus is on tiny electromechanical systems
which can influence and explore the human body, some of which have been covered
by Medgadget previously. For...
Source: Medgadget - July 24, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Exclusive Medicine Neurology Neurosurgery Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: Get me rewrite!
This is one of the more famous events in the Bible, but it ' s also like one of those " Can you spot the errors? " cartoons. Then theLord said to Moses,2 “Tell the Israelites to turn back and encamp near Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea. They are to encamp by the sea, directly opposite Baal Zephon.3 We still don ' t know in what physical manner God is speaking to Moses, but in any case, God seems to be mighty confused. These are not the actual names of any places in Egypt. Migdol means a tower in Hebrew, so conceivably it ' s a reference to some tower or other. Pi Hahiroth is not the name of a place...
Source: Stayin' Alive - July 21, 2019 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Digital Humanism And Healthcare
Patients not only have to be put in the center of care, but also in the center of health technology. In a more general manner that’s what digital humanism is about. Instead of technological development serving the interests of big tech companies to the detriment of people by exploiting human weaknesses and by taking control out of their hands, humans should step up and say stop to technology degrading humans, creating or widening gaps in societies, disregarding diversity. Here are some ideas and principles about how that, namely digital humanism, could unfold in healthcare.
Technology vs. humans: who has control?
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Source: The Medical Futurist - July 13, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine design development digital digital health digital technology ethics Healthcare human human nature humanism Innovation philosophy social sciences society technology design Source Type: blogs
Is There Such a Thing as a Free-Market Gold Standard?
Twice recently I ’ve come across arguments to the effect that, despite what some libertarians, goldbugs, cryptocurrency fans, and Fed Board candidates imagine, the idea that the historical gold standard kept governments from managing money, leaving the job to market forces, is a myth.Inhis June 24th piece criticizing Facebook ’s Libra Currency, which is being marketed as a sort of internationalstablecoin, Barry Eichengreen writes:Mercifully, Facebook avoided the idea that astablecoin will free us from the tyranny of the Federal Reserve. Typically, stablecoin purveyors invoke a mythical past in which the monetary unit o...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - July 9, 2019 Category: American Health Authors: George Selgin Source Type: blogs
