Why you should ignore altmetrics and other bibliometric nightmares
Conclusions about bibliometrics
Bibliometricians spend much time correlating one surrogate outcome with another, from which they learn little. What they don’t do is take the time to examine individual papers. Doing that makes it obvious that most metrics, and especially altmetrics, are indeed an ill-conceived and meretricious idea. Universities should know better than to subscribe to them.
Although altmetrics may be the silliest bibliometric idea yet, much this criticism applies equally to all such metrics. Even the most plausible metric, counting citations, is easily shown to be nonsense b...
Source: DC's goodscience - January 16, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia altmetrics bibliometrics open access peer review Public relations publishing acupuncture badscience bibliobollocks publication regulation Source Type: blogs
End of the Year: What Have We Learned? You'd Be Surprised
This is the time of year to pause and reflect. A few of my own random ruminations:
Major achievement of the year
Veggies baked in puff pastry. Last year, I perfected a veggie loaf. This was a greens-mushroom-potato-walnut-egg concoction stuffed in a meatloaf pan. This year, I had the bright idea of rolling it up in a mustard-coated puff pastry sheet. What came out of the oven was a culinary masterpiece - my own Veggie... (Source: John McManamy's SharePosts)
Source: John McManamy's SharePosts - December 31, 2013 Category: Mental Illness Authors: John McManamy Source Type: blogs
Walnuts Improve Blood Vessel Function
By Diane Fennell
If you've resolved to improve your diet in 2014, there's one small step you can take that will reap big rewards, according to new research from the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center: incorporating walnuts into your diet.
Previous studies have established the health benefits of nuts, including lowering cholesterol levels, facilitating weight loss, decreasing the risk of heart disease, and boosting brain health.
To determine the effect of walnuts on cardiovascular health in overweight adults, the researchers looked at 46 nonsmokers ages 30–75 who had a body-mass index (BMI) greater than 25 (...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - December 27, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Diane Fennell Source Type: blogs
Miracle on 38th Street: Micro-Changes & Majestic Moments in a Philadelphia Cab
“Happiness is when you give the love…” — Philadelphia cab driver
Elevation results, when the right kind of tone and the right kind of emotions, with the right kind of rhythm and respect, become integrated with the right kind of themes to form a vibrant life-philosophical line of thought. — Finnish practical philosopher Esa Saarinen
“Don’t get out; it’s too cold,” I told the cabbie. “Just pop the trunk.”
He did. I put my bags in the back and slid into the cab. “38th and Walnut, please.”
“How are you, sir?” he offered.
“Very good. A good day, yes? I hear we are going to get some snow...
Source: World of Psychology - December 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Daniel Tomasulo, Ph.D. Tags: General Happiness Proof Positive Psychology Relationships Research Barbara Fredrickson Changing Behavior Changing Habits Emotion Esa Saarinen Love majestic changes micro-moments Mother Teresa Philadelphia Positive Psycholog Source Type: blogs
Best Dairy Free Vegan Cheeses for Christmas
Top 10 Dairy Free Vegan Cheeses for Christmas Yep, it's true, even vegans, those with lactose and dairy allergies and food in-tolerances or those who avoid dairy for ethical or other health reasons can enjoy a cheesey Christmas.Here's a list of our top 10 favourite Christmas dairy free vegan cheesesVegusto Piquant Dairy Free CheeseSwiss dairy free vegan cheese to smile forA delicious, award winning Gruyere-like, good mature cheddar alternative that could rightfully take it's place on any cheeseboard in any restaurant without having to provide a warning with a wag of the finger introducing it as "The Vegan Cheese". Aw...
Source: Healthy Eating and Nutrition News - December 17, 2013 Category: Nutritionists and Food Scientists Tags: cheese cheeseboard cheeses cheeze cheezly christmas dairy free food freefrom health risella scheese sheese sheeze vegan vegerella Source Type: blogs
Great article from NY Times on the benefits of snacking on nuts
well.blogs.nytimes.com Snacking Your Way to Better Health by JANE E. BRODY Dec. 9, 2013 original Jane Brody on health and aging. Nuts to you! No, that's not an insult. It's a recommendation to add nuts to your diet for the sake of your health and longevity. Consistent evidence for the health benefits of nuts has been accumulating since the early 1990s. Frequent nut consumption has been linked to a reduced risk of major chronic diseases, including heart and blood vessel disorders and Type 2 diabetes. The newest and most convincing findings, report...
Source: Dr Portnay - December 10, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr Portnay Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly holiday recipes II
Now for the desserts!
Here are recipes for Pumpkin Pie, Apple Cranberry Crumble, and Pumpkin Spice Muffins. Remember: By taking out wheat and other grains, not resorting to gluten-free junk carbohydrate replacements, not adding sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, limiting net carbohydrate content and not using other problem ingredients, we now have healthy desserts that do not pack on the pounds, screw with blood sugar, mess with satiety signals, or exert inflammatory effects. Have your Apple Cranberry Crumble or Pumpkin Spice Muffin and suffer not a moment of guilt! And I think they’re pretty darned tasty, too.
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Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 26, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
Wheat Belly holiday recipes I
At the start of their Wheat Belly journey, many people resign themselves to a life without gravy, biscuits, or pumpkin pie, having to make the best of holidays devoid of enjoyment and indulgence. Just eat your dry turkey meat and lettuce leaves!
It’s not true. You can indeed have all your holiday dishes. But we are going to recreate them without wheat, without other grains, without use of gluten-free junk carbohydrates (no cornstarch, tapioca starch, potato starch, or rice flour), with little to no added sugars, and no other problem ingredients. Minus all the undesirable ingredients, in fact, pumpkin pie, biscuits, a...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - November 25, 2013 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes Source Type: blogs
Foods That Fight…Illness, That Is
By Amy Campbell
That time of the year is upon us: the "holidays." It's not even Thanksgiving yet, but the stores are already filled with Christmas decorations and gifts. Holiday music is playing on radio stations. Holidays are fun, but this season can come with side effects, including colds and flu, heartburn, upset stomach, headaches, muscle aches, and fatigue. Medicine is often needed to treat these maladies, but if you're looking for something a little more natural and gentle, think, instead, about food. Food is medicine, too, and what better way to remedy your maladies and nourish your body at the same time?
Colds and ...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - November 25, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
Facing the Fats
By Amy Campbell
Fat is a necessary nutrient, and we need it to sustain health. But it's also had its share of hard knocks in the past, and many people (including some dietitians) are still leery about promoting its goodness. In light of the new cholesterol management guidelines from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology, as well as the FDA's recent proposal to ban trans fat, I decided to write about the different types of fat in our diets this week.
I won't get into either of these stories in much detail, but suffice it to say that cholesterol has been in the news big-time recently. New guid...
Source: Diabetes Self-Management - November 18, 2013 Category: Diabetes Authors: Amy Campbell Source Type: blogs
Easy Ways to Increase Healthy Omega-3s in Your Child’s Diet
When MsGreene was pregnant with my youngest in 1995, she craved tuna sandwiches. She could tell you where there was a good one within a mile of just about anywhere we normally visited.
Later studies were release showing tuna, and many other ocean fish, may contain mercury and PCBs. She was horrified at what she might have done to our son. For years she lamented, “I was just responding to what my body craved because my body knew it needed omega-3 rich food to build my baby’s brain.”
If you are like her, you’re probably looking for healthy ways to feed your unborn baby, children, and yourself omega-3...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 1, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Healthy Family Eating Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Cure Natural Aqua Gel: Look at the label
I have to admit this best selling product on Amazon.com baffles me.
It’s allegedly the top selling exfoliator in Japan. Exfoliators, as you probably know, work typically work in one of two ways: by chemically loosening dead skin cells with an alpha hydroxy acid or similar chemical. Or by mechanically removing dead skin cells with an abrasive particle like a walnut shell or a polyethylene bead.
This product contains neither type of ingredient. It does, however, contain “Activated Hydrogen Water.” I don’t know what it’s activated with but I’m certainly happy to see that they’re not o...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - October 19, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: thebeautybrains Tags: Questions Source Type: blogs
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Source: Carin' For Karen - October 18, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Twtvrudori Tags: Life in general Source Type: blogs
5 Keys to Eating for Better Brain Health
Although many people may see the value in the grain- and gluten-free diet proposed by Grain Brain, getting them to take the final step, to actually make a nutritional change in their life, can often prove difficult. That’s understandable, because the first few days and weeks of making any lifestyle change are challenging. In this case, those who have trouble cite an inability to find gluten-free recipes, uncertainty over conflicting gluten-free food lists, reliance on dinning out, or any other of a multitude of issues. So, I decided to write this blog post. Eating to prevent brain disease and Alzheimer’s is, of course,...
Source: Renegade Neurologist - A Blog by David Perlmutter, MD, FACN - October 9, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: gbadmin Tags: Nutrition Alzheimer’s avocado beef coconut oil coffee NrF2 olive oil Omega-3 Source Type: blogs
ADHD Awareness Book Displays in Agassiz, Boston Bar, The City of Langley, And Township of Langley Libraries
Post from: Adult ADD Strengths
Cross posted to BC ADHD.
Even more Lower Mainland BC Libraries signed up to participate in raising awareness of ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder for ADHD Awareness Week Oct 14-20th. I’m really happy about how many Librarians throughout the Lower Mainland are pitching in to help raise awareness of ADHD.
Volunteers from my Vancouver Adult ADD Support Group and I have signed up Libraries in Agassiz, Boston Bar, The City of Langley, And Township of Langley to have ADHD Awareness Week Book Displays. There will be ADHD books, books by authors who have ADHD, our ADHD Awareness...
Source: Adult ADD Strengths - October 8, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: Pete Quily Tags: ADD / ADHD Awareness Source Type: blogs
