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September 28, 2009 at 8:41 pm (Health and wellness)

WARNING: New Evidence Shows Mercury Present in Nearly ALL Fish
Posted by: Dr. Mercola
September 29 2009 | 482 views

According to a new U.S. Geological Survey study, scientists detected mercury contamination in every fish sampled in nearly 300 streams across the United States.

More than a quarter of these fish were found to contain mercury at levels exceeding the criterion for the protection of people who consume average amounts of fish, established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. More than two-thirds of the fish exceeded the U.S. EPA level of concern for fish-eating mammals.

Exposure to mercury can damage your brain, kidney and lungs. Symptoms of mercury poisoning typically include sensory impairment, disturbed sensation and a lack of coordination.

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Recall

September 26, 2009 at 5:52 pm (Health and wellness)

Children’s Tylenol Products Recalled
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All About: Child Health and Safety
Submitted by ruzik_tuzik on Sep 26th, 2009
Posted under: Child Health and Safety
A voluntary recall has been issued by the McNeil Consumer Healthcare for certain lots of Childrens’ and Infants’ TYLENOL liquid products. The recalled products were manufactured between April 2008 and June 2008.
 
The reason for the recall is that the manufacturer of the TYLENOL products found that one inactive ingredient did not meet the quality standards and decided as a precautionary measure to recall the products that were made during this time period.
The recall does not include any of the Children’s TYLENOL Meltaways and Junior Strength TYLENOL Meltaways. The recall is for only some lots of the liquid products of the Children’s and Infants’ TYLENOL.
 

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Environs

September 25, 2009 at 3:59 pm (News and politics)

    

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Baking Tips

September 25, 2009 at 2:26 pm (Food and drink)

 

Five Secrets to the Perfect Cupcake

Friday, September 25, 2009 3:00 PM
By Jennie Yabroff

 

Photo, Henry Spencer / Getty Images.

by Jennie Yabroff

Cupcakes inspire a surprising amount of animosity for what would seem an innocuous dessert item. Ask most anti-cupcakists about the bases of their objections, and you’ll hear the same thing: cupcakes are dry, flavorless sugar bombs. But according to Pam Nelson, owner of Butter Lane Bakery in Manhattan, there’s no reason a cupcake can’t be moist, delicious, and not-too-sweet. “Our mantra in developing our recipes was less sugar, more flavor,” she says. A few secrets to perfect cupcakes:

  • Use the best butter you can find. Whenever possible,
  • use real ingredients: seeds of vanilla from vanilla beans, lemon from the fruit, not lemon-flavored extract.

   “  Cocoa belongs in a cup, not a cupcake.

  • Frosting doesn’t need to induce sugar shock.
  • “People do love frosting, and they tend to think the more you pile on, the better it is,” says Aaronson.
  • No naked cupcakes!  Whether you plan on frosting them or not, wrap your cupcakes within 30 minutes of taking them out of the oven, says Nelson. Her store uses plastic wrap for the vanilla cakes, and aluminum foil* for the chocolate—she’s not sure why, but finds different flavors require different wrappers. The cakes aren’t iced until serving, which prevents them from drying out.

   (TYH NOTE:  I try not to use *aluminum foil directly  when wrapping ANY foods, prefer  wax, freezer or parchment paper  when I can).

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Lean & Green

September 22, 2009 at 12:10 am (Health and wellness)

 
Get Lean By Going Green
14-Sep-2009

(BlackDoctor.org) – There’s a whole lot of talk about going green in the media. Some people feel that the suggested lifestyle changes of going green are extreme and inconvenient. If you’re not willing to overhaul your lifestyle to benefit the planet, there are some changes you should consider to improve your health, help you lose (or maintain) weight, and plump your bank account all while helping Mother Earth at the same time. Get rich and thin by going green? If you think that sounds too good to be true, read on.

1. Walk or bike instead of driving.

2. Ditch the drive-thru. According to TheDailyGreen.com, every time you use a drive-thru, you burn about 18 cents worth of gas with an idle car.

3. Buy local and organic food. Did you know that the food on the average American’s plate traveled 1,500 miles to get there?

4. Grow your own garden. Growing your own vegetables—especially without using synthetic pesticides or fertilizers— is another way to go green. From a tiny paper packet of seeds you can grow a month’s worth of tomatoes, peppers, or cucumbers.

5. Clean house. Chemicals in most household cleaning supplies might smell like a fresh breeze, but usually they’re anything but natural.

6. Go flexitarian. Flexitarians don’t give up meat completely but do cut back a little or a lot. It’s a green thing to do because it takes a lot less energy and land to produce fruits, vegetables, and grains, than it does to produce meat.

By Nicole Smith, BDO Staff Writer

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Not So Fast!

September 20, 2009 at 12:54 pm (News and politics)

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Man’s lung ailment caused by fragment of fast food spoon

Story Highlights

North Carolina resident had two years of coughing, vomiting, pain
Doctor peered in with an endoscope and spotted bit of spoon
Man assumes fragment was in something he ate or drank

(CNN) — "I know I didn’t chow down on a spoon!" declared John Manley, who recently discovered that an eating utensil was the source of his two years of ill health, coughing, vomiting and pain.

The Wilmington, North Carolina, resident had surgery last week to remove part of a plastic spoon from his lung. And it wasn’t just any old plastic spoon; it came from the fast-food chain Wendy’s, with the restaurant logo clearly visible on the handle.

"It must have been in the food or drink," Manley told CNN affiliate WECT.

His doctor found the spoon after looking into his lungs with an endoscope, a medical instrument with a long, thin tube containing a light and a video camera.

"He explained that there was an object down there, and it had writing on it," Manley said. "It spelled out ‘Wendy’s’ on one side and ‘hamburgers’ on the other, and I was a little floored."

So were his relatives, who, when they were telephoned with the news, were eating … Wendy’s.

All AboutWendy’s International Inc.
 
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/18/spoon.in.lung/index.html
 
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Household Pesticide Dangers

September 20, 2009 at 12:37 pm (Health and wellness)

NaturalNews.com
Originally published September 19 2009
Home Pesticides Linked to Childhood Cancers
by S. L. Baker, features writer

(NaturalNews) Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a malignant disease of the bone marrow, is the most common cancer diagnosed in children. In fact, nearly one third of all pediatric cancers are cases of ALL. Although this form of cancer can be cured in many cases, in the worst case scenarios the cancer crowds out normal cells in the bone marrow, metastasizes to other organs and takes the lives of about 15 percent of the youngsters it attacks. What triggers so many kids, usually between the ages of three and seven, to develop this cancer in the first place? A new study just published in the August issue of the journal Therapeutic Drug Monitoring raises the suspicion that commonly used household pesticides are the cause.

Previous studies in agricultural areas of the US have shown strong associations between pesticides and childhood cancers but this is the first research conducted in a large, urban area to look at the connection. The study, conducted between January of 2005 and January of 2008, involved 41 pairs of children with ALL and their mothers and a control group of 41 matched pairs of healthy children and their mothers. The volunteer research subjects were all from Lombardi and Children’s National Medical Center and lived in the Washington metropolitan area.
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Obesity

September 20, 2009 at 12:27 am (Health and wellness)

Weight Loss Helps Kidney Function in Chronic Kidney Disease
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Submitted by Deborah Mitchell on Sep 19th, 2009
Posted under: Weight Loss Program

Weight loss can greatly benefit obese individuals who have chronic kidney disease, according to a review study conducted by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic. The benefit was seen regardless of whether the weight loss was achieved through bariatric surgery or diet and exercise.

According to the National Kidney Foundation, Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 26 million Americans have chronic kidney disease. The disease includes conditions that damage the kidneys and decreases their ability to remove waste, toxins, and fluid from the body, regulate blood pressure, and manufacture red blood cells. Glomerular (capillaries in the kidneys) filtration rate reveals how much kidney function a person has, and it is the best estimate of kidney failure. In the current study, weight loss had a significant impact on glomerular filtration rate.
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Prevention

September 13, 2009 at 9:15 pm (Health and wellness)

Health & Wellness Conditions Insurance & Money
Encouragement To LIVE Healthy Is Missing From Reform

Submitted by erku on Sep 13th, 2009
Posted under: Insurance and Money
 
If the U.S. society wants to cut the cost of health care then we need to find a way to lower the demand for health care. To lower the demand for health care we need to keep ourselves healthier.
 
One thing that I don’t see in the current health care reform debate is the encouragement to live healthy. Things like this: Stop smoking, stop drinking so much Coca Cola and Pepsi drinks, stop eating so much unhealthy fast food. Exercise and workout and finally cook at home a good meal and enjoy it with your family and loved ones.
 
Instead, we debate on how to make health insurance more affordable for our people and if universal public health insurance will do the job.
Common people. Think about healthier lifestyle. Pill sand the doctors can’t do what healthy living can. Training ourselves to a healthier lifestyle and teaching our children to do the same should take us long way. If the reform comes that will be better.
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Economy

September 13, 2009 at 8:50 pm (Health and wellness)

Home > Health
Poverty Remains Main Source of Early Mortality
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:53:23 GMT
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Despite all the medical, social, economic, and political changes in the modern world, poverty remains a strong predictor of premature death as it was a century ago.
 
Following the emerging improvements in the last century, not only the number of deaths in children under 5 has declined, but also life expectancy has improved dramatically, climbing from 46 to 77 years in men and from 50 to 81 years in women.
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