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Sweet Potato Biscuits
Post Date: 2012-05-20 02:32:26 by Tatarewicz
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Picture of Sweet Potato BiscuitsMake this dough lickety-split with a sturdy stand mixer or do it the old fashioned way- with an elbow grease powered wooden spoon. Ingredients 1/2 cup sorghum flour 1/2 cup potato starch (not potato flour) 1/4 cup millet flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon sea salt 1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum Pinch nutmeg, to taste 3 tablespoons shortening 1 cup canned sweet potato or finely mashed cooked sweet potato 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup 1 1/2 teaspoons egg-replacer whisked with 2 tablespoons warm water, till frothy Instructions Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Prepare a muffin pan (if the pan is non-stick, no need to do ...
From The Fraud And Death Administration's (FDA) Own Website
Post Date: 2012-05-19 14:36:51 by Original_Intent
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Why Learn about Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR)?Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, 2000 Lazarou J et al. JAMA 1998;279(15):1200–1205 Gurwitz JH et al. Am J Med 2000;109(2):87–94 Over 2 MILLION serious ADRs yearly 100,000 DEATHS yearly ADRs 4th leading cause of death ahead of pulmonary disease, diabetes, AIDS, pneumonia, accidents and automobile deaths Ambulatory patients ADR rate—unknown Nursing home patients ADR rate— 350,000 yearly Poster Comment:Until the Ministry of Truth gets to it here are the numbers from the FDA's own website.
Chinese food wisdom - tops in cancer prevention
Post Date: 2012-05-19 05:47:22 by Tatarewicz
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Carrot, cauliflower, mushroom, sweet potato, citrus fruits, seafood, asparagus, tomato, soybeans.
Lowering LDL better for reducing heart risk
Post Date: 2012-05-19 03:44:15 by Tatarewicz
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New evidence questions the idea that increasing the blood level of HDL also known as good cholesterol may protect against heart disease. A new analysis of 20 prior studies revealed that people with a genetic condition that causes high HDL (high density lipoprotein) have the same heart-attack risk as the general population, wrote scientists in the journal The Lancet. The review study which looked at nearly 12,500 people with a history of a heart attack and over 41,000 otherwise healthy counterparts found that raising HDL may not be as effective at preventing heart disease as originally thought. “These results show that some ways of raising HDL cholesterol might not reduce risk of ...
Training the Brain Could Help Reduce Pain
Post Date: 2012-05-18 06:27:00 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 17, 2012) — Training the brain to reduce pain could be a promising approach for treating phantom limb pain and complex regional pain syndrome, according to an internationally known neuroscience researcher speaking May 17 at the American Pain Society's Annual Scientific Meeting. G. Lorimer Moseley, PhD, professor of clinical neurosciences at University of South Australia and Neuroscience Research Australia, and head of the Body in Mind research team, told the plenary session audience that the brain stores maps of the body that are integrated with neurological systems that survey, regulate, and protect the integrity of the body physically and psychologically. ...
Which Complementary and Alternative Therapies Merit Study?
Post Date: 2012-05-18 05:43:43 by Tatarewicz
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My name is Paul Offit. I am speaking to you today from the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. I thought I would talk about a viewpoint piece that appeared in the most recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.[1] It involved studying complementary and alternative medicines, specifically focusing on the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. This center was born as the Office of Alternative Medicine, in 1992, by the influence of 2 Iowa politicians. One was Tom Harkin, who believed that bee pollen had cured his hay fever. The other was Berkley Bedell, who believed that cow colostrum had cured his Lyme disease. ...
TB patient charged in Calif. for not taking meds
Post Date: 2012-05-17 02:20:03 by Tatarewicz
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In this undated photo supplied by the San Joaquin County District Attorney's office, Armando Rodriguez is seen wearing a protective mask. Prosecutors say 34-year-old Armando Rodriguez, a tuberculosis patient, has been arrested for refusing to take his medication and missing doctor appointments, and is endangering public health by not treating the airborne disease. In this undated photo supplied … SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities in California took the unusual step of jailing and charging a tuberculosis patient who they say refused to take medication to keep his disease from becoming contagious. Health officials said Armando Rodriguez, 34, of Stockton, has active pulmonary ...
Therapy: 1,500 bee stings help MS patient walk again
Post Date: 2012-05-17 00:46:09 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhuanet) -- A British woman who was confined to her bed and unable to move due to multiple sclerosis (MS) says bee stings helped her walk again, media reports said Tuesday. Sami Chugg, a 45-year-old charity worker from Bristol, was diagnosed in 1998 with MS, an incurable disease that stops the body's nerve cells communicating. Soon she could no longer move around and was permanently bed-ridden. However, she is now back on her feet, after trying a treatment called Bee Venom Therapy. The treatment involves holding a bee in tweezers and stinging an area of skin. According to experts, the venom eases the pain of MS symptoms while stimulating the body to fight back. ...
Genentech to test Alzheimer's drug in landmark prevention trial
Post Date: 2012-05-17 00:29:41 by Tatarewicz
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 (Xinhua) -- U.S. biotechnology company Genentech announced on Tuesday that it has been picked for a first- ever Alzheimer's disease prevention trial which may determine whether one of the company's experimental drugs could delay or prevent people with a genetic history to get the dementia. According to the South San Francisco-headquartered company, the study will involve about 300 cognitively healthy people from local families in Medellin, Colombia. All of them can be traced to a common descendant and share a rare genetic mutation that typically triggers Alzheimer's symptoms around age 45. The study will also include a small number of participants in the ...
Unprecedented: Abiraterone in High-Risk Prostate Cancer
Post Date: 2012-05-17 00:12:43 by Tatarewicz
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May 16, 2012 — The targeted therapy abiraterone (Zytiga; Janssen), which is approved for the treatment of advanced prostate cancer [www.medscape.com/viewarticle/741780], may also be a boon to men with localized high-risk prostate cancer. A randomized phase II study shows that 6 months of neoadjuvant abiraterone eliminated or nearly eliminated cancer in one-third of the men at that juncture, reported study lead author Mary-Ellen Taplin, MD, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston Massachusetts. She spoke at a press briefing that precedes the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, Illinois, where the study will be presented in full in June. ...
Irritable Bowel Syndrome: New Dietary Guidelines
Post Date: 2012-05-16 23:59:58 by Tatarewicz
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May 15, 2012 — The British Dietetic Association (BDA) has issued evidence-based guidelines for the dietary management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in adults. The new recommendations were published online April 10 and in the June print issue of the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics. "[IBS] is a chronic and debilitating functional gastrointestinal disorder that affects 9–23% of the population across the world," write Y.A. McKenzie, MSc, from Nuffield Health the Manor Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, and colleagues from the BDA Gastroenterology Specialist Group. "Diet and lifestyle changes are important management strategies. The aim of these guidelines ...
Apixaban Cuts Stroke Risk in All Types of AF, Says ARISTOTLE
Post Date: 2012-05-16 23:45:42 by Tatarewicz
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May 16, 2012 (Boston, Massachusetts) — The primary conclusion of the ARISTOTLE trial, that the direct factor Xa inhibitor apixaban (Eliquis, Pfizer/Bristol-Myers Squibb) is better than warfarin at preventing stroke or systemic embolism in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), applies regardless of whether AF is paroxysmal or either permanent or persistent [1]. That's from a prospectively planned secondary analysis of the trial that also shows that apixaban lowers the risk of bleeding complications better than the older anticoagulant in both types of AF. It was presented here last week at the Heart Rhythm Society 2012 Scientific Sessions by Dr Sana Al-Khatib (Duke Clinical ...
Coffee Consumption Linked to Lower Risk for Death
Post Date: 2012-05-16 23:26:18 by Tatarewicz
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May 16, 2012 — The controversy about whether coffee is harmful or healthful just got a jolt of java. Results from the largest study carried out to date indicate that coffee consumption was inversely associated with total and cause-specific mortality. Men who drank 2 to 3 cups of coffee daily had a 10% decrease in their risk for death during the 13 years of the study compared with men who drank no coffee. Women who drank 2 to 3 cups of coffee daily had a 13% decrease in their risk for death. The study, conducted by Neal Freedman, PhD, from the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues, ...
Study: meditation boosts health
Post Date: 2012-05-16 07:08:42 by Tatarewicz
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The biggest difference was in mental health, where long-term meditators were more than 10% better off than the rest of the population. The experience of 'mental silence' is linked with better health outcomes and greater wellbeing according to a University of Sydney study. The area of greatest difference was in mental health, where long-term meditators, with a minimum of two years of regular practice, were more than 10% better off than the general population. "We found that the health and wellbeing profile of people who had meditated for at least two years was significantly higher in the majority of health and wellbeing categories when compared to the Australian ...
Will Whole Genome Sequencing Predict Susceptibility to Illness?
Post Date: 2012-05-16 05:18:14 by Tatarewicz
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Eric Topol, MD: Director, Scripps Translational Science Inst. A recent paper by a group from Johns Hopkins published in Science Translational Medicine evoked considerable interest with the disappointing results...what were they and what does this mean? Below is a transcript of Dr. Topol's post "Will Whole Genome Sequencing Predict Susceptibility to Illness?." We look forward to your feedback. This Genomic Medicine segment is on whether sequencing will be able to predict the susceptibility to illness. I selected this topic because of a May 9th Science Translational Medicine article by Roberts and colleagues [from Johns Hopkins]. It's called "The Predictive ...
Sugar (fructose) can make you dumb, US scientists warn
Post Date: 2012-05-16 04:53:57 by Tatarewicz
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AFPAFP – Eating too much sugar can eat away at your brainpower, according to US scientists who published a study Tuesday showing how a steady diet of high-fructose corn syrup sapped lab rats' memories. Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) fed two groups of rats a solution containing high-fructose corn syrup -- a common ingredient in processed foods -- as drinking water for six weeks. One group of rats was supplemented with brain-boosting omega-3 fatty acids in the form of flaxseed oil and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), while the other group was not. Before the sugar drinks began, the rats were enrolled in a five-day training session in a complicated ...
To Avoid Pain During an Injection, Look Away
Post Date: 2012-05-16 03:30:32 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceDaily (May 14, 2012) — Health professionals commonly say, "Don't look and it won't hurt" before administering an injection, but is there any scientific basis for the advice? A group of German investigators has found that, in fact, your past experience with needle pricks, along with information you receive before an injection, shape your pain experience. Their research is published in the May issue of Pain®. "Throughout our lives, we repeatedly experience that needles cause pain when pricking our skin, but situational expectations, like information given by the clinician prior to an injection, may also influence how viewing needle pricks affects ...
Prozac Killed Del Shannon
Post Date: 2012-05-15 13:20:09 by Turtle
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His voice is like a siren,” Mike Campbell (lead guitarist for Tom Petty) said. “There is only one voice that does that sound, and that is Del Shannon’s.” That voice has now been silenced. Shannon is another casualty in the hidden war against artists. Del Shannon – real name Charles Westover – was an American rock legend from the ’60s whose hit songs included “Runaway,” “Keep Searching (We’ll Follow The Sun),” “Little Town Flirt” and “Do You Want to Dance?” Shannon taught himself to play guitar at age 13 by listening to country-western singers on radio. By 27, he wrote the innovative song “Runaway” ...
Secondhand Smoke May Harm Heart Function
Post Date: 2012-05-15 03:04:29 by Tatarewicz
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MONDAY, May 14 (HealthDay News) -- For nonsmokers, exposure to low levels of secondhand smoke for just 30 minutes can cause significant damage to the lining of their blood vessels, the results of a new study indicate. The findings could have major public health implications because this type of damage has been associated with atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), which can lead to heart attack or stroke. "Breathing in very low levels of secondhand smoke -- the same amount many people and children would encounter out and about in the community -- appears to impair one's vascular function after just 30 minutes of exposure," the study's lead investigator, Dr. Paul ...
Marijuana May Help Relieve MS Patients' Symptoms
Post Date: 2012-05-15 02:21:45 by Tatarewicz
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Smoking marijuana may improve some symptoms of multiple sclerosis, a new study suggests. Patients with multiple sclerosis in the study had less muscle tightness, also called spasticity, and less pain after they smoked marijuana, compared with after they took a placebo. Spasticity is a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS) and can cause exaggerated reflexes, spasms and problems walking. Existing medications can ease spasticity, but they cause side effects, and not all MS patients are helped by them. However, patients in the study experienced short-term decreases in their abilities to pay attention and concentrate after they smoked marijuana. Patients also reported feeling ...
Common household chemicals can cause cancer
Post Date: 2012-05-14 01:30:53 by Tatarewicz
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Common chemicals found in household products, cosmetics and even medicines may be contributing in raising the risk of serious diseases such as cancer, diabetes and obesity. The European Environment Agency (EEA) has found strong evidence showing that many of the popular products contain endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) which can cause significant harm to human and other species health by interfering with the body's hormone systems. A review of scientific studies literature commissioned by agency over the past 15 years suggested that five classes of hazardous chemicals are increasingly used in products like sunscreen and contraceptive pills. The main detected EDCs include ...
Fish may prevent colorectal cancers
Post Date: 2012-05-14 01:18:18 by Tatarewicz
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People who frequently eat plenty of fish may have a significantly lower risk of colon cancer and rectal cancer compared with non-consumers. The finding which appeared in the American Journal of Medicine, was a result of an analysis of 41 past international studies about association between fish consumption and cancer diagnoses and death. “Our findings from this meta-analysis suggest that fish consumption is inversely associated with colorectal cancer,” wrote Jie Liang and colleagues from Xijing Hospital of Digestive Diseases in Xian, China. Overall, regularly eating fish was tied to a 12 percent lower risk of developing or dying of colorectal cancers, said the scientists who ...
FDA says liberation therapy for MS may cause death
Post Date: 2012-05-14 01:11:59 by Tatarewicz
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorities have warned that an experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) called "liberation therapy" has no proven benefit and may even cause death. The FDA has issued a warning saying that using the unproven treatment for MS patients has caused death, strokes, nerve damage and abdominal bleeding. The unproven treatment targets chronic cerebrospinal venous insufficiency (CCSVI) or narrowing of the veins in the head and neck that is often linked to MS. The procedure includes widening narrowed veins in the chest and neck through the use of balloon angioplasty or stents. Both of the techniques are commonly used to treat the blocked or ...
Waist to height Ratio predicts obesity better
Post Date: 2012-05-14 01:03:15 by Tatarewicz
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Waist to height ratio is significantly a better method to measure body fat and associated health risks than Body Mass Index (BMI), suggest new findings. A review of 31 studies including more than 300,000 men and women showed that waist to height ratio predicted diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, cancers, stroke and respiratory problems better than BMI. Body Mass Index is a number calculated from a person's weight and height. It has been considered as the most reliable indicator of body fatness. But the new report presented at the 19th European Congress on Obesity in Lyon, France says that the BMI doesn't consider muscle mass, so a very ...
Americans consume EIGHTY percent of the world's pain pills as prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes
Post Date: 2012-05-13 23:01:19 by abraxas
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Americans consume EIGHTY percent of the world's pain pills as prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes By Michael Zennie Americans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers -- more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year -- as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes. That's enough drugs to give every single American 64 Percocets or Vicodin. And pain pill prescriptions continue to surge, up 600 percent in ten year, thanks to doctors who are more and more willing to hand out drugs to patients who are suffering. As more people get their hands on these potentially-dangerous drugs, more are taking them to get high. Their drug abuse ...
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