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Eating speed linked to weight
Post Date: 2011-08-31 05:28:47 by Tatarewicz
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Middle-aged women who eat slowly are much less likely to be overweight or obese than those who eat at a faster pace, according to new University of Otago research. In the first nationwide study of its kind anywhere, Department of Human Nutrition researchers analysed the relationship between self-reported speed of eating and body mass index (BMI) in more than 1500 New Zealand women aged between 40 and 50. Women in this age bracket are known to be at high risk of weight gain. Study principal investigator Dr Caroline Horwath says that after adjusting for other factors including age, ethnicity, smoking, physical activity and menopause status, the researchers found that the faster women ...
Steve Jobs Talks About Life And Death - Stanford Speech
Post Date: 2011-08-27 21:26:20 by Buzzard
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Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Speech 2005 With Jobs' retirement announced earlier this week, we went searching for this clip. Very motivating and moving short clip. Runs 1 minute. We've added the transcript and his full commencement speech inside. It's worth the read. The complete speech. I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories. The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of ...
Liquidate Your Local Police
Post Date: 2011-08-26 06:49:25 by Ada
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Mary Lee Cook, an 84-year-old resident of Oak Hill, Florida, didn't seem like the kind of person who would secretly cultivate marijuana behind her home. Yet on June 6, deputies assigned to the East Volusia County Narcotics Task Force materialized on her doorstep in response to a tip that Cook was growing the illicit weed on her property. Diane Young, Chief of the Oak Hill Police Department, had already visited the scene. Without notifying Cook or presenting a search warrant, Young had climbed a fence and taken photographs of the offending plants. The deputies searched Cook's backyard and found a half-dozen desiccated pot plants. Under what is advertised as the "law," ...
Soy Beats Low-Fat for Lowering Cholesterol
Post Date: 2011-08-25 00:19:05 by Tatarewicz
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Aug. 23, 2011 -- A diet that incorporates cholesterol-lowering foods like soy, nuts, and plant sterols may work better at lowering cholesterol levels than a traditional low-fat diet. A new study shows that people with high cholesterol who followed the portfolio diet, which includes a combination of cholesterol-lowering foods, lowered their low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels by about 13% after six months on the diet. That's compared with a 3% LDL reduction among those who followed a traditional diet low in saturated fat. "Given that cardiovascular disease is our major killer, we feel that a lot of people will benefit to a greater or lesser extent by adopting this ...
Why so many kids are near-sighted
Post Date: 2011-08-24 03:31:45 by Tatarewicz
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Children play on a computer. In the summer vacation, children tend to overuse their eyes in watching TV, playing online games, surfing the net and tinkering with iPhones and iPads, resulting in an increasing report of near-sightedness. ( BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Too much school work, TV and digital gadgets can cause squinting and near-sighted children. Giving tiny kids iPads with Tang poems and fairy tales is bad for them too. Zhang Qian takes an up-close look at the problem. For children who haven't been chained to schoolwork, it's been a summer of watching TV, playing video games, surfing the net and tinkering with iPhones and iPads. Now, with school around the corner, ...
Device checks blood pressure at home automatically and more accurately than doctor
Post Date: 2011-08-24 00:24:55 by Tatarewicz
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Patients in Britain suspected of having high blood pressure are to be given home monitoring devices over fears millions have been misdiagnosed because they were simply nervous in the doctor's surgery. Taking blood pressure readings in surgeries makes many people nervous, so Nice says they should monitor it themselves using automated devices in the home Taking blood pressure readings in surgeries makes many people nervous, so Nice says they should monitor it themselves using automated devices in the home About a quarter of people become anxious while they have their blood pressure taken in the surgery, meaning they potentially give a misleading reading. This wrongly pushes many into ...
Reseachers a step closer to combatting infection by drug-resisitent C. difficile
Post Date: 2011-08-22 03:16:32 by Tatarewicz
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Clostridium difficile bacteria Researchers show how the body stops C. diff from being toxic The way cells in the gut fight off toxins produced by a hospital bug has been discovered by US researchers. Writing in Nature Medicine, they showed how a chemical - GSNO - deactivated a toxin from Clostridium difficile which causes inflammation and diarrhoea. They hope to use their findings to develop a treatment for C. difficile. A specialist in the bacterium said the discovery was "exciting", but any treatment was still a long way off. C. difficile is one of many bacteria which can live in the human gut without causing health problems. leStart Quote Understanding how this ...
Modified ecstasy 'attacks blood cancers'
Post Date: 2011-08-21 05:47:46 by Tatarewicz
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By James Gallagher Health reporter, BBC News Ecstasy Ecstasy was already known to kill some cancerous cells, but the doses needed were fatal Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists. Ecstasy is known to kill some cancer cells, but scientists have increased its effectiveness 100-fold, they said in Investigational New Drugs journal. Their early study showed all leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma cells could be killed in a test tube, but any treatment would be a decade away. A charity said the findings were a "significant step forward". In 2006, a research team at the University of Birmingham showed that ecstasy and ...
Define Better
Post Date: 2011-08-20 22:14:04 by James Deffenbach
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Poster Comment:This song is off the hook. Props to Lilith for the find.
Cats Make You Less SAD
Post Date: 2011-08-20 08:12:51 by Tatarewicz
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Did you know, that there are more benefits of having a cat around your house other than reducing the number of mice? According to a five year study out of England, cat owners are much less likely to suffer from symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD) which is common in the long and dark winter months. Also, people who share their living space with a cat suffer 60% fewer headaches and are 21% less likely to catch a cold or flu versus those people who just lived with something less loving and forgiving, like a spouse. What is even more surprising is that the people who seemed to benefit the most from having feline companionship were men under the age of 40. Researchers have been unable ...
Prostate problem made Depardieu pee on plane: friend
Post Date: 2011-08-20 01:57:08 by Tatarewicz
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PARIS, Aug. 19, 2011 (Reuters) — French actor Gerard Depardieu was humiliated and apologized to fellow passengers when prostate problems forced him to urinate in front of them during takeoff on an Air France flight this week, a friend said. Actor Gerard Depardieu poses during a photocall at the 64th Locarno Film Festival, August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Fiorenzo Maffi Fellow actor Edouard Baer, who was traveling with the 62-year-old film star on the flight to Dublin to film the latest "Asterix and Obelix" movie, said Depardieu had tried to urinate in a water bottle when denied access to the toilet by a hostess. "It's just that the bottle was too small. It's true that ...
'Bath Salts' Have Effects Similar to Meth, Ecstasy
Post Date: 2011-08-19 06:22:32 by Tatarewicz
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August 18, 2011 — Mephedrone, a key ingredient in the designer-drug mix sold as "bath salts" or as other substances, induces methamphetamine-like cravings in rats. But mephedrone isn't exactly like meth, cocaine, ecstasy (MDMA), or other new designer drugs, according to rat studies led by pharmacologist Annette E. Fleckenstein, PhD, and colleagues at the University of Utah. It has its own unique combination of effects and toxicities: Like meth but unlike ecstasy, rats quickly develop a craving for mephedrone and will keep pressing a lever in order to get more. Like meth, mephedrone increases brain levels of dopamine. Like ecstasy, mephedrone increases brain levels of ...
Chinese herbal medicine effective in treatment of H1N1 Influenza
Post Date: 2011-08-19 04:13:09 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- A controlled trial has found that Chinese herbal medicine decoction maxingshigan-yinqiaosan has a similar efficacy to oseltamivir in reducing time to fever resolution in people suffering mild H1N1 influenza virus infections. Carried out by a group of Chinese researchers, headed by Prof. Wang Chen with Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital under the Capital Medical University, the study was published by the famous internal medicine journal Ann Intern Med on Tuesday. Participants of the trial were 410 young adults aged 15 to 59 years with laboratory-confirmed H1N1 influenza. The researchers concluded that both active intervention, alone and in combination, were effective ...
Potassium-rich diet lessens stroke risk
Post Date: 2011-08-19 02:11:08 by Tatarewicz
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People that enjoy a diet high in potassium may be at a lower risk of developing a stroke, compared to counterparts who consume less amounts of the mineral. A review of 10 international studies involving nearly 270,000 middle-aged and older adults showed Swedish scientists that stroke risk decreased as people's reported potassium intake went up. According to the results, every 1,000-milligram (mg) increase in daily potassium intake were associated with one percent lower odds of stroke in the next five to 14 years, the scientists wrote in the journal Stroke. "Dietary potassium intake is inversely associated with risk of stroke," wrote lead researcher Susanna Larsson, of the ...
Hong Kong team hopes to grow heart spare parts in 5 years
Post Date: 2011-08-19 01:06:24 by Tatarewicz
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HONG KONG, Aug. 18, 2011 (Reuters) — Stem cell researchers in Hong Kong and the United States are trying to grow spare parts for the human heart that may be ready for tests on people within five years, they said on Thursday. Scientists have already made basic heart muscle from stem cells, but the Hong Kong-led team wants to refine it so it can replace any part damaged in heart attacks, and to recreate the natural pacemaker, where the heartbeat originates. "When you get a heart attack, there is a small time window for a cure when the damage is still small. You can cure with a patch, a small tissue, so you won't progress to late stage heart failure," said team leader ...
Rare brain infection from amoeba in water kills 3
Post Date: 2011-08-18 01:16:39 by Tatarewicz
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Video: Health Watch: Warning For Those Who Swim In Warn, Fresh WatersCBS ATLANTA (AP) — Two children and a young man have died this summer from a brain-eating amoeba that lives in water, health officials say. This month, the rare infection killed a 16-year-old Florida girl, who fell ill after swimming, and a 9-year-old Virginia boy, who died a week after he went to a fishing day camp. The boy had been dunked the first day of camp, his mother told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Those cases are consistent with past cases, which are usually kids — often boys — who get exposed to the bug while swimming or doing water sports in warm ponds or lakes. The third case, in Louisiana, ...
Sniffer dogs can be used to detect lung cancer
Post Date: 2011-08-17 23:55:10 by Tatarewicz
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Sniffer dogs could be used for the early detection of lung cancer, according to new research published in the European Respiratory Journal. The study, carried out by researchers from Schillerhoehe Hospital in Germany, is the first to find that sniffer dogs can reliably detect lung cancer. Lung cancer is the second most frequent form of cancer in men and women across Europe with over 340,000 deaths per year. It is also the most common cause of death from cancer worldwide. The disease is not strongly associated with any symptoms and early detection is often by chance. Current methods of detection are unreliable and scientists have been working on using exhaled breath specimens from ...
Study: Obese People Live as Long as Slimmer People
Post Date: 2011-08-17 01:46:05 by Tatarewicz
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Aug. 16, 2011 -- Obese people who are otherwise healthy live as long as normal-weight people, new research from Canada suggests. Some obese but healthy people actually are less likely to die of heart problems than normal-weight people who have some medical conditions, the researchers found. "You shouldn't just look at body weight alone," says researcher Jennifer Kuk, PhD, assistant professor of kinesiology and health science at York University in Toronto. "A healthy lifestyle, including being physically active and eating a healthy diet, is probably more important than your body weight and focusing on weight loss, if you are otherwise healthy," she tells WebMD. ...
SMART METERS: No Federal Mandate
Post Date: 2011-08-17 00:41:47 by Original_Intent
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« Breaking The Silver Manipulation Barrier The Health Ranger Misfires the Population Bomb » SMART METERS: No Federal MandateAugust 15, 2011 by ppjg Marti Oakley (c)copyright 2011 All Rights Reserved This Standard would also allow utilities to recover from ratepayers any capital, operating expenditures, or other costs of the smart grid investment, including a reasonable rate-of-return. ” THERE IS NO FEDERAL SECURITY MANDATE FOR SMART METERS, according to George W. Arnold the national coordinator for smart-grid interoperability at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. This agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce is said not ...
15-minute daily exercise is 'bare minimum for health'
Post Date: 2011-08-16 02:55:16 by Tatarewicz
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Just 15 minutes of exercise a day can boost life expectancy by three years and cut death risk by 14%, research from Taiwan suggests. Experts in The Lancet say this is the least amount of activity an adult can do to gain any health benefit. This is about half the quantity currently recommended in the UK. Meanwhile, work in the British Journal of Sports Medicine suggests a couch potato lifestyle with six hours of TV a day cuts lifespan by five years. The UK government recently updated its exercise advice to have a more flexible approach, recommending adults get 150 minutes of activity a week. This could be a couple of 10-minute bouts of activity every day or 30-minute exercise sessions, ...
NaturalNews publishes names of government agents who masterminded Rawesome Foods raid
Post Date: 2011-08-14 12:45:38 by James Deffenbach
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(NaturalNews) The Rawesome Foods raid that took place August 3, 2011, is being publicly described by many as an act of "government terrorism" against innocents (http://www.naturalnews.com/033258_R...). And yet there has been very little information published about the names of the government instigators who masterminded these armed raids and oversaw the pillaging of Rawesome Foods and the destruction of tens of thousands of dollars worth of food. Today, NaturalNews is publishing the names of five government agents who masterminded this raid and / or took part in the raid. This is all part of a campaign to protest these acts of government tyranny by sending emails, making phone ...
New cholesterol control drug in the works
Post Date: 2011-08-14 05:52:44 by Tatarewicz
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What’s in your wallet? My wallet is the happy home to a torn $5 bill, lint, a well used business card from Lorenzo Oss-Cech (lawyer), my Drivers License with a photo that would terrify small children and most pterodactyls, a ticket stub for Monster Truck Rally, a photo of Raminator – the bestest truck of all, Donna Summers Fan Club membership, plastic, a receipt for a Raminator T-shirt and in a wee clear packet, tucked away near the lint, I keep some pills. Emergency pills just in case I happen upon a heart attack or a stroke, mine included. What is in that packet is a trade secret but I will reveal, that, of the three emergency pills I carry at all times, one of them is a ...
Birth defects rise in China as pairs skip checkup
Post Date: 2011-08-13 04:57:09 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING - Less than 10 percent of couples in the capital city get premarital health checkups, and this has led to an increase in birth defects over the past five years, according to a city health official on Friday. Most people consider these checkups unimportant because they are no longer a prerequisite for registering for marriage, said Lu Fan, director of mental health and maternity and child healthcare under the Beijing municipal health bureau. A survey conducted by the bureau in 2010 found that nearly half of the people who skipped premarital health checkups did so because they were not mandatory, 17 percent skipped because they were inconvenient and 30 percent because of the ...
Amazing' therapy wipes out leukemia in study
Post Date: 2011-08-12 03:52:30 by Tatarewicz
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This microscopy image provided by Dr. Carl June on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2011 shows immune system T-cells, center, binding to beads which cause the cells to divide. The beads, depicted in yellow, are later removed, leaving pure T-cells which are then ready for infusion to the cancer patients. Scientists are reporting the first clear success with gene therapy to treat leukemia, using the patients' own blood cells to hunt down and wipe out their cancer. They've only done it in three patients so far, but the results were striking: two appear cancer-free up to a year after treatment, and the third had a partial response. Scientists are already preparing to try the approach in other ...
Government Knew About Bacteria in Turkey
Post Date: 2011-08-11 14:10:28 by James Deffenbach
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Federal officials said they turned up a dangerous form of salmonella at a Cargill Inc. turkey plant last year, and then four times this year at stores selling the Cargill turkey, but didn't move for a recall until an outbreak killed one person and sickened 77 others. Cargill and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the recall of ground turkey from the Cargill plant in Springdale, Ark., on Aug. 3. The USDA said the third-largest meat recall in history affected 36 million pounds of ground turkey.
Poster Comment:I guess if you are a subscriber to the WSJ you can read it all there. I just got this snippet in an email and I don't subscribe to the paper.
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