In the past the FDA has stood as a protector of the american people although sometimes slow to act and often without the full enforcement power of some other government branches.
This may soon change.
The new chair of the FDA Margaret Hamburg has spoken out lately and probably with the Obama administration has been given a bit more rein and ear to the Oval Office than her predecessors have had.
FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, MD, vowed that the agency would be more aggressive in enforcing food and drug safety regulations and quicker to act when a company breaks the law. Read the rest of this entry »
Looking to make a change and lose some weight? I have reviewed the top diet on the internet and you can go and read over 200 comments people have made about why this diet has worked well for them, as well as some of the problems.
Last night as I was settling into bed to go to sleep my wife flicked on a new reality TV show called More to Love. I am a sucker for most reality TV and this show looked intriguing. The idea behind More to Love is just like the Bachelor or the Bachelorette where one person has a group of people who want to get to know them and fall in love. The spin with More to Love is that the guy is 300 pounds and all 20 women are plus size girls ranging from 190 to 279 pounds.
The show itself was fun to watch although it was a bit painful at times. The guy, Luke Conley, is a real estate investor and has lots of confidence although he says he has had his heart broken before because of his weight. The girls on the other had mostly have a lack of confidence and that is what was a little painful to watch, the girls are really nice and many of them are in fact beautiful, they seem to have everything together but often they do not have the confidence socially and all have sad stories to tell of never having dated.
The show was good to watch though with my wife and I laughing at some of the characters funny comments and Luke Conley stealing kisses from any of the women that he could. You can really tell the Bachelor show people are involved in the way the whole whow is setup except for the fact that there is no rose ceremony, instead there is a promise ring ceremony which seems strange to be giving rings to so many women. Read the rest of this entry »
I have been following the Tour De France today on the computer just because I was looking forward to this mountain stage. Usually I watch the OLN coverage replay in the evening for a while but today I watched the tracker online.
Well today Lance Armstrong started the day 1 minute and 37 seconds back of the leader Alberto Contador. Today’s race had lots of mountains and Contador, although he did not win ended up finishing a couple of minutes ahead of Lance Armstrong.
It seems in watching the race over the last few days that Lance just does not have the legs for the mountains that he had in the past, he is definitely one of the strongest in the mountains but not quite what he needs, especially when he is on a team with more than one leader where he is not the only rider being supported by the team. Read the rest of this entry »
We have all beleived that aspirin use will lower the risk of heart attack, mostly becuase it thins the blood. The problem I have always foudn though is that too much aspirin will stop the blood from clotting quickly and this in itslef almost led to a quick trip to the hospital for my wife last year.
This new study below though seems to show that it is not so obvious as to wether Aspirin really helps to prevent heart attacks but in itslef it is a good read with lots of findings
Long-term, low-dose aspirin provides no clear net value for primary prevention of cardiovascular events in apparently healthy adults, according to a meta-analysis of patient-level data.
In people not known to have cardiovascular disease, aspirin reduced composite MI, stroke, and vascular death rates to 0.51% per year compared with 0.57% among controls for a relative 12% reduction, according to Colin Baigent, B.M.B.Ch., of the University of Oxford, England, and colleagues in the Antithrombotic Trialists’ Collaboration. Read the rest of this entry »
I just found a reference to a report on Science Daily showing that obesity problems in North America can be directly attributed to overeating.
The study originated in Europe and included almost 2400 people as well as using stats on the amount of food grown as well as imported.
Here is a bit of a quote:
New research that uses an innovative approach to study, for the first time, the relative contributions of food and exercise habits to the development of the obesity epidemic has concluded that the rise in obesity in the United States since the 1970s was virtually all due to increased energy intake.
As much as we like to point fingers at a host of different causes of obesity, it seems that eating more calories is the number one culprit. Read the rest of this entry »
I have no idea how people will feel about this post but a couple of days ago Oprah had Kirsie Alley on again. There was hype on TV all week that Kirstie Alley would be on again and hints that she gained back her weight. Well in the big releal, yes she did gain the weight back plus apparently 20 pounds.
This story makes me mad for a lot of resasons. I follow celebrity stories a bit and never have emotion about them but this time I did.
Kirstie Ally has all the opportunity in the world. She has the fame of being an ex-TV star, she was a spokeperson for Jenny Craig, almost any trainer would love to work with her and probably for free. And in the end after weight loss Kirstie Alley would have anything that she wants, health, fame, fortune and all that stuff. Good drivers anyway
So, Kirstie Alley seems to have all the ingredients: opportunity, resources, and any number of great goals.Read the rest of this entry »
The Archives of Neurology is reporting in researching being published this month that there is some evidence of microbleeding in people that are taking aspirin on a regular basis. As we all know many people are taking a small dosage of aspirin to guard against heart problems and this research is something to be aware of although only you and your doctor can make an informed decision as to whether you should continue with that course of prevention
Aspirin and other platelet aggregation inhibitors may increase the likelihood of asymptomatic cerebral microbleeds among older adults, researchers said.
Past microbleeding — indicated by small deposits of the iron-storing protein hemosiderin on brain scans — was 71% more common with use of platelet aggregation inhibitors than without antithrombotic drugs, Monique Breteler, M.D., Ph.D., of Erasmus M.C. University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues found.
Aspirin users in the population-based study were also more likely to show microbleeding limited to lobular areas of the brain, the researchers reported online in the Archives of Neurology. Read the rest of this entry »
Wired Magazine has an article this month talking about a study showing that astronauts returning from the International Space Station and shuttle flights have 25% reduced strength in their calves. I am not sure how to react to this study. As we are all aware in our daily lives we live in gravity, sure, but we also have to walk around a lot while on the space station I am under the impression that this lack or gravity and close quarters means that there is not as much need to use your calves, arm strength is probably not reduced by much in comparison.
Without stricter workouts, the bodies of long-distance space travelers will be ravaged by the time they return to Earth, or reach another planet.
A NASA-funded study of astronauts freshly returned from six-month stays aboard the International Space Station found that their calf muscles were about 15 percent smaller and 25 percent weaker than when they left. Read the rest of this entry »
A new three-in-one-pill could reduce the risk factors for heart disease and stroke by 50 per cent and revolutionize prevention of these medical conditions, which kill thousands of Canadians every year, according to a study released yesterday.
The study, published in the Lancet, showed that when blood-pressure medications, Aspirin and cholesterol-lowering medication were taken together in one pill, known as the Polycap, they were just as effective as when taken separately.
“People could take a pill a day and, literally, keep the doctor away,” said Salim Yusuf, a cardiologist and the study’s lead author. Read the rest of this entry »
This morning I found out about a restaurant in Phoenix that prides itself on serving really really unhealthy food, they brag about how unhealthy the food in the restaurant is.
The Heart Attack Grill also has a website with info about the menu including the fact that the biggest burger that they sell, a quad patty burger is 8,000 calories. And the staff are scantilly clad waitresses in nurses uniforms.
Yes we all know that this is not healthy, in fact the doctor, who runs that place (not a real doctor) says that most of the appeal is that everywhere we go we are told what is bad for us and what we should and should not eat and this is just a slap in the face to that kind of attitude.
In the past the FDA has stood as a protector of the american people although sometimes slow to act and often without the full enforcement power of some other government branches.
Last night as I was settling into bed to go to sleep my wife flicked on a new reality TV show called More to Love. I am a sucker for most reality TV and this show looked intriguing. The idea behind More to Love is just like the Bachelor or the Bachelorette where one person has a group of people who want to get to know them and fall in love. The spin with More to Love is that the guy is 300 pounds and all 20 women are plus size girls ranging from 190 to 279 pounds.
I have been following the Tour De France today on the computer just because I was looking forward to this mountain stage. Usually I watch the 
We have all beleived that aspirin use will lower the risk of heart attack, mostly becuase it thins the blood. The problem I have always foudn though is that too much aspirin will stop the blood from clotting quickly and this in itslef almost led to a quick trip to the hospital for my wife last year.
The Archives of Neurology is reporting in researching being published this month that there is some evidence of microbleeding in people that are taking aspirin on a regular basis. As we all know many people are taking a small dosage of aspirin to guard against heart problems and this research is something to be aware of although only you and your doctor can make an informed decision as to whether you should continue with that course of prevention
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