Well you know how popular supplements have been lately. We all take them and hope they help with our ailments, but a new study funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health, shows that glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, two supplements used to fight arthritis and joint pain doesn’t work any better than placebo to slow the loss of knee cartilage in osteoarthritis.
Dr. Allen Sawitzke of the University of Utah School of Medicine, said: “At two years, no treatment showed what we determined to be a clinically important reduction in joint space width loss.”
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I will surely miss Paul Newman who died recently of cancer. The actor became famous worldwide for his philanthropy, especially through his range of Newman’s Own sauces and dressings, all the profits from which after tax went to his good causes, such as the 11 Hole in the Wall camps, for chronically ill children.
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Published by Lisa September 26th, 2008
in Green Eating & Living and MyDocHub.
Wonderfully rich without the fat.
Diet Types: Low Fat, Vegan, Vegetarian
Ingredients:
- 4 cups water or broth
- 2 cups yellow split peas
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon Curry powder
- 1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
- 1 bay leaf
Serves: 6
Cooking Time: 30 minutes - one hour
Instructions:
Combine broth, peas, onion, and bay leaf in a soup pot and bring to a boil. Turn heat to low, add curry and simmer for 40 minutes or until the peas are tender. Add salt to taste and simmer a few minutes more.
Nutrition Facts (Brief Analysis):
Serving Size: 1
Servings per Recipe: 6
Calories: 235
Calories from Fat: 8
Total Carbs: 42g
Dietary Fiber: 17g
Protein: 16g
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I guess Nebraska’s Safe Haven law was taken to the extreme. The Nebraska law was intended to protect newborn children, if a parent is overwhelmed, but now a man left nine of his children between the ages of 1 through 17 at Creighton University Medical in Omaha, Nebraska. The law states that any child under the age of 19 can be left at a hospital if they’re in immediate danger
The man won’t be prosecuted, at least not under the current version of the Safe Haven law. You would think that common sense dictates that it is for newborn children, but if a law is that broad, well it is broad. What can I say? Now Nebraska state legislators want to clarify the law.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, said: “I’m absolutely surprised. When this bill was being discussed in the legislature, we had the discussion that this was going to be about young children and when they were in immediate danger. Like the rest of the country, we wanted to be there to help. Unfortunately they wrote the language too broad. We now need to amend that to change that.”
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This is the age of consumer-directed healthcare, basically taking control of ones healthcare and patient satisfaction. However, that comes with a cost, as in higher health insurance deductibles.
According to the survey by the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust, the average premium for a family’s health insurance provided by an employer rose to $12,680. $3,354 of that was covered by employees on average, and 18 percent had a deductible of at least $1,000, up from 12 percent the previous year. Additional you are paying more of your health insurance than before with an average increase of 5 percent in health insurance premiums this year.
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Published by Lisa September 24th, 2008
in Nutrition & Wellness and MyDocHub.
When going through cancer, there is a huge need for self healing and transformation, since cancer can significantly challenge the mind, body, heart and spirit. A book that may help you go through this difficult time in your life is The journey Through Cancer: Healing and Transforming the Whole Person (Three Rivers Press, 2006), by Board-certified medical oncologist Jeremy R. Geffen, MD, FACP.
The book talks about the Seven Levels of Healing program, which is a whole new approach to helping patients and loved ones navigate the arduous journey through cancer as deft and effective as possible. The Seven Levels of Healing are:
- Education and Information
- Connection with Others
- The Body as Garden
- Emotional Healing
- The Nature of Mind
- Life Assessment
- The Nature of Spirit
You can learn more about each level at www.geffenvisions.com
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Here are abortion statistics from the recently published report, Trends in the Characteristics of Women Obtaining Abortions, 1974 to 2004:
- The teen abortion rate dropped from 33 percent in 1974 to 17 percent in 2004.
- 57 percent of abortions in 2004 were among women in their 20s.
- Most abortions (89 percent) in 2004 occurred during the first trimester.
- Abortions performed at seven weeks or sooner after pregnancy increased from 16 percent in 1994 to 28 percent in 2004.
- 60 percent of abortions in 2004 were among women who already had children, up from 50 percent in 1989 and 46 percent in 1974.
Source: HealthDay
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With the passing of Dr. Robert Katzman, who died last week at the age of 82 after battling heart disease for many years, it safe to say that he was instrumental in classifying Alzheimer’s disease as a major illness rather than a natural part of aging in the mid-1970’s.
Dr. Katzman was the founding director of the Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the University of California San Diego. His “analysis of large populations of patients suffering from dementia, along with research by other scientists, convinced the neurologist that Alzheimer’s disease was the main cause of memory loss and other mental failings among older patients.”
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