Vegan Diet Can Reverse Symptoms of Diabetes

Researchers found that people who ate a more Vegan type diet could reverse the symptoms of Diabetes. Patients who tried this lowered their blood sugar and lost more weight than those who didn’t.

Doctors believe that a diet change should be tried first before patients opt for or are given medication because it could be healthier in the long run.

Smoking Reduces the Effects of Alcohol

In one experimental research, scientists have discovered that smoking cigarettes may lead to more drinking. The nicotine in cigarettes tend to lower the effects that people would usually feel enabling them to drink more than they normally would if they were not smoking.

“Since the desired effect of alcohol is significantly diminished by nicotine — particularly among heavy or binge drinkers such as college students — this may encourage drinkers to drink more to achieve the pleasurable or expected effect,” said Wei-Jung Chen, from the Texas A and M University Health Science Center in College Station, who led the reeearch.

“In other words, cigarette smoking appears to promote the consumption of alcohol.”

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Over Weight Patients Might Not Be Fit For Technology

As the years roll by and technology excels doctors are relying on more technical diagnosis given by medical machinery such as MRI’s, computed tomography, and X-Rays. However with millions of Americans becoming more and more over weight, some cannot fit into these machines and those that can, may not recieve a great diagnosis because of fuzzy and unreadable scans due to extra layers of fat.

The number of inconclusive scans have almost doubled in 15 years from 0.10% to 0.19%.

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Windy City Talks of Banning Trans

A Chicago alderman is floating a proposal to make it illegal for city restaurants to use trans fats, the partially hydrogenated cooking oils that are linked to clogged arteries and heart attacks.

Edward Burke, a longtime council member, says children need to be protected from unhealthy, fatty foods and that the city, named the fattest in the nation by Men’s Fitness, needs all the help it can get to slim down.

Mayor Richard M. Daley, along with many others, wonder if the council shouldn’t have bigger priorities than legislating what Chicagoans eat.

But trans is a big problem, not just in the Midwest. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has recently sued chicken slinger KFC for using trans fats in many of its products, some of which give you more trans fat in a meal than it’s considered safe to eat in a week.

It’s clear that there’s a nutritional crisis in this country, and according to another Chicago story, the battle lines are being drawn along ethnic lines. A new study of the city shows that it is full of “food deserts” where fast food restaurants are plentiful but grocery stores are scarce, limiting residents’ abilties to make healthy choices. Most of these deserts are located on the south and west sides of the city, where many blacks live.

This lack of choice indicates that people living in those areas will be more likely to die from diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart problems than more affluent city dwellers or those with more choices.

The study found that in many of these neighborhoods, the distance to a grocery store was about twice as far as the distance to a fast food restaurant. More than half a million residents live in food deserts.

Banning trans fat might not be the answer, but it seems something needs to be done from a public health standpoint to make it easier for poor people especially, but really all people, to make good food choices.

Best of Niner Niner July 06

Niner Niner, a collaborative weblog network, has over 25 great blogs and this “Best Of” highlights just a few of the posts that were written by some of the Niner authors, in topics that range from High Heels, Ajax, HIPAA Privacy Regulation to gadgets, books and health. 

     

In Ajax Blog, Sreejith introduces us to a few new things. First is Vox a new blogging service from Six Apart that uses WYSIWYG with a taste of web 2.0. After that we learn about Krun.ch and Wishlistr.

   

Blogging Naked: Scarification and lip plates are shown to be some of the newest and more popular form of “self-expression” in recent years.

Bookadoodle: Nancy Callahan posted more in her series “Getting Published” and this latest edition was part 5.

Boomer 2.0 had posts that pointed out that boomers can still have that second career and another that shows many are not even planning retirement anytime soon.

In Class Action Questions find out about lawsuits involving pyramid scams, hair raising beauty product claims and why State Farm was penalized.

Credit Cardenza: Unfortunately, millions of people are drowning in  credit card debt, have to worry about credit scams and fraud, and let’s not even talk about the international fees.

  

Dealsneak managed to sneak more than a few deals pass us this summer including, the Samsonite laptop case, a gorgeous leather bench, and a sweet looking Thermaltake Tsunami computer case.

Feed Money discusses the fact the Ebay has jumped on the contextual ad bandwagon as well as blog feeds and a program called RSS To Blog.

If you need to Fix Your Finances one of the first steps is learning how to save your money. After that you can check out Mvelopes to learn all about budgets.

At Games For Money you can find places to play free online gambling games and also learn some card counting tricks and tips.

  

The High Heels Blogs show us which killer heels are on sale including boots, sandals, slides and mules. Also take a look at some killer wedding heels for this summers nuptials.

 

A few notable gadgets that were blogged in the HyperGadget blog were the Kurzweil-National Federation of the Blind Reader, and the jumbled and messy looking organizer.

Over at the Medcare Forum, Kathleen Milazzo tells us more about that scary mad cow disease and our medical privacy laws.

Find out just how much house you can afford before you go running off to get that mortgage. And is the housing bubble really ready to blow? All this and more in Mortgage Updates.

At My Secret Side Biz learn how to make a profit, how to get your own powerwash, and simple business and Ebay tips.

On Healthy Living: Sarah White tells us all about a new study that could help with asthma reduction when it comes to do light exercise that involves stead breathing like yoga.

On Movies has a decade of super heroes list that includes recent and unreleased movies. Leafworks reviewed The Omen and we got to see the trailer for the new Ghost Rider movie.

Powersellers Blog: Ebay has done it. They finally reached 200 million members and they are also expanding into new ideas. Also people are fed up with Paypal while crooks are finding more ways to defraud your account.

Seo Updates: Yahoo one of the biggest email services was hit with a worm and Google expanded into real estate but won’t be making a browser, at least not anytime soon.

Get some free exercise tips from The Diet Logs. You will certainly need them if you plan to take a bite of this $100 burger.

Living the Single life? Well take a look at some great break up lines and if your looking to meet people Leafworks posted a great review of club La Rumba.

Thumb Gods: Nintendo is no, no to the name Wii for their new console a game system that is at the end of this long list containing The Evolution of Video Game Consoles.

Las Vegas Revealed that it was ill prepared for a massive disaster, but til then you can still get married and get comp’d in Vegas.

 

Wander the World, well the State of Colorado with Leafworks. He takes us to the Cherry Blossom Festival, Gothnic in Denver, Old Colorado City, Plaza del Arte Festival in Downtown Denver and Garden of the Gods.

Yummy Dessert Recipes From Chefs

 

When I tried the Atkins diet a few years ago, one of the things that annoyed me were the lack of good Desserts that I could have, especially in the earlier parts of the diet. Besides the Atkins, even regular diets are hard to have a snack on. Which is why many end of breaking down and binging, ruining the diet. Here are a few healthy dessert recipes for you:

Double Chocolate Honey Ring
Chocolate Tapioca Pudding with Strawberries
Alice’s Heavenly Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Black Raspberry Muffins
Baked Bananas with Fudge
Maple Poached Pineapple
Licorice Ice Cream
Premium Vanilla Ice Cream
Frozen Custard
Chocolate Almond Ice Cream
Cinnamon Peach Ice Cream

Courtesy of Chefs.com

The High Cost of Cancer

Today’s must-read is from USA Today, which reports that the cost of cancer drugs has skyrocketed, even compared to the rising cost of other types of drugs.

The cost of cancer drugs rose 16 percent last year, compared to a 3 percent rise for other kinds of prescription drugs. The newer drug therapies tend to be the most expensive, with some costing around $10,000 a month.

The high cost comes with some benefit, though, as the more expensive drugs also tend to prolong life. A handy little chart with this story says that the drugs available in 1996 to treat advanced colorectal cancer cost $500 and usually allowed the patient to live 11 months. The current drugs cost $250,000 and give the patient two years on average.

Drug companies say they have to make profits, and they aren’t out to take advantage of patients with life-threatening illnesses. They also say they give away billions of dollars in drugs to uninsured people who need them. Well, that makes me feel a lot better.

We The Guinea Pig

Are you aware that if you are in a very bad car accident and needed blood that you could not be given the real thing? I certainly was not aware of this fact until I watched the latest episode of 20/20.

A company called Northfield Labs who seems oblivious to human rights were given permission two years ago to run with their experiment. It is a new experimental blood substitute called Polyheme. It goes like this; Accident, then paramedics. Once you are in the ambulance, the paramedic opens a prepackaged envelope that is sort of a lottery game. Depending on what it says they will give you the clear liquid IV or the fake blood. All without informing you of a thing. You could bypass this of course if you were wearing a blue wrist band that said you did not want to be one of their guinea pigs.

However it’s funny about the wrist band considering probably 90% of us have never heard of the program so how in the heck are we supposed to be wearing the wristband? Also once they give you the black man-made whatever the heck it is, they must give it to you for 12 straight hours so you can’t even expect to get real blood once you reach the hospital. After that a family member must ask to put you on human blood, if you not, ie. coma patient. Once again, how can they if they have no idea you are being given an experimental liquid?

This could be a new breakthrough in health and science and I’m sure organ transplants were viewed as weird when first brought up but the key thing here is that we have no say with what they do to us. That is the very definition of unethical, but the company can’t seem to understand and neither does the FDA.

To opt out of this study simply to here http://www.northfieldlabs.com/contact.html or to any hospital that is participating in this study and ask for the blue bracelet.

Below are the cities and hospitals that are part of the study:

California
UC San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting
Scripps Mercy, San Diego, Calif.; No longer recruiting

Colorado
Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colo.

Delaware
Christiana Hospital, Newark, Del.

Georgia
Medical Center of Central Georgia, Macon, Ga.

Illinois
Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Ill.

Indiana
Wishard Memorial Hospital, Indianapolis, Ind.
Methodist Hospital of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind.

Kansas
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kan.

Kentucky
University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Ky.

Michigan
Detroit Receiving Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, Mich.

Minnesota
The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.

New York
Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y.; Suspended

North Carolina
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.

Ohio
MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Suspended
University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Ohio

Pennsylvania
Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Penn.; No longer recruiting
St. Luke’s Regional Resource Trauma Center, Bethlehem, Penn.
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Penn.

Tennessee
University of Tennessee-Memphis, Memphis, Tenn.
Johnson City Medical Center, Johnson City, Tenn.; Suspended

Texas
Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting
Memorial-Hermann Hospital, Houston, Texas; No longer recruiting
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam, Houston, Texas

Utah
University of Utah Health Sciences Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah

Virginia
Sentara Norfolk Hospital, Norfolk, Va.; No longer recruiting
Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center, Richmond, Va.
Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, Va.; Suspended

West Virginia
West Virginia University/Jon Michael Moore Trauma Center, Morgantown, West Va.

Source: 20/20

Sleep For Our Health

Studies keep showing that a vast majority of Americans get by on 5 hours or less sleep a night and even teenagers in highschool are no different. This is bad because your body needs time to rest and a full 8 hours or more is what our body expects and needs.

Everyone says that they are far too busy to sleep but we should be less busy in these times because unlike years ago, we have faster cars, public transportation, airplanes instead of horses or boats which takes hours to months to reach one destination.

We also have washing machines, stoves and a slew of other machinery that make life easier for us. Not that many seem to notice that. So we should set some time aside just for us to get a better night sleep.