Serevent and Foradil
An expert panel said benefits of two inhaler drugs are not worth the risks and should no longer be used to treat asthma.
Panel strongly urged the FDA to tell doctors not to prescribe the drugs to children or adults as a standalone asthma treatment.
Drugs have also been associated with significant increase in the risk of hospitalization and death from asthma. WebMD Health News 2008
The High Price of Cheap Eats
Dollar “value meals” not so cheap when you look at the potential health costs.
menu items are packed with fat, salt, cholesterol and processed meat
The Cancer Project, a nonprofit cancer prevention organization. The group has produced a list of what it says are the five unhealthiest items sold at the nation’s largest fast food chains.
1. Jack in the Box’s junior bacon cheeseburger topped the list as the worst offender. The burger costs just one dollar but is packed with 23 grams of fat, including 8 grams of saturated fat, 55 milligrams of cholesterol and 860 milligrams of sodium and just one gram of fiber.
2. The 89-cent Taco Bell cheesy double beef burrito, with 460 calories, 20 grams of fat and a whopping 1,620 milligrams of sodium.
3. One-dollar Burger King breakfast sausage biscuit, with 27 grams of fat, including 15 grams of saturated fat and over 1,000 milligrams of sodium.
4. O-dollar McDonald’s McDouble, which contains 19 grams of fat and 65 milligrams of cholesterol.
5. Wendy’s junior bacon cheeseburger, for $1.53, with 310 calories and 16 grams of fat.
“It would be nice if they decided it was better for their budget to start preparing food at home more often," she said.
American Values Blamed For U.S. Health Care Crisis
2008 issue of the Science Daily. "To heal our ailing health care system, we need to stop thinking like Americans".
The U.S. government is projecting that we will spend $4 trillion on health care by 2015 which will represent 20 percent of the nation's gross domestic product.
[Yet we are 37th according to WHO…]
The Science Daily article also reported that in his paper, Dr. Nuwer, explained that 31 percent of
U.S. health care expenditures go toward administration.
2008 Star Tribune in Minneapolis
listed "5 Misconceptions About Health Care" that helped clarify this issue.
1. America has the best health care in the world. We have the most expensive system, but by most international measures we are far down the list on actual health care delivery.
2. Somebody else is paying for your health insurance. This is not true as we pay for health care either in taxes or as a deduction from salary.
3. We would save a lot if we could cut the administrative waste of private insurance. This point is debatable as some say that this cost is needed while others compare this with other countries that have considerably less administrative costs.
4. Health-care reform is going to cost a bundle - the bottom line is that we are already paying for a wasteful system that leaves out a large portion of our population.
5. If the rest of the world can offer health care at a fraction of the cost, why can't we?
Americans aren't ready for a major overhaul of the health-care system."
New England Journal of Medicine
- 7 percent of Americans rate our health-care system excellent.
- 40 percent consider it poor
- 70 percent believe it needs major changes, if not a complete overhaul." This pretty much says it all. We are ready!
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDay News) -- Science is verifying what many overeaters have suspected for a long time: sugar can be addictive. The sweetener seems to prompt the same chemical changes in the brain seen in people who abuse drugs such as cocaine and heroin.
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology's
"Drinking large amounts of sugar water when hungry can cause behavioral changes and even neurochemical changes in the brain which resemble changes that are produced when animals or people take substances of abuse.
"A "sugar addiction" may even act as a "gateway" to later abuse of drugs such as alcohol, Hoebel said. "The same thing is true of eating," he added. "Fattening food has an impact on the regulating mechanism that breaks down your sense of fullness, makes you feel an urge to go back and get that blast of sugar and this creates the vicious cycle of weight gain that we're going through.
Cancer to be world's top killer by 2010, WHO says
ATLANTA - Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases and deaths by 2030.
Poor Families Pressed Into Vaccine Trials by Drug Companies; 12 Babies Die
(NaturalNews) Major pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline has been accused of pressuring poor Third World parents into enrolling their children in experimental drug trials that have led to the deaths of at least 12 infants.
Antibiotics: Single Largest Class Of Drugs Causing Liver Injury
ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2008) — Antibiotics are the single largest class of agents that cause idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is the most common cause of death from acute liver failure and accounts for approximately 13 percent of cases of acute liver failure in the U.S.
America's Health Checkup -
Time
How do you take the temperature of a population that sprawls across nine time zones, 50 states and a global rainbow of cultures and communities?
Look at yourself.
67% of Americans, you're currently overweight or obese.
27%, your blood pressure is too high.
96% of the population, can’t recall the last time you had a salad
40% of us who get no exercise
You may be passing your health habits to your children
This Generation of American kids will be the first ever to have a shorter life span than their parents.
Research on mice links fast food to Alzheimer's
Mice fed junk food for nine months showed signs of developing the abnormal brain tangles strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease,\ a Swedish researcher said on Friday.
A diet rich in fat, sugar and cholesterol could increase the risk of the most common type of dementia.
Journal of the American Medical Association’s 2008 startling conclusion.
The start of screening mammography programs throughout Europe has been associated with increased incidence of breast cancer.
Did the x-rays and/or the sometimes torturous compression of breasts during mammography actually spur cancer to develop? Or does this just look like an increase in the disease rate because mammography is simply identifying more cases of breast cancer?
Bottom line: the scientists conclude this indicates that some of the cancers detected by mammography would have spontaneously regressed if they had never been discovered on a mammogram and treated, usually with chemotherapy and radiation. Simply put, it appears that some invasive breast cancers simply go away on their own, healed by the body’s own immune system.
THE CURE FOR CANCER HAS BEEN DISCOVERED
Harvard Health Publications revealed that the American Institute for Cancer Research
(AICR) found the cure for cancer. It's not what you think Harvard would report – it's not a drug, surgery, or medical anything. It's how you're body is functioning and the lifestyle that effects function.
There were 8 very, very clear findings that showed where cancer
comes from. All of these findings in some way shape or form are FULLY
related to the 5 Essentials of Maximized Living
THE STUDY SHOWED THAT VERY FEW PEOPLE UNDERSTOOD THE CANCER –
MAXIMIZED LIVING CONNECTION:
1. 50% of Americans think that preventing cancer is either impossible
or highly unlikely.
2. Only 49% were aware that diets low in fruits and vegetables increase cancer
risk.
3. Only 46% cited obesity as a risk factor for cancer.
4. Only 37% knew of alcohol's link to cancer.
5. Only 36% were aware of the link between diets high in processed meat — and cancer.
6. one third of cancers worldwide could be avoided through diet and activity.
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of
Cancer: A Global Perspective took five years to complete and was
Based on more than 7,000 scientific studies. It is the most
comprehensive review ever published of the science linking cancer risk
to function, diet, physical activity and weight.
These are all quotes from the sources noted.
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