Study: Vitamins may increase death risk in older women - USATODAY.com

Just eat right, don't mess with vitamins....

Study: Vitamins may increase death risk in older women
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Exercising

Funny. The Organization which I work for - the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists - is trying to get us healthy and is giving us financial incentives to do so. Great news for me, since I already exercise every day. My wife and I go for a walk almost every day of 3.5-5.5 miles. But in order to help us, they gave us a digital pedometer. Curious as to how well it worked, I tested it against my iPhone's GPS. With the settings all accurate, I've worn the pedometer to track every step I take during the day since Thursday morning. Thursday I walked almost 12 miles. Friday almost 11. Saturday almost 8, and today, almost 8. That's a lot of miles! Sure it helped that we were having a convention on the campus of Walla Walla University and walked across campus all day long.... But still.

Add to what I now see I'm walking each day, is that my son and daughter and I have been swimming 5 days a week. That's about 2 aerobic miles a day (we're swimming less than 2 actual miles), and then I'm also doing some weight conditioning training for my shoulders and arms and I feel tired! Whew!

But in actuality it feels very good. My diet while eating at the college cafeteria was less than stellar. Now with that over, I'm ready to deal with the Forks over Knives diet again. We bought the movie a few weeks back and watched it again. Great job!

I feel armed and ready now. Let's go get 'em!

Eating and Exercise

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How diet and exercise beat high blood pressure

by ERIC MARCOTTE, MD | in PATIENT | one response

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All day I badger and cajole my patients to take better care of their bodies:

“We really need to get some of this weight off, Mr. Jones.”

“This blood sugar level means diabetes is right around the corner – it’s time to get serious about changing your diet, Ms. Smith.”

“This blood pressure reading tells me that you’re not getting enough exercise, Bill.”

I’ve got pills for everything, it seems.  I just wish I didn’t have to use them!  So when I get a great success story like I had yesterday, I want to share it.

Gary came in about 5 months ago because the nurse at work had found a very high blood pressure reading.  I looked him over and did a few tests on his heart and immediately started him on the blood pressure medicine I thought would work best for him.

When I start a new medicine like this for a long-term problem, I always make sure to tell my patient if I think they have any way of fixing the issue and stopping the medicine.  In Gary’s case, I thought it was pretty clear that he had neglected his health and had started to have some consequences from that.  The good news, I told him, was that I really thought he could turn back the clock and fix his blood pressure and other health issues.

Since we had just met, I wasn’t sure how seriously he was taking his health or whether he really meant it when he said “I’ll fix this.”  As I got to know Gary over the next few months and see his blood pressure come down to the safe range, I found out that he had truly taken my challenge.  Just yesterday, we both realized that he beat it – we stopped one of his blood pressure medicines and made plans to come off everything in a few more months!

“I’m eating healthy and walking at least once a day,” he says.  “Nothing fancy, just stuff I knew I should have done but never did until now.  And I feel great!”

He ought to feel proud too.  In five months, he’s lost over 30 pounds.  The diet and exercise he’s done, while nothing crazy or difficult, has been made up of good choices day after day.  Gary’s good choices have made his heart stronger, his sugar normal, and cut his cholesterol by almost 40%.  All this in 5 months, while still enjoying life and working full-time.  And the best part?  Now I know Gary well enough to recognize that glint in his eye when he told me, “This is permanent.”  I have no doubt.

Eric Marcotte is a family physician who blogs at doctorfoodtruth.

Don’t forget to tune in to CNN this weekend!

This is a great article about Bill Clinton's health reversal. You really need to read the link for the whole article.....

 

 

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Don’t forget to tune in to CNN this weekend!

via The Engine 2 Diet by Engine 2 Team on 8/19/11

Tune in as Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the signs, tests and lifestyle changes that could make cardiac problems a thing of the past on "The Last Heart Attack," Sunday 8 p.m. ET.

Read about Bill Clinton's transformation from McDonalds loving President to a plant-powered and healthy!

 

 

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Well Blog: Swapping Meat for Nuts to Lower Diabetes Risk

Lower the risk? Why not try to totally destroy the risk....?

 

 

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Well Blog: Swapping Meat for Nuts to Lower Diabetes Risk

via NYT > Home Page by By ANAHAD O'CONNOR on 8/10/11

Eating red meat, and in particular processed red meat like bacon and hot dogs, raises the risk of Type 2 diabetes. But replacing just one serving a day with nuts or low-fat dairy can lower the risk.

 

 

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Doctors group says hot dogs as dangerous as cigarettes

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The Jell-O Is Made From People! Human-Derived Gelatin Coming Soon

Major YUCK Factor in this "slightly creepy product"....

 

 

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The Jell-O Is Made From People! Human-Derived Gelatin Coming Soon

via Fast Company by Ariel Schwartz on 7/18/11

We may not have to rely on boiled pig bones for our gelatin forever. The solution may not be any more appetizing, but it is safer and easier.

Gelatin is found in everything from Jell-O and marshmallows to cosmetics and candles. But the current method of taking gelatin from the skin and bones of cows and pigs has a number of drawbacks, including variation in quality from batch to batch, the potential for transmitting infectious diseases like Mad Cow and the possibility of triggering immune system responses in humans. We may not have to rely on pig bones for  gelatin forever, though the newest option--human derived gelatin--isn't too appetizing.

Beijing University of Chemical Technology researchers created the slightly creepy product by sticking human gelatin genes into a strain of yeast that can produce gelatin with reliable features--and a virtual guarantee that it won't be contaminated with pathogens or cause immune responses (because the gelatin molecules are based on human DNA sequences). No word on when the gelatin will be available for commercial use, but there are other companies working on similar products.

A San Francisco-based company called FibroGen is also developing "recombinant human gelatin" that has already been safely tested on humans as a stabilizer for vaccines. FibroGen is also talking with capsule manufacturers (think: capsules for medication) to study the feasibility of using recombinant gelatin in their products.

So here's the question: cow and pig-based gelatin is definitely not vegetarian, but what about human-derived gelatin?  It doesn't come from actual people, but it is derived from human genes. At what point do genes represent a person that you don't want to eat? On the plus side, it's undoubtedly safer than today's gelatin, so perhaps we should consider it a stepping stone on the way to a less stomach-curdling gelatin source.

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