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Health Headlines - November 28
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Meredy
Many Type 2 Diabetes Patients Morbidly Obese: U.S. Study Twenty percent of Americans with type 2 diabetes are more than 100 pounds overweight (morbidly obese), according to a Loyola University Health System study. "The rate of morbid obesity among people with diabetes is increasing at a very alarming rate, and this has substantial public healt ...
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Steamed sweet potatoes
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sheohyan
Sometime ago, my sister photostated a copy of slimming book for me. I haven't had time to read until last few weeks. There were many celebrities' diet tips found in the book. I personally attracted by Carina Lau Kar Ling's diet tips. She eats sweet potatoes everyday to substitute the rice. I am a person who can live without rice. Besides, I also li ...
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Health and Evolutionary Reasoning – The PaNu Method
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Kurt G Harris MD
Our current ideas of "health" or "optimal health" are modern concepts. Although evolving over millenia, in current form they are specific to our culture and are part of our "language game" - to borrow Ludwig Wittgenstein's term. One definition of a language game is an internally coherent system of values and concepts t ...
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Living Sugar-Free
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Nancy Welker
I am a fitness and health professional and have just started a new publication through my business, Nutrabeautiful, Inc. This is a free weekly newsletter called, "Living Sugar-Free" and it is aimed to give educated information about taking refined sugar out of your diet. The articles include recipes, fitness and exercise suggestions and ...
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The First Ophthalmic Innovation Summit
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Irv Arons
Earlier this year, two venture capitalists, Emmett Cunningham of Clarus Ventures and Bill Link of Versant Ventures, came up with the idea to hold a meeting prior to this year’s AAO Meeting, to enable start up and other small and early-stage ophthalmic companies to present new innovations that they were working on to a group of “angels&r ...
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Suprise! Immature Lungs! (That was Sarcasm)
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Ellyn
So the amnio came back and the baby has immature lungs. Of course, it was a total long shot that they would have been mature...I am only 32 weeks and I have gestational diabetes. So, we won't be inducing today like we would have if her lungs were mature. That being said, my doctor does not necessarily think the baby won't come today or tomorrow. W ...
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Fasting not Required for Cholestra tests
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Kathleen
"After analysing data from 300,000 patients, the results were just as accurate if the patient had eaten before the test," said Professor Sattar.via www.diabetesincontrol.comOkay, this sucks -- having to schedule the blood draw and delaying eating, etc. has been really hard on diabetics but at least now we don't have to put up with that c ...
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Diabetes will double and costs triple by 2034
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Kathleen
According to new findings published in Diabetes Care, the incidence of diabetes, and associated health costs are expected to double by 2034. The cost of treating diabetes is expected to triple in the next twenty-five years. The number of Americans living with diabetes will soar to 44.1 million, currently estimated at 23.7million. Cost of diabetes c ...
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Gretchen's postprandial diet experiment
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Dr. William D.
Gretchen sent me the results of a little experiment she ran on herself. She measured blood glucose and triglycerides after 1) a low-fat diet and 2) a low-carb diet. Gretchen describes her experience: Several years ago I received a windfall of triglyceride strips that would expire in a week or so. I hated to waste them, so I decided to use them to ...
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