Posted on December 27, 2006 by Gerald Pugliese
Joel Fuhrman, MD, author of Eat to Live and Disease-Proof Your Child, claims that salt and processed oil are both bad for us. Salt, he claims, citing dozens of "research studies" done by "scientists," raises blood pressure and can predispose us to stomach cancer. Processed oil, he would have us believe, contains 120 nutrient-barren calories per teaspoon, and when cooked at high temperatures, releases the potent carcinogens known as acrylomides.
Well, Dr. Fuhrman, I've got you now - I use about a tablespoon of salt per day, and about a gallon of oil. And I'm just fine.
Men with the largest sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) were 42 percent more likely to develop heart disease during follow-up compared to those with the smallest SAD, while a large SAD increased heart disease risk by 44 percent for women, Dr. Carlos Iribarren of Kaiser Permanente of Northern California in Oakland and his team found.
Canadian and international researchers suspect adding a high-dose vitamin D pill to chemotherapy might improve treatment for advanced prostate cancer. So they are recruiting 1,000 men for a two-year clinical trial in order to investigate their suspicions. Currently, there is little to offer patients who no longer respond to standard treatment.
- If you feel too drowsy to drive, leave it to someone else.
- Adults need seven to eight hours of sleep a night in order to maintain good health and optimum performance.
- If you become drowsy while driving, pull off in a rest area and take a 15-20 minute nap.
- Consume caffeine, which improves alertness in people who are fatigued.
- Don't drink alcohol. If you're tired, alcohol can further impair your ability to stay awake and make good decisions. Just one glass of alcohol can affect your level of fatigue while you're driving.
- Don't drive after midnight, which is a natural period of sleepiness.
The look of total shock on the visitor's face as they shot out of the room was priceless. Picture the movie The Exorcist and amplify it by 100 times. The patient was profusely apologizing to me and I told him that it was okay and not to worry.
"There are plenty of germs out there that people can get as they circulate," said Dave Zazac, a spokesman with the Allegheny County Health Department. "In the general course of holiday greeting and meeting, people are going to get sick."
#4: Modern Ronald McDonald
Does this one really require explanation? The flaming red hair. The pasty white face. The demonically shaped mouth and the pencil thin arched eyebrows. Yikes!
Clowns, clowns, clowns. Clowns are evil. Clowns are bad! Don't believe me? Check out this Wikipedia article on evil clowns.
More creepy evidence: There's no shortage of horrific McDonald's television commercials, but this one 'Ronald's New Hairdo' really bugs me.
It is precisely this lack of data that makes aromatherapy so important to study, said Ohio State University health psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser. She is currently analyzing her results from a government-funded study in which she exposed one group to lavender, "which is supposed to be a relaxant," she said, another to lemon, "which is supposed to be stimulating or uplifting," and the third group to distilled water, which has no smell.
