More Reasons to Lose Weight
A recent study found that erectile function, sexual desire, and urinary symptoms improved significantly for all the participants, who lost on average 5 to 10 percent of their body weight over the 8 weeks.
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On a Personal Note
Being a doctor means you have insight into people they don’t have. It means sometimes spending nights up worrying about them, or with them. It means knowing what the end will be, and it means sometimes you see it before they do.
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In The Kitchen: Sous Vide Chicken
Chicken Sous Vide. The best chicken bar none is prepare using Sous Vide. After years of eating chicken prepared every which way, buttermilk fried in the South, to baked in the North; from chicken made by great Italian chefs, great deli chefs, and Native Americans, Sous Vide cooking trumps them.
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This Week in Medicine: Summary of Top News Studies
John’s Hopkins removed hands free faucets after finding an increased incidence in the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires disease in over half the faucets. In other news, the CDC released data showing that between 2001 and 2008 there were 233 cases of tetanus, and a death rate of 13.2 percent.
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Asparagus Is In Season – Here’s How You Cook It
Some health benefits of asparagus: 1) about half a dozen contain 50% the daily recommended dose of folate; 2) contains rutin, which may be an anti-inflammatory useful in fighting plaque in blood vessels; 3) contains some amino acids – which form the basis for proteins; 4) contains glutathione, cysteine, glutamic acid, and glycine.
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Food and Radiation- What You Need to Know
In foods, radiation is used to destroy or inactivate bugs that can cause spoilage or decomposition – allowing the food to have a longer shelf life. However, the source of radiation is removed and the foods have no residual radioactivity
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Don’t Take Iodine
There will be detectable radioactivity from Japan, however it will be in amounts so small that they will be less than the amount of radiation you would get sunning yourself on a typical day.
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Fill Your Pasta Craving With Squash Instead
Spaghetti Squash is a great substitute for pasta. It has more flavor, fewer calories, more nutrients – and is just as easy to cook as pasta. Watch Dr. Terry Simpson prepare Spaghetti Squash.
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Do We Need Iodine to Combat Radiation Contamination?
The questions being asked by some are – should we, in the West, take iodine? The answer is NO. While we can detect minute amounts of radioactive iodine in the air in a few days- it will be at levels far below those that might cause problem. In addition, iodine itself has side effects (nausea, diarrhea, thyroid shut down, and potassium overload).
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