Sleep Monitoring at Home
Sleep monitoring devices are available both wearable, and as an app for the iphone. There are a lot of things you can learn from these devices, and here are a few things I learned – but they do have their limits.
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Chris Brogan and The Challenge
My bet with Chris Brogan is on which of us will lose more inches around the abdomen. My strategy will be simple menu planning and increasing activity. He has a girlfriend who is a personal trainer and nutritionist. Here is an example of how I will meet the challenge.
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Spending Time with Patients
A lady who had too many medicines prescribed, and not enough time given by her physician. Taking time with patients is that – it takes time. In this case, the intervention saved this patient and the health care system dollars.
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Angelina Jolie’s Decision: Do I Need to be Tested?
Angelina Jolie, breast cancer, and questions. Her courageous decision to undergo a double mastectomy to dramatically reduce her likelihood of developing breast cancer has brought heightened awareness to this deadly form of cancer. It’s also created many questions for women around the world.
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Mummies & Eskimos with Heart Disease: it isn’t Modern Diets that are the Problem: The People of St. Paul
Many diets are based on the false premise that the cave-men or early man, had great diets without chronic disease. Turns out they had plenty of heart and vascular disease, as a recent study showed. Reminded me of going to St Paul, in Alaska- a place where they still live like they did hundreds of years ago- but just a bit better.
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Taste Buds: In Your Tongue & Gut – Cats Can’t Taste Sweets
Taste buds are not just found in the tongue, but throughout the entire GI tract, and even the lung! Taste buds throughout our body don’t all function to provide a sense of taste but are used to trigger other reactions. In the tongue, they provide a sense of taste that drives us to seek some foods and to avoid others.
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Flu Vaccine: Better Ones Coming: But Get Vaccinated
Flu vaccines will be made faster, and more specific in the future. The new approved Flublock will also have less “preservatives” than the current vaccine. Vaccination is still far superior to supplements, vitamins, tam-flu, or any other “product” out there.
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Coke and Obesity- What the Body Does with The Calories
Coca-cola is joining in the fight against obesity. While the company has done some great things around the world, this fight is disingenuous at best. The marketing of free-fructose in large quantities is responsible for a great deal of the obesity epidemic in this, and other countries.
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24 Hour Flu Does Not Exist: Its Food Poisoning
You don’t have the 24 hour flu – you have been poisoned by food. Here is how to protect yourself – and by the way, cooking something to death is not the way to do it – pink is ok.
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