Health & Wellness
Minger took to vegetarianism when she was just 7 years old. "I was eating steak one night at dinner and almost choked on it. I developed some kind of phobia surrounding things with meat textures and went vegetarian overnight," she explains.
Comment: Much food for thought in the above interview. While it's tempting to look at any one diet plan as a panacea, usually based on ideology, it's people like Minger who are really digging in to find out what works and what doesn't. And the emphasis on individual needs, as well as environmental factors, make one realize the true complexity of the issue of diet.
See also:
- Introducing Death by Food Pyramid
- The China Study, Wheat, and Heart Disease; Oh My!
- The Truth About the China Study
- Beyond sugar and soda: Nutritional cures for damaged teeth
- Will Eating Red Meat Kill You?
Called the "No Jab No Pay" program, Australia aims to increase compliance with government mandated vaccination programs by taking money away from its citizens. Parents who refuse to vaccinate their children may continue to do so under religious or medical grounds, but will not be allowed to keep the money they were previously receiving from the government.
No Jab No Pay appears to be working. According to Tehan's press release:
Since the Turnbull Government introduced No Jab, No Pay in 2016 about 246,000 children and their families have taken action to ensure they meet the immunisation requirements.Reasons for financially penalizing its citizens are for safety, according to the Minister of Social Service. Tehan writes:
Immunization is the safest way to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases.
© Graeme Robertson for the Guardian
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, biologist, oncologist and author best known for his Pulitzer-winning 2010 book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
Siddhartha Mukherjee, physician, biologist, oncologist and author best known for his Pulitzer-winning 2010 book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
A groundbreaking clinical trial on whether diet could boost the effectiveness of cancer drugs is set to be launched by one of the world's leading oncologists.
The work, led by Siddhartha Mukherjee at Columbia University Medical Center in New York, will investigate whether a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could improve outcomes for patients with lymphoma and endometrial cancer.
The trial, which is initially recruiting 40 patients, is the first in a series of similar interventions being planned at other centres in the US and Europe by members of a new international working group focused on "rethinking human diets for cancer", said Mukherjee, who is best known for writing the Pulitzer prize-winning book The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer.
© Maria Belen Farias, UF Health Photography, CC BY-SA
Physical therapists Steven Hunter and Laura Hayes teach an unidentified patient lumbar stabilization exercises at the Equal Access Clinic in Gainesville, Florida.
Physical therapists Steven Hunter and Laura Hayes teach an unidentified patient lumbar stabilization exercises at the Equal Access Clinic in Gainesville, Florida.
Many people addicted to opioids are first exposed through a medical prescription for pain. Opiate-based drugs provide relief for acute conditions, such as post-surgical pain.
Unfortunately, the effectiveness of opioids decreases after time, requiring higher doses of the drug for the same effects and, perhaps counter-intuitively, worsening pain in some people. Many people progress from this prescription to other opiate derivatives, including heroin and fentanyl. As a result, a growing emphasis has been placed on nonpharmacological alternatives to opioids.
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Since 2003, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics has surveyed people in the US over the age of 15 about how they spend their time. Recently released data for 2017 show the average American spends about 16 minutes a day playing games, including board games, and those played on phones, computers, and consoles. In 2003, that number was less than 10 minutes. Of those activities that the average American spent more than five minutes a day on-such as sleeping or watching TV-no other activity's share of time grew faster over the last 14 years. The data are based on samples of the US public, so not exact, though they are likely to be accurate within about a minute.
The 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was historic acknowledgement by the US government that government licensed and mandated childhood vaccines can and do cause injury and death.3 Four billion dollars in federal compensation has been paid to thousands of vaccine victims over the past three decades.4
The 1905 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Jacobson v Massachusetts affirmed the authority of states to require healthy citizens to undergo smallpox vaccination during outbreaks of that deadly, high communicable disease. However, the Court also warned that vaccine mandates should not be implemented in a way that is "cruel and inhuman to the last degree."5,6
Comment: Read more from Barbara Loe Fisher about Vaccine extremism in America:
- Defending your rights: Religious exemption to vaccination
- A shot in the dark: Where is the science supporting the childhood vaccine schedule?
- Preserving the public vaccine policy - American Academy of Pediatrics refuses to back vaccine claims with science
When asked whether it could provide studies to support specific claims it made about vaccine safety, the American Academy of Pediatrics ultimately declined.
On January 10, 2017, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued a press release to express its opposition to a federal commission that has been proposed by the Trump administration to examine vaccine safety and efficacy. The AAP argues that since we already know that vaccines are safe and effective, therefore there is no need for further examination into their safety and efficacy.
This argument, however, begs the question - it presumes in the premise the proposition to be proven (the petitio principii fallacy). And the press release itself illustrates why, apart from the question of whether there should be a federal commission, critical examination of public vaccine policy is very much warranted.
Now, before the eye rolls start, let me clarify - yes, we need doctors, we need surgeons, we need experts to help us heal what ails us, but we also need more knowledge, education, and understanding of health and what it truly takes to be healthy.
Doctors are trained on how to prescribe medications in order to treat symptoms from a huge array of illnesses. Unfortunately, it's called the medical industry for a reason, and healthy patients don't earn profits. This is exactly why doctors aren't taught very much in regards to preventative measures that would stop us from getting ill in the first place.
And stay tuned for Zoya's Pet Health Segment, where she discusses the bizarre parasite toxoplasmosis.
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A common question we receive relates to the use of dairy and ketogenic diets. Dairy is a handy, tasty fat (and protein) source that can add a decent amount of variety to a keto diet...but, dairy is not a great fit for everyone.
Some of the challenges of dairy:
1- Lactose intolerance.
For the majority of humans, once they are weaned from breast milk, they begin to lose lactase gene activity, which means they produce little if any of the lactase enzyme which helps to digest lactose, the predominant sugar in dairy. This lack of lactase in the digestive process can make for a wild, "disaster pants" ride for folks who consume a decent amount of lactose in a meal.
Fermented dairy (yogurt for example) tends to have less lactose, while hard cheeses, cream and butter may have only trace amounts of lactose, which may make them "ok" for folks depending on their individual situation. One can also use lactase supplements which can augment the ability to digest lactose. So, although lactose is a problem for many people, there are workarounds. Unfortunately, lactose is not the only problem that some have with dairy.
Comment: While the above calculations can seem like a pain and tends to bring up the "eating shouldn't be this complicated!" complaints, as Wolff explains, these steps are really only needed in the beginning. The problem is that eating Keto really is a radical departure from how we modern humans are used to eating, and the calculations act as a good way of establishing a guideline to how much fat/protein/carbs one should actually be eating. Once these things are established, the calculations can all be set aside and one can just eat.
See also:
- The definitive guide to going Keto
- The Keto Diet: Benefits beyond weight loss
- Fat-Burning Runners: Study shows benefits of keto-adaptation in athletes' performance
- Gettin Keto: Why we must dump grains, eat more fat! - Dr. Perlmutter
- 'Keto Clarity' details the many health benefits of ketogenic diet
- Jeff Volek - The many facets of keto-adaptation: Health, performance, and beyond
Comment: Ignoring vaccine safety questions - are doctors being trained to manipulate patients?