Food & Drink
FinanceAttacks on ER Nurses on the Rise
Thursday, August 12th, 2010Bill A3103A landed on New York Governor David Paterson’s desk last week, and with his signature nurses in the state would see harsher penalties for the violent patients who attack them. “The emergency room is a high-risk area to be assaulted,” says Debra Bibartolo, a member of New York State Emergency Nurses Association Government Affair [...]
The longer you sit, the shorter your life
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010The more you sit around, the shorter your average life span is, according to a new study. The effect remained even after researchers factored out obesity or the level of daily physical activity people were engaged in, according to a study of more than 120,000 American adults. We already kind of knew this anyway, but [...]
What If You Only Ate Food in TV Ads?
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010If you were to only eat food that was advertised on television, you would be in a terrible state and in the hospital before you knew it. Your diet would consist of huge amounts of sugar and fat with hardly any fresh fruit and vegetables, according to researchers from Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, [...]
Patients who e-mail with doctors see their health improve
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010Maybe doctors are starting to realize that when you treat patients like actual people, they can heal. Patients with diabetes or hypertension who communicated with their doctors via e-mail got better care and better health outcomes, according to new California research. The improvements as a result of the e-mail exchanges included blood sugar and blood [...]
Vitamin E May Reduce Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease
Thursday, July 8th, 2010People who have high levels of vitamin E in their blood appear to be at a lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from Swedish researchers. The study suggests that vitamin E may prevent cognitive decline, including Alzheimer’s disease, in elderly people. The study followed 232 people from the Kungsholmen Project, a [...]
Syndrome Causes Sufferers To Think They Have Body Odor
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Most people think they smell bad after a workout or while sweating on a hot day, but others constantly have a false sense of bad body odor. Especially those with olfactory reference syndrome. This syndrome has become so prevalent that psychiatrists are considering adding it to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which [...]
Cologne Connected to Sperm Damage
Thursday, May 27th, 2010Many men wear it every day. Cologne. But the ingredients that give colognes their scents could also be damaging sperm, according to a new study. Researchers analyzed the chemical composition of 17 perfumes and colognes and discovered that many contain compounds that have the potential to interact with hormones. One chemical, a solvent called diethyl [...]
Lady Gaga Tested For Lupus
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010Lady Gaga, the highly energetic singer and star, has admitted to the London Times that she has been tested for lupus. However, the singer wouldn’t reveal the results of the tests, saying only, “I don’t want anyone to be worried.” “I’m very connected to my aunt, Joanne, who died of lupus,” she continues. “It’s a [...]
Eating Too Much Bok Choy Puts 88-Year-Old Woman in Coma
Friday, May 21st, 2010Too much of any one thing is never a good thing. A daily diet of more than two pounds of raw bok choy, a vegetable used in Thai and other Asian dishes, sent an 88-year-old Chinese woman into a coma. Doctors determined that an enzyme in the uncooked produce was the culprit. She was rushed [...]
Almost Half of Deaths in Kids Under 5 Occur in 5 Countries
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and blood poisoning account for more than two-thirds of the 8.8 million annual deaths in kids under 5 years of age worldwide, according to a new report. Other leading causes of death for include birth complications, lack of oxygen during birth and congenital defects. The report found that infectious diseases [...]
