Ramadan Reflections

My intention was to keep an updated blog about my experience with Ramadan.  My only excuse for failing to do so was…dehydration?  Low blood sugar?  Sleep deprivation?  Inability to think clearly and operate heavy machinery?
I imagine it was probably a mild combination of all of the above.  For a full month, I did not get [...]

Nutritioning vs Calories

Earlier, I’ve said that I generally agree with the whole idea of calories in vs. calories out.  However…I want to elaborate on that.
If someone has a goal to lose weight and merely thinks that by modifying calorie intake will do it will lead them to better health, let me just say that I feel this [...]

Nutritioning

Welcome to a new era in health!  Okay, that may be a bit grandiose, but I’m determined to be like Stephen Colbert and start making up my own words.
Nutritioning is my answer to ‘dieting.’  I’d love to throw this whole concept of dieting out the window, because it ultimately doesn’t work and can lead to [...]

Calories In vs Calories Out

There are all kinds of recommendations for how to lose weight or get healthy.  So many, in fact, we usually can’t sort them out.  Eat this, don’t eat that, cabbage soup diets, Atkins diet, South Beach diet, all protein diet, all carb diet, raw diet, detox diet, etc.  Most of us could probably name quite [...]

Might Want to Reconsider that Lunch…

because California has a new menu labeling law that requires chain restaurants to put calories (along with carb, fat, and sodium content) next to the food on the menu.
The hope is that consumers will become more aware of exactly what they are eating.  A lot of times, I’ve gone into Panera Bread or some deli [...]

Exploring Medical Ideology

The standard medical care during a heart attack is to give a beta blocker.  Beta blockers essentially act on smooth muscle (the involuntary muscles) and cardiac muscle.  In the heart, the effect is to decrease heart rate and dilate blood vessels.  So, in theory, this makes great sense to give someone having a heart attack [...]

It’s Okay to Admit You’re Wrong…

I’d like to thank the FDA for admitting they’ve messed up; for admitting they’ve not kept the general public’s best interest at heart. 
It appears as if monitoring various doctors financial interests when performing clinical trails wasn’t at the top of the FDA’s priority list.  Essentially, if Merck wanted a drug out there, the doctors performing the clinical [...]

Resistant Flu

It appears as if the main flu drug, Tamiflu, isn’t all that helpful this flu season.  The main form of the flu virus this season has become resistant to Tamiflu.
So what does this mean?  If you have the flu, you’re stuck with it. 
Experts say that the resistance didn’t come about due to overuse of the [...]

Diet Soda – Bad

Seems like more and more people might be agreeing with me on this idea that diet soda might not be the cures to our ‘diet’ woes.  Or maybe I was agreeing with other people first…at any rate…
An article in Men’s Health said that while diet soda may be lower in calories than regular soda, the [...]

So I Found a Story…

that is worth talking about. 
A father of two girls talks about his reasons for not getting his children vaccinated.  I’ve copied the interesting points he makes (far more eloquently than I), but here is the link to the complete story.

At the moment, 3,000 women develop cervical cancer every year and just under 1,000 die from [...]