(source: Science Daily)
A nutritionist in Nigeria says that malnutrition and iron deficiency in schoolchildren could be reduced in her country by baking up snail pie. In a research paper to be published in the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health, she explains snail is not only cheaper and more readily available than beef but contains more protein.
(source: Mayo Clinic)
We all experience some degree of depression…some more then others. I was thinking about how it effects our lives as I have noticed it with a few of my close friends. Reasons could be tied to financial stability, family issues, school, etc. So I surfed the net to see what I can dig up and stumbled upon these Mayo Clinic articles.
Original Article Post
(source: New York Times)
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders in the Senate on Wednesday unveiled their proposal for overhauling the health care system, outlining legislation that they said would cover most of the uninsured while reducing the federal budget deficit. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, said at an evening news conference that the legislation, embodying President Obama’s signature domestic initiative, would impose new regulations on insurers, extend coverage to 31 million people who currently do not have any and add new benefits to Medicare.
1) How much fructose can you safely eat? (source: Nutrition Data)
Q. I’m confused by conflicting things I’ve read about fructose.[In this article], I read that:
When large amounts of fructose are ingested, they do “provide a relatively unregulated source of carbon precursors for hepatic lipogenesis.” In other words, if you eat too much fructose, the liver can make the excess into fat.
But later in the same article, another scientist is quoted as saying:
There is no evidence that reasonable consumption of fructose in a typical diet has any adverse effect on the liver or that it produces more body fat than sucrose or glucose.
I’m confused. Should we be concerned about fructose actually being stored as fat? And how much fructose would a typical person have to eat for fat conversion to begin?
2) Treatment With Folic Acid, Vitamin B12 Associated With Increased Risk of Cancer, Death (source: Science Daily)
Patients with heart disease in Norway, a country with no fortification of foods with folic acid, had an associated increased risk of cancer and death from any cause if they had received treatment with folic acid and vitamin B12, according to a study in the November 18 issue of JAMA.
(source: The Health Care Blog)
It all sounds simple enough. You measure everything you do. You gather claims data. You measure what works. You show measures of what works to doctors and nurses. You write protocols for doctors and nurses to follow what works. You pay more for what works. You pay less for what doesn’t work. You remove pay incentives that cause doctors to do more. You gather together doctors who lead organizations with track records for providing better care at lower costs at the White House.