Archive for the ‘Diet Topics’ Category

Reduce Seasonal Allergies

Posted by Jeremy Mickey on September 23rd, 2011

Seasonal allergies are often caused by exposure to pollen. You can reduce your exposure to pollen by:

  • Keeping your house and car windows closed.
  • Limiting the time you spend outside when pollen counts are high (during midday and afternoon).
  • Wearing a pollen or dust mask if you need to mow the lawn. Limit your mowing tasks if you can.
  • Rinsing your eyes with cool water or saline eyedrops after you come indoors to remove clinging pollen.
  • Taking a shower and changing your clothes after you work or play outside.

US on alert over tainted Mexican papayas

Posted by Jeremy Mickey on August 26th, 2011

The US Food and Drug Administration FDA on Thursday issued an “import alert” after nearly 100 cases of salmonella in 23 states were linked to papayas imported from Mexico

Under the FDA alert, papayas from Mexico can be denied entry into the United States unless the importer proves they have been tested by an independent lab

“US and Mexican officials have been working closely together to find the source or sources of contamination of Salmonella in fresh papayas entering the US from Mexico,” the FDA said in a statement

An FDA analysis found a 156 percent salmonella contamination rate over the last three months in papayas from 28 different companies that included nearly every major papaya producing region in Mexico

Mexico produces 11 percent of the world’s papayas and supplies 65 percent of US papaya imports

Doctors played key role in South Florida pill mills

Posted by Maya Pratten on August 26th, 2011

A day after federal investigators busted the nations largest pill mill crime enterprise, a fuller portrait of the role of doctors emerged as the engine behind a narcotics network that churned out more than 20 million oxycodone pills and $40 million in profits.

While Christopher and Jeffrey George were cast as twin kingpins of the prescription drug market, their network of storefront pain clinics across South Florida were manned and supplied by 13 doctors, including six from Miami-Dade and Broward counties, records say.

Federal investigators allege the doctors used their prescription pads to order vast sums of pills from wholesale pharmaceutical suppliers, then dispensed the pills to as many as 500 patients a day some of them drug couriers from as far away as Appalachia, Mexico and Turkey.

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The motives of feeding the world and ending hunger are expressed to keep critics at bay. Although some real issues are occasionally addressed successfully, scientists are prone to meddle with nature without investigating potential hazards.And there are those, including this author, who say the short sighted technocrats who gleefully meddle with nature are serving a larger vision of depopulation.Not many know about the precursor to today’s GMO madness. Shortly after WW II, a movement for peaceful applications of atomic energy, “atoms for peace,” began.Before atomic energy for electrical power or vessel propulsion would manifest, atomic gardens began exposing plants with gamma ray radiation in large circular gardens to produce desired specialty plants or necessarily hardier plants that could resist certain diseases. Get more…

Assisted Living, NOT a nursing home

Posted by admin on August 4th, 2011

When my grandmother broke her hip, we were all sad because she had to “break up housekeeping” and move into a nursing home. The county nursing home assigned her room; she was fortunate that her roommate was her first cousin but that was happenstance. When grandmother moved into the nursing home she lost all her independence and most of her choices. Her everyday regimen was dictated by the staff rotation and the institutional schedule. She was not allowed to leave overnight or she would lose her “place” in the nursing home. She lived there 11 long years until she passed on.

I wish my grandmother could have had the opportunity to live in a modern assisted living facility. Her da Get more…