Supermarkets Stop Selling Pink Slime
- Health & Healing
- March 22, 2012
Safeway, SUPERVALU and Food Lion announced today that they will no longer carry what the meat industry calls "lean finely textured beef," something the public has come to know as "pink slime." All three companies site customer concerns as one of the primary reasons for the change. Walmart and Sam's Club also announced they would
READ MOREThere’s No Place Like Home: Why Cooking at Home May Be the Answer to America’s Obesity Problem
- Health & Healing
- March 21, 2012
Changes to demographics and the growth of the restaurant industry have shifted eating habits in a way that has devalued home-cooked meals and contributed to growing health problems, argues Craig A. Lambert in Harvard Magazine. Worldwatch Institute, 3/17/2012
READ MORERed Meat Tied to Increased Mortality Risk
- Health & Healing
- March 21, 2012
Your risk of early death may be increased by eating just one serving of red meat each day. ABC News, 3/12/2012
READ MOREDon’t Call It Pampering: Massage Wants to Be Medicine
- Health & Healing
- March 21, 2012
The Wall Street Journal, 3/13/2012
READ MOREIs Pink Slime in the Beef at Your Grocery Store?
- Health & Healing
- March 12, 2012
An ABC News investigation has revealed that a cheap, unsavery meat filler substance, commonly called "pink slime," is in 70 percent of supermarket beef and up to 25 percent of every American hamburger. A substance once only used in dog food and cooking oil, this pink slime is now used as filler in the majority
READ MOREFainting Can Indicate Deadly Heart Condition
- Health & Healing
- March 5, 2012
Experts say that 25 percent of the time, fainting can indicate a potentially deadly heart condition. “Everyone doesn’t have to be alarmed that there is a serious medical problem if they pass out. But it is important for the first time you pass out that you do have further evaluation,” says Dr. Lawrence Phillips, an
READ MOREA Diet Rich in Fish May Help the Aging Brain
- Health & Healing
- March 5, 2012
In a study, people with low levels of omega-3s (which are found in fish) had smaller brains and scored lower on memory tests. The Wall Street Journal, 2/28/2012
READ MORESleeping pills ‘linked to increased death risk’
- Health & Healing
- March 5, 2012
A recent study found that people who take sleeping pills— even once and a while— have a higher risk of premature death than those who do not. A study published in the British Medical Journal found people taking 18 to 132 pills a year were up to five times more likely to die early and
READ MOREHeart warning signs women might miss
- Health & Healing
- February 27, 2012
A new study highlights why more women need to pay attention to their bodies’ warning signs of heart disease, their No. 1 killer. NBC News, 2/25/2012
READ MOREHeart Attacks in Young Women Can Be Harder to Detect, Deadlier
- Health & Healing
- February 27, 2012
Heart disease can sneak up on young women in ways that standard cardiac tests can miss. Although chest pain or discomfort is the most common heart attack symptom, fatigue, nausea, shortness of breath and pain or numbness in the jaw, arms or back can also signal a blocked artery cutting off vital oxygen and nutrients
READ MORENew Hospital Cuisine: Dishes Made to Order
- Health & Healing
- February 22, 2012
Hospital food is getting a makeover, with some hospitals now offering luxury meal order programs. The Wall Street Journal, 2/21/2012
READ MOREC-sections aren’t always best for preterm babies
- Health & Healing
- February 17, 2012
NBC Nightly News, 2/9/2012
READ MOREPopular Lipsticks Contain Dangerous Levels of Lead
- Health & Healing
- February 17, 2012
U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers have detected lead in 400 brands of lipstick tested by the agency. At least two popular brands had amounts of the neurotoxin above the threshold the state of California considers safe in personal care products, which is 5 parts per million. “Millions of women get a little bit of
READ MOREPatient’s own stem cells help heal heart
- Health & Healing
- February 16, 2012
A patient's own heart cells can be used to regrow new heart tissue and help undo damage caused by a heart attack, according to early research published on Monday by scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. CNN Blogs, 2/13/2012
READ MORECompanies Not Telling the Whole Truth About Whole Grains
- Health & Healing
- February 9, 2012
Labels on "Whole Grain" and "Whole Wheat" products can often be deceiving, as it turns out none of these words have legal meaning. Many manufacturers label their foods with these terms without being held to any real standards. Nutritionists say that if a product boasts “Whole Grain,” you should make sure the first item in the
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