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Beer May Be Good For Your Bones

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 11:28 PM EST (Yahoo! News)

If you downed one too many while watching the Super Bowl, here's at least one reason to hold your head high: Drinking beer can be good for your health. But seriously, a new analysis of 100 commercial beers shows the hoppy beverage is a significant source of dietary silicon, a ke …

health, silicon, beer-good-for-bones, dietary-silicon

Republican McCain Bill Attacks Natural Supplements

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 5:34 PM EST ()

Seeded by Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)

Sen. John McCain is introducing a horrific bill, the "Dietary Supplement Safety Act of 2010″ (DSSA) designed to end your access to high potency supplements by giving the bloated, corrupt and dangerous FDA MORE power to destroy supplement access.

politics, mccain, health-care-reform, herbs, sickness, sick-care

Soft drinks linked to pancreatic cancer

Seeded on Mon Feb 8, 2010 1:18 PM EST (Vancouver Sun)

Seeded by alkimija

Drinking two or more soft drinks a week may nearly double a person's risk of developing pancreatic cancer, researchers are warning.

health, cancer, pop, soda, pancreatic-cancer, soft-drinks, pancreas

Black History Month - AA's Dropping like flies - Oprah, Dr. OZ & Diabetes.

Sun Feb 7, 2010 12:21 PM EST

By Aunk (The Cultural Health Guy)

February is Black History Month and I usually write a traditional article on Cultural Health. However, if your physical health is shot, Cultural Health will not mean what you think it means.

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us-news, health-care-reform, diabetes, cultural-literacy, black-history, american-health

F.D.A. Weighs Update to Standard Serving Sizes

Seeded on Sat Feb 6, 2010 5:03 PM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by luckydog

Seeking a new weapon in the fight against obesity, the Food and Drug Administration wants to encourage manufacturers to post vital nutritional information, including calorie counts, on the front of food packages. The calorie and nutritional information on many foods may be re …

health, food-labeling-may-be-revised

Mindfulness in Plain English

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 10:24 PM EST (budsas.org)

Seeded by Cerridwen

The essence of our experience is change. Change is incessant. Moment by moment life flows by and it is never the same. Perpetual alteration is the essence of the perceptual universe. A thought springs up in your head and half a second later, it is gone.

peace, meditation, buddhism, compassion, mindfulness

Learning to Be the Ocean: Mastering Emotions

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 10:13 PM EST (buddhistchannel.tv)

Seeded by Cerridwen

The essence of the mind is as a container of experience, the ground in which mental objects, thoughts, emotions, beliefs, perceptions and memories can exist.

health, buddhism, compassion, listening, intuition, mindfulness, presence

9 Food Label Lies

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 9:46 PM EST ()

Seeded by krishna-167929

"Reading food labels isn't as easy as you think. Here's how to decipher nutrition labels so you can separate fact from marketing.

health, food, marketing, sugar, labels, omega-3, fats

Headache pill could save earthquake crush victims

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 7:08 PM EST (newscientist.com)

Seeded by luckydog

JUST one tablet of paracetamol (acetaminophen) could help save earthquake survivors who otherwise risk dying from kidney failure after rescue.

health, disaster, acetaminophen, kidney-failure, earthquake-relief

In 37 years as a cancer doctor, I've never had a patient who asked for euthanasia

Seeded on Thu Feb 4, 2010 3:47 AM EST (the Mail online)

Seeded by alkimija

The first time I helped someone to die is an occasion I will never forget. He was a 14-year-old boy who was suffering from leukaemia. I was a young cancer registrar at St Bartholomew's Hospital in London.

doctors, death, life, health, euthanasia, patients, palliative-care

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