Category: Quality Control (Page 43 of 74)

      Common Weight Loss Mistakes That Are Keeping You Fat

      January 20, 2012 /

      The most common weight loss mistakes go against everything we’ve learned about losing weight.

      Calories in-calories out, exercise and restriction seem like perfectly reasonable ways to shed unwanted pounds; but that is not the whole story.

      Running for hours on the treadmill and eating too few calories could be sabotaging your efforts.

      A prolonged calorie deficit causes your metabolism to slow.

      This is a survival instinct to prevent you from losing weight in times of famine.

      When you do lose weight, you’ll be losing both fat and muscle.

      This further slows your metabolism.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Can Deodorant Cause Breast Cancer?

      January 18, 2012 /

      Women have been alerted to concerns that certain ingredients in under arm deodorant may be a cause of breast cancer.

      The new study does not prove that personal care products cause breast cancer. But “the fact that parabens were present in so many of the breast tissue samples does justify further investigation,” said Philippa Darbre, PhD, of University of Reading in the U.K., in a news release.

      “Although the environmental exposure to parabens as a cause of breast cancer is a possibility, there is no conclusive data thus far to state this as fact,” says Katherine B. Lee, MD, in an email. She is a breast specialist at the Cleveland Clinic Breast Center in Ohio. “The study suggests that if there is a relationship between parabens and breast cancer, it may be a complex one.”

      While there is no direct link between deodorant and breast cancer, eliminating toxic exposure would benefit your health.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      How Doctors Die

      January 18, 2012 /

      What your doctor knows about dying might influence your end of life care decisions.

      Shannon Brownlee’s book, “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer”, Bloomsbury USA; First Edition edition (September 18, 2007) sheds light on what physicians know about extraordinary measures used in the ER and in intensive care units and why many physicians opt out of such care.

      Dying in a hospital bed attached to tubes is not how many in the medical field would choose to die.

      Why would doctors be so anxious to avoid the very procedures they deliver to their patients every day? For one thing, they know firsthand that these procedures are most often futile when performed on a frail, elderly, chronically ill person. Only about 8% of people who go into cardiac arrest outside of the hospital are revived by CPR. Even when your heart stops in the hospital, you have only a 19% chance of surviving. That’s a far cry from the way these procedures are portrayed on TV, where practically everybody survives having his heart shocked and undergoing CPR.

      Doctors, Health Care Policy, Hospitals, Quality Control, Wellness

      Two Slices of Bacon a Day is a Prescription for Cancer

      January 16, 2012 /

      Cancer risk is raised by consuming 2 strips of bacon a day.

      Unless you don’t want to raise your risk of cancer by a fifth, then consider cutting back.

      New research by the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm found that eating 1.8 ounces (50 grams) of processed meat a day can increase the risk of pancreatic cancer by 19 percent.
      For people consuming 3.5 ounces (100 grams) of processed meat, the increased risk jumps to 38 percent and 57 percent for those eating 5.3 ounces (150 grams) a day.

      Processed foods should be avoided in a healthy diet.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      Death By Soda?

      January 16, 2012 /

      Could more than 2,600 deaths a year be prevented by taxing soda?

      Some analysts think, yes.

      In general, they assume that if the price of soda rises, people will buy less of it. “We assume that 40 percent of the calories saved by forgoing a sugary drink are replaced with other calories,” she says, meaning either calories from drinks such as milk or fruit juice or from food. “So for every 100 calories in soda avoided, only 60 calories are actually lost in the diet.”

      This is not the first study to predict that a soda tax would be effective in reducing consumption. Yale University researchers concluded in this report that taxing sugary drinks would lead to economic benefits as well.

      Using the funds that come from taxing unhealthy foods could be the answer to a host of health cost issues.

      Nutrition, Quality Control, Resources, Wellness

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