Raw milk, raw oysters, and raw bean sprouts top the list of foods to avoid to prevent food poisoning.
There is some controversy about the real dangers eating raw food in contrast with the health benefits that raw foods can offer.
E-coli, Salmonella and listeria are just a few of the bacterial infections that can cause illness and even death.
Pasteurization or cooking is one way to prevent contamination.
Pat Summitt, the iconic head coach of the University of Tennessee’s women’s basketball team, announced she had been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s.
Not only is Alzheimer’s on the rise among the elderly it is showing up earlier in many cases.
Better diagnostic tests are allowing physicians to diagnose symptoms even earlier.
Symptoms of Early Alzheimer’s
1. You forget what you had for breakfast. Obviously memory loss is the hallmark sign of Alzheimer’s, but there are definite degrees: Forgetting to DVR your husband’s favorite show while you watch yours can happen to anyone. The date of your dentist appointment slips your mind, also normal. But not recalling recently learned information, like the name of someone you just met, for example, could be cause for concern—that’s because Alzheimer’s first attacks the part of the brain that stores short-term memory. Other memory lapses to note: forgetting significant dates and events; asking for the same information over and over; and over-relying on your cell phone’s reminder beeps to get you through your to-dos.
2. You lose track of numbers. Budgeting for your monthly bills used to be as simple as a few strokes of the calculator and doubling the ingredients of your favorite recipe took all of 3 seconds, but now the tasks quickly become frustrating and seem to take forever. As Alzheimer’s develops, more and more plaques and tangles—two abnormal structures that damage and kill nerve cells—form in the brain area involved in thinking and planning. The effects: You get confused more easily, you have trouble handling money or dealing with numbers, and it gets tougher to organize your thoughts.
3. You get flustered by routine activities. Maybe you get a little lost en route to your favorite store, or you can’t remember how to update your Facebook status. Sure, everyone blanks for a moment now and then, but pay attention if those moments happen often—particularly with the everyday things.
4. You hit the brakes hard at most traffic lights. Good that you don’t rear-end the car stopped in front of you, not good you are having a harder time judging distance. Alzheimer’s may disrupt your brain’s ability to judge spatial relationships, skew your understanding of what you see, and even mess with your sense of time and place.
5. You find your “lost” cell phone in the refrigerator. Or the medicine cabinet, or whatever other weird spot you can’t remember putting it in. Occasionally misplacing things is normal; what may not be, however, is if you do it more and more frequently and retracing your steps to find the lost items occurs less and less.
6. You call a watch a hand clock. Struggling with words when you didn’t before indicates Alzheimer’s, as does having trouble expressing your thoughts and following or taking part in a conversation.
7. You try to cross a busy intersection without waiting for the light. You see food burning on the stove and don’t know what to do. You answer a telemarketer’s call, and your donation is a little too handsome. Poor judgment and ineffective decision-making are all signs your brain function is compromised.
8. You become less social. The cooking class you used to love isn’t so much fun anymore; neither is game night with friends or tennis on the weekends. You may also become easily upset, somewhat depressed, and anxious or fearful for no specific reason. Alzheimer’s affects how you interact with people and can cause changes in your mood and personality.
9. You have diabetes. That doubles your risk of developing Alzheimer’s, according to a new study just published in the journal Neurology. Insulin resistance and high blood sugar may lead to complications that damage brain cells as well as the blood vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to your brain, raising your risk of Alzheimer’s. Other conditions that may have the same effect include high blood pressure, heart disease, and high cholesterol. Work with your doctor to monitor and manage these diseases.
It is no surprise to many around the world that raising food prices are on the horizon.
Social unrest instigated by rising food costs is predicted to continue all over the world.
“Food price volatility featuring high prices is likely to continue and possibly increase,” the Food and Agriculture Organization, the World Food Program and the International Fund for Agricultural Development said in the joint report.
“Demand from consumers in rapidly growing economies will increase, population continues to grow, and further growth in biofuels (displacing food crops) will place additional demands on the food system.”
The report said that poor farmers and consumers in small importer countries, particularly in Africa, would be more vulnerable to shortages as a result.
Evidence against vitamin use is mounting.
Especially with vitamin E and Selenium therapies which are targeted to specific conditions such as prostate cancer.
The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial, known as the Select trial, was studying whether selenium and vitamin E, either alone or in combination, could lower a man’s risk for prostate cancer. It was stopped early in 2008 after a review of the data showed no benefit, although there was a suggestion of increased risk of prostate cancer and diabetes that wasn’t statistically significant. The latest data, based on longer-term follow-up of the men in the trial, found that users of vitamin E had a 17 percent higher risk of prostate cancer compared with men who didn’t take the vitamin, a level that was statistically significant. There was no increased risk of diabetes.
In regard to women’s health not only were vitamins not successful in preventing disease but were found to be harmful, in some cases.
Among the women in the Iowa study, about 63 percent used supplements at the start of the study, but that number had grown to 85 percent by 2004. Use of multivitamins, vitamin B6, folic acid, iron, magnesium, zinc and copper were all associated with increased risk of death. The findings translate to a 2.4 percent increase in absolute risk for multivitamin users, a 4 percent increase associated with vitamin B6, a 5.9 percent increase for folic acid, and increases of 3 to 4 percent in risk for those taking supplements of iron, folic acid, magnesium and zinc.
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Although packaged food is not the first choice for a healthy meal, sometime it is the only alternative.
Prepared foods have come a long way from the sodium filled T.V. dinners and nutritionally void canned foods of days gone by.
Many are organic, healthy, environmentally friendly and lacking in preservatives and sugars which generally make prepared foods unhealthy and fattening.
Whether balancing busy schedules or leaving the cooking up to the kids a packaged meal fills the bill on occasion.
Finding the healthiest options and stocking up on the best prepared meals can make your life a little easier.
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