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      Keeping Quiet About Your Weight Loss Goals is the Secret to Success

      November 17, 2011 /

      Losing weight is as easy as zipping your lips!

      Just telling others about your plans creates a sense of accomplishment that could derail your ultimate goal of losing weight.

      Keeping your plans to diet to yourself also eliminates the conflict with those who might not want to see you succeed.

      The advice seems counterintuitive. Weight Watchers and similar groups tout support as a major reason for their programs’ success, and studies have found that accountability is important in accomplishing a goal. But telling family, friends and Facebook about your diet plans could have a detrimental effect, some experts say.

      Quality Control, Research, Wellness

      For Practical Purposes; Pizza a Vegetable?

      November 17, 2011 /

      Congress declare pizza a vegetable.

      When it comes to school lunches, that is.

      The rules, proposed last January, would have cut the amount of potatoes served and would have changed the way schools received credit for serving vegetables by continuing to count tomato paste on a slice of pizza only if more than a quarter-cup of it was used. The rules would have also halved the amount of sodium in school meals over the next 10 years.

      But late Monday, lawmakers drafting a House and Senate compromise for the agriculture spending bill blocked the department from using money to carry out any of the proposed rules.

      American children don’t have a fighting chance against diabetes and childhood obesity when over 40% of their daily calorie intake comes from school lunch.

      Quality Control, Resources, Wellness

      End of Life Planning is Awkward for Professionals

      November 17, 2011 /

      Conversations doctors don’t want to have include the end of options for the terminally ill.

      Whether it’s lack of training or cultural resistance to discuss death and dying there are huge gaps in patient care at the end of life.

      In this country, we tiptoe around the D-word until so late in the game that even now, when more than 40 percent of Americans die under hospice care, about half do so within two weeks of admission. Even expert hospice teams can’t provide many of the elements of a good death — and they believe there is such a thing — in mere days.

      We can blame some of this evasiveness on physicians, trained to save lives. But families bear some responsibility, too; they may not seek or seem to welcome a frank assessment. Either way, while many patients do have breakpoint conversations, ignorance often rules.

      Doctors, Wellness

      Try a Low Acid Diet to Combat Heartburn

      November 10, 2011 /

      Heartburn plagues millions and over-eating during the holidays can cause flare ups.

      A low acid diet has shown to be effective in mitigating the symptoms.

      In the study, 12 men and 8 women with reflux symptoms who hadn’t responded to medication were put on a low-acid diet for two weeks, eliminating all foods and beverages with a pH lower than 5. The lower the pH, the higher the acidity; highly acidic foods and beverages include diet sodas (2.9 to 3.7), strawberries (3.5) and barbecue sauce (3.7). According to the study, 19 out of 20 patients improved on the low-acid diet, and 3 became completely asymptomatic.

      Nutrition, Research, Wellness

      How Safe is Cold Medicine for Your Child?

      November 10, 2011 /

      How risky is it to medicate your children with cold medicine?

      When children fall ill the first thing we want to do is make them feel better.

      But is medicating them with over-the-counter remedies the answer?

      Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines don’t effectively treat the underlying cause of a child’s cold, and won’t cure a child’s cold or make it go away any sooner. These medications also have potentially serious side effects, including rapid heart rate and convulsions. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) discourages use of cough and cold medicines for children younger than age 2.

      Antibiotic use is another issue.

      Read on for some answers to the most often asked questions.

      Quality Control, Wellness

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