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- December 15, 2010
In the movie “Still Alice”, Golden Globe best actress winner Julianne Moore plays a woman battling early onset Alzheimer’s. Her character, Alice Howland, says: “Please do not think I am suffering. I am not suffering. I am struggling, struggling to be a part of things, to stay connected to who I once was.”
READ MOREAs the food industry continues to trend towards crossbreeding and hybridization (pushing many breeds of livestock towards endangerment), Patrick Martins' Heritage Foods USA encourages producers to raise disappearing breeds. GOOD, 5/29/2013
READ MOREA Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, nuts, fish and fresh fruits and vegetables may help prevent heart disease and strokes, according to a new large study from Spain. In the New England Journal of Medicine, the results of the study showed that people on Mediterranean diets were 28 to 30 percent less likely to
READ MOREThe trick to using medical radiation appropriately, experts say, is to balance the potential risks against known benefits… but this is not done nearly enough. There's been an astronomical rise in recent years in the use of radiation for medical imaging, especially for CT scans, leading to unnecessary medical costs and an increased risk of
READ MORETibetan doctors think we get sick when our physical, psychological and spiritual well-being are out of balance, so they often prescribe kindness and compassion to cure illness. Tibetan compassion meditation may lower stress-induced immune responses. Tibetan medical experts want more collaborative projects with modern medicine, and the Dalai Lama wants more scientific testing of Tibetan
READ MOREFor years, we’ve heard health experts and consumers alike express their concern that the consumption of beef, pork and chicken treated with antibiotics could lead to antibiotic-resistant infections in humans. McDonald’s has now taken a step to address those concerns. The company announced that over the next 2 years it will stop purchasing chicken that has been fed antibiotics also prescribed for humans.
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