High levels of calories and fat in some of these products can be spotted on the label. But there are other concerns about the nutritional value of some ready meals – things you won’t find on the label.
One concern is the way these foods are cooked. Cooking processes can be just as important for our health as the sugar, salt and fat content. Beetroot turning cooking water purple is a vivid example of how nutrients (antioxidants called betalains) can be lost.
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The Best Workout Pants for Every Type of Exercise
Those tight-in-a-good-way pants that keep your badonk secure during a run might be too constrictive for a barre class. Yep, you heard us right—one style does not fit all types of workouts.
15 Things you should know about therapy
Part of the Mental Health Week, sharing with you a cool article that is light and enlightening. Just know that getting help is okay and that you will be just fine. Seeing a therapist is nothing to be ashamed about, most people visit a therapist due to stress at work, home or life in general. So know that, you don’t have to be on a roller-coaster
melt down, to see someone about how you are feeling at that time. Mental health effects a lot of people, and you can get the help you need by talking it out. So enjoy this article.
New Strain of Gonorrhea Emerges|A new strain resistant to antibiotics has been found in Europe
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Deutsch: Neisseria gonorrhoeae in einer Gram-Färbung (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The Old Cures Aren’t Working
Sure, conventional wisdom says that doctors can easily cure gonorrhea with antibiotics–good news for the 300,000 people a year in the United States who get it, especially women: Although gonorrhea typically clears up on its own eventually, if it goes untreated it can leave us with pelvic inflammatory disease or infertility.
But here’s the scary part: We may not be able to treat it anymore. The bacterium that causes gonorrhea, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, is very crafty, says Gail Bolan, M.D., director of the CDC’s Division of STD Prevention. It mutates quickly and has grown resistant to every class of antibiotics used to treat it since the meds first became available in the 1940s. In 2007, doctors turned to cephalosporins, their last antibiotic hope.
Soon enough, cases resistant to some cephalosporins started popping up in Europe and Asia, says Manjula Lusti-Narasimhan, M.D., a scientist at WHO headquarters in Geneva. This January, researchers announced in The Journal of the American Medical Association that almost 7 percent of the gonorrhea cases they studied in one Canadian clinic were resistant to cefixime, a widely used cephalosporin.
Eight Foods You Didn’t Know Contain Meat
When you’re a new vegetarian, it’s easy to make mistakes. Chances are, you’ve already messed up by eating something you thought was safe, only to realize later that it contained, say, chicken broth. Or in my case—yum—stomach enzymes and fish bladders.
If so, shake it off. Consider it a lesson learned and give yourself a pat on the back for caring enough to even think twice about what you eat. And know that by reading this list, you’ll have avoided a bunch more potential mistakes, every single one of which I’ve made during my first year as a vegetarian. More::::::
Arsenic limits in rice is very high that’s it’s scary change needs to be done
(Reuters) – Consumer Reports is urging U.S. limits for arsenic in rice after tests of more than 60 popular products — from Kellogg’s Rice Krispies cereal to Gerber infant cereal — showed that most contained some level of inorganic arsenic, a known human carcinogen.
The watchdog group said that some varieties of brown rice — including brands sold by Whole Foods Markets Inc and Wal-Mart Stores Inc — contained particularly significant levels of inorganic arsenic.
It recommended ways for children and adults to limit their intake of rice products each week and said U.S. regulators should ban arsenic-containing drugs and pesticides used in crop and animal production. For the full report, see: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/arsenic1112.htm
AFP West Nile epidemic on track to be deadliest ever: CDC
The West Nile virus epidemic in the United States this year is on track to be the deadliest ever since the mosquito-borne disease was first detected here 13 years ago, federal officials said Wednesday.
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Track The Spread Of AIDS Across The Globe
Its expansion was frighteningly fast. A handful of AIDS cases were first recognized in the U.S. at the beginning of the 1980s. But AIDS was soon seen around the world.
By 1990, the world had a pandemic on its hands. In 1997, the peak of the epidemic, more than 3 million people became newly infected with HIV.
Then science struck back. Drugs approved for HIV treatment in the mid-1990s proved profoundly effective, transforming AIDS from a death sentence to a chronic illness. Those treatments, combined with an international commitment to manage the disease by providing access to free drug therapy, led to a steep drop in new HIV infections.
The United Nations has kept track of HIV worldwide for the past couple of decades. Below, we use that data to explore some of the trends in HIV prevalence. (The chart shows the percentage of the population, ages 15 to 49, living with HIV.)
5 Dangerous Medical Myths find out what they are….
10:01 AM – Lovely Bracelet for ID During Colonoscopy (Photo credit: Old Shoe Woman)
Myths can steer people toward illness, hardship and even death. From tetanus shots to colonoscopies, it’s very easy to spread misinformation that the average person can’t always readily distinguish from the truth.
What are some of the most common medical myths that may be sabotaging your health?
Pop Star Tells Judge She’s ‘Sorry’ For Giving Men HIV
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Beautiful, 28-year-old pop princess, Nadja Banaissa, told a court in Germany that she was “sorry” for not telling her sexual partners that she was HIV positive. Although she was aware of her status, she claims she didn’t tell them because she ‘made a big mistake.’
The member of the pop group, No Angels, stood tearfully before a judge as she went on trial for causing grievous bodily harm to at least one man she infected. Although she denies intentionally infecting her victim, the mother of one faces six months to 10 years in prison.
Benaissa was arrested in April 2009 just as she was about to perform at a Frankfurt nightclub. She was held in custody for 10 days before being released.
“I am so sorry,” the 28-year-old Nadja Benaissa, dressed in a purple shirt, jeans and with her hair tied back, told the court in Darmstadt near Frankfurt.
“When I was arrested I realized that the way that I had dealt with the illness had been wrong … I made a big mistake,” her lawyer quoted her as saying in a statement read out to the court.
According to the charge sheet, she had unprotected sex on five occasions between 2000 and 2004 with three men and did not tell them she was infected.
One of them subsequently found out he also had the virus but it remains to be established whether it was having sex with Benaissa which infected him.
The man, whose name was not released and who is a plaintiff in the trial, told the court he had found out about Benaissa being HIV positive from her aunt and went to his doctor for a blood test straight away.
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