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Diabetes In Control - A Spoonful of Vinegar Helps the Sugar Go Down
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Diabetes In Control - A Spoonful of Vinegar Helps the Sugar Go Down
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Parents Can\'t See Their Children\'s Chubbiness -
In a survey of over 1200 families, researchers with Deakin University’s Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research discovered a new kind of blindness: the inability to see your offspring as overweight. They found that 89 percent of parents of overweight children between five and six years old, and 63 percent of parents of overweight kids between ten and twelve years old, did not realize that their children were chubby. Read More... |
New Study Exposes Universal Health Care Myth - Topix
St Francis Xavier University is taking the lead in an innovative health study designed to break down the socioeconomic barriers that make it difficult for many Canadians to access quality health care and lead healthy lives. Read More... |
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Is the toner in Laser printers a health risk?
From: CNET News. Here's an interesting article that suggests you might want to be careful around your laser printer Read More... |
Managing Diabetes
In this weekly Podlet, I dicuss my diabetes and what it means to me. I start with a simple dicussion of diabetes and my thoughts about it. The good and the bad. I'm not sure which came first, my inner desire for personal self managment, self organiation, and will power which then helps me to manage my diabetes. Or did I learn these things as part of living life as a diabetic? Either way, the events in our live shape us and determine how we grow, so this is me relating one of my "personal growth experiances". Click the play button below to give a listen. I hope you enjoy it. Read More... |
What's the worst that could happen?
Video By: johnq5. Here is an interesting hypotheisis on the environment and the debate about global warming. It seems to be that John has a very strong argument here that by choosing to do nothing, or even by wasting time debating we are really choosing to do something...something that can really quite scarry. Read More... |
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5 Tips for Flying With Diabetic Supplies
Being a diabetic myself, I thought this was a good article should I someday do some travelling Read More... |
A320 crosswind plan crash
Check out this video of a plane that almost crashes when landing in on a very windy day in Hamburg, Germany. I've actually heard from multiple people and I am told that the pilot was doing exactly the way he would be trained to maneuver in such a situation. Regardless, though if I were a passenger and felt this happening I'd be scared out of my seat...literally ! Read More... |
28 Days in Rehab
Discovery Health produced 4 part series called 28 Days in Rehab. In this series they follow a group of individuals and their attempts at Drug Rehabilitation. Many people don't see addiction as an illness. They don't understand the compulsion and why it tears down lives and breaks down relationships, leaving you at rock bottom. The truth is we are all addicts to something, and just any addicts we may not even realize we have an addiction When you think about it, our minds are conditioned for addication. Chemical dependance is part of our survival mechanism. We all seek rewards, we are motiviated by that 'good feeling' we get when we do something. We seek out getting a 'rush' or a 'high' Those in Drug Rehabilitation are the real winners. They have (hopefully) recognized they have a problem, and trying to find a solution. The sad truth is, often these folks don't get to rehab until they have reached rock bottom. There jobs, relationships, lives have been torn apart and they are grasping to regain some control of life, only to have an obsession, quick fix high continue to take it away. The irony is this same drive can be used in a positive way. If we can learn our passion or drive, to direct that same addiction in a healthy way. Replace the old bad habits such as drinking, drugs, gambling, with good habits. We can literally have our cake and eat it too. This is a 4 part video series presenented in Windows Media format. So you will need windows media player to watch the series, I found it quite fascinating myself. Read More... |
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Health Insurance vs. Socialized Healthcare
Kevin Freking has written an interesting 7 part article over on ehealthhelp.com. His article discusses the pro's/cons of Health Insurance Plans vs a socialized system. Freking specifically discusses the various platforms of the political parties (and differences within the party) of America, and what they hope to accomplish. I live in Canada, and we have socialized health care. Although, I am not very clear on how there health care works. I cringe at the idea of possibly dying because of an inability to afford health care. Canada is actually in the process of working out a 2-Teir health system. It is an attempt to leverage both benefits of health insurance and socialized health care. One of the drawbacks, we face in Canda (as compared to the US), is very long wait times in our hospitals. Since health care is funded by our taxes and available to everyone, it gets a lot of utilization, and certains costs (such as Doctors salaries may have limits. Regardless, I still feeling extremely lucky to have our health care system, and I don't mind one bit the taxes that go to help ensure each an every Canadian has the same right to quality health care. I find it very interesting, that as Canadians attempt to move toward a 2-Teir heath system, combining both private and public health care. The US system is working towards helping make health care available to more Americans. I can't help but wonder if we will eventually reach the same conclusions? I often have a hard time understanding the notion of why "socialized health system" is looked at so negativily. Freking gives us the example of two people working on an assignment. One person puts in 110% and the other person slacks off and does nothing. Is it fair, that they should both get similar grades? My problem with the analogy, is the attempt to compare individual accomplishments (skills, attitude, knowledge) with health and welfare. Sure some people work harder then others, does this automatically mean they have more of a right to live and breath as someone else? Perhaps, they deserve to accomplish more in life, perhaps they deserve better health, and more happiness. But does a "slacker" diserve to die because of their poor life choices? This seems a little harsh to me. The bigger question is what about those to are working 100% but just don't have the talent as others, or just has 'bad luck'. Do these people diserve to die for the cards they are dealt in life? Anyway, check out Frekings views at the link below. Go Universal Health Care ! Read More... |
My name is Brad and I have SDS (Sarcasm Deficiency Syndrome
Here is my humours entry into the DSM manual. This is the diagnositc manual used by Doctors (eg: pschologists). Do determine various mental illness problems. So here is my contribution to the world of medical science. Take a quick read, do you know others with this problem as well? Read More... |
The discovery of Tobacco
In honor of the upcoming fathers day, I thought I'd relate in this weeks podlet (audio) an intersting theory my Dad told me about some years. How Tobacco may have been discovered. If his theory were correct, Today, of course cigarette and the tobacoo industry now has nothing to do with the purpose this 'magical fire plant' may have had thousands of years ago. Hope you enjoy it ! Read More... |
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Mommy Meltdown
Amy Jane writes an excellent article here on the joys of being a parent (or more "The life of a mom") Don't get me wrong, I love my kids. They are one of the best things about life. But you have to respect those, who, like my wife, I am sure an relate to days very similar to what Amy is writing about. Me? I really only have the kids for the entire day on Sundays and just that one day can sometimes be very hard on my patience. So a special thanks to my wife, and those like her who can keep it all together in the midst of what the rest of us can't even begin to imagine ! Read More... |
About Concussions - What they are and how to watch out from them
Here is a nice reference piece on concussions and symptoms to keep an eye on if you think you or someone you know may have suffered a recuent head injury A concussion occurs when the head hits or is hit by an object, or when the brain is jarred against the skull, with sufficient force to cause temporary loss of function in the higher centers of the brain. The injured person may remain conscious or lose consciousness briefly, and is disoriented for some minutes after the blow. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 300,000 people sustain mild to moderate sports-related brain injuries each year, most of them young men between 16 and 25. Read More... |
Skin Deep: Cosmetic Safety Database - Special Report
Does your sunscreen work? An investigation of nearly 1,000 brand-name sunscreen products finds that 4 out of 5 contain chemicals that may pose health hazards or don't adequately protect skin from the sun's damaging rays. Some of the worst offenders are leading brands like Coppertone, Banana Boat, and Neutrogena. The new EWG database allows consumers to compare sunscreens on different characteristics--without scanning labels for complex chemicals. Overall, Badger SPF 30, Peter Thomas Roth Titanium SPF 30, and Lavera Sunscreen Neutral SPF 40, received top marks. This does not that mean they are perfect, cautions Houlihan, but that they will do the best in keeping you sun safe. Read More... |
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5 Ways to Sharpen Your Mind | Anti Aging Hacks
From the Anti-aging site. The idea is that my keeping your mind sharp and alert, will lower you chances of having problems remembering and concentrating on your so-called "golden years". Does sitting around all day stumbling new websites really count as "mental stimulation" :-) Read More... |
Diabetic Lemon Pie Recipe
From the page: "Here is a recipe I adapted on how to make sugar free lemon pie. This is by far my favorite pie, and I'm not much of a cook, but this one always turns out well for me. Of course, today you can buy sugar free in-the-box, just-add-water pie recipes, but they didn't exist when I first adapted this recipe. A great thing to try if you can't find an easy-to-make sugar-free recipe in your region." Read More... |
YouTube - Psychiatric Office Answering Machine
A funny answering machine message for a psychiatric office! Read More... |
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Glucoboy :: About MyGlucoboy
What a great idea ! One of the hardest things (even for us adults with diabetes) is to keep monitoring our blood sugar levels. Now kids can be encourgaed to test regularily and recieve points for maintaining good blood sugar levels. It's not just a blood glucose meter it's a gameboy like toy. What a novel idea! Read More... |
Instructions for Life
From the page: "Life is a test. It is only a test. If it had been real, you would have been told where to go and what to do. No, seriously, here are some useful INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE" Read More... |
User Post: 7 tips for making yourself happier in the NEXT HOUR. - Healthy Living on Shine
Gretchen Rubin, gives us some interesting tips on how to make yourself happier. Read More... |
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Michael Jackson, Peggy Noonan, Dave Ramsey, and Health Care
Years ago (about 25 to be more precise), I learned a valuable lesson about money. A friend of mine was really excited about buying a new car, but after negotiating he realized he was $500 short on the down payment. He figured it would take him three months to earn the extra money and get [...] Read More... |
One Touch Tool for Linux Users and SugarStats.com
I have recently become a very advid user of a site called SugarStats.com to manage control of my blood sugar records, If you have diabetes, I highly recommend this site. It has great discussion forms stats, logs and graphs to help you or to learn more about your diabetes. Since I'm also a bit of a 'techie' I've created some scripts for linux users to automatically upload your blood sugar results from your One Touch (Ultra/Ultra 2) meter. I'm putting this out there for any techies using a "real" operating system :-) If you're on linux, and you have the One Touch Ultra meter and cable, you can find some scripts I worked on to automatically download your meter results and upload them to SugarStats on a regular basis. I have mine in a cron job, so I just plug in my meter and walk away and instantly they get pushed to sugarstats. The tools are here free to anyone who wants them : http://www.bwebcentral.com/utils/onetouch-utlis.zip Read More... |
After meal blood sugars - Diabetes Compass Radio Show
Gary Scheiner - MSc Exercise Physiology, CDE, Insulin Pump Specialist, Diabetes Author, Integrated Diabetes Services, Lives with Type 1, Wynwood, PA USA Read More... |
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Daring to Dream with Diabetes - Diabetes Compass Radio
Dr. Breay Paty - MD, Asst Professor, Div of Endocrinology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Read More... |
How to Pack for a Hiking Adventure
Hiking is a great way to get some healthy exercise while enjoying nature. If you're tired of the gym or bored with jogging, give hiking a try. What you pack for hiking depends on how long you plan to be out on the trail. A day hike would only need a few basic items, while an overnight hike would require a whole lot more. This article focuses on how to have a successful daytime hiking adventure Read More... |
