Public Health

Chefs Could Reduce Calories In Restaurant Meals But Is That What People Want?

Most chefs don't know how many calories are in the dishes they prepare.   7 percent were not at all familiar and 49 percent were only somewhat familiar.   Taste is what people pay for at $50 a sitting, not a nanny, yet r estaurants could play an impor ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2010 - 10:08pm

Airport Body Scanner Won't Give You Cancer

With the big holidays just around the corner, thousands of folks are about to get their first taste of the TSA's new virtual strip search machines- X-ray body scanners. Privacy issues may be the main concern for most people, but the safety of these th ...

Article - Michael White - Nov 20 2010 - 1:58pm

Diogenes: Has The Secret To Preventing Obesity Been Discovered?

Researchers at the Faculty of Life Sciences (LIFE), University of Copenhagen have published the results of the world's largest diet study, called called Diogenes. Like anything obvious, the formula is simple but the application can be difficult for th ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2010 - 4:00am

Natural Is Often Better And Not Quackery

Science told us that vitamins are good. The polluted environment and the stress of modern living result in more free radicals than evolution has prepared us for; supplementing is fine. I swallowed it – literally! Science tells us that supposedly “natural” ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Feb 24 2012 - 1:05am

Lead In Some Second-Hand Products Far Beyond Safe Levels

The presence of toxic lead in used consumer products is extremely widespread and at levels far beyond safe limits, researchers conclude in a new study.  Research recently found that lead and cadmium were present in cartoon character drinking glasses and no ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 1 2010 - 9:22pm

Current Use Of Botox May Look Even Dumber To Future Generations

Botulinum Toxin A is a commonly used cosmetic treatment, where the drug paralyzes small muscles in the face to reduce the appearance of wrinkles.   If you have ever seen someone who looks normal and then suddenly looks like The Joker, you have seen Botox i ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 4 2010 - 11:43am

Reinventing Primary Care- What's Ahead?

I went to a conference this morning at the Hope Street Group, a DC-based think tank. They had a panel of doctors, PhDs, a lawyer, consultants, John Podesta (Clinton's healthcare czar) and an economist discussing Using Open Innovation to Reinvent Prima ...

Article - Aimee Stern - Dec 10 2010 - 11:54pm

Flu Infections In Youth May Prevent Asthma

It sounds like a tough choice but a new strategy to prevent asthma may be going back to the way our parents did things- less super-hygiene and more viruses.   A new study reports that influenza virus infection in young mice protected the mice as adults aga ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 13 2010 - 1:15pm

Another Worthless Study

Today we find a study published which indicates that children that consume caffeine may sleep less.  Besides the fact that this is an obvious and expected finding, it is interesting to note that this is the result of parents being surveyed during routine v ...

Article - Gerhard Adam - Dec 16 2010 - 1:22pm

Trans-Palmitoleic Acid In Dairy And Meat Trans Fats May Cut Diabetes Risk

Researchers say they have identified a natural substance in dairy fat that may substantially reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. The compound, trans-palmitoleic acid, is a fatty acid found in milk, cheese, yogurt, butter and meat but is not produced by the ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 20 2010 - 7:34pm