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The Food and Drug Administration is not staffed to handle the growing complexity of food inspection, especially now that a significant amount comes from abroad and is never inspected, a leading candidate to head the embattled agency said yesterday. Dr. Steven Nissen, chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic - and reported to be on President Barack Obama's short list to become FDA...
January 22, 2009
Someday soon, your grocery shopping list could look like this: Breakfast cereal - 40 points or higher. Fish - At least 80 points. Cookies - Anything over 10 points OK. The numbers, which can range from 1 to 100, are nutritional value scores calculated on a new scale that the Rotterdam-based Price Chopper supermarket chain is introducing in all 117 of its stores. The idea, say Price Chopper officials,...
January 22, 2009
Jan 22 (Reuters) - The following are facts about obesity in the United States. * About two-thirds of adults in the United States are considered overweight or obese. * Obesity has increased dramatically over the past two decades. * In 2007, only one state, Colorado, had a prevalence of obesity less than 20 percent. Thirty states had a prevalence equal to or greater than 25 percent; three of these states...
January 21, 2009
Americans are living nearly three years longer than they were only two decades ago, and they owe up to five months of that longevity to cleaner skies, a study shows. "It is a good-news story," says Brigham Young University's C. Arden Pope, author of the study in today's New England Journal of Medicine, which included 51 metropolitan areas in the USA and more than 200 countries. "Our efforts to clean...
January 21, 2009
Jan. 22 - It sounds too good to be true: Chocolate as health food. In most cases, it is. Chocolate in most forms is very calorie-dense and high in fat - not exactly health food credentials. But it does have antioxidants - healthy substances known as flavinoids that can help prevent heart disease and possibly improve cognitive function as you age. "I wouldn't recommend using the excuse that chocolate...
January 21, 2009
At least 125 products containing peanut butter and peanut paste from a Georgia plant have now been recalled because of possible salmonella contamination, and more are expected, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday. They include foods found in practically everyone's pantry, from ice cream to energy bars, chicken satay to dog treats. A salmonella outbreak tied to products made by the...
January 21, 2009
Cold and flu season is here, filling the streets with a great chorus of coughing, dripping, hacking, sniffling humanity. And there's one cheap, easy, clinically proven way to avoid joining them. Wash your hands. Here's the drill: Scrub vigorously with water and soap until lather appears, making sure to get between your fingers and fingernails. Use a nail brush if you have one. Briskly dry with a towel....
January 20, 2009
Dear Dr. Camardi, We just cleaned out my parents' house in West Virginia so they could move in with us, and I just could not believe what we took out of their medicine closet. They had more vitamins and pills and things to eat and God only knows what else in there that they say they take because they heard on TV by some doctor that they should because they have dementia. To be honest, I can't even...
January 20, 2009
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT) MINNEAPOLIS - Minneapolis and St. Paul are preparing ordinances to ban chain restaurants and other dining outlets from using trans fats, which have been linked to heart disease and elevated cholesterol levels. Ordinances are also in the works in both cities to require calorie labels on menus and menu boards. The proposals could go to the two city councils next month....
January 20, 2009
Earthquakes killed 88,070 people in 2008, the highest figure since 2004, reports the U.S. Geological Survey and the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The year's strongest quake was in Sichuan, China, on May 12. At least 69,185 people were killed, 18,467 left missing and presumed dead, and 374,171 injured as a result of the magnitude-7.9 quake. The deadliest year for earthquakes...
January 20, 2009
Some of your favorite foods may be fakes. Foods masquerading as something else - a more nutritious something else - have been big news in the past two years. Chinese food companies in particular have been blamed for making deadly alterations to dairy, baby and pet foods by adding melamine. The chemical makes it appear that the food or beverage has the required level of protein. But what about food...
January 20, 2009
St. Joseph's Hospital is looking for people with diabetes to gather around the table and talk about how to better manage their disease. It's part of another free, four-part education series that utilizes Conversation Maps to spark discussion among people with diabetes who are interested in learning more about their disease and how to control it. The maps were developed through collaborations with the...
January 19, 2009
Keeping a full social calendar may help protect you from dementia, researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden said yesterday. Socially active people who were not easily stressed had a 50 percent lower risk of developing dementia compared with those who were isolated and prone to distress, the researchers reported in the journal Neurology. Copyright 2007 NYP Holdings, Inc. All rights reserved.
January 19, 2009
The next time you're preparing a spinach salad, toss in a mandarin orange. The citrus fruit won't just enhance the flavor; its vitamin C will help your body absorb the iron in leafy green vegetables. But these nutrients aren't necessarily the only team players on your plate. A growing number of foods have been shown to have a "one-plus-one-equals-three" effect when eaten together, said dietitian Wendy...
January 19, 2009
In just one song, the dancers from the Jane Taylor Academy of Dance, based in Austin, tried to part the Red Sea and raise funds for cancer research. The group of about 28 dancers ranging in age from 10 to adult came to Rochester from towns across southeastern Minnesota, including Hollandale, Dexter, Taopi, Lyle, Rose Creek and Austin to perform at the 55th annual Eagles Cancer Telethon. The official...
January 19, 2009
Kellogg said Monday that a previously recalled peanut butter-sandwich cracker tested positive for salmonella as a rapidly growing national recall widened to include more companies' peanut snacks because of potential contamination. Kellogg's Austin Quality Foods Toasty Crackers with Peanut Butter is the first product sold to consumers that's known to have tested positive for the salmonella strain initially...
January 19, 2009
Two nonsurgical procedures relieve many symptoms of acid reflux disease including heartburn in people who are not helped by the medications typically used to treat it, U.S. researchers said on Friday. In this chronic condition, also called gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, stomach acid backs up into the esophagus, irritating its lining and causing inflammation. Persistent, often-severe heartburn...
January 19, 2009
OxyContin is a pain medication that belongs to the opioid family, which includes Dilaudid, Vicodin, Percocet, methadone and morphine. OxyContin, manufactured by Purdue Pharma, is distinctive for its patented "time release" of oxycodone - the active opioid in OxyContin. It is meant to alleviate pain by releasing oxycodone gradually. Abuse and addiction: Samantha Studebaker said she and others who abuse...
January 19, 2009
Jan. 18 - Years ago, when Beverly McCullough's daughter was a toddler and had a cough from a cold, she would give her Triaminic, an over-the-counter cough and cold medicine. It worked well, and she never experienced problems with it, she says. But with current FDA warnings about cough medicines for young children, it's not something she gives her grandchildren. That's because Triaminic, along with...
January 18, 2009
Americans who like peanut butter cookies, crackers, candy and ice cream were told over the weekend to stop eating anything - for now - that they have in their cupboards containing that ingredient. The Food and Drug Administration is asking consumers to avoid foods that may be contaminated until it has cleared them. FDA staff are working to track what products contain salmonella-tainted peanut butter...
January 18, 2009
Unlike most guys his age, Barack Obama doesn't sport a gut - in fact, he has quite the six-pack by the looks of recent paparazzi pics. Like most of his red-blooded American male counterparts, Obama is a passionate sports fan. And his basketball jump shot, also caught on camera during the election, is stylin'. From all outward appearances, the 47-year-old Harvard Law School graduate looks to be in stand-up...
January 18, 2009
Plastic surgery or the mortgage? It's a no-brainer in today's rocky economy. Many people are postponing elective procedures to deal with more pressing issues. A year ago, for example, Atlanta plastic surgeon Robert Miller was doing breast augmentation surgery every seven to 10 days. Now he's lucky if he does one a month. Miller, chief of plastic surgery at Piedmont Hospital, said the decline in elective...
January 18, 2009
The salmonella bacteria that has sickened more than 400 people in Minnesota and 42 other states, including Virginia, has been linked conclusively to peanut butter, Minnesota health officials said yesterday. Federal officials said the outbreak may have contributed to three deaths but did not say where they had occurred. They also raised the number of confirmed cases to 410. Virginia cases: Three children...
January 17, 2009
Plastic surgery or the mortgage? It's a no-brainer in today's rocky economy. Many people are postponing elective procedures to deal with more pressing issues. A year ago, for example, Atlanta plastic surgeon Robert Miller was doing breast augmentation surgery every seven to 10 days. Now he's lucky if he does one a month. Miller, chief of plastic surgery at Piedmont Hospital, said the decline in elective...
January 17, 2009
Geneva/Harare dpa) - Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic has continued its rapid spread, with the death toll at 2,225 as of Friday, the United Nations said in Geneva. According to the agency, 42,675 people have been infected with the waterborne disease. On Wednesday, the toll stood at 2,106 dead and 40,448 infected. The epidemic was being fuelled by a lack of clean drinking water and chronic shortages of food...
January 16, 2009
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