April 23rd, 2010 | 
Author: Baking soda is one of the most popular household products used nationwide to clean, scrub, polish, wash, cook, bake, deodorize, and yes, even use to neutralize the unpleasant burning sensation of heartburn.
Just open the fridge of about any American citizen living in the United States, and you will probably discover, discreetly hidden behind the groceries, the well-known orange box Arm & Hammer Baking Soda.
This product increasing popularity for multiple uses goes way beyond eliminating fridge orders. Read the rest of this entry »
Leaky gut disease or leaky gut syndrome is a condition that can be caused by antibiotics, infections, parasites, toxins, or poor diet. The significant feature of the condition is alteration or damage to the bowel lining. As the lining becomes more permeable than normal it allows microbes, undigested food, waste, toxins, or large macromolecules to enter. Some researchers believe that these substances have a direct affect on the body; others think the problem is an immune reaction to those substances. Read the rest of this entry »
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(Media-Newswire.com) – This document provides updated information on obesity and morbid obesity as risk factors for serious 2009 H1N1-related complications based on findings from recent studies.
How are obesity and morbid obesity defined?
Body mass index ( BMI ) is a measure of body fat based on height and weight. Obesity is defined as a BMI of greater than or equal to 30 kilos per meter squared and morbid obesity is defined as a BMI greater than or equal to 40 kilos per meter squared. Among Americans 20 years and older, 28% are obese and 5% are morbidly obese. Read the rest of this entry »
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HONG KONG — A newspaper article by one of China’s best-known investigative reporters has reawakened a controversy over whether provincial authorities improperly stored vaccines in rooms without air conditioning, rendering them ineffective, and then let them be administered to children.
China’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that it would look into the report, by Wang Keqin in the China Economic Times, while cautioning that it had examined the evidence in late 2008 and not found a widespread problem.
But Chen Taoan, the former chief spokesman of the Shanxi Province Disease Control and Prevention Center and still on the center’s staff, said in a telephone interview on Thursday that a senior official there had been relieved of all duties at the end of last year because of improprieties related to the vaccines. Read the rest of this entry »
THURSDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) — The obesity epidemic is hitting children harder than ever, with 7.3 percent of boys and 5.5 percent of girls classified as extremely obese in a California study, researchers from Kaiser Permanente report. Click here to find out more! The news is even worse for black and Hispanic kids: Among black teenage girls, 11.9 percent were classified as extremely obese, as were 11.2 percent of Hispanic teenage boys. Extreme obesity among children is defined as weighing more than 1.2 times the 95th percentile, or having a body-mass index (BMI) of 35 kilograms per meter squared. Read the rest of this entry »