Yet Another Reason to Keep Your Kids Away From McDonald’s
Those “playlands” are seriously contaminated. As noted by the LA Times: On a humid Monday morning, Erin Carr-Jordan was crawling through the tubey slides of a McDonald’s PlayPlace on the West Side. When she got to the top of the colorful structure, she peered through a cloudy plastic window and mouthed the words: “This is bad. This is really bad.” In recent months the 36-year-old mom and developmental...
Statewide Obesity Rates Still Rising
According to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health, obesity rates climbed in 16 states, and did not decrease in any. Even worse, 12 states now have obesity rates of 30% or over. Four years ago, only 1 state had that distinction. “Today, the state with the lowest obesity rate would have had the highest rate in 1995,” said Jeff Levi, Ph.D., executive director of TFAH. “There was a...
Yogurt: Not Just for Wimmin Anymore
Remember this? [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMRDLCR8vAE] Poor Sarah Haskins. Little did she know that yogurt is now officially Man Food: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1foVGaooUFQ] I guess that – as long as it has nothing to do with dieting or tender tummies – it’s ok....
Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFOs
Ok… it’s safe to say that UFOs have little to do with the subjects of weight loss, exercise, nutrition or supplements. Nonetheless, I have two reasons for posting this video: 1. I thought it was amusing. 2. Dr. Tyson makes an important point about the nature of anecdotal evidence, and why scientists find it less than compelling. From this perspective, it doesn’t matter whether it’s claims for alien...
Woman Hospitalized After ODing on 5-Hour Energy
Honestly… what do some people use for brains? Case in point: The 22-year-old woman who arrived at an emergency room complaining of upper abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and a slight fever, according to the June 22 edition of the Journal of Medical Case Reports. A scan of her midsection was normal. She was sent home. She returned, however, even sicker, and bathed in a yellowish tint — jaundice — meaning her liver was...
New Food Safety Ads are Just Plain Weird
Back in my college daze, I took a medical school class on the investigation and identification of food and water-borne illnesses, in addition to my basic coursework on food microbiology. “Food and water-borne illness” is just a nice way of writing “food poisoning,” doncha know. And while studying it wasn’t as nasty as experiencing it, suffice it to say, learning about often violent – and even deadly...
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