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6708. wonkers2 - 11/15/2006 9:17:09 PM The "ethical" pharmaceutical industry is hardly ethical. They bribe our doctors to prescribe their drugs and they bribe our legislators as well. 6709. wonkers2 - 11/16/2006 11:47:50 PM Tissue Engineering at a Crossroads 6710. prolph - 11/17/2006 8:54:56 AM good news for dry macular degrnration, PRESIVISION works, I have been treated at the Shiley eye center which is a treatmebnt center as well
as a reserch. Shiley keeps track of all of us and advises us when the have a trial that has proven to work. I now have better vision than last check.
My sister also has the problem and has gone back about two years in
sight. She is with an HMO where the doctors were amazed at her better sight, Kind of irritates me beccause if i hadn't told her she would have not known the regimen, One presivision gel morning and night and a
lutein gel capsule ar lunch All to be takne with meals, Be careful though
some are sold together so read labels,
There are people who can be helped who haven't heard about the help that is out there which i think is seriously wrong. oh.,both are over the counter I won't go into health care (aaargh) but I will not go to any hospital that is not a teaching hospital . Sister is now able to get her driving license back and i am able to the crawls at the bottom of a tv screen
,, 6711. alistairconnor - 11/17/2006 12:57:50 PM That's first-rate news Patsy... I hope to read you more often on the Mote! 6712. thoughtful - 11/17/2006 3:43:12 PM That's wonderful news...I'll be sure to pass it along. Husband of a friend of mine has mac degen, but I'm not sure if it's wet or dry...may be wet. 6713. wonkers2 - 11/17/2006 3:51:03 PM I hope it continues to work, Patsy. I can only imagine what it would be like not to be able to read easily. 6714. prolph - 11/17/2006 10:44:54 PM Thougtful-there is a cure now for wet md.
Also your purina diet has chuckling every time i feed the cats,Thanks 6715. arkymalarky - 11/18/2006 1:38:08 AM That's absolutely fantastic, Patsy!! 6716. robertjayb - 12/2/2006 4:21:37 AM New breast cancer detection method...
CHICAGO — An experimental ultrasound technique that measures how easily breast lumps compress and bounce back could enable doctors to determine instantly whether a woman has cancer without doing a biopsy.
In a small study of 80 women, the technique — called "elastography" — distinguished harmless lumps from malignant ones with nearly 100 percent accuracy.
If the results hold up in a larger study, elastography could save thousands of women from the waiting, cost, discomfort and anxiety of a biopsy, in which cells are removed from the breast — sometimes with a needle, sometimes with a scalpel — and examined under a microscope.
6717. thoughtful - 1/9/2007 10:47:42 PM Hallelujah! They're finally starting to catch on!
Now repeat after me: fats not bad...sugar bad.
The Cure for Diabetes
6718. CharlieL - 1/9/2007 11:33:07 PM That's a great article. 6719. arkymalarky - 1/9/2007 11:56:42 PM CHARLIE!!!!! Great to see you! Hope your holidays were good! 6720. CharlieL - 1/10/2007 12:37:09 AM They were good, Arky. The band stayed busy, we had six gigs in December, and I'm able to breathe for a bit before the hectic schedule starts again in March. 6721. wabbit - 1/10/2007 1:12:39 AM Hey CharlieL, how lovely to see you again!
t'ful, when I was very young, I had a ton of cavities (lucky they were baby teeth!), but fortune was smiling on me. The doctors and dentists all impressed on my mother how important it was to keep my sugar intake under control, not so much because of cavities, but because of diabetes. Now maybe they didn't have the studies to back them up, but it sure looks like it was very good advice.
With the health problems I do have, it's nice not to have diabetes to boot. I lost an aunt to diabetes (type-1 though), and the whole family is pretty vigilant as a result. 6722. thoughtful - 1/10/2007 3:31:19 PM Hey CharlieL...nice to see you, stranger. 6723. thoughtful - 1/10/2007 4:38:22 PM wabbit, yes, especially since there is a correlation among all auto-immune related disorders.
6724. thoughtful - 1/30/2007 7:04:15 PM For those of you who are concerned about your cholesterol levels and/or your blood glucose levels, beware.
When visiting mom, she thought she'd do us the favor of buying pepperidge farm cookies. I looked at the label and saw 0 transfats and thought ok...but then i noticed something called 'interesterified' fat. What the heck is that?
No one knows. I mean it is a way of combining fats using enzymes as catalysts to give it the same room temperature solidity as transfats, but no one knows what the heck it does to the body or if it's safe.
I came across one study that suggests that not only is the interesterified fat just as damaging as the transfats on the ldl/hdl ratio, but that it has even worse effects on blood glucose levels.
My take, avoid it all.
Eat real food, avoid processed food, bake your own goodies where you can control the fats that go in and substitute 1/2 of the white flour with wheat flour to add fiber and nutrition.
And when you read labels, don't just look at 0 transfats and think ok...it may not be. Read the ingredients and watch for 'partially hydrogenated' and/or 'interesterified'. Avoid them like the plague. 6725. wonkers2 - 1/31/2007 6:01:54 AM Thanks for the heads up on "interesterified." I saw in today's newspaper that McDonalds is going to stop using transfats. Maybe they're going interesterified. 6726. judithathome - 1/31/2007 7:11:28 AM No, they aren't going interesterified.
They're going interesteriFRIED. 6727. thoughtful - 1/31/2007 6:53:01 PM groan
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