That’s the eye-grabbing headline at MedPageToday. Just what you want to hear at the start of swimming season in the northern hemisphere. A snippet from the article:
An editorial note said that each person carries an average of 0.14 grams of fecal material on his body and a pre-swim shower could decrease, if not eliminate, the chances of contaminating the water.
The article talks about swimmers with diarrhea. I wonder about young children who, like honey badger, just don’t give a care.
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…according to an article at MedPageToday.
In a recent review of the evidence, the Institute of Medicine noted that the average American eats 3,400 mg of sodium daily.
In contrast, the American Heart Association recommends no more than 1,500 mg daily, while the World Health Organization suggests reduction to 2,000 mg.
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This is either an earth-shaking discovery, a scam, a hoax, or a red herring. The Guardian has a few details. The headline suggests four out of 10 sufferers may benefit from 100-day course of antibiotics.
Up to 40% of patients with chronic back pain could be cured with a course of antibiotics rather than surgery, in a medical breakthrough that one spinal surgeon says is worthy of a Nobel prize.
Surgeons in the UK and elsewhere are reviewing how they treat patients with chronic back pain after scientists discovered that many of the worst cases were due to bacterial infections.
The shock finding means that scores of patients with unrelenting lower back pain will no longer face major operations but can instead be cured with courses of antibiotics costing around £114.
Update May 15, 2013:
Here’s Dr. Harriet Hall’s opinion on the matter.
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He told the New York Post he had lap band gastric surgery. I wish he’d tried my Advanced Mediterranean Diet first. In any case, good luck to him. The highest risk period is over. Many bariatric surgery patients, however, need additional operations. Even a one or two years after surgery, most of them are still obese.
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I’ve been reading Darya Pino Rose’s blog religiously for many years. She’s got a new book out, Foodist: Using Real Food and Real Science to Lose Weight Without Dieting.
I haven’t had a chance to read it yet, but I’m certain that it’s loaded with accurate, helpful information that will help most anyone get healthier through diet and other lifestyle changes.
Order your copy now before they run out!
PS: I have no financial ties to this product or Darya.
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…according to a report at MedPageToday. IVIG is intravenous immune globulin. Search this site and you’ll find evidence supporting the Mediterranean diet as preventative measure as well as a disease-slowing diet.
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I get the distinct impression she’s not a fan. A snippet:
There are plenty of red flags here: the “lone genius,” the “one cause” of most disease, the die-off and “wait a while and try again” explanations to keep patients on the diet when it is making them worse, the unvalidated sensitivity and diagnostic tests, the detoxification language, the bold but unsubstantiated claim of total reversal of autism, the dangerous recommendations for raw eggs, raw milk, and saturated fat and against vaccines and cholesterol testing, and more. Birds of a feather: she is associated with the Weston Price Foundation and was featured on Mercola’s website (both notorious sources of misinformation).
(I’m not familiar with the GAPS diet and have only passing familiarity with the W.A.Price Foundation.)
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Based on a trip there, Ned Kock has some ideas:
In our meal, the way in which at least one of the carbohydrate-rich items was prepared possibly decreased its digestible carbohydrate content, and thus its calorie content, in a significant way. I am referring to the rice, which had been boiled, cooled and stored, way before it was re-heated and served. This likely turned some of its starch content, maybe a lot of it, into resistant starch. Resistant starch is essentially treated by our digestive system as fiber.
This was one of several traditional Korean meals I had, and all of them followed a similar pattern in terms of the order in which the food items were consumed, and the way in which the carbohydrate-rich items were prepared. The order in which you eat foods affects your calorie intake because if you eat high nutrient-to-calorie ratio foods before, and leave the low nutrient-to-calorie ones for later, my experience is that you will eat less of the latter.
Another possible hidden reason for the low rate of obesity in South Korea is what seems to be a cultural resistance to industrialized foods, particularly among older generations; a sort of protective cultural inertia, if you will. Those foods are slowly being adopted – my visit left me with that impression – by not as quickly as in other countries. And there is overwhelming evidence that consumption of highly industrialized foods, especially those rich in refined carbohydrates and sugars, is a major cause obesity and a host of other problems.
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