Nutrition

Over 2 Million US Teenagers Take Parent's Prescription Drugs for Heroin-like High (Which Says More About Society and Drug Pushing Than It Does About Our Kids)
Report raises concern about abuse of prescription drugs by US teenagers The Associated PressPublished: February 14, 2007 NEW YORK: American teenagers are turning away from illegal drugs such as marijuana but are finding prescription drugs they can abuse right in the family medicine cabinet, according to a report... 19 Feb 2007 11:31

The Real Cancer Healers and the Future of Medicine (Overcomingthe Myths of a Failing Chemotherapy Monopoly)
Rod wrote: "Richard Schultz" <schultr(a)mail.biu.ack.il> wrote in message news:er0rgk$nmh$6(a)news.iucc.ac.il... In misc.health.alternative PeterB <pkm(a)mytrashmail.com> wrote: : On Feb 11, 1:14 am, schu...(a)mail.biu.ack.il (Richard Schultz) wrote: :> In misc.health.alternative PeterB <p...(a)mytra... 24 Feb 2007 19:23

The diminishing returns of healthy eating
I dont understand why people who eat relatively very healthy only end up living 10-20% longer lives? In other words an unhealthy person can consume 500% more fat, sugar, salt than a healthy eater, yet only reduce his life span by 10-20%? This tells me there is a point of diminishing returns to healthy eating w... 25 Feb 2007 18:56

How opting optimal eating wrong?
"Purpose Insulin therapy has been shown to benefit the prognosis in patients with type 2 diabetes, but its initiation and intensification is often delayed through concerns about hypoglycemia and weight gain. In addition, weight gain is linked to the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes and contributes to the overa... 24 Feb 2007 19:23

Crohn's / hyperviscosity .. ?
Is it mere coincidence that viscosity / HYPERviscosity leads to gastric distress and seems to be ALSO present IN those with .. crohn's disease .. ? Hyperviscosity leads to **lack** of blood .. flow / ischaemia / tissue oxygen starvation. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Int J Colo... 19 Feb 2007 20:26

Conflicting Accounts
Okay, a few true or falses: 1) Is excess protein stored as fat, or excreted as feces? 2) Does eating close to sleep "promote fat," or does it help stave off catabolic processes? 3) Is the USRDA of protein simply the minimum to avoid deficiency and malnutrition, or is it the healthy standard of the overwhel... 25 Feb 2007 14:12

Deleterious metabolic effects of high-carbohydrate, sucrose-containing diets in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=3544839&dopt=Citation Deleterious metabolic effects of high-carbohydrate, sucrose-containing diets in patients with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus.Coulston AM, Hollenbeck CB, Swislocki AL, Chen YD, Reaven GM. The effects of v... 17 Feb 2007 10:43

Diet and risk of Type II diabetes: the role of types of fat and carbohydrate
http://www.springerlink.com/content/mvnfwche17mchgdc/ Diet and risk of Type II diabetes: the role of types of fat and carbohydrate Authors F. B. Hu, R. M. van Dam, S. Liu Abstract Although diet and nutrition are widely believed to play an important part in the development of Type II (non-insulin-dependent)... 17 Feb 2007 10:12

Why are pickled food bad for you?
Pickling is mostly done with vinegar, sugar and salt and other spices, so I was wondering why pickled foods are considered unhealthy. I enjoy pickled herring and I would like to know exactly why this is bad for you. I would think it's healthy with lots of omega 3 oils, being a fatty fish. Can someone please enlight... 19 Feb 2007 14:40

Determinants of glucose toxicity and its reversibility in the pancreatic islet -cell line, HIT-T15
http://ajpendo.physiology.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/5/E997 In summary, these findings indicate that glucose toxicity of the b- cell is a continuous rather than a threshold function of glucose concentration and that the shorter the period of antecedent glucose toxicity, the greater the degree of recovery. Findi... 17 Feb 2007 10:12