Gretchen sent me the results of a little experiment she ran on herself. She measured blood glucose and triglycerides after 1) a low-fat diet and 2) a low-carb diet.
Gretchen describes her experience:
Several years ago I received a windfall of triglyceride strips that would expire in a week or so. I hated to waste them, so [...]
I keep asking the same question: How can the Democrats ram anything as big and complex through as these health care bills with approval ratings–now in the 35% to 40% range–so low?
They seem intent on showing us.
Robert Laszweski, “Public Anxiety Meets the Democratic Effort to Get Health Care Done at All Costs,“The Health Care [...]
In the ongoing debate over whether it’s fat or carbohydrate restriction that leads to weight loss and health, here’s another study from the Oxford group examining the postprandial (after-eating) effects of a low-fat vs. low-carbohydrate diet. (Roberts R et al, 2008; full-text here.)
High-carbohydrate was defined as 15% protein; 10% fat; 75% carbohydrate (by calories), with [...]
From a review in Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, here are a few key points:
Definition of SE—
Traditional: 30 minutes of unrelenting seizure(s).
New (proposed): greater than 5 minutes or two or more without intervening full return of consciousness.
Why?
The longer durations traditionally used to define SE were selected based on assumptions about [...]
The campaign to end the death penalty around the world, is the theme of a study conference in Rome, tomorrow, at the Pontifical Urban University. The initiative is being organized by the students of ‘Omnes Gentes’ of the Pontifical Urban University.
‘The death penalty in the world today: the struggle for abolition, for a new culture [...]
Reports indicate that fathers are gaining ground in custody disputes, and this seems to be true, but Mississippi still presumes a mother is generally better suited to raise a young child under the “tender years doctrine.”
The New York Times reported on November 17, 2009 on a growing phenomenon of fathers “winning”custody cases. They quote an [...]
I keep asking the same question: How can the Democrats ram anything as big and complex through as these health care bills with approval ratings–now in the 35% to 40% range–so low?
They seem intent on showing us.
Robert Laszweski, “Public Anxiety Meets the Democratic Effort to Get Health Care Done at All Costs,“The Health Care [...]
This is the most recent free full text general topic review I have been able to find.
Key points about AKA:
It is not as benign as popularly believed. It may be a cause of unexplained sudden death in alcoholics.
Acidosis may be severe but if altered LOC occurs suspect another cause.
The treatment is general supportive care [...]
Furthering our discussion of postprandial (after-eating) phenomenona, including chylomicron and triglyceride “stacking” (Grazing is for cattle and Triglyceride and chylomicron stacking), here’s a comment from the recent Palet Diet Newsletter on the closely related issue, meal timing and frequency:
We are currently in the process of compiling meal times and patterns in the worlds historically studied [...]
November 23 – Last night on CBS’s 60 Minutes, I learned much of what I knew already, most of it obvious.
I learned,
100 percent of Americans will die eventually;
one day in a hospital internsive care unit costs $10,000;
the last two years of life costs Medicare $50 billion each year;
it is human natture to wwant to [...]