Did you know that this Thanksgiving, you’re likely to consume over 4500 calories?! Here are some Thanksgiving diet tips to help you stay slim this holiday season and a reality check on
are on that single plate!
A 6 oz. serving of Roasted Turkey (Dark and White Meat, Untrimmed) has as much as 450 calories. A 1/2 cup of gravy will also add flavor, but almost 178 calories.
Don’t eat the Turkey skin, and stick to white meat.
Use jarred gravy instead Read the rest of this entry »
Much of the best information on the 2008 election can’t be found in newspapers or magazines, or TV and radio, or websites — it’s on email. The article below is an email response sent out by critics of McCain’s RNC speech singling out inaccurate statements the GOP nominee made to the nation on critical issues of the day.
False McCain Claim: “My health care plan will make it easier for more Americans to find and keep good health care insurance.” Read the rest of this entry »
Jan 21, 2009 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) –
— Biotechnology company CombiMatrix Corporation (NasdaqGM:CBMX) revealed
on Wednesday (21 January) the appointment of former US Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, to the
company’s board of directors.
Dr Gottlieb served as FDA Deputy Commissioner for Medical and
Scientific Affairs between 2005 and 2007 and before that he was a
senior adviser for Medical Technology Read the rest of this entry »
Rochester, N.Y.–Danny Wemgan, CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, has been named to FITNESS Magazine’s ‘Fit 50′ List.
The List celebrates doctors, athletes, lawmakers, business owners, visionaries, and activists who have made strides in women’s health and fitness in 2008.
The List contains a brief profile of each person honored. Wegman has been named “Healthy Grocery Guru.”
The ’Fit 50′ List also features Venus Williams, Katie Couric, Cornell University Read the rest of this entry »
The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow U.S.-manufactured infant formula contaminated with melamine or its byproducts onto store shelves is “seriously flawed” and medically risky because parents may feed their babies more than one product, scientists at the nonprofit group Consumers Union said Friday.
The FDA detected melamine and its byproduct cyanuric acid separately in four of 89 containers of infant formula tested in the fall, Read the rest of this entry »
TAKAMATSU, JAPAN — The Kagawa Prefectural Central Hospital in Takamatsu is believed to have mistakenly implanted a woman with the in vitro-fertilized ovum of another patient in September, the prefectural government has announced.
The Takamatsu woman, in her 20s, who received the egg was receiving fertility treatments at the hospital and was expecting to be implanted with her own fertilized egg.
She became pregnant as a result of the procedure Read the rest of this entry »
Erin Brockovich is an environmental crusader made famous by Julia Roberts’ portrayal of her in a 2000 film that bears the legal clerk’s name. And though Brockovich has tackled big businesses with success, she found helping her teenage daughter battle a drug addiction problem just as difficult as taking on any energy giant.
, an adolescent treatment center, 17-year-old Elizabeth Brockovich now is in recovery.
Check the signs for substance abuse Read the rest of this entry »
Rockville, MD
advisory panel voted unanimously to recommend approval of the novel antiplatelet agent for the treatment of acute coronary syndromes.
The vote, by the nine panel members of the Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee, was based largely on the premise that the antiplatelet agent provides greater cardiovascular-event protection compared with
, but at a cost of increased bleeding.
Despite the thumbs-up, the panel’s decision Read the rest of this entry »
KAILUA, Hawaii — President-elect
on Sunday announced the creation of a task force to bolster the standard of living of middle-class and working families in America, tapping Vice President-elect
to lead the effort with four members of the cabinet.
“Our charge is to look at existing and future policies across the board and use a yardstick to measure how they are impacting the working- and middle-class families,” Mr. Biden said Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Barack Obama’s campaign promise should prove irresistible to the millions of uninsured: guaranteed access to affordable health coverage, regardless of illness or condition.
The Democratic presidential nominee is proposing a National Health Insurance Exchange that would be like a government-run shopping mall for health insurance. It would negotiate prices and benefits with private insurers. Among the offerings would be a Read the rest of this entry »