Patients With Schizophrenia At Increased Risk Of Metabolic Syndrome

This actually makes sense.

"Patients suffering from schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses are twice as likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome as the general population, according to the results of a recent study published in the Medical Journal of Australia in the article Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among Australians with severe mental illness. "

After all, they are eating for two or more people.

Vitamin Supplements May Protect Against Noise-Induced Hearing Loss

Deaf to the facts?

"Vitamin supplements can prevent hearing loss in laboratory animals, according to two new studies, bringing investigators one step closer to the development of a pill that could stave off noise-induced and perhaps even age-related hearing loss in humans.

The supplements used in the research studies are composed of antioxidants - beta carotene and vitamins C and E - and the mineral magnesium. When administered prior to exposure to loud noise, the supplements prevented both temporary and permanent hearing loss in test animals.

'What is appealing about this vitamin 'cocktail' is that previous studies in humans, including those demonstrating successful use of these supplements in protecting eye health, have shown that supplements of these particular vitamins are safe for long-term use,' said Le Prell, an associate professor in the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions' department of communicative disorders."

"Safe"?

Not even close. For example, see here. There are more examples, too.

So why would these folks push this stuff?

"Miller is the co-founder of OtoMedicine, a University of Michigan spinoff company that has patented AuraQuell, the vitamin supplement formula used in the studies."

Deaf to the facts? Yes.

Deaf to ka-ching? No.

Reducing Onset Of Eye Disease By 20 Percent By Diet Alone

This researcher must be blind.

"University of Liverpool scientists claim that the degeneration of sight, caused by a common eye disease, could be reduced by up to 20% by increasing the amount of fruit, vegetables and nuts in the diet...

Professor Grierson said: 'Poor eating habits have a huge impact on health in general and the health of your eyes is no exception. Eye problems such as AMD, cataract and even glaucoma can all be affected by what we eat. But a relatively minor change in diet - adding a little more fruit into our meals - can make a profound difference and can keep eye diseases like AMD at bay for up to 20% longer.

'There are of course other risk factors related to AMD such as age, light exposure, smoking and being overweight. But if we can improve the kind of food that we eat, we could dramatically reduce the number of people who may suffer from eye diseases in the future.'...

The recipes suggest minor additions to what we already eat, such as peaches with ham or ginger with melon, rather than major dietary changes."

So here is at least one problem with this approach.

It calls for "additions to what we already eat."

It does not call for reductions in caloric intake.

By adding more foods, you add more Calories and "being overweight" is a risk factor.

More Calories = more overweight/obesity.

This = more foolishness.

And why would an author/ researcher do this?

"Fruit for Vision has now been published by Indigo Creative Marketing and the Macular Disease Society. The book, which costs £12, is available from the Macular Disease Society."

Oh. Got it.

MyActivity Pyramid Created By MU Fitness Expert To Help Adults Exercise

Stupid, but it claims to be "fun."

"The MyActivity Pyramid, a new fitness guide developed by a University of Missouri Extension fitness specialist, provides physical activity recommendations for adults in a fun and easy-to-understand format.

'The MyActivity Pyramid offers a visual representation of the new physical activity guidelines from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the recommended amounts and type of activities for improved health and fitness,' said Steve Ball, associate professor of exercise physiology in the College of Human Environmental Sciences. 'The pyramid offers a variety of ways that adults can achieve these recommendations to improve their health and quality of life.'"

This "expert," Ball, is clearly not on the ball.

"The pyramid is modeled after the U.S. Department of Agriculture's food guide pyramid and is designed for adults ages 18-64. At the base of the pyramid are activities that can be incorporated into everyday routines, including biking, yard work, household chores and walking. The next level includes aerobic activities such as jogging, swimming or tennis."

And we know how successful that is.

"Adults should aim for 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity each week or 75 minutes of vigorous activity. For more extensive health benefits and weight-loss, HHS recommends that adults engage in five hours of moderate-intensity aerobic activity per week, or two hours and 30 minutes of vigorous-intensity activity per week."

And it is clearly behind the times as the recommendations have been questioned since they are so unsuccessful. (and see here)

"'So many people are inactive right now. This is a way to help them get started and let them know how much physical activity they should be doing throughout the week,' said Robin Gammon, MU Extension dietitian."

Apparently this "expert," Robin, is a birdbrain and also unaware of "how much physical activity they should be doing throughout the week."

Look, there is absolutely NO need for so-called exercise to achieve or maintain a "healthy" weight, i.e., a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9.

Period.

In fact, exercise for weight control is the absolute most inefficient approach possible.

Period.

With certainty, listening to these clearly out of their minds parrots spouting the conventional crap that has not worked for decades is a strategy guaranteed to fail.

Period.

In fact, caloric intake control for weight management is the absolute most efficient approach possible.

Period.

Listening to the experts will fail you.

Period.

Weight Loss More Effective Than Intensive Insulin Therapy

Another mystery. What could it possibly be about weight loss that can help relieve an illness of choice that is caused by being overweight/obese?

"Weight-loss and major lifestyle changes may be more effective than intensive insulin therapy for overweight patients with poorly controlled, insulin-resistant type 2 diabetes, according to a diabetes researcher at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health recently halted part of an ongoing clinical trial on diabetes and heart disease after more than 250 people died while receiving intense treatment to drive their blood glucose levels below current clinical guidelines."

Add this mystery to the list that includes the Nazca Lines and crop circles.

Mediterranean Diet May Help Prevent Prostate Cancer

Or it may not.

"We recently reviewed evidence relating diet and prostate cancer, suggesting that a traditional Cretan Mediterranean style diet based on a variety of plant foods (fruits, vegetables, wholegrain cereals, nuts and legumes), olive oil as the main source of fat, low intake of red meat, moderate to low intake of dairy foods, moderate to high intake of fish and moderate intake of wine, mostly consumed with meals, may be helpful in reducing prostate cancer risk."

Cretan or cretins?

You make the call.

Until then, eat to achieve a BMI of between 18.5 and 24.9.

Spanish Scientists Confirm Extra Virgin Olive Oil Helps To Combat Breast Cancer

More crooked Spaniard-crap.

Note the title of the article. Note "confirm." Note the article.

"Researchers of the Catalonian Institute of Oncology (Spain) and the University of Granada (Spain) have discovered that extra virgin olive oil may help to combat breast cancer, according to a paper published in the last issue of the renowned scientific journal 'BMC Cancer'."

Note "may help," not "confirm...helps."

Note who wrote the article.

Note they are from the research institution.

Note they are liars.

Note that this is par for the diet/weight loss course.

Note that the Spaniards are the nuts who want to have the United Nations place the Mediterranean Diet on the UN treasure list.

Fresh Vegetables, Fruits Reduce Diabetes Risk

Clarity of thought.

"Eating just one serving of green leafy vegetables or three servings of fruit a day reduces the risk of developing Type II diabetes, say researchers at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health. The research team also found that one serving of fruit juice a day increased the risk of Type II diabetes in women."

Just so you have it straight...

If you eat 3 servings of fruit, you are okay.

If you squeeze 3 servings of fruit, drink it and are a woman, you are not okay.

Got it?

Okay.

If you believe this research, you are not okay.

Evolutionary Link To Modern-Day Obesity, Other Problems

Not.

"That irresistible craving for a cheeseburger has its roots in the dramatic growth of the human brain and body that resulted from environmental changes some 2 million years ago.

Higher quality, nutritionally dense diets became necessary to fuel the high-energy demands of humans' exceptionally large brains and for developing the first rudimentary hunting and gathering economy."

Please.

Organisms with "exceptionally large brains" do not develop exceptionally large bellies to give themselves exceptionally large likelihoods of developing exceptionally bad diseases of choice.

Organisms with "exceptionally large brains" would be smart enough to lose the weight instead.

Organisms with "exceptionally large brains" would not fall for this s**t.

And after spouting all this crap, what is the best that this researcher can conclude?

"The imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure today, Leonard concludes, is the root cause of obesity in the industrialized world."

Calories in, Calories out.

New Obesity Staging System May Help Doctors Measure Up

Another IMHO con by Big Sick Care.

"A new system proposed by Canadian and US obesity researchers may provide another weapon in the battle against obesity. University of Alberta obesity expert Dr. Arya Sharma, along with a researcher from Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois, has proposed a classification system to help doctors assess and treat overweight patients...

The Edmonton Obesity Staging System, outlined in the current online issue of the International Journal of Obesity, has five stages of obesity, from stages 0-4. The first stage, stage 0, would fit patients with no symptoms of obesity-related health problems. The last stage, stage 4, would fit patients that have the most severe obesity-related health problems. The system is simple for doctors to use - they can easily classify their patients by doing simple tasks like taking their patients' medical history, doing a physical exam and taking routine tests like blood sugar and cholesterol levels. The system will also provide doctors with specific treatment approaches for each stage."

Note that you have to see a doc for this new scheme.

As with the other stupid attempts to medicalize the non-medical problem of overweight/obesity, all control/responsibility is removed from the fat person and into the money-grubbing hands of Big Sick Care.

No matter what silly approach sick care promotes, nothing, repeat nothing, will ever succeed except for fewer Calories in than out.

Despite all the machinations of the lying weight loss industry in its various manifestations.

14th World Congress Of The International Federation For The Surgery Of Obesity

Save the date.

"August 26-29, 2009, Palais des Congrès de Paris, 2 place de la Porte Maillot, Paris 17e, France."

Protest this world gathering of IMHO medical malpractitioners.

Vigorous Exercise May Help Prevent Vision Loss

Too late.

"There's another reason to dust off those running shoes. Vigorous exercise may help prevent vision loss, according to a pair of studies from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The studies tracked approximately 41,000 runners for more than seven years, and found that running reduced the risk of both cataracts and age-related macular degeneration."

Fat people already are blind to the fact that they and their kids are fat.

Healthcare stressed at Obama's 'fiscal responsibility summit'

Kudos, fatsos.

"One top budget analyst told the group that health-care spending is the number one culprit.

'The single biggest factor is rising health-care costs, not just in Medicare and Medicaid, but throughout our health-care system,' said Robert Greenstein, the executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a nonpartisan research center."

Paying to rescue you from your diseases of choice is "the number one culprit's" number one culprit.

It is up to us, the public, to solve this matter as we caused it with the encouragement and acquiescence of the politicians and clearly flawed sick care, nutrition and fitness professionals.

They will not solve the problem, IMHO. They will just worsen it.

As they have done heretofore.

Take charge and hold the perpetrators accountable.

With A National Health Care Shortage And Increased Need For Patient Care, Athletic Trainers Fill A Necessary Niche As "Physician Extenders"

Bulls**t.

"In these challenging economic times, even the most efficient medical offices, hospitals and clinics are looking for ways to increase productivity. In light of the national shortage of health care workers today, one profession that has proven effective in achieving productivity is athletic training, particularly when members work as "physician extenders" in clinical environments. According to the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA), using physician extenders in medical and hospital practices can result in time savings, patient satisfaction, increased revenue, increased physician productivity and efficiency, and more effective patient education."

IMHO, clear parasites who are part of an unregulated industry trying to save their largely useless jobs by conning the public into believing they have value to them and adding confusion to the personal trainer/athletic trainer distinction (if there is one, really).

But one look at their selling points reveals that they are selling services to make docs, and themselves, richer.

"According to NATA, a time-to-task study showed that athletic trainers working as physician extenders increased the efficacy of the physician offices by 12 patients per day. In their growing role as physician extenders, athletic trainers help not only hospitals, but also clinics and physician offices, achieve the following:

- Time savings - Athletic trainers help move patients faster through the appointment and treatment process.

- Patient satisfaction - Patients like the personal care and attention that athletic trainers provide.

- Hitting revenue goals - Athletic training services are reimbursable by many insurance companies, and services are either directly billed or billed incident-to physician services; and with an average salary of $48,179, they are competitive with other health care professionals.

- Increase physician productivity and efficiency - allowing the office to treat more patients in the same amount of time.

- Bolster patient education - Understanding their path to recovery helps put patients' minds at ease."

BTW,they are not "health care professionals."

"National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) - Health Care for Life & Sport: Athletic trainers are unique health care professionals who specialize in the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries and illnesses."

They are persons apparently practicing medicine without a license.

Not dissimilar to Oprah, Bob Greene and Jorge Cruise, more IMHO crooks.

Cured meats tied to childhood leukemia risk

More they have no idea what a "healthy" food is.

"Children who regularly eat cured meats like bacon and hot dogs may have a heightened risk of leukemia, while vegetables and soy products may help protect against cancer, a new study suggests...

During the curing process, foods are preserved and flavored by the addition of salt, sugar and chemicals called nitrites; the foods are often smoked as well. Nitrites are precursors to compounds known as nitrosamines, which are potentially cancer-promoting.

In contrast, vegetables and soy contain antioxidants that may help neutralize those same compounds."

Not so fast.

Here are some of the data touting the health effects of nitrites and the harmful effects of antioxidants.

Still think they have any idea what a "healthy" food is?

Obese mothers 'risk spina bifida'

Untrue. It is their fetuses and newborns that are at risk.

"Mothers-to-be who are obese increase their odds of having a baby with abnormalities including spina bifida, researchers say.

Their analysis of data from 39 studies found obese women were more than twice as likely to have a baby with spina bifida or another neural tube defect.

The risk of heart defects and cleft lip was also raised, the Journal of the American Medical Association says."

Kudos, fatsos.

More ways you abuse your children.

And more reasons to discourage fat people from having children.

Teenagers' TV time may affect diet later

For this they needed a study?

"Teenagers who spend hours in front of the television may have a poorer diet as young adults, a new study suggests."

So what is there to do?

"'Parents should limit and monitor TV viewing,' Barr-Anderson said."

It is not the TV.

TV has no Calories.

What people eat does.

It is more important to watch those.

"She added, though, that parents' own habits matter, too. She recommended that parents set a good example by eating right, being physically active and curbing their own TV time."

Good luck with that.

Exercise 'cuts colon cancer risk'

Kudos, fatsos.

"Taking exercise can cut the risk of the most common kind of bowel cancer by a quarter, research suggests.

US scientists, who reviewed 52 previous studies, calculated the most active people are 24% less likely to develop colon cancer than the least active."

So get off your fat asses so you are not pains in the ass to yourselves and the rest of us.

A Tale of Two Cities: Fattest and Fittest Towns in America

The article is filled with crap, the main ingredient of ABCNews "reporting."

Here is one canard that is devastatingly wrong, stupid and harmful:

"'It's cheap to be fat," she added. "It's expensive to be healthy.'"

Bulls**t.

Bulls**t.

Bulls**t.

No stomach for market turmoil? Thank your genes

Hey, it's not just for fat people anymore. The virtually impossible dream of genetic social engineering continues.

"No stomach for the ups and downs of the financial market? Or maybe you lost everything in the global economic downturn? Genes important for mood and risk-taking likely played a clear role, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

They found surprisingly clear-cut links between two genes and the willingness of people to gamble with money."

If there was ever a genetics-related story that should put an end to the hopes of fatsos waiting for a genetic "cure" to their overweight/obesity, it is this one.

Once researchers get to the point that they are blaming the state of the economy on genetics (excepting the genes that control for stupid), you should conclude the whole endeavor is a pile of s**t.