A startling infographic has highlighted just how out of control the country's meal servings are - with the average restaurant portion more than four times as big as it was in the 1950s.
The image, created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, shows a cup of fountain soda is now six times as large, while burgers and a portion of fries have both tripled in size. (Not that a burger, fries and soda should be considered a real meal!)
Also horrifying is how a chocolate bar is now a staggering 1,233 per cent larger than it was in the early 1900s, according to the CDC results for its The New (Ab)normal campaign.
Jessie Boyd has preached over the last ten months in Nepal, Tibet, Mongolia, and China - countries in which such preaching is illegal - only to return to the USA and be arrested in the Bible belt on the very night that we celebrate our freedom. Wake up America.
Jesse Boyd of Full Proof Gospel Ministries told Christian News Network that he had just returned to his home state from a 13-month missions trip two weeks prior, where he had been preaching in Johannesburg, South Africa; Kathmandu, Nepal; Dhaka, Bangladesh and 15 other countries worldwide. Boyd preached in the open air, witnessed one-on-one, and distributed approximately 150,000 pieces of Gospel literature during his mission, which he states is one of many evangelistic trips that he has conducted over the past decade.
The usual suspects are mounting a huge disinformation campaign against the initiative. A leading coalition is StopCostlyFoodLabeling.com, the funding for which comes in part from the Council for Biotechnology Information - whose members include Monsanto, Dow, and other GMO companies.
Peggy Lemaux, an extension specialist in the Department of Environmental Science at UC Berkeley, was recently quoted in a National Public Radio piece as opposing the initiative. She has credentials, but keep in mind that she's a member of an agricultural science council that includes all the major biotech companies, and was recently the recipient of a financial award provided by Monsanto.
If Barack Obama has an immediate eligibility problem, it is more likely to derive from the Social Security Number he has been using for the last 35 years than from his birth certificate.
Ohio private investigator Susan Daniels has seen to that. On Monday, July 2, she filed suit in Geauga County (Ohio) Common Pleas Court demanding that Jon Husted, Ohio secretary of state, remove Obama's name from the ballot until Obama can prove the validity of his Social Security Number.
Daniels, who has vetted thousands of Social Security Numbers for numerous other clients, has done her homework. In her filing, she thoroughly documents her contention "that Barack Obama has repeatedly, consistently, and with intent misrepresented himself by using a fraudulently obtained Social Security Number."
To acquire appropriate standing in court, Daniels has gone to the trouble of establishing herself as a valid write-in candidate for president. Before she is through, this 70-something mother of seven, who has been a licensed Ohio PI since 1995, may cause Obama more trouble than the Romney campaign.
Nurses make up the largest group of health care providers in the United States, working in venues as varied as doctors' offices and biotech firms, governmental agencies and private insurers. Trusted more than almost any other professional, nurses exert a wide-ranging influence on how health care is delivered and defined.
But nurses' work is not easy, particularly in the hospital setting, where they must deal with intense intellectual and significant physical demands over three or more grueling 12-hour shifts each week. Not surprisingly, nursing ranks among the worst occupations in terms of work-related injuries, and studies have shown that in a given year, nearly half of all nurses will have struggled with lower back pain.
The obvious question, then, is this: If the nurses are grappling at work with all these injuries, what is happening to patients?
A small subset of suicide attempts may be linked to an infection that starts in the litter box. A new study suggests an association between Toxoplasma gondiiand suicide attempts among women.
Interesting finding, to be sure, but how does one even begin to test a theory like this? Why in the world would anyone posit that kitty litter could be related to suicide attempts?
As it turns out, about one-third of the population is walking around right now with latent toxoplasma infection. Most people will never know they have it - and most will not attempt suicide as a result of it. But the presence of T. gondii among women who attempted suicide raises interesting questions.
Sleep is a tricky thing--you think about it and it just makes you more agitated. You need it desperately to function in your everyday life, but at the same time, you can't force it. Why can some of us sleep soundly every night and others suffer with insomnia?
And sleeping pills aren't much better when you consider all the health risks associated with them. In fact, the best option is to make sure that your life is completely conducive to sleep before you do anything unnatural to combat the problem. Here's what you shouldn't be doing and how you can fix it if you're looking for a good night's sleep.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong on Thursday closed a popular tourist spot where hundreds of caged birds are on display after the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus was detected at one of the stalls.
The agriculture, fisheries and conservation department said it was closing the Yuen Po Street bird market in the city's bustling Mongkok district for 21 days. There are about 70 bird stalls in the market.
The move came after the virus was found in a swab sample collected from a cage holding an oriental magpie robin during a routine avian influenza surveillance operation.
The small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits has submitted a request to Health Canada and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) for approval of their GM "non-browning" apple. Contamination from GM apples threatens the future of our apples, and the farmers who grow them.
69% of Canadians oppose the GM apple. See the survey commissioned by the BC Fruit Growers Association and the Quebec Apple Producers Association, July 3, 2012. The CFIA "public comment" period is over. You can read CBAN's comments to the CFIA here.
The GM "non-browning" apple is engineered to keep from going brown after being cut. This apple is designed for fast food companies and food processing and food service companies that use pre-cut apples. The technology was developed in Australia and licensed by the small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits.
Write to your provincial agriculture minister and ask them to take action to protect the apple growers in your area from the GM apple. Write or call your federal Member of Parliament. You can look up their contacts using your postal code at www.parl.gc.ca
Tell the government that you don't want to eat a GM apple!
With the pressure on for employees to stay connected after normal work hours, attaining a work-life balance is still far from reality for most Americans
A recent survey by Good Technology found that some 80 percent of the 1,000 Americans polled said they spend time checking emails and answering phone calls after hours.
In the end, workers spend an average of seven extra hours per week -- or 30 hours each month -- on work-related issues, notes Digital Journal.
As TechCrunch explains, that's nearly one extra workday every week for the average American worker.
In order to rack up those extra hours, half of those surveyed said they start checking work email from bed in the morning, while 69 percent said they logged in again just before going to bed.
Comparing the fortunes of U.S. retirees with their counterparts in other wealthy nations can be challenging, given differences in public and private benefit programs, the age at which citizens leave the workforce, and various pension reforms of recent years.
Generally, though, many economists view public retirement benefits in the United States as less generous than those in other wealthy nations.
The gaps may be narrowing, though, as other countries -- many of which have long had younger retirement ages -- seek to adjust their systems.
"There's a much richer support network in Europe than there is here," says Jonathan Gruber, a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
So where does this end? Do they also demand the right to strip you naked and test your genitals?
Passengers say their problem is not with the rules at the airport. They understand why drinks are not allowed through security, but when they buy one while they wait for their flight, they say the TSA should not ask to test it.
Passengers say traveling is a big enough stress, but now some are worried the drinks they are getting are not safe.
The TSA would not say what they are testing for or why they are doing it, but travelers say they have a right to know.
Check out this graphic to see how drinking a soda affects your health, from the moment it enters your mouth to the time it is absorbed into the rest of your body, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake.
Hospital food is often criticized for being unappetizing, but dietitians say the processed meals also lack proper nutrition for recovering patients.
Carolyn Thomas of Victoria said she endured poor quality hospital food after suffering a massive heart attack in 2008. She's been in and out of hospital since then and has written about the meals on a blog.
"My first meal in the CCC, which is the intensive care for heart attack patients, was a roast beef sandwich on doughy white bread," Thomas said. "I thought I would be getting veggies and fruit."
It is time for the truth to be known: we are not alone in the Cosmos...and WE ARE NOT ALONE - HERE ON EARTH.
The Earth has been visited by advanced Inter-Stellar Civilizations that can travel through other dimensions faster than the speed of light. What we have learned from them about energy propulsion can bring us to a new era, but those in power have suppressed this information in order to keep us at their mercy. It is time for you to know...and this documentary will let you in.
The European Court of Justice has ruled that customers have a right to resell software they purchase regardless of whether the software was originally distributed on a physical medium or downloaded over the Internet. The ruling is a defeat for Oracle, which had argued that the court should uphold provisions in its license agreement prohibiting such transfers.
This report shows how dangerous and under-reported the negative affects of Big Pharma drugs are.
QuarterWatch? is an ISMP surveillance program that monitors all serious, disabling, and fatal adverse drug events (ADEs) reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by drug manufacturers and by the public through its MedWatchreporting program. The goal of QuarterWatch? is to improve patient safety through the identification of signals that may represent important drug safety issues. The term signal means evidence we judge to be substantial enough to warrant publication but which usually requires further investigation to determine its frequency of occurrence and establish a causal relationship to the suspect drug. The latest QuarterWatch? combines data from the four quarters of 2011 to examine annual reporting totals, trends, and ADE signals.
TORONTO - Whether it's stifling, humid conditions, vigorous exercise or plain old stress that's the trigger, trickles or torrents of sweat streaming from the body will undoubtedly follow.
From cool beads dribbling from foreheads to the damp trails on chests, backs and underarms, the outbreak of patches of perspiration in response to anxiety, warm weather or workouts is inevitable. Yet some people cope with even more extreme amounts of sweat.
Primary hyperhidrosis may have a genetic or hereditary link and is typically characterized by excessive sweating of various regions of the body, including feet, hands, under breasts, the groin and armpits. When the cause of excessive sweating is correlated to another disorder - such as hyperthyroidism or menopause - it's known as secondary hyperhidrosis.
"Basically, if your sweating is enough that it interferes with your daily activities of your life, you probably have hyperhidrosis," Dr. Nowell Solish, a Toronto-based cosmetic dermatologist and assistant professor at the University of Toronto.
(Reuters Health) - Botox injections may provide some relief from arm tremors caused by multiple sclerosis, according to a small study published Monday. Botulinum toxin type A is sold under different brands, but it's best known by the Allergan brand-name Botox.
Botox gained fame for smoothing aging skin -- by blocking nerve signals and relaxing muscles under the skin -- but the product has a number of medical uses. In the U.S., Botox is approved to treat conditions like chronic migraine, excessive sweating and certain symptoms of MS: overactive bladder and muscles spasms in the arms.
The new study, published in the journal Neurology, tested the effects of Botox injections on MS-related arm tremors, which affect up to two-thirds of people with MS. Researchers found that when they gave injections to 23 patients, the treatment typically eased their tremors and improved their writing ability.
