Are Artificial Sweeteners Harmful to Human Health - or Not?

B'SD

19 Tamuz, 5775

I'm gambling that this blogpost will be appreciated (or not) by most of you. Please share your thoughts about it with me, below.

A contentious debate about the safety of artificial sweeteners is raging on social media. 

Pro and con supporters are citing contradictory medical evidence from professional medical organizations such as BioMed Central, Cancer. gov, Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Medical School (I know, I know, Hah-vidd), JAMA, Mayo Clinic, Medical News Today, PubMed, Washington University School of Medicine, etc. Even Prevention Magazine has something controversial to say about artificial sweeteners.

You need to research each debatable sweetener and to weigh the risks of things going wrong with your health as a result of swallowing it.


Rather than repeat the social media argument here (or risk lots of ire by copy/pasting actual comments with identifying details about each commenter), I offer a thought for your consideration:

Not one health organization advises humanity that 

it has a minimum daily requirement of synthetic, 

stripped-down or otherwise questionable "food." 

The best way to be sure 
that you're swallowing actual food 

is to do so. 

Gambling on processed 
"food" products 
is a risk 

you might not want to take. 

As Baretta used to sing when the show opened, 

"If you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

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Find the facts and weigh the pros and cons before you. Focus on your priorities.

Increase, Even Triple the Odds of Surviving Heart Attacks!

B'SD

16 Adar 5770

MAYO Clinic's Doctors Tyler Vadeboncoeur & Bentley Bobrow announce a new way to increase the chances for adults in cardiac arrest to survive the problem.



After my latest eye exam today, I wonder if anyone on my medical team is going to need some help breathing pretty soon. Further improvements in my vision and eye health were recorded today.

A film will soon be made, at the internal level, of my eyes functioning. I expect it will become a teaching tool that demonstrates a most unusual recovery. I'm not quite at the 5th anniversary of the surgery to remove the brain tumor that almost killed me after causing sudden blindness and other medical crises. But it's gonna be one fun celebration, I bet ;^ )

Check out the miraculous story and learn what YOU can do to cope with, maybe heal from, a medical challenge. Click on the flapping pages below.



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Will We Soon Have a Breast Cancer Survival Vaccine? Want to Ask a Medical Expert YOUR Questions?

B'SD


24 Sivan 5769


I'm having an unusually hectic schedule this week, so today's post is quick and colorful:

Get a quick education on good foods and bad foods for your brain, Swine Flu/H1N1, and a
"Survival Vaccine" for breast cancer, PLUS take the opportunity to ask medical experts YOUR questions, by clicking HERE!



Wondering if your symptoms match up with the Mayo Clinic's brief guide to Meningiomas (a tumor such as the ones I've survived)? Click on Mayo Meningioma Guide.

(CAUTION: not ALL headaches indicate a brain tumor. Sometimes a headache is simply a headache. BTW, I didn't experience suspicious headaches before my former brain tumors were diagnosed).


Click on I'm Buying "It's MY Crisis! And I'll Cry if I Need To: A Life Book that Helps You to Dry Your Tears and to Cope with a Medical Challenge" to learn even more easy ways to find medical information and even how to find help to deal with diagnoses!


To your good health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life

Making the Best (and the MOST!) From a Difficult Situation

7 Tamuz 5768


One of the main reasons that people take jobs seems to be so they'll have something to complain about (I'm kidding).

Normal human beings get cranky over their jobs. Sometimes they have good reasons to be that way. So, I'm making an effort to help you out with a helpful suggestion and with a real-life example of how to make lemonade from the lemons in life. Here we go:



1. Eye Strain from Computer Monitors can be quite a worksite problem. The Mayo Clinic offers some suggestions about how to minimize the hazard. I suggest that you CLICK HERE to find out why it's important to position your keyboard correctly and to learn other techniques for preventing those itchy, watery eyes annoying you right now.

2. OK, here's that "Lemons to Lemonade" (or, as we say in Hebrew, "Limonada m'limonim") idea referred to above: Remember that badly (really BADLY) broken arm I had back in December? It took months for my surgical, occupational/physical therapy, and personal exercise regimen team to heal it.

I also needed to recover from the loss of my pending book tour income. And I sure wanted a way to feel that I was still a vital part of life at large while I was incapacitated. I needed to pull a trick out my hat or thinking cap, so to speak. Kinda like Bullwinkle here, but more effectively...



One of the keys to my recovery was the dynamic splinting device/brace I wore. Designed to help my stiffened body parts to loosen up so I could use the affected arm and hand correctly, it is not made or sold in Israel where I reside. My medical team was desperate for me to get the specific device my arm sorely needed (pun intended). I did get hold of that particular item, and the rest made medical history.

And while I was in months-long recovery, I had time to think.

I thought hard about how I'd been blessed to acquire a hard-to-get medical appliance and about the thousands of Israelis who need dynamic splinting devices for their recoveries from complicated fractures, other trauma or disease, too. So, I followed my line of thought to the end and contacted the manufacturer of my appliance, an adjustable (dynamic) elbow splint. I will soon be importing the entire line of those dynamic splinting devices to Israel. Stay tuned to this blog for helpful information about that. I plan to post an official announcement at the appropriate time.

Meanwhile, consider your medical situation and how you can make the best of a difficult situation. I faced possible amputation of my arm or the permanent loss of use in that arm/hand. I turned the situation around into something good for me and for my fellow citizens.

Now, what can YOU do to make your life, and that of other people, sweeter? Let me know your success stories so I can share them here ;^ )


To your good emotional and physical health,

Yojeved Golani
Coping with a Medical Crisis?
Make the Changes You Need in Your Life.

November is American Diabetes Month

17 Cheshvan 5768

Rates of people with diabetes are climbing worldwide, especially in Western societies. Here are some basic facts you need to know. Change your habits and protect your health (under medical supervision) accordingly.

TYPE 1 DIABETES
A combination of genetic and environmental factors, this is an autoimmune disease. A person's own immune cells destroy the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, a horn-shaped organ near the stomach.

TYPE 2 DIABETES
A combination of genetic and environmental factors, this is the most common form of diabetes. Obesity, insufficient physical activity and/or a family history of the disease are risk factors. Once rare in children, Type 2 diabetes rates are growing. This can lead to complications such as heart disease.

The American Diabetes Association wants you to know that diabetes and heart disease are linked. People with diabetes are at high risk for a heart attack or a ...

Find out the details at www.diabetes.org/communityprograms-and-localevents/americandiabetesmonth.jsp

As I've written before, I do have a bit of a journalism career. Contact me for my book review of a marvelous new cookbook for diabetics. It offers variations so you can keep meals interesting, appealing and very presentable. Just click http://giveretgolani@gmail.com and ask me for the "Enlitened" cookbook review.




Contact me, at http://giveretgolani@gmail.com, about whatever you want to know about in the wide world of healing arts.

My connections in the medical world are dynamic. They can be quite helpful, as readers of my blog indicate on previous posts. One of my contacts is also a source of medical practioner and medical treatment information for the MAYO CLINIC. If you need to learn about some new form of effective therapy, or about the world's best expert on some specific medical issue, I can seek out the information for you very quickly.

UPDATE: Fast Facts - About 154,000 people below age 20 have diabetes in the United States.

- According to data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006, one in 523 people under age 20 has diabetes. About 79 percent of them are aged 10 to 19 years.

- Types 1 and 2 Diabetes rates are soaring in the USA and elsewhere. Lack of sufficient exercise and too much snack foods are part of the blame. The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) offers tip sheets and an online quiz for teens, to help them to manage their disease and to reduce their risks for complications.

NDEP's new "Tips for Teens with Diabetes" encourages teenagers to manage their disease for a long, healthy life. Topics such as "What is Diabetes?, Be Active, Make Healthy Food Choices, Stay at a Healthy Weight, and Dealing with the Ups and Downs of Diabetes" are among many other tips.

NDEP’s tip sheet for addressing teens at risk for Type 2 diabetes is called "Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes."

An interactive online quiz for teens with diabetes (based on information found in the tip sheets) uses a question-and-answer format, with direct links to the new series of tip sheets. All of it is available at no charge from the NDEP. These resources support children with diabetes and their families to ensure their health and well-being now and into adulthoodThe new tools also support the 2007 World Diabetes Day campaign theme "Diabetes in Children and Adolescents." It’s for raising awareness of the rising rates for type 1 and type 2 diabetes among youngsters around the world.

For more information about NDEP's free resources for children and teens, visit http://www.yourdiabetesinfo.org/ or call 1-888-693-NDEP (6337). NDEP is jointly sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.World Diabetes Day, November 14, is sponsored by the International Diabetes Federation.

NDEP chair-elect Francine Kaufman, M.D., head of the Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism for the Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, is chair of the Youth Section for World Diabetes Day. Listen to an NIH Radio interview with Dr. Kaufman about diabetes in youth and World Diabetes Day at http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/nihpodcast.htm

For information about National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) and its programs, see http://www.niddk.nih.gov/


To your good health, Yocheved