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Working fruits and vegetables into your diet: NetWellness

Lauren Squire — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:29:26 +0000

Fruits and vegetables are excellent sources of vitamins, minerals, complex carbohydrates, fiber and phytochemicals.

MyPyramid recommends that adults eat 1½ to 2 cups of fruits and 2½ to 3 cups of vegetables every day. Try to eat at least one good source of vitamin C daily, such as oranges, grapefruits, tangerines, guava, papayas, peppers, broccoli, potatoes and collard greens.

Also, try to eat at least one good source of vitamin A daily. A form of vitamin A (carotenoids) is found in red, yellow, and orange fruits and vegetables and in many dark-green leafy vegetables. <

Finding root of dizziness first step toward better balance

Lauren Squire — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:38:54 +0000

Stress and The Electronic Device Syndrome

Sebastian Pugliese — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:22:09 +0000

Stress is all around us, all of the time. Electronic devices have made things a heck of a lot easier but with that comes added stress. I walk around and see people clutching their cellphones for dear life or e-mailing incessantly. (You know what I’m talking about; you may even be one of these people. There are definitely times when I sure am one of them.) I describe these individuals as plagued with The Electronic Device Syndrome and it’s not pretty.

Imagine what electronic devices are doing to your health? They’re taking away quality “you” time, which can cause a lot of stress.

My life as a nurse, always challenging, always fulfilling

Lauren Squire — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:24:28 +0000

My husband used to think that working in a Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) meant that I sat in a chair and watched people breathe during my entire shift. He now knows that after 12 years, there’s a bit more to being an SICU nurse than that.

I am sometimes a charge nurse of a 20-bed SICU where we take care of the most critical patients. I get people out of bed that haven’t been out of bed in five days. I am in charge of a bedside machine that checks your clotting time, and I make sure that the staff members are competent in its use, every year. I t Read more…

Daily Planner: August 12

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:44:46 +0000

Events

Paradise Buy Local Thursdays farmers market: 5 p.m.-dusk. Paradise Community Park, Pearson Road at Black Olive Drive. 893-3276. through Aug. 12.

Thursday Night Market: 6-9 p.m. Broadway from Second to Fifth streets. Fresh produce, performances and locally made products. through Sept. 30.

1078 Gallery: 7:30 p.m. Summer Reading Series — Summertime Blues, with Heather Altfield, Jeff Hull and more. 820 Broadway. Suggested donation $3.

Performances

Chico Cabaret: 7 p.m. doors. “Grease,” full, uncensored version of Rydell High’s senior class of 1959. 2201 Pillsbury Road. 7 p.m. $16-$18. 895-0245.

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CSUS Opens New Rec, Wellness Center

Sebastian Pugliese — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:32:18 +0000

The new rec center at California State University, Sacramento also features an extensive wellness center.

SACRAMENTO, CA Officials at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) plan to dedicate a new 151,000-square-foot recreation and wellness center on Sept. 2.

Scientists say the toxic blue-green algae will only get worse on Ohio lakes

Lauren Squire — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 22:40:33 +0000

The simmering summer of 2010 is coughing up a sickly and unprecedented batch of toxic blue-green algae in western Lake Erie and nearly a dozen of Ohio’s shallow, inland lakes.

Many lake scientists are speculating that it’s only going to get worse.

“We’re going to see a greener and greener lake until changes are made,” said John Hageman of Stone Laboratory, Ohio State University’s water research station on Gibraltar Island in western Lake Erie. “Everything points to this just getting worse.”

That might be hard to imagine.

FBI Agent, 19 Others Vote Against Jazz Pharma’s Drug For Fibromyalgia

Lauren Squire — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:24:55 +0000

An FDA panel of outside experts — including an FBI agent! — voted against expanding the use of Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ narcolepsy drug to fibromyalgia, in part because of its potential as a street drug.

An illegal form of sodium oxybate is similar to the drug GHB, Dow Jones Newswires reports. As the NPR Shots Blog noted in the run-up to the meeting, GHB gained notoriety for its use as a date rape drug. Right

Alzheimer’s Drug Development a Tough Road, Lilly News Shows

Lauren Squire — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:58:50 +0000

Eli Lilly has scrapped a drug being tested for use against Alzheimer’s disease because it increased patients’ symptoms and was also tied to a higher risk of skin cancer. As Dow Jones Newswires reports, the announcement — on top of the disappointing results for another experimental drug reported earlier this year by Pfizer and Medivation — underlines how hard it is to develop new treatments for Alzheimer’s.

But why is it so hard?

That’s the question we posed to P. Murali Dora

FDA panel mixed on approving Cymbalta for pain

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:37:07 +0000

WASHINGTON A group of federal health experts narrowly voted to expand approval of a best-selling antidepressant on Thursday, though panelists disagreed over which types of pain the pill effectively treats.

The Food and Drug Administration is considering whether to broaden approval of Elli Lilly & Co.’s Cymbalta to treat chronic pain, a major expansion of a drug already used by 15 million U.S. patients.

An FDA panel of outside physicians voted 8-6 in favor of the broader indication, though they separately ruled that the drug did not appear effective for arthritis-related pain.