Saturday, February 4, 2012
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Ginger-Lemon Tea Recipe
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This hot tea drink features fresh ginger, which infuses wonderful flavor and has a reputation for calming upset tummies.
Ingredients
- 6 cups water
- 1 2-inch piece fresh ginger, thinly sliced
- 8 lemon peel strips (2-1/2 x 1 inch each)*
- 6 green tea bags
- Sugar substitute (optional)
- Lemon slices (optional)
- In a large saucepan stir together the water, ginger, and lemon peel strips. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes. Remove ginger and lemon strips with a slotted spoon and discard.
- Place tea bags in a teapot; immediately add simmering water mixture. Cover and let steep according to tea package directions (1 to 3 minutes). Remove tea bags, squeezing gently, and discard. Serve immediately in heatproof glass mugs or cups. If desired, sweeten to taste with sugar substitute and garnish with lemon slices. Makes 5 to 6 servings.
- Remove lemon peel using a vegetable peeler. If necessary, use a sharp knife to scrape off any white pith that remains on the peel, as this can cause bitterness.
- Calories 4, Total Fat 0 g, Saturated Fat 0 g, Cholesterol 0 mg, Sodium 0 mg, Carbohydrate 1 g, Fiber 0 g, Protein 0 g. Daily Values: Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 0%, Iron 0%.
- Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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Source: http://treatsyum.blogspot.com/2012/02/ginger-lemon-tea-recipe.html
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Professor documents cancer battle in online videos (AP)
COLUMBIA, Mo. ? At first, David Oliver ignored the bump on his neck that he noticed while shaving. The medical school professor assumed it was calcified scar tissue from a previous surgery.
But the growth didn't go away, and his sore back grew more painful. A doctor's diagnosis confirmed the worst: He had a form of upper throat cancer called nasal pharyngeal carcinoma. It had spread to his lymph nodes and bones.
Then Oliver, who has spent a career teaching medical students and hospital workers how to care for dying patients, took an unusual step. He made a video to break the news to colleagues. And when the clip spread far beyond this Missouri college town, Oliver undertook a bigger mission: documenting his treatment in regular videos and promoting an unusually public conversation on medicine and mortality.
"If there was ever a time to be a good teacher, this is it," he said. "I've got a chance."
Oliver, a 69-year-old specialist on aging and a former health care executive, at first struggled to absorb the diagnosis in September. His cancer is considered treatable but not curable.
He wanted to avoid the inevitable stares from colleagues at the University of Missouri's medical school, even those whose jobs often required them to confront terminal illness. He knew there would be whispers in the hallway and uncertainty about how ? or even whether ? to discuss the disease.
Oliver's initial video was meant to "put them at ease when they saw me. I'm still David," he said. "I might have five years. I might have six months. But I want you to be comfortable."
The video quickly spread after Oliver's five adult children shared the three-minute clip with Facebook friends, who in turn shared it with their own friends. A short time later, he started a video blog and a YouTube site.
For his followers, the updates alone weren't enough. Questions soon followed.
A viewer from Japan, his stepdaughter's former study abroad teacher, wanted advice on how to comfort his own friend with cancer. Medical students probed for suggestions about patient care. A college professor in Florida asked permission to use the video in class.
A former Vietnam War protester who four decades ago entered the then-nascent field of gerontology, Oliver spent decades sharing lessons on how to die. Now, buoyed by the power of social media, he was showing others how to live.
Anyone who expected to feel sorry for Oliver was quickly disabused of that notion after watching his first diary entry. A die-hard Missouri Tigers fan, Oliver made sure to highlight the two "puke buckets" he planned to obtain for chemotherapy and radiation treatments: one emblazoned with the rival Kansas Jayhawks logo, the other bearing an Oklahoma Sooner, another foe.
Beyond the humor, Oliver realized his illness provided a chance to help prepare patients and their loved ones, to trade whispers for matter-of-fact observations, to push the conversation from the shadows into the virtual public square.
The second video installment featured Oliver getting his head shaved, his full crop of grayish-blond hair falling to the salon floor before the chemo drugs took their toll.
By the third video, his bald head was gleaming. Oliver stood behind a dozen pill bottles containing a wide range of drugs ? from the steroid dexamethasone to morphine. He talked about dealing with "chemo brain," the persistent mental fog that trails the otherwise lucid professor post-treatment.
In mid-December, a noticeably subdued Oliver appeared on camera to chronicle the 21 days between his three chemotherapy treatments to that point. He talked about the highs of the first few days, fueled by energy-boosting steroids that made him feel "ready to run a triathlon." Then comes the crash, Oliver explained, five days of agony marked by dizziness, diarrhea, constipation, mouth sores, confusion, tingling, hand cramps, rashes and disorientation.
"It's a trick," he said about the initial euphoria. "The Kryptonite comes. Superman is dead on the fifth day."
Ever the professor, he used a bar graph to illustrate his three-week cycles.
Four months of treatment have also given Oliver a window into modern health care from the patient's perspective. He hasn't liked all that he's seen, particularly the limited interaction between doctors and nurses. He makes sure that his caregivers are also watching his video dispatches.
"I'm in a position to be extremely critical while they're giving me treatment," Oliver said. "They consider me an advocate. They want me to help with their patient training."
Oliver, a former executive at Heartland Health System in St. Joseph, knows he can engage with his doctors on a level of familiarity that most patients cannot. That's another motivation for his videos, to help level the playing field.
"I'm not intimidated by physicians. I realize they are people like everybody else," he said. "They make mistakes like everybody else. ... This is my opportunity to talk about these flaws and disappointments."
As the disease lingers, he and his wife of 16 years, Debra Parker Oliver, must also plan for life after his death.
A few short months ago, that talk consisted mostly of retirement, visits with the grandchildren and their next ocean cruise. Now it means stressful sessions with financial advisers and making plans for his memorial service.
"I am not afraid to die," Oliver said. "I am a gerontologist. I know that none of us get out of this alive."
His wife, an associate professor and former hospice worker who also works in the family and community medicine department, is less certain.
"Maybe he's not afraid to die, but he's afraid of dying," she said, her husband by her side. "The idea of this man being confined to a bed, maybe not being able to speak, is much more scary than what you are willing to admit."
On a recent visit to the Ellis Fischel Cancer Center, the couple received some encouraging news: A scan showed no visible lesions, meaning all were less than 1 centimeter in length. He will return later this month for two final rounds of chemotherapy followed by three months of freedom from medical procedures before getting another scan.
Best of all, the good news buys him time.
Time for a long-awaited cruise to Istanbul and Rome. Maybe time to travel to the NCAA basketball tournament in March to watch his beloved Tigers as the team seeks its first-ever Final Four berth.
The cancer is "still there. It will grow back," he said. "Eventually it will grow back and kill me."
No one knows how much time remains. If it's more than a year, he added, "we can produce a lot more videos."
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Online:
David's Cancer Journey, http://dbocancerjourney.blogspot.com
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Three Important Factors In Anti-Aging Health | Articles Fancy
Age is a natural part of life. But the process of aging does not give you carte blanche to look your age and eschew personal care. With a few simple steps anyone can look and feel younger than they actually are. One of the biggest steps someone can take in the battle against age is to lead a healthy lifestyle. There are many factors that determine how well a person ages, or how well he/she doesn?t, and aside from the lifestyle, diet, fitness and other miscellaneous factors figure in the equation. Nobody said it was easy to live such a lifestyle, but with a little self-discipline, you could.
A Mostly Vegetarian Diet
A major step in combating age is committing to healthy eating habits. It?s important not to indulge too much on one food or another, especially when it contains a lot of fat or grease. Be that as it may, everybody has their own specific dietary needs, which would behoove you to do your research if you want to find out what diet would be the best for you and benefit your body type the most, may it be ectomorph, endomorph or mesomorph. It may not sound delicious especially if you?ve spent a good few decades gorging yourself on fast food, but a mostly vegetarian diet (including fruit and grain) is one diet in which most people agree would be the best way towards a healthier lifestyle. Because the human body does not take well to over-work especially when you are at an advanced age, you would want it to work more effectively and efficiently ? one way to do this is through a healthy diet.
Choosing a lifestyle
Another very important step in anti-aging health is lifestyle habits. These habits include smoking, excessive drinking of alcoholic beverages and also may include certain digestive disorders, all detrimental to how a person ages. Smoking for instance inhibits the body?s ability to process oxygen, preventing the body from feeding your cells. If you haven?t purged these noxious habits from your system, it is about time that you do so, especially if you want to look and feel younger than your age.
Exercise is the third, and arguably the most important component of anti-aging health. If you exercise moderately, you can benefit from a lot of things, including, but not limited to improved blood circulation, impeccable muscle tone, improved stability and balance and more oxygen to the brain. Anyone concerned with anti-aging health should be prepared to set an exercise regiment. It is important to be willing to stick with this regiment after you start; just occasionally going to the gym doesn?t count.
Be reasonable and realistic, because you wouldn?t want to compete in a 10k run unless you plan to pull a Rosie Ruiz ? seriously speaking, this could do more harm than help to your well-being. But the three factors discussed above are merely the main things to consider in the war against aging. At the end of the day, if you are advancing in age and want to remain looking and feeling hale and hearty, you just might add a few more years to your life expectancy with the tips above.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
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Online game theft earns real-world conviction (AP)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands ? The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a 13-year-old boy to relinquish a virtual mask and amulet in an online game amounted to real-world theft.
The Netherlands' highest court confirmed Tuesday that a boy who threatened the 13-year-old with a knife to make him drop the objects in the online fantasy game RuneScape was guilty of theft and ordered him to perform 144 hours of community service.
The court did not release the suspect's name, only his year of birth ? 1992. It said he and another youth beat and kicked the boy and threatened him with a knife until he logged into RuneScape and dropped the objects in 2007.
The court ruled the 13-year-old owned the virtual objects because of the time and energy he invested in winning them.
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Study Looks at Possible HIV Drugs-Birth Defect Link (HealthDay)
MONDAY, Jan. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Pregnant women with HIV can prevent passing the AIDS-causing virus to their babies by taking antiretroviral drugs, but there remains a possibility that some of these medications might cause birth defects, such as cleft lip and palate, according to a new study.
Antiretroviral drugs have been found to reduce the risk of mothers passing HIV on to their children from between 15 and 25 percent to less than 1 percent. These drugs, however, are still under investigation and not considered safe during pregnancy, the study authors noted.
To analyze the possible association between antiretroviral drugs and birth defects, Vassiliki Cartsos, an associate professor and director of graduate orthodontics at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine in Boston, and colleagues examined five years of adverse events compiled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Their findings are published in the January issue of Cleft Palate--Craniofacial Journal.
The investigators found seven antiretroviral drugs were associated with 26 incidents of cleft lip and palate. However, the authors noted, uncovering an association does not prove a cause-and-effect relationship.
In other words, although the study findings should serve as a red flag, the researchers pointed out that the findings do not confirm that the antiretroviral drugs caused the birth defects.
Those drugs included lamivudine (Epivir); efavirenz (known as EFV); nelfinavir (Viracept); and the combination of abacavir (Ziagen), sulfate, lamivudine and zidovudine (Retrovir).
The study authors concluded in a journal news release that more research is needed to determine if there is a link between antiretroviral drugs and cleft lip and palate, a congenital malformation believed to have several causes, including genetic and environmental factors.
More information
The World Health Organization has more about antiretroviral therapy.
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