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Can’t get it together in the morning? Then maybe you need Diet Pepsi Max. Wake up people! It’s flavored with ginger caffeine. But before you start getting wired on this stuff, we suggest you read how fructose is allegedly responsible for obesity in the world. It just might make you think twice about whether that [...]

Leonard Nimoy may not seem of this world for those of you who have troubling separating the man from the Vulcan, but trust us, he’s of this earth. We know because we’ve had a chance to see his Full Body Project, a series of photographs that document big beautiful women in the buff.
Shooting digital [...]

Do you ever get the feeling that pharmaceutical companies are run by former dictators from renegade countries? We sure do. Any company that needs to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to hire gorgeous women to traipse into a doctor’s office to get her to write prescriptions sure isn’t selling a product on its merits [...]

Most of the older scales in the bathroom have an adjustment control that keeps the initial starting point directly on zero. The newer scale models are digital and also include a body fat readout. The New York Times recently reviewed a couple of these scales. For those who can’t seem to keep an accurate eating [...]

Forget the bird flu. Diabetes is the epidemic that’s traveling around the world. The stunning number of patients has resulted in a marketing opportunity that makes cotton candy of the Gummy Bear market. Since television is the great mass medium, the hucksters have found their way onto the tube to peddle their wares in the [...]

If corporations could corner the supply of oxygen in the world, then I have not doubt they would so they could charge you monopoly prices for such a basic commodity. Why not. They’ve already done it for water. So it’s no surprise that the pharmaceutical companies have jacked up the price of insulin for [...]

If you want to know if the life you’re living puts you at risk for dying from a variety of conditions, then check out Your Disease Risk from the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. It’s free, but hey, so is cancer.

Welcome to Your Disease Risk, the source on prevention. Here, you can find out your [...]

Menopause - The Musical
Menopause The Musical (MTM) all started in a tiny 76-seat perfume-shop-turned-theatre in Orlando, Fla., on March 28, 2001. Four women at a Bloomingdale’s lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black lace bra and hot flashes, night sweats, memory loss, chocolate binges, not enough sex, too much sex, and more. A [...]

New Book Just Released:
The Sugar Solution: Balance Your Blood Sugar Naturally To Beat Disease, Lose Weight, Gain Energy, And Feel Great
by Sari Harrar and Julia Vantine
An easy-to-follow, drug-free program that can bring blood sugar into balance in just one month. As many as 16 million Americans are living with high-normal blood sugar. They arent [...]

Communication is at the heart of any good system whether it be a relationship between two people, two animals, or a doctor and a patient. Technology today fills out the triangle and introduces a cornucopia of medical devices that interface between the two. Sorry, HAL, but your odyssey is over.
Medical device makers see patients like [...]

Aside from the bleak feature due to global warming, there’s more bad news about the upsurge in diabetes case: diabetes may be a precursor to Alzheimer’s disease.
Several new studies suggest that diabetes increases the risk of Alzheimer’s disease, adding to a store of evidence that links the disorders. The studies involve only Type 2 diabetes, [...]

At some point the words you read are more than sounds, there the fury that describes your physcial well-being with such depressing accuracy that you either get your act together or suffer the consequences accordingly.
Obesity looms large in the future of Baby Boomers. Seize the day or finish off that bag of chips: your [...]

After reading the Journal of the American Medical Association article below, you have to wonder about the structure of the health care system in America. This may be the land of the free, but when it comes to health care, it’s the land of the gouge.
Corporations like McDonald’s and Dunkin Donuts don’t give a [...]

Charlie Rose is featuring a discussion on the growing diabetes epidemic today. His guests include:
MARC SANTORA, The New York Times
DR. MITCHELL LAZAR, Director, The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, The University of Pennsylvania
DR. RICHARD BERNSTEIN
Author, “Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars”
MARTIN SILINK
President-Elect, International Diabetes Federation

It’s pretty common to read about scientists who make stunning discoveries by chance. While investigating one problem, they turn and accidentally spill a beaker across the counter and bingo bango, an insight flashes through their head and they wind up patenting crazy glue.
With the rate of obesity and diabetes in the world climbing exponentially, [...]

The future of health lies in gadgets. The explosion of monitoring technologies like RFID tags is going to revolutionize how patients get diagnosed and deal with their problems. Welcome to the world of self-service health care. As long as it works, costs less, and gets rid of the problem, great! I hope these gadgets allow [...]