Smoking , alcohol, meds/drugs and poor lifestyle (absence of exercise, clean water, air and whole foods) contributed to poor health in the southern part of the United States. https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/mortality-rates-united-states/cardiovascular/#2014
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What Our Cells Teach Us About a ‘Natural’ Death
By Haider Javed Warraich Every Thursday morning on the heart transplant service, our medical team would get a front-row seat to witness an epic battle raging under a microscope. Tiny pieces of heart tissue taken from patients with newly transplanted hearts would be broadcast onto a gigantic screen, showing static images of pink heart cells beingContinue reading “What Our Cells Teach Us About a ‘Natural’ Death”
Opioid prescription and cancer in UK
466% increase in opioid prescribing In England, the growing use of buprenorphine, oxycodone hydrochloride, and morphine sulphate increased annual costs for these three drugs by more than £10 million (US$12.98 million) between 2002 and 2013. Also, dispensing data reported by the UK National Health and Social Care Information Center show a 466% increase in opioidContinue reading “Opioid prescription and cancer in UK”
Low sodium is risk factor for mortality, high sodium is for hypertension
Data from O’Donnell et al. Low Sodium Intake Is a Risk Factor for Mortality Cross-sectional and epidemiologic data has repeatedly shown low-sodium diets to be associated with worse outcomes This was made clear when O’Donnell et al looked at sodium intake and adverse outcomes in the ONTARGET and TRANSCEND trials. Both of these trials lookedContinue reading “Low sodium is risk factor for mortality, high sodium is for hypertension”
Billions saved if obesity, tobacco and alcohol are controlled
Do not fear about the election, the truth will come out and all young healthy people in the USA will vote for their future. Healthy future generation knows that major deaths in the USA are contributed by the following: obesity, tobacco use and alcohol use. 1965 vs 2008: More people are aware of the effectsContinue reading “Billions saved if obesity, tobacco and alcohol are controlled”
Prescription drugs leading cause of death
Across the country, 44,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2013, more than double the number in 1999, the study by the non-profit group, Trust for America’s Health found. Nearly 52 percent of the deaths were related to prescription drugs. The number of overdose deaths increased in 26 states in the four years to 2013, theContinue reading “Prescription drugs leading cause of death”
Survivorship
The main benefit of this new way of holding title is as follows. Primarily, the benefit of community property for a husband and wife allows that if one of the spouses dies, and leaves his/her half to the other person, the entire property would be revalued for the purpose of basis to the value of the property atContinue reading “Survivorship”
Natural food toxins: licorice and others so eat in moderation
It would be nice if plants were made just to be our food. But what they have in mind is, in the first place, their own survival. Part of it is that they often contain what could be broadly called “natural pesticides”: substances that are toxic to mold, insects and, sometimes, animals. We are notContinue reading “Natural food toxins: licorice and others so eat in moderation”
Critical illness, most feared than death, is one reason why some file for bankruptcy by Dan Mangan
These people fear the bill collector more than the Grim Reaper. Among workers ages 40 and 50, nearly half fear the financial consequences of a critical illness-compared with just 29 percent who rate dying as their biggest concern, according to a new study. That fear of a hit to the wallet being a bigger concernContinue reading “Critical illness, most feared than death, is one reason why some file for bankruptcy by Dan Mangan”
Healthy Oils
You need to have a healthy liver to balance any essential oil metabolism, absorption and conversion into the body’s required energy. This is recorded by Connie from http://www.manitobaharvest.com Hemp oil contains 2% of stearodonic acid –omega 3 The info below is from http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/othernuts/omega3fa/ Essential Fatty Acids Summary • Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), an omega-3 fatty acid,Continue reading “Healthy Oils”