$XAU, $GLD Gold rose to a more than 2-week high Friday as the latest updates on the coronavirus dented risk sentiment, and prompted a flight into safe-haven assets. Spot gold was up 0.7% at 1,573.53 oz by 1:41p EST (1841 GMT), having hit a peak since 8 January at 1,575.03 earlier in the session. The […]
Fully 49% of American adults will be obese within a decade and 25% will be severely so, a new report predicts. It corrects for a weakness in previous estimates that may have made the problem seem not as big as it really is. Those estimates often relied on national health surveys and people tend to […]
The findings are scheduled to be presented Saturday at an American Heart Association meeting, in Philadelphia. Grab & Go foods are an easy option for busy lives, but if you opt for ultra-processed foods a lot, you may pick up something you do not want; heart disease. About 55% of Americans’ daily calories come from […]
The Big Q: Is your heart a ticking time bomb? The Big A: Could be, as many people do not even realize they are at risk of heart disease. The CDC reports that 735,000 Americans have a heart attack each year and that 25% of those people will die from heart disease. Many of these deaths can […]
Thursday, US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said that trade uncertainty issues are giving China “real” structural problems, as the nation’s supply chains are starting to “hollow out.” “China is no longer really the cheapest place in the world to manufacture,” Secretary Ross said in a TV interview, adding the US does not know what China wants […]
US Health officials are investigating more cases of a breathing illness associated with vaping. While the cause remains unclear now, the officials said Friday that many reports involve e-Cigarette products that contain THC, the mind-altering substance in marijuana. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday they are looking at 215 […]
It is inevitable, spend a few hours in a confined space with a couple hundred other bodies at 30-K+ ft and we are likely going to get sick, yes? It is true that traveling carries certain risks to our health, catching a cold is not a foregone conclusion. From reducing our exposure to germs to prepping our […]
From Cappuccinos to Cold Brew, coffee is a morning must for many Americans. The Big Qs Is it healthy and how much is too much? The Big A: A University of South Australia study suggests a couple of cups to start your day probably will not hurt and may even be good for you. But […]
Former NBC “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno has opened up about his battle with high cholesterol, a condition which he described as a “time bomb”. “There are a lot of people walking around like that, they’re just time bombs,” Leno said in a new video created in association with Cholesterol 911 to shed light on high […]
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack each year, and 525,000 are 1st heart attacks. When you learn the risk factors, symptoms and how to take early action, it increases your chances of survival. According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, some […]
You, me, we all need a good night’s sleep of at least 7 hours, and anything less can be dangerous, brain researchers say. The Washington Post reported a new line of research suggests poor sleep might increase the risk of Alzheimer’s, another study found staying up all night pushes anxiety to clinical levels, and still another found even modest sleep reductions are linked […]
Plus, it is going to get worse next week. The month of January is coming to a close, but it does not look like it is getting any closer to warm Spring weather. AccuWeather reports a polar vortex will rip through the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, bringing temperatures in the teens and single digits, reported […]
Candy, cupcakes, and cookies seem to be all around the typical office, so if you are striving to eat healthy, the workplace can be a minefield that makes people fat. Researchers surveyed more than 5,000 people and found that about 1 in 4 working adults said they got food or beverages from work at least […]
The Whys of Eating Organic Real Foods First, we define Organic. There really is not an official definition of the term Organic. Organic refers to the way food is grown or processed, not the food itself. Generally, any food can be called Organic if it has been grown or produced using all natural and no […]
Dine on Organic Turkey This Thanksgiving Still deciding whether to buy an Organic turkey or a conventionally raised bird for Thanksgiving this year? This is a Key reason to consider going Organic: Turkeys that carry the USDA organic seal are not given antibiotics. About 80% of the antibiotics sold in the US are used in industrially produced livestock. […]
Stand More, Sit Less: It is Important! Data indicates moving as little as 10 mins for every hr of sitting may help reduce negative effects. Ideally you should be sitting no more than 3 hrs each day using correct posture to reduce strain on your lower back and neck A recent study in the Annals […]
Beat Colds and Flu Naturally The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently revealed that last year’s flu season was a record breaker, killing 80,000 Americans. It was a particularly nasty flu, a strain that tends to put more people in hospital and cause more deaths, particularly among the most vulnerable population: young […]
Many Americans With Diabetes Do Not Know It It’s estimated more than 30% of American adults with diabetes don’t realize they are suffering from this potentially deadly disease. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey show about 1 American in 7 suffered from diabetes between Ys 2013 and 2016, with the prevalence of diagnosed diabetes at […]
American’s Dying from Drinking and Obesity is Alarming Since Y 2009, a growing number of Americans have died from liver disease and liver cancer. The increase among those 25- to 34 anni is especially troubling because the deaths are due to cirrhosis, a disease caused by excessive drinking of alcohol, the authors of a new […]
Healthy Looking Furry Pets Carry Deadly Diseases It is estimated Americans own 78-M dogs and 85-M cats, according to the American Pet Product Association, but the downside of for pet lovers is that each and every year tens of thousands of Americans get sick from diseases spread by their household animals. These are called Zoonotic […]
CDC: Diseases from Mosquitoes, Fleas and Ticks Rising in US Diseases from mosquitoes, ticks and flea bites tripled in the United States from Y 2004 to 2016, and officials said Tuesday rising temperatures and an increasingly connected global society are to blame. More than 642,000 cases of these illnesses were reported during the 13 years […]
This Year’s US Flu Season the Worst Since 2009 The intensity of this year’s flu season has made it the worst since the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “This has been a really difficult season and it’s not over yet,” Centers for Disease Control and […]
Obesity is Deadly! Obesity is a deadly health condition, associated with heart disease, diabetes, depression, cancer and premature death, take good care of yourself. Today it is growing at epidemic proportions and researchers find it may spread through communities. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 30% of adult Americans […]
Lingering US Flu Qutbreak Worst Since 2003 One of the worst Flu outbreaks in the United States since Y 2003 worsened last week and will likely linger for several weeks, causing more deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Friday. Another 10 children were reported to have died of the Flu in […]
Got the Flu? Eat Real Food This year’s flu season is the worst in about 10 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CD). Every US state, sans Hawaii, is experiencing widespread influenza outbreaks and one in 15 doctor visits last week were for flu symptoms. Hospitals, medical […]
US Areas Hit With Zika Seeing More Birth Defects The mosquito-born Zika virus may be responsible for an excess number of birth defects in US states and territories where the virus had been circulating in local mosquito populations, even in women who had no lab evidence of Zika exposure during pregnancy, US health officials said […]
Flu Spread Across US for 3rd Week Running The flu blanketed the US, sans Hawaii, again last week for the 3rd week running. Last week, 1 in 15 doctor visits were for symptoms of the flu. That is the highest level since the swine flu pandemic in Y 2009. The government does not track every […]
Health Fraud Scams Pose Serious Health Risk There are at least 11 companies selling products to help people addicted to opioids that have no proof to support claims that their pills and treatments aid in overcoming an opioid addiction, 2 US government agencies said Wednesday. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Food and Drug Administration […]
US Deaths from Drug Overdoses Spiked Last Year US deaths from drug overdoses rose 21% last year, and for the 2nd straight year dragged down how long Americans are expected to live. The government figures released Thursday put drug deaths at 63,600, up from about 52,000 in Y 2015. For the 1st time, the powerful […]
Diabetes Costs US $245.5-B Annually Diabetes costs the US $245.5-B a year in total healthcare expenditures and lost productivity, according to a new report that tabulates the financial toll of the metabolic disorder. For the one in 10 Americans with diabetes, that breaks down to an extra $8,480 annually, compared with those who have not […]
Opioids Driving Down Life Expectancy in US Rising death rates from opioid abuse are chipping away at Americans’ life spans, a US government study revealed recently. Between Y’s 2000 and 2015, researchers found, US life expectancy increased overall, from nearly 77 to 79 years. But, buried within that broad pattern were some ominous trends. The […]
US Drug Overdose Deaths Spike Opioids are highly addictive. More than 2 million Americans now have an “opioid disorder.” Experts agree that the boom in Rx (prescription) painkillers triggered the rash of deaths from opioids in the United States today. A study published in April concluded that new medical marijuana laws reduced hospitalizations for opioid […]
CDC: Daily 91 Americans Die from an Opioid Overdose More than 33,000 Americans were killed by opioids in Y 2015, and nearly 50% of them involved a Rx (prescription) for the drugs. Drug companies made more than 375,000 non-research opioid-related payments to more than 68,000 physicians, totaling more than $46-M This amounts to 1 in […]
Zika is Still a Real Threat in the US Zika still a very real threat to the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says the risk is actually more widespread now. People are nervous about whether their bug sprays are doing what they’re supposed to do. And aside from the dangerous […]
Salt, a Key Cause of Heart Attack and Stroke, Cut it Out. Most of the salt that Americans consume comes from processed foods and restaurant meals, and is not added at the table or in home-cooked dishes, a new study finds. The findings, published online in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, indicate only 10% of […]
This Flu Season Hit Middle-aged People Harder than Children This year’s flu season is rapidly winding down and is expected to end within the next 2 weeks or so, US health officials predicted last week. It was a year much like the past few flu seasons, when the H3N2 virus was the most prevalent strain. […]
Children Across the US are Dying from the Flu Flu activity spiked sharply across the United States, federal health officials reports. Deaths from flu-related conditions continued at high levels, and hospitalizations among people over 65 and under the age of 4 are up. So far, 20 children have died from flu, said an epidemiologist for […]
There is an Uptick in US Flu Related Deaths this Season Flu activity continues to rise across the United States and there has been an uptick in the number of deaths in the last week, federal health officials reported. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says it’s still not too late to […]
Climate Change Summit Cancelled by CDC at 11th Hour A Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Summit scheduled for February that might have examined climate change as it relates to health issues was canceled just before President Donald Trump’s Inauguration last week An anonymous employee at the nonprofit National Indian Health Board, the CDC partner hosting […]
US Liberal Democrats Policies in Action The US admitted 1,565 refugees to the United States with active tuberculosis since Y 2012. In days gone by these migrants would be returned back to their country of origin poste haste! Breitbart.com reports: “Between 2012 and 2015, 1,565 refugees were diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) in the United […]
US Sending $184-M to States and Territories to Fight Zika The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are sending $184-M in funding to US states and territories to fight the Zika virus. The funding is part of the $350-M in federal funding provided to CDC under the Zika Response and Preparedness Appropriations Act of […]
Heart Disease is on the Rise Killing More and More Americans $CRRVF The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) just published the stats for Y 2015, they are Grim. The death rate from heart disease rose almost 1% in the US, driving up the mortality rate and undoing 40 years of declining rates. […]
Investing & Trading Stocks Can Be Stressful, Check Your Blood Pressure According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 33% American adults (70+) have high blood pressure. About 50% have uncontrolled high blood pressure, which increases your risk for a number of serious health problems, including: Heart disease Stroke Kidney disease Cognitive decline, […]
Death from Drug Overdoes Up in the US The number of potentially preventable deaths in the US has declined over the last 5 years ,but fatal drug overdoses are up, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says. “Fewer Americans are dying young from preventable causes of death, says CDC Director Tom Freiden. But, […]
The Key Reasons Children are Obese Childhood obesity has more than 2X’d in children and 4X’d in adolescents over the past 30 years, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The Big Q: Why? The Big A: A study conducted by British researchers sought to find out. They discovered that some of the […]
Stress Can Make Us Fat! You have likely figured out that stress can cause us to overeat leading to weight gain. But that is not the only reason we can pack on the pounds according to a new study. Stress triggers a hormone called Adamts1 that causes fat cells in the body to mature, say […]
Widespread Corruption Reported at the CDC Conflicts of interest are not the only factors standing in the way of the US Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) purported mission, corruption is also widespread. In Y 2015, Dr. William Thompson, a research scientist at the CDC’s National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases (NCIR), claimed the CDC […]
Mosquito Spraying for Zika Virus Is Exterminating Bees Bees are now facing another chemical threat in the form of pesticides being sprayed to kill mosquitoes in the name of Zika-virus prevention. In Summerville, South Carolina, millions of bees were killed when a small area of the town was aerially sprayed for mosquitoes. The pesticide sprayed […]
No New Zika Cases in Wynwood (Miami) in 45 Days Monday, US health officials on continued to advise pregnant women and their partners to consider postponing non-essential travel to Miami to avoid the risk of exposure to Zika, even as Florida Governor Rick Scott declared the city’s Wynwood neighborhood Zika-free and invited visitors to return. […]
US Beekeepers Fearful, Anti-Zika Toxin Killing Bees Beekeepers around the South Eastern US fear a new threat to their livelihoodm it is a fine mist beaded with neurotoxin, sprayed from the sky by government officials at war with Mosquitos that carry the Zika virus South Carolina beekeepers found millions of dead honey bees carpeting their […]
Miami Beach to Spray Powerful Insecticide ‘Naled’ in Zika Fight Aerial spraying with the powerful insecticide Naled is set to begin Thursday as the fight against the Zika virus ramps up in Miami Beach. Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s statement Tuesday that aerial spraying with Naled was to begin came as a reversal on the […]
“Natural Remedies for Back Pain as Effective as Rx Painkillers” Back pain is among the most common health conditions in the US, it afflicts up to 80% of Americans at some point in their lives with such severity that they must seek a Doctor’s care. The treatment of choice for many Doctors has traditionally been […]
Zika Cases Mounting in Popular Florida Tourist Destinations Wednesday, Florida Governor Rick Scott said the federal government has so far not delivered all of the Zika antibody tests and laboratory support requested as the state battles the spread of the virus. The complaint comes as Zika cases mount in some of the most popular tourist […]
There is No Vaccine for the Zika Virus, Take Precautions Florida health officials are investigating their 1st case of suspected homegrown Zika virus outside of the Miami area, raising the possibility that the virus may have spread to the Gulf Coast region of the state. Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday that state health officials are […]
Congressional Republicans Push Billion Dollar Program to Battle Zika Virus Friday, US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called on the Department of Health and Human Services to focus on battling the Zika Virus in the United States instead of trying to boost Barack Obamacare. “We see reports that the administration is working on yet another […]
At the Olympics? Don’t Let Illness Interfere with the Festivities About 500,000 people from around the world are travelling to the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. And while Zika bearing mosquitoes are in the news, other bugs and health problems that Olympic athletes and spectators should bear in mind. The Big Q: What’s the biggest […]
The Federal Government Subsidizes and Promotes Obesity $MON, $CAG, $KO, $PEP, $MCD Junk food is directly tied to the nation’s growing obesity crisis, it is heavily subsidized by the federal government, which makes sure it is cheap and plentiful, according to a new study. Junk foods (processed), including high-carb breads, cookies, donuts, sugary drinks, pizza, […]
America is Plagued by Spike in Opioid Painkiller Deaths A record 47,055 people died from drug overdoses in the US in Y 2014, according to the latest figures from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number is up 7% from Y 2013, spurred by large increases in heroin and opioid painkiller […]
Steer Clear of Fast Food, Avoid Salt Now for Good Health New proposed US dietary guidelines designed to reduce salt in Americans’ diets will save lives eventually, but people should take steps right Now to cut down and protect their health, a top expert says. “This is good news because salt kills, and we see […]
Donald Trump, “The World will miss Muhammad Ali” Donald Trump and the world expressed his condolences via Twitter on the death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali aka Cassius Clay, saying the late heavy weight boxing Champion would be “missed by all.” Cassius Clay died Friday at 74 anni in a Phoenix, AZ hospital of septic […]
Last year I never heard of Zika virus, did you? Not long ago most people never heard of the Zika virus, now it is an “Industry” According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Most people infected with Zika virus will not even know they have the disease because they will not […]
Big Pharma’s Drugs in Our Water Supply, A Big Problem Papers published in scientific journals describe fish and birds responding with altered behavior and reproductive systems to antidepressants, diabetes medication and other psychoactive or hormonally active drugs at concentrations found in the environment. They report on opioids, amphetamines and other pharmaceuticals found in treated drinking […]
Avoid Pesticide Saturated Fruits and Vegetables $MON Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s (NYSE:MON) Roundup herbicide, is the most used agriculture chemical of all time. It is not known exactly how much glyphosate may be in your food because the USDA does not test for it. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced in […]
