Pakistan is reporting that every fouth one of them is overweight. I also ran across a news story where another third world country is growing fat, although they still host a lot of starving people and children. You know, maybe just maybe, our bodies are trying to prepare for some kind of natural…
Monthly Archives: December 2006
MRSA Is Alive And Doing Well
England has just reported that the aggressive super bug MRSA has claimed the lives of a patient and health care worker at a hospital. Antibiotics are useless against this strain and it can produce a deadly pneumonia in patients and kill them within 24 hours. It is mostly found in nursing homes…
Why Teens Do Stupid Things
A new research says that teens actually think over the risk of trying new things more than adults do. However they are more likely to cave in to peer pressure which is why they are more likely to have unprotected sex, do drugs, and commit criminal acts. Compared to adults, teens take about 170 milliseconds…
Eli Lily In Trouble
There is documented proof that Eli Lily had their sales reps, convince doctors to prescribe the drug Zyprexa for patients who were elderly and showing signs of dementia,even though the FDA has not only not approved the drug for that use, but has said it could be dangerous for elderly patients. This drug…
Update On Breast Cancer
If you’ve had breast cancer and your tumor growth was not hormone driven, there is good news for you. It has been determined a lo-fat diet will help to prevent a recurrence of the cancer. If only it all were that easily solved!
Smart Kids Become Vegans?
They have done a study of intelligent children and have found that more of them, then their less intelligent counterparts, become vegetarians as adults. Let’s finish that thought for them. I guess that they are saying that vegans as adults are more intelligent than us Neanderthal meat eaters. Could it be that vegans…
Product Recall In The UK
Several store chains in the UK are recalling some brands of frozen meals because they may have glass in them. Rye Valley Foods make the meals. Twenty packages have been found to contain tiny round pieces of glass in the rice compartments. They have reported no injuries as of yet. They are…
Olive Garden Takes A Bath
The olive garden restaurant that has had over 300 people sick had closed it’s doors shortly afterward. Now workers are “feverishly” scrubbing and disinfecting the restaurant from floor to ceiling. I hope they’re using bleach!
300 Allegedly Sickened From Olive Garden
It’s becoming harder and harder to want to eat out in recent times. Almost every week you turn on the news and a staggering number of people has gotten sick from one restaurant or another. It’s hard to even blame the eateries because many of it is vegetables. So far the investigation is still ongoing…
Olive Garden
More than 300 people have become ill after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis over the weekend. The health department has agreed to let the restaurant stay open for the time being, and of course everyone is scrambling to do tests to find the cause of the illnesses.