Beat Sugar Addiction Now New Book by Jacob Teitelbaum M.D.
Dr. T Discusses Sugar Addiction on ABC Good Morning America

The New Book
Beat Sugar Addiction Now, has some interesting concepts about eating sugar.

Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum discusses sugar addiction and his new book, “Beat Sugar Addiction Now!,” in an animated presentation.

Dr. T identifies the following four types of sugar addicts.

1. The Energy Loan Shark ­ Chronically exhausted and hooked on quick hits of caffeine and sugar

2. Feed Me Now or I’ll Kill You ­ When life’s stress has exhausted your adrenal glands

3. The Happy Ho-Ho Hunter ­ Sugar cravings caused by yeast/Candida overgrowth

4. Depressed and Craving Carbs ­ Sugar cravings caused by your period

If you have read his book let me know what you think.

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CALSTAR is a stand alone 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in June 1983.

The mission of the company is:

“To save lives, reduce disability and speed recovery for victims of trauma and illness through rapid transport, quality medical care and education.”

CALSTAR Helicopter Air Ambulance

According to the American Trauma Society, trauma is the number one cause of death in the United States for persons under the age of 44. Trauma is defined as an acute personal wound or injury requiring immediate care. Between 140,000 and 160,000 trauma related deaths occur nationwide every year. For each death, at least two permanent disabilities occur, leading to a great loss of productivity and enormous disability costs.

The total annual cost of accidental death and disability in the United States is estimated to exceed $110 billion. Despite the staggering loss of life, productivity and great cost to our society, trauma remains “the neglected disease”. For trauma victims, medical treatment within one hour, often referred to as the “Golden Hour”, can prevent 20-30 percent of potential deaths and dramatically reduce hospitalization times.

Nationwide, helicopter air ambulance programs are a key vehicle in delivering thousands of trauma victims to trauma centers within the “Golden Hour”. Frequently, patients accepted by a hospital for routine care can deteriorate or develop complications requiring immediate transport to another hospital for specialized treatment. Ground ambulance services are not normally staffed to provide the level of patient care required of many critically ill patients. Commitments to county emergency services often limit ground ambulance availability. Patient time outside the hospital environment and the level of patient care required, are important transport considerations.

Critical Care Transport requires medical staff to maintain proficiency in a myriad of patient disciplines. Federal OBRA/COBRA legislation passed in 1989 and 1991 place the responsibility for patient transports clearly on the sending hospital physician. Yet, a lack of physicians and nurses for transports at the sending facility can cause significant delays in transporting patients to receiving hospitals for urgently needed specialty care. As the medical industry continues to face increased competition and pressure to limit charges, median patient condition prior to transport continues to deteriorate. This results in a need for immediate rapid transport of patients between hospital facilities that frequently can only be met by helicopter ambulance.

SOURCE: calstar.org

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Hospitals Posting ED Waiting Times Online
Robert Glatter, MD, Emergency Medicine, 12:01PM Apr 5, 2010

A recent article in the Columbus Dispatch (4/3/10) highlights a new trend in which some EDs are posting waiting times online to see a doctor. Additional data regarding average length of stay for a typical ED visit is also available. Hospital administrators feel that this data helps to keep patients informed regarding waiting times, allowing them to potentially seek care at an alternative facility if there is a prolonged delay to see a physician.

While this data may certainly be helpful regarding patient expectations for non- urgent ailments, those with potentially life threatening conditions who make their decision to stay home and go to the ED at some later point because of a lengthy wait time, may be in jeopardy.

While I feel that keeping the public informed and publishing waiting times and length of stay is a reasonable initiative to communicate with the public, there is the potential for this data to delay some patients going to the ED for life threatening conditions.

In this era where hospitals are competing for patients, and where EDs with shorter waiting times may “win out”, there is the potential for this data to adversely affect patients who decide to delay their care because of long wait times with no alternative facilty close by to seek treatment.

As more EDs transition to the concept of a “closed waiting room”, bringing all patients into the ED upon arrival for a bedside triage, the time to see a physician will significantly decrease, improving waiting time data.

However, the public must still understand that we treat the sickest patients first, even though they may all be waiting inside the ED, and not in the waiting room.
Robert Glatter, MD

SOURCE: medscape.com

By Daniel J. DeNoon
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Louise Chang, MD

Feb. 19, 2010 – Aspirin has anticancer effects, new studies confirm.

The latest of these studies shows that after successful treatment for breast cancer, women who take aspirin regularly have a significantly lower risk of dying from recurrent cancer. Aspirin also cut their risk of having their cancer spread to other sites.

What does this mean for people treated for cancer? What does it mean for people worried about their cancer risk? Here are answers to these and other frequently asked questions about aspirin and cancer.
Does aspirin really improve breast cancer survival?

Only a clinical trial, in which randomly assigned treatment is tested against an inactive placebo, can prove that a treatment is truly effective.

Until such proof is available, the next best thing is a study in which people taking the treatment are observed over time. The Nurses Health Study followed more than 4,000 nurses who had been treated for breast cancer at least 12 months earlier.

The result: Nurses who took aspirin were significantly less likely to die of breast cancer and to have cancer recur at another site. After adjusting for cancer stage, menopausal status, body mass, and hormone sensitivity of the tumor, women who took aspirin seven days a week were 43% less likely to die of breast cancer.

The findings may apply only to women who survive at least four years after breast cancer treatment. But since 90% of women diagnosed with breast cancer survive at least five years, “our findings have considerable clinical importance,” conclude researchers Michelle D. Holmes, MD, DrPH, and colleagues at Boston’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Their study is published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.

SOURCE: webmd.com

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When the stock market declines, do heart attacks go up? That’s what Duke University Medical Center researchers are wondering based on an analysis of data collected during the current U.S. economic crisis.

“During the period that the NASDAQ was declining, the MI (myocardial infarction, or heart attack) rates were increasing,” Mona Fiuzat, the study’s lead investigator, said in a university news release.

Using figures from the Duke Databank for Cardiovascular Disease, the research team traced a rise in heart attacks from January 2008 to July 2009, a roller-coaster period for the stock market.

But when the researchers adjusted their findings for known seasonal variations — heart attacks are more common in winter months — their initial results were less clear.

“In the unadjusted findings we saw a strong trend,” said Dr. Christopher O’Connor, director of the Duke Heart Center and study senior author. “However, previous research has shown that myocardial infarctions occur more frequently during winter months than summer months. When we corrected for seasonality, we learned the time of year could be impacting our results.”

Fiuzat said the seasonal variation makes it impossible to say there is a relationship. “There is the possibility that there is no relationship,” she said.

O’Connor and Fiuzat, who were to present their findings Saturday at the annual meeting of the American College of Cardiology in Atlanta, said they intend to conduct a larger study to further explore the possible relationship between heart attacks and economic volatility.

How stock market fluctuations affect heart health has had little study before now, Fiuzat said.

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