“There is no greater burden than a great potential.”
Linus, from the Peanuts?
The late Charles Schultz?is an American treasure.
Author: Mike Furci (Page 62 of 65)
Mike Furci graduated from Bowling Green State University with a Bachelors of Science in Health Education. His curriculum laid the foundation for his future in fitness and sports specific training. He owned and operated Club Olympia Fitness Center in Westlake, Ohio for more than 10 years, and was voted “Best Personal Trainer” by Cleveland Magazine. In 2009 he decided to expand his knowledge of the human body and attained his license as a Registered Nurse in 2011.
Mike specializes in improving athletic performance through strength, conditioning and nutrition. He uses his education and knowledge to train clients according to their specific goals, i.e., increased fitness, strength, weight loss, health or sports performance. Mike started training 30 years ago, and was a competitive bodybuilder with several overall titles, including the 1999 Mr. Ohio. He continues to train with 100% intensity to this day, which has helped him excel as a firefighter for the city of Lorain Ohio. His experience has also allowed him to train and consult with many competitive powerlifters and bodybuilders.
Mike has appeared on many news stations as a fitness consultant. His qualifications allow him to offer expert information on all aspects of health, fitness and sports specific training.
A single injection of a new “permanent filler” called ArteFill could erase wrinkles for the rest of your life. Plastic surgeons have been making wrinkles vanish for 25 years by using products called “soft tissue fillers” such as collagen or Restylane. They fill in wrinkles such as the nasolabial folds that run from the edges of the nostrils to the corners of the mouth and are known as smile lines. Even the best of the treatments now available are expensive and only last from six months to a year.
ArteFill is different. While other fillers are made of animal or human collagen or hyaluronic acid, they are absorbed by the body in a few months. ArteFill, however, is made of microspheres of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), the most common material used in implants. It won’t be absorbed by the body over time and the manufacturer says it will also keep other wrinkles from forming.
ArteFill, which is waiting for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, is anticipated to cost about 50 percent more than Restylane, which usually runs $500 to $600 per syringe or cc.
Newsmax.com’s Health Alert
There are plenty of effective remedies for bad breath, and just as many causes, most of which are totally correctible.
Rarely, is?bad breath (halitosis) associated with serious medical, gastrointestinal, or malignant conditions. Persistent halitosis should prompt a visit to your private physician for consultation.
Obvious causes must include evaluation of your oral hygiene. Bacteria normally live in your mouth and nose but not in your sinuses. Infection of your gums (gingivitis), nasal, sinus, or oral cavities must be effectively treated. Avoid using antibacterial rinses continuously unless under medical supervision, as you will foster the growth of resistant bacteria as well as induce excessive tissue damage. You may use mints, gums, sprays etc., but remember these are temporary patches and do not resolve your issue.
Go to your dentist and have a proper preventive cleaning and scaling and treat any cavities, gum disease, or “pockets.”
Optimize your oral hygiene and brush and floss after each meal.
Rinse your mouth with water frequently.
Avoid soft drinks and sugary agents.
Go to your kitchen and drug cabinet and, in consultation with your doctor, eliminate all unnecessary medications and try to evaluate your diet for foods that commonly cause halitosis (onions, garlic etc.).
Stop smoking!
Avoid eating late at night and avoid skipping meals (your body breaks down fat stores during starvation to form ketones that in turn ruin your breathe).
Get good quality sleep. A well rested healthy body will not have halitosis on a continuing basis.
Different odors in your breath can also be caused by various maladies. Be sure you are checked for ENT (ear, nose and throat) disorder (sinusitis, abscess etc.), diabetes (sweet, fruity odor), liver disorder (fishy odor), kidney disorder (ammonia-like or urine odor), lung disorder (upper or lower pulmonary infection or abscess) and gastrointestinal disorder (GERD or “reflux”, infection or malignancy). GERD is the most commonly overlooked cause and is usually amenable to simple treatment measures.
Newsmax.com “Ask Dr. Hibberd”
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With obesity at epidemic rates, type 2 diabetes skyrocketting, and heart disease still the number one killer in the US, one would think Americans could careless about food labels.? However, an AP-Ipsos survey of 1003 adults found that 80% of Americans read food labels.? The problem is, 44% of those still buy the food reguardless of it’s content.? Does this really suprise anybody?? Better yet, does it make any sense?
The poll also found the following:
65% of women check labels?in comparison to?51% of men.
Women?consider nutrition a higher priority than men, 82% – 64%.
Married men check labels more frequently than single men, 76% – 65%.
People between the ages of 18 & 29 are more likely to look at calories of food labels.? 39% said they look at calories first, however 60% percent of them purchase?junk food even after?reading the label.?
As many people, including myself have previously?reported, the Food and Drug Administration’s drug approval policies?need to be changed.? The institute of Medicine, which is a panel of?15 experts from academic and professional organizations, published a scathing report .? The analysis by the 15 member panel was unanimous in it’s criticisms and recomendations .
Many of these recommendations have long been resisted by the?pharmaceutical industry, Congress, and believe it or not, the FDA.? Many of the recommendations by the panel cannot be instituted by the FDA itself, but would require congressional approval.?
- The FDA commissioner would be appointed to a six year term.
- Drug manufacturers should be mandated to publish all clinical trials in a government run database.? Patients and physicians should be ale to see all outcomes positive and negative.
- Upon a drugs approval for human use there should be a moratorium on advertising until the drug has been on the market long enough to illuminate unrecognized side effects.? Packaging for new drugs should also contain a symbol alerting patients that the drugs safety is not fully known.
- The FDA should reevaluate the safety and effectiveness data of new drugs within 5 years of their initial release.
These recommendations seem pretty logical to me.? Will they be implemented? Who knows? Just remember who has resisted these changes in the past.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), who has led a number of investigations into the workings of the FDA in recent years, said the agency’s reaction to a report it had commissioned speaks volumes.
“The FDA appears to be focused on damage control rather than addressing its core problems,” Grassley said in a statement. “As a science-based agency, the FDA is remarkable for its lack of introspection, second-guessing, and failure to assess its own performance and capabilities in a systematic way.”
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