Title: Intense Cholesterol, Blood Pressure Therapies Don't Help Type 2 Diabetics Category: Health News Created: 3/14/2010 10:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 3/15/2010
I have definitely found that I can lose weight on a low-carb diet and improve my blood lipid profiles at the same time. However, it can be very restrictive and remaining on a diet that focuses on...
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It is really getting tough to choose how to sweeten my coffee these days. There are so many choices for sweeteners these days: Splenda, Stevia products like Sweat Leaf, Aspartame...which is the...
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After reading Todd's recent post about low GI foods and their impacts. I had to read up on the subject a little more. Having no close relatives suffering through diabetes, I never thought about such...
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Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson writes that 20 years ago, "opposition to abortion and opposition to homosexual rights seemed to overlap entirely" and "appeared to be expressions of the same traditionalist moral framework." However, "in the years since, the fortunes of these two social stands have dramatically diverged," according to the conservative columnist, who argues that abortion-rights opponents "have made far less legal progress than have advocates for gay rights, in part because the courts have played an active role in discouraging democracy on abortion...
Senate Parliamentarian Alan Frumin, a veteran master of civil procedure who first joined the office he now leads in 1977, will be center stage if Democrats use a tactic known as budget reconciliation to avoid filibusters as they seek to push through a final health overhaul, The New York Times reports. "As Washington enters the final act of its long-running health care drama, Mr. Frumin - a nonpartisan civil servant who got his start as a precedents writer for the House - is in a starring role...
Health care advertising is revving up again in advance of the final votes on pending congressional legislation. "A slew of interest groups lobbying on the health care overhaul is cranking up the volume of advertising spots and grass-roots organizing this week as Congressional leaders race to put the finishing touches on controversial legislation to remake the nation's medical system," Roll Call reports. The Campaign Media Analysis Group says that groups spent more than $200 million on ads last year, but "there was a steep drop in these spots after the election of Massachusetts Republican Sen...