| Saying good-bye to fad diets and pills
As the world turns to fad diets and the empty promises of diet pills, nutritionists and dietitians suggest that the easiest way to gain optimal health is just to, simply, eat healthier. Countless studies have shown that eating certain foods may help protect the heart, reduce the risk of certain cancers and improve various other aspects of your health. Molly Michelman, nutrition professor at UNLV, suggests eating at least five servings of fruits and vegetables daily to reduce the risk of many types of cancer. She also suggests choosing whole grains like brown rice. Eating oranges and other vitamin C rich foods may help eliminate the cancer-causing bacteria, H. pylori, which causes peptic ulcers and untreated, can lead to stomach cancer.
PLBuyer: Nutritional Scoring Tool Introduced - and Challenged
Topco Associates has come out with a new nutritional new scoring system, the Overall Nutritional Quality Index (ONQI), that uses a numeric score to rate any food item or recipe. The rating system uses a complex algorithm that incorporates nearly 30 nutrient factors and expresses them via a scoring scale of 1 to 100. What do you think of the simplicity of QNQI's 1-100 'at-a-glance' scoring system? Is it healthy or unhealthy for the grocery industry that so many nutritional scoring systems are being developed? REGISTRATION ONLY TAKES A MINUTE!
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave approval Friday to a new drug-eluting stent for use in treating patients with narrowed coronary arteries. The Endeavor Zotarolimus-Eluting Coronary Stent, manufactured by Medtronic Inc., of Minneapolis, is the first such stent OK'd since 2004 and the first since an agency panel convened in 2006 to examine the risk of blood clots occurring in patients who receive drug-eluting stents. Stents are tiny mesh tubes positioned in an artery to act as a scaffold that keeps a clogged artery open. Stents can be bare-metal or drug-eluting -- coated with drugs -- to ensure that the artery doesn't re-close in a process call restenosis. According to the FDA, Medtronic provided data from seven clinical trials in its application showing that the Endeavor significantly reduced the number of major coronary events such as heart attack or cardiac death.
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TIM HOLCOMB: The accolades for ULM's 2008 recruiting class continue. On Friday, Rivals.com's junior college recruiting service JCGridiron.com (http://jcgridiron.rivals.com/) published its rankings of the 2008 JUCO classes nationwide. ULM's 2008 junior college recruiting class finished ranked at No. 36 in the nation. According to JCGridiron.com, the top 10 junior college classes are (in order): No. 1 Florida State, No. 2 Oklahoma State, No. 3 Oklahoma, No. 4 Oregon State, No. 5 Arizona, No. 6 Texas Tech, No. 7 Kansas, No. 8 Minnesota, No. 9 Oregon, and No. 10 West Virginia. Four Sun Belt schools (Middle Tenn, Troy, UNT, and ULM) were ranked in the top 40. ULM's 2008 signing class boasts seven junior college signees: two offensive linemen, three defensive linemen, and two defensive backs. Six players boast a three-star rating by national services like Rivals.com or Scout.com, including Thomas Robinson (6-1 280), Aaron Williams (6-0 300), Alex Ford (6-2 305), safety Troy Giddens (6-0 205 4.3), cornerback Otis Stamps (5-10 175 4.5), and Keating Helms (6-3 308).
Changes at top take luster off NFC title game rematch
In other words, nobody will care if Saints coach Sean Payton practices his team indoors, outdoors or at all in the days leading up to this year's kickoff. That was a major story line before last January's game—and a major gaffe by Payton in not preparing his team for the elements. But the only people interested in where the Saints practice before this visit are their equipment managers.
When the schedules came out in April, Sunday's NFC championship rematch looked like it could determine home-field advantage in the playoffs for the winner.
Instead, when the NFL's two most disappointing teams meet at the scene of the crowning, the Saints (7-8) will need a victory and losses by Minnesota at Denver and Washington at home to Dallas to make the playoffs.
The Bears (6-9) simply need a vacation.
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