Love, love, love this. Saw it linked at Cuteoverload.com
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Why Knowing Your Vitamin D Levels Might Save Your Life - Oprah.com
Great article from Oprah.com
Greater resistance to viruses
During a recent study, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine discovered that people with high levels of vitamin D got sick about half as often as people with low levels. And when they did fall ill, they recovered in fewer days. The reason: Vitamin D instructs your white blood cells to manufacture a protein that kills infections.
Less cancer
Specifically, a 30 to 50 percent lower chance of breast cancer, and a 50 percent lower chance of colon cancer. D regulates some of the genes responsible for cellular growth and survival, says Holick, and it does its job cleverly: "It helps shut down any out-of-control growth to prevent malignancy. If that doesn't work, it will help kill the cell. And if a tumor grows anyway, it will work to cut off blood supply."
Higher cancer survival rate
At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, researchers found that colon cancer patients with high levels of D had a 39 percent lower chance of dying from the disease. And this might actually apply to all cancers, says Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
During a recent study, researchers at the Yale University School of Medicine discovered that people with high levels of vitamin D got sick about half as often as people with low levels. And when they did fall ill, they recovered in fewer days. The reason: Vitamin D instructs your white blood cells to manufacture a protein that kills infections.
Less cancer
Specifically, a 30 to 50 percent lower chance of breast cancer, and a 50 percent lower chance of colon cancer. D regulates some of the genes responsible for cellular growth and survival, says Holick, and it does its job cleverly: "It helps shut down any out-of-control growth to prevent malignancy. If that doesn't work, it will help kill the cell. And if a tumor grows anyway, it will work to cut off blood supply."
Higher cancer survival rate
At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, researchers found that colon cancer patients with high levels of D had a 39 percent lower chance of dying from the disease. And this might actually apply to all cancers, says Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
More at link
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts
Picture credit eastbaycitizen.com as far as I can find out. Love it, love it, love it.Rep. Peter DeFazio Investigating Impeachment For Chief Justice John Roberts
I mean, the Supreme Court has done a tremendous disservice to the United States of America," Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. "They have done more to undermine our democracy with theirCitizens United decision than all of the Republican operatives in the world in this campaign. They've opened the floodgates, and personally, I'm investigating articles of impeachment against Justice Roberts for perjuring during his Senate hearings, where he said he wouldn't be a judicial activist, and he wouldn't overturn precedents."
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Friday, October 15, 2010
Bodacious Tatas!
Fake (+)(+) Perfect (o)(o) Perky (*)(*) Cold (^)(^) and even Grandmas \./\./ ~~~Big(O)(O) or Small (•)(•) LET'S SAVE THEM ALL!!! PINK RIBBON
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Vitamin D Linked to Childhood Obesity - Diabetes Health
Vitamin D Linked to Childhood Obesity - Diabetes Health
Vitamin D deficiency is a culprit that repeatedly comes up in the battle against obesity. Actually, vitamin D is not a vitamin at all. It is a hormone precursor found in cholecalciferol (vitamin D3), which is created when sunlight containing ultraviolet light (UVB) hits bare skin long enough to turn the skin pink, but not red. That length of time varies based on skin pigmentation.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Grand Jury Probes George Tiller Murder
Grand Jury Probes George Tiller Murder - News Story - KMBC Kansas City
At least one Justice Department civil rights prosecutor attended Roeder's trial, along with agents from the FBI. Shortly after Tiller's death, the Justice Department increased security around womens health facilities and opened an ongoing investigation.
Conservatives always talk about "smaller" government but then they want to barge into our doctor's offices anytime they please.
Thursday, October 07, 2010
Jailed for not reciting the pledge
Scary, scary stuff.
From Jonathan Turley.....
Mississippi Chancery Judge Talmadge Littlejohn means it when he asks everyone to stand and say the pledge of allegiance. When attorney Danny Lampley of Oxford stood but did not recite, Littlejohn threw him in jail.
Littlejohn was just honored by the Mississippi bar for 50 years in public service.
Lampley was jailed from 9:40 a.m. and released about 2:30 p.m. on the judge’s orders.
The contempt sanction is, in my view, both injudicious and unconstitutional. Requiring an attorney to recite the pledge is a violation of his free speech rights. There is no question that an attorney must comply with court orders and that a judge is given considerable leeway in running his courtroom. However, that does not include monitoring pledge recitals.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
We need new leadership at the state level
A great guy who lives our values every day vs. a jerk from DC who will never live in Indiana. How does this happen?
Poll shows Coats comfortably leading Ellsworth - chicagotribune.com
Monday, October 04, 2010
Forget Gibbs. Bring Back Dean as DNC Chair | The Nation
50 State Strategy! No more centrists. We need a true partisan.
Forget Gibbs. Bring Back Dean as DNC Chair | The Nation
Saturday, October 02, 2010
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