When it comes to soups, salads, stews, sandwiches, casseroles, pasta and pizza, you can find an abundance of veggies used to add flavor, crunch, and necessary nutrients. But the one place you may not find your fill of vegetables is in breakfast foods. With the average American only getting about two servings of veggies each day, that morning meal is a crucial place to make sure you’re meeting your veggie mark. Here are some mouth-watering ways to get vegetables in your breakfast each day.
Green smoothies have risen in popularity ever since celebrity health fanatics like Dr. Oz have started touting their benefits. A
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The benefits of breast-feeding seem limitless. It’s been linked to improved brain development and better immunity in babies; less postpartum depression and lower cancer risk in mothers; and better mother-infant bonding. Now a new review of recent research offers another reason for new mothers to nurse: protection against sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
(More on TIME.com: Milk Banks vs. Milk Swaps: Breast Milk’s Latest Controversy)
The review, published in the journal Pediatrics, found that infants who were ever breast-fed were about 60% less likely to die from SIDS than infants who received no breast milk.
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A study out today of 155,891 trauma patients found that those who develop infections in the hospital are more likely to die during their stay than others. Seems obvious, right? Yet this study is big news, since it provides concrete evidence of the extent and the danger of hospital-acquired infections, which are far more common and deadly than many people understand.
In this study, researchers found that trauma patients who develop serious bloodstream infections are six times more likely to die during their stay than those without an infection. And people who develop other infections, such as pneumonia or MRSA, are 1.5 to 1.9 times more likely to die.
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We havent really recommended applications for the past year since most of the one we recommended in the past are still the best apps out there and all they got were newer versions that made them better.
However, some new innovative apps have emerged. Like Dropbox. I seriously cant imagine computing without Dropbox. I do move around a lot and having it synchronize critical files in all my devices has proven to be the best thing since thumb drives.
One of the quirks with Dropbox is the (sort of) tedious process you have to go through if you want to share a link to someone. Read full post…
This was not some sweet ingénue recounting the early lessons she learned from a recent encounter with health care. Nope. It was a 62-year-old woman whose husband has been struggling with multiple myeloma for the last eight years and who herself has chronic back pain, high blood pressure and high cholesterol and was at the time well into treatment for breast cancer.
Part of me says “Ahem. Have you been paying attention here?” and another part says “Well of course! How were you supposed to know this? Have any of your physicians ever described their scope of expertise or practice to you?”
I can see clinicians rolling their eyes at the very thought of having such a discussion with every patient. And I can imagine some of us on the receiving end thinking that when raised by a clinician, these topics are disclaimers, an avoidance of accountability and liability.
But all of us – particularly those receive care from more than one doctor – need to have a rudimentary idea of what each clinician we consult knows and does. Why is this cl
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