We used to live in a world where people got sick from exposure to feces and lives were saved with antibiotics. Now we live in a world where people are dying from antibiotics and their lives are being saved by feces.
--a colleague

EPIGENETICS OF DM2: GLUCOCORTICOID AND VIT D RECEPTORS MEDIATE ( Read more... )

Statistics show that the "stroke belt" is also where you have the highest likelihood (in the US) of dying of cardiovascular and lower respiratory disease (smoking), cancer and accidents. Obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome are probable causes, but what about accidents? Why do southerners have the most accidents? Bless their dangerous little ( Read more... )

http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Obesity/44170?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-02-07

((This brings up the question: could global warming be a factor in the obesity epidemic??))

Ingredients
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If Americans snacked only occasionally, and in small amounts, this would not present the enormous problem that it does. But because so much money and effort has been invested over decades in engineering and then relentlessly selling these products, the effects are seemingly impossible to unwind. More than 30 years have passed since Robert Lin first ( Read more... )

This is some pretty wild new info. According to Mercola, cooling the palms of the hands may activate brown fat cells causing more fat to burn. Burn baby burn.http://fitness.mercola.com/

(Duh.)
http://www.nature.com/news/gut-microbial-enterotypes-become-less-clear-cut-1.10276

http://www.nature.com/news/a-trip-to-the-gym-alters-dna-1.10176

a trip to the gym alters DNA

http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/trends.html

You can check out the progress of America's increasing BMI by state, since 1985, on this govt page. The South leads the charge.


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