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July 26, Reuters staff, Reuters Long-awaited rules aimed at improving the safety of foods imported to the United States were
proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday... Under the rules proposed Friday, importers
would be accountable for verifying with their foreign suppliers that certain food safety standards are being met. Importers would be required to maintain records verifying that their foreign suppliers have met
standards for the production of the food coming into the country….
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July 2013
After-meal walks may help control
diabetes, study suggests
July, 2013 TALLER WOMEN MORE SUSEPTIBLE TO
CANCER The taller a postmenopausal woman has the greater risk for developing cancer, according to a new,
large study of American women. Similar results have been found in other Western populations, including in the United Kingdom
and Canada, and in Asia. Those specific cancer sites are colorectal, colon, rectum, breast, endometrium, ovary, kidney,
thyroid, melanoma and multiple myeloma. Each 10 centimeter - about 4 inches - increase in height is associated with
a 13 percent increase in overall cancer risk, according to his group’s analysis of 144,701 women aged 50 to 79. (they
did not give a height to measure against however the average height for a woman is 5'5") “This
study is in women, our study was in women, but when we looked at studies of men as well, it is very similar,” says Dr.
Jane Green, a clinical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, England. JoNel Aleccia, NBC News July 23, 2013 at 10:21 AM ET Food
and Drug Administration officials are cracking down on companies that sell illegal and fraudulent products that claim to treat,
ease or even cure diabetes, which affects 1 in 9 Americans older than 20…. Targeted products
include Zostrix Diabetic Foot Pain Relief Cream, DiabeRex, marketed as “the New Diabetes Miracle,” and Glytain,
billed as “the all-natural way to support normal blood sugar levels".
July, 2013 – Experts revealed some surprising things that reduce the risk of
Alzheimer’s disease. First, people who are in a higher income bracket may be less likely
to get the disease (but not always true as we have seen). Most cancers, for example, are associated
with a significantly lowered risk of Alzheimer’s and the risk drops even more if the cancer is treated with chemotherapy.
If you have type 2 diabetes it is recommended that you take the medication Metformin. And choosing to retire
later in life is shown to decrease the risk of the disease.
July, 2013 – According to a report in the August issue of Anesthesia and Analgesia,
the official journal of the Intl Anesthesia Research Society, nearly half of senior citizens who have undergone
surgery using general anesthesia experienced delirium in the post anesthesia care unit. July,
2013 – A report released today reports the surprising conclusion that in the U.S. cities are a safer place
to live than are the suburbs or rural communities. There is, however, a notable exception – although overall homicide
rates are lower in rural areas they are higher for senior citizens. Read more...
June, 2013 Lindsay
Tanner, The Associated Press, "Obesity surgery worked much better at reducing and even reversing diabetes than medication
and lifestyle changes in one of the most rigorous studies of its kind. But the researchers and others warn that possible serious
complications need to be considered..."
July, 2013 - Medicare is accelerating plans to change a portion of physicians’ compensation
according to the quality of their care to Medicare recipients. The federal health law requires large physician groups to start
getting bonuses… or penalties based on their performance by 2015. All doctors who take Medicare patients will be phased
into the program by 2017. Read more... July, 2013 - People living in the South, regardless of race, and blacks throughout
the United States, have lower healthy life expectancy at age 65, according to a report in the Morbidity and Mortality
Weekly Report released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read more...
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Washington Times - August 8, 2013