Month: May 2014

Despite thinking at first that warning labels might go too far, I wound up realizing they wouldn't go nearly far enough. Junk should never have been glorified as a food group in the first place.

If your smartphone does more thinking for you than your own brain, that's probably a good sign that it's time to unplug. Digital strategist and recovering tech addict Caroline Giegerich faced such a wake-up call in June 2007 shortly after the release of the first iPhone. She joined HuffPost Live host Caroline Modarressy-Tehrani to discuss her addiction and the moment she needed to make a lifestyle change. For two years, Giegerich spent her days working in emerging technology for HBO, her mornings and evenings managing a tech blog of her own, and the rest of the time living a busy,

In college and throughout my early twenties, my friends and peers would often regale me with stories of things I had done during blackouts. No one seemed to find it strange that I would forget so much, and so often.

People eat one type of fruit or plant food for every meal. … not entirely clear if her relationship with food is a psychologically healthy one to model. … While no promise of weight loss is worth this, what makes extreme dieting worse is …

An Iowa-based egg producer and two of its executives are facing federal criminal charges in connection with a 2010 salmonella outbreak that led to the recall of more than a half-billion eggs in the United States, according to federal court documents filed Wednesday. Austin “Jack” DeCoster – once one of the nation’s largest producers of shelled chicken eggs – and his son Peter DeCoster were accused of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce, according to the court documents. The men, along with their company, Quality Egg LLC, allegedly sold eggs contaminated with the strain of Salmonella Enteriditis that sickened hundreds of people in the United States. Quality Egg also was charged with at least twice paying bribes to a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector at its egg plant to get the inspector to allow loads of eggs that failed to meet federal standards to be shipped out for sale, according to the document filed in the federal court in the Northern District of Iowa.

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Factors other than medical history and risk may influence women with cancer in one breast to have both breasts removed even if it doesn’t improve their odds of survival, suggests a new study. Receiving genetic tests, advanced imaging and having a strong fear that cancer would develop in their second breasts were tied to an increased likelihood that women would choose to have a preventive double mastectomy, researchers found. “Usually if something is not needed to be removed, it’s not removed,” said Sarah Hawley, from the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor, the study’s lead author. The Society of Surgical Oncology suggests that preventive double mastectomy – also known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) – be considered for patients at an increased risk of cancer, such as those with genetic susceptibility or strong family history of cancer.

I have a good career in Information Technology, I earn six figures, I received a really nice bonus six weeks ago (I mean, really nice) and here I am, busting my butt for an online business that I don't have the passion or desire to do. So… I quit.

The Drug Flibanserin Is Locked in a Heated FDA-Approval Battle

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Finance Committee voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to approve Sylvia Mathews Burwell’s nomination to become the nation’s next health secretary and oversee implementation of the new health law.