Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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Gabriel Cousens
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 Reports of the epidemic in Barcelona led epidemiologists in new orleans to investigate cases of epidemic asthma that occurred from 1957 [to] 1968, when more than 200 people sought treatment at a Charily Hospital. Investigations of weather patterns and cargo data from the new orleans harbor identified soy dust from ships carrying soybeans as the probable cause. No association was found between asthma-epidemic days and the presence of wheat or corn in ships in the harbor. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Oxygen Reduces Risk of Infection
Jimmy Windsor, MD, anesthesiologist and critical-care physician, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, new orleans.
Daniel I. Sessler, MD, chairman, department of outcomes research, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and L&S Weakley Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Louisville, KY.
The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Giving higher concentrations of supplemental oxygen during elective colorectal surgery reduces the risk of surgical site infections, according to a new study. |
Mark Lynas
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 Looters who are truly desperate - as the hurricane disaster in new orleans briefly showed - soon lose their fear of guns.
In a situation of serious conflict, invaders do not take kindly to residents denying them food: if a stockpile is discovered, the householder and his family - history suggests - may be tortured and killed, both for revenge and as a lesson to others. Look for comparison to the experience of present-day Somalia, Sudan or Burundi, where conflicts over scarce land and food are at the root of lingering tribal wars and state collapse. |
| Such a strategy would protect trillions of dollars' worth of real estate, but it would also bring dangers: as new orleans fatefully experienced, one serious storm can bring down a vulnerable city in a matter of hours, putting many thousands of lives at risk. Rebuilding a city may be an option after the water is pumped out, as long as insurers are willing and able to cough up the necessary sums. But who will pay to rebuild a city twice? Or three times? |
| The scenes lingered in my mind even as the city itself was emptied and the bedraggled survivors of new orleans and the wider Gulf region were packed off to temporary shelters in Texas and elsewhere, where half a million still remain at the time of writing: the first climate refugees, displaced permanently from their homes. I kept wondering: where next? What will happen as the world warms bit by bit? |
David R. Montgomery
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 Look out the plane window on a flight from new orleans to Chicago, or Denver to Cincinnati. Everything you see is already in agricultural production. This huge expanse of naturally fertile ground literally feeds the world. The suburbs growing around any city show that we are losing agricultural land even as the human population continues to grow. With the land best suited for agriculture already under cultivation, agricultural expansion into marginal areas is more of a delaying tactic than a viable long-term strategy. |
Mark Lynas
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| Like many who watched the crisis unfold on television, I was shocked at the torments endured by the survivors in new orleans during the following week. It seemed inconceivable that such terrible conditions of hunger, thirst and lawlessness could develop so quickly in the world's richest and most powerful nation. But I also felt a kind of morbid fascination at the horror the world glimpsed on those flooded streets. I was captivated not just by the compelling drama of a real-life catastrophe, but because I felt as if I was peering through a portal into the future. |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 Reports of the epidemic in Barcelona led epidemiologists in new orleans to investigate cases of epidemic asthma that occurred from 1957-1968 when more than 200 people sought treatment at Charity Hospital. Investigations of weather patterns and cargo data from the new orleans harbor identified soy dust from ships carrying soybeans as the probable cause. No association was found between asthma-epidemic days and the presence of wheat or corn in ships in the harbor. |
Devra Davis
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 I haven't been back to the area since the big hurricanes hit in 2005—first Katrina broke the backs of New Orleans' levees and swamped other coastal lowlands, then Rita sucker punched what was left less than a month later. In the ocean, as hurricanes build and move across the surface, a train of lee waves is produced. Behind them, a large zone of up welled water rises that sweeps over whatever it finds, until it runs out of steam. Jerome Ringo, head of the National Wildlife Federation, comes from Mossville. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Commander Gundry'a Pecan Fi&h
PHASE 1,SERVES 4
Several years before his untimely death, I questioned chef Jamie Shannon while dining at his incomparable new orleans restaurant, Commander's Palace, about a dish that combined fish and nuts. That discussion sparked my take on a great fish dish. In this recipe, nothing can replace the matchless taste of butter. If using trout, don't remove the skin. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Jimmy Windsor, an anesthesiologist and critical-care physician at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in new orleans. Although Windsor was not involved in the study, he had already been using supplemental oxygen. "These low-risk interventions are probably very, very effective but are not being practiced," he says. "People aren't doing the simple things they could be doing. We need to pay attention to the small details."
LITTLE RISK
"Wound infections are among the most common serious complications of surgery. Supplemental oxygen costs only a few cents per patient and is essentially risk-free. |
Mark Lynas
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| As the decision makers who did nothing about the levees around new orleans found out to many people's cost, by the time the big storm approaches it is already too late.
Storms gather in Europe
It did indeed take billions to construct the Thames flood barrier, which protects London from storm-surge floods, but it was money well spent. The barrier was raised 62 times between 1983 and 2001 - and with increasing frequency in later years. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Worst places to sleep: Detroit, Cleveland, Nashville, Cincinnati and new orleans.
Bert Sperling, author of "Best Places" studies and founder of the research firm Sperling's Best Places, Portland, OR.
The Lowdown on the New Antidepressants
David L. Ginsberg, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry, New York University, and director, outpatient psychiatry, Tisch Hospital, New York University Medical Center, both in New York City.
Antidepressants have been getting negative reviews lately. |
| Steven Deitelzweig, chairman of hospital medicine at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in new orleans, calls the finding "provocative," and one that could help develop effective prevention strategies.
While recent research has shown that air travel is related to an increased risk of blood clots, there were questions about the cause.
Frits R. Rosendaal, MD, PhD
Previous research has found that the risk of blood clots after plane travel (a phenomenon sometimes called economy-class syndrome) is two to four times higher than at other times. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Recently, hurricane Katrina not only devastated new orleans, it also brought out some of the most determined, capable and good-hearted people I've ever seen. Helicopter pilots from Phoenix flew all the way to new orleans and conducted rooftop rescues. A college student and his roommate stole a press badge and drove right into the thick of the disaster -- posing as a journalist -- to rescue victims and give them a ride out of the chaos. An elderly woman was seen handing out bottled water on the Interstate. A bar patron adopted an abandoned dog and named her "Katrina. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 One of the origin tales of the pecan pie recounts that pecan pie was created by a French person who settled in new orleans, and was introduced to the nut by Native Americans.
Where Are Pecans Grown?
Eighty percent of the world's pecans comes from the United States, with Georgia leading the nation in production. Other states that grow pecans include Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Arkansas, California, and Kansas. Pecans are also grown in Mexico, Australia, Israel, Peru, and South Africa.
Why Should I Eat Pecans? |
Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan
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 SIGN OF THE TIMES
Although a new orleans dentist is credited with inventing dental floss in the 19th century, dental floss and toothpicks have been found in the teeth of prehistoric humans. More recently, two creative uses for dental floss have surfaced: cutting cheesecake and making a makeshift rope. In 1994 a prisoner fashioned rope out of floss he saved up, thus escaping from a West Virginia penitentiary.
BLUISH GRAY TEETH
Many people are aware that taking the antibiotic tetracycline during pregnancy can cause a baby's teeth to come in discolored. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 NUTRITION FACTS
Amount Per Serving: Calories 250 -Saturated Fat 6 g - Cholesterol 390 mg -Dietary Fiber 3 g - Sugars 3 g -
Calories from Fat 150 - Total Fat 16 g Sodium 540 mg - Total Carbohydrate 7 g - Protein 20 g - Calcium 25% DV
Fish new orleans Style
3 bay leaves
3 sprigs fresh thyme or 1 tablespoon dried thyme
1 clove garlic
]A teaspoon salt
'/£ teaspoon pepper
A pinch of cayenne pepper
3 pounds white fish, such as flounder or grouper 1 cup chopped broccoli 1 cup chopped tomatoes }A cup chopped green onions (scallions) Extra-virgin olive oil 1 lemon
Preheat oven to 350°F. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 The NEJM published a letter from doctors Carl Lavie and Richard Milani of the Ochsner Clinic Foundation in new orleans. It read, in part, that the author "discusses generalized anxiety disorder and its treatment with pharmacologic agents and psychotherapy. We are surprised, however, that there is no mention of exercise as an additional means of treating anxiety. |
Alex Steffen
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 When in 2005, Hurricane Katrina— behaving exactly as we've been told storms will behave in a greenhouse world—nearly wiped new orleans off the map, who or what was to blame for the havoc it caused? Climate change, which may have made the storm worse? The destruction of local wetlands and alteration of the Mississippi, which made flooding as the storm surged worse? The economic system, which left many people too poor to flee the path of destruction? The new orleans levy system, which had been allowed to decay from a lack of investment? |
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| Steven Deitelzweig, MD, chairman, hospital medicine, and president, medical staff, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, new orleans.
The Lancet.
Sitting still for hours is not the only factor that puts air travelers at risk for blood clots. The low-pressure, low-oxygen environment of the plane's cabin may also play a role, new research suggests.
"Something in the environment of an airplane, for instance the low pressure, affects the clotting system of some people, particularly those with risk factors, in a way that predicts a higher risk of thrombosis," says Dr. Frits R. |
David Steinman
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 Americans can be world leaders and get excited about their green future, or they can remain stuck in the petroleum-contaminated new orleans mud.
I don't want trade wars, either. But the power of people?that is, the worldwide environmental movement—to work with indigenous populations to build popular support for fair and humane working conditions and environmental policies is the key to freedom and less terrorism. |
Gabriel Cousens
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| Investigations of weather patterns and cargo data from the new orleans harbor identified soy dust from ships carrying soybeans as the probable cause. No association was found between asthma-epidemic days and the presence of wheat or corn in ships in the harbor. The researchers concluded: "The results of this analysis provide further evidence that ambient soy dust is very asthmogenic and that asthma morbidity in a community can be influenced by exposures in the ambient atmosphere."
Soy contains built-in insecticides called isoflavones (genistein and daidzein). |
Dawson Church
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 Sister Gertrud Morgan: She devoted her entire life to establishing and running an orphanage in new orleans named Gentilly. When she was sixty-five years old, a hurricane destroyed her orphanage. She then returned to her interest in painting and went on to have her works displayed in museums around the world.
Ding Ling: (A pseudonym used by the Chinese novelist and radical feminist Kian Bingzhi.) She was imprisoned from the ages of sixty-six to seventy-one, during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s in China. Upon her release, she went on to write some of her most highly praised works. |
David Steinman
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| America has already almost lost new orleans.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, made up of twenty-five hundred of the world's leading scientists and economists, stated in 1995, "the balance of evidence ... suggests that there is a discernible human influence on global climate."7
Ten years later in December 2005, Dr. R. K. |
Mark Lynas
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| It wasn't Katrina, which devastated new orleans and killed over a thousand people. It wasn't Rita, another Category 5 monster which reflooded parts of the city only a month after Katrina struck. Nor was it Hurricane Wilma, which bombed in a single day from being a minor tropical storm into the strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic basin. No, the storm that really made the forecasters scratch their heads occurred a year earlier, in 2004. And it hit in a part of the world that isn't supposed to experience hurricanes. It was called Catarina, and it struck the coast of Brazil. |
David Steinman
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| It would make the December 26, 2003, Indian Ocean tsunami disaster and August 29, 2005, flooding of new orleans appear inconsequential. Whole islands like Tuvalu in the South Pacific would succumb to the rising tide.
Nations seek nuclear power as a hedge against fossil fuels, and nuclear weapons proliferate. These skirmishes place increasing stress upon the world, with less-resilient developing nations reacting most acutely, since their economic systems haven't the capacity to absorb change. |
| Ironically and sadly, in the United States, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners had organized a climate change symposium on the issue in September in new orleans. The meeting was canceled due to the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina. |
| No amount of money is available now to deal with another hurricane season like 2005 when the Gulf Coast flooded and we lost major portions of new orleans.
"We think it's a serious problem and it's something we have to pay close attention to," Andrew Castaldi, head of catastrophe and perils for Swiss Reinsurance Co.'s Americas division in New York, told a reporter in a 2005 article in the Globe and Mail of Toronto, Canada. "We'd be remiss if we didn't take it into account."
It's the domino effect in motion. |
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