#Can Apple Health Change Behavior?(Op-Ed) Dr. Jim Lebret is an assistant professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical center/Bellevue Hospital center.
when I heard Apple had announced its new Health app which is designed to collect and organize health-related information from other apps on an iphone.
I tried to imagine my former patient Linda using Apple's Health app. When I first met Linda in my residency clinic she was 62.
Some will suggest that Apple's Health app could bring attention to poor health behaviors spurring Linda and others to act.
In addition Apple largely caters to those who have taken already steps to change their lives not the vast majority of people who stall at the vague insight
#Strawberry Cervix? Doc Reviews Food Words Used in Medicine From symptoms such as watermelon stomach to blueberry muffin rash food imagery has helped long doctors describe features of diseases and health conditions.
Now one doctor is calling to celebrate this centuries-old tradition and secure its place in medical teaching.
and will continue to be a lively learning inducement for generations of budding physicians she said. 7 Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe From anchovy sauce to spaghetti and meatballs The food references in medicine range from beverages and fruits to dairy products
and blueberry muffin rash is a sign of congenital rubella while the shape of a red blood cell is referred to as doughnut.
With the names of fruits vegetables and legumes doctors can identify the shape of organs or the size of tumors.
people can have body shapes similar to an apple or a pear and tumors can be walnut-size or orange-size.
Fruits also come in handy in identifying certain diseases: Strawberry cervix describes the inflamed red appearance of the neck of the uterus in women with a parasite infection called trichomoniasis
and peau d'orange which is French for orange peel refers to appearance of the skin affected by inflammatory breast cancer.
Sometimes these alternative terms help doctors remember conditions described by difficult medical terms. Watermelon stomach euphemizes the vascular streaks seen in the unpronounceable condition gastric antral vascular ectasia Lakhtakia writes.
The condition consists of dilated vessels under the stomach lining which may rupture and bleed.
Reminiscent of imagination cultures and creativity These audacious and colorful references can be attributed to the imagination of the scientists who came up with them as well as to those scientists'regional food preferences Lakhtakia said.
Apple Watch Wants to Get You Moving Apple's new smartwatch Apple Watch aims to get people to move more by tracking their daily exercise as well as sitting time according to an announcement from the company today (Sept. 9). Being more active is one of the best
and Apple Watch gives us the ability to motivate people to be more active Tim cook CEO of Apple said at the Apple Watch unveiling today in Cupertino California.
Apple Watch has a fitness app that monitors a person's movement throughout the day using the watch's accelerometer
8 Absolutely Must-Have Features The Apple Watch also has a move ring that fills up as you burn calories
A separate workout app in the Apple Watch will track your stats during a workout including how far you've gone how fast you're moving and the length of your workout.
Data from your Apple Watch can be stored on the iphone's Health app which can be accessed by third-party apps the company said.
The Apple Watch can also measure the intensity of your workout by tracking your heart rate.
Many of the health components in Apple Watch are available in fitness trackers such as Basis
but the Apple Watch lacks the ability to track sleep found in these trackers. On the other hand most fitness trackers do not have the ability to run apps as the Apple Watch does.
The company also put a large emphasis on the style of the watch which can be personalized for each user.
The Apple Watch the Sport Collection (specialized for fitness) and the Apple Watch Edition which is made from 18-karat gold.
The Apple Watch also comes in two different sizes. This feature distinguishes it from other smartwatches such as the Samsung Gear 2 which only comes in one size
Users can also personalize the face of their Apple Watch by choosing the image they want to display
The Apple Watch is personalized the most device Apple has created ever Cook said. The watch will sell for $349
They have even more potassium than a banana and a lot of it is found in the potato's skin.
Potato stems branches leaves and fruits are toxic containing alkaloids such as arsenic chaconine and solanine.
Hamsters like to eat seeds grains nuts cracked corn fruits and vegetables. Wild hamsters also eat insects frogs lizards and other small animals.
#Forging Biodegradable Plastic From Methane and Plant Waste Molly Morse is chief executive officer of Mango Materials Inc. This article was prepared by the U s. National Science Foundation for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Scientists at Stanford university and a Palo alto Calif.-based start-up company called Mango Materials have come up with a new way to make PHA from waste methane gas.
And with funding from the U s. National Science Foundation Mango Materials is advancing the process toward commercialization.
Mango Materials'process uses bacteria grown in fermenters to transform methane and oxygen along with added nutrients (to supply excess carbon) into PHA.
or with additives Mango Materials has identified a range of applications. We are focused currently on applications where biodegradability is key says Molly Morse CEO at Mango Materials.
However we're open to all sorts of applications and are eager to bring PHA bioplastics to market.
whereas Mango Materials uses waste methane which is considerably less expensive than sugar. By using methane gas as the feedstock we can significantly drive down costs of production Morse says.
This stands in contrast to the processes many biotech companies use that require high-purity genetically engineered cultures says Allison Pieja Director of Technology at Mango Materials.
This estimate is based on Mango Materials'internal calculations using its own rates and yields. Mango Materials has vetted this technology
and achieved excellent yields at the laboratory scale. Field studies have shown that the methane-consuming cultures grow just as well on waste biogas
#Did'Deadly'Spider Eggs Really Hitch a Ride on Imported Bananas? It's enough to make you do a double take the next time you unpack your groceries!
A recent British news report claimed that imported bananas could play host to a certain species of venomous spiders.
A woman in Essex England recently discovered that a bunch of bananas delivered to her home by a local grocer was infested with spider eggs.
But don't let this eerie tale come between you and your favorite fruit. It's unlikely that the woman's bananas were infested truly with deadly spider eggs said Richard Vetter a retired research associate of entomology at the University of California Riverside.
Creepy Crawly & Incredible: Photos of Spiders There are several reasons why fruit lovers should think twice before believing stories about scary spiders found in the produce aisle Vetter told Live Science.
For one thing in this particular case no spider was found hanging around the bananas making it nearly impossible to know what kind of spider
(if there even was had a spider laid the enigmatic eggs. Egg sacks are much harder to identify than spiders.
There are several genera of spider that sometimes survive the long trip from banana-producing nations such as Brazil Mexico Nicaragua and Costa rica to other parts of the world.
The species lives in the middle of the Amazon rainforest far from banana-producing areas. While it isn't impossible for this spider to find its way to England
or other foreign nations inside a banana crate it's highly unlikely Vetter said. There are also two other species of Phoneutria commonly labeled as deadly P. nigriventer and P. keyserlingi.
These spiders live on the eastern coast of Brazil near centers of banana production but their reputations as deadly pests are exaggerated greatly Vetter said.
and the country consumes most of its banana crop domestically Vetter said. I don t know where England gets its bananas from
but Brazil does not export many bananas Vetter said. If the bananas in question came from Ecuador the world's largest exporter of bananas
or any other banana-producing nation then those eggs didn't belong to one of the deadly species of Brazilian wandering spiders he added.
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#Triassic period Facts: Climate, Animals & Plants The Triassic period was the first period of the Mesozoic era and occurred between 251 million and 199 million years ago.
Corn snakes have edged large black red orange or brown blotches on their backs and a spear-shaped pattern on their heads and necks.
They have wonderfully bright coloration and bold patterns in vibrant oranges reds and blacks. Snow corn snake These stunning snakes lack both black
Then while working in the Panamanian forest as a biologist Dudley saw monkeys eating ripe fruit
Had fruit-eating animals including human ancestors gained an evolutionary advantage by learning to associate the smell and taste of alcohol with ripe fruit?
'and other animals'attraction to fruit and as a result alcohol. 10 Easy Paths to Self-destruction Introducing the drunken monkey The concept goes like this:
Microscopic fungi called yeast turn the naturally occurring sugar in fruit into a chemical known as ethanol
Fruit-eating animals everything from primates and other mammals to insects and reptiles began to use the scent of ethanol as a cue to find ripe fruit.
it helps preserve the fruit from bacterial spoilage and stimulates the appetite of whatever consumes it (think of an aperitif).
There is actually a much broader natural background of alcohol production within fruit and consumption by tens of thousands of species of animals Dudley told Live Science.
Overripe fruit contains higher levels of ethanol than ripe fruit and both humans and other primates avoid fruit in this state she writes.
Dudley however points out that no one knows how much of the intoxicant fruit-eaters are consuming.
The health effects of alcohol are another point of contention. Dudley cites studies showing beneficial effects of moderate ethanol consumption in a few animals and in humans.
and watching them hatch the strawberry poison arrow frog carries her tadpoles one by one on her back from the rain forest floor up into trees as high as 100 feet.
The mother strawberry poison arrow frog then feeds each of her young with her own unfertilized eggs over the course of six to eight weeks
Enjoying a wide variety of vegetables fruits nuts seeds wholegrain cereals legumes low-fat dairy lean meat
The association between eating fruits and vegetables one day and being in a positive mood the next day was stronger for men
#Apple Watch: What's So Great About Sapphire? From alerting you to an incoming call to monitoring your heart rate the newly unveiled Apple Watch is being promoted as the next great high-tech tool for gadget lovers and fitness fans.
But two of the smartwatch's most practical features its sapphire screen and lenses aren't all that technologically advanced.
Not to be confused with the sapphire gemstones you might find at a jewelry shop the synthetic sapphire used on the Apple Watch is a very basic substance the crystalized form of aluminum oxide.
Sapphire's hardness allegedly means that Apple Watch wearers can drop the watch and bump their wrists against things quite a bit without severely damaging the device.
if the smartwatch's display were made of Gorilla Glass the material developed by New york-based manufacturer Corning that has been used in the display screens for most of Apple's other devices.
but for Apple the material's price seems to be something of a selling point according to Tuller who added that sapphire has long been used in the face coverings for expensive watches.
Apple always wants something more elegant more attractive more valuable Tuller said. The Apple Watch is not just a throwaway thing
and this is obviously one way of distinguishing themselves from their competitors. In addition to its sapphire display Apple Watch's sensors will feature lenses made of sapphire the company announced this week.
These sensors are located on the backside of the watch and will reportedly use infrared and visible-light LEDS to detect the wearer's heart rate.
This is the furry growth we can see for example on crumpets berries jam tomato paste cheese and so on.
or to ripen some cheeses) Aspergillus and on fruits Botrytis. You re unlikely to experience any immediate symptoms from ingestion of mycotoxin-contaminated foods.
Foods with a high moisture content such as cooked casseroles soft fruit and vegetables pastes/sauces and soft cheeses can have invisible hyphae growing below the surface
and apple cider raw produce contaminated water improperly canned commercial foods smoked or salted fish cream sauces undercooked ground beef alfalfa sprouts raw
Adults should consume broth non-citrus fruit juices flat ginger ale and ice pops. As your condition improves you can start eating bananas plain rice boiled potatoes toast crackers and cooked carrots.
Smaller meals are recommended because they're easier to digest. Here are some tips to prevent food poisoning:
and economically particularly in agriculture where honeybees pollinate an estimated $15 billion worth of agricultural products in the United states including more than 130 fruits according to the U s. Department of agriculture.
just as and may include worms snails insect larvae aquatic insects crustaceans water plants algae and fallen fruit.
Terrestrial turtles also eat a variety of foods from earthworms grubs snails beetles and caterpillars to grasses fruit berries mushrooms and flowers.
and other treats but can also come from healthy foods like whole grains vegetables and fruits.
but that doesn't mean you should trade in your apples for candy corn just yet. In addition to the many health benefits of a plant-heavy diet the kinds of foods you eat are important to oral health.
Some foods like hard candy breath mints raisins and dry cereal can get stuck in the grooves and crevices of your teeth where they could cause decay.
Fruit and yogurt on the other hand wash away easily with saliva and are therefore less likely to cause plaque buildup.
Eating or drinking highly acidic foods even healthy foods like citrus fruits can lead to tooth decay if oral hygiene is maintained not properly.
or tree holes during the day and then climb into the forest canopy to find their favorite tree fruits at night.
Also by only searching for tree fruits during the night owl monkeys avoid competing with larger monkeys that spend their days hunting for the same foods.
A strawberry cervix?!While invoking not-so-delightful images food references in medical vernacular are useful aids in helping doctors identify many different ailments.
Strawberry Cervix? Doc Reviews Food Words Used in Medicine Hypersexuality in women linked to this:
#Ancient Nordic Grog Intoxicated the Elite Ancient Scandinavians quaffed an alcoholic mixture of barley honey cranberries herbs
and even grape wine imported from Greece and Rome new research finds. This Nordic grog predates the Vikings.
The ingredients included honey cranberries and lingonberries (acidic red berries that grow in Scandinavia. Wheat rye and barley and occasionally imported grape wine from southern Europe formed a base for the drink.
Herbs and spices such as bog myrtle yarrow juniper and birch resin added flavor and perhaps medicinal qualities.
and traces of grape wine which was produced only in southern Europe suggest a robust trade network in this period Mcgovern said.
fruits vegetables protein foods dairy foods carbohydrates and snacks. Predictably perhaps vegetables were liked the least food and snacks the most liked.
What emerged from these analyses was that around half of children s liking for fruits vegetables
%and fruit (53%)with protein foods close behind (48%).%On the other hand the environment played a larger part in liking for the other food groups:
</p><p>Naturally sweet raisins don' t contain sucrose or table sugar. Sugar helps bacteria stick to the tooth surface letting them produce plaque Wu said.
Raisins are also a source of phytochemicals which may kill cavity-causing plaque bacteria. Some compounds in raisins also affect the growth of bacteria associated with gum disease Wu has found.</
</p><p>It takes serious chewing to break down foods such as carrots apples and cucumbers. But all that crunching isn'
t in vain. Chewing " may disturb dental plaque and serve as a cleansing mechanism" Wu said.
such as cheese almonds and leafy greens — and foods high in phosphorous — such as meat eggs and fish —
and her team found that drinking a a href=http://www. livescience. com/36512-experts-explain-milk-health-benefits-risks. html>glass of milk</a>after downing dry sugar-sweetened Fruit Loops
</p><p>Cranberries contain polyphenols (just as tea does) which may keep plaque from sticking to teeth
Because the fruit is so tart many cranberry products have added sugar which may affect any potential benefits for teeth Wu said.</
Although they are used frequently for skin designs neither henna nor PPD are approved by the FDA for use on the skin Another dye jagua derives from the unripened fruit of the Genipa americana a South american tree.
above an old mulberry couch a map labeled Ross Sea Soundings in Fathom and Feet;
we discussed the wonders of Green Apple Books in San francisco and munched on our peanut butter sandwiches
The other eight of us sat around the dive hole staring into the vertigo-inducing dark-blue waters snacked some more (Fig Newtons this time#ou have to eat constantly in Antarctica to keep your body temperature up)
Let this also be a reminder that green fruits and vegetables should also be featured on your child's dinner plate.
What have done you lately to encourage your child to eat more green fruits and vegetables?
From vitamins to folate to potassium fruits and vegetables provide vital nutrients and help keep everyone healthy.
A 2009 study from The Ohio State university showed that only 50 percent of children ages 2 to 5 met the recommendation for fruit intake
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) boys and girls in this age group should be eating a minimum of one cup of fruits and a cup of vegetables per day.
The numbers only get worse from there as the older the children got the fewer fruits and vegetables they ate.
No I don't expect you to start eating every fruit and vegetable but if your child hears you say something like Mommy doesn't like broccoli
or Daddy only eats red fruits then he or she is going to start thinking it's OK to only eat certain types of foods.
when you only serve vegetables and fruits. Some families have instituted Meatless Mondays in their house.
Not only is it a way to incorporate more fruits and vegetables but it also can help families save a little bit of money on their grocery bills.
Yes fruits and vegetables are healthy but if you force your child to eat everything on the plate you run the risk of setting your child up for bad behavior with food.
Parents should know that eating these fruits and vegetables with your children will get them on the path to a healthy life.
The beginning of the year (and the starting of the calendar) signaled that farmers should trellis vines prune trees and sow spring wheat.
Combining avocado oil and Vitamin b12 in a topical treatment can supposedly improve psoriasis or eczema symptoms and Vitamin b12 is said also to help reduce ringing in the ears and swollen tendons.
It didn t take that long to find the decaying bridge now being overtaken by blackberry and multiflora rose.
This chemical smells like cherries or almonds hence the name. Because it is released in small amounts it is mostly harmless to humans.
Is it possible to compare apples and oranges? Only if we have a way to measure the relative conservation significance of the apples and oranges.
Obviously not everything counts and not everything can be counted. What we need is a way to measure that the habitat
#Most Kids Eat Fruits & Veggies (But Spinach, Nah) Most U s. children eat at least some fruits
and vegetables each day although few eat dark green vegetables according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On any given day in 2009 and 2010 more than three-quarters of children and teens ages 2 to 19 ate some fruit researchers found.
About 30 percent consumed citrus melon or berries 50 percent ate other fruits such as apples bananas
and pears and 53 percent drank fruit juice. Even more children ate vegetables more than 90 percent of children consumed some vegetables on a given day during the study period.
The new study is a first step in learning about kids'fruit and vegetable consumption Nielsen said.
and encouraging youth to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables then it's helpful to know who's consuming
The proportion of kids who ate fruit and vegetables decreased with age: for example more than 90 percent of 2-to 5-year-olds ate fruit on a given day but only 66 percent of 12-to 19-year-olds did so. 10 Ways to Promote Kids'Healthy
Eating Habits The researchers looked only at whether children consumed any fruit or any vegetables in a 24-hour period and so the study cannot determine how much of these foods children are eating.
The U s. federal dietary guidelines recommend that people consume at least 1 cup of fruit and 1 cup of vegetables per day and often more depending on age sex and amount of physical activity.
For example kids ages 9 to 13 are recommended to consume 2 to 2. 5 cups of vegetables and 1 5 cups of fruit daily.
More research is needed to examine how much fruit and vegetables kids are said eating she. Other recent studies suggest that
although kids eat some fruit and vegetables daily they may not be eating that much. A 2013 national survey of U s. high school students found that 61 percent of students ate vegetables at least once daily but just 16 percent ate vegetables three or more times per day.
The new report is published today (July 16) by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.
because it s also present in many wines made from the grape Shiraz (or Syrah).
#New Technique Busts Chocolate Counterfeiters Scientists say they have figured out how to identify the genetic origin of the cacao fruit a finding that should help put a damper on counterfeit chocolate.
As the worldwide demand growing for ultra-premium chocolate made from top-quality cacao beans has risen so too has the practice of blending in cheaper substitutes for the good stuff.
The problem is that unlike coffee grapes cereals and tea which can be subject to existing methods of genetic testing to verify their origins cacao has been a tougher nut to crack.
Researchers at the USDA's agricultural research station in Greenbelt Md. figured out how to overcome this problem using small SNPS
or single nucleotide proteins (snips) that make up unique fingerprints of different cacao species and hybrid varieties.
The technique works on single cacao beans and can be scaled up to handle large samples quickly according to Dapeng Zhang a research geneticist at the USDA
#oein the premium cacao market often the good varieties are the traditional varieties#he said.
and during this process either the grower or middleman intentionally or unintentionally mix high quality bean with bulk cacao which is an average bean.#
#Zhang who worked at a cacao research center in Peru for a decade decided to use the seed coat of the cacao bean to extract the DNA needed to make a positive identification of the plant's origins.
Zhang and colleagues successfully identified the location of the type of cacao trees grown in the Cajamarca Province of Peru as compared to the kind of cacao grown in other parts of Peru Brazil Trinidad and Ecuador.
#oeit s going to cost a lot of money for a company to (test)# said Louis Grivetti a professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at the University of California Davis. Grivetti notes that a genetic test will help differentiate between different kind of cacao varieties
See Photos of the Exotic Foods at the 2014 Explorers Club Gala The smell of durian (think rotting meat wrapped in dirty socks) filled one corner of the black-tie gala.
And an assessment of the bulk of evidence underlying population action of salt reduction dwarfs the evidence that supports today accepted policies on weight reduction increase in physical exercise intake of fibre fruit and vegetable
The analysis used available datasets from repeated national surveys and indicates that the reduction in cardiovascular mortality was also compatible with a concomitant reduction in smoking serum total cholesterol and a modest increase in fruit
Over the past 20 years the growth of the free and open source software movement whose poster child is the operating system Linux has provided an alternative to proprietary software from megacorps such as Microsoft Apple
The fruits of their research the seed were freely available to all. Today much research work is being done by major agro-tech businesses
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