How much salt should I eat? Why does salt matter? What foods contain the most salt? Can I do anything to reduce my salt intake while still having tasty food?
A DEXA body composition scan can accurately and safely determine how much muscle and fat you have in your body and how the muscle and fat are distributed. Be Well Body Scan can do this test quickly and inexpensively.
Chest CT scans on an annual basis have been shown to find lung cancers in former long-term smokers early enough to reduce mortality by 20%. We should consider starting annual chest CTs for all current and former serious smokers.
The Clover House follows a Greek-American woman who discovers the secret to a wartime family tragedy when she returns to her mother’s native Greece to sift through an uncle’s inheritance. The author is an OHC member.
Extra virgin olive oil and healthy tree nuts (walnuts and almonds) are available inexpensively at Costco and probably other bulk retailers. The Mediterranean diet does not at all need to be an expensive diet.
One of Dr. Kanner’s patients describes her most trying experience with johnnies and invites others to share their experiences, as well as to reflect on the origin and name of the diabolical gown.
Normandy and its memorials from World War II are profoundly affecting and important to understand our world. Dr. Kanner strongly recommends you experience it first-hand.
Butter is tasty and a reasonable part of a heart-healthy diet when used judiciously. Keeping butter at room temperature makes it easier to use small amounts of butter effectively.
Blood-borne infections rapidly injure and kill people whose immune systems are compromised by cancer that requires chemotherapy or serious infections such as AIDS. Our best traditional lab techniques usually take several days to give an accurate microbial identification that allows specific antimicrobial therapy to be instituted. T2 Biosystems is far along in applying magnetic resonance (MR) technology to allow prompt detection of such blood-borne pathogens in whole-blood samples, potentially shortening the identification period to a few hours. This will likely substantially reduce the high mortality rates in such severe infections.
Orchard Health Care member John McDonough is the CEO of T2 Biosystems. I found his description of his company’s work to be fascinating. The molecular technology they are developing is an exciting example of how biomedical science is rapidly and dramatically improving our lives. I asked John to provide a short write-up of his company for our membership. OHC has many members involved with cutting-edge science, technology and business, as well as with the literary arts. I hope to have other OHC members describe their work or their company’s work in the coming months.
August is harvest. Tomatoes are queen, but heirloom tomatoes are the true royalty.