Sunday, January 1, 2017
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Friday, December 2, 2016
Dieters beware your friend is an enemy.
"Aspartame may prevent, not promote, weight loss by blocking intestinal enzyme's activity
Massachusetts General Hospital, 11/23/2016
Mass. General study identifies possible mechanism behind sugar substitute's lack of effectiveness.
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found a possible mechanism explaining why use of the sugar substitute aspartame might not promote weight loss.
In their report published online in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, the researchers show how the aspartame breakdown product phenylalanine interferes with the action of an enzyme previously shown to prevent metabolic syndrome – a group of symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. They also showed that mice receiving aspartame in their drinking water gained more weight and developed other symptoms of metabolic syndrome than animals fed similar diets lacking aspartame."
“Sugar substitutes like aspartame are designed to promote weight loss and decrease the incidence of metabolic syndrome, but a number of clinical and epidemiologic studies have suggested that these products don’t work very well and may actually make things worse,” says Richard Hodin, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery, the study’s senior author. “We found that aspartame blocks a gut enzyme called intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) that we previously showed can prevent obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome; so we think that aspartame might not work because, even as it is substituting for sugar, it blocks the beneficial aspects of IAP.”
A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has found a possible mechanism explaining why use of the sugar substitute aspartame might not promote weight loss.
In their report published online in the journal Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, the researchers show how the aspartame breakdown product phenylalanine interferes with the action of an enzyme previously shown to prevent metabolic syndrome – a group of symptoms associated with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. They also showed that mice receiving aspartame in their drinking water gained more weight and developed other symptoms of metabolic syndrome than animals fed similar diets lacking aspartame."
“Sugar substitutes like aspartame are designed to promote weight loss and decrease the incidence of metabolic syndrome, but a number of clinical and epidemiologic studies have suggested that these products don’t work very well and may actually make things worse,” says Richard Hodin, MD, of the MGH Department of Surgery, the study’s senior author. “We found that aspartame blocks a gut enzyme called intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) that we previously showed can prevent obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome; so we think that aspartame might not work because, even as it is substituting for sugar, it blocks the beneficial aspects of IAP.”
Thursday, November 3, 2016
Yale vs Harvard infections, pranks and more. This is an oldie, but goodie in terms of silliness.
http://gomerblog.com/2016/05/patient-in-room-213-worried-after-code-blues-in-211-212-214-215/
In other news MD Anderson is expanding from Houston, to take care of cancer patients in San Antonio. How? Mergers and acquisitions. Read more in the San Antonio Express.
http://gomerblog.com/2016/05/patient-in-room-213-worried-after-code-blues-in-211-212-214-215/
In other news MD Anderson is expanding from Houston, to take care of cancer patients in San Antonio. How? Mergers and acquisitions. Read more in the San Antonio Express.
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Fewer military/retirees using cvs?
When CVS leaves the network, beneficiaries currently using Coram/CVS to fill their prescription will need to switch their prescription to another speciality network pharmacy," Tricare officials told Military.com. Officials said Kroger, which is a current retail pharmacy provider, as well as Walgreens will both become speciality network pharmacies starting Dec. 1, and may carry the medications previously supplied by Coram.
Friday, September 9, 2016
http://m.alexandriagazette.com/news/2016/may/18/commentary-who-my-neighbor/
The executive director says he helped a homeless lady become a pharmacist, but there is not much else about the lady's story.
Here's another article on the charity itself. While it also has a mother, no mention is made of pharmacy school.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/with-her-daughter-sick-and-her-husband-gone-a-mom-turns-to-homestretch-for-help/2014/12/23/dff09110-8a0e-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html
The executive director says he helped a homeless lady become a pharmacist, but there is not much else about the lady's story.
Here's another article on the charity itself. While it also has a mother, no mention is made of pharmacy school.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/with-her-daughter-sick-and-her-husband-gone-a-mom-turns-to-homestretch-for-help/2014/12/23/dff09110-8a0e-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html
Saturday, September 3, 2016
Think you're obese? There was a person in the UK who can outweigh you.......
World’s Heaviest Teenager’ Finally Walks After Dropping 700 Lbs.
At his highest weight, Khaled Mohsen Al Shaeri weighed 1,345 lbs. and hadn’t left his bed for three years. In 2013, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia ordered that he be hospitalized for treatment. Since then, Shaeri — now in his early 20s — has lost 700 pounds, and a new video, posted to YouTube Tuesday (garnering almost 48,000 views), shows him walking for the first time in years.
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