Inflammation and how it triggers illness Normally, inflammation is healthy, a part of the body's fight against infections. But when it happens in response to obesity, it can contribute to numerous ills, such as fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis, says Anthony Ferrante, a medical professor at Columbia whose research focuses on obesity's affects. This interesting article goes on to share just how this type of inflammation may lead to heart attacks.
Can Inflamation Also be Linked to the Fat-and-Disease Connection?What if you could be overweight but avoid heart disease or diabetes? Scientists trying to break the fat-and-disease link increasingly say inflammation is the key.
In the quest to prove it, a major study is under way testing whether an anti-inflammatory drug — an old, cheap cousin of aspirin — can fight the Type 2 diabetes spurred by obesity. Check out the results from one study.
Big Pharma Bias Harvard Medical School students like Kirsten Austad, Lekshmi Santhosh, Kim Sue and David Tian, members of the American Medical Student Association, object to the influence of drug companies in the school’s educational curriculum.
What's your opinion?
The
Need to Reduce Prescription Abuse
"During his State of the Union Address in February 2011, President Obama announced to the Nation that we are in the midst of our generation's 'Sputnik moment' and that, 'to win the future, we'll need to take on the challenges that have been decades in the making.' All of us are part of this effort. And simply put, our Nation cannot reach its full potential without a drug-free and healthy citizenry.
Drug use and its consequences affect every sector of society that is vital to a strong America. They strain our economy, our healthcare and criminal justice systems, and endanger the futures of our young people."
R. Gil Kerlikowski's How Reducing Drug Use And Its Consequences Can Help America
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One Market Based Solution That Could Cut Health-Care Costs--By 40%!
From the CEO of Safeway, Inc. and the founder of the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform: "Effective healthcare reform must meet two objectives: 1) It must secure coverage for all Americans, and 2) it must dramatically lower the cost of health care. Healthcare spending has outpaced 
the rise in all other consumer spending by nearly a factor of three since 1980, increasing to 18% pf GDP in 2009 from 9% of GDP. This disturbing trend will not change regardless of who pays these costs--government or the private sector--unless we can find a way to improve the health of our citizens. Failure to do so will make American companies less competitive in the global marketplace, increase taxes, and undermine our economy." Mr. Burd shares just how his organization began their own well-designed healthcare reform.