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<rss xmlns:ps="http://trailfire.com" version="2.0"><channel><title>"medicash - July 2007" by chennaidoc</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/trails/41360</link><category>chennaidoc/trails</category><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>What if dieting makes you fatter? - By Sydney Spiesel - Slate Magazine</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/121203</link><description><![CDATA[The average dieting weight loss maintained over extended time (between 2.5 and 10.5 years) was less than 2.5 pounds. ... Of the 10 reports, only one described lasting weight loss, two showed no long-term effect, and the remaining seven studies found that dieting led to weight <EM>gain</EM> in the long run. ... The problem is that the benefits are erased by the typical return of those stubborn pounds. And as with the higher-than-ever weight gains, the aftereffects of dieting may cause <EM>additional</EM> basic health problems. Weight cycling—the common up-and-down yo-yoing of the scale—seems to have especially pernicious effects and is associated with higher blood pressure and heightened risk for heart attack, stroke, and diabetes.]]></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jul 2007 21:45:21 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:121203</guid></item><item><title>Global public health | More money than sense | Economist.com</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/122045</link><description><![CDATA[<H2>Lack of money can no longer be blamed for the poor world&#39;s health problems</H2><BR><DIV CLASS="content-image-float" STYLE="width: 256px;"><IMG SRC="http://www.economist.com/images/20070707/CIR939.gif" ALT=" " HEIGHT="248" WIDTH="256"></DIV>THE money is there. So why is it not being spent? That is the big puzzle about the rich world&#39;s efforts to improve health in poor countries.]]></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jul 2007 22:18:06 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:122045</guid></item><item><title>A REPORTER AT LARGE: THE LAST DROP: The New Yorker</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/124336</link><description></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:40:49 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:124336</guid></item><item><title>Hoover Institution - Hoover Digest - Dollars to Doughnuts</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/124352</link><description><![CDATA[But is obesity really a public health crisis, or is it merely a private health affliction that too many of us face? The distinction is important because public health crises are often used to justify muscular government action.&nbsp; ... easier to rationalize if there is a public crisis. ...&nbsp; ... a public health crisis arises whenever any undesirable health state becomes sufficiently widespread. By this standard, all private health issues are public, and the personal is by definition political. ... A sharp increase in the prevalence of a dangerous infectious disease like tuberculosis is no doubt a public health emergency, but the same is not true for an increase in back pain. In the case of tuberculosis, drastic public actions, including quarantines and forced treatment, may be justified; in the case of back pain, such actions would be wildly inappropriate.]]></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:56:17 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:124352</guid></item><item><title>Is it cost effective to treat the world&amp;#039;s poor? - By Darshak Sanghavi - Slate Magazine</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/125918</link><description><![CDATA[Dollar-for-dollar prevention is supposed to yield greater aggregate quality-of-life benefits than actual treatment. ...For decades, this kind of reasoning has been used to deny expensive but lifesaving treatments to the world&#39;s poor, most notably for HIV infection, in favor of more cost-effective measures focused on prevention. ... Yet this seemingly reasonable argument is not only weak, but unfairly rigged, so the world&#39;s poor can never win.]]></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 23:08:53 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:125918</guid></item><item><title>The Brain&amp;#039;s Sweet Reward -- Raymond 2007 (718): 4 -- ScienceNOW</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/128038</link><description><![CDATA[&quot;New research strengthens the connection between the placebo effect and the anticipation of other types of rewards. Scans of a particular brain area show that people who experience more intense placebo effects also respond more strongly to the promise of monetary gain.&quot;]]></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:51:44 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:128038</guid></item><item><title>3quarksdaily</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/130700</link><description></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:56:09 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:130700</guid></item><item><title>Indian-Americans and the Killer Belly - NAM</title><link>http://www.trailfire.com/chennaidoc/marks/130703</link><description><![CDATA[While 60 percent of heart attacks amongst Americans occur after age 55, nearly half of all heart attacks among Indian men strike under the age of 55 and 25 percent under the age of 40. Indian women share these high rates of heart disease. Thousands of Indian American men in their 40s and 50s succumb to a first, fatal heart attack every year. ... &quot;Every population gets heart disease and diabetes, but Indians get more of it and get it at least ten years earlier,&quot;]]></description><category>medicash - July 2007</category><author>chennaidoc</author><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:36:00 -0700</pubDate><guid isPermalink="false">trailfire:markId:130703</guid></item></channel></rss>
