Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Some non-profit organizations to help you with your health
The Health Ranger's network of websites:
Videos on health: http://tv.naturalnews.com/.
Food investigations. http://foodinvestigations.naturalnews.com/.
EPAWatch. Families sending in water samples to test, tests show heavy metals. The PDF form to submit a sample is here. Their email: la bs at epawatch .org.
Natural News website for news.
Saturday, May 14, 2016
Amazon tribe creates big book of home remedies
500 pages even! Of course it might be hard to get many of these plants in the US. This is a good way to preserve oral traditions which are quickly dying.
Only available in the Matses language though.
News article here.
Only available in the Matses language though.
News article here.
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Fun with health maps!
You didn't know obesity could be this fun, could you? Well, obesity is no laughing matter, but maps can be interesting. Some of these might require Javascript or Flash so make sure they are turned on in your browser first.
CountyHealthRankings.org: map many health issues by US county like obesity rate, adult smoking, inactivity, teen births, uninsured, high school graduation, unemployment, children in poverty, income inequality, violent crime, physical environment, air pollution, drinking water violations, severe housing problems, and more.
A US health map with time slider. Map many factors, one at a time, and see how they changed over time. Some of the items you can map: alcohol use (any at all, binge drinking, and more), hypertension (various factors), life expectancy, obesity, physical activity (various types), poverty, smoking (daily and total).
78% of Americans are overweight or obese. (WHO 2010). A world map showing how common obesity is by country. Look at which nations have the "western diet". Now Finland, north and west of Germany, does surprise me at 67% overweight and obese. On this map you can also see cholesterol levels and tobacco use.
WHO obesity and overweight maps.
CDC: 2014, 28.9 percent of Americans who are obese, average for US, and by state. You can also see other indictors like overweight (child or adult), and older years.
CDC: Obese people have higher medical costs as a group.
Not everyone who has a high BMI is unhealthy. These include body builders, football players (who tend to be large) and people who get regular exercise. There is correlation that overweight people are unhealthy, because many of them rarely exercise. That does not mean all overweight people are unhealthy.
CountyHealthRankings.org: map many health issues by US county like obesity rate, adult smoking, inactivity, teen births, uninsured, high school graduation, unemployment, children in poverty, income inequality, violent crime, physical environment, air pollution, drinking water violations, severe housing problems, and more.
A US health map with time slider. Map many factors, one at a time, and see how they changed over time. Some of the items you can map: alcohol use (any at all, binge drinking, and more), hypertension (various factors), life expectancy, obesity, physical activity (various types), poverty, smoking (daily and total).
78% of Americans are overweight or obese. (WHO 2010). A world map showing how common obesity is by country. Look at which nations have the "western diet". Now Finland, north and west of Germany, does surprise me at 67% overweight and obese. On this map you can also see cholesterol levels and tobacco use.
WHO obesity and overweight maps.
CDC: 2014, 28.9 percent of Americans who are obese, average for US, and by state. You can also see other indictors like overweight (child or adult), and older years.
CDC: Obese people have higher medical costs as a group.
Not everyone who has a high BMI is unhealthy. These include body builders, football players (who tend to be large) and people who get regular exercise. There is correlation that overweight people are unhealthy, because many of them rarely exercise. That does not mean all overweight people are unhealthy.
Sunday, February 21, 2016
Welcome to my blog!
This is my new blog. I want to cover mostly health issues, and how they related to individuals, and politics. I want to eventually set up an RSS feed so you can download content to a tablet or phone and read it that way too.
A note about labels I use for my blog posts.
RSS Feeds
We have syndication of FULL articles! Not partial articles. So when you download/update your RSS feed to this blog, you should get the WHOLE article to read offline. These are the RSS feed addresses:
A note about labels I use for my blog posts.
- app: an app for iPhone, Android or other portable device is mentioned.
- spreadsheet: a spreadsheet with data is mentioned.
- website: a website relating to health info, or a health utility is mentioned.
- sugar: blog post is mainly about sugar.
- GMO: blog post is mainly about GMO products, studies, or issues.
RSS Feeds
We have syndication of FULL articles! Not partial articles. So when you download/update your RSS feed to this blog, you should get the WHOLE article to read offline. These are the RSS feed addresses:
Atom 1.0: http://chuckrblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/defaultRSS 2.0: http://chuckrblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
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