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. When heading off to work for a quick breakfast, one might be surprised what else extra you might be ordering along with your fast food breakfast. For example, the egg Mcmuffin contains Sodium acid pyrophosphate. Preservatives also include monosodium phosphate used as a preservative along with niacin and potassium sorbate. Have a good morning and a good breakfast.

. We eat them practically everyday. they are cute , fit in our hands easily as a bite sized meal for most of us "on the go" in a fast-paced world. chicken Mcnuggets and other forms of deep fried types of fast foods have become permanent fixtures for most us since our early childhood days and a new generation of kids have stared on them as well. So, the question remains ....what's in them. We know that the main ingredient is supposed to be chicken, but is that just it? Investigations by several nutrition groups(International Human Press) have begun to looked into it. You might be surprised. Many of the additives can barely be pronounced with a degree in advanced biochemistry. These include: THBQ or tertiary butyl hudroquin one(1). It is a petrleum derivative of butane often used to make propane. It is used in Mcnugget preservatives. Five grams of the stuff can be fatal. DMPS(Dimethylpolysiloxane). An antifoaming product that helps with its anti-leaking effect .It is a ...

Why would we be talking about the medical/health system being some type or form of "complex"? A complex is a complicated, convoluted or twisted network of conjoined forces, factors, structures or ideas that grow into large bureaucratic mass (mess)to obfuscate or hide some agenda. Is this what our healthcare system has become?There is a rather vast web of "players" in this very multiple design of political lobbyists represented by the medical insurance and 3rd party system payers along with the pharmaceutical industry, biomedical tech industry, the hospital associations, medical doctor societies and associations, U.S. Health & Human Services medicare, medicaid, HIPPA, the FDA and USDA. It would appear that these industries all tend to gain on the level of illness or sickness of those wh've purchased goods and services from their trade to improve their very being and life existence. As the public continues to suffer due to lack of information or personal ...

America was based on freedoms, civil liberties and civil rights. From the American Revolution, Civil War and Civil Rights Era Americans have always possessed the right to express themselves through free speech. Rights like these were guaranteed in the Constitution . However, what happens when a community extends that right to the "razors edge" ? Both Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King proved that through non-violent and peaceful approaches of expression great changes could be effected in a society that may be "temporarily" blind-sided by forgetting its past achievements and gains in human rights. A nation has to regularly sit down and review itself with deep reflection and introspection. However, if the "bureaucracy" of a nation doesn't permit the expression of civil rights or civil liberties which is protected under the Constitution of the United States of America , there can be painful results for any community. America saw major rioting erupt at...

As most Americans know by now, the ACA has been put on delay for an estimated one year, but no real reasons have been brought out to the full public forefront why this could be occurring right in the midst of this steam rolling new agenda. Recently, articles by the New York Times,Reuters as well as a new Gallup Poll from small businesses may reveal some of the screeching halt slowing down the healthcare reform bill. The Gallup Poll asked 603 small businesses how the new healthcare reform might effect them . The responses were quite startling. Forty-Eight percent felt that ACA would hurt their profitability, 41 % had already quit hiring and another 5 % have actually cut down their workforce. This is all in the middle of a 41 % reduction in hiring by U.S. small business noted as of June, 2013. Small businesses have spoken and it isn't promising for what lays ahead for the labor force. Erick Erickson, reporting on the New York Times analysis on his radio show stating that 74% of s...

After a strong long drawn out battle to change the healthcare system in America, the Affordable Care Act (ACA/Obamacare) seems to have stalled out. The White House has abruptly halted its efforts to implement perhaps the most extensive and controversial law into effect .Initially it was set to become effective on January 1, 2014. It appears that it will be delayed for another year to 2015. The bill is over 3000 pages long and intends to overhaul the American healthcare system with its most controversial measure, the individual mandate being the centerpiece . The measure calls for every American citizen to "sign up" by law or pay a penalty to opt out. This single item was greatly debated by the U.S. Supreme Court as to the constitutionality of it. Justice Roberts considered healthcare constitutionally backed. Many other critics have argued that nowhere in the constitution is there a provision for healthcare. Justice Roberts,however was able to succes...

Governor Chris Christie's new look has only been mentioned a few times in the media, but it is taking a notice to those who not only follow his campaign , but are followers of his once profound size. This size wasn't just his "big" impact on politics , but the Governor's obesity issue. Back in the fall of 2012 the Governor could be seen stomping around making political speeches, winded, out of breath and even hunched over with coat in arm as he sweated to the next media stop. Soon political pundits that were critical of the governor's political views become more critical of whether an "obese" man could be taken seriously as a presidential candidate and other high offices. Some articles viewed him as a caricature of a politician rather than be taken seriously .Gov. Chris Christie became a target on some late night t.v. talk shows because of his girth as well the affect it appeared to be disabling him toward an effective governorship. Well in late M...

In 1984 both the Coca-Cola Company , the makers of the soft drink Coke and PepsiCo, the makers of Pepsi decided to change the formulation of their beverages in an ongoing bitter rivalry for the number one spot. The change was to stop using table sugar(sucralose) as the primary sweetner for its taste and use what they thought was a more economically feasible and "healthier" choice with High Fructose Corn Syrup(HFCS). The taste was noted by Americans almost immediately and the reaction in Europe was that they didn't want HFCS in their beverages because of its health concerns. This small change launched a geo-political and nutritional "war" that affected the globalization of products in the international markets.Europeans began to either ban or boycott Pepsi and Coke because of HFCS for its cause of obesity. The result of this is that Coke and Pepsi do not sell their products with HFCS in Europe. Fast forward to the USA today. Environmental groups have held the ...

Have you noticed more and more medical doctors on television and radio and not just on talk shows, but with introducing their own privately labelled products ,wellness centers and spas? Doctors have taken a page out of commercial marketing that was once considered taboo amongst many elite circles. But, today physicians are grabbing at the opportunity and the opening possibilities to take their practices into another stratosphere. Since the early 80's physicians began to see their autonomy seep from their grips as more DRGs and HMOs began to take command and control of a multi-billion dollar industry(the medical industrial complex), once known as their profession. Overlooked by health policy, managed care and rising liability costs, physicians have had to "re-invent" themselves and perhaps even the art of medicine. Medical doctors with a business degree were once rarely seen, and much more so were those who were marketing their books, their own pharmaceutical products a...

The flurry of media outlets scurrying about with the headlines , press releases and t.v. commercials still fresh in mind of the public that Coca-Cola Company will be applying a new beverage advertisement policy. The new policy will affect the 35 percent of its business consumership made up of under twelve years of age in an attempt to reduce childhood obesity. Coke, which it is famously known as, promises to help reduce childhood obesity by ceasing all ads directed to kids below the age of 12 especially in locations they mostly utilize.Coke also promises to add calorie count labels on all products as well. This new policy also includes producing more low to zero calorie beverages, such as the "mini-can" and Zero Water. Coke even plans to help create activity and sports oriented programs for children in its policies. On the surface these all sound good and sound like a rather ambitious agenda for the multi-billion dollar super corporation to be undertaking. But, even with ...

Healthcare has been approached in America as a means of treating a multiplicity of diseases that apparently have no common link in diagnosis or treatment. It has been the accepted standard of care for clinicians to treat a disease through multi-subspecialties. Managed care has promted this through the development of multiple codes that consists of a variety of attached prices fixed to a certain disease. Cosde match deisgnated diagnosis and therapies to the costs . This approach has seen the soaring cosst of medical treatment , devices , diagnostics , administrative waste and duplicity. It may have contributed to over-diagnosis, misdiagnosis , phanthom diagnosis as well as the defensive legal reflex of clinicians called CYA (cover your rear) in response to medial liability sanctions. But, what if the major medical diseases were all related to a key central disease that exists at epidemic proportions, not only that, but what if this central disease was treated or addressed as a first...

Scientist from both Massachusetts General Hospital and the Dana Faber have published a new study in the science journal Nature supporting a link between obesity, high acidity in the throat and throat cancer. This lead the team to looking at the portion of the lower "swallowing tube" (esophagus) that connects directly to the stomach. The tissue appears like in glandular tissue and cancers rising there are called Adenocarcinoma. This cancer appears to be different in the fact it is not so much associated with smoking tobacco products or drinking alcohol as it does with cancers from the upper section of the throat. Instead high acid production makes changes in the throat. Scientist have noted that there is a DNA difference as well as anatomical difference in these cells. At the junction where the esophagus meets the stomach exists a sphincter that tightens to block reflux of the stomach's acid back into the throat. The high level of abdominal fat onto this region may push ...

The Society of Actuaries(SOA), the premiere, accontant professional assoiciation that oversees the nation's shifts of insurance costs has come out with a very serious report that can affect every American who does or does not possess healthcare insurance in one forn or another. You better do your own homework on this. By their estimation there will be an increased rise in overall healthcare costs across the board on an average of 32 % in the USA . California will be increased by 62 %, both Wisconsin and Ohio will see a rise of 80 %. While currently Ohio and Wisconsin are low individual cost, the new healthcare policy will have to move their costs up to that level of other states that have higher costs such as New York and Massachusetts to level the playing field of healthcare costs. This will cause the policy and claims costs of New York and Massachusetts to therefore go down. This very pragmatic approach to healthcare calls for states to expend Medicaid costs as well into the mil...

As we eat our way to the lunch counters at restaurants and commisaries, check out at fast food restaurants and munch our way to the movie theater popcorn stands and plop down on our couch to watch our favorite soap opera, reality t.v. show or sports event with a super sized soft drink and hot dog or pizza in hand ; a little unknown phenomena is taking place throughout the world. Millions-no actually billions of other people are doing similar things. This ritual of behaviors was once considered merely a western world act but, this habit is now seen world wide and is causing the fastest rising epidemic in the world called global obesity! Add the high rise of tech gadgets that only require sedentary modes such as your smart phone, tablet, lap top, game boys and desk computers along with you Ipad, plasma t.v. and Infnity system that allow your telephone, t.v., stereo and computer to be all put on one screen we begin to see the effects get from a very sedentary world. Kids do not have to...

The news network CNN did an outstanding two hour film-documentary on the status of the U.S. healthcare system this weekend. The film makers had been filming since as early as 2009, so this may explain why there seems to be some gaps early in part of the film's presentation . That is minor in comparison to "Obamacare"(ACA) becoming law, now. Nevertheless, the documentary addressed many pressing questions that still are pertinent about America's ailing healthcare system. The film shows the evermore burdensome system taxing medical doctors by stretching them to the limit and not ever billing for physicians extra "non-billable" time educating and informing the patient and their families about prevention. The value of physicians "going that extra mile" by primary care doctors is exacerating who spend so much time to really make a difference by preventing acute and chronic disease with prevention. The Medical Industiral Complex or MIC doesn't rewa...

A recent study conducted by Dr. Rebecca Johnson at Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington have found a link in the increased rate of metastatic breast cancer in younger women over the last three decades. The cause for concern in this increased rate of particular stage of cancer appears to be linked to overeating and lack of exercise which are two major factors related to obesity.As there continues to be a major rise in obesity and overweight in children in the U.S.A. there no doubt will be an increase in cancer rates and prevalences in the future. The Children's Study shows a annual 2% rise in the rate of metastatic breast cancer between the years between 1976 and 20009 in younger aged women. One in 173 women are expected to get breast cancer before the age of 40. The prognosis tends to be worse in younger women. Today we must look much closer at lifestyle as a key factor to this and the recent changes made by the governments USPSTF(United States Prevent...