(Source: Jacksonville Business Journal)
Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback David Garrard threw 18 touchdowns this NFL season, raising $180,000 for the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America through the In the Zone for Crohn’s program.
As part of the program, Centocor Ortho Biotech, based in Horsham, Pa., pledged to donate $10,000 to the foundation for every touchdown Garrard scored during the 2009 football season.
Garrard is one of 500,000 Americans who suffer from Crohn’s disease, a chronic inflammatory disease of the gastrointestinal tract for which there is no cure. The disease is associated with an abnormality of the immune system that could be triggered by viral or bacterial infections, a genetic predisposition or diet, although the exact cause of the disease is not known.
Through Garrard’s involvement in the In the Zone for Crohn’s program and efforts on the football field over the past two years, he has raised funds that have allowed the foundation to advance Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis research in order to improve the health of patients with these diseases.
Last year, he helped raise $170,000 for the organization.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin.
Next time you go to Whole Foods, pick up a tub of Gorgonzola Cheese Crumbles. Upon reading the front label you will notice an asterisk. Upon looking at the asterisk and reading the small print, you will come across this…
The FDA has said there is no significant difference between milk from cows treated with rBGH and untreated cows. No test can now distinguish between milk from treated and untreated cows.
So how can we tell whether we are eating a product free of rBGH? Baffled? So were we.
(Source: Food Renegade)
There’s one sweetener out there that’s marketed as a “natural” alternative to sugar which is anything but — Splenda. Also known as “sucralose” this aberration of chemical engineering is an experimental insecticide turned sweetener. I kid you not.
For every 100 people in the U.S. who have celiac disease, only three have been diagnosed. Dr. Jon LaPook talks with an expert about what the disease is and who should be tested.
(Source: The Guardian)
Manufacturer Hutchison Chi-Med signs three-year deal with Cambridge pharmacologists to find active ingredients in traditional medicines
Hutchison Chi-Med, the Chinese medicine company backed by the firm that created mobile phone group Orange, has signed up the University of Cambridge to investigate the potential healing and anti-aging properties of a number of the group’s herbal remedies. Read More
(Source: Science Daily)
Chemicals found in cannabis could prove an effective treatment for the inflammatory bowel diseases Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease, say scientists. Read More
(Source: mediLexicon)
A new experimental treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) completely reverses the devastating autoimmune disorder in mice, and might work exactly the same way in humans, Read More
