Pineapple Mango Salsa - weelicious.com

I love fruit! If someone can find a way to incorporate it into a meal I'll try it. From weelicious.com

Pineapple Mango Salsa

There are a handful of recipes that I’ve been making for years for my family but always forget to put on weelicious. What a shame because you definitely need to have this one in your arsenal. This unbelievably easy and flavor-packed salsa has so many uses. Made with fresh, sweet, ripe pineapple and mango, it’s the perfect accompaniment for grilled fish, chicken or even to eat straight out of the bowl like my kids and husband like to do!

Pineapple Mango Salsa (Serves 6)

1 Cup Pineapple, peeled & diced
1 Mango, peeled & diced
1 Red Bell Pepper, diced
Half a Small Red Onion, about 1/3 Cup, diced
2 Tbsp Cilantro, chopped
Juice of 1 Lime
1/2 Tsp Salt
Grilled or Broiled Fish (Tilapia, Halibut, Opah or any other white flaky fish)

1. Place all ingredients in a bowl and combine.
2. Serve over fish or with tortilla chips.

Raspberry Banana Puree - weelicious.com

This sounds like a yummy dessert for Valentines Day that won't make you feel guilty the next day. From weelicious.com

Raspberry Banana Puree

I love February 14th — what girl doesn’t — so I start experimenting early with new Valentine’s Day recipes (TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!). For the occasion, I stocked up at the Farmer’s Market on baskets of fresh, juicy red raspberries. I was mashing some with banana as the base for a Valentine’s dessert idea I had when Chloe looked at the contents of the bowl and started shrieking “I want some!!!” My girl went on to eat every last drop when suddenly, it hit me: what baby wouldn’t love this bright, pink homemade puree that’s packed with potassium and Vitamin C?

Luckily I had pints more of raspberries on hand, so I quickly mixed up a new batch to taste for myself. What can I say, my daughter has good taste. It was delicious. Even though this recipe is perfect for babies given it’s smooth texture and simple composition, there’s no reason adults won’t love it too. Swirled into plain Greek yogurt or even served on top of ice cream, it’s a treat that you can serve your special someone this Valentine’s Day or any day you want to offer a them something naturally sweet.

Raspberry Banana Puree

1 Banana, peeled
1/2 Cup Raspberries, rinsed

1. Place all the ingredients in a food processor and puree, or place in a bowl and mash with a fork until smooth.
2. Serve.

All About Oatmeal

Thanks to theorganicjourney I now know why oatmeal is so good!

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The Glomerulus

The tiny structures that do the work in your kidneys are called NEPHRONS. Each of your kidneys contains about one million nephrons. Each nephron has a small blood vessel that brings in unfiltered blood, a GLOMERULUS (glow-mare-Yule-us) that filters the blood, a tubule that caries away filtered waste materials in the urine, and a small blood vessel that returns filtered blood to the body.
From unckidneycenter.org

Health Quotes

Some quotes to inspire:

“So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.” - A. J. Reb Materi

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” - Gandhi

“To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.” - Seneca

“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” - Benjamin Franklin

“Before healing others, heal yourself”

“Health is not simply the absence of sickness.” - Hannah Green

“Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.” - Tryon Edwards

From thinkexist.com

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. ~Mark Twain

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. ~Cicero

If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. ~Elbert Hubbard

People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. ~Laurence Sterne

A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book. ~Irish Proverb

Health is like money, we never have a true idea of its value until we lose it. ~Josh Billings

From the bitterness of disease man learns the sweetness of health. ~Catalan Proverb

Life is not merely to be alive, but to be well. ~Marcus Valerius Martial

From quotegarden.com

Interpreting Urinalysis Results

***These are my notes from physiology lab, and are by no means a way to diagnose yourself or others.

At one point in our jobs or careers we may have to be subjected to the slight humiliation of a urinalysis. But what do the results mean? Here are some definitions that may clear it up for you.

Glycosuria: having glucose in the urine
     Levels of glucose in the urine should be minimal (less than 40mg/dl) or none at all. Glucose in urine could be caused by carbohydrate heavy meals, too much sugar, or could be an indicator of diabetes mellitus.

Bilirubinuria: presence of bile pigments and bilirubin in urine
     This can be caused by erythrocyte (red blood cell) breakdown
(hemolytic anemia), blockage of the bile duct or liver damage from hepatitis or cirrhosis.

Ketosis: ketone bodies in urine
     This can be caused by our bodies using up fat storage that is meant for times of starvation or in individuals with diabetes mellitus or in an abnormally high fat diet.

Hematuria: red blood cells have ruptured and are present
     Instead of having erythrocyte destruction, as in bilirubinuria, the erythrocytes have ruptured such as during a menstrual cycle or kidney stones.

Albuminuria: presence of a common blood protein called albumin
     This can be due to diabetes mellitus, renal damage (kidney disease), extreme physical activity or hypertension.

Pyuria: elevated levels of leukocytes
     Leukocytes are white blood cells which are used to fight pathogens in the body. High levels of leukocytes could mean a urinary tract infection or bladder or kidney infection.

***These are my notes from physiology lab, and are by no means a way to diagnose yourself or others.

Heart attacks in public places: why you're more likely to survive -los angeles times

An interesting article from chicagotribune.com

Heart attacks in public places: why you're more likely to survive
Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times

Every year, some 300,000 Americans suffer a heart attack outside of a hospital, and the overall statistics are pretty grim: only 7.9% survive.

So, what is it about the lucky 23,700 that helps them buck such long odds?

One thing those survivors are likely to have in common is that their first heart attack symptoms seem to have come on in a public place. Another is that the heartbeat irregularity that signals trouble is likely to be ventricular fibrillation, a fast or erratic electrical signal in the heart's lower chambers that causes them to quiver uselessly rather than pumping blood out of the heart and into the rest of the body.

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Ventricular fibrillation, or pulseless ventricular tachycardia (in which blood has ceased altogether to circulate) is bad news indeed. But the person who suffers this sudden electrical storm in his heart is a bit luckier these days if he experiences it in a public place. That's because ventricular fibrillation can be knocked back to a normal heart rhythm by a sudden jolt of electricity--the kind supplied by an automatic external defibrillator (or AED).

And these days, AEDs have become ubiquitous in public places--schools, gyms, office buildings, airports and casinos. No surprise, then, that when people out and about suffer a sudden heart attack of the sort that these machines can disrupt, their greater availability should translate into higher survival rates.

At home, the picture is a bit different. The Hopkins researchers--culling heart attack data from 12,933 sudden cardiac arrests--found that nearly three-quarters occur in a residence. And, compared with heart attacks suffered by those in public places, far fewer of these in-home heart attacks--between a quarter and 36%--were characterized by the distinctive erratic beat of ventricular fibrillation (instead, they may have been a result of heart failure, a structural abnormality elsewhere in the heart, blocked arteries or a sudden embolism--problems that cannot be zapped with a sudden shock). Among people whose heart attack came in a public place, 38% to 79% had ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia--meaning an AED can be life-saving.

People who have a heart attack at home, the researchers surmised, are probably more likely to have some underlying illness that may limit the time they spend out and about in public. And because their heart attacks are much less likely to be short-circuited by a jolt from an AED, these people would be just as well served by having caregivers who are skilled in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (or by 911 dispatchers who are good at talking a bystander through these life-saving compressions) as they would having an AED in their home.

Bottom line, according to the researchers: Keep AEDs widely accessible in public places. But to save lives at home, investments in CPR training of citizens, emergency dispatchers and caregivers is a better bet.

Read the entire article here