Showing posts with label risks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risks. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

They are reasons for everything

(This is a public service announcement)

There are reasons why you really need to know what you are eating, drinking or taking as a supplement.

Diet supplement has meth-like chemical (from www.cnn.com)

Reason one: dietary supplements are not regulated by the FDA like drugs are.

Reason two: you could develop horrific side effects or worse.

I've always wanted to lose more weight, but I'm just not going to try meth (or anything meth-like) anytime soon.

The risks (and nasty side effects) are just too great.

That is all.

Thank you.

Monday, September 23, 2013

All I can say is wow!

This is an incredible story about a new cardiac procedure.

Considering the risks for both surgical interventions, this one is absolutely amazing.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

A helluva story

Maybe it just take someone who became Lara Croft onscreen to tackle an issue like prophylactic mastectomy. Angelina Jolie  lit up the internet today with an op-ed about her experience having the BRCA-1 gene, a mother with cancer and her own double mastectomy.

I enjoyed reading it. While both my parents had cancer (one died from it), I am constantly reminded of my own risks. Modern medicine can now present the tests to see if the genie really is in the bottle (inside us.)

Sometimes, it just takes a lot of fortitude to be able to open it.

More to come...