Health professionals challenge McDonald’s to stop marketing to kids
Chicago, IL, United States (AHN) – More than 550 health professionals and activists from across the country have challenged McDonald’s to stop marketing junk food to kids.
Currently the fast food retailer uses a proven marketing campaign that makes parents virtually powerless over the allure of their products and brand images.
The group Corporate Accountability International also is seeking to retire the company’s iconic corporate symbol Ronald McDonald. The clown character who wears oversized red shoes and yellow rompers adorned with the restaurant chain’s “Golden Arches” logo — for decades has been used by McDonald’s as a kid-friendly corporate spokesman.
The open to letter to the company’s CEO found at lettertomcdonalds.org comes just weeks after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) proposed sweeping new guidelines on junk food marketing to kids.
Wednesday’s move comes a day before McDonald’s annual shareholders’ meeting. During the meeting a resolution calling on the corporation to assess its impact on public health will be voted on.
“Today, our family practice offices, pediatric clinics, and emergency rooms are filled with children suffering from conditions related to the food they eat. These health problems will likely play out over their lifetime through early onset of diabetes, heart disease and arthritis.” said Dr. Steven K. Rothschild, Associate Professor of Preventive Medicine at Rush Medical College. “Through this initiative the public health community is rallying behind a simple message to McDonald’s: stop making the next generation sick – retire Ronald and the rest of your junk food marketing to kids.”
A range of leading health institutions from the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry have endorsed the letter featured in today’s ads.
The full-page ads can be seen appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times, New York Metro, Boston Metro, San Francisco Examiner, Minneapolis City Pages and Baltimore City Paper urge still more individuals and institutions to sign the open letter and share it with their peers. The ads have sparked debates on morning talk shows and around water coolers.
“This initiative has struck a chord, particularly among health professionals who work in the communities most targeted and impacted by McDonald’s marketing,” said Esther Sciammarella, Executive Director of the Chicago Hispanic Health Coalition. “Children in these communities are not as healthy. Access to healthy food is limited. There is less nutrition education. But we do have more of one thing: McDonald’s junk food and junk food marketing. It’s time that changed.”
In response to the letter McDonald issued a statement:
McDonald’s cares about kids. We are committed to responsible advertising and take our communications to children very seriously.
We understand the importance of children’s health and nutrition, and are committed to being part of the dialogue and solution.
We serve high quality food, and our Happy Meals offer choice and variety in portions just for kids. Parents tell us they appreciate our Happy Meal choices.
As the face of Ronald McDonald House Charities, Ronald is an ambassador for good and delivers important messages to kids on safety, literacy and balanced, active lifestyles.
Researchers say that an increasing amount of studies from the Institutes of Medicine to the National Bureau of Economic Research show that reducing junk food marketing to kids could spare the health of millions of children.
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School intervention may improve kids’ heart health long term
A program to educate students about heart-healthy lifestyles resulted in significant improvements in middle school students’ cholesterol levels and resting heart rates, including four years of follow-up. Students continued to experience health benefits, make better food choices and participate in physical activities after the intervention, suggesting that such a program could decrease cardiovascular disease and diabetes risks.
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Health Benefits of Pumpkin
Pumpkins provide excellent nutrition especially pumpkin seeds which contains essential fatty acids, proteins, vitamin B and zinc. The actual flesh of the pumpkin contains Vitamin A and C, Calcium, Thiamine, Phosphorous and Potassium. Pumpkin keeps your whole body healthy by building your immunity. Eating pumpkins help to keep the skin and eyes healthy, plus there is a lot of dietary fiber in Pumpkin.
Pumpkin is one of the most nutritionally valuable foods known to man. Moreover, it’s inexpensive, available year round in canned form, incredibly easy to incorporate into recipes, high in fiber, low in calories, and packs an abundance of disease fighting nutrients.
Naturally when one thinks of Halloween you think of pumpkins. At this time of year we see pumpkins on every block and street corner. They are the season. Most people are not aware of the many nutritional benefits of pumpkin. They are extremely high in antioxidants and beta-carotene. Beta-carotene has been identified as a leading heart-disease and cancer fighter.
Pumpkins belong to the gourd family. Pumpkins, along with cantaloupe and squash, contain an ingredient called cucurbitacin. This powerful substance has been shown to help prevent or inhibit prostate cancer from growing. In addition, it is linked to prevention of urinary tract infections and other bladder problems like incontinence.
Pumpkin seeds benefits are many, amongst other things they are a very good source of the minerals phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, amino acids and zinc. Eating seeds will improve your nutrition. Seeds are also a good source of other minerals including zinc, iron and copper and a good source of protein Vitamin C and other nutrients, such as Niacin, Vitamin E, and vitamin K, Calcium, Iron and other vitamins, and are even said to lower cholesterol, improve bladder function, ease depression and prevent kidney stones.
Pumpkins are not just for making pumpkin pies and carving into scary faces at Halloween. In fact, there are lots of savory pumpkin recipes including classic pumpkin soup, pumpkin stew and you can even use this tasty squash family vegetable in salad recipes.
Pumpkin seeds have been found to help prevent against prostate gland enlargement due to the chemical substances called cucurbitacins it contains. The essential fatty acids in pumpkin seeds are also necessary for prostate health, and zinc (which pumpkin seeds are especially high in) is great for the reproductive systems and has been shown to reduce prostate size.
Pumpkins seeds also contain phyto-sterols, essential fatty acids (EFAs). These EFAs have many benefits that protect blood vessels, nerves, protect all tissue, including the skin, and they can help reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. The pumpkin seeds are high in protein, one ounce of seeds provides about seven grams of protein.
Pumpkin seeds can be eaten raw or cooked. When eaten as snacks of about 1/4 or 1/2 cup, it can deliver the goodness as mentioned above. Pumpkin seeds as synonymous to good health so make it a part of your regular diet by keeping some in the fridge in a tightly sealed container.
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Medicare ‘Doc Fix’ put on life support by AMA lobby
United States (KaiserHealth) – The annual scramble to prevent next year’s scheduled pay cut for doctors who treat Medicare patients kicked off Thursday with physician leaders calling for a five-year program of guaranteed annual raises and a high-ranking House Republican calling for another short-term fix.
The issue – known inside the Beltway as “the doc fix” – is the residue of a law enacted by Congress in the late 1990s that sought to limit the growth of Medicare spending on seniors’ health care. The law limited physician pay increases to same growth levels as the overall economy, which became known as the sustainable growth rate or SGR. Since health care spending over the last decade grew twice as fast as gross domestic product, implementing the SGR would dramatically shrink physician pay as a share of overall Medicare spending.
It never happened. Every year members of the American Medical Association and specialty societies bombard Capitol Hill with demands to restore the old system. And every year, Congress voids the SGR-mandated cuts.
But that means that every year the size of the scheduled pay cut under the original law grows larger. Unless Congress acts before January 1, physician pay next year will be reduced by 29.4 percent. The estimated 10-year cost for the “doc fix,” according to the Congressional Budget Office, is approaching $300 billion.
Rep. David Camp, R-Mich., chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, told a Health Affairs briefing on Thursday that finding $300 billion for a ten-year fix “was untenable in the current situation” when Congress and the White House are struggling to find ways to reduce the $1.5 trillion budget deficit. Rather, he said, the Republican-led House will consider a “several-year fix . . . to get out from under this, and then look to the long-term fix.”
However, even a short-term fix would cost tens of billions of dollars next year, which could wipe out a significant portion of the budget reductions that Republicans are seeking as part of the debt-ceiling negotiations that kicked off yesterday.
Legislators looking for a magic bullet to the physician pay issue received no help from physician lobbying groups who testified on Capitol Hill. At a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on health, the American Medical Association called for scrapping the SGR and instituting a five-year program of regularly scheduled pay increases, during which time the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) could experiment with alternative payment models like bundled payments — a single payment for all services related to a treatment or condition, rather than a series of separate payments — or special reimbursements for coordinating care.
“The SGR is a failed formula,” said Cecil Wilson, an internist from Winter Park, Florida, who is the current president of AMA. “The longer we wait to cast it aside, the deeper the hole we dig.”
The American Academy of Family Physicians, which represents relatively low-paid primary care physicians, called for higher reimbursement rates for their specialty. The American College of Surgeons, which represents some of the highest paid specialists and would be hurt by a shift in pay toward primary care, also called for SGR’s repeal and setting a “realistic” budget baseline for future payment increases for all specialties, which should reflect the actual cost of providing care.
Mark McClellan, who headed CMS during the George W. Bush administration and now heads the Brookings Institution’s health care policy shop, told the subcommittee “the payment reforms in the Affordable Care Act are a foundation for this.” That was an ironic statement coming from a former high-ranking Republican official, since the House majority, in a vote taken earlier this year, repealed the new health reform act in a largely symbolic gesture.
The special interest scramble to get Congress to ditch the SGR every year is a cautionary tale about strategies from both sides of the aisle for Medicare cost control. The health care reform legislation pushed through by President Obama and the Democrats achieves a half trillion dollars in Medicare savings over the next decade largely by putting a ceiling on the program’s annual growth rate that is one percentage point faster than GDP.
Obama, in his deficit reduction plan announced last month, upped the ante by calling for a ceiling growth rate of GDP plus 0.5 percentage point. The vehicle for achieving these savings in either case will be the reform law’s new Independent Payments Advisory Board, which starting in 2015 is scheduled to send mandatory cuts to Capitol Hill whenever health care grows faster than the target rate. Congress could either approve those cuts, or substitute a package of its own that achieved similar savings.
Camp attacked that approach yesterday, saying it was unacceptable for “a bunch of unelected bureaucrats” to dictate cuts that “will only cut payments to providers.” But the Republican plan for lowering Medicare’s unsustainable growth, which is called premium support because it would give future seniors a voucher to buy private insurance, has a cap of its own. It pegs the growth in the government’s annual contribution of premium support payments to a formula that is one percentage point higher than the consumer price index, which in most years is well below the growth in the economy.
In reality, any such formula could be thrown out the window by future Congresses – just as the SGR will be when Congress passes its next “doc fix” sometime before next January.
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Is Swallowing Semen Harmful For Health?
Semen is a seminal fluid that contains sperms. The prostate fluid which gets mixed in the semen causes odor. This odor does not come from testicular secretion. Each testis contains about 100 meter of tube in which sperms are made and transported to vas deferens. Vas deferens is one of the two muscular tubes that join the testes to the ejaculatory duct via prostate gland. It carries spermatozoa to the urethra on ejaculation aided by contraction of muscular wall. Usually 5 to 10 ml of semen is discharged containing about 50 million spermatozoa in one ejaculation. When emission occurs in rapid succession, both quantity and quality decrease.
Once sperms have become mature at the male reproductive organs, their life-span depends on where they happen to be. Fully developed sperm can be stored in the seminal vesicles for many weeks before they are reabsorbed as waste by the body. The ideal condition for the survival of sperm is a warm, moist, alkaline environment-such as found within the uterus. Here after intercourse, sperms can live for up to three days. Before ejaculation sperm’s longevity can be measured in week and months.
An ordinary ejaculation may contains sugar fructose, ascorbic acid, small amount of zinc, traces of cholesterol, protein, calcium, chlorine, blood-group antigens, citric acid, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), vitamin B12, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, uric acid, zinc, nitrogen, lactic acid, and several other nutrients.
If the man is healthy and free from any infection or disease, swallowing semen is absolutely harmless and might even have some nutritional value. However, swallowing semen is harmful in some cases. If the man has contacted any STDs, HIV or other sex-related diseases there is a fair chance of passing the disorder from the man to his partner.
Low Sperm Count and Low Semen Volume
Low semen production and low sperm count are common problems seen in men. This not only affects their male potency but also makes his partner unsatisfied. Low semen volume is often considered as a sign of weak manhood. Good news is that there are some high quality herbal semen volume enhancers that are specially formulated keeping in mind all your needs. Semenax and VolumePills are the most trusted and powerful natural volume enhancers. You can read the complete review on these products by visiting below links.
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Some Employers Already Sending Workers To Exchanges to Buy Health Insurance
United States (KaiserHealth) – Fed up with the unpredictable cost of health insurance for his small business, Mike Sarafolean last year made a dramatic change: Instead of picking a plan to offer workers, he now sends them to a “private exchange” or marketplace where they compare and choose their own insurance. And the amount his company pays toward coverage is capped.
The move puts his St. Paul, Minn.-based company on the leading edge of a nascent trend that could shape how more employers offer and pay for their health benefits in the coming years. It is part of an ongoing evolution in job-based health benefits that is gradually shifting cost and responsibility to workers.
The private exchanges, mainly run by former insurance executives and employee benefit consulting firms, operate in more than 20 states.
While representing only a tiny fraction of workplaces, the movement may be about to grow: One of the nation’s largest employer-benefits consulting firms — Aon Hewitt — said Wednesday it will launch of an exchange aimed at large companies. It hopes to have at least 100,000 workers enrolled by early next year.
Proponents say the effort shields employers from unpredictable premium hikes because they will choose how much to increase their contribution each year and those amounts may be less than premiums actually increase. If that happens, workers would make up the difference.
Tempering such increases, proponents say, would be competition among insurers because workers would have a wider choice of plans, rather than just the one or two currently offered by many employers.
“We’re trying to create a retail marketplace that is competitive,” says Ken Sperling, who is overseeing the Aon Hewitt effort. Employees would get be able to choose among several carriers. “Insurers would have to compete for their business.”
The exchanges, which have some similarities to state-based programs mandated by the federal health overhaul law, also save employers money partly because workers, when given a variety of choices, are likely to choose less generous benefit plans, which will carry lower premiums, say proponents.
“Most companies are over-insuring their employees right now. We want to right-size that,” says Curtiss Butler, chief marketing officer at Liazon, which also operates a private exchange.
Others, including Carmen Balber of the advocacy group Consumer Watchdog, caution that private exchanges potentially could be used by insurers to “cherry pick” employers with younger and healthier workforces. Balber also said private exchanges potentially could steer workers toward policies that have low premiums, but also high annual deductibles and other charges. Such policies are more profitable for insurers, but can leave unprepared consumers on the hook for thousands in medical costs each year.
Private exchanges “absolve the employer from having any responsibility for providing benefits or getting a good deal for consumers,” says Balber.
Frustrated By Double-Digit Premium Hikes
Sarafolean, CEO of Orion Corp. of Minnesota, which provides services for people with disabilities, doesn’t see it that way.
Before he made the switch, Sarafolean said he had a limited number of insurance choices to offer his 70 workers: “I had to buy a plan that would make sense and fit for most people. Now they make choices that fit for them.”
For the past few years, his company faced “double-digit premium increases every renewal.” To slow those increases, Sarafolean said he had switched to a policy with large annual deductibles: payments of $4,500 by individuals or $9,000 by families before insurance began paying most medical costs. His employees also paid about $90 a month toward their premium.
A little more than a year ago, Orion received a 40 percent renewal increase, prompting him to move to Minneapolis-based Bloom Health, which set up private exchanges in Michigan, Minneapolis and Indiana.
Now, his company makes contributions ranging $125 a month for younger workers to $350 for older ones to special health reimbursement accounts, which workers then use to buy an insurance policy.
By making the change to a flat contribution and a private exchange, the company is saving 10 percent over its previous year’s cost of insurance, he says. Many of his workers also spend less, he says.
Gabrielle Smith, an employee of Orion Corporation of Minnesota, changed her benefit plan with the small company (Photo by Andy King).
He’s not sure what he will choose in 2014, when the state-based insurance exchanges are set to open as part of the health care law approved by Congress last year. Initially, those exchanges are aimed at individuals and small companies that are shopping for insurance. States can decide later in the decade whether to open them to large businesses.
Sperling, who is overseeing Aon Hewitt’s private exchange, compares the flat-payment change to one that gained speed in the early’90s: Employers abandoning pensions in favor of offering workers 401(k) plans for retirement savings.
But just as 401(k) plans transferred the risk of market downturns to workers, the flat-payment model would shift risk to workers if rapidly rising health costs outpace increases in employer contributions.
“From a consumer point of view, it makes me nervous because as premiums go up, it’s simply a mechanism to cost-shift,” says Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. “That said, if it allows a small employer to continue to offer insurance … it’s not a terrible compromise.”
The model has been compared to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal to cap government payments for future Medicare enrollees, giving them a set amount to buy coverage from private insurers. Under Ryan’s plan, the government contribution would grow with general inflation, which is less than medical inflation, saving taxpayer dollars, but substantially increasing beneficiaries’ costs, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Sperling says he expects most employers will annually set increases in their health insurance contributions to an amount approximating wage increases – about 2 to 3 percent annually – which are generally well below medical inflation. But he says the competition created by the exchanges will help slow medical premium growth.
Rejection For Health Conditions
Unlike most of the private exchanges, the Bloom Health model, which serves about 25,000 people, sends workers to buy their own policies on the so-called individual market, rather than through a group health policy.
However, insurers selling individual policies in most states can reject applicants with medical problems, a practice that will end in 2014 under rules in the health care law.
Bloom CEO Abir Sen says his company offers its services only in states where rejected applicants can qualify for special state-run, high-risk insurance programs, which generally cost at least 25 percent more.
Gabrielle Smith, a 16-year employee of Orion who has an auto-immune disease, worried that under Bloom she would be unable to get insurance “or it would be so in excess of what I could afford.”
Smith, 48, did get coverage – through Minnesota’s high-risk pool – and found that she still was able to lower her deductible by $1,500 a year compared with the former $4,500 deductible plan offered at Orion. She now pays $45 a month for her premium.
“I haven’t heard anyone who is unhappy with the current insurance because it was all individualized,” says Smith. “Some of the younger employees with no medical conditions (found low-cost plans that) don’t require any money out of their paychecks.”
Other private exchanges, including Buffalo-N.Y.-based Liazon, which serves about 25,000 employees in 23 states, and the new Aon Hewitt model send workers to group policies, which cannot reject applicants with health problems. The exchanges vary in other ways, too: While Bloom and Aon Hewitt offer a variety of insurers, for example, Liazon contracts primarily with one main health insurer in each region.
Aon Hewitt’s model would offer only five different types of policies, ranging from high-deductible “bronze” and “silver” level plans to a high-end “platinum” plan with a broad network of doctors and hospitals and minimal consumer spending on deductibles or co-payments.
All the exchanges plan to collect revenue by charging employers a monthly fee, receiving commissions from insurers, or both.
It’s unclear how the advent of state-based exchanges will affect programs such as Bloom, Liazon and Aon Hewitt, or whether there will still be a demand for their services by small businesses.
“As of 2014, why will the private exchanges be needed?” asks Paul Fronstin of the Employee Benefit Research Institute, a nonprofit research group based in Washington.
On their websites, the private exchanges say what sets them apart from future state exchanges will be their level of customer service. By opening now, private exchanges also could be in a position to bid for contracts to run state exchanges, a move Sperling says Aon Hewitt would consider.
But Balber at Consumer Watchdog counters that the state exchanges may be better for consumers than private ones because states can choose to actively monitor the quality and cost of the insurers allowed to participate. In theory, private exchanges could do the same, but Balber is skeptical.
“To presume a private exchange is going to examine trends in premium increases and pressure insurers to lower prices is unlikely,” she says.
Benefit experts say there is growing interest in the move to a flat payment model, dubbed “defined contribution.” A March survey of very large employers by the HR Policy Association found that 36 percent are considering capping contributions for workers’ insurance over the next 10 years.
Some firms already set a cap on contributions for retirees, Fronstin says. But he predicts that most employers will take a wait-and-see approach before changing their health coverage for current employees.
Aon Hewitt’s Sperling says as the health system overhaul takes effect, most employers will continue to offer coverage to workers: “They’re either going to stay in the game and be more requiring of their employees (around healthy behavior) or will look for a realistic exit strategy, which could be a corporate exchange.”
– Provided by Kaiser Health News.
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Iced tea health benefits
This summer, pour a glass of iced tea instead of soda or other sugary drinks. Tea doesn’t just taste good, it can be good for you too.
Natural iced tea contains healthy antioxidants known as polyphenols. These polyphenols do more than just protect cells from damage of free radicals; they also play a role in heart health, cancer protection and immunity. Antioxidants and free radicals
Research shows that free radicals can cause oxidative damage to cells, contributing to aging and a number of chronic health problems, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease and vision loss.
Antioxidants interact with and stabilize free radicals, preventing some of the damage these harmful molecules might otherwise cause.
Important antioxidants belong to a category of natural compounds known as phytochemicals . Cartenoids, flavonoids and polyphenols are some of the most common antioxidant phytochemicals. These substances are found in fruits, vegetables and tea. Health benefits of natural tea
Natural iced tea, such as Swiss Premium Tea, is a terrific alternative to sugary beverages because it does not contain high fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors or preservatives. Tea keeps you hydrated, tastes great and contains healthy antioxidants.
Studies show that consuming foods or beverages filled with antioxidants helps to support overall good health. The antioxidants in tea also may inhibit the growth of cancer cells and support cardiovascular health. Drink up
Though tea isn’t a cancer cure-all, it does have enough health benefits that you should incorporate it into your diet. Natural iced tea is also perfect for kids because it helps limit their intake of sugary beverages. If you are hosting a summer party or brunch, have a pitcher of iced tea on hand to serve your guests. Try this delicious drink recipe created from green tea, kiwis and strawberries. Swiss Tea Kiwi-Strawberry Fusion
You don’t have to drink tea on its own. By mixing it with fruit and ice, you can create a delicious, healthy concoction that your whole family will enjoy. Ingredients 1 cup Swiss Green Tea with Ginseng and Honey 1/2 cup fresh kiwi fruit, sliced 1/2 cup fresh strawberries, sliced ice Directions Blend ingredients until smooth. Garnish with a fresh strawberry. Nutrition information
173 calories, 43g carbohydrates, 1g protein, 1g fat, 0g saturated fat, 0mg cholesterol, 15mg sodium, 5g fiber, 210% DV Vitamin C, 6% DV Iron, 3% DV Vitamin A, 5% DV Calcium More about tea
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