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Several studies have suggested that the health benefits associatedwith the consumption of omega-3 fat are linked to their anti-inflammatory abilities. Recent information also shows that thisimpact is caused by the fat's direct interaction with immune system cells that are responsible for causing inflammation. Omega-3 is an essential fats that we as humans cannot create ourselves and must therefore come from our diets. Flaxseed and certain nuts (walnuts in particular) are good sources of * omega-3 (short chain); while fatty fish is a primary source of animal-source omega-3 (long chain). The regular consumption of these foods is important because a lack of omega-3 is directly associated with the development of several cardiovascular and neurological diseases, as well as cancer. The positive impact that omega-3 fats have is due to various effects it has on the person. For example, the presence of long-chain omega-3 in ceU membranes allows them to be more malleable, therefore facflitat...

How dirty electricity affects your life -Part 2 Scientists in Russia have been at the forefront of EMR research. During the Second World War, they noticed that radar operators often suffered from symptoms that we now attribute to EMR. And during the height of the Cold War, they secretly bombarded the U.S. embassy in Moscow with microwave radiation, causing radiation sickness. Later, in 2007, a collaboration of scientists from the U.S., Sweden, Denmark, Austria and China released a 650-page report citing 2,000 studies that detailed the toxic effects of EMR. It concluded that even low-level radiation could impair immunity and contribute to Alzheimer's disease, dementia and heart disease. Other studies have linked EMR to miscarriage, birth defects, suicide, Lou Gehrig's disease and Parkinson's disease. In addition to these disorders, there's evidence that EMR triggers cancer. In Australia in 1956, when television was introduced, researchers documented a rapid increase in m...

How dirty electricity affects your life -Part 1 Are you feeling tired, suffer from sleepiness, depression, increased irritability, unexplained aches and pains, headaches, skin rashes, ringing in the ears, numbness, an irregular heart beat, increased blood pressure or a foggy brain? If so, you may be suffering from "electrosensitivity." Dr. Magda Havas, a renowned international expert on elctro-magnetic radiation (EMR), says "dirty electricity" is a growing worldwide health concern. Today, few of us would want to discard our electronic devices. But I never realized how modern electrical gizmos generated so much dirty electricity. Dr. Havas says clean electricity originally powered our homes and workplaces, using a safe frequency of 60 Hertz (Hz). Today, transformers convert 60 Hz to low-voltage power for electronic devices. This creates micro surges of dirty electricity that contain up to 2,500 times the energy of a conventional 60 Hz electrical system. In effect, we...

An official from the Laval clinic said no one was available to answer questions. The patient in question, Jean Pa-quite, was furious. We are already paying for this with our taxes, ‘That’s what’s frustrating." Ifs not the only controversial practice going on. Private clinics are pushing the boundaries in other ways. Physimed, are telling patients they have public-system family doctors accepting new patients — a rarity .They are trying to find ways to make a profit wherever they can here. The catch? Patients must first pay for a physical that involved a multiplicity of tests — blood, bone density, x-ray and the like. The cost at Physimed, according to a fiscal who answered the phone, was $460. You force the patient to pay to have access to services that are insured. "Strictly speaking, having to pay for insured services is prohibited by the province's health insurance act According to a professor of epidemiologist at McGill University, these types of practices are more t...

MONTREAL -If, despite what they say, laws were not meant to be broken, in the case of private medical care in Quebec they were meant to be pushed to the brink or so it would appear, experts say, as private and semi-private clinics in and around Montreal find new ways to interpret the province’s health laws in order to bring in the cash. Quebec is at the forefoot of private health in Canada, and health and legal scholars say this '^bending" of laws is to be expected when a highly visible and vocal for-profit network sits at the margins of a vast and problem-plagued public system Quebec’s medical insurance agency says it has launched investigations into some newly discovered practices that it says might not conform with provincial laws or the Canada Health Act In one case, a private surgery clinic in Laval seems to have found a way to entice patients to be treated in its environs. The Critique chirurgical de Laval offered a man who needed bursitis surgery on his shoulder to ...

"PSWs are the most intimate point of contact for 75,000 elderly Ontarians living in go vernment-supported nursing homes, helping with everything from feeding to toileting." While these Long-Term Care (LTC - not 'nursing homes' - there are fewer nurses) are homes run on government support, most (about 500 out of the 600 in Ontario) are for-profit institutions. Thereby lies the rub. And regulation of retirement homes isn't going to help. We need consistently trained, responsive, responsible PSWs who are accountable, registered and regulated. I am not sure that the training is entirely the issue, either. It is making the for-profit institutions accountable to taxpayers and residents for effectively-managed staff. The work formerly done by nurses is now being done by PSWs: changing bedding, changing incontinence products, toileting of incontinent residents, which requires a great deal of intimate interaction. Rumours of for-profit institutions demanding t...

Repeated provincial claims that the federal share of health care spending is 16 cents, down from 50 cents in the 1960s, are false. Provincial claim: The federal share of health care spending is 16 cents on the dollar. To arrive at this figure, provinces divide the combined cash portions of the Canada Health Transfer (CHT) and the Canada Social Transfer (CST), as well as the Health Reform Transfer (HRT), by all of their social spending, not just their health care spending - they also include social services and primary, secondary and post-secondary education in their calculation. **************************** 1. Together, the Canada Health Transfer, Health Reform Transfer and Diagnostic/Medical Equipment Fund, as well as funding for public health and immunization, make up a federal contribution of about $27.2 billion, or an average of 33% of provincial health spending. 2. When an amount of equalization payments corresponding to the amount of total program spending that provinces allocate...