Site which posts safety alerts issued by the FDA as well as additional alerts that come from other sources.
http://www.consumermedsafety.org/
Original story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/12/AR2009011202340.html
Actually it’s probably more than that. Livestrong.com is my new best friend. It’s very easy to enter the foods you eat and the activities you do. The charts and graphs for seeing your progress and monitoring where you measure up according to recommended nutritional requirements are great. It’s very easy to see how what you’re eating provides or doesn’t provide the nutrients you should be getting. I’ve made some needed adjustments based on the site feedback and I seem to be shedding a few. Hopefully I will be able to keep it up long-term. As of now the site is free. For something like $50/year you can become a Gold member and get access to more tools and keep unlimited information. It does seem to be supported by advertising. There are some very doubious ads regarding “effortless” weightloss schemes which I think detract considerably from the site’s credibility. Other than that I think it’s one well put together tool that I’ve found easy to use. There are quite a few things you can see on the site, so it might take a few days of use to take it all in.
Looking for a selection of food storage items other than what you can find at Costco? Here are a couple of suppliers that will ship items.
Blue Chip Group, Inc. - They’re located in Salt Lake City. I was able to walk into their location and pick up quite a few items on the spot. They have an extensive price list (12 pages) on their website. You can order online and have items shipped or you can pick up yourself. Prices seemed to be competitive for bulk grains and beans. They had a good selection of freeze dried and dehydrated fruits and vegetables for long term storage.
Walton Feed - They’re located in Idaho. I ordered some things in July. They called me today and the items should be here (Utah) on Monday (November 24). Obviously you need to plan ahead. I haven’t done a close comparison regarding prices, but it’s another option.
11/24/2008
Update on Walton Feed: My original order had 3 items - cornmeal, soybeans, and quinoa. I received 1 item - cornmeal. I was told they were out of soybeans. The delivery driver handed me an invoice that didn’t have the quinoa but instead listed Mix-Spanish Rice Casserole. I didn’t accept the spanish rice from the driver. I sent an email to Walton Feed with a copy of the original order confirmation which clearly listed the 3 items I originally ordered. Hopefully I’ll be reimbursed in a timely manner for the spanish rice.
This tool will help you create a family health history.
As a doctoral student in nursing informatics I’m very interested when a new search tool comes out. I saw an article about deepdyve on Google news.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10093575-2.html
I gave it a try.
http://mysearch.deepdyve.com/start.php
I don’t have anything positive to report so far. I tried searches on “personal health records research”, “personal health records”, and “PHR”. All searches took a long time to complete. All searches returned NO results. deepdyve’s email giving me my username and password says I would be able to, ”…access the wealth of untapped information that resides in the ‘Deep Web’.” If the results deepdyve returned on my subject of interest are what is available in the “Deep Web”, I guess I better stay on the surface for now.
November 18, 2008
Update: I received an email a couple days after I saw the original story. It explained that high demand caused several users to get no results. I did go back and try another search. It may be a good tool after you learn how to use it, but it does look like there is a bit of a learning curve.
President-Elect Obama has set up a new website to inform people about the coming transition in government and take input.
I came accross this site today. It allows you to enter the food you eat and your exercise along with goals. It lets you see graphs on your progress. It’s easy to enter what you’ve eaten because it has a lot of stuff from restaurants and packaged food.
I just learned a neat trick with Endnote today. You can search online (like Pubmed) and download all your references. Then you can select your references and have Endnote download the complete text of articles which are available. On the section of references I tried out it was able to find and download about 20% of them. I figure that’s a few fewer articles that I have to track down myself.
Google just released a new browser. Looks interesting. Easy to set up.http://www.google.com/chrome/index.html?hl=en&brand=CHMB&utm_campaign=en&utm_source=en-ha-na-us-sk&utm_medium=ha&utm_term=chrome
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