From the NYS Cancer Mapping Project. These numbers are adjusted based on "estimated" cancer risk, which is an average of the number of cancers state-wide, excluding New York City, based on age and gender of each block group. As they note, elevated cancer levels are based on many different factors, some are environmental while others are cultural, genetic and behavioral.
Whether as a result of heat, hunger, standing for too long, or merely at the sight of blood or needles, 40% of people faint at least once in their lifetime.
But exactly what causes these brief losses of consciousness — which researchers call ‘syncope’ — has remained a mystery for cardiologists and neuroscientists for a long time.
Now, researchers have discovered a neural pathway, which involves a previously undiscovered group of sensory neurons that connect the heart to the brainstem. The study, published in Nature on 1 November1, shows that activating these neurons made mice became immobile almost immediately while displaying symptoms such as rapid pupil dilation and the classic eye-roll observed during human syncope.
Often when you hear about cancer risk, the focus is on environmental toxins that cause cancer. Things like persistent organic pollutants, asbestos, benzene, vinyl chlorides and arsenic. Environmental carcinogens are concerning but often they get too much attention because they are out of one’s control.
On the other hand, things in one’s own control that are most closely correlated with cancer, namely diet and exercise get very little attention when it comes to cancer. Obesity is a known cancer risk, quite clearly the highest of all cancer risks. Extra stores of body fat not only store carcinogens in one’s body, the foods that put on the extra pounds often contain the most carcinogens — meats and milk while tasty, delicious and protein-dense comes from animals which have spent their days eating and aggregating toxins from plants into their products consumed by humans.
I’m not an advocate for a plant-based diet but I do think moderation is key when it comes to eating animal and animal-based products. Don’t go crazy but stay away from excessive fat, carbohydrates, salts and sugars. Avoid processed foods as many are high in at least one of those four things, to cover up for the poor quality of materials used and their ultra-palliative nature. Instead, go for simpler “whole” foods and cook with appropriate spices at home.
Take more personal responsibility for your own well-being. Don’t blame the factory down the road when you are eating crap all day, smoking cigarettes and not getting outside and getting exercise. It might be tough to be tough on yourself, but it’s key to living a good, long life.
Medicaid programs, which vary from state to state, are not required to cover dental care; several states do not. But under federal law, if a state Medicaid program does cover an optional category of care — such as dentistry, prescription drugs or optometry — it must cover all medically necessary care in that category.
The suit argued that dental health was essential not just to overall physical health but also to psychological well-being and the ability to find or keep a job.
“You need to have teeth to function in our society,” said Belkys Garcia, a lawyer with the Legal Aid Society, which filed the suit. “It impacts everything in your life — your relationships, how people see themselves, how others see you.” Sign up for the New York Today Newsletter Each morning, get the latest on New York businesses, arts, sports, dining, style and more. Get it sent to your inbox.
For decades, Ms. Garcia said, New York’s coverage rules for Medicaid were “structured to pull your teeth rather than save them.” And because one of the main jobs of a tooth is to hold its neighbors in place, an extraction often has a domino effect: Losing teeth leads to losing more teeth.
