Hands to Help Seniors

CHOMP has a number of great classes starting soon such as the Diabetes Prevention Program which will be held on Wednesdays starting on January 28 from 5:00 p. m. to 6:00 p.m. for 16 weeks in classroom 3 at CHOMP.  The focus on this particular session is to analyze the National Diabetes Program of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and help you reduce your risk of getting this disease.  The program has shown remarkable success for those who make the behavior changes covered in the program.  If you are interested in attending, you can register by calling 649-7220.  For more information on classes at CHOMP go to www.chomp.org.

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CHOMP has a number of great classes starting soon such as the Diabetes Prevention Program which will be held on Wednesdays starting on January 28 from 5:00 p. m. to 6:00 p.m. for 16 weeks in classroom 3 at CHOMP.  The focus on this particular session is to analyze the National Diabetes Program of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and help you reduce your risk of getting this disease.  The program has shown remarkable success for those who make the behavior changes covered in the program.  If you are interested in attending, you can register by calling 649-7220.  For more information on classes at CHOMP go to www.chomp.org.

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An advisory panel for the Agriculture Department is recommending not only that you be told which foods are better for your health, but how good they are for the environment.  This would be a first effort for the Agriculture Department to truly go green.  When new guidelines are released, they are expected to push harder than ever for more fruits, vegetables, nuts, whole grains and other plant based food.  The beef and some agriculture industries are up in arms about the potential recommendation as they are likely to have an extremely negative impact on their businesses.  A dietary pattern higher in plant-based foods and lower in animal-based foods is “,more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact than is the current average U.S. diet,” says a draft of an Agriculture Department report which was leaked to the press.  There’s likely to be quite a bit of controversy surrounding this report prior to its release.  However, it’s unlikely that the beef business will be able to get the report buried. 

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The Alzheimer’s Association will be hosting a class for those taking care of a family member with the disease on January 16 at their Ryan's Ranch office (21 Lower Ragsdale Drive in Monterey) from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.  If you have a family member who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia disorder, it could be helpful to attend.  They will give you the opportunity to get more information about community resources, learn from others who are going through similar experiences, and obtain additional educational materials.  This group meets on the third Friday of every month.  For more information call 375-4454 or go to www.alz.org/norcal.

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There are a number of new medicines in the pipeline which are promising new drugs to treat cancer and other potentially critical illnesses.  However, for many it may be too late by the time the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) gets around to approving them.  Many patients are demanding the right to try drugs, even if they haven't been proved successful in clinical trials.  A number of states including Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan & Missouri have already enacted legislation to allow this and I hope California does the same.  "It's my life," Larry Kutt, who has advanced blood cancer, told The New York Times, "and I want the chance to save it."  Despite the new legislation, many patients are still having difficulty getting access to the new medications as drug companies are fearful of releasing them to the public before they have received full approval from the FDA.  A Federal Appeals court ruled in 2007 that patients do not have the constitutional right to receive drugs which haven't been approved by the FDA.  However, many states are still trying to get patient access to the drugs and the FDA has a process in place for helping very ill people receive unapproved treatments

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New research which was published in the journal Science has found that poor lifestyle choices and inherited genes are not the main causes of cancer as previously thought.  Rather, most types of cancer are simply due to bad luck when our stem-cell's start dividing.  These genetic mutations are, unfortunately, random and there's not much we can do about it.  Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of medicine said that we should continue to lead a healthy lifestyle as this will have some impact.  The study, however, indicates that there needs to be more early screening for various types of cancer because we will not be able to simply identify high risk groups to test because much of the causation is random.  "It means screening, it means also new research for new ways to detect cancer earlier," Dr. Cristian Tomasetti, assistant professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins, told the Wall Street Journal.  "Especially for those cancers where it looks like by far the majority is due to randomness..change in our lifestyle won't affect very much of the incidence of that cancer," he said.

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