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Residency Personal Statement – Experts Improve Your Residency Essay

January 31st, 2010 admin

Matching to a residency program through the NRMP® (National Resident Matching Program) is a competitive endeavor. Even strong candidates – especially IMGs (international medical graduates) – can have difficulty getting PGY-1 (post graduate year one) positions in many specialties. Those that do match may not get their first or second choices, leaving them in suboptimal locations or programs. Consequently, professional residency admissions consulting have become increasingly important in optimizing residency applications and ensuring that candidates get into the programs they desire.

 

Residency admissions consulting companies come in a variety of forms. Some are larger companies that focus on admissions to several types of graduate programs – not just medicine. Others are smaller companies that provide a medical focus, but have a pool of consultants of varying quality. Finally, elite companies offer both the medical focus and a highly experienced consultant who works one-on-one with clients. These professionals are ex-admissions officers from respected medical institutions. They have the inside knowledge of how residency admissions work, providing personalized guidance to optimize candidates’ residency personal statement, ERAS® and interview skills.

 

Because applicants can unknowingly undermine their chances of success with poorly compiled materials, underdeveloped residency application personal statement and inadequate interview skills, a qualified, personalized residency admissions consultant provides a great advantage.

 

An expert consultant can offer a variety of services to improve a residency application:

 

  1. ERAS® (or alternative application) editing. The Electronic Residency Application Service is a centralized program that transmits applications and other supporting credentials from the applicant to program directors using the Internet. Most residency programs now use ERAS®; a few have individual applications. ERAS® and other applications include a section for describing all of an applicant’s accomplishments. Ensuring that a candidate’s activity descriptions are optimally-worded is essential for showcasing the applicant’s accomplishments to residency admissions officers.
  2. Personal statement for residency application. The ERAS® essay allows the applicant to demonstrate his or her distinctiveness as a candidate. Excellent organization, format, syntax, grammar and spelling are essential.
  3. Curriculum vitae (C.V.). The C.V. is a standardized medical resume that is offered to faculty to improve candidates’ letters of recommendation (LORs), highly important factors in the residency application process. The C.V. can also be used for the rest of the applicant’s professional career.
  4. Mock interviews. Few people would take the Boards without practicing first. But many applicants mistakenly arrive at their residency interviews unprepared. Being coached by an experienced professional makes an enormous difference in an applicant’s confidence and presentation to program directors and residency admissions committees.

 

When choosing a residency admissions consulting company, an applicant should verify the company’s references and research its consultants. Elite companies that offer both the medical focus and a highly experienced consultant who works one-on-one with clients offer a large advantage for residency applicants, especially during these competitive times.

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Healthy Diet For Diabetics

January 31st, 2010 admin

If you have been diagnosed with diabetes, the doctor advised that you must change your diet and to start a program of regular exercise. Your doctor may have made you an appointment with a nutritionist. You will be able to get a dietician and diabetic recipes out off the internet.

Diabetics are at increased risk of heart disease and problems in the flow of blood in the legs. They have to follow a healthy diet low in fat and a diet that also helps control the level of blood sugar.

So what can you do to manage their diabetes, and to be healthy?

The Diabetes organization has developed a healthy eating food pyramid as a guide to healthy eating for diabetics. They recommend eating: –

1. 6-11 portion of grains and starches per day – bread, pasta, rice, cereals, dried beans and starchy vegetables like potatoes.

2. A minimum of 3-5 servings of vegetables a day – look for vegetable recipes and diabetic recipes using vegetables.

3. 2-4 servings of fruit a day.

4. 2-3 servings of low fat or no fat milk.

5. 4-6 ounces (about 112-168g) of meat and meat substitutes, per day – This should be shared between meals and not eat at a meal. Visible fat should be trimmed off meat should be cooked and healthy – grilled, baked or grilled instead of fried. Meat alternate are cheese, cottage cheese, nut butters, dried beans, eggs and tofu.

6. The smaller group is alcohol, fats and sweets that need to be limited. Alcohol and sweets should only be consumed as treats in small portions. Use recipes low fat and non fat or low fat products.

Other suggestions for diabetics are: –

- Look for specific diabetic recipes to help you follow a healthy diet for your situation.

- Eating the same amount of food at the same time every day – eat regularly to control their level of blood sugar.

- Add starchy foods such as dried beans and bean soups and casseroles to increase their intake of starch. Look out for diabetic recipes that use these starchy foods, because it will have a positive effect on the level of blood sugar.

- Eat plenty of fruit and vegetables for soluble fiber helps reduce the absorption of glucose in the intestine.

- Control your weight – This is particularly important for type 2 diabetes because extra body fat causes the body to have difficulty making and using insulin. Look for diabetics and healthy recipes low fat recipes to help you lose weight and weight control. If you lose a few pounds, you may even be able to reduce medication.

- Control your intake of carbohydrates in meals by carbohydrate count. Your medical professional will be able to advise you on how you need many carbohydrates in each meal, based on their level of exercise and medication.

- Follow a diet low in fat – Diabetics are at a greater risk of heart disease so try to limit your fat intake below 30% of their total daily calorie intake.

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Cure for Heart Disease Lied about by Doctors?

January 31st, 2010 admin

“The People” have had enough apparently!

An “insider” revealed today that the “World of Medicine” is scamming people – and even worse: with the help of “law-makers!”

It seems that “money” (as usual) has blinded doctors and medical practitioners to the degree that they are now willingly *suppressing* the truth regarding Heart Disease – its control, management, and even its cure!

That’s right: “cure!”

And what should shock you even more:

It seems that it’s against the law to say the word “cure” when describing anything that actually cures you.

Yet it’s very much okay to say that something “treats” or helps “offset” the symptoms of some health condition or disease.

But if you say “cure” (and even including when you in fact have a real and bona fide cure for something and can even prove it!) you can get arrested.

Ever wonder why we have a “healthcare” industry and not a “healthcure” industry?

It’s simply because no one’s out to “cure” anyone because there’s little money in doing so.

Instead, keeping you sick and marginally pain-free is all anyone’s really out to do for you these days – as doing so means you being “forced” to buy all the same drugs over and over again, and again, and … (you get the point!)

Of course, if a cure came along it would mean you buy it one time, and then you’re cured – and that’s that (over and done!)

But a number of doctors, philanthropists, and just plain old “good folks” armed with “real answers” and “real solutions” are stepping up and are NOT afraid of “Uncle Big-Bully Brother!”

One courageous fellow by the name of Melford Bibens, CPT, is doing exactly this, as he’s helped others overcame “naturally” the condition known as “Heart Disease!”

Not only that, but Melford has lectured and personally helped individuals beat the disease to the point that proven sufferers have actually gotten re-diagnoses as “no longer having the disease at all!” (Something that’s pretty much always been ruled out as a possibility altogether! – and now which may even be against the law!)

But it’s not certain how long Melford will be allowed to do this because “Uncle Sambo” has actually started using “Gestapo” tactics whereby people and businesses truly offering “cures” have been raided with masked armed police who even go to the point of forcing customers in the stores to get down on the floor at gunpoint!

So, if you’re wise and want to find out about this while it’s still possible for you to do so, then just visit this link now:

   ~~~>  http://www.UltimateHealthyHeart.com/amdigital

But don’t be surprised if one day soon you return to find this site completely removed with a US Flag waving in its place (in the name of “freedom” no less!)

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Impotence Causes & Cure

January 31st, 2010 admin

An estimated 10 to 15 million men in the United States suffer from impotence, also known as erectile dysfunction. Some people also use the term impotence to describe other problems such as lack of sexual desire and the inability to ejaculate or have an orgasm. While many people who suffer from impotence suffer in silence, it is a treatable condition at any age.

Many of the myths and legends about impotence, borne out of ignorance thousands of years ago, still influence our sexual culture. Primitive cultures believed that male virility was intricately interwoven with power, wealth and domination.

Impotence may have a physical, lifestyle, or psychological cause. An underlying medical condition is the most common cause of impotence. Such conditions may interfere with the blood supply to the penis, the generation of nerve impulses involved in getting and maintaining an erection.

Medical research shows that there are many ways a man can be affected by erectile dysfunction or ED. ED can be caused by certain bodily disorders such as diabetes, hypertension, low blood pressure, heart problems, and abnormalities in the nervous system. The state of one’s mental health is also a reason why a man could become impotent. Those suffering from stress, depression, and anxiety attacks are prone to ED.

The Cause of Impotence in Males

First off, to achieve an erection, the penis needs both an adequate inflow of blood and a slowing of blood outflow. Disorders that narrow arteries and decrease blood inflow on the blood vessels can cause erectile dysfunction. Also, abnormalities in the veins of the penis can sometimes drain blood back to the body so rapidly that erections cannot be sustained despite adequate blood flow.

Cure:

1. Low-fat is Key! Lower your fat intake to less than 60 grams per day! Stay away from processed foods, fast food and desserts to reverse impotence.

2. Cholesterol is the Culprit! Cholesterol clogs arteries and allows less blood flow to… you know where! Stay away from animal and animal product foods.

3. Start exercising today! Take a 15 minute walk, clean the garage, or mow the lawn! Whatever your method, you need to slowly and gradually start exercising. If you start slow enough, you will eventually like it!

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Under Weight Treatment

January 31st, 2010 admin

Weight gain is one of the most popular means of getting fit these days. This is because gaining weight can be a good indicator of robust health as well as of the person’s positive outlook in life. Being underweight may be more common than you think. These individuals thrive to have a curvy body type. Just like those with issues of being overweight, people who are underweight often get teased and tormented about their inability to gain weight. Constantly being teased, coupled with bouts of low self esteem pushes them to seek desperate, unhealthy measures to gain weight. People with low weight issues should be aware that there are healthy ways to gain weight.

Underweight Treatment:

1. Rising calorie intake by 400 to 1100 calories every day can help supply the extra calories needed to gain lean weight.

2. It takes time to growth muscle weight.

Most folks can successfully get ½ to 2 pounds of muscle weight every week if they eat plenty food to fulfill their extra calorie and protein needs for weight increase or and train properly.

3. Choose high calorie foods.

For Instance, select juices over whole fruits and low-fat milk over skimmed milk or water.

4. Take larger food portions. Don’t skip meals.

Raising the amounts of food that you consume at one time will help supply the calories required to gain muscle weight.

5. Take five or more meals every day.

Eat enough of higher calorie noshes plus meals throughout the day.

6. Drink lot of fluids that provide calories such as juice, milk, milkshakes, and sports beverages.

E.g., drinking 1½ quarts of grape or cranberry juice supplies 1100 calories. 1½ quarts of 2% milk supplies 720 calories.

7. Set real goals.

Genetic factors can play a large role in shape. You are not going to look like Arnold if your parents look like Pee Wee Herman.

8. Make regular, relaxing sleep – 7 – 8 hr every night. Growth hormone peaks in great sleep. Adequate sleep is important for your body to build new muscle body mass.

Gaining weight doesn’t have to be difficult. Nor does gaining weight have to be unhealthy. Changing a few things in your diet, followed by a workout plan that incorporates free weights is all you’ll need to leave that underweight body behind. Good luck on starting your new diet and workout routine. Wide range of healthy foods that can be included in the diet are vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, whole wheat grains, lean meats, seafood, poultry products as well as some dairy products. Keep in mind that food no matter what they are can add up to your weight. But not all can be healthy for you such as some processed foods that contain saturated fats and bad cholesterol. Wide range of healthy foods that can be included in the diet are vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, whole wheat grains, lean meats, seafood, poultry products as well as some dairy products. Keep in mind that food no matter what they are can add up to your weight. But not all can be healthy for you such as some processed foods that contain saturated fats and bad cholesterol.

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Red Bean Chili con Carne

January 31st, 2010 admin

A simple recipe and a family favorite in my home, this hearty Red Bean Chili con Carne will tempt even the most finicky eater to the table. A great low carbohydrate and high fiber dish for a diabetic that the entire family will love. Hearty and warming, it’s the perfect dish for a cool autumn evening or a cold winters night.

Red Bean Chili con Carne

Ingredients:

3 cups onions, large dice
3 cups green bell pepper, large dice
9 – 10 cloves garlic, diced (about 3 heaping Tbsp.)
3 1/2 lbs. lean ground beef or lean ground turkey
chili powder
1 Tbsp. paprika
1 Tbsp. dried parsley
ground cumin
ground coriander
oregano (Mexican if you have but Italian is fine)
14 Tbsp. liquid hickory smoke
1/4 tsp. crushed red pepper flakes (more to taste)
2 – 14.5 ounce cans dark red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
1 – 16 ounce can beef stock (low sodium)
1 – 29 ounce can diced tomatoes
1 – 29 ounce can tomato puree
2 Tbsp. dried cilantro
1 tsp. Splenda
2 Tbsp. olive or canola oil

It’s important to note that I do not give measurements for the chili powder, cumin, coriander and oregano. I think that it is up to individual taste and how strong the chili powder is. I use a simple rule of thumb though. A ratio of chili powder to cumin to coriander to oregano. The ratio is 3 parts chili powder to 2 parts cumin to 1 part coriander to 1 part oregano. So, if you use 1 Tbsp. of chili powder you’ll use 2 tsp. cumin and 1 tsp. each coriander and oregano. Of course this is just an example as I can use as much as 4 Tbsp. chili powder and so on, during cooking.

In a large heavy bottom pot heat oil on high and add the onions, green bell pepper and garlic. Saute until tender, about 10 minutes. Add the ground beef and lightly blend together. Add one layer of spices, using the chili powder, paprika and parsley. Cook until the beef is browned. Add the kidney beans, beef stock and tomato products. Add another layer of spices using the chili powder, cumin, coriander and oregano. Stir to blend. Bring to simmer and reduce heat to medium low and partially cover. Cook about 1 hour and add another layer of spices using chili powder, cumin, coriander, liquid smoke and crushed red pepper flakes. Cook for about 45 minutes. Add the cilantro and Splenda and continue to cook for about 15 minutes. Taste for seasoning all along and add more to taste.

Yields about 5 1/2 quarts or 11 servings
2 cup serving Amount Per Serving using lean ground beef

Calories 547.9
Total Fat 32.8 g (6 1/2 fat exchanges)
Saturated Fat 12.4 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.7 g
Monounsaturated Fat 14.8 g
Cholesterol 107.9 mg
Sodium 807.9 mg
Potassium 1,053.8 mg
Total Carbohydrate 30.3 g
Dietary Fiber 9.1 g
Sugars 7.4 g
Protein 33.1 g
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Amount per serving using lean ground turkey:
Calories 415.0
Total Fat 16.9 g (3 fat exchanges)
Saturated Fat 4.0 g
Polyunsaturated Fat 3.9 g
Monounsaturated Fat 7.0 g
Cholesterol 107.1 mg
Sodium 821.1 mg Potassium 961.9 mg
Total Carbohydrate 30.3 g
Dietary Fiber 9.1 g
Sugars 7.4 g
Protein 36.4 g

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