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Last week the mHealth Summit took place in Washington, D.C. Participants shared information on mobile technology, health research, and policy. Leaders of governments, the private sector, non-profits organizations and academia met at the mHealth Summit to dialogue and collaborate to advance mobile health projects. Cell phones play an important role in the mobile health technology strategy.

More than 100 Countries Use Mobile Health Technology

Attending the mHealth Summit was a Whos Who list of important organizations. Conference organizers, include such notable members as the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health and the mHealth Alliance. The mHealth Alliance is made up of the United Nations Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Vodafone Foundation. Featured conference speakers included William Gates, head of the Gates Foundation, Aneesh Chopra, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Julio Frenk, M.D., Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health and Chairman of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health, Ted Turner, Chairman and Founder of the United Nations Foundation and Judith Rodin, President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

Is mobile health technology all that far reaching? According to an article by Neil Versel, FierceMobileHealthcare.com, 90% of the world population lives in range of a wireless telephone signal. 70% of the 5 billion cell phone users are in third world countries, and by 2015, the mHealth Alliance expects 50% of all cell phone users will be able to access the web on their cell phones. Already 100 countries are using some type of mobile health technology. The information technology is not revolutionary. Its use in health is, Julian Schweitzer, chair of the Finance Working Group for the UN Secretary-Generals Global Strategy for Womens and Childrens Health, said. Im not saying that mobile technology is a panacea, but theres such tremendous possibility, primarily because the cell phones are already there and usage is growing so fast, says Dr. Schweitzer.

1,000 women die daily in childbirth worldwide. Schweitzer is hoping that mHealth will address this issue, and work to reduce child and maternal mortality. While advanced mobile health technology can greatly impact the rate of infant and maternal mortality, even basic cell phones can save lives. Midwives using cell phones and mobile health technology can connect to monitor fetal heartbeats, or use remote ultrasounds.

With mobile technologies for health, called mhealth or mobile health, were extending capabilities to where they dont exist today, says David Aylward, who heads mHealth Alliance. In the near future, wireless diagnostics like stethoscopes, blood pressure, temperature and insulin monitors, and ultrasounds will enable remote diagnosis and treatment far from the closest doctor or clinic, says Mr. Aylward.

Isnt technology wonderful? The ability to do medical diagnostics via a cell phone just boggles my mind. Think of what this will mean to remote areas of the world that have little or no access to hospitals.

I just returned from a wonderfully inspirational visit to San Francisco. The trip was the California Walnut Board’s Spring Salad event. The day we spent in San Francisco and Sonoma was breathtaking and information-packed. I came back more committed than ever to sharing my enthusiasm for the importance of cooking and eating well.

It was great to meet with Dr. Michael Roizen, the co-author of the best-selling YOU: Staying Younger, coauthored with Dr. Mehmet Oz, as well as all the other best-selling YOU: books. He is the co-founder of RealAge, and author and co-author of the best-selling Real-Age books.

Dr. Roizen emphasizes that we can reset the clock by choosing to eat well and exercise. If you have ever felt depressed or overwhelmed by listening to the doom and gloom broadcast by some health reporters, Dr. Roizen’s simple upbeat approach is a relief . According to this well-qualified expert, simple change can help all of us undo past damage and feel better, live longer, and be healthier.

There were two interesting pieces of information that he shared with us that I’d like to share with all of you. According to Dr. Roizen, eating a small snack of six walnuts before a meal with a drink of some kind – perhaps a glass of wine or some mineral water, he didn’t specify – can actually make you less hungry for dinner. The fats in the nuts are healthful but they also have the effect of blocking your hunger. The good fat in nuts signals your body to release the chemicals that tell it that it’s full. Now that is my definition of a happy hour.

Dr. Roizen also explained that nuts are not dangerous to people with diverticulitis. The idea that nuts will bother or be dangerous to individuals with this very common condition of small pockets in the intestinal wall is simply a medical myth. This is great news for anyone who has been passing up tasty and nutritious nuts.

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Being nuts about nuts, I am thrilled to have even more reasons to serve them. Below is one of my favourite walnut recipes. Simple and elegant, it’s perfect if you are looking for something a bit different. Now you can also have the satisfaction of knowing you are not just serving dinner but a banquet of antioxidants and ALA a plant-based Omega-3 fatty acid. How is that for feeling elegant and virtuous, at once?

“Agliata” walnut sauce

on brilliant green fettuccini

Agliata is a garlic walnut sauce that dates from medieval times. This is my own recipe – creamy but not too rich. If you don’t like strong garlic, leave it out or just rub the casserole with the clove. I like a lot of garlic, which is also a super food. I serve this dish with salmon or sautéed shrimp. It is perfect with just a salad, too.

2 pieces of bread with the crusts removed, cut/torn in small pieces and placed in a food processor or blender.

Pour 1 cup of milk over the bread.

Toast 1cup of walnuts in a dry pan for 3-5 minutes at med-high heat.

Add the toasted walnuts and 1 clove of crushed garlic.

Pulse

Add 4 tbsp. of good quality olive oil

Pulse.

Add ¾ cup of freshly grated Reggianno parmesan cheese.

Pulse.

Transfer the sauce to a casserole that can hold the pasta.

Toast ¼ cup bread crumbs with 1 tbsp. of slightly crushed walnuts and set aside. Be careful not to burn them.

Cook the pasta al dente. Do not overcook. Look for a good brand of spinach pasta, with natural ingredients, and slightly undercook it. The pasta will continue to cook in the casserole. Reserve ¼ cup of the pasta water to thin your sauce. Add the drained pasta to the sauce and mix. Add the pasta water to thin the sauce slightly. Toss with the toasted crumb-nut mixture. Add black pepper to taste. Serve immediately when it’s very hot. This dish looks very beautiful and fresh.

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Chef Charlie Ayer

If you are excited about cooking with walnuts as I am check out: The Smart Salad Contest at www.walnuts.org It looks like fun. It will be judged by former Google chef Charlie Ayres. The contest ends June 30.

Most of us really don’t have a clue about drugs and alcohol, except that they do bad things to us and our kids. All it takes is not knowing truth about what drugs can do to your children. And, not knowing how to pass the truth about drugs on to them. You know your kids are pretty smart. They can make good decisions about many things.

The new national figures have just been released for drug use and addiction for 2007 and the news is not good. Nationally, nearly 20 million people (aged 12 and older) used an illicit drug each month, and more than 23 million were classifiable as needing treatment for alcohol or drug abuse. Only 2.4 million people actually got treatment leaving many millions in danger of losing their homes, their families, their health, their very lives.

But anyone who has been around an addict knows this fact: the addict is not the only one suffering. The families, the employers, teachers and friends of the addict suffer too. A survey done in 2004 showed that 63 percent of adults surveyed said that they had needed to grapple with the addiction of someone close to them, usually a family member. This means that in America, 142.5 million people struggled with someone’s addiction.

For many of those who did receive treatment, unfortunately, addiction rehab has a “revolving door,” meaning that many of those who go through rehab often repeat their trips to rehab over and over again.

“We have had people arrive at Narconon Arrowhead for treatment after ten or even twenty times through other addiction treatment programs,” said Derry Hallmark, Director of Admissions and Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor. Narconon Arrowhead is one of the country’s leading drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in Canadian, Oklahoma. “The tragic thing is that it’s not necessary to go through treatment repeatedly if you get down to the bottom of the reasons for the addiction and address them thoroughly. That’s what the Narconon program is known for.”

The Narconon program utilizes a dry-heat sauna and a strict nutritional regimen to flush out the residues that drugs leave behind that may be involved in cravings, then employs counseling and life skills training to help a person recover their self-esteem and values that may have been destroyed by drug use.

“We want people to know that there is a holistic option for them, one that treats the whole person and that does not use drugs or psychotherapy,” added Mr. Hallmark. “Graduates of the Narconon program find drug-free success 70 percent of the time, and we want to make that fact known to all the family members and friends of those suffering from drug or alcohol addiction.”

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