Most Surprising U.S. Health Care Facts You May Not Have Known Ever

Today, the U.S. health care system has become a giant money-making machine because it is spent more than that of any country in the world. However, while health insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations are earning mountains of cash, the health care quality fails expectations.

It is astonishing to know the United States spent 2.47 trillion dollars on health care in 2009, greater than the entire GDP of Great Britain, and 41% of working-age Americans either face with medical bill problems or currently pay back medical bills.

Two typical examples are among the most surprisingU.S. health care facts you may not have ever known.

The United States spent 2.47 trillion dollars on health care in 2009, greater than the entire GDP of Great Britain. By 2019, the number will be estimated 4.5 trillion dollars

Health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980, but they now account for approximately 16.3%

About 41% of working-age Americans either face with medical bill problems or currently pay back medical bills

The medical bills become a main factor leading to more than 60% of the personal bankruptcies in the country

Health insurance premiums have risen three times faster than wages in the United States over the past decade. The health insurance premiums for small employers also increased 180% between 1999 and 2009

US’s health insurance companies still raised their profit by 56% during 2009 alone though the rest of the country had to deal with a deep recession

During 2008, more than two dozens of pharmaceutical companies earned over a billion dollar in profit each

Every year, the pharmaceutical marketing in the United States alone wastes appropriately tens of billions of dollars

Prescription drugs cost about 50% more in the United States than they do in other countries

Each year, about 750,000 people in the United States are taken to emergency rooms because of adverse reactions topharmaceutical drugs

The percentage of women in America taking antidepressants is higher than that of any other country in the world

In 2009, the United States had a higher infant mortality rate than 45 other nations

People in the United States are three times more likely to suffer from diabetes than people in the United Kingdom

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Dangerously Contaminated Foods Worldwide

It is impossible for everyone to stay and live without food. However, if you eat day by day infested foods, you can not avoid the fact that you are victims of severe diseases. Here is a list of the most dangerously contaminated foods we compiled and some advice for you to reduce the risks and still enjoy your favorite foods.

Chicken

Chicken tops the list of dangerous foods. According to theUnion's consumers, 42 percent of 484 broiler chickens tested infected by Campylobacter jejuni and 12 percent contaminated with Salmonella enterides. Moreover, grilled chicken contains dangerous-high levels of a carcinogenic compound. This is the reason why it ranks the top in a new list of the five worst foods to grill. Cancer Project dietitians found out that grilled chicken contains thousands of nanograms of HCAs which were also seen in grilled steak, pork, salmon and hamburger. In addition, chicken also ranks first because it is the most consumed food worldwide.

Chicken ranks the top list of 10 world’s dangerous food. One way to stay healthy and still enjoy your favorite food is paying more attention to hygiene measures during its preparation: Wash all surfaces touched by the raw chicken with a bleach solution and do not put it into a sink, but directly into baking dish

Eggs

According to researches, the ordinary eggs without fridge cause 660.000 cases of Samonella intoxication every year, of which there are 300 dead cases. So what is the best choice of eggs? Only buy pasteurized eggs with no cracks and ensure your eggs not too old. In addition, store the eggs in their own carton; put them in the coolest part of your fridge, make sure you wash your hands after preparing them and cook them properly.

Eggs are one kind killing you and your family if you do not know the right way to keep and cook them

Ground Turkey

Ground Turkey is one of the most contaminated foods by Clostridium, Staphylococcus, Listeria monocytogenes and antibiotics salmonella, so look for the organic turkey, be careful to separate meat from other groceries, helping the microbes won’t spread, clean all surfaces touched by raw meat, and further more cook properly.

Ground Turkey 

Peaches

It is proved by the Consumers Union that pesticides used for peaches is the highest recorded. The advices for you are only choose organic peaches which contain a very small amount of these poisons, then it is acceptable to wash and scrub your fruits, even with a little very mild dishwashing liquid. Furthermore, you had better pare the fruits if you have children.

It is proved by the Consumers Union that pesticides used for peaches is the highest recorded

Cold Cuts

Cold cuts are listed as the worst foods anyway

Scallions

The refrigerated scallions are the best choice because scallions kept at room temperature are the most risky for your health

Oysters

It can not deny that oysters are the shelter of norovirus like on ocean cruises and some of them also contain Salmonella and E.Coli. However, you can still enjoy this kind of food if you cook your oysters properly. Blue Point, Chincoteague, Glidden Point, Narragansett Bay, Pemaquid, and Wellfleet oysters are recommended for you to buy in the winter months. During summer, Coromandel oysters from New Zealand are the best choice for you and your family.

Oysters are one of the most dangerous food which contains norovirus

Ground Beef

One report shows that in a number of 563 sources of ground beef, 53 percent were contaminated with Clostridium, 30 percent with Staphylococcus and 12 percent of the samples with Listeria monocytogenes

Lettuce

Apparently, salad was responsible of 28 percent of all food poisoning cases from 1990 to 2002, while lettuce signed up for 11 percent. Being wrapped in a clear sheet does not make salad bugs-free. So what you should do is to wash it carefully, one leaf after another and be careful not to touch row meat or ex. Do not forget that such objects as plates or towels become contaminated as well, so don’t put your lettuce on a plate you just used to slice meat!

Lettuce 

Cantaloupe

A discover that domestic and imported cantaloupe was infested with Salmonella and Shingella was discovered by FDA. So what you should is scrubbing the fruit with a little bit of dishwashing liquid

Dangerously Contaminated Foods Worldwide

Celebrities’ Summer Secrets to Keep Skin Healthy

Sunshine may be wonderful, but hot summer months can be cruel to our skin. The heat from the sun causes the development of not only fine lines, wrinkles, age spots and freckles, but also sagging skin. So what are you doing to keep your skin healthy in summer? Let’s discover celebrities’ summer secrets to keep skin healthy through photos as follows:

The Australian actress Teresa Palmer said that we should drink a lot of water in order to have a healthy skin. Besides, instead of going to a tanning salon, she likes bronzer or a fake tan because she doesn’t want to appear on the beach showing a pale and pasty skin in a little bikini.

Teresa Palmer

The model and actress Heidi Klum said that most of girls used sunscreen and exfoliate. And there are a lot of good products that can help to keep our skin healthy

Actress Kate Mara said that she wasn’t really a product girl, but she likes everything that smells like coconut

According to the “One Tree Hill” star Sophia Bush, the summer secret is to use sunscreen year round to protect our skin

The author, model and television personality Alex McCord advises that besides drinking a lot of water, we should moisturize as much as we can

Nicole Scherzinger, the lead singer of the Pussycat Dolls, and Alex McCord seem to have the same secret on how tokeep skin healthy in summer. The singer’s secret is to use lots of Moisturizer.

Nicole Scherzinger

Signer Rihanna tries to eat lots of vegetables and protein. Besides, the singer drinks lots of water and gets a lot of rest

Unlike Teresa Palmer, the Ukrainian professional ballroom dancer Karina Smirnoff said No to tanning. She is going for a very white look

The American singer and actress Kristen Chenoweth is trying to take better care of her skin by using a lot of bronzer

Celebrities’ Summer Secrets to Keep Skin Healthy

Miracle Survival of Particular Cancer Patients

Almost all cancer patients feel shocked after knowing about their dead disease because they have little chance to be treated successfully. However, some patients have been reported to beat the terrible case. Now, take a look at themiracle survival of five particular cancer patients.

Sharon Belvin

At the age of 22, Sharon Belvin from Jamesville, North Carolina, US was diagnosed with melanoma in her lung. Two years later, she had tumors in both lungs and the few standard treatments failed.

Fortunately, the patient tried on an experimental drug called ipilimumab delivered by doctors at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. The medicine aimed to trigger the immune system against cancer.

Within four months, her lung tumors started to shrivel and they went by late 2006.

Sharon Belvin now spends time with her husband and 1-year-old daughter, Lilly Elizabeth, who she called “a miracle baby”

Belvin is currently off all treatment

Charles Burrows

Charles Burrows from Mesa, Arizona, US, had been diagnosed inoperable liver cancer by doctors at the Phoenix Veteran Affairs (VA) and he had just a month or two to live. At that time, his tumor, the size of a baseball, already started to strangle the portal vein and went into the liver.

Magically, he was among few lucky patients, whose tumors go away on their own. When Charles Burrows came back to the hospital for further examination, doctors found no sign of cancer based on computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans.

Charles Burrows’s case was so unusual that his doctors published it in a medical journal

“I won a lottery, and I don't understand why”, Charles Burrows said

Joseph Rick

A high school social studies teacher Joseph Rick from Los Angeles, California, US, has a purple pimple on the small of his back in 2002 and it then spread into his colon. The patient underwent nine surgeries and forty chemo rounds over two years to remove it in vain. Doctors said that he had two months to live as dozens of tumors riddled his body by fall 2004.

To lengthen his life, Joseph Rick decided to try on a new immune-system-boosting drug being tested at UCLA, similar to the one Sharon Belvin received. Luckily, visible brown tumors on his neck and thigh began to fade, and his appetite returned a week after his first infusion. By early 2006, they disappeared.

Joseph Rick had burst into tears watching the sunrise as he came back to work after a long time of treatment

Jamie C. Spencer

In the summer 2001, Jamie C. Spencer from Yakima, Washington, continuously received bad news, she lost her son in a mugging, as well as her job and health insurance. The unlucky woman then was diagnosed with inoperable pancreatic cancer. No surgery was possible because tumor snaked around the portal vein supplying blood to the liver.

A miracle occurred as she underwent three months of heavy-duty chemotherapy with two drugs, followed by a fourth month that combined daily radiation with infusions of a third chemo drug and her tumor shrunk. And a nine-hour operation in March 2002 removed the rest.

Jamie C. Spencer has no been free from cancer for eight years

Jan Lesser

In February of 2000, Jan Lesser from Manhattan Beach, California, US, was diagnosed with two tumors in her right lung, two more in her liver and another in her brain.

She then took an experimental drug called Iressa, which only helped 10% of patients in trials, and her tumors had shriveled away after five months. Jan Lesser has an opportunity to see her three kids go to college and the birth of a grandson in 2006.

Jan Lesser still takes the drug every day and remains free of cancer

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Most Surprising U.S. Health Care Facts You May Not Have Known Ever

Today, the U.S. health care system has become a giant money-making machine because it is spent more than that of any country in the world. However, while health insurance companies and big pharmaceutical corporations are earning mountains of cash, the health care quality fails expectations.

It is astonishing to know the United States spent 2.47 trillion dollars on health care in 2009, greater than the entire GDP of Great Britain, and 41% of working-age Americans either face with medical bill problems or currently pay back medical bills.

Two typical examples are among the most surprising U.S. health care facts you may not have ever known.

The United States spent 2.47 trillion dollars on health care in 2009, greater than the entire GDP of Great Britain. By 2019, the number will be estimated 4.5 trillion dollars

Health care costs accounted for just 9.5% of all personal consumption back in 1980, but they now account for approximately 16.3%

About 41% of working-age Americans either face with medical bill problems or currently pay back medical bills

The medical bills become a main factor leading to more than 60% of the personal bankruptcies in the country

Health insurance premiums have risen three times faster than wages in the United States over the past decade. The health insurance premiums for small employers also increased 180% between 1999 and 2009

US’s health insurance companies still raised their profit by 56% during 2009 alone though the rest of the country had to deal with a deep recession

During 2008, more than two dozens of pharmaceutical companies earned over a billion dollar in profit each

Every year, the pharmaceutical marketing in the United States alone wastes appropriately tens of billions of dollars

Prescription drugs cost about 50% more in the United States than they do in other countries

Each year, about 750,000 people in the United States are taken to emergency rooms because of adverse reactions topharmaceutical drugs

The percentage of women in America taking antidepressants is higher than that of any other country in the world

In 2009, the United States had a higher infant mortality rate than 45 other nations

People in the United States are three times more likely to suffer from diabetes than people in the United Kingdom

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