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  • johnpi 8:14 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink
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    A new report is out that ranks the healthiest and unhealthiest states in the US. The top, most healthiest states in the country were dominated by New England. In order, they were: Vermont, Utah, Massachusetts, Hawaii and New Hampshire.

    The least healthiest states in the US were all in the South. They were, in order from 45th to 50th, South Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, Oklahoma and Mississippi.

    Most of the top five states for Muslims in the US (California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Indiana) scored in the 20s – except for Illinois, which weighed in at 35 down in the lower half of the list.

    This means that statistically speaking, Illinois Muslims are more likely than other US Muslims to be adversely affected by at least one of 22 measures of public health, including binge drinking, drug abuse, smoking, poor diet, preventable heart disease, violent crime, a high prevalence of obesity, higher infant mortality, teen pregnancy, a low high school graduation rate, a higher percent of children in poverty, limited availability of primary care physicians and preventable hospitalizations.

     

    • johnpi 8:34 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Something to think about when you’re considering marriage proposals…

    • Buzz 1:05 pm on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Excellent. Statistics to back up my prejudice against the South.
      There is now ecological and environmental data to support the fact that there are a disproportional amounts of jugheads, meth heads and douchenozzles in Dixie. Ha. Science finally caught up to anecdotal data.

    • abunoor 1:12 pm on November 18, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      You either misread or mistyped John, Illinois is 29 Indiana is 35.

  • johnpi 10:22 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink
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    We don’t blog alot about health issues here, and for Western Muslims, I don’t think anybody who does health studies ever looks at us specifically in a way that it would be a ‘Muslim’ story, but there are huge trends in the larger society and it’s fair to ask how much or whether we are a part of them, and how much a specific ‘Muslim lifestyle’ plays into those trends.

    Studies suggest overweight kids are coronary time bombs.

    Russell Pate was driving through a neighborhood one late afternoon when he noticed something odd.

    He couldn’t hear the sounds of children playing. No jump rope patter. No squeals of a bike’s brake. No crack of a bat — just silence.

    The streets were deserted because the neighborhood kids were cocooned in their homes, Pate says. It was a scene he’s seen over and over again.

    “Now you can drive through entire neighborhoods where you know there are a lot of young kids there and hardly see any of them out,” says Pate, an American Heart Association spokesman.
    ….

    A study released last November at a Heart Association conference found that the neck arteries in obese and overweight children were similar to those of 45-year-olds. The children in the study also had “abnormal cholesterol” and were said to be at high risk for heart disease in the future.

    The story cites television, video games, the obsession with testing and fast food as culprits. Here in the West, Muslims are usually well-off and well-fed, but despite (or perhaps because of) fasting, food and modesty restrictions, are Western Muslims fat?

     

    • johnpi 10:34 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Thanks to the Talk Islam archives, a Hijabman story that Andrea Useem linked to…

      Back then, the Sunday school curriculum consisted of memorization as well as reading through various Islamic stories. Unfortunately, none of those ideas were applicable to my [then] current reality as a pubescent Muslim kid growing up in America. The lessons certainly didn’t contain anything about eating right, for instance. The closest they came to engaging my life outside the mosque was the oft-repeated slogan, “Islam isn’t a religion; it is a way of life.”

      A decade later, I found myself wandering through the halls of ISCJ. It wasn’t long before I stumbled upon a vending machine filled with junk. I thought back to every other mosque I’ve visited, and I began to see a pattern. Some mosques have soda machines as well—proudly advertising Coca-Cola. Here we have a captive audience of Muslims who regularly attend the mosque—and what do we offer them? 
Obesity and tooth decay? For a little profit? What kind of message does that send?

      • null 10:48 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        zomg, HijabMan is engaged!

        • johnpi 10:56 am on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

          lol :-)

          I saw that too. Another Muslim blogger lost to domestic family life….

          Just kidding. Inshallah, he’ll still have time and energy for writing/blogging.

    • abunoor 1:30 pm on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      Oy, Habibti has been running a series of posts on Health and Fitness which is, I believe geared towards Muslim women.

      Brother Siraaj at Muslimbestlife is a health and fitness nut as well. and started something at Muslim Matters called the MM Fit Life Competition.

      I’m sure there’s a lot else out there. There are a lot of Muslims who grew up in this country who are big into health and fitness and diet and all that stuff. Of course, there are also many like myself who are not so much into those things (at least talking about them).

      • johnpi 3:57 pm on November 12, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

        I would offer to chip in for your gym membership, but I suspect you make more money than I do, barrister. :-)

    • vince 1:13 am on November 25, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      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/cashman

      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!)

    • Caramoan8 9:48 am on December 26, 2009 Permalink | Log in to Reply

      The only way you can manage obesity is throught Proper Diet and lots of exercise. The human body is designed for work so we should always get some form of physical exercise to stay fit.
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  • johnpi 9:26 pm on October 26, 2009 Permalink
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    Tropical disease: Neglected tropical ills extract steep toll in Islamic world, a journal article says.

    Muslim nations shoulder a “devastating burden” of the world’s neglected tropical diseases, according to an article published Monday in the Public Library of Science Neglected Tropical Diseases journal.

    The article, a combination of analysis and editorial written by the journal’s editor, Peter J. Hotez, shows that the member states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference account for 40 percent of the world’s infestations with intestinal worms.

    Worm infestations, which are most common in children, can stunt their growth and make them too tired to stay awake in school. They can cause dangerous anemia in pregnant women and disabling pain in farmers.

    Member countries also have 20 percent of leprosy cases and 21 percent of blinding trachoma.

    At the same time, the article said, there is no school of tropical medicine anywhere in the Islamic world, even though several Persian Gulf nations are building top-tier universities.

     

  • johnpi 9:23 am on March 6, 2009 Permalink
    Tags: babies, biphenol A, , dangerous chemicals, health risks, infants, puberty   

    Credit where credit is due: Conn. attorney general’s activism prompts baby-bottle makers to stop using bisphenol A, which is implicated in causing several types of cancer, obesity, diabetes, and early onset of puberty in girls. More about the health hazards of bisphenol A here.

     

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