MedWorm provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest medical blog items that have been tagged with 'carnivores'. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:36:45 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3813204&cid=t_105464_150_f&fid=35777&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedproxy.google.com%2F%7Er%2FPharmalot%2F%7E3%2FP3cHqKbWaWQ%2F There was a 13 percent drop in the number of animals used for toxicology testing last year in the UK - to slightly more than 672,000 - although overall usage is up since the beginning of the decade, according to OutsourcingPharma. For instance, about 549,000 animals were used in experiments in 2000 and the number rose steadily to roughly 769,000 in 2008 before declining. Over the past 10 years, more than 3 million mice were chosen for testing safety, quality control, efficacy and ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination/excretion), making them far and away the most popular creatures, followed by rats at 1.83 million; 266,000-plus rabbits; 400,000 or so fish; 150,000 fowl; 97,000 beagles; 53,000 monkeys; roughly 27,000 pigs and about 22,000 cattle. Last year, however, the... Pharmalot blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3813204 Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:51:31 +0100 3813204 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3205060&cid=t_105464_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fenemy-of-my-enemy-is-my-friend.html We survive the drama of the ripped hang-nail and a micro bead of blood. His wounded hand hides in his pulled down sleeve for protection, as his other hand crushes the blood flow.“Which are you be likin betterer?”“What’s my choice?”“Anna….annanem….ammanemoni!”“Anemones, the flowers?”“Dey are be lookin like flowers but they are being dah sea creatures.”“Oh. Of course you’re right, Anemones are animals.”“So?”“Hmm?”“Which are you likin betterer?”“Anemones or what, what am I choosing between?”“Nude….nude…. Nudibranchs.”“Fancy you remembering Nudibranchs! The enemy of all free thinking Anemones.”“They are predators.”“So I’m choosing between Anemones and Nudibranchs?”“Right.”“I think I prefer Anemones to Nudibranchs.”�... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3205060 Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:30:00 +0100 3205060 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=771571&cid=t_105464_117_f&fid=34612&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedoctorweighsin.com%2Fjournal%2F2007%2F7%2F31%2Fvegansexuality-a-new-lifestyle-choice.html by Pat SalberWhat is the next step beyond vegetarianism?  Veganism.  What comes after that?  Vegansexuality - a new lifestyle choice.According to an article, "Carnivore sex off the menu" by Rebecca Todd, circulated by The Press on July 31, 2007, a new phenomenon in New Zealand is taking the idea of you are what you eat to the extreme:  refusing to have sex with carnivores (the human-kind).Annie Potts, the co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University, said she coined the term "vegansexual" after doing research on the lives of "cruelty-free consumers".   According to Potts, vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to... The Doctor Weighs In blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=771571 Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:14:36 +0100 771571 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=506835&cid=t_105464_87_f&fid=34867&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thediabetesblog.com%2F2007%2F03%2F28%2Fdietary-patterns-linked-to-type-2-diabetes-risk%2F Filed under: Type 2, Adult Onset, Diet, ResearchFor those of you who have lived the dietary gospel -- no meats and fatty foods and eating lots of greens and cooked vegetables -- guess what! It appears you've reduced the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to study findings published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. The study examined of 36,787 adults who provided dietary information over 4-years. At the beginning of the trial no adults had type 2 diabetes, but at the commencement of the study 365 new cases of type 2 diabetes were diagnosed. The researchers defined 4 eating patterns: a Mediterranean diet, a salad and vegetable diet, a diet of mostly meats and fatty fried foods, and a diet of many different fruits. The Mediterranean pattern was associated with country of b... The Diabetes Blog blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=506835 Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:00:00 +0100 506835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=488334&cid=t_105464_133_f&fid=35129&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitterer-autism.blogspot.com%2F2007%2F03%2Fdog-eat-dog-monday-night.html The term 'non-verbal' often accompanies a diagnoses of autism. Just as autism is a spectrum disorder, the term 'non-verbal' covers a vast range of impairment. Some children do not speak at all, others are suspected of being an 'elective mute.' It is not a simple question of counting the number of single words a child 'can' speak. It is not particularly helpful to note that on 'average' a child may speak 6 words per day, especially if all those words arrive on the same day, to leave the rest of the week [or month] in silence. It is difficult to tie cognitive abilities or measure an IQ by the complexity or simplicity of their vocabulary. For example if a child cannot say the word 'green' but can perfectly pronounce 'Corythosaurus,' what does that tell you? What if someone can verbally descri... Whitterer on Autism blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=488334 Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:07:00 +0100 488334