Sure to boost your mental health: Obama continues to slide downward in the polls with only 45.7% approval and 49.3% disapproval. Americans must have taken their racist pill this week as that is the ONLY Liberal Media Approved explanation for disliking Mr. Obama's divisive presidency...but remember if that goes so must this: blacks must surely be racists for not liking Mr. Bush's divisive presidency. Yak attack.
Ok on to other health issues:
From Ben Gurion University comes good news: lose weight and lose the plaque:
A two-year study led by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) found that healthy, long-term weight loss diets can significantly reverse carotid (main brain artery) atherosclerosis, a direct risk factor for strokes and heart attacks. The study is one of the first to prove the potential of moderate weight loss as a strategy to reverse atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in overweight and mildly obese people.

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Selected outtakes From ACOG:
Attempting a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) is a safe and appropriate choice for most women who have had a prior cesarean delivery, including for some women who have had two previous cesareans, according to guidelines released today by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

During the 1970s, as women achieved successful VBACs, it became viewed as a reasonable option for some women. Over time, the VBAC rate increased from just over 5% in 1985 to 28% by 1996, but then began a steady decline. By 2006, the VBAC rate fell to 8.5%, a decrease that reflects the restrictions that some hospitals and insurers placed on trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC) as well as decisions by patients when presented with the risks and benefits.

Uterine Rupture

The risk of uterine rupture during a TOLAC is low—between 0.5% and 0.9%—but if it occurs, it is an emergency situation. A uterine rupture can cause serious injury to a mother and her baby. The College maintains that a TOLAC is most safely undertaken where staff can immediately provide an emergency cesarean, but recognizes that such resources may not be universally available.

Comment by Femisex: Currently without tort reform hospitals often limit VBAC, cause let's face it ...if you opt for VBAC and the uterus ruptures and your fetus dies and you can't have any more kiddies, you is pretty likely to sue. So....the fix is tort reform that says if you want this risk you can't sue. Then hospitals can allow women the freedom of choice --a great thing. But....with heath care reform with NO Tort Reform watch (15 years out as money runs out) for government mandated trials of VBAC vs. elective cesarean. That is now women are forced by hospitals to have surgical births and coming soon post HCR women will be forced to go through vaginal birth as a cost reduction measure.

Women can't win for losing.
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And FYI:
Taking vitamin C and E supplements does not lower the rate of preeclampsia or of maternal or fetal complications associated with hypertension in pregnancy, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study.

Turns out Vit. C and E don't do a lot of what one might have hoped in many areas of health research. Oh dear to Linus Pauling.