Dietary Treatment for Crohn’s Disease
By Dr. Michael Greger Inflammation has recently emerged as an important player in the development of age-related disability and many of our major chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease. Now that laboratory tests such as C-reactive…
Why Meat Causes Inflammation
by: Dr. Michael Greger* The anti-inflammatory effect of plant-based diets is about more than just the power of plants. It’s also the avoidance of animal foods. In my Care2 column last week, Dietary Treatment for Crohn’s Disease, I profiled the…
Frightened
Frightened by Joan Wilson I’ve never had to duck into an alley way That’s a place we never used way back in our day But we had a miserable neighbour and his surname was…
First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman: Thirty-Five Years
Last Tuesday (17), First Baptist Church of Grand Cayman entered its 35th year of gospel ministry in the Cayman Islands. Since July 17, 1977 the Lord has been pleased to keep the candle burning in this place and to build…
Dishin’ with Dody: Nightmare on Chicken Feet
I don’t dream. Of course, I have ambition, goals and desires. That’s not what I’m talking about. I’m referring to the Technicolor scenes rolling through the mind while you are sleeping. I have read that everyone dreams, they’re just not…
Worried It’s Alzheimer’s? 8 Symptoms to Watch For
Applying the word “Alzheimer’s” to your parent can be uncomfortable, even if the signs, or symptoms, have been adding up for some time. It’s much easier to gloss over strange behavior: “Oh, Mom’s just getting older.”Or to rationalize: “Well, we…
Brown babies need sunscreen. In the Cayman Islands, too! by Heather Hopson
Because of my daughter’s small size, my sister nicknamed her Bean. When she pulls the laundry—that took an hour to fold—out of the basket, I call her a Bad Bean. When she hits her cousins in the face, I tell…
National Gallery/Seafarers Association event July 19th 2012
The National Gallery of the Cayman Islands are presenting an “In conversation” evening with members of the Cayman islands Seafarers Association. The Seafarer’s will share their first-hand accounts of life at life and to celebrate our maritime heritage. The event…
Eliminating Dengue
From Eliminatedengue.com In August last year, leading scientific journal Nature published two papers by Eliminate Dengue Program members that described the results from our work in the lab and thefirst open field trials of the Wolbachia method conducted in far…
Aloe Vera the gem of the folk medicines
The Aloe vera plant is an African succulent that is popular in folk remedies. Today, you can find Aloe vera outside Africa since it is a popular garden plant, especially in dry areas where gardens must be created with the…
