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- Fat is a market on fire
- Obesity has gotten so big, and so many people are now getting surgery to fight it, that Frost & Sullivan has broken out its first marketing report on the subject. (Picture from Medicalook.com) The "U.S. Obesity Surgery Devices Markets" further divides this market into four pieces: ...
- Tags: Obesity, Productivity, Marketing Research, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-04
- Windows: Time to Go on a Diet
- Microsoft Windows needs a diet. Obesity seems to be a pretty universal theme in our culture today. We're eating too many fatty and sugar-laced foods and our waistlines – and our health – are suffering as a collective result. I've even heard many doctors and dieticians describe...
- Tags: Desktop, Obesity, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Virtualization, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- The blurring of medical niches
- Patrick Driscoll of MedMarket Diligence has a problem.The market segments in this industry are getting all blurry. Is a coated stent a device or a drug? What's a drug and what's biotech? Are devices now competing with lifestyle changes, as in obesity?Market segmentation may mean little to patients. They matter a lot to...
- Tags: Insurance, Dana Blankenhorn, Obesity
- Blog posts 2007-08-31
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- MB Ideal Waist-Hip Ratio (exe)
- MB Ideal Waist-Hip Ratio is a simple health tool that helps one know their waist hip ratio. This can be a good way of knowing your body fat and preventing obesity and related diseases. Everyone would like to be fit and active. But when we cross the limit and become...
- Tags: Health Care, Ratio, MysticBoard, MB Ideal Waist-Hip Ratio, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources
- Software downloads 2008-07-22
- The full cost of ADHD includes ignorance
- The full cost of ADHD includes ignoranceare you a real doctor or like a Doctor Pepper?From your column "In females it displays differently, often as passivity, which means it often goes undiagnosed."Passivity? FYI, "passivity" is one of the symptoms of ADHD. Concentrate and try to answer the question, do you...
- Tags: Games, ADHD
- Discussion threads 2008-07-14
- The diabetes epidemic just gets worse
- The diabetes epidemic just gets worseshould we?Well, they force compliance on us on a number of other health issues. We are prohibited from injesting a wide variety of substances in the name of health. As far "should they" goes, I won't comment. But why they are or arn't, I'm almost...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Food & Beverage, Carbohydrate, epidemic, protein, health care
- Discussion threads 2008-06-25
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?
- How long ago did we begin to disagree about global warming?It took Mother Nature...millions of years to lock up the carbon into fossil fuels that we have managed to release in a hundred.Nature can not fix it as fast as we are polluting it. That is the issue. Take a...
- Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- Have you tried the IHOP diet?
- Have you tried the IHOP diet?Where this diet challenges...I do agree that W.H. Kellogg is spinning in his grave. His call for lighter breakfasts a century ago has been the basis of diet kant ever since.But my own life agrees with this diet's premise. A good breakfast keeps the snack...
- Tags: IHOP, breakfast, carbohydrate, diet
- Discussion threads 2008-06-22
- Buying from the enemy
- Buying from the enemygoing where no nation ever couldYou've said it. The PRC (People's Republic of China) has unlimited resources to do its damage.Unlike Nazi Germany or the old Soviet Union, however, China has several things going for it. One, lots of people, many of them very smart,...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Chinese Government, Buying, ruler, computer
- Discussion threads 2008-05-19
- Nanny state resentment is universal
- Nanny state resentment is universalLeave me to my obesitybut you'd better help me with a free crane when I need to get to my fat sucking operation.Yup, me-me-me'ism does have its downside. LOL.BMIYes, by all means let's cut benefits for those who have let themselves go to seed by overeating...
- Tags: Insurance, Financial Planning, Nanny state resentment, BMI
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- Our urine shows where we live
- It's almost logical that our urine contains traces of what we eat and drink. But an international team of researchers decided to learn more and has analyzed frozen urine samples from 4,630 people. These samples have been collected between 1997 and 1999 in China, Japan, the UK and the...
- Tags: China, Researcher, Japan, Bacteria, U.S. Here, Healthcare, Web Site Development, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Germany uses n-word to describe American policies
- Germany uses n-word to describe American policiesNeed a big SUV for personal transport because you ate too much?Yeah the psychology is just too much me-me-me. It'll take a generation or two to sort it out IF action is even taken. But then, who wants to take action if it doesn't...
- Tags: N-word, American Policy
- Discussion threads 2008-04-19
- Is open source a vote getter?
- Is open source a vote getter?It's another step in the right directionalong with the rise of the Social Enterprise.Is it a vote getter? The majority of people barely know what a computer is, and have little interest in the damage that extreme Capitalism is causing the human race.Ignorance is also...
- Tags: Branding, vote getter, getter, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-04-07
- Health conspiracies usually aren't
- Health conspiracies usually aren'tExonerated?Don't you mean implicated? If not, please explain.How old was Woody Allen in Sleeper?Remember the scene in "Sleeper" where Woody's character, a health food nut, is surrounded by doctors smoking cigarettes and drinking martinis?Don't think tobacco will be rehabilitatedThe health problems associated with tobacco usage over...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, statin, Health conspiracy, health care, Statins
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Cell images on Times Square?
- If you're in New York this coming week, don't miss the images which will be displayed on the high-definition TV NBC screen at Times Square. General Electric -- which owns NBC -- launched last year a competition for the best images taken with its IN Cell Analyzer systems. GE received...
- Tags: General Electric Co., Image, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-01
- McKinsey on Corporate Philanthropy: Mind Your Own Business
- If only the Big 4 and the top consultancy firms could run on sustainability thought leadership white papers instead of free cash flow, 2008 would surely be a banner year. The latest epistle is from McKinsey who this week publish an insightful survey on corporate philanthropy. The...
- Tags: McKinsey & Co., Philanthropy, NetSuite Inc., Survey, Business Goal, Marketing Research, Marketing, James Farrar
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- New Mexico's video game nanny tax
- New Mexico's video game nanny taxand what else?Maybe they should tax cell phones, books (that's how I and my son wasted hours as kids, staying indoors reading), definitely owning a PC, - how about a food tax even? Their intentions are good, but the methodology is wrong.Sieg Heil?Your state governments...
- Tags: Taxes, Free trade, Games, Corporate communications, govt, tax, video game, game, video
- Discussion threads 2008-02-11
- A smart VC should eat this one up: what's in my food?
- There're actually a few problems technology can handle. And I think I've run across one recently. There's a growing move that combines green tech and personal health. And it's starting to gain momentum in many countries as a combined social and political trend. We've come a...
- Tags: Food, Michael Pollan, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- Drowning in an information sea
- Drowning in an information seaNASA studyRemember that the main issue NASA had with releasing that study was that its results are meaningless, as the study failed to eliminate double- or triple- or more reporting of incidents. What's most embarrassing is that so much money was spent on a study with...
- Tags: Government, Food & Beverage, information sea, meat, dairy, food, bureaucrat, pyramid, grain
- Discussion threads 2007-12-06
- The red wine cure, now in a pill
- The red wine cure, now in a pillYes, Chianti please....glasses klinking..salute!ntRE: The red wine cure, now in a pillI am not sure about red wine but a friend of mine told me that he had started taking resveratrol based on a doctors suggestion about six weeks ago. My friend was...
- Tags: Resveratrol, red wine, wine, pill
- Discussion threads 2007-11-30
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