Monthly Archiv: March, 2019

The Truth About Garcinia Cambogia

If you ask me, there’s really only one way to lose weight and keep it off, and that’s to adopt a healthy lifestyle. That includes eating nutritious meals and exercising daily.

But there are plenty of marketers out there would vehemently disagree – because magic pills make money. Acai berry, green tea extract and capsaicin all had their time in the spotlight.

But, let’s explore a supplement that has exploded on the weight loss scene more recently: Garcinia cambogia.

Garcinia cambogia is a small, pumpkin-shaped fruit. You may know it as tamarind. The extract of the fruit is called hydroxycitric acid, and that is what the “magic pills” are made from. But do they work? [9 Meal Schedules: When to Eat to Lose Weight]

Let’s explore the research:

1998 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association: After a 12-week randomized, double-blind study of overweight men and women, researchers concluded that Garcinia cambogia did not produce significant weight or fat loss above the placebo.

2013 review in the journal Complementary Theories in Medicine: Researchers evaluated clinical trials that used plant extracts as potential treatment for obesity, and found that the evidence was not convincing in most cases. One exception was a combination of Garcinia cambogia taken with another herb called Gymnema sylvestre, which showed a slight increase in weight loss results. It’s a glimmer of hope, but surely, more research needs to be done on the subject.

2005 study in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology: Researchers tested a high dose of Garcinia cambogia extract on obese male rats. The good news? The rats lost weight! The bad news? Extremely high doses seemed to cause testicular atrophy and toxicity. Yikes!

If you do decide to hop on the latest bandwagon, whether it is Garcinia cambogia or some other plant-based extract, proceed with caution. If you’re talking any prescription medications, talk to your doctor before adding any herbal supplement. There may be dangerous interactions. And as researchers saw in the 2005 study on rats, there may be consequences to taking large doses. [Related: Garcinia Cambogia Supplement Often Lacks Active Ingredient, Study Finds]

Until we have more research to draw from, we can’t know what is truly safe.

Healthy Bites appears weekly on LiveScience. Deborah Herlax Enos is a certified nutritionist and a health coach and weight loss expert in the Seattle area with more than 20 years of experience. Read more tips on her blog, Health in a Hurry!

Analysis | The Technology 202: Critics say FTC’s fine against app now known as TikTok doesn’t go far enough

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The logo of the application TikTok in Paris on Dec. 14, 2018. (Joel Saget/AFP/Getty Images)

Some Federal Trade Commission officials are calling the agency’s fine against Musical.ly (now known as TikTok) for children’s privacy violations a “big win.” But critics say it highlights how Washington regulators aren’t doing enough to keep kids safe online. 

The fine against the app — which lets people create lip-syncing music videos — is the largest the agency has issued in a children’s privacy case. That might sound like a steep punishment, but at $5.7 million, critics say it’s actually a relatively paltry sum for a Silicon Valley darling that was acquired by the Bytedance (the Chinese maker of TikTok) for close to $1 billion. 

That penalty for illegally collecting data — such as location information — from children under 13 must be higher to properly enforce the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, according to Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass). 

“While this fine may be a historic high for a COPPA violation, it is not high enough for the harm that is done to children and to deter violations of the law in the future by other companies,” Markey said in a statement. “I urge the FTC to make COPPA enforcement a top priority and protect the privacy of a uniquely vulnerable class of Americans — our children. That means making companies pay higher monetary penalties that will actually incentive COPPA compliance.”    

COPPA was written in 1998, when dial-up ruled and apps that would allow children to upload videos from their phones were still about a decade away. But the FTC fine against Musical.ly and the ensuing criticism could bring greater attention to the need to update children’s privacy laws in Washington — and ratchet up pressure on regulators to scrutinize if there are other companies that may be in violation of federal law.

Privacy advocates say Musical.ly isn’t the only company taking advantage of children online and that tougher enforcement and protections are needed. 

“TikTok and others have been failing to comply with COPPA for years, and the FTC has been reluctant to challenge the privacy invasive practices of the companies that target children,” Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Digital Democracy, told my colleagues Craig Timberg and Tony Romm. “This is too little, too late.”

The Musical.ly case is a particularly glaring example of how children’s privacy can be exploited online. Musical.ly, the music video app TikTok merged with in 2018, has a long, well-documented history of attracting users under 13. In 2016, the New York Times reported that the app had many users in grade school, and it was using their location data to suggest people nearby follow them. 

Yesterday’s fine was a rare instance where the FTC has been able to enforce COPPA on a general-interest app. COPPA provides broad privacy protections to children under the age of 13, prohibiting online services from collecting data about kids without their parents permission. But as Craig and Tony pointed out, the law only applies to services that have “actual knowledge” that the users are underage or services that are specifically directed at children. 

In the Musical.ly case, the FTC was able to show that many of the children using the app had their true ages written in their profiles, and Musical.ly still did nothing to limit their access to the app. 

“The operators of Musical.ly — now known as TikTok — knew many children were using the app but they still failed to seek parental consent before collecting names, email addresses, and other personal information from users under the age of 13,” FTC Chairman Joe Simons said in a news release. “This record penalty should be a reminder to all online services and websites that target children.”

The TikTok case could give the agency the precedent to probe other general-interest apps causing concern among children’s privacy advocates, such as Google’s YouTube or the video game Fortnite.  

The agency has already received a complaint about Google’s YouTube. Over 20 advocacy groups filed a complaint last year that said YouTube is violating the law because it is collecting data about children watching videos on the service without getting permission from parents. They say YouTube knows of this because of the high-number of child-directed channels on the service. The FTC wouldn’t tell my colleagues yesterday whether it was actively investigating YouTube. 

Common Sense Media, one of the groups that filed the complaint against YouTube, weighed in: “It is no secret that tech companies are illegally and knowingly collecting personal information from children,” Jim Steyer, chief executive of Common Sense Media, said in a statement to my colleagues. “Musical.ly wasn’t the first company and they won’t be the last, which is why we need the FTC to continue to regularly enforce the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and hold companies accountable in a big way.”

TikTok promised to require new users to verify their age. It also launched a separate app for people under the age of 13 that complies with U.S. privacy laws and will delete all data about children it previously collected. 

“We care deeply about the safety and privacy of our users,” TikTok said in a blog post. “This is an ongoing commitment, and we are continuing to expand and evolve our protective measures in support of this.”

A passenger enters an Uber car at LaGuardia Airport in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

BITS: Uber and Lyft are planning to give some of the most active or longest serving drivers money to buy stocks in their upcoming initial public offerings, the Wall Street Journal’s Maureen Farrell reports. The companies are planning to give drivers a cash reward that can be applied toward stock.

It is typically hard for an ordinary investor to buy a company’s stock at its IPO price before it begins trading on an exchange, so this move would give drivers access they likely wouldn’t have had otherwise,” Farrell writes. 

Uber, which has 3 million drivers globally, plans to give a “significant portion” of its drivers around the world a cash bonus or stock, based on a sliding scale determined by length of service or number of trips. Uber has long tried to provide drivers with company shares, but “had encountered a roadblock because of securities laws that make it challenging to give private shares to independent contractors,” Farrell wrote. 

Lyft will give drivers that have given at least 10,000 rides $1,000 in cash that can be applied to IPO shares. 

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 5. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

NIBBLES: Republicans and Democrats debated during a hearing of the Senate Commerce Committee whether a federal privacy law should override state legislation, the Hill’s Emily Birnbaum reported. Almost all Republicans on the panel supported the idea that federal privacy legislation should replace state laws to prevent differing rules between states. Democrats wondered whether Republicans’ position aimed to circumvent a new state law in California that seeks to restrict tech giants’ data-collection practices and is scheduled to go into effect next year.

“Are we here just because we don’t like the California law and we just want a federal preemption law to shut it down?” said Sen. Maria Cantwell (Wash.), the committee’s ranking Democrat, according to the Hill. “I find this effort somewhat disturbing . . . This is the first thing that people want to organize here in D.C. is a preemption effort.”

But senators from both parties did agree when it came to chiding representatives of the tech industry at the hearing. “We now realize this data-sharing is not a bug,” said Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), according to Birnbaum. “It is a business, it is a business model, and big tech has made a whole lot of money by exploiting the use of this data.”

Workers prepare to move products at an Amazon fulfillment center in Baltimore.  (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

BYTES: Amazon is rolling out a new program that will allow brands to delete listings for imitation products on its platform, the Wall Street Journal’s Laura Stevens reports. The anticounterfeiting program, called Project Zero, has been in testing with about 15 companies, and Amazon is now inviting other brand owners to join. 

In addition to giving brands more power to monitor fake products on the platform, the company is rolling out a tool that will allow Amazon to verify a product’s authenticity when it enters a warehouse via a unique code that companies can print or stick on to their packaging. Amazon engineers are also refining algorithms that can detect counterfeit goods on the service. 

“In shifting some monitoring duties and authority to brands themselves, Amazon is taking an unusual step,” Stevens wrote. “Other tech companies use outside contractors to help monitor their platforms but don’t generally let users remove content.”

Jessica Castro and her baby Zoe during a protest against mandatory vaccinations in Olympia, Wash., on Feb. 20. (Lindsey Wasson/Reuters)

— Most of the anti-vaccination content that is broadly circulated on Facebook is produced by a relatively small group of pages on the social network, according to the Atlantic’s Alexis C. Madrigal. Therefore, the reach of anti-vaccination messaging could decrease if Facebook moved to shut down only a few of such pages on the platform. Madrigal reported that an analysis with the social-monitoring tool CrowdTangle showed that seven anti-vaccination pages were behind almost 20 percent of the top 10,000 posts about vaccination since 2016.

Greg Wyler, founder of OneWeb, in Tysons, Va., on Feb. 13. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post)

— The company OneWeb wants to send a constellation of satellites to space that could bring Internet access to remote parts of the world, The Washington Post’s Christian Davenport reported. The company’s satellites would be about the size of a refrigerator and would connect to stations on Earth. OneWeb, which was founded by Greg Wyler, has received investments from SoftBank, Qualcomm, Richard Branson’s Virgin Group, Coca-Cola and others. “The ultimate goal is to connect every school in the world, and bridge the digital divide,” Wyler told my colleague. “We’re bringing connectivity and enabling it for people around the world, and in rural populations.”

— Amazon is backing out of a skyscraper under construction in its hometown of Seattle, GeekWire’s Monica Nickelsburg reported. The company doesn’t plan to occupy offices that it had leased in the tower but will instead sublease them. Just as Amazon faced opposition from local politicians and activists in New York over its now-scrapped plan to open headquarters there, the company has also faced criticism in Seattle. “It’s not hard to draw a line between the battles; two Seattle City Council members traveled to New York to warn Amazon opponents about what it’s like to have the company in your backyard,” Nickelsburg wrote. (Amazon founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

— More technology news from the private sector:

The Federal Trade Commission in Washington on Jan. 28, 2015. (Alex Brandon/AP) 

— The Federal Trade Commission brought its first case against the use by a company of fake paid reviews on Amazon, the Verge’s Nick Statt reported. The case resulted in a settlement. “The company in question, named Cure Encapsulations, Inc. and owned by Naftula Jacobowitz, paid a third-party website to write five-star Amazon reviews for a weight-loss supplement called garcinia cambogia,” according to the Verge. “The plant, native to Indonesia, is widely mischaracterized as contributing to weight loss, but is in fact known to cause acute liver failure.”

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US Authorities Guidelines In opposition to Faux Amazon Critiques in Landmark Case

In the first case of its kind, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against a diet pill seller for both making false claims and paying to juice their standing on Amazon with fake positive reviews.

The fruit of garcinia cambogia has been hailed by some as a powerful weight loss supplement. Of course, there’s no conclusive scientific evidence to support this—although there is some indication that in rare cases it may lead to liver failure, which led the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a notice about a product containing the active ingredient—which is why most purveyors of junk diet pills tend to make their efficacy claims vague. Cure Encapsulations, which the FTC ruled against yesterday, had no such modesty, instead stating that the extract in question “Literally BLOCKS FAT From Forming.”

What differentiates this from every other fake weight loss panacea fiasco is that Naftula Jacobowitz, the owner/operator of Cure Encapsulations, “paid a website, amazonverifiedreviews.com, to create and post Amazon reviews of their product,” according to the FTC—demanding his products retain an average rating of 4.3 stars. As the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace, Amazon has become ground zero for cutthroat tactics in achieving greater product visibility—among which fake reviews are a well-worn method. According to one Pew Research study, the majority of Americans sometimes check online reviews, though only around half believe they’re trustworthy.

Unsurprisingly, Jacobowitz was previously sued by another Amazon seller in 2016 for, among other things submitting “false negative feedback and/or other false complaints to Amazon.com,” which the plaintiff claimed caused her to lose the coveted Amazon ‘Buy Box,’ a piece of screen real estate associated with higher sales. (The case was settled via permanent injunction in September of 2016.)

Amazon itself has taken legal action over the years on multiple occasions against entities abusing its review system, but this case marks the first time the FTC has involved itself in these matters. “We welcome the FTC’s work in this area. Amazon invests significant resources to protect the integrity of reviews in our store because we know customers value the insights and experiences shared by fellow shoppers,” an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo. “Even one inauthentic review is one too many.”

Recommended in the ruling, and pending judgement in New York’s Eastern District Court, are a variety of stipulations against Jacobowitz’s Cure Encapsulations. His company would be required to notify prior customers of the claims against it and identify the paid reviews for Amazon. The company would also no longer be able to make “weight-loss, appetite-suppression, fat-blocking, or disease-treatment claims” about products without “reliable scientific evidence in the form of human clinical testing,” and face a largely suspended fine of $12.8 million (£9.65 million).

Featured image: David McNew (Getty)

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US Authorities Guidelines In opposition to Faux Amazon Critiques in Landmark Case

In the first case of its kind, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) took action against a diet pill seller for both making false claims and paying to juice their standing on Amazon with fake positive reviews.

The fruit of garcinia cambogia has been hailed by some as a powerful weight loss supplement. Of course, there’s no conclusive scientific evidence to support this—although there is some indication that in rare cases it may lead to liver failure, which led the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to issue a notice about a product containing the active ingredient—which is why most purveyors of junk diet pills tend to make their efficacy claims vague. Cure Encapsulations, which the FTC ruled against yesterday, had no such modesty, instead stating that the extract in question “Literally BLOCKS FAT From Forming.”

What differentiates this from every other fake weight loss panacea fiasco is that Naftula Jacobowitz, the owner/operator of Cure Encapsulations, “paid a website, amazonverifiedreviews.com, to create and post Amazon reviews of their product,” according to the FTC—demanding his products retain an average rating of 4.3 stars. As the world’s largest e-commerce marketplace, Amazon has become ground zero for cutthroat tactics in achieving greater product visibility—among which fake reviews are a well-worn method. According to one Pew Research study, the majority of Americans sometimes check online reviews, though only around half believe they’re trustworthy.

Unsurprisingly, Jacobowitz was previously sued by another Amazon seller in 2016 for, among other things submitting “false negative feedback and/or other false complaints to Amazon.com,” which the plaintiff claimed caused her to lose the coveted Amazon ‘Buy Box,’ a piece of screen real estate associated with higher sales. (The case was settled via permanent injunction in September of 2016.)

Amazon itself has taken legal action over the years on multiple occasions against entities abusing its review system, but this case marks the first time the FTC has involved itself in these matters. “We welcome the FTC’s work in this area. Amazon invests significant resources to protect the integrity of reviews in our store because we know customers value the insights and experiences shared by fellow shoppers,” an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo. “Even one inauthentic review is one too many.”

Recommended in the ruling, and pending judgement in New York’s Eastern District Court, are a variety of stipulations against Jacobowitz’s Cure Encapsulations. His company would be required to notify prior customers of the claims against it and identify the paid reviews for Amazon. The company would also no longer be able to make “weight-loss, appetite-suppression, fat-blocking, or disease-treatment claims” about products without “reliable scientific evidence in the form of human clinical testing,” and face a largely suspended fine of $12.8 million (£9.65 million).

Featured image: David McNew (Getty)

10 Best Weight Loss Teas in Australia – Skinny Tea

What are skinny teas?

There are lots of different weight loss tea brands on the market, some sold in loose leaf form and others in teabags. Ingredients vary widely from brand to brand, but they can contain anything from regular old caffeine, to fennel, which is used to help with digestive problems, dandelion leaf which is thought to be a diuretic, burdock plant which is thought to increase urine production and senna, which is a laxative used to treat constipation.

Do weight loss teas actually work?  
It’s hard to put them all under one umbrella and say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ – as their claims also vary, but many medical professionals have discredited detox teas, as they are targeted at impressionable young women as a quick fix for weight loss and some dangerous side effects have been reported by users, including as dizziness, cramping, stomach pains and uncontrollable diarrhoea.

Last year Choice reported that weight loss teas fall into a grey area when it comes to regulation, at what’s known as the food-medicine interface, so they aren’t being suitably classified or regulated. This means that some teas are making unsubstantiated claims about what they can do.

How do you choose a tea?
Firstly, know that if you want to lose weight, skinny teas are not a substitute for healthy weight loss through healthy eating and taking exercise. Secondly, experts say regular or long-term use of detox teas could be harmful to your body and digestive system, so always check with your GP first, particularly if you have a health condition or are pregnant or breastfeeding.

Because skinny teas contain a laxative effect, there is some evidence that they can significantly reduce the effectiveness of the contraceptive pill, with women reporting that they have become pregnant as a result.

Here are some of the most popular teas on the market:

Skinny Me tea

10. Skinny Me Tea
$39 for a 14 day pack

Marketed as the first Australian-made detox tea, Skinny Me’s Morning Cleanse tea is designed to be consumed once every day with breakfast and then one cup of Evening Cleanse tea every second night before bed.

These teas are an energising, refreshing and de-bloating tea which contain a long list of ingredients including senna, sencha and green tea extract.

Shop around on the site and you will find that for maximum health benefits, Skinny Me Teatox ‘should be consumed in conjunction with a healthy balanced diet and exercise’ such as their recommended eating and exercise plan.

skinnymetea.com.au

Thin tea

9. Thin Tea
$34.95 for a 14 day pack

This Kardashian-approved skinny tea has some decent reviews on amazon, with many people saying it tastes nice and lives up to its appetite suppressant claim, though others says is does nothing. Fit tea is designed to lower your hunger for 4-6 hours, it contains electrolytes and garcinia cambogia extract that’s used in many weight loss products as it’s said to prevent fat storage, control appetite, and increase exercise endurance.

For results FitTea says you should drink 1 cup a day, some users report increased heart rate and advise cutting out your morning coffee.

thintea.com.au

fit tea

8. Fit Tea
$14.99 (US) for a 14 day pack

This Kardashian-approved skinny tea has some decent reviews on amazon, with many people saying it tastes nice and lives up to its appetite suppressant claim, though others says is does nothing. Fit tea is designed to lower your hunger for 4-6 hours, it contains electrolytes and garcinia cambogia extract that’s used in many weight loss products as it’s said to prevent fat storage, control appetite, and increase exercise endurance.

For results FitTea says you should drink 1 cup a day, some users report increased heart rate and advise cutting out your morning coffee.

fittea.com

bae tea

7. Bae Tea
$28.95 (US) for 14 days

A fortnight-long detox to boost your energy, promote fullness and help reduce your appetite, Bae Tea is another US company promising to transform your body with a cuppa. These pyramid teabags contain a blend of garcinia cambogia extract, guarana seed, rooibos an green tea leaf and other herbs.

They also sell other teas for wellbeing, beauty, mood and energy.

baetea.com

Tea Tox

6. Teatox Australia
$29 for a 14 day pack

The instructions are to drink two tea bags per day, once in the morning, and once in the evening to boost your metabolism, flush out toxins, reduce bloating and burn fat. Teatox Australia’s tea contains radish seed, oolong Tea, hawthorn, lotus leaf and cassia seed, and claims to be free from both caffeine and laxatives, although cassia and oolong are both thought to have caffeine and laxative properties.

This Instagram-friendly skinny tea company has been in business for five years in Australia and ticks all the bases on using cute and local influencers to promote its products and comes in lovely packaging.

teatoxaustralia.com

tropeca

5. Tropeaka Cleanse Herbal Infusion
$29 for 125g

A powerful tea “to combat your modern lifestyle” this loose leaf tea includes flaxseed and liquorice root to clear things out and ‘sweep away yesterday’!

Not marketed as a long-term weight loss tea, this is more of a brew for after you’ve gone overboard at the buffet table dinner or when you’ve eaten rich food and need some digestive relief.

tropeaka.com.au

skiny mint

4. Skinny Mint
$69 for a 28 day pack

Not a fan of tea? Skinny Mint offer fat burning coffee and hot chocolate as well as teatox teas. The minimum commitment for Skinny Mint is a 28 day plan, unless you just buy the Night Cleanse teas which come in a pack of 14, but the 28 day plan is the most popular purchase.

Skinny Mint is a 2 step tea cleanse, one in the morning and the evening formula every other night, and it’s claims are to reduce bloating, boost your energy and purify your body. The night formula contains senna leaves and psyllium husk, both ingredients have laxative qualities.

au.skinnymint.com

T2

3. T2 Detox Tea
$16 for a box

Your favourite artisan tea company also makes a blend that’s designed to aid digestion and help your tummy. This loose leaf blend contains fennel, juniper berries, stinging nettle, sweet blackberry leaves, lemongrass, marigold petals, liquorice root, spearmint, and rose buds.

It has a 4.8 stars average rating by customers, with most saying it soothes the too-full feeling after a big meal.

t2tea.com

flat tummy tea

2. Flat Tummy Tea
$50.85 for a 2 week program

@flattummyco boast over 1.7 million followers on Instagram and offer teas, shakes and supplements on their website. The US company also offer the controversial appetite suppressants lollipops, which came under fire from nutritionists after they were promoted by Kim Kardashian (in a since deleted post).

Flat Tummy Tea is a cleanse that is designed to cleanse, de-bloat and decrease water retention. It’s an immensely popular brand, with thousands of reviews and before and after photos on their site. “30 days of exercise clean eating combined with #flattummytea Lost a total of 4 kilos 5 cm off my stomach in total! I’m very happy with the product, but I have also put a lot of work in with it too,” says one user.

flattummyco.com

Boo tea

1. Bootea
$22.49 (US)      

Bootea say they will never be portrayed as magic formulas or miracle slimming aids and that ‘All of our formulas should be combined with a healthy, balanced diet and regular exercise for the best possible results.’

So if you want to add some oomph to your healthy eating kick, daytime tea bags contain Chinese Oolong tea, ginger root, fennel seeds and mate leaves among others, while the evening cleanse bags are made with laxative-effect senna leaves, peppermint, fenugreek seeds and burdock root.

us.bootea.com

Article source: https://www.newidea.com.au/10-best-weight-loss-teas-in-australia-skinny-tea?category=health_wellbeing

What Is A Bulging Disc?

My family have all been going to a local Structural Chiropractor for the last few months and finally a few weeks ago I dove in too. She took some pictures and aligned my body, and sent me for X-rays and finally after all this let me know that I had some real back problems that she is working on aligning.

Although I don’t have bulging disks I do have a lot of decay and thinning in the discs which is causing pain and mobility problems.

A bulging disc, also known as a herniated or ruptured vertebral disc, is a common problem. It happens when one of the spinal discs is pushed out of its normal alignment, causing part of the disc to bulge out. This can cause a lot of pain.

The discs are soft cushions that separate each of the bony spinal vertebrae to give the spine flexibility and prevent the vertebral bones from being damaged by rubbing against each other. They also cushion the spinal nerves that surround the spinal cord.

What Is A Bulging Disc?

What Is A Bulging Disc?
What Is A Bulging Disc?

These discs, like many of the structures of our body, tend to become more brittle and less flexible with age. In many people, the discs begin to deteriorate from around age 30.

Just about everyone will have less flexible discs by the time they reach the age of 50 or 60.

Less flexibility means that the discs are more easily damaged. So bulging disc pain is something that many people will suffer from as they grow older.

The reason that a bulging disc is so painful is that often times, when the disc is pushed out of alignment, the spinal nerves can be pinched.

This is especially likely if the person already suffers from spinal stenosis, where the space around the spinal cord and nerves has gradually narrowed over the years. This kind of thing can be happening gradually without a person knowing, until pain begins at a certain point.

Herniated Discs

Herniation of the disc may happen suddenly, for example when a person lifts something heavy or has an accident or a fall. Then the pain is likely to come on suddenly and severely.

In other cases it may happen gradually over time, as the spine is strained over and over. In those cases, the pain may be occasional, becoming more and more of a problem until the person seeks treatment.

What kind of pain from a Bulging Disc?

Sufferers from a bulging disc will often experience pain like an electric shock that results from the compression of the spinal nerve. This shock type pain may be felt going down your arms (when the problem is in the vertebrae of the neck) or down your legs (when the problem disc is in the lower back region). You may also have tingling or numbness in your arms or legs, and general muscle weakness.

In rare cases a herniated or bulging disc can also cause problems with urinating or having bowel movements, often accompanied by numbness in the genital area. This is a medical emergency and you should get help right away.

Treatment for a Bulging Disc

Sometimes surgery is needed, but in many cases a herniated disc will heal with rest. However, it is important to seek medical advice with any back problem. Your doctor can check that there is nothing more serious wrong with you, and prescribe pain relief medication if necessary for your bulging disc.

Article source: https://www.fitnesstipsforlife.com/what-is-a-bulging-disc.html

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As of Mar 2, 2019 NUTRAFUELS INC (OTCMKTS:NTFU) Shorts Declined By 32%

NUTRAFUELS INC (OTCMKTS:NTFU) had a decrease of its shorted shares by 32%. It was issued in March by FINRA the 8,500 shorted shares on NTFU. That’s 32% down from 12,500 shares. Former NTFU’s position will need 0 days to restore. It has 78,600 average volume.

The stock increased 2.58% or $0.0044 during the last trading session, reaching $0.175.Currently NutraFuels, Inc. is after 0.00% change in last March 2, 2018. NTFU has 41,684 shares volume. NTFU by 0.00% the SP 500.

NutraFuels, Inc. manufactures and distributes oral spray nutritional and dietary products to retail and wholesale outlets.The firm is worth $18.60 million. The companyÂ’s products include sleep spray to support a healthy sleep cycle and improve the quality of restful sleep; energize spray to enhance energy, and restore vigor and vitality; and garcinia cambogia spray, an appetite and weight management spray.Last it reported negative earnings. It also offers NRG-X extreme energy spray to enhance energy and stamina; headache and pain spray to relieve headaches and pain; and hair, skin, and nails spray to nourish and encourage hair, skin, and nail growth.

Another two news for NutraFuels, Inc. (OTCMKTS:NTFU) were recently posted by: Marketwired.com on January 29, 2018 with title “NutraFuels (NTFU) Files its Application to Up List to the OTCQB OTC Market – Marketwired”. The other Globenewswire.com‘s article was titled “Freedom Leaf Inc. Announces National Distribution Agreement Other OTC:FRLF – GlobeNewswire” and posted on February 28, 2018.

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