Maybe you saw the episode of the TV show "30 Rock" that joked about bed bugs. Well, when the mayor of New York City gets involved, you can be sure that nobody will be laughing.
The New York Mayor’s Office and the NYC Bed Bug Advisory Board will be holding a press conference at 2:00 p.m. at City Hall to discuss New York’s new bed bug public education initiative. As media-coverage of this story develops, you will likely want access to entomologists that served members of the NYC Bed Bug Advisory Board.
Expert research entomologists Richard Cooper (http://www.bedbugcentral.com/about/profile.cfm/richard-cooper) and Jeffrey White of BedBug Central (http://www.bedbugcentral.com/) are available to you to provide expert opinions and analysis of the situation as it develops.
As a nationally regarded entomologist, Richard Cooper was appointed to the New York City Bed Bug Advisory Board by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. With more than 20 years of experience in entomology and the pest control industry, Richard has become nationally recognized as an expert on bed bugs and bed bug management. Richard will be available all day for comment and he will also be present at the press conference. Richard has already been featured as an expert in an MSNBC article this week in addition to “Newsweek,” “Early Show,” “Dateline,” NBC’s “Today Show.”
Our other lead entomologist, Jeffrey White is also nationally regarded and has already spoken with the NBC Nightly News last night.
Jeffrey has over 10 years of experience as an entomologist and his expertise is in bed bug biology, behavior and treatment protocol. Jeffrey has been featured on major news networks such as NBC and CBS. He is also the host of Bed Bug TV; a video blog that addresses a wide variety of topics associated with bed bug. The site been viewed by over 100,000 people around the world.
BedBug Central will available all day to provide you with assistance and access to either of our entomologists.
BedBug Central is a national company headquartered in New York and New Jersey which serves as a resource and website available to the public for information regarding bed bugs and bed bug related issues concerning health, prevention, and treatment methods.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Summer Lawn Care For Unpredictable Weather
Summer showers seem to be making an appearance in every weekly forecast. And, although pop-up showers seem like a major improvement compared to droughts from previous years, they might not be enough to keep yards as healthy and green as desired. waterSmart, a water conservation education program, offers the following tips to help keep lawns healthy through rain or shine. These tips will help save water, time and money this summer—regardless of the forecast.
For more tips on how to have a waterSmart landscape, as well as other water conservation techniques, visit www.waterSmart.net.
Statewide watering restrictions went into effect June 2, 2010. Outdoor watering hours are 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. Details regarding the Georgia Water Stewardship Act can be found by visiting www.georgiaepd.org.
- Mulch –When showers are light or irregular, use mulch to maintain moisture in the soil. Pine bark, nuggets and hardwood chips are best, but rocks, gravel and marble retain heat which can cause evaporation. Another helpful hint – saturate a newspaper and place it on the ground before using mulch.
- Use Rain Barrels – Build or buy a rain barrel to capture water from pop-up showers. When scattered showers skip over lawns, rain barrels provide a conservation-friendly thirst quencher for plants. Materials can be purchased from local hardware stores. Screens can be used to keep out debris and insects. Visit www.watershed.cobbcountyga.gov for more tips on rain barrels.
- Know When To Water – Take advantage of pop-up showers and only water yards when necessary. Established yards can remain healthy on one inch of water for up to seven to 10 days. By setting up sprinklers to run once a week, individuals will save water, time and money, and plants will be healthy too! Or, look for natural signs. When plants turn a gray-green color and their leaves wilt, they need to be watered.
For more tips on how to have a waterSmart landscape, as well as other water conservation techniques, visit www.waterSmart.net.
Statewide watering restrictions went into effect June 2, 2010. Outdoor watering hours are 4 p.m. to 10 a.m. Details regarding the Georgia Water Stewardship Act can be found by visiting www.georgiaepd.org.
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
How to Improve Your Health by Reducing Stress
Stress is one of today's greatest health problems. It contributes to much of our illness. Today we learned about a new tool for reducing your stress levels in the form of a weekly newsletter.
The Weekly 'Success with Stress News' draws its content from a wide range of sources keeping readers informed about the latest breakthroughs, research and good news about how to live through and overcome the multiple pressures of modern life.
The new site springs from its mother site, http://www.success-with-stress.com/stress-news.html (http://www.success-with-stress.com/stress-news.html), where readers will find previous stress articles in issues stored by date and topic.
As self-healing author Louis Proto says, "Healing oneself is an individual process.” So, watch the video at the Home Page of the mother site, http://www.success-with-stress.com (http://www.success-with-stress.com), to find details of a myriad of free active and passive exercises for each person to choose from according to their needs, including an non-exhaustive list of free: Relaxation Tools, Breathing Exercises, Meditation Processes, Financial Solutions, Stress Relief Exercises, Illustrated Psycho-Physical Exercises, a Free Exercise Program, etc.
It's very important, even crucial for a person to have practical strategies available to maintain their equilibrium and well-being in difficult times. According to the famous author Leslie Kenton: "Being in control really works when dealing with stress. People who feel in control of a situation experience a sense of empowerment. Helplessness leads to anxiety and then to depression."
So, the self-help methods Francoise Bonhoure offers are varied -- but by no means always conventional -- and are geared to meet our different, individual requirements, according to what we need at any particular time.
She calls these, ‘Unique Solutions to Transform Stress into Well-Being’. To have a taste, here are some of them:
- Shaking and Breathing Exercise Video (http://www.success-with-stress.com/stretching-exercises.html) - 7-Day Free Exercise Program (http://www.success-with-stress.com/free-exercise-program.htm) Video - Free Guided Self Massage (http://www.success-with-stress.com/chinese-self-massage.html) Video And there's much more, for you to start dealing with stress effectively.
These methods are there for your support -- a compendium of what others have found and are finding helps them to feel better and, in many cases, cures them.
So, in a nutshell:
- From Success with Stress News: Visitors Have Access to Weekly Updates on Stress Management, Cures, Tips, Etc. in Your Email Inbox. - From the Main Site, Success-with-Stress: You Can Read All Past News Updates, PLUS Choose from a Wide-Ranging Compendium of Solutions for Stress Management. Francoise Bonhoure 33 468 24 77 89 10, Rue du Château 11270 – La Force France http://www.successwithstressnews.com (http://www.successwithstressnews.com) Having suffered from Stress all her life in one form or another, Francoise Bonhoure, owner/manager of the sites, has encountered a lot of different approaches and has experimented with a large amount of methods in her endeavour to ‘get better’ and she did this for many years, discovering and integrating them into her understanding and way of life. She trained in and taught active and passive methods to reduce and cure stress, including becoming a certified Tai Chi and Chi Kung teacher with the French Federation of Tai Chi Chuan, having studied for 3 years at the Qimetao Institute, Paris, France. She is also a qualified Massage therapist and Dance Meditation teacher, teaching these methods in South-East France for ten years. She now offers these and any new discoveries and updates, online, via her 2 websites, enjoying sharing and finding what she describes as "Unique Solutions to Transform Stress into Well-Being".
The Weekly 'Success with Stress News' draws its content from a wide range of sources keeping readers informed about the latest breakthroughs, research and good news about how to live through and overcome the multiple pressures of modern life.
The new site springs from its mother site, http://www.success-with-stress.com/stress-news.html (http://www.success-with-stress.com/stress-news.html), where readers will find previous stress articles in issues stored by date and topic.
As self-healing author Louis Proto says, "Healing oneself is an individual process.” So, watch the video at the Home Page of the mother site, http://www.success-with-stress.com (http://www.success-with-stress.com), to find details of a myriad of free active and passive exercises for each person to choose from according to their needs, including an non-exhaustive list of free: Relaxation Tools, Breathing Exercises, Meditation Processes, Financial Solutions, Stress Relief Exercises, Illustrated Psycho-Physical Exercises, a Free Exercise Program, etc.
It's very important, even crucial for a person to have practical strategies available to maintain their equilibrium and well-being in difficult times. According to the famous author Leslie Kenton: "Being in control really works when dealing with stress. People who feel in control of a situation experience a sense of empowerment. Helplessness leads to anxiety and then to depression."
So, the self-help methods Francoise Bonhoure offers are varied -- but by no means always conventional -- and are geared to meet our different, individual requirements, according to what we need at any particular time.
She calls these, ‘Unique Solutions to Transform Stress into Well-Being’. To have a taste, here are some of them:
- Shaking and Breathing Exercise Video (http://www.success-with-stress.com/stretching-exercises.html) - 7-Day Free Exercise Program (http://www.success-with-stress.com/free-exercise-program.htm) Video - Free Guided Self Massage (http://www.success-with-stress.com/chinese-self-massage.html) Video And there's much more, for you to start dealing with stress effectively.
These methods are there for your support -- a compendium of what others have found and are finding helps them to feel better and, in many cases, cures them.
So, in a nutshell:
- From Success with Stress News: Visitors Have Access to Weekly Updates on Stress Management, Cures, Tips, Etc. in Your Email Inbox. - From the Main Site, Success-with-Stress: You Can Read All Past News Updates, PLUS Choose from a Wide-Ranging Compendium of Solutions for Stress Management. Francoise Bonhoure 33 468 24 77 89 10, Rue du Château 11270 – La Force France http://www.successwithstressnews.com (http://www.successwithstressnews.com) Having suffered from Stress all her life in one form or another, Francoise Bonhoure, owner/manager of the sites, has encountered a lot of different approaches and has experimented with a large amount of methods in her endeavour to ‘get better’ and she did this for many years, discovering and integrating them into her understanding and way of life. She trained in and taught active and passive methods to reduce and cure stress, including becoming a certified Tai Chi and Chi Kung teacher with the French Federation of Tai Chi Chuan, having studied for 3 years at the Qimetao Institute, Paris, France. She is also a qualified Massage therapist and Dance Meditation teacher, teaching these methods in South-East France for ten years. She now offers these and any new discoveries and updates, online, via her 2 websites, enjoying sharing and finding what she describes as "Unique Solutions to Transform Stress into Well-Being".
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Hot Flashes Reduced by Weight Loss for Overweight Women
A new study shows that overweight and obese women who suffer from hot flashes can reduce the severity of their hot flashes if they lose weight through diet or exercise.
Hot flashes, which are associated with sleeping problems, anxiety and depression, are the most common complaints of women during menopause and persist for five or more years past menopause in up to one third of women, according to the researchers. In multiple observational studies, women with a higher body mass index (BMI) have reported more frequent or severe hot flashes compared to women with lower BMI, but the effect of weight loss on hot flashes has been unknown.
“We still don’t understand the underlying mechanism of hot flashes, or why some women experience flashes and others don’t,” said Alison J. Huang, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine in the UCSF Department of Medicine, who was the lead author on the paper. “The good news is that millions of women who are overweight and troubled by hot flashes may be able to reduce their discomfort through diet and exercise.”
Findings are available July 12 in the online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 64.1 percent of adult women in the United States are overweight and 35.5 percent of women are obese. Those estimates are based on a BMI of 25-29.9 for the overweight category and 30 or more for the obese category. BMI, expressed as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared, commonly is used to classify weight.
The study included 338 women aged 30 or older with a BMI of 25-50 who were randomly assigned to two groups. One group, of 226 women, attended weekly one-hour group sessions led by experts in nutrition, exercise and behavior change, and were asked to follow a reduced calorie diet. They also were encouraged to increase their physical activity to at least 200 minutes per week. The remaining 112 women, in the so-called “control” group, participated in one-hour group sessions that provided general information about weight loss, physical activity, healthy eating and health promotion.
Bothersome hot flashes and other baseline menopausal symptoms were assessed at baseline and at six months using self-administered questionnaires. Participants were asked to indicate intensity of hot flashes in the past month with responses ranging from ‘not at all’ to ‘extremely.’
Half of the participants reported being at least slightly bothered by hot flashes at the start of the study. Among these women, reductions in weight, abdominal circumference and BMI were associated with an improvement in hot flashes.
In fact, women in the active weight loss group were twice as likely to see an improvement in their hot flashes after six months compared to women in the control group, according to senior author Deborah Grady, MD, of the UCSF Department of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco.
“This gives women who suffer from hot flashes an added option in controlling their symptoms, while also creating a healthier life for themselves,” Grady said.
The study was ancillary to the Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise (PRIDE), a randomized, controlled trial of an intense behavioral weight loss intervention versus a structured education program to promote weight loss in overweight and obese women with urinary incontinence, coordinated by UCSF. The researchers acknowledge that a possible limitation of the ancillary study is that participants also had urinary incontinence. However, they said that urinary incontinence, while more prevalent among older women, has not been shown to be associated with menopause, nor did they see a link between more severe incontinence and increased hot flashes.
“We don’t see any reason why our findings aren’t also applicable to women who are not incontinent,” Huang said.
Co-authors are Leslee L. Subak, MD, of the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF Department of Urology, UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco; Rena Wing, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University; Delia Smith West, PhD, of the College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Alexandra L. Hernandez, MPH, of the UCSF Department of Medicine; and Judy Macer, of the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. For further information, please visit www.ucsf.edu.
Hot flashes, which are associated with sleeping problems, anxiety and depression, are the most common complaints of women during menopause and persist for five or more years past menopause in up to one third of women, according to the researchers. In multiple observational studies, women with a higher body mass index (BMI) have reported more frequent or severe hot flashes compared to women with lower BMI, but the effect of weight loss on hot flashes has been unknown.
“We still don’t understand the underlying mechanism of hot flashes, or why some women experience flashes and others don’t,” said Alison J. Huang, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine in the UCSF Department of Medicine, who was the lead author on the paper. “The good news is that millions of women who are overweight and troubled by hot flashes may be able to reduce their discomfort through diet and exercise.”
Findings are available July 12 in the online edition of the Archives of Internal Medicine.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 64.1 percent of adult women in the United States are overweight and 35.5 percent of women are obese. Those estimates are based on a BMI of 25-29.9 for the overweight category and 30 or more for the obese category. BMI, expressed as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared, commonly is used to classify weight.
The study included 338 women aged 30 or older with a BMI of 25-50 who were randomly assigned to two groups. One group, of 226 women, attended weekly one-hour group sessions led by experts in nutrition, exercise and behavior change, and were asked to follow a reduced calorie diet. They also were encouraged to increase their physical activity to at least 200 minutes per week. The remaining 112 women, in the so-called “control” group, participated in one-hour group sessions that provided general information about weight loss, physical activity, healthy eating and health promotion.
Bothersome hot flashes and other baseline menopausal symptoms were assessed at baseline and at six months using self-administered questionnaires. Participants were asked to indicate intensity of hot flashes in the past month with responses ranging from ‘not at all’ to ‘extremely.’
Half of the participants reported being at least slightly bothered by hot flashes at the start of the study. Among these women, reductions in weight, abdominal circumference and BMI were associated with an improvement in hot flashes.
In fact, women in the active weight loss group were twice as likely to see an improvement in their hot flashes after six months compared to women in the control group, according to senior author Deborah Grady, MD, of the UCSF Department of Medicine and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco.
“This gives women who suffer from hot flashes an added option in controlling their symptoms, while also creating a healthier life for themselves,” Grady said.
The study was ancillary to the Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise (PRIDE), a randomized, controlled trial of an intense behavioral weight loss intervention versus a structured education program to promote weight loss in overweight and obese women with urinary incontinence, coordinated by UCSF. The researchers acknowledge that a possible limitation of the ancillary study is that participants also had urinary incontinence. However, they said that urinary incontinence, while more prevalent among older women, has not been shown to be associated with menopause, nor did they see a link between more severe incontinence and increased hot flashes.
“We don’t see any reason why our findings aren’t also applicable to women who are not incontinent,” Huang said.
Co-authors are Leslee L. Subak, MD, of the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, UCSF Department of Urology, UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco; Rena Wing, PhD, of the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University; Delia Smith West, PhD, of the College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Alexandra L. Hernandez, MPH, of the UCSF Department of Medicine; and Judy Macer, of the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences. This research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health.
UCSF is a leading university dedicated to promoting health worldwide through advanced biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellence in patient care. For further information, please visit www.ucsf.edu.
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