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Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Dr. Oz Gives Weird Health Care Advice To Americans Losing Their Medicaid
Former TV doctor Mehmet Oz offered some jaw-droppingly out-of-touch advice to folks at risk of losing their Medicaid on Monday. During an interview on Fox Business, Oz, who now serves as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, tried to put a positive spin on recent cuts that will slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion and kick millions of people off their health care. Oz began by saying that programs like Medicare and Medicaid 'were a promise to the American people to take care of you if you're having problems financially or you're having an issue because you're older and need health care.' But he also told Fox host Stuart Varney that Americans should also do the most they can to stay healthy. 'We'll be there for you, the American people, when you need help with Medicare and Medicaid, but you've got to stay healthy as well,' Oz said. 'Be vital. Do the most that you can do to really live up to the potential, the God-given potential, to live a full and healthy life.' It was his next piece of advice, however, that inspired waves of social media snark. 'You know, don't eat carrot cake. Eat real food,' he said. And, yes, Oz had brought a whole carrot cake for Varney. 'I couldn't find a healthy cake, so I brought the closest thing, a carrot cake,' Oz said. Mehmet Oz on Medicaid: "We'll be there for you, the American people, when you need help, but you gotta stay healthy yourself ... don't eat carrot cake. Eat real food." — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) July 14, 2025 Not surprisingly, Oz's suggestion that avoiding carrot cake makes you more worthy of affordable health care led to a flood of mockery. 17 million people are going to lose their health insurance because of the Trump Oz's advice is 'don't eat carrot cake.' — Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) July 14, 2025 First crudités, now carrot cake. Dr. Oz fails to meet the moment as Americans go hungry because @USDA canceled millions of pounds of shipments to food banks, and SNAP cuts are Trump Admin is cutting off lifelines for Americans and telling them it's their fault. — Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (@RepMGS) July 14, 2025 So what are they saying - if you eat desserts you will be barred from receiving healthcare? 'If you don't do what we think you should than you won't get help'. — Stellar_Fox (@StellarFox16) July 14, 2025 Remember how these right wings freaked out when Michelle Obama tried to get them to eat healthier! — Sycamore's Source (@sycamoressource) July 14, 2025 When the White House openly flaunts McDonalds, they can't really talk about healthy food. — Akash Maniam (@ManiamAkash) July 14, 2025 Also Dont take any vitamin or snake oil that Dr. Oz has peddled on his show for should probably stay away from taking any serious medical advice from this man whatsoever really.I wouldn't let him take my temperature 🤒 — The Sarcastic Canuck 🇨🇦 (@Sarcastic_Canuk) July 14, 2025 In America now if you choose to eat carrot cake apparently you arent healthy enough to continue living with healthcare. — Manna (@OhMyManna) July 14, 2025 Big Carrot cake is NOT gonna like this one bit — SouthpawTodd (@Southpaw_Tra) July 14, 2025 Freedom is when you have to eat government approved foods to get healthcare — K ☭ (@IbaraEleven) July 14, 2025 Oz has been the subject of food-related social media snark on more than one occasion. During his failed 2022 U.S. Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, he was ridiculed for a video he made in a local grocery store griping about what he believed a crudité platter would cost. Dr. Oz's 'Completely Incoherent' Credit Card Flub Has Critics Saying, What?!? Senate Confirms Dr. Oz To Lead Medicare And Medicaid Agency Oz Pledges To Fight Health Care Fraud But Makes No Commitments On Medicaid Funding Cuts
Yahoo
14-07-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Dr. Oz Gives Weird Health Care Advice To Americans Losing Their Medicaid
Former TV doctor Mehmet Oz offered some jaw-droppingly out-of-touch advice to folks at risk of losing their Medicaid on Monday. During an interview on Fox Business, Oz, who now serves as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, tried to put a positive spin on recent cuts that will slash the federal Medicaid program by $1 trillion and kick millions of people off their health care. Oz began by saying that programs like Medicare and Medicaid 'were a promise to the American people to take care of you if you're having problems financially or you're having an issue because you're older and need health care.' But he also told Fox host Stuart Varney that Americans should also do the most they can to stay healthy. 'We'll be there for you, the American people, when you need help with Medicare and Medicaid, but you've got to stay healthy as well,' Oz said. 'Be vital. Do the most that you can do to really live up to the potential, the God-given potential, to live a full and healthy life.' It was his next piece of advice, however, that inspired waves of social media snark. 'You know, don't eat carrot cake. Eat real food,' he said. And, yes, Oz had brought a whole carrot cake for Varney. 'I couldn't find a healthy cake, so I brought the closest thing, a carrot cake,' Oz said. Not surprisingly, Oz's suggestion that avoiding carrot cake makes you more worthy of affordable health care led to a flood of mockery. Oz has been the subject of food-related social media snark on more than one occasion. During his failed 2022 U.S. Senate campaign in Pennsylvania, he was ridiculed for a video he made in a local grocery store griping about what he believed a crudité platter would cost. Dr. Oz's 'Completely Incoherent' Credit Card Flub Has Critics Saying, What?!? Senate Confirms Dr. Oz To Lead Medicare And Medicaid Agency Oz Pledges To Fight Health Care Fraud But Makes No Commitments On Medicaid Funding Cuts
The Independent
01-07-2025
- Health
- The Independent
Easy and delicious carrot cake blondies for your Macmillan Coffee Morning
It's a small thing, baking a cake – but it's also a wonderful way to bring people together and do a bit of good. Macmillan Coffee Mornings prove as much, turning cups of tea and slices of something sweet into vital support for people living with cancer. Because while almost one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime, not everyone gets the same care – and Macmillan is working to change that. These blondies are a quieter take on carrot cake. All the familiar warmth is there – cinnamon, ginger, a whisper of nutmeg – but baked into a single tray with no layers, no icing and no stress. Just a handful of seasonal carrots, a swirl of cream cheese and a bake that feels quietly celebratory. Want to be a Macmillan Coffee Morning Host? The ingredients are unshowy – butter, sugar, flour, eggs – and the method is unfussy enough to pull together the night before. Once cooled and cut, they're easy to carry, easy to serve and easy to eat with one hand while holding a cuppa in the other. Carrot cake blondies with cream cheese swirl Equipment 20cm square baking tin Baking paper Mixing bowls Whisk or electric hand mixer Rubber spatula or spoon Fine grater (for carrot and optional orange zest) Small bowl and spoon/skewer for swirling Ingredients For the blondie base 150g unsalted butter, melted 150g light brown sugar 75g caster sugar 2 medium eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp ground cinnamon ½ tsp ground ginger ¼ tsp ground nutmeg ½ tsp fine sea salt 160g plain flour 100g grated carrot (about 1 medium carrot, peeled and finely grated) 50g chopped walnuts or pecans (optional) Zest of ½ an orange (optional but recommended) For the cream cheese swirl 100g full-fat cream cheese 1 egg yolk 30g icing sugar ½ tsp vanilla extract Method 1. Preheat the oven to 170C fan (190C conventional) and line a 20cm square tin with baking paper. 2. In a large bowl, whisk together the melted butter, brown sugar, and caster sugar until smooth. Add the eggs and vanilla and beat until glossy. 3. Stir in the spices, salt, and flour, mixing until just combined. Fold through the grated carrot, optional nuts, and orange zest. 4. In a separate small bowl, whisk together the cream cheese swirl ingredients until smooth. 5. Pour the blondie batter into the prepared tin and smooth the top. Dollop spoonfuls of the cream cheese mixture over the surface and swirl gently with a knife or skewer for a marbled effect. 6. Bake for 25-30 minutes until the edges are set and golden, and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out with a few moist crumbs (but not raw batter). 7. Allow to cool completely in the tin, then chill for 30 minutes before slicing into squares for clean edges.
CNET
13-06-2025
- Business
- CNET
How a Cyberattack at a Company You've Never Heard of Nearly Derailed My Anniversary Carrot Cake
Every year since we got married, my husband and I have celebrated our anniversary with a carrot cake. Some years it was from the amazing bakery in our old neighborhood, while others it was a questionably fresh effort picked up at a train station shop on the way home from the office, but often I would bake my own. The funny thing is, neither of us really likes carrot cake. It just somehow ended up being the top layer of our wedding cake, so we have one every year. That's tradition for you. This year, for our 20th anniversary, I had my mind set on baking. Throwing together a three-layer cake in the middle of a busy work day may sound daunting, but it's well within my skill set. And I was armed with a new recipe and a giant bag of carrots. I just needed a few key ingredients. Always the procrastinator, I started filling my online shopping cart the night before. I also needed the makings for a fairly fancy dinner, as well as my regular groceries for the week. But to my surprise, the virtual shelves of my NYC-area Whole Foods were uncharacteristically bare. It brought back memories of the pandemic. Basic store-brand items that I buy every week like tortillas, pizza sauce and cheese were out of stock. And so were the raisins and cream cheese I needed for my cake. Slightly panicked at that point, I remembered the news of a cyberattack at one of Whole Foods' major suppliers a few days before that forced it to take its systems offline. Some experts had speculated that it could affect store supplies, but I hadn't expected the impact to be so quick and so significant. Cybercriminals have long-targeted retail companies, along with those that supply them, for both their money and data. They know that if they're successful in breaching those systems, retailers will likely pay to make the problem go away. That said, this year has been particularly bad for cyberattacks on retailers, says Max Vetter, vice president of cyber at Immersive, which specializes in training companies for how to deal with online threats. So far this year, retailers including Adidas, Marks & Spencer, Harrods, Cartier, Victoria's Secret and North Face have all sustained cyberattacks that affected their operations. And while Whole Foods' supplier, United Natural Foods, isn't technically a retailer, the impact of the attack on it continues to be felt by consumers. "This is not normal," says Vetter, who worked in British law enforcement and as an intelligence analyst before joining Immersive. "We haven't seen this in retail and food any other year that I can remember." For companies, that can mean millions in lost sales and unexpected costs related to dealing with attacks. In the case of United Natural Foods, its stock price tumbled on the news, dropping about 20% over the past week. For most consumers, it means aggravation more than anything. In my case, I was able to find my raisins and cream cheese at a brick-and-mortar store, but I paid more than I wanted to and it took time I didn't have out of my day. But for some shoppers, the consequence can be more dire. If the only store in a remote town can't restock its shelves, that can mean no food for people without the means to get to another one. "That's something definitely to be aware of and I don't think we've thought enough about this," Vetter said. Why attackers attack When online attackers go after retailers, they're looking for two things: money and data. If they're able to lock a company's system up with ransomware, it's likely that the company will pay up to get its systems back up and running. The longer they're down, the more money the company will lose. On top of that, blank websites just aren't a great look for retailers. Shoppers who fear for their data may choose to shop somewhere else. And the attackers are after their data. Credit card numbers and online account credentials can obviously be sold in bulk to fraudsters, but so can less obvious customer data like names, emails, mailing addresses and phone numbers. Rewards points tied to loyalty programs run by food and restaurant companies are also as good as cash to cybercriminals, says Rob Ainscough, Silverfort's chief identity security advisor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Double extortion attempts, where attackers lock a company's system down with ransomware and then steal and threaten to release a company's customer data, have also become common, he says. "So if they don't get paid on the ransom, they're going to try to get paid on the data," said Ainscough, who spent a decade heading online security for a large multinational retailer before joining Silverfort. Arguably, that's what attackers are going for when they target any kind of company, so it remains unclear why they seem so fond of retailers this year. Vetter says it could be because retailers are seen as easy targets. While banks and other financial institutions have long boasted strong online security practices, and industrial companies have also boosted their defenses in recent years in the wake of high-profile attacks such as the 2021 ransoming of Colonial Pipeline, retailers have been slower to do the same. It can be tough, he says, for security officials at companies that aren't particularly tech-focused to get the resources they need from executives who may just see cybersecurity as a cost. Unlike other kinds of flashier technology, when cyberdefenses work, they go largely unnoticed. "I think retail is one of those areas that probably just didn't think it was much of a problem," Vetter said, referring to the possibility of cyberattacks. "Obviously, I think they do now." Supply chain dangers It's one thing if a cyberattack keeps you from ordering some new clothes or jewelry. It's another when it keeps you from putting food on your table. The attack on United Natural Foods and the subsequent shortages at many Whole Foods stores brought to light exactly how fragile the food supply chain can be. But Whole Foods, with its affluent customer base and locations in big cities and suburban areas, isn't the only store its customers have to shop at. That's not true for many of the members of the Co-Operative Group. It's a UK-based chain of stores that are owned by its members and serve more than 17 million people in the UK, many of them retirees who live in remote areas and may not be able to drive. For some, they're the only stores in places like small villages on islands off the coast of Scotland where people might need to get on a ferry to shop somewhere else, Vetter says. So when Co-op got hit with a cyberattack last month, it had a lot of people panicking. After detecting the breach, Co-op quickly took its systems offline, possibly preventing them from becoming infected with ransomware. But the disruptions to its supply chain and logistics operations had a huge effect on deliveries to stores, whose shelves were quickly left bare. Co-op was left scrambling to prioritize and figure out what stores absolutely needed to be resupplied, despite the group's limited operations. "There's a real human risk there of starvation," Vetter said. "You don't think of a relatively small store as critical to national infrastructure, but for some people it is."
WebMD
09-06-2025
- Health
- WebMD
Diabetes Detective Work: Dawn Phenomenon
File this column under 'Life with Type 2 diabetes can be a pain.' Yesterday, my glucometer flashed a message to tell me that over the past week, my morning blood sugars had been trending upwards. This was followed by a programmed question directed at me: 'Has anything changed?' Look, I know the notification was purely informative and that the inquiry made sense. After all, consistent high blood sugars over time can lead to those nasty complications we all want to avoid. And yet, for some reason, at that moment, the question seemed less of an innocent question and more of an assault. 'No!' I shouted at her screen (I long ago determined that my meter is 'she/her.'). 'Nothing's changed. Everything is the same.' 'Is someone here?' my husband asked as he entered the kitchen. Ignoring his question, I stonily reviewed my activities and intake over the past week. As usual, I consumed a lowish number of healthy carbs, enough to fuel my hour-a-day exercise plan and keep my weight in a good range. Of course, there may have been a slice or two of carrot cake with sugary cream cheese icing for my son's 33 rd birthday. And a little more cake on Mother's Day. Plus a glass or two of prosecco. But nothing horrific. Overall, I decided my exercise, hydration, medications and diet was mostly on target. 'Did I do something wrong?' my husband asked. Once again, I brushed him aside. In diabetes detective mode, I went to find my computer and typed a quick note to my trusty endo. Did he have any theories why my morning sugars had suddenly spiraled upwards? 'Could be the dawn phenomenon,' he wrote. 'Early in the morning, say between 3 and 8 a.m., everyone – with or without diabetes – has a natural increase in hormones that cause the liver to release glucose (energy) to help you to wake up. 'For people without diabetes, the pancreas produces insulin to combat any excess glucose. But for people with diabetes, their bodies may not produce enough insulin to meet the extra burst of sugar, which can cause hyperglycemia or high blood sugar.' 'Arghh,' I responded. Back at the kitchen table, I considered my next move. I had heard of the dawn phenomenon, but despite my interest in most things diabetes, it had never captured my attention, in part because it had never been my problem. 'Can I help?' my long-suffering spouse asked. 'No,' I said. This time I left a kiss on his forehead as I went back to my computer. 'This is between me and my machine.' Coffee in hand, I opened Dr. Google to refresh my memory on the condition. It turned out that it's extremely common. And the symptoms of dawn phenomenon are pretty much the same as other episodes of high blood sugar: dry mouth, increased thirst, blurred vision, headaches, and more frequent trips to the bathroom to urinate. I also found that the dawn phenomenon isn't always to blame for a series of high morning blood sugars. Other factors can be at work, including taking too little medication that wears off early while you sleep or miscalculating how much medication you need to cover your carb vs. protein ratio at dinner. Not to mention consuming too many carbs before bedtime. What I was most interested in, of course, was how to stop my glucometer from asking invasive questions. Which meant finding a solution. Here, things got a bit trickier. For people who manage their Type 2 diabetes with a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) or take insulin via an insulin pump, the solution can be simple. A diagnosis of dawn phenomenon can be made by following the trend of high and lows recorded by the CGM and the flow of insulin can be adjusted accordingly. But for people who use a glucometer and don't take insulin, like me, a solution to the dawn phenomenon can require a bit of trial and error. After investigating the issue further with my endo, I was able to get a handle on the morning highs by adding a bit of evening exercise – a stroll around the block or a quick 10-minute stationary bike ride. Increasing my protein and reducing the amount of carbs at dinner also seemed to help keep my morning sugars in check. The tricky part is that while you can track your morning highs, there isn't a single way to anticipate and manage them. This means it can take a while to figure out what works for you. Which is, as I said earlier, a total pain. However, if you do get symptoms of the dawn phenomenon, don't despair. The key goal is to keep your A1C low, and by taking a proactive stance on high morning sugars, you're doing just that. Not to mention that once you get a handle on things, those pesky questions from a cranky glucometer might be a thing of the past.
