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For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope. In those days when you pray, I will listen. If you look for me wholeheartedly in earnest, you will find me when you seek me.” Jeremiah 29:11-13
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History of Medicine
Put in a humorous manner.
There might be much truth in that anyway.
A Humorous Short History of Medicine
"Doctor, I have an ear ache”
2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root."
1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say this prayer."
1850 A.D. - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."
1940 A.D. - "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."
1985 A.D. - "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."
2004 A.D. - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!"
B.C. = before Christ (birth) A.D. after Christ (birth)
A.D. - The term Anno Domini is Medieval Latin, translated as In the year of (the/Our) Lord.
It is sometimes specified as Anno Domini Nostri Iesu (or Jesu) Christi ("In the Year of Our Lord Jesus Christ")
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Worldwide, 666,000 people die from malaria each year
In Africa, where 91 percent of worldwide Malaria cases were recorded in 2010, the need for an effective and convenient repellent is critical
From The University of California, Riverside
A Force Field Against Mosquitoes?
Date: August, 1, 2013
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When warding off mosquitoes, few products on the market offer a convenient and non-toxic solution. Mosquito netting and EPA-registered repellants may be the most prevalent commercial products for the task, but a company called ieCrowd says it is about to introduce a new approach: the Kite Mosquito Patch.
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Worldwide, 666,000 people die from malaria each year, according to the most recent statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Africa, where 91 percent of worldwide Malaria cases were recorded in 2010, the need for an effective and convenient repellent is critical.
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Developed at the University of California Riverside, the technology behind the "Kite" (= the name of the product - it is not hanging in the air), which ieCrowd acquired, is said to involve non-toxic chemical compounds that neutralize a mosquito’s only meal ticket: its ability to detect carbon dioxide, which humans exhale.
“The Kite Patch is somewhat of a marvel (=miracle, wonder, astonishment) - a novel approach to mosquito deterrents (= discourages something from happening),” said Grey Frandsen, ieCrowd’s chief marketing officer and Kite’s project lead.
“It creates a spatial (= space, spacial) plume, if you will, around the human body and essentially makes us invisible to mosquitoes.”
Each Kite Patch, which sticks onto garments, is purported (= to mean, to intent) to shield humans from mosquitoes for up to 48 hours. Frandsen would not reveal which chemical compounds are in the Kite Patch because the technology is patent pending. Nevertheless, he insisted that the compounds are safe.
“All of the compounds that we are bringing together and blending represent compounds approved by the Food and Drug Administration here in the United States for consumption, and by the International Fragrance Association for the fragrances,” he said.
Pending approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, ieCrowd expects to release the Kite Patch within 10 to 14 months. He declined to say how much it will cost.
Given Africa’s critical concentration of malaria cases and deaths, ieCrowd is testing the Kite patch in Uganda. Frandsen said he hopes to make an immediate impact where it matters most, even it means disrupting bed nets, a successful and non-toxic defense against malaria.
“Bed nets are great until you have to walk around all day wearing this strange bed net, which in most societies are not acceptable,” he said.
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Does learning new things slow our internal sense of time?
Fast Time and the Aging Mind
Date: July 2013
By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN
Richard A. Friedman is a click: professor of clinical psychiatry and the director of the psycho-pharmacology clinic at the Weill Cornell Medical College
AH, the languorous, dreamy days of endless summer! Who among us doesn’t remember those days and wonder wistfully where they’ve gone? Why does time seem to speed up as we age? Even the summer solstice — the longest, sunniest day of the year — seems to have passed in a flash.
No less than the great William James opined on the matter, thinking that the apparent speed of time’s passage was a result of adults’ experiencing fewer memorable events:
“Each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to contentless units, and the years grow hollow and collapse.”
Don’t despair. I am happy to tell you that the apparent velocity of time is a big fat cognitive illusion and happy to say there may be a way to slow the velocity of our later lives.
Although the sense that we perceive time as accelerating as we age is very common, it is hard to prove experimentally. In one of the largest studies to date, Dr. Marc Wittmann of the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, in Germany, interviewed 499 German and Austrian subjects ranging in age from 14 to 94 years; he asked each subject how quickly time seemed to pass during the previous week, month, year and decade. Surprisingly, there were few differences related to age. With one exception: when researchers asked the subjects about the 10-year interval, older subjects were far more likely than the younger subjects to report that the last decade had passed quickly.
Other, non-age-related factors influence our perception of time. Recent research shows that emotions affect our perception of time. For example, Dr. Sylvie Droit-Volet, a psychology professor at Blaise Pascal University, in France, manipulated subjects’ emotional state by showing them movies that excited fear or sadness and then asked them to estimate the duration of the visual stimulus. She found that time appears to pass more slowly when we are afraid.
Attention and memory play a part in our perception of time. To accurately gauge the passage of time required to accomplish a given task, you have to be able to focus and remember a sequence of information. That’s partly why someone with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder has trouble judging time intervals and grows impatient with what seems like the slow passage of time.
The neurotransmitter dopamine is critically important to our ability to process time. Stimulants like Ritalin and Adderall, which increase dopamine function in the brain, have the effect of speeding up time perception; antipsychotic drugs, which block dopamine receptors, have the opposite effect.
On the whole, most of us perceive short intervals of time similarly, regardless of age. Why, then, do older people look back at long stretches of their lives and feel it’s a race to the finish?
Here’s a possible answer: think about what it’s like when you learn something for the first time — for example how, when you are young, you learn to ride a bike or navigate your way home from school. It takes time to learn new tasks and to encode them in your memory. And when you are learning about the world for the first time, you are forming a fairly steady stream of new memories of events, places and people.
When, as an adult, you look back at your childhood experiences, they appear to unfold in slow motion probably because the sheer number of them gives you the impression that they must have taken forever to acquire. So when you recall the summer vacation when you first learned to swim or row a boat, it feels endless.
But this is merely an illusion, the way adults understand the past when they look through the telescope of lost time. This, though, is not an illusion: almost all of us faced far steeper learning curves when we were young. Most adults do not explore and learn about the world the way they did when they were young; adult life lacks the constant discovery and endless novelty of childhood.
Studies have shown that the greater the cognitive demands of a task, the longer its duration is perceived to be. Dr. David Eagleman at Baylor College of Medicine found that repeated stimuli appear briefer in duration than novel stimuli of equal duration. Is it possible that learning new things might slow down our internal sense of time?
The question and the possibility it presents put me in mind of my father, who died a few years ago at age 86. An engineer by training, he read constantly after he retired. His range was enormous; he read about everything from astronomy to natural history, travel and gardening. I remember once discovering dozens of magazines and journals in the house and was convinced that my parents had become the victims of a mail-order scam.
Thinking I’d help with the clutter, I began to bundle up the magazines for recycling when my father angrily confronted me, demanding to know what the hell I was doing. “I read all of these,” he said.
And then it dawned on me. I cannot recall his ever having remarked on how fast or slow his life seemed to be going. He was constantly learning, always alive to new ideas and experience. Maybe that’s why he never seemed to notice that time was passing.
So what, you might say, if we have an illusion about time speeding up? But it matters, I think, because the distortion signals that we might squeeze more out of life.
It’s simple: if you want time to slow down, become a student again. Learn something that requires sustained effort; do something novel. Put down the thriller when you’re sitting on the beach and break out a book on evolutionary theory or Spanish for beginners or a how-to book on something you’ve always wanted to do. Take a new route to work; vacation at an unknown spot. And take your sweet time about it.
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Book Published in 1640 Sets a Record at Auction
Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in America, in Philadelphia, in 1731. Two years later, for his sisterJane’s 21st birthday, he sent her a three-volume collection called “The Ladies’ Library,” to start her own
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It already held a record as the first book printed in English in North America. Now it holds two: It is also the most expensive book ever sold at auction.
The little volume of psalms, one of only 11 known to exist out of roughly 1,700 printed by 17th-century Puritans in Massachusetts, went for $14,165,000 at auction on Tuesday, 11/26/13.
The buyer of the Bay Psalm Book, as it is known, was David M. Rubenstein David Rubenstein - Wikipedia of the Carlyle Group, an investment firm in Washington.
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Mr. Rubenstein has bought a number of historical documents in recent years, including a copy of Magna Carta*) for $21 million in 2007 (or $23.7 million today, adjusted for inflation).
*) Magna Carta - the royal charter of political ri0ghts given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 - click: Magna Carta - Wikipedia
Also called Magna Charta, 1560s, Medieval Latin, literally "great charter" (of English personal and political liberty), attested in Anglo-Latin from 1279; obtained from King John, June 15, 1215. See magnate, card (n.).
He placed his bid by telephone from Australia and told the auctioneer, David N. Redden of Sotheby’s, that he planned to lend it to libraries across the country to display, eventually arranging a long-term loan to one of them. click: Sotheby's - Wikipedia
“His intention is not to take these kinds of objects home,” Mr. Redden said.
The price, which included the auction house’s premium, set a record for a book sold at auction, beating the $11.54 million paid in 2010 for a copy of John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (equivalent to $12.39 million today).
The Bay Psalm Book was published in 1640, more than a century and a half after the first Gutenberg Bibles and 20 years after the Pilgrims had landed at Plymouth. It was the first book turned out by a printing press that had been shipped over from England. The press operator was a locksmith who was apparently learning as he went along: some of the pages were bound in the wrong order. At the bottom of one, someone wrote, “Turn back a leaf.”
“It’s one of those things where there are 11 known copies, so it’s one of the holy grails for book collectors,” Michael Inman, the curator of rare books at the New York Public Library, said this month. (The library owns one of the 10 other copies. It sold at Sotheby’s in London in 1855 for 19 shillings, which Mr. Inman estimated was 1,900 British pounds or about $3,075.)
The Puritans, who disdained the King James Version of the Bible, retranslated the psalms from Hebrew. They meant their translations to be sung a cappella**) — at church or at home.
**) with reference to choral music singing without instrumental accompaniment. - "an a cappella Mass" (adj. & adv.)
Earlier "alla capella" (1847), from Italian, "in the manner of the chapel," literally "according to the chapel," from cappella"chapel" (see chapel). Originally in reference to older church music (pre-1600) which was written for unaccompanied voices; applied 20c. to unaccompanied vocal music generally.
The copy that was sold on Tuesday had belonged to Boston’s Old South Church. Over the years, its congregation has included Samuel Adams, the colonial patriot who was a cousin of President John Adams, and Elizabeth Vergoose, a printer’s wife who is thought to be the Mother Goose of the nursery rhymes. Its ministers included Thomas Prince, the grandson of the last governor of Plymouth Colony.
Prince was also a book collector who stashed his collection in the nooks and crannies of the church. His New-England-Library, as he called it, apparently included two copies of the Bay Psalm Book, according to Sotheby’s (whose curators question whether he managed to acquire five, as some accounts say). The church sent both copies to the Boston Public Library for safekeeping in 1866; the other copy is not being sold.
The congregation voted last year to sell one copy to pay for ministries and repairs to the church’s 1875 building. The church’s historian, a longtime member of the congregation, resigned his post to protest the sale, and a successor was named.
Although the volume of psalms did not draw the pre-sale estimate of $15 million to $30 million, the church’s senior minister, the Rev. Dr. Nancy S. Taylor, said she was “thrilled with that price.”
“We couldn’t be happier with the buyer, we couldn’t be happier with the amount,” she said. “This is amazing. A year ago, we were wondering if we could get $5 million for it. We didn’t know.”
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PART B (Part A next above more details about this historic book)
Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in America, in Philadelphia, in 1731. Two years later, for his sisterJane’s 21st birthday, he sent her a three-volume collection called “The Ladies’ Library,” to start her own
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A Most Expensive Book
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — THE first English-language book printed in the New World is scheduled to be auctioned on Tuesday by Sotheby’s of New York. It’s expected to command between $15 million and $30 million — more than anyone, anywhere, has ever paid for a printed book.
Seventeen hundred copies of “The Whole Booke of Psalmes” were printed in Cambridge, Mass., in 1640; only 11 survive, making it scarcer than the Gutenberg Bible, of which there are 48 known copies. Five of the surviving copies of “The Whole Booke of Psalmes,” also known as the “Bay Psalm Book,” come from a collection begun by Thomas Prince. Prince was minister of Boston’s Old South Meeting House, the church where Benjamin Franklin and his sister Jane were baptized in 1706 and 1712. click:Images for jane franklin click: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin: Jill Lepore ...www.amazon.com
Benjamin Franklin founded the first lending library in America, in Philadelphia, in 1731. Two years later, for Jane’s 21st birthday, he sent her a three-volume collection called “The Ladies’ Library,” to start her own.
Thomas Prince, stirred by the same spirit, founded a library, too. He kept his more than 2,000 books in a room in the church’s steeple, under the belfry, in boxes and barrels, for anyone to read, if never to remove. Inside his books, he liked to glue his bookplate:
This Book belongs to The New-England Library, Begun to be collected by Thomas Prince, upon his entring Harvard-College, July 6, 1703; and was given by said Prince, to remain therein for ever. click: Harvard University click: Harvard College 1636
“The Whole Booke of Psalmes” is a collection of 150 psalms, in verse. In the 1630s, Puritan intellectuals in New England, believing the King James translation of the Bible to be corrupt, retranslated the psalms from Hebrew into English. Since they wanted the psalms to be sung, they set them to meter. They cared more about piety than poetry. As the Boston minister John Cotton, one of the translators, explained, “If therefore the verses are not always so smooth and elegant as some may desire or expect; let them consider that God’s Altar needs not our polishings.”
Others favored more polishing. The first “improved” edition appeared in 1647, just seven years after the original. Thomas Prince’s own “Revised and Improved” translation was published in 1758, in time for one of his psalms to be read over his grave. In the King James, the 37th psalm promises that “the meeke shall inherite the earth.” In the Bay Psalm Book, “meek ones the inheritance/shall of the earth possesse.” In Prince: “the meek and humble shall/the earth as heirs possess.” Smooth and elegant these psalms are not.
In 1866, the Old South Meeting House gave the Prince collection to the Boston Public Library for safekeeping. There followed a certain amount of jiggery-pokery. One copy of “The Whole Booke of Psalmes” ended up in the hands of a mayor of Boston. After his death, when his estate announced plans to auction it, the deacons of Old South filed suit, claiming the church still owned the book. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sided with the mayor’s heirs, and the book was sold for $1,025, a sum so staggering that the story was reported in The New York Times.
Another copy was auctioned in 1879; it was bought for $1,200 by Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest men in America. That copy was auctioned again in 1947, when it commanded $151,000, breaking a record. The copy of the Bay Psalm book that Sotheby’s is set to auction this week comes from the Prince library, too. In protest of its sale, the Old South’s historian resigned. click: Sotheby's - Wikipedia
“The Whole Book of Psalms” is less a book than a ruin — the remains of another age.
More rare and endangered than old books, lately, are bookstores and public libraries. In the United States, more than a thousand bookstores closed between 2000 and 2007. Borders, which owned more than 1,200 bookstores in 2003, shut the doors to the last of them in 2011. Public libraries in nearly every state have suffered budget cuts. Most have reduced hours and services; others have sold off books. Some libraries have merged; others have privatized. Two years ago, the American Library Association issued a task force report called “Keeping Public Libraries Public.” In an age of library downsizing, a nonprofit in Wisconsin makes Little Free Libraries, wooden boxes not much bigger than a mailbox, to put up in neighborhoods, for book swapping. They’re inspired. But they’re not buildings; they’re boxes.
In 1785, Benjamin Franklin shipped to the town of Franklin, Mass. — the first town of many named in his honor — 116 books for a public library.
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His sister Jane, who never went to school and never learned to spell, asked him to send her a list of those books. “My Reason for this Request is I have a great deal of time on my hands,” she explained. “I Love Reading ...and I dont doubt I can Borrow of won and another of my Acquaintance.” Then she set about trying to read every book on that list, from Locke to Montesquieu, from Blackstone to Newton.
In Franklin, Mass., those books — the gift from Benjamin Franklin — are still there, in the town library. They are locked in a cabinet. A few years back, the library’s board, citing a lack of funds for the care of rare books, decided that the door to that cabinet must never be opened. None of those books will ever be read again.
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Animal Testing and Its Gifts To Humans
Recent progress treating Ebola, deadly tumors, eyesight, erosed bone structure and more was made with animals’ help
Patients with aggressive brain tumors finally have reason for hope. Thanks to the work of scientists and physicians at Duke University, an experimental new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM—an aggressive tumor that kills about 12,000 people in the U.S. each year—is saving the lives of patients who, just months ago, had little hope of survival.
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This extraordinary development wouldn’t have been possible without animal research. Yet many in the animal-rights community condemn the use of any and all animals in medical research and continue to push for testing bans. Such efforts ignore the fact that when it comes to medical research, animal models are indispensable. Further proof of this came with news in the journal Nature that a drug to fight Ebola had showed remarkable success when tested in rhesus monkeys.
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The brain-tumor treatment developed at Duke is a re-engineered polio virus. The new virus designed by researchers helps the body’s immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells. As in countless other revolutionary therapies, animal research played an invaluable role in creating this treatment.
Before human trials began, the re-engineered virus was injected into the brains of macaque monkeys, whose systems operate similarly to those of humans. Since the raw polio virus often results in paralysis, such testing of the modified virus made sense—and helped demonstrate that the body’s immune system would cripple brain tumors if injected with the re-engineered virus.
This wasn’t the only instance where animal models proved crucial for the Duke team. While developing their therapy, these researchers relied on years of previous primate research.
One such study was a 1991 paper in which Harvard researchers used a genetically engineered virus to treat a mouse with GBM. In 1996 researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook used mice to prove that infecting a cell with a polio virus required a specific receptor on the cell’s surface. Then, in 2000, a research team from Duke and Stony Brook showed how a genetically modified polio virus eliminated human tumors bearing that special receptor in mice. This discovery laid the groundwork for the clinical trials that resulted in this breakthrough therapy.
Dependence on animal research is hardly unique to Duke researchers. A number of recent medical advances have their roots in animal models. Consider a Phase III clinical trial from 2013, which proved that a next-generation herpes virus could successfully treat melanoma patients. This research was the direct result of a 1995 study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University, demonstrating how a modified herpes virus can shrink tumors in mice and nonhuman primates.
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More recently, animal research has helped pave the way toward restoring vision. Last September a Japanese woman became the first person to undergo an experimental stem-cell treatment for blindness. The procedure was deemed safe for humans after several studies involving monkeys and mice.
The greatest medical contributions from animal research may still lie in the future. In a study published last year in the journal Stem Cell Reports, scientists in France and Germany were able to regenerate damaged brain areas in mice for the first time. The discovery could lead to treatments for human brain damage caused by everything from strokes to bullet wounds.
Despite these successes, critics continue to attack animal-research methods as needlessly cruel. Activists have succeeded in pressuring all but one major airline to stop carrying animal models to research labs. That’s a problem for scientists in the U.S. Most monkeys come from Asia and Mauritius, where they’re humanely raised on farms.
Consequently, researchers have had to turn to charter carriers. As a result, costs per animal have tripled. Those extra costs sap medical progress.
Another common argument by critics is that animal models rarely lead to discoveries that are relevant to humans. It’s undeniable that human physiology differs from that of mice or monkeys. But humans and animals still have much in common. Primates share fundamental similarities—from their use of hormones to their reactions to infection—that, for centuries, have helped deepen our understanding of the human body.
With the Duke trials, the project director initially called the idea of using polio as a therapy “nuts” because of the risk of paralysis. Animal models are what enabled his team to move forward with their work.
Activists calling for the elimination of animal studies grossly underestimate the human value of animal studies. Those who doubt this value need only look at the faces of patients in the Duke trial whose lives have been saved by these essential research techniques.
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Ms. Trull is president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research.
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Recent progress treating Ebola, deadly tumors, eyesight, erosed bone structure and more was made with animals’ help
Patients with aggressive brain tumors finally have reason for hope. Thanks to the work of scientists and physicians at Duke University, an experimental new treatment for glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM—an aggressive tumor that kills about 12,000 people in the U.S. each year—is saving the lives of patients who, just months ago, had little hope of survival.
Click:Duke University- a private research university located in Durham NC, USA
Click: Glioblastoma (GBM) | American Brain Tumor Association
This extraordinary development wouldn’t have been possible without animal research. Yet many in the animal-rights community condemn the use of any and all animals in medical research and continue to push for testing bans. Such efforts ignore the fact that when it comes to medical research, animal models are indispensable. Further proof of this came with news in the journal Nature that a drug to fight Ebola had showed remarkable success when tested in rhesus monkeys.
Click: Journal home : Nature
The brain-tumor treatment developed at Duke is a re-engineered polio virus. The new virus designed by researchers helps the body’s immune system to recognize and attack cancer cells. As in countless other revolutionary therapies, animal research played an invaluable role in creating this treatment.
Before human trials began, the re-engineered virus was injected into the brains of macaque monkeys, whose systems operate similarly to those of humans. Since the raw polio virus often results in paralysis, such testing of the modified virus made sense—and helped demonstrate that the body’s immune system would cripple brain tumors if injected with the re-engineered virus.
This wasn’t the only instance where animal models proved crucial for the Duke team. While developing their therapy, these researchers relied on years of previous primate research.
One such study was a 1991 paper in which Harvard researchers used a genetically engineered virus to treat a mouse with GBM. In 1996 researchers at the State University of New York at Stony Brook used mice to prove that infecting a cell with a polio virus required a specific receptor on the cell’s surface. Then, in 2000, a research team from Duke and Stony Brook showed how a genetically modified polio virus eliminated human tumors bearing that special receptor in mice. This discovery laid the groundwork for the clinical trials that resulted in this breakthrough therapy.
Dependence on animal research is hardly unique to Duke researchers. A number of recent medical advances have their roots in animal models. Consider a Phase III clinical trial from 2013, which proved that a next-generation herpes virus could successfully treat melanoma patients. This research was the direct result of a 1995 study by scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University, demonstrating how a modified herpes virus can shrink tumors in mice and nonhuman primates.
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Click:Georgetown University
More recently, animal research has helped pave the way toward restoring vision. Last September a Japanese woman became the first person to undergo an experimental stem-cell treatment for blindness. The procedure was deemed safe for humans after several studies involving monkeys and mice.
The greatest medical contributions from animal research may still lie in the future. In a study published last year in the journal Stem Cell Reports, scientists in France and Germany were able to regenerate damaged brain areas in mice for the first time. The discovery could lead to treatments for human brain damage caused by everything from strokes to bullet wounds.
Despite these successes, critics continue to attack animal-research methods as needlessly cruel. Activists have succeeded in pressuring all but one major airline to stop carrying animal models to research labs. That’s a problem for scientists in the U.S. Most monkeys come from Asia and Mauritius, where they’re humanely raised on farms.
Consequently, researchers have had to turn to charter carriers. As a result, costs per animal have tripled. Those extra costs sap medical progress.
Another common argument by critics is that animal models rarely lead to discoveries that are relevant to humans. It’s undeniable that human physiology differs from that of mice or monkeys. But humans and animals still have much in common. Primates share fundamental similarities—from their use of hormones to their reactions to infection—that, for centuries, have helped deepen our understanding of the human body.
With the Duke trials, the project director initially called the idea of using polio as a therapy “nuts” because of the risk of paralysis. Animal models are what enabled his team to move forward with their work.
Activists calling for the elimination of animal studies grossly underestimate the human value of animal studies. Those who doubt this value need only look at the faces of patients in the Duke trial whose lives have been saved by these essential research techniques.
Frankie L. Trull & WSJ
Ms. Trull is president of the Foundation for Biomedical Research.
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(2) GCG research
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Research cilities are under the auspices of the IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee). The individuals in this organization are comprised of one research scientist, a lay person, a veterinarian and an individual representing the research facility. Their goal is to reduce the number of animals used to a minimum, replacing them whenever possible (other models in lieu of using live animals), and refinement (using animals appropriately for research). All protocols have to be vetted by the IACUC prior to research. The IACUC enforces the requirement of space for housing (including socialization for the animals), temperature, humidity, diet (for animals) and safety for staff and animals. Until animals are no longer needed, be assured that within research facilities, advocates are present with the primary goal of humanely protecting animal models.
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Every institution that uses animals for federally funded laboratory research must have an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC). Each local ...
History - Composition - Activities - Inspections
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The recent progress treating Ebola and a deadly tumor was made with animals' help..
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Part 1 of 4
Foreword to the topic next below
The Concussion Challenge
Before we go further
in this seminar full of life saving guidance, lets look
briefly at how to lower your risk of getting a concussion
The information in this seminar is meant to guide in prevention - this seminar is NOT to be used as medical advice
Please immediately contact your physician if you have medical concerns
Prevention
You can lower your risk of getting a concussion by protecting your head from taking a hard blow. Some ways of doing this are listed below:
Part 1 of 4
Foreword to the topic next below
The Concussion Challenge
Before we go further
in this seminar full of life saving guidance, lets look
briefly at how to lower your risk of getting a concussion
The information in this seminar is meant to guide in prevention - this seminar is NOT to be used as medical advice
Please immediately contact your physician if you have medical concerns
Prevention
You can lower your risk of getting a concussion by protecting your head from taking a hard blow. Some ways of doing this are listed below:
- Protective headgear - One of the most important ways to protect your head from concussion is to wear protective headgear while doing any sort of contact sport or high speed sport. This includes activities such as click: football, hockey, skateboarding, bicycling & rollerblading.
- Wear your seatbelt - Concussions often happen during traffic accidents. Wearing your seatbelt can help to prevent injuries during a car crash.
- Diving - Don't dive into shallow water or bodies of water where you can't see the bottom.
- Sometimes a concussion is referred to as an MTBI which stands for mild traumatic brain injury.
- Around 10% of concussions that occur during sports involve a loss of consciousness. This means you can get a light concussion without you knowing it - the signs for it may appear later (listed below)
- The most dangerous sport for concussions is football where around 75% of the athletes get concussions.
- If a person has had one concussion they are 1 to 2 times more likely to get a second one.
- The CDC estimates that around 1.7 million concussions occur each year. CDC = Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - A U.S. Federal Agency
- Click: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) www.cdc.gov/
- United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
The CDC maintains several departments concerned with occupational safety and health, such as the Center for Injury Prevention and Control .
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Part 2 of 4
The Concussion Challenge
What every parent, child & anyone of any age
should know about concussions
Important to know: The healthy human brain takes up to the age of 25 to develop to its full, adult form
Definition:
A concussion is a traumatic*) brain injury that alters the way your brain functions. Although concussions usually are caused by a blow to the head, they can also occur when the head and upper body are violently shaken. These injuries can cause a loss of consciousness, but most concussions do not. Because of this, some people have concussions and don't realize it.
Concussions are common, particularly if you play a contact sport, such as football. But every concussion injures your brain to some extent. This injury needs time and rest to heal properly. Most concussive traumatic*) brain injuries are mild, and people usually recover fully. However, some can be deadly.
*) traumatic (adj.), trauma (noun) = a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident
A baby can die if the caregiver shakes the baby - the baby's brain hits the skull - that can cause the baby's death.
These things must be taught to everyone in our schools.
By Click: Cindy Trowbridge
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at University of Texas Arlington
Some time ago, the deaths of click: three high school football players were linked to direct head injuries on the field of play and one collegiate football player’s
click: death has been potentially attributed to unresolved post concussion syndrome. Even though these athletes were football players, any sporting or recreational events can pose a risk for concussions and head injuries.
Despite the tragic news recently associated with sport, the amazing outcomes of sport participation grossly outweigh the negative consequences of injuries. But injuries should not be considered as just a part of the game, especially when an injury to the brain occurs.
I have been an athletic trainer for sports of all levels for over two decades. And over the past four years, I have fielded more questions from friends and family members about concussions than any other injury during my career. It has become clear to me that parents of youth athletes and their families still need more information about the definition of concussions and symptoms to look for, as well as the appropriate treatment protocols.
Families should know the first step is understanding what makes a child’s brain unique. Then, parents must be ready to take steps to spot concussions and take action.
What makes a child’s brain unique
Concussions are a type of mild traumatic brain injury and are considered to result from a traumatic shaking of the brain. They can cause acute and long-term changes in brain physiology and function including cognition. And for children with developing brains, they can be especially dangerous.
Children have smaller brains in relation to their skulls. Compared to an adult, the young child click: brain has less mass and more cerebrospinal fluid*) between the brain and the skull. By way of analogy the child’s brain is like the egg yolk in an egg – there is room for it to move. Because children’s brains have less mass in relation to the skull, their brains experience more acceleration. This means the brain can hit the skull with more force. *) Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear colorless bodily fluid found in the brain and spine click: Cerebrospinal fluid
It is produced in the choroid plexus of the brain. click: Choroid plexus
A child’s brain also appears to be far more plastic (= capable of being molded or of receiving form) or impressionable (= easily click: impressed or influenced) than the
click: adult brain. This helps during maturation (= the process of growing up), but can have negative effects associated with brain injury because the child’s brain is less resistant to trauma.
We can’t fix brain injuries like we can fix damage done to ligaments and bones. Therefore, it is important for parents to be protective when it comes to their children’s brains and to be aware of the potential long-term effects a concussion can have on normal brain development.
Recognizing signs and symptoms
Recent click: research has shown that parents had misconceptions regarding the definition, symptoms and treatment about concussions.
They didn’t know that concussions can occur from trauma other than a blow to the head and that concussions are considered traumatic brain injuries. They also did not readily recognize key symptoms of concussions including irritability and sleeping difficulties and incorrectly identified arm and leg weakness or numbness as signs, which they are not.
Parents are in a prime position to recognize the signs and symptoms of a concussion in their child. The culture of sport encourages children to play and win so a child will often hide symptoms from medical practitioners. But parents are able to pick up on the subtle signs of problems associated with a previous concussion. Signs and symptoms are usually classified into click: four categories including physical, cognitive, emotional and sleep patterns.
The physical signs and symptoms include, but are not limited to, headache, loss of consciousness, dizziness or balance problems, numbness, tingling, fatigue, visual problems, diminished pupil reaction, dazed or stunned expressions, ringing of ears, sensitivity to light and noise, and vomiting.
The cognitive responses include mental slowing or fogginess and the emotional signs and symptoms include irritability, uncharacteristic actions, anxiety, sadness and depression.
Sleep pattern changes including excessive drowsiness, trouble falling asleep and altered patterns of sleep and wakefulness are also common.
Return to play and return to learn
Unfortunately, the return to play and return to learn (or classroom) guidelines are not widely understood by parents because of communication gaps in the medical community. If children are treated by emergency room physicians or pediatricians these professionals are often not trained in the long-term management of concussions. This means that children often return to school or athletics too soon.
Often the focus for a child athlete is mainly on return to play but equally important is the return to learn or the classroom and academics. The cornerstone for both the return to play and return to learn plans are REST – physical and cognitive. A child must rest by limiting physical and mental activity (this means reading, TV, games, texting and computer time).
Concussions can cause a metabolic crisis for the brain because blood flow and glucose delivery are impaired. The brain needs energy to function normally and to heal itself, and these metabolic changes mean the active brain may not get as much energy as it normally needs to function properly. This is why rest is important to recovery.
Children with concussions symptoms should be removed from the classroom and provided with work to do at home. Work sessions should remain short
with click: frequent breaks When a child is able to read for 30 minutes without increasing signs or symptoms then a progressive return to school can begin (half days to full days). Resuming physical activity should be click: progressive as well.
Following these guidelines can help parents to be protective of their children’s brains and potentially prevent long-term effects or tragic consequences.
Sources:
(1) Click: Cindy Trowbridge - Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at University of Texas Arlington
Kinesiology = the study of the mechanics of body movements, known also as human kinetics
Click:
(2) GCG
(3) First published in The Conversation
The Conversation is funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Alfred P Sloan Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Our global publishing platform is funded by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Click: The Conversation
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Additional info:
Click: AKA Clarifies the Definition of Kinesiologywww.americankinesiology.org › ... › Publications › White Papers
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health, ...
AKA - The American Kinesiology Association clarifies the Definition of Kinesiology
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health, society, and quality of life” (click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org) As a discipline kinesiology draws on several sources of knowledge including knowledge gained from personal and corporate physical activity experiences, professional practices centered in physical activity, and knowledge gained through scholarly study and research of physical activity itself. Although the discipline is most often associated with the latter of these, the AKA recognizes that the body of knowledge of kinesiology is informed by and defined by the other two sources as well. Ultimately, the uniqueness of kinesiology as a discipline is its embrace and integration of a multi-dimensional study and application of physical activity--- biological, medical and health-related aspects, but also psychological, social-humanistic, and a variety of professional perspectives as well. Although individual departments may choose to shape their curricula and research agendas around select aspects of the discipline such institutional preferences should not be interpreted as a complete and comprehensive definition of the discipline
Click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org
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(Concise Encyclopedia) definition: kinesiology
Study of the mechanics and anatomy of human movement and their roles in promoting health and reducing disease. Kinesiology has direct applications to fitness and health, including developing exercise programs for people with and without disabilities, preserving the independence of older people, preventing disease due to trauma and neglect, and rehabilitating people after disease or injury. Kinesiologists also develop more accessible furniture and environments for people with limited movement and find ways to enhance individual and team efficiency. Kinesiology research encompasses the biochemistry of muscle contraction and tissue fluids, bone mineralization, responses to exercise, how physical skills are developed, work efficiency, and the anthropology of play.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humans, past and present,that draws and builds upon knowledge from the click: social sciences and click: life sciences, as well as the click: humanities. Click: Anthropology
Click: List of life sciences
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Compare:
Applied kinesiology is different, click: Applied kinesiology
Applied Kinesiology - American Cancer Societywww.cancer.org/treatment/.../applied-kinesiolo...
American Cancer Society
Applied kinesiology is different from kinesiology, a field of scientific study of the movements of the human body.
Other common name(s): muscle testing, manual muscle testing, AK
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Part 3 of 4
Part 2 of 4
The Concussion Challenge
What every parent, child & anyone of any age
should know about concussions
Important to know: The healthy human brain takes up to the age of 25 to develop to its full, adult form
Definition:
A concussion is a traumatic*) brain injury that alters the way your brain functions. Although concussions usually are caused by a blow to the head, they can also occur when the head and upper body are violently shaken. These injuries can cause a loss of consciousness, but most concussions do not. Because of this, some people have concussions and don't realize it.
Concussions are common, particularly if you play a contact sport, such as football. But every concussion injures your brain to some extent. This injury needs time and rest to heal properly. Most concussive traumatic*) brain injuries are mild, and people usually recover fully. However, some can be deadly.
*) traumatic (adj.), trauma (noun) = a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident
A baby can die if the caregiver shakes the baby - the baby's brain hits the skull - that can cause the baby's death.
These things must be taught to everyone in our schools.
By Click: Cindy Trowbridge
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at University of Texas Arlington
Some time ago, the deaths of click: three high school football players were linked to direct head injuries on the field of play and one collegiate football player’s
click: death has been potentially attributed to unresolved post concussion syndrome. Even though these athletes were football players, any sporting or recreational events can pose a risk for concussions and head injuries.
Despite the tragic news recently associated with sport, the amazing outcomes of sport participation grossly outweigh the negative consequences of injuries. But injuries should not be considered as just a part of the game, especially when an injury to the brain occurs.
I have been an athletic trainer for sports of all levels for over two decades. And over the past four years, I have fielded more questions from friends and family members about concussions than any other injury during my career. It has become clear to me that parents of youth athletes and their families still need more information about the definition of concussions and symptoms to look for, as well as the appropriate treatment protocols.
Families should know the first step is understanding what makes a child’s brain unique. Then, parents must be ready to take steps to spot concussions and take action.
What makes a child’s brain unique
Concussions are a type of mild traumatic brain injury and are considered to result from a traumatic shaking of the brain. They can cause acute and long-term changes in brain physiology and function including cognition. And for children with developing brains, they can be especially dangerous.
Children have smaller brains in relation to their skulls. Compared to an adult, the young child click: brain has less mass and more cerebrospinal fluid*) between the brain and the skull. By way of analogy the child’s brain is like the egg yolk in an egg – there is room for it to move. Because children’s brains have less mass in relation to the skull, their brains experience more acceleration. This means the brain can hit the skull with more force. *) Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear colorless bodily fluid found in the brain and spine click: Cerebrospinal fluid
It is produced in the choroid plexus of the brain. click: Choroid plexus
A child’s brain also appears to be far more plastic (= capable of being molded or of receiving form) or impressionable (= easily click: impressed or influenced) than the
click: adult brain. This helps during maturation (= the process of growing up), but can have negative effects associated with brain injury because the child’s brain is less resistant to trauma.
We can’t fix brain injuries like we can fix damage done to ligaments and bones. Therefore, it is important for parents to be protective when it comes to their children’s brains and to be aware of the potential long-term effects a concussion can have on normal brain development.
Recognizing signs and symptoms
Recent click: research has shown that parents had misconceptions regarding the definition, symptoms and treatment about concussions.
They didn’t know that concussions can occur from trauma other than a blow to the head and that concussions are considered traumatic brain injuries. They also did not readily recognize key symptoms of concussions including irritability and sleeping difficulties and incorrectly identified arm and leg weakness or numbness as signs, which they are not.
Parents are in a prime position to recognize the signs and symptoms of a concussion in their child. The culture of sport encourages children to play and win so a child will often hide symptoms from medical practitioners. But parents are able to pick up on the subtle signs of problems associated with a previous concussion. Signs and symptoms are usually classified into click: four categories including physical, cognitive, emotional and sleep patterns.
The physical signs and symptoms include, but are not limited to, headache, loss of consciousness, dizziness or balance problems, numbness, tingling, fatigue, visual problems, diminished pupil reaction, dazed or stunned expressions, ringing of ears, sensitivity to light and noise, and vomiting.
The cognitive responses include mental slowing or fogginess and the emotional signs and symptoms include irritability, uncharacteristic actions, anxiety, sadness and depression.
Sleep pattern changes including excessive drowsiness, trouble falling asleep and altered patterns of sleep and wakefulness are also common.
Return to play and return to learn
Unfortunately, the return to play and return to learn (or classroom) guidelines are not widely understood by parents because of communication gaps in the medical community. If children are treated by emergency room physicians or pediatricians these professionals are often not trained in the long-term management of concussions. This means that children often return to school or athletics too soon.
Often the focus for a child athlete is mainly on return to play but equally important is the return to learn or the classroom and academics. The cornerstone for both the return to play and return to learn plans are REST – physical and cognitive. A child must rest by limiting physical and mental activity (this means reading, TV, games, texting and computer time).
Concussions can cause a metabolic crisis for the brain because blood flow and glucose delivery are impaired. The brain needs energy to function normally and to heal itself, and these metabolic changes mean the active brain may not get as much energy as it normally needs to function properly. This is why rest is important to recovery.
Children with concussions symptoms should be removed from the classroom and provided with work to do at home. Work sessions should remain short
with click: frequent breaks When a child is able to read for 30 minutes without increasing signs or symptoms then a progressive return to school can begin (half days to full days). Resuming physical activity should be click: progressive as well.
Following these guidelines can help parents to be protective of their children’s brains and potentially prevent long-term effects or tragic consequences.
Sources:
(1) Click: Cindy Trowbridge - Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at University of Texas Arlington
Kinesiology = the study of the mechanics of body movements, known also as human kinetics
Click:
(2) GCG
(3) First published in The Conversation
The Conversation is funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Alfred P Sloan Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Our global publishing platform is funded by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Click: The Conversation
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Additional info:
Click: AKA Clarifies the Definition of Kinesiologywww.americankinesiology.org › ... › Publications › White Papers
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health, ...
AKA - The American Kinesiology Association clarifies the Definition of Kinesiology
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health, society, and quality of life” (click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org) As a discipline kinesiology draws on several sources of knowledge including knowledge gained from personal and corporate physical activity experiences, professional practices centered in physical activity, and knowledge gained through scholarly study and research of physical activity itself. Although the discipline is most often associated with the latter of these, the AKA recognizes that the body of knowledge of kinesiology is informed by and defined by the other two sources as well. Ultimately, the uniqueness of kinesiology as a discipline is its embrace and integration of a multi-dimensional study and application of physical activity--- biological, medical and health-related aspects, but also psychological, social-humanistic, and a variety of professional perspectives as well. Although individual departments may choose to shape their curricula and research agendas around select aspects of the discipline such institutional preferences should not be interpreted as a complete and comprehensive definition of the discipline
Click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org
____________
(Concise Encyclopedia) definition: kinesiology
Study of the mechanics and anatomy of human movement and their roles in promoting health and reducing disease. Kinesiology has direct applications to fitness and health, including developing exercise programs for people with and without disabilities, preserving the independence of older people, preventing disease due to trauma and neglect, and rehabilitating people after disease or injury. Kinesiologists also develop more accessible furniture and environments for people with limited movement and find ways to enhance individual and team efficiency. Kinesiology research encompasses the biochemistry of muscle contraction and tissue fluids, bone mineralization, responses to exercise, how physical skills are developed, work efficiency, and the anthropology of play.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humans, past and present,that draws and builds upon knowledge from the click: social sciences and click: life sciences, as well as the click: humanities. Click: Anthropology
Click: List of life sciences
_____________
Compare:
Applied kinesiology is different, click: Applied kinesiology
Applied Kinesiology - American Cancer Societywww.cancer.org/treatment/.../applied-kinesiolo...
American Cancer Society
Applied kinesiology is different from kinesiology, a field of scientific study of the movements of the human body.
Other common name(s): muscle testing, manual muscle testing, AK
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Part 3 of 4
The Concussion Challenge continues.......
Your Baby's Safety
A baby can die if/when the caregiver shakes the baby - the baby's brain hits the skull - that can cause the baby's death. One baby to die in the caregiver's violent hands is too many. It's called SBS-Shaken Baby Sybdrome
Every day babies die because a frustrated parent, the family's older children, a babysitter, a nanny, the housekeeper or someone else is shaking the baby. When the baby cries and cries the caregiver gets blind to his/her own wrong actions and the baby's life is in danger.
To avoid this tragedy train everyone in this knowledge (before anyone can take care of the baby) - the knowledge how easily the baby can die when shaken.
Do not let anyone handle your baby before YOU have trained them in this life-saving knowledge.
The training material, 2 links, is placed for you next below
Study the material together as a family:
both parents, all older children
Additionally, train any other person
(before you leave your baby in their hands) and go through the same material.
Your Baby's Safety
A baby can die if/when the caregiver shakes the baby - the baby's brain hits the skull - that can cause the baby's death. One baby to die in the caregiver's violent hands is too many. It's called SBS-Shaken Baby Sybdrome
Every day babies die because a frustrated parent, the family's older children, a babysitter, a nanny, the housekeeper or someone else is shaking the baby. When the baby cries and cries the caregiver gets blind to his/her own wrong actions and the baby's life is in danger.
To avoid this tragedy train everyone in this knowledge (before anyone can take care of the baby) - the knowledge how easily the baby can die when shaken.
Do not let anyone handle your baby before YOU have trained them in this life-saving knowledge.
The training material, 2 links, is placed for you next below
Study the material together as a family:
both parents, all older children
Additionally, train any other person
(before you leave your baby in their hands) and go through the same material.
- Click and study both links and teach your babysitter to never shake a baby - demand proof that the babysitter/nanny/housekeeper or anyone who will be in contact with your baby has studied these 2 web links. Test their skills.
- Click the colored titles in both links below and study in full:
- (1) SBS - Shaken Baby Syndrome - Facts and Figureshttps://www.health.ny.gov/.../shake...
New York State Department of Health
SBS is a form of child abuse that occurs when an adult or older child violently ... SBS is usually caused by a frustrated parent or caregiver who shakes a baby ... It is estimated that 1,000-3,000 children in the United States suffer from SBS each year. One fourth of victims of SBS die, and 80 percent of survivors suffer from ... - (2) [PDF]
- Click: Shaken Baby Syndrome: - Centers for Disease Control and ...www.cdc.gov/.../SB...
United States Centers for Disease Control and Preve...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ... are violently shaken dies from this form of ... of violently shaking a baby; the risk factors ... caregivers are prepared to care for a baby. ... Shaking them ... of SBS cases per year because many.
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Part 4 of 4
The Concussion Challenge continues.......
National Basketball Association Concussion Policy Summary
The National Basketball Association Concussion Policy is designed to maximize the neurological health of NBA players by providing a framework of education and clinical management. The policy was created under the core principle that each concussion, and each athlete, is unique. Optimum medical care depends on an individualized and comprehensive approach to concussion management.
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Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Get Some
Initiative aims to track athletes’ head injuries from onset through recovery
Updated April 17, 2015
Click for the graphics for the numbers:
Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Get Some - WSJwww.wsj.com/.../short-on-concussion-data-ncaa-sets...The Wall Street Journal
Apr 17, 2015 - The Numbers: Columnist Jo Craven McGinty explores the NCAA's effort
If the link has expired search the web with the above link title = the graphics is in the WSJ
Click below in the text the colored links for further info - or search the web with the copied link
The NCAA has had a concussion problem for years. But the organization has resisted issuing rules to diagnose and manage the debilitating brain injury, in part because it doesn’t have enough scientific evidence upon which to base rules.
Now the National Collegiate Athletic Association is helping bankroll a project to gather the information. In partnership with U.S. Department of Defense, it has launched a three-year, $30 million project to track the effects of concussion using data from as many as 37,000 student athletes.
The study is one of several new NCAA-backed “big data” projects, according to Oliver Luck, the organization’s executive vice president of regulatory affairs. Other efforts include mandating schools to report to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research and conducting summits to examine injury, recovery and optimal training data related to a particular sport.
“It’s a fairly significant shift in the way the NCAA would like to look at issues,” said Mr. Luck, a former NFL quarterback who is the father of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. “So many schools and coaches have knowledge of sports but have not been making decisions based on data. This is our effort to join that club” of institutions using data to inform decision making.
In the case of concussion, it also is a tacit acknowledgment the NCAA must address a problem that has led some athletes to sue and caused others to quit their sport rather than risk injury. Last year, the NCAA agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over concussion-related claims.
And the blows keep coming. Last month, University of Maryland freshman Melo Trimble hit his head twice in one game of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament before a trainer led him, looking dazed, from the floor. He was later diagnosed with a concussion. A week later, Vanderbilt University quarterback Patton Robinette ended his Division I football career, saying his decision was influenced by having suffered a concussion on the field in September.
The new study aims to document the effects of concussion from onset through full recovery, providing the NCAA with the scientific evidence it says it lacks.
The University of Maryland's Melo Trimble is helped off the court by head trainer Matt Charvat in the second half of a March Madness game last month after sustaining a head injury. He was later diagnosed with a concussion.
“The press, coaches and others talk as if we understand the natural history of concussion,” said Brian Hainline, a neurologist and the NCAA’s chief medical officer. “We’re giving recommendations without having definite answers.”
Traditionally, concussions have been diagnosed based on observable symptoms and what injured athletes volunteered about their condition. More recently, that approach has been augmented with baseline tests administered to athletes before a sports season begins to provide a point of reference in the event of injury.
The problem is athletes who want to get back in a game may inadvertently or intentionally provide misleading information.
“If the person doesn’t drop to the ground and lie there unconscious, it’s not always clear whether they have a concussion,” said Thomas W. McAllister, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, who is one of the principal investigators in the concussion study. “We rely on the athlete to self-report. Most don’t want to report.”
Indiana University, the University of Michigan and the Medical College of Wisconsin are coordinating the study, which will include student-athletes attending the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard academies and about 30 different NCAA schools, phased in over the period. All NCAA-sanctioned sports will be included.
The DOD is interested in the research because military service personnel have a high incidence of concussion, most occur outside of combat and the injury is easier to study in a sports setting.
“Eighty percent of traumatic brain injuries in the military occur outside of the combat zone, with mechanisms that are similar to those experienced by collegiate athletes,” said Col. Dallas Hack, the brain health and fitness research coordinator of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command who is leading the DOD’s participation in the concussion study. “Research in this cohort is much easier to accomplish logistically and will provide many of the answers that would help with the majority of brain injuries in service members.”
Baseline data collected before a sport season begins will include tests of memory, attention and balance, medical history, and information on symptoms associated with concussion such as depression and anxiety.
Athletes must consent to participate and may opt out at any time. Their identities won’t be disclosed. Since August, 3,578 students have had baseline evaluations,
Dr. McAllister said—and already 195 concussions have been diagnosed. Once a concussion is diagnosed, the baseline tests are repeated five times over six months.
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Additionally, the University of North Carolina, UCLA, Virginia Tech and the University of Wisconsin, will participate in advanced research of athletes who play football, soccer, ice hockey or lacrosse—sports with a high incidence of concussion.
These athletes will wear sensors in their helmets or, in non-helmet sports, somewhere on their body during games to count how often, how hard and from what direction they are hit, and in addition to the baseline information, they will have magnetic resonance imaging of the brain to monitor changes in structure and function; blood work to identify biomarkers that could be used as indicators of concussion or recovery; and genetic studies that may reveal whether some people are more susceptible to concussion or more readily recover afterward.
Data will be shared with the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research system operated by the National Institutes of Health.
It is too soon to predict how successful the research will be or how the NCAA will use the information produced by it and other big-data projects. But filling in gaps in knowledge with hard numbers, statistics and sound scientific research is the right call, and more than 450,000 NCAA athletes stand to benefit.
Sources:
WSJ
STAF
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Study these 3 links below with your whole family
Study these 3 links below with your whole family (including with the baby and the toddler(s) (the babies learn already in the womb - they learn in any situation)
Click: (If any of the links has expired, search the web with the colored title)
Biology for Kids: Concussion (Head Injury)
Click:
Concussions in sport - Wikipedia
Click:
Concussion training for Coaches
Also this "Coach link" is good info for every family even though the title states "for Coaches".
The role of the parents is to coach their child(ren) - in a bigger family the role of the older children is to coach their younger siblings.
The End
of 'The Concussion Challenge' Seminar
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Part 4 of 4
The Concussion Challenge continues.......
National Basketball Association Concussion Policy Summary
The National Basketball Association Concussion Policy is designed to maximize the neurological health of NBA players by providing a framework of education and clinical management. The policy was created under the core principle that each concussion, and each athlete, is unique. Optimum medical care depends on an individualized and comprehensive approach to concussion management.
- Education: Every player and coach receives concussion education prior to the beginning of each season. Topics include information on the underlying mechanism of concussion, common and uncommon presentations of concussion, appropriate management strategies and possible complications or long-term manifestations of the injury.
- Baseline Testing: Prior to each season, each player will undergo testing of baseline brain function, via a neurological and cognitive assessment.
- Evaluation and Management:
- If a player is suspected of having a concussion, or exhibits the signs or symptoms of concussion, they will be removed from participation and undergo evaluation by the medical staff in a quiet, distraction-free environment conducive to conducting a neurological evaluation.
- If a player is diagnosed with concussion, he will not return to participation on that same day.
- A player that is diagnosed with concussion should have their physical and cognitive exertion limited as much as possible while they are still experiencing symptoms of concussion.
- Return-to Participation Decisions:
- Once a player is diagnosed with a concussion he is then held out of all activity until he is symptom-free at rest and until he has no appreciable difference from his baseline neurological exam and his baseline score on the computerized cognitive assessment test.
- The concussed player may not return to participation until he is asymptomatic at rest and has successfully completed the NBA concussion return-to-participation exertion protocol.
- Return-to Participation Protocol:
- The return to participation protocol involves several steps of increasing exertion -- from a stationary bike, to jogging, to agility work, to non-contact team drills.
- With each step, a player must be symptom free to move to the next step. If a player is not symptom free after a step, he stops until he is symptom free and begins again at the previous step of the protocol (i.e., the last step he passed without any symptoms).
- While the final return-to participation decision is to be made by the player’s team physician, the team physician must discuss the return-to-participation process and decision with Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher, the Director of the NBA’s Concussion Program, prior to the player being cleared for full participation in NBA Basketball.
- It's important to note that there is no time frame to complete the protocol. Each injury and player is different and recovery time can vary in each case.
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Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Get Some
Initiative aims to track athletes’ head injuries from onset through recovery
Updated April 17, 2015
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Apr 17, 2015 - The Numbers: Columnist Jo Craven McGinty explores the NCAA's effort
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The NCAA has had a concussion problem for years. But the organization has resisted issuing rules to diagnose and manage the debilitating brain injury, in part because it doesn’t have enough scientific evidence upon which to base rules.
Now the National Collegiate Athletic Association is helping bankroll a project to gather the information. In partnership with U.S. Department of Defense, it has launched a three-year, $30 million project to track the effects of concussion using data from as many as 37,000 student athletes.
The study is one of several new NCAA-backed “big data” projects, according to Oliver Luck, the organization’s executive vice president of regulatory affairs. Other efforts include mandating schools to report to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research and conducting summits to examine injury, recovery and optimal training data related to a particular sport.
“It’s a fairly significant shift in the way the NCAA would like to look at issues,” said Mr. Luck, a former NFL quarterback who is the father of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. “So many schools and coaches have knowledge of sports but have not been making decisions based on data. This is our effort to join that club” of institutions using data to inform decision making.
In the case of concussion, it also is a tacit acknowledgment the NCAA must address a problem that has led some athletes to sue and caused others to quit their sport rather than risk injury. Last year, the NCAA agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over concussion-related claims.
And the blows keep coming. Last month, University of Maryland freshman Melo Trimble hit his head twice in one game of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament before a trainer led him, looking dazed, from the floor. He was later diagnosed with a concussion. A week later, Vanderbilt University quarterback Patton Robinette ended his Division I football career, saying his decision was influenced by having suffered a concussion on the field in September.
The new study aims to document the effects of concussion from onset through full recovery, providing the NCAA with the scientific evidence it says it lacks.
The University of Maryland's Melo Trimble is helped off the court by head trainer Matt Charvat in the second half of a March Madness game last month after sustaining a head injury. He was later diagnosed with a concussion.
“The press, coaches and others talk as if we understand the natural history of concussion,” said Brian Hainline, a neurologist and the NCAA’s chief medical officer. “We’re giving recommendations without having definite answers.”
Traditionally, concussions have been diagnosed based on observable symptoms and what injured athletes volunteered about their condition. More recently, that approach has been augmented with baseline tests administered to athletes before a sports season begins to provide a point of reference in the event of injury.
The problem is athletes who want to get back in a game may inadvertently or intentionally provide misleading information.
“If the person doesn’t drop to the ground and lie there unconscious, it’s not always clear whether they have a concussion,” said Thomas W. McAllister, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, who is one of the principal investigators in the concussion study. “We rely on the athlete to self-report. Most don’t want to report.”
Indiana University, the University of Michigan and the Medical College of Wisconsin are coordinating the study, which will include student-athletes attending the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard academies and about 30 different NCAA schools, phased in over the period. All NCAA-sanctioned sports will be included.
The DOD is interested in the research because military service personnel have a high incidence of concussion, most occur outside of combat and the injury is easier to study in a sports setting.
“Eighty percent of traumatic brain injuries in the military occur outside of the combat zone, with mechanisms that are similar to those experienced by collegiate athletes,” said Col. Dallas Hack, the brain health and fitness research coordinator of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command who is leading the DOD’s participation in the concussion study. “Research in this cohort is much easier to accomplish logistically and will provide many of the answers that would help with the majority of brain injuries in service members.”
Baseline data collected before a sport season begins will include tests of memory, attention and balance, medical history, and information on symptoms associated with concussion such as depression and anxiety.
Athletes must consent to participate and may opt out at any time. Their identities won’t be disclosed. Since August, 3,578 students have had baseline evaluations,
Dr. McAllister said—and already 195 concussions have been diagnosed. Once a concussion is diagnosed, the baseline tests are repeated five times over six months.
RELATED
Additionally, the University of North Carolina, UCLA, Virginia Tech and the University of Wisconsin, will participate in advanced research of athletes who play football, soccer, ice hockey or lacrosse—sports with a high incidence of concussion.
These athletes will wear sensors in their helmets or, in non-helmet sports, somewhere on their body during games to count how often, how hard and from what direction they are hit, and in addition to the baseline information, they will have magnetic resonance imaging of the brain to monitor changes in structure and function; blood work to identify biomarkers that could be used as indicators of concussion or recovery; and genetic studies that may reveal whether some people are more susceptible to concussion or more readily recover afterward.
Data will be shared with the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research system operated by the National Institutes of Health.
It is too soon to predict how successful the research will be or how the NCAA will use the information produced by it and other big-data projects. But filling in gaps in knowledge with hard numbers, statistics and sound scientific research is the right call, and more than 450,000 NCAA athletes stand to benefit.
Sources:
WSJ
STAF
______________________________
Study these 3 links below with your whole family
Study these 3 links below with your whole family (including with the baby and the toddler(s) (the babies learn already in the womb - they learn in any situation)
Click: (If any of the links has expired, search the web with the colored title)
Biology for Kids: Concussion (Head Injury)
Click:
Concussions in sport - Wikipedia
Click:
Concussion training for Coaches
Also this "Coach link" is good info for every family even though the title states "for Coaches".
The role of the parents is to coach their child(ren) - in a bigger family the role of the older children is to coach their younger siblings.
The End
of 'The Concussion Challenge' Seminar
________________________
Important info for every person
Are We Fat Because We Overeat,
Or Do We Overeat Because We Are Fat?
Always Hungry? Here’s Why
FOR most of the last century, our understanding of the cause of obesity has been based on immutable physical law.
Obesity = body adiposity click: Body adiposity index New Latin adiposus; from Latin adeps = fat
Specifically, it’s the first law of thermodynamics, which dictates that energy can neither be created nor destroyed. When it comes to body weight, this means that calorie intake minus calorie expenditure equals calories stored. Surrounded by tempting foods, we overeat, consuming more calories than we can burn off, and the excess is deposited as fat. The simple solution is to exert willpower and eat less.
The problem is that this advice doesn’t work, at least not for most people over the long term. In other words, your New Year’s resolution to lose weight probably won’t last through the spring, let alone affect how you look in a swimsuit in July. More of us than ever are obese, despite an incessant focus on calorie balance by the government, nutrition organizations and the food industry.
But what if we’ve confused cause and effect? What if it’s not overeating that causes us to get fat, but the process of getting fatter that causes us to overeat?
The more calories we lock away in fat tissue, the fewer there are circulating in the bloodstream to satisfy the body’s requirements. If we look at it this way, it’s a distribution problem: We have an abundance of calories, but they’re in the wrong place. As a result, the body needs to increase its intake. We get hungrier because we’re getting fatter.
It’s like edema, a common medical condition in which fluid leaks from blood vessels into surrounding tissues. No matter how much water they drink, people with edema may experience unquenchable thirst because the fluid doesn’t stay in the blood, where it’s needed. Similarly, when fat cells suck up too much fuel, calories from food promote the growth of fat tissue instead of serving the energy needs of the body, provoking overeating in all but the most disciplined individuals.
We discuss this hypothesis in an article just published in JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association. According to this alternative view, factors in the environment have triggered fat cells in our bodies to take in and store excessive amounts of glucose and other calorie-rich compounds. Since fewer calories are available to fuel metabolism, the brain tells the body to increase calorie intake (we feel hungry) and save energy (our metabolism slows down). Eating more solves this problem temporarily but also accelerates weight gain. Cutting calories reverses the weight gain for a short while, making us think we have control over our body weight, but predictably increases hunger and slows metabolism even more.
Consider fever as another analogy. A cold bath will lower body temperature temporarily, but also set off biological responses — like shivering and constriction of blood vessels — that work to heat the body up again. In a sense, the conventional view of obesity as a problem of calorie balance is like conceptualizing fever as a problem of heat balance; technically not wrong, but not very helpful, because it ignores the apparent underlying biological driver of weight gain.
This is why diets that rely on consciously reducing calories don’t usually work. Only one in six overweight and obese adults in a nationwide survey reports ever having maintained a 10 percent weight loss for at least a year. (Even this relatively modest accomplishment may be exaggerated, because people tend to overestimate their successes in self-reported surveys.) In studies by Dr. Rudolph L. Leibel of Columbia and colleagues, when lean and obese research subjects were underfed in order to make them lose 10 to 20 percent of their weight, their hunger increased and metabolism plummeted. Conversely, overfeeding sped up metabolism.
For both over- and under-eating, these responses tend to push weight back to where it started — prompting some obesity researchers to think in terms of a body weight “set point” that seems to be predetermined by our genes.
But if basic biological responses push back against changes in body weight, and our set points are predetermined, then why have obesity rates — which, for adults, are almost three times what they were in the 1960s — increased so much? Most important, what can we do about it?
As it turns out, many biological factors affect the storage of calories in fat cells, including genetics, levels of physical activity, sleep and stress. But one has an indisputably dominant role: the hormone insulin. We know that excess insulin treatment for diabetes causes weight gain, and insulin deficiency causes weight loss. And of everything we eat, highly refined and rapidly digestible carbohydrates produce the most insulin.
By this way of thinking, the increasing amount and processing of carbohydrates in the American diet has increased insulin levels, put fat cells into storage overdrive and elicited obesity-promoting biological responses in a large number of people. Like an infection that raises the body temperature set point, high consumption of refined carbohydrates — chips, crackers, cakes, soft drinks, sugary breakfast cereals and even white rice and bread — has increased body weights throughout the population.
One reason we consume so many refined carbohydrates today is because they have been added to processed foods in place of fats — which have been the main target of calorie reduction efforts since the 1970s. Fat has about twice the calories of carbohydrates, but low-fat diets are the least effective of comparable interventions, according to several analyses, including one presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association this year.
.A recent study by one of us, Dr. Ludwig, and his colleagues published in JAMA examined 21 overweight and obese young adults after they had lost 10 to 15 percent of their body weight, on diets ranging from low fat to low carbohydrate. Despite consuming the same number of calories on each diet, subjects burned about 325 more calories per day on the low carbohydrate than on the low fat diet — amounting to the energy expended in an hour of moderately intense physical activity.
Another study published by Dr. Ludwig and colleagues in The Lancet in 2004 suggested that a poor-quality diet could result in obesity even when it was low in calories. Rats fed a diet with rapidly digesting (called high “glycemic index”) carbohydrate gained 71 percent more fat than their counterparts, who ate more calories over all, though in the form of slowly digesting carbohydrate.
These ideas aren’t entirely new. The notion that we overeat because we’re getting fat has been around for at least a century, as described by Gary Taubes in his book “Good Calories, Bad Calories.” In 1908, for example, a German internist named Gustav von Bergmann dismissed the energy-balance view of obesity, and hypothesized that it was instead caused by a metabolic disorder that he called “lipophilia,” or “love of fat.”
But such theories have been generally ignored, perhaps because they challenge entrenched cultural attitudes. The popular emphasis on calorie balance reinforces the belief that we have conscious control over our weight, and that obesity represents a personal failure because of ignorance or inadequate willpower.
In addition, the food industry — which makes enormous profits from highly processed products derived from corn, wheat and rice — invokes calorie balance as its first line of defense. If all calories are the same, then there are no bad foods, and sugary beverages, junk foods and the like are fine in moderation. It’s simply a question of portion control. The fact that this rarely works is taken as evidence that obese people lack willpower, not that the idea itself might be wrong.
UNFORTUNATELY, existing research cannot provide a definitive test of our hypothesis (= theory). Several prominent clinical trials reported no difference in weight loss when comparing diets purportedly differing in protein, carbohydrate and fat. However, these trials had major limitations; at the end, subjects reported that they had not met the targets for complying with the prescribed diets. We wouldn’t discard a potentially lifesaving cancer treatment based on negative findings, if the research subjects didn’t take the drug as intended.
There are better ways to do this research. Studies should provide participants with at least some of their food, to make it easier for them to stick to the diets. Two studies that did this — one by the Direct Group in 2008 and the other by the Diogenes Project in 2010 — reported substantial benefits associated with the reduction of rapidly digestible carbohydrate compared with conventional diets. We need to invest much more in this research. With the annual economic burden of diabetes — just one obesity-related complication — predicted to approach half a trillion dollars by 2020, a few billion dollars for state-of-the-art nutrition research would make a good investment.
If this hypothesis turns out to be correct, it will have immediate implications (= involvement, etc.) for public health. It would mean that the decades-long focus on calorie restriction was destined to fail for most people. Information about calorie content would remain relevant, not as a strategy for weight loss, but rather to help people avoid eating too much highly processed food loaded with rapidly digesting carbohydrates. But obesity treatment would more appropriately focus on diet quality rather than calorie quantity.
People in the modern food environment seem to have greater control over what they eat than how much. With reduced consumption of refined grains, concentrated sugar and potato products and a few other sensible lifestyle choices, our internal body weight control system should be able to do the rest. Eventually, we could bring the body weight set point back to pre-epidemic levels. Addressing the underlying biological drive to overeat may make for a far more practical and effective solution to obesity than counting calories.
Source:
(1) NYT by: David S. Ludwig directs the click: New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and is a professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.
(2) Mark I. Friedman is vice president of research at the Click: Nutrition Science Initiative.
(3) JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
(4) STAF, Inc.
Additional related articles
A better index of body adiposity
Bergman RN1, Stefanovski D, Buchanan TA, Sumner AE, Reynolds JC, Sebring NG, Xiang AH, Watanabe RM.
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adiposity = state of being fat : obesity ( New Latin adiposus, from Latin adeps fat)
Abstract Obesity is a growing problem in the United States and throughout the world. It is a risk factor for many chronic diseases. The BMI has been used to assess body fat for almost 200 years. BMI is known to be of limited accuracy, and is different for males and females with similar %body adiposity. Here, we define an alternative parameter, the body adiposity index (BAI = ((hip circumference)/((height)(1.5))-18)). The BAI can be used to reflect %body fat for adult men and women of differing ethnicities without numerical correction. We used a population study, the "BetaGene" study, to develop the new index of body adiposity. %Body fat, as measured by the dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA), was used as a "gold standard" for validation. Hip circumference (R = 0.602) and height (R = -0.524) are strongly correlated with %body fat and therefore chosen as principal anthropometric measures on which we base BAI. The BAI measure was validated in the "Triglyceride and Cardiovascular Risk in African-Americans (TARA)" study of African Americans. Correlation between DXA-derived %adiposity and the BAI was R = 0.85 for TARA with a concordance of C_b = 0.95. BAI can be measured without weighing, which may render it useful in settings where measuring accurate body weight is problematic. In summary, we have defined a new parameter, the BAI, which can be calculated from hip circumference and height only. It can be used in the clinical setting even in remote locations with very limited access to reliable scales. The BAI estimates %adiposity directly.
Comment in
- Another (better) index of adiposity. [Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012]
- The body adiposity index and the sexual dimorphism in body fat. [Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011]
- Body adiposity index indicates only total adiposity, not risk. [Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012]
- Newly proposed body adiposity index (bai) by Bergman et al. is not strongly related to cardiovascular health risk. [Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012]
- BMI Correlates Better to Visceral Fat and Insulin Sensitivity Than BAI. [Obesity (Silver Spring). 2012]
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The Dangers of Eating Late at Night
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ACID REFLUX is an epidemic affecting as many as 40 percent of Americans. In addition to heartburn and indigestion, reflux symptoms may include postnasal drip, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, chronic throat clearing, coughing and asthma. Taken together, sales of prescribed and over-the-counter anti-reflux medications exceed $13 billion per year.
The number of people with acid reflux has grown significantly in recent decades. Reflux can lead toesophageal cancer, which has increased by about 500 percent since the 1970s. And anti-reflux medication alone does not appear to control reflux disease. A Danish study published 2014 concluded that there were no cancer-protective effects from using the common anti-reflux medications, called proton pump inhibitors, and that regular long-term use was actually associated with an increased risk of developing esophageal cancer.
What is responsible for these disturbing developments? The answer is our poor diet, with its huge increases in the consumption of sugar, soft drinks, fat and processed foods. But there is another important variable that has been underappreciated and overlooked: our dinnertime.
I specialize in the diagnosis and management of acid reflux, especially airway reflux, which affects the throat, sinuses and lungs. Airway reflux is often “silent,” occurring without telltale digestive symptoms, like heartburn and indigestion. Most of the tens of thousands of reflux patients that I have seen over the last 35 years are well today because I treat reflux by modifying my patients’ diets and lifestyles.
Over the past two decades, I’ve noticed that the time of the evening meal has been trending later and later among my patients. The after-work meal — already later because of longer work hours — is often further delayed by activities such as shopping and exercise.
Typical was the restaurateur who came to see me with symptoms of postnasal drip, sinus disease, hoarseness, heartburn and a chronic cough. He reported that he always left his restaurant at 11 p.m., and after arriving home would eat dinner and then go to bed. There was no medical treatment for this patient, no pills or even surgery to fix his condition. The drugs we are using to treat reflux don’t always work, and even when they do, they can have dangerous side effects. My patient’s reflux was a lifestyle problem. I told him he had to eat dinner before 7 p.m., and not eat at all after work. Within six weeks, his reflux was gone.
In my experience, the single most important intervention is to eliminate late eating, which in the United States is often combined with portions of large, over-processed, fatty food. Europeans have fewer cases of reflux than we do, even though many of them eat late. That’s most likely from portion control. In France, for example, a serving of ice cream is typically a single modest scoop, while in America, it’s often three gargantuan scoops.
For my patients, eating late is often accompanied by overeating, because many skip breakfast and eat only a sandwich at lunch. Thus the evening meal becomes the largest meal of the day. After that heavy meal, it’s off to the sofa to watch television. After eating, it’s important to stay upright because gravity helps keep the contents in the stomach. Reflux is the result of acid spilling out of the stomach, and lying down with a full stomach makes reflux much more likely.
And if you add an after-dinner dessert or bedtime snack? Again, reflux is a natural consequence. In a healthy young person, the stomach normally takes a few hours to empty after a moderate-size meal. In older people or those who have reflux, gastric emptying is often delayed. Further, those dessert calories tend to be high in carbohydrates and fat, and high-fat foods often create reflux by slowing digestion and relaxing the stomach valve that normally prevents reflux. Other popular but notoriously bad-for-nighttime-reflux foods and beverages are mints, chocolate, soft drinks and alcohol.
Many of my patients find that eating earlier alleviates their allergies,sinusitis, asthma, sleep apnea and diabetes symptoms. Although these conditions may not seem linked, postnasal drip and a cough are typical reflux symptoms that can easily be mistaken for something else.
Some of my patients who arrive complaining of reflux already eat healthfully. For them, dining too late is often the sole cause of their problem. And yet, hearing that they need to change the timing of their meals is sometimes a challenge they cannot meet.
A New Yorker with reflux came to see me because both her father and uncle died of esophageal cancer and she was afraid of getting it, too. This patient was a prominent businesswoman and her nightly routine included a 9 p.m. dinner at an elegant restaurant with at least two bottles of good red wine for the table. Her reflux was serious, and I explained that changes were needed.
She listened, then left and did not come back to see me for a year. When I saw her again, she explained what had happened. “For the first two months I just hated you,” she told me, “and then for the next two months — I was having some trouble swallowing — I figured I was going to die of esophageal cancer.” Then she nudged me and added, “You know, we’re the reason that it’s not so easy to get 6 p.m. reservations at the good restaurants anymore.”
To stop the remarkable increase in reflux disease, we have to stop eating by 8 p.m., or whatever time falls at least three hours before bed. For many people, eating dinner early represents a significant lifestyle shift. It will require eating well-planned breakfasts, lunches and snacks, with healthy food and beverage choices.
Artice text written by Dr. Jamie A. Koufman, M.D., a physician in New York who specializes in voice disorders and acid reflux.
Click: Jamie A. Koufman
Source:
(1) NYT
The Dangers of Eating Late at Night
(2) STAF, Inc.
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Important info for every person nationwide & worldwide
Click colored links for further info
ACID REFLUX is an epidemic affecting as many as 40 percent of Americans. In addition to heartburn and indigestion, reflux symptoms may include postnasal drip, hoarseness, difficulty swallowing, chronic throat clearing, coughing and asthma. Taken together, sales of prescribed and over-the-counter anti-reflux medications exceed $13 billion per year.
The number of people with acid reflux has grown significantly in recent decades. Reflux can lead toesophageal cancer, which has increased by about 500 percent since the 1970s. And anti-reflux medication alone does not appear to control reflux disease. A Danish study published 2014 concluded that there were no cancer-protective effects from using the common anti-reflux medications, called proton pump inhibitors, and that regular long-term use was actually associated with an increased risk of developing esophageal cancer.
What is responsible for these disturbing developments? The answer is our poor diet, with its huge increases in the consumption of sugar, soft drinks, fat and processed foods. But there is another important variable that has been underappreciated and overlooked: our dinnertime.
I specialize in the diagnosis and management of acid reflux, especially airway reflux, which affects the throat, sinuses and lungs. Airway reflux is often “silent,” occurring without telltale digestive symptoms, like heartburn and indigestion. Most of the tens of thousands of reflux patients that I have seen over the last 35 years are well today because I treat reflux by modifying my patients’ diets and lifestyles.
Over the past two decades, I’ve noticed that the time of the evening meal has been trending later and later among my patients. The after-work meal — already later because of longer work hours — is often further delayed by activities such as shopping and exercise.
Typical was the restaurateur who came to see me with symptoms of postnasal drip, sinus disease, hoarseness, heartburn and a chronic cough. He reported that he always left his restaurant at 11 p.m., and after arriving home would eat dinner and then go to bed. There was no medical treatment for this patient, no pills or even surgery to fix his condition. The drugs we are using to treat reflux don’t always work, and even when they do, they can have dangerous side effects. My patient’s reflux was a lifestyle problem. I told him he had to eat dinner before 7 p.m., and not eat at all after work. Within six weeks, his reflux was gone.
In my experience, the single most important intervention is to eliminate late eating, which in the United States is often combined with portions of large, over-processed, fatty food. Europeans have fewer cases of reflux than we do, even though many of them eat late. That’s most likely from portion control. In France, for example, a serving of ice cream is typically a single modest scoop, while in America, it’s often three gargantuan scoops.
For my patients, eating late is often accompanied by overeating, because many skip breakfast and eat only a sandwich at lunch. Thus the evening meal becomes the largest meal of the day. After that heavy meal, it’s off to the sofa to watch television. After eating, it’s important to stay upright because gravity helps keep the contents in the stomach. Reflux is the result of acid spilling out of the stomach, and lying down with a full stomach makes reflux much more likely.
And if you add an after-dinner dessert or bedtime snack? Again, reflux is a natural consequence. In a healthy young person, the stomach normally takes a few hours to empty after a moderate-size meal. In older people or those who have reflux, gastric emptying is often delayed. Further, those dessert calories tend to be high in carbohydrates and fat, and high-fat foods often create reflux by slowing digestion and relaxing the stomach valve that normally prevents reflux. Other popular but notoriously bad-for-nighttime-reflux foods and beverages are mints, chocolate, soft drinks and alcohol.
Many of my patients find that eating earlier alleviates their allergies,sinusitis, asthma, sleep apnea and diabetes symptoms. Although these conditions may not seem linked, postnasal drip and a cough are typical reflux symptoms that can easily be mistaken for something else.
Some of my patients who arrive complaining of reflux already eat healthfully. For them, dining too late is often the sole cause of their problem. And yet, hearing that they need to change the timing of their meals is sometimes a challenge they cannot meet.
A New Yorker with reflux came to see me because both her father and uncle died of esophageal cancer and she was afraid of getting it, too. This patient was a prominent businesswoman and her nightly routine included a 9 p.m. dinner at an elegant restaurant with at least two bottles of good red wine for the table. Her reflux was serious, and I explained that changes were needed.
She listened, then left and did not come back to see me for a year. When I saw her again, she explained what had happened. “For the first two months I just hated you,” she told me, “and then for the next two months — I was having some trouble swallowing — I figured I was going to die of esophageal cancer.” Then she nudged me and added, “You know, we’re the reason that it’s not so easy to get 6 p.m. reservations at the good restaurants anymore.”
To stop the remarkable increase in reflux disease, we have to stop eating by 8 p.m., or whatever time falls at least three hours before bed. For many people, eating dinner early represents a significant lifestyle shift. It will require eating well-planned breakfasts, lunches and snacks, with healthy food and beverage choices.
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Can a pregnant woman be healthy on a raw vegan diet? It’s a question being beaten to a pulp following a recent interview with Australian designer Loni Jane Anthony, 25, an expectant mother, who discusses her adherence to such a diet — including her tendency to consume 10 bananas for breakfast and 6 mangoes for lunch. The strict eating regimen has made Anthony, also a photographer with more than 103,000 Instagram fans, the subject of public scorn, with some deriding her for endangering both herself and her baby.
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“You kind of realize who your friends are,” she tells News.com.au in the interview, referring to the frequent eye rolls she gets over the fact that she follows the “80/10/10,” a raw fruit and veggie diet providing 80 percent carbs, 10 percent fat and 10 percent protein. “I've had a lot of judgment from people thinking I'm nuts and saying ‘Why is Loni eating 10 bananas for breakfast? Is she crazy?’ People tend to shut you out because you're not in the social circle of alcohol or drinking coffee ...They're in their comfort zones of eating junk and they don't want to be around someone who makes them feel guilty."
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A typical daily menu for Anthony, she says, might include a few “mono meals,” meaning one type of fruit, like oranges or bananas or watermelon; a smoothie; and for dinner, a large salad with tahini dressing—plus plenty of warm water with lemon.
She says she switched to the diet, created by longtime athlete and trainer Douglas Graham, after a lifestyle of heavy drinking and lots of junk food that led to a battery of health problems. “I started getting skin infections, acne, and putting on weight, which was weird because I'd always been so slim,” she says. “I wanted to sleep all the time and ended up with a whole range of health problems including candida overgrowth, hormone imbalance, irregular periods, and hair loss. I also got really sick on a trip (read: fully-blown bender) to Thailand and picked up parasites and dengue fever.”
After a series of antibiotics made her sicker, Anthony says she came across Graham’s diet book,
"The 80/10/10 Diet," which taught her that “you can live and thrive on this lifestyle by just eating higher carbohydrate vegetables, fruits, and juices, and keeping your diet low fat. You even keep good fats low to keep your blood sugar stable. It's been amazing.”
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Graham tells in an email that there is no reason to worry about Anthony's diet. "Eating fruits and vegetables, universally acclaimed as health foods, is not dangerous. A pregnant woman needs extra calories, but neither she nor her unborn baby benefit when she eats foods that lead to illness," he says. "Some folks see 80/10/10 as a threat, thinking that if they eat healthy foods it will mean they can never eat their unhealthy foods ever again. This is not so. People can and do eat what they want."
According to information on Graham's website, “There is no essential nutrient in meat, grains, legumes, or dairy that is not also available in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, and in a form that is easier to digest.” Cooking food, he adds, destroys nutrients. He also notes that most people have been misinformed about how much protein the body needs, and that “most people suffer from an overdose of protein each day, and this accounts for a great deal of ill health, such as constipation, leading to toxemia and eventually, cancer.”
Naysayers, though, have been vocal and numerous. A slew of criticisms in the story’s comments section include “narcissist in the extreme,” “too much sugar,” “self-absorbed moron,” “irresponsible,” “bad advice,” “hope she’s taking supplements,” “needs more protein,” and “I can’t see much there to help your baby grow.”
The concern of various bloggers has also been piqued. “I feel uncomfortable with Loni’s ‘transformation’ because it doesn’t sound safe for her baby,” writes Ami Angelowicz in the Frisky. “I’m not a doctor, of course, but common sense and the little knowledge I have about nutrition tells me that you have to consume more than bananas and mangoes each day when you’re eating for two.”
Prenatal nutritionists seem to agree. “Nothing can replace a balanced diet for a healthy pregnancy,” Bridget Swinney, author of “Eating Expectantly: A Practical and Tasty Guide to Prenatal Nutrition,” tells Yahoo Shine. Swinney finds the details of Anthony’s diet “concerning.”
She adds, “Any kind of extreme diet during pregnancy raises a lot of red flags for me. First, you really need protein to build a baby, and it should be around 20 percent of your diet.” Further, women eating for two need to consume zinc for brain development, omega-3 fats from fish for brain and eye development, and calcium (which can be obtained from vegetables, she notes), "to flush lead and other dangerous toxins that tend to get stored in bones," Swinney explains.
She adds, “Not to say this diet isn’t possible — there are plenty of women who are vegan through pregnancy — but she takes it to an extreme that’s kind of scary.” She also worries about women who are prone to gestational diabetes, for which low servings of carbohydrates are recommended, mimicking Anthony’s eating habits.
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Prenatal nutritionist and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Melinda Johnson adds that "research has demonstrated that restrictive eating plans tend to lead to disordered eating, poor body image, poor self esteem, and even to full-blown eating disorders."
Still, others defend Anthony.
“The hate is mostly due to the fact that she’s pregnant while trying to stay healthy,” notes blogger Every Joe. “According to other jealous women, she’s putting her unborn child at risk by not eating a more well-rounded diet. That, ladies and gentlemen, is terrible logic. …If my seed is implanted in a uterus, I’d much rather the host chick feed the parasite with a fruit diet than one that consists of McDonald’s, Burger King and Taco Bell.”
And plenty of supporters also speak up in the interview’s comments section. “This is an extremely healthy diet. I have been doing this for just under 12 months and love it!” wrote one woman. Others have told “haters” to back off, noting the lifestyle “obviously works for her” and declaring “good on her” and “excellent work, Loni.”
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Even today, as trendy diets and a weight-loss frenzy sweep the nation, two-thirds of adults are still obese and children are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, typically an “adult” disease, at an alarming rate. If we’re obsessed with being thin more so than ever before, why are Americans stricken with heart disease as much as we were 30 years ago?
In The China Study, Dr. T. Colin Campbell details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists. The New York Times has recognized the study as the “Grand Prix of epidemiology” and the “most comprehensive large study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.”
The China Study is not a diet book. Dr. Campbell cuts through the haze of misinformation and delivers an insightful message to anyone living with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, obesity, and those concerned with the effects of aging.
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A Cure for the Allergy Epidemic? Date:November, 2013
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WILL the cure for allergies come from the cowshed?
Allergies are often seen as an accident. Your immune system misinterprets a harmless protein like dust or peanuts as a threat, and when you encounter it, you pay the price with sneezing, wheezing, and in the worst cases, death.
What prompts some immune systems to err like this, while others never do? Some of the vulnerability is surely genetic. But comparative studies highlight the importance of environment, beginning, it seems, in the womb. Microbes are one intriguing protective factor. Certain ones seem to stimulate a mother’s immune system during pregnancy, preventing allergic disease in children.
By emulating this naturally occurring phenomenon, scientists may one day devise a way to prevent allergies.
This task, though still in its infancy, has some urgency. Depending on the study and population, the prevalence of allergic disease and asthma increased between two- and threefold in the late 20th century, a mysterious trend often called the “allergy epidemic.”
These days, one in five American children have a respiratory allergy like hay fever, and nearly one in 10 have asthma.
Nine people die daily from asthma attacks. While the increase in respiratory allergies shows some signs of leveling off, the prevalence of food and skin allergies continues to rise. Five percent of children are allergic to peanuts, milk and other foods, half again as many as 15 years ago. And each new generation seems to have more severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reactions than the last.
Some time ago, I visited a place where seemingly protective microbes occurred spontaneously. It wasn’t a spotless laboratory in some university somewhere. It was a manure-spattered cowshed in Indiana’s Amish country.
My guide was Mark Holbreich, an allergist in Indianapolis. He’d recently discovered that the Amish people who lived in the northern part of the state were remarkably free of allergies and asthma.
About half of Americans have evidence of allergic sensitization, which increases the risk of allergic disease. But judging from skin-prick tests, just 7.2 percent of the 138 Amish children who Dr. Holbreich tested were sensitized to tree pollens and other allergens. That yawning difference positions the Indiana Amish among the least allergic populations ever described in the developed world.
This invulnerability isn’t likely to be genetic. The Amish originally came to the United States from the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and these days Swiss children, a genetically similar population, are about as allergic as Americans.
Ninety-two percent of the Amish children Dr. Holbreich tested either lived on farms or visited one frequently. Farming, Dr. Holbreich thinks, is the Amish secret. This idea has some history. Since the late 1990s, European scientists have investigated what they call the “farm effect.”
The working hypothesis is that innocuous cowshed microbes, plant material and raw milk protect farming children by favorably stimulating their immune systems throughout life, particularly early on. That spring morning, Dr. Holbreich gave me a tour of the bonanza of immune stimuli under consideration.
We found our hosts, Andrew Mast and his wife, Laura, hard at work milking cows in the predawn chill.
Dr. Holbreich, slight and bespectacled, peppered them with questions. At what age did Mr. Mast begin working in the cowshed? “My first memory is of milking,” he said, at about the age of 5. What about his children, two straw-haired girls, then ages 2 and 3; did they spend time in the cowshed? The elder girl came to the barn at 3 months of age, he said. “People learn to walk in here.” Do expectant mothers work in the barn? “Yes,” Laura said. “We work.”
Dr. Holbreich had made his point: whatever forces were acting here, they were chronic, and they began before birth. As the sun rose, Dr. Holbreich and I sniffed the damp, fermented feed (slightly malty); shoveled fresh cow manure (“Liquid gold,” Dr. Holbreich said only half-jokingly, “the best medicine you could think of”); and marveled at the detritus floating in the air. Extrapolating from previous research, with each breath we were inhaling perhaps 1,000 times more microbes than usual. By breakfast time, grime had collected under our nails, hay clung to our clothes, and muck to our boots. “There’s got to be bacteria, mold and plant material,” Dr. Holbreich said. “You do this every day for 30 years, 365 days a year, you can see there are so many exposures.”
The challenge of identifying the important exposures — and getting them into a bottle — is a pressing one. In parts of the developing world, where allergic disease was once considered rare, scientists have noted an uptick, especially in urban areas. China offers a dramatic case in point. A 2009 study found a more than threefold difference in allergic sensitization (as judged by skin-prick tests) between schoolchildren in rural areas around Beijing and children in the city proper. Doctor-diagnosed asthma differed sixfold. Maybe not coincidentally, 40 percent of the rural children had lived on farms their whole lives.
Immigrants from the developing world to the developed tend to be less allergic than average. But the longer they reside in their adopted countries, the more allergic they become. And their native-born children seem to gain the vulnerability to asthma, sometimes surpassing it. All of which highlights a longstanding question in the allergy field. As Dr. Holbreich puts it, “What is it about westernization that makes people allergic?”
When hay fever first emerged as a common complaint among the upper classes of Britain in the 19th century — and became a badge of refinement — farmers, who were exposed to more pollen than probably anyone else, seemed relatively invulnerable to the new affliction. In the 1990s, European scientists rediscovered the phenomenon in the small alpine farms of Switzerland. A bevy of studies followed, comprising thousands of subjects across Switzerland, Germany, Austria and elsewhere. Critically, by comparing children living in the same rural areas, scientists could discount urban pollution. Everyone was breathing the same country air.
And earlier this year, some of Dr. Holbreich’s collaborators, from the University of Basel in Switzerland, made a strong case that physical activity couldn’t explain the disparity either. They had rural children wear devices that measured movement for a week. There was little difference in physical activity between farming and nonfarming children.
What matters then? Erika von Mutius, a doctor and epidemiologist at Munich University in Germany who has led much of this research, suspects diversity is important. Farms with the greatest array of microbes, including fungi, appear to be the most protective against asthma. At the Mast farm, the cowshed wasn’t more than 60 feet from the house. In Europe, scientists found that microbes waft from cowsheds into homes.
In one study, they showed that an infant’s risk of eczema was inverse to the microbial load in her mother’s mattress.
Timing seems to matter tremendously. The earlier exposure begins, it seems, the greater the protection — and that includes during pregnancy. Children born to mothers who work with livestock while pregnant, and who lug their newborns along during chores, seem the most invulnerable to allergic disease later.
Here, the farm effect dovetails with the burgeoning science on the prenatal origins of disease generally. What happens to your mother during the nine months before your birth may affect your vulnerability to many diseases decades later, from heart disease and obesityto schizophrenia.
Allergies and asthma seem to follow the rule as well.
Susan Prescott, a doctor and researcher at the University of Western Australia in Perth, has noted differences in the placentas of children who later develop allergies. A critical subset of white blood cells — called regulatory T-cells — seems relatively scarce at birth. Rather than enabling aggression, these cells help the immune system restrain itself when facing substances that are not true threats. A healthy population of these and other “suppressor” cells is important, scientists now suspect, in preventing allergies and asthma. So it seems significant that European farming children are born with a comparative surfeit of these cells. Bianca Schaub, a doctor and researcher at Munich University, has found that farming newborns have more regulatory T-cells in cord blood than babies of nonfarmers. In test tubes, these cells more effectively quash allergic-type reactions. And that suppressive ability increases with the number of different types of animals the mother tended while pregnant. The more cows, pigs and chickens a mother encounters, essentially, the more easily her offspring may tolerate dust mites and tree pollens.
Animal studies demonstrate how this might work. Some years back, scientists at Philipps University of Marburg in Germany sprayed pregnant mice with microbes originally isolated from Bavarian cowsheds. The exposure induced favorable changes in gene expression at the placenta. The pups born to these mice were protected against asthma.
This research suggests that farming mothers might benefit from a naturally occurring immunotherapy, one that preprograms the developing fetus against allergic disease. Yet how to apply that therapy deliberately remains unclear. Is “microbial pressure” what matters — a stiff microbial wind in our sails? Or do certain cowshed microbes actually colonize farmers, and favorably calibrate their immune function?
There’s evidence to support both explanations, which aren’t mutually exclusive anyway.
Before you rush to the nearest farm, however, a word of caution. Some studies indicate that if you grow up in an urban environment, occasional visits to the farm may exacerbate allergic propensities. If you haven’t matured with abundant microbial stimulation, the thinking goes, encountering it intermittently may push you into overdrive, prompting the misery you seek to avoid.
And yet, a prospective study from Denmark published this month suggests that it’s never too late. Young adults who began farming (with livestock) were less likely to develop new allergic sensitivities than rural peers who chose other professions. Existing allergies didn’t disappear. Rather, the farming environment seemed to prevent new sensitizations.
Which brings us to farm milk. In Europe, the consumption of unpasteurized milk has repeatedly correlated with protection against allergic disease. In America, 80 percent of the Amish studied by Dr. Holbreich consume raw milk. In a study published earlier this year, Dr. Schaub’s group showed that European children who consumed farm milk had more of those regulatory T-cells, irrespective of whether they lived on farms. The higher the quantity of those cells, the less likely these children were to be given diagnoses of asthma. Here, finally, is something concrete to take off the farm.
None of these scientists recommend that people consume raw milk; it can carry deadly pathogens. Rather, they hope to identify what’s protective in the milk and either extract it or preserve the ingredients during processing. Microbes may not be the key ingredient in this case. Instead, farm milk may act as a prebiotic — selectively feeding good microbes within. Another possibility is that as with human breast milk, antibodies and immune-signaling proteins in cow’s milk influence the human immune system, steering it toward tolerance.
As a whole, this research reframes the question of what prompted the late 20th-century allergy epidemic. Is the problem one of exposure to allergens, many of which aren’t exactly new to human experience? Or is the problem one of increasing sensitivity to whatever allergens are present?
The science suggests the latter. The Mast cowshed, with its rich array of microbial stimuli, probably resembles the world in which the human immune system evolved more than, say, an apartment high above Manhattan. The Amish in Indiana, who for reasons of religious faith have maintained a 19th-century-like lifestyle, may not be less allergic. Rather, during the dramatic reordering of human existence that began with the Industrial Revolution, everyone else may have become more allergic. Immunologically speaking, the farming Amish and farmers generally may more closely resemble an evolutionary norm for our species.
Moises Velasquez-Manoff is a science writer and the author of “An Epidemic of Absence.”
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WINGDALE, N.Y. — For 20 years, the 80 brick buildings of what was once the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center have lain fallow, their weathered faces hidden by untamed vines, their windows buckling, their emerald lawns turning to weeds. click: Harlem Valley State Hospital
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Local residents have long been dismayed at the waste of such a handsome rustic property set in a green valley between two ridges.
Then in the summer, the lawns were mowed, the ivy and brush stripped away, and bulldozers cleared land for a soccer field. A sign appeared: Olivet Center. Townspeople learned that the mysterious new owner of most of the 900-acre property was Olivet University, a small evangelical Christian college of about 250 undergraduates based in San Francisco.click: Olivet University - San Francisco - accredited by ABHE Association for Biblical Education: ABHE-Solutionswww.abhe.org/
Olivet wanted to open a campus 65 miles north of New York City, not exactly the evangelical heartland, but perhaps a new frontier for attracting believers.
Most residents in this Dutchess County hamlet of 4,275 have been excited about the newcomers — a university will bring scores of jobs and a spurt in retail sales to an area that lost hundreds of workers and a good deal of commerce after the hospital closed in 1994.
“Those buildings were sitting empty for 20 years, and it was getting to be quite an eyesore,” said Tim O’Neill, 55, a plumber. “They’ve already put landscapers to work and there will be jobs in maintenance and construction and of course they’ll need teachers.”
But even supporters were surprised by what they discovered about the college after it bought the property.
A publication reported that the university’s founder, a Korean pastor named David Jang, was linked to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, whom critics labeled the mastermind of a cult; that some of the Dr. Jang’s closest followers seemed to believe that Dr. Jang was a messiah-like figure; and that he did not directly contradict that belief.
The claims were contained in a lengthy article last year in Christianity Today, a leading evangelical publication.
In 1989, the article said, Dr. Jang had been an assistant professor of theology at a seminary of the Unification Church founded by Mr. Moon, who died last year.
The article also claimed that Dr. Jang had given his followers the impression that he was “the Second Coming Christ,” not Christ himself but a messianic figure who would complete Jesus’ mission.
“I thought I’d heard they’re connected with the Moonies,” Mr. O’Neill said. But, he added: “As long as they clean up the site, I’m all right with it. I get along with people.”
Olivet officials deny any connection with the Unification Church.
Olivet leaders said that the article had misrepresented Dr. Jang and the college, and that Christianity Today was envious of the success of a rival Web site, the Christian Post, which was started by alumni of Olivet. Olivet’s president, Tracy Davis, denied that Mr. Jang had ever told anyone he was a messianic figure.
“People somehow insinuated that though no one explicitly told them,” she said.
Ms. Davis and Olivet’s communications director, Anna Oh, said Dr. Jang never taught at the Unification Church, though; they said that Sun Hwa Theological Seminary was a Korean Methodist school where he taught Christian systematic theology, not Unification theology, and it was bought by the Unification Church.
“Christianity Today is a respected holder of tradition, and we were surprised that we were targeted by them,” Ms Davis said. “It was not based on theological merit.”
Dr. Jang did not respond to a request for comment. Christianity Today says it stands by its story.
Although the school says it is part of the Presbyterian tradition, it is not affiliated with the mainstream denomination, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., which has 1.8 million members and represents over 10,000 congregations.
Instead, Olivet is affiliated with the Evangelical Assembly of Presbyterian Churches of America, a smaller, more conservative group. Olivet leaders said the denomination had 70 congregations, though some have only a small number of members.
Olivet University also has no connection to Olivet College in Michigan.
Last year, the school tried to buy a conference center in New Mexico that was owned by LifeWay Christian Resources, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention.
LifeWay asked the National Association of Evangelicals, the largest American umbrella group and one to which Olivet belongs, to examine Olivet’s pedigree, and after receiving the review issued a statement withdrawing from the deal. LifeWay never explained its reasons nor revealed what was in the report.
Olivet also has various relationships with a company called IBT Media, which publishes the International Business Times Web site and in August bought Newsweek magazine. Ms. Davis is married to one of IBT’s co-founders, Johnathan Davis, who according to Ms. Davis held an advisory role in Olivet’s journalism program.
The other co-founder, Etienne Uzac, is on Olivet’s board of trustees. IBT has also provided internship and job opportunities for Olivet students and graduates, she said.
What is clear is that Olivet, named after the biblical Mount of Olives, has been looking to expand and has surveyed properties around the country, including one in Islip on Long Island and another in Northfield, Mass.
It ultimately decided that the old mental hospital site here, which dates to 1924, was ideal, with buildings compatible as classrooms and dormitories.
“I felt like this was an opportunity from God,” Ms. Davis said.
The site was owned by the Benjamin Development Corporation, a real estate company, which had bought it from the state a decade ago.
Years before, the state had been looking to sell or transform 33 hospitals because it had changed its approach to treating people with mental illness and wanted more patients to live on their own in community residences. (At its peak, the Wingdale hospital housed more than 5,000 patients.)
Benjamin planned to develop the site as a housing and retail complex and spent more than $20 million on lawyers, engineers and environmental reviews, but gave up when the housing market collapsed.
Olivet purchased 503 acres for $20 million with an option to buy the remaining 434 acres. Olivet administrators said they acquired the money through the generosity of alumni and their friends.
The site has many virtues: the Wingdale train station on the Metro-North Railroad’s Harlem line is in the middle of the campus, an hour and 45 minutes from Manhattan. There are several buildings that can be used for retail shops or high tech offices and earn revenue. The site has a chapel with 10 arched stained-glass windows. There is even a golf course. Also important, administrators said, was the presence in the Hudson Valley of scores of evangelical churches.
Administrators are putting together an application to the State Education Department, which must authorize its program of study. In San Francisco, Olivet offers undergraduate programs in theology, music, journalism, information technology, business administration and graphic design. A doctoral program in theology has 89 students. Olivet also claims 654 online students. The school’s mission is to produce graduates who will, as a brochure says, become “ministry-bound scholars and leaders.” In 2008, it opened a small satellite near the World Trade Center in Manhattan to offer a master’s in business degree.
Ultimately, the information about Olivet’s origins did not inspire a local revolt. Ryan Courtien, supervisor of the town of Dover, which includes Wingdale, has been a staunch supporter of the project.
“If you believe everything you read on the Internet, I’ll sell you a Web site, BrooklynBridge.com,” he said
Tony Robustelli, the owner of Cousin’s Cafe on Route 22, has already noticed more people stopping in for his cinnamon rolls. Steven O’Connor, 50, who lives eight miles away, thought Olivet’s arrival was beneficial, even if it was sponsored by an uncommon religious group.
“There’s no law restricting what religion you practice,” Mr. O’Connor said. “They are taking a failed institution and spending millions of dollars on it.”
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Bible College Helps Some at Louisiana Prison Find Peace
ANGOLA, La. — Like most of his fellow inmates, Daryl Walters, 45, can expect to spend the rest of his days in the infamous prison on a former slave plantation here. He was sentenced to life without parole for a murder more than 20 years ago in a state where a life sentence means just that.
Yet there he was on a recent evening, preaching the Gospel to 200 men in a spired church in the heart of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, talking salvation and joy to murderers and rapists and robbers who waved their arms to an inmate band’s Christian worship music.
“God is merciful,” intoned Mr. Walters, an assistant pastor at one of many churches scattered through this maximum-security prison, informally known as Angola. “God gives us so many benefits.”
Mr. Walters is a graduate of one of the most unusual prison programs in the country: a Southern Baptist Bible college inside this sprawling facility, offering bachelor’s degrees in a rigorous four-year course that includes study of Greek and Hebrew as well as techniques for “sidewalk ministry” that inmates can practice in their dorms and meal lines.
There are 241 graduates so far, nearly all lifers who live and work among their peers. Dozens of graduates have even moved as missionaries to counsel or preach in other prisons.
But Burl Cain, the warden since 1995, says the impact has gone well beyond spreading religion among the inmates. He calls the Bible college central to the transformation of Angola from one of the most fearsome prisons in the country to one of the more mellow, at least for those deemed to be cooperative. Watching men quietly saunter from open dormitories to church, many with Bible in hand and dressed in T-shirts of their choice, it can hardly seem like a maximum-security facility, although multiple daily lineups for inmate counts are a reminder.
Mr. Cain has used religion and peer counseling — backed by sharp discipline for defiant behavior — to promote what he calls a “moral rehabilitation” of individuals and a sense of community among men who might easily be consumed by rage or despair.
“The greatest enemy here is lack of hope,” Mr. Cain said in an interview.
Mr. Cain has lobbied the state for more forgiving parole policies, with limited success. “But if you believe in a higher being,” he said, “you’ll realize that when you do pass, you’ll be free.”
Nearly four-fifths of the 6,300 inmates now at Angola have sentences of life or so long they are effectively so. The prison has its own nursing home and hospice.
Angola was notoriously brutal and bloody into the 1970s. Court supervision and a parade of reforming wardens improved staff training and introduced vocational and G.E.D. programs, and the stabbing rate began to plummet.
In Mr. Cain’s view, the biggest change came in 1995 when, as he took over the prison and faced drastic cuts in school funds, he invited the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary to open a seminary. To his surprise, he said, the eminent seminary agreed, covering the costs with outside donations.
“The Bible college was the game changer,” said Mr. Cain, 71, a portly man with granny glasses and a shock of white hair. “It changed the culture of the prison.”
Some other experts say the college is one of many factors, but the softening effect of religion on life here is evident.
Beyond the bachelor’s degrees, the college has granted hundreds more certificates or associate degrees, producing a cadre of men who lead churches, provide informal counseling in their dorms and take on what many describe as their hardest task — informing fellow inmates when a loved one on the outside has died.
The graduates include 15 Muslims, who took the same Bible-based courses but minister to the 250 Islamic inmates.
Some 2,500 inmates attend church regularly, according to Cathy Fontenot, assistant warden — mostly Protestant or Roman Catholic but also Muslim, Jewish and Mormon services. The prison population is 75 percent black, with a small number of Latinos.
The prison college has received growing outside attention. A similar collaboration with a Southern Baptist seminary has started in Texas, where inmates with sentences of at least 10 years are eligible. In-prison Bible colleges have also been started or are under discussion in California, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi and other states.
For his day job, Mr. Walters, a natural-born preacher, tutors seminary students in Greek and Hebrew for their biblical explication. He bunks among the short-timers who are now brought to Angola, improbably enough, for a re-entry program.
The American Civil Liberties Union has watched for signs that the seminary or the prison has crossed constitutional lines by using state money or coercion to promote religion. In the past, the group has sued Angola to force the removal of a biblical citation at the entrance and to give a Muslim graduate of the seminary access to materials from the Nation of Islam, the American Muslim group that is more entrenched in northern prisons.
Still, the seminary appears to be legal because it is paid for privately, is voluntary and admits non-Christians, said Marjorie R. Esman, the executive director of the A.C.L.U. in Louisiana.
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“I think that what Burl Cain calls moral rehabilitation is, in his mind, religious doctrine, but a lot of good has come of it,” Ms. Esman said. “I think it’s unfortunate that the only college available is a Christian one, but the fact that a college is there at all is important.”
Whether religion, per se, helps create peaceful prisons and reduce recidivism is a matter of scholarly dispute. Byron R. Johnson, a criminologist at Baylor University and the author of “More God, Less Crime,” argues that studies have shown the benefits of faith in rehabilitating criminals. He is now leading a study of the impact of the Baptist seminaries inside Angola and the Darrington prison in Texas.
But Winnifred F. Sullivan, a professor of religious studies and law at Indiana University, said, “There is no firm evidence that it is the faith component that makes these programs work.”
“Prisons like religion because it keeps people occupied,” she said, and “when anyone offers money for programming, it’s attractive.”
To gain acceptance to the seminary, men must have a high school degree or a G.E.D., which they can pursue in the prison. They also must have exemplary discipline records and must be recommended by a noninmate chaplain as devout and as a promising minister.
The data indicate a large drop in violence at Angola over the last two decades. In 1990, according to prison records, inmates assaulted staff members 280 times and one another 1,107 times. In 2012, there were 55 assaults on staff and 316 among inmates.
But life is much harder for some inmates than others. Some 1,600 live in more traditional cell blocks because they are considered dangerous, are being punished or need protection. Some of them are allowed outside, in individual cages, for only an hour a day. Some work in the farms for pennies per hour, guarded by a horse-mounted armed officer.
Four members of The U.S. Congress asked the Justice Department to investigate what they called the illegal use of solitary confinement by Angola and other state prisons, citing the cases of two prisoners, self-described Black Panthers who spent the last four decades in near isolation after being convicted of murdering a prison guard. One of the men, Herman Wallace, was released last week after his 1974 murder conviction was overturned, only to die in 2013 of cancer.
Mr. Walters, the seminary graduate and pastor, admitted that some inmates detested him for his religious devotion and implicit cooperation with the authorities. But he said, “If I can help other people while I’m marching to the grave here, then I’ll have lived a good life.”
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One's Perceived Social Status - Or Lack Thereof -
Is at The Heart of A Wide Range of Mental Illnesses
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Studies have long established that feelings of powerlessness and helplessness weaken the immune system, making one more vulnerable to physical and mental ailments.
Conversely, an inflated sense of power is among the behaviors associated with bipolar disorder*) and narcissistic**) personality disorder, which can be both personally and socially corrosive.
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Donald Trump’s ego may be the size of his financial empire, but that doesn’t mean he’s the picture of mental health. The same can be said about the self-esteem of people who are living from paycheck to paycheck, or unemployed. New research from UC Berkeley (UC = University of California) underscores this mind-wallet connection.
Berkeley researchers have linked (1) inflated or (2) deflated feelings of self-worth to such afflictions as bipolar disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, anxiety and depression, providing yet more evidence that the widening gulf between rich and poor can be bad for your health.
Narcissistic personality disorder is a condition in which people have an excessive sense of self-importance, an extreme preoccupation with themselves, and lack of empathy for others.
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Inflated or deflated feelings of self-worth may be connected to mood disorders, such as bipolar disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, anxiety, and depression, report researchers.
“We found that it is important to consider the motivation to pursue power, beliefs about how much power one has attained, pro-social and aggressive strategies for attaining power, and emotions related to attaining power,” says senior author Sheri Johnson, psychologist at University of California, Berkeley.
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In their study of 612 young men and women conducted at Berkeley, researchers conclude that one’s perceived social status—or lack thereof—is at the heart of a wide range of mental illnesses.
The findings support assessing such traits as “ruthless ambition,” “discomfort with leadership,” and “hubristic pride” to understand psychopathologies.
(hubris = hybristic = with pride, arrogant; having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance)
“People prone to depression or anxiety reported feeling little sense of pride in their accomplishments and little sense of power,” Johnson says. “In contrast, people at risk for mania tended to report high levels of pride and an emphasis on the pursuit of power despite interpersonal costs.”
Specifically, Johnson and fellow researchers looked at how study participants fit into the “dominance behavioral system,” a construct in which humans and other mammals assess their place in the social hierarchy and respond accordingly to promote cooperation and avoid conflict and aggression. The concept is rooted in the evolutionary principle that dominant mammals gain easier access to resources for the sake of reproductive success and the survival of the species.
Studies have long established that feelings of powerlessness and helplessness weaken the immune system, making one more vulnerable to physical and mental ailments. Conversely, an inflated sense of power is among the behaviors associated with bipolar disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, which can be both personally and socially corrosive.
Two Kinds of Pride
For this study, 612 young men and women rated their social status, propensity toward manic, depressive or anxious symptoms, drive to achieve power, comfort with leadership, and degree of pride, among other measures.
In one study, they were gauged for two distinct kinds of pride: “authentic pride,” which is based on specific achievements and is related to positive social behaviors and healthy self-esteem; and “hubristic pride,” which is defined as being overconfident and is correlated with aggression, hostility and poor interpersonal skills.
And in a test for tendencies toward hypomania (= a condition similar to mania but less severe), a manic mood disorder, participants ranked how strongly they agreed or disagreed with such statements as “I often have moods where I feel so energetic and optimistic that I feel I could outperform almost anyone at anything,” or “I would rather be an ordinary success in life than a spectacular failure.”
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Overall, the results showed a strong correlation between the highs and lows of perceived power and mood disorders.
“This is the first study to assess the dominance behavioral system across psychopathologies*),” Johnson says. “The findings present more evidence that it is important to consider dominance in understanding vulnerability to psychological symptoms.”
*) Psychopathology is a term which refers to either the study of mental illness or mental distress or the manifestation of behaviors and experiences which may be indicative of mental illness or psychological impairment.
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Psychopathology of Normal
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"What we call normal in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily." This quote is by Abraham Maslow, the theorist who gave us the idea of the hierarchy of needs (once your basic needs are met you begin to seek higher needs) and the idea of self-actualization. Click: Abraham Maslow
Maslow's point is that being normal, being average, although normally perceived as okay, is pathology. Pathology can be defined as disease or sickness.
The dictionary's definition of psychopathology is "The study of the origin, development, and manifestations of mental or behavioral disorders," or "the manifestation of a mental or behavioral disorder." Most people would be offended if someone were to say that they were average. Yet, by definition, most are. Average in psychological terms is a huge category, encompassing the majority of the population. Those that are not average are outliers. Outliers are the small percentage at either end of the bell curve. They are either well below average, or well above. Average in this sense doesn't have much to do with not being an individual. You can be an individual yet fall well within the average. Click: The Bell Curve
So now that we are all feeling insulted, let's discuss what Maslow was saying and why it is so important. Maslow's contention was that the ultimate goal of humans is to self-actualize, to become all they can in a lifelong process of self-improvement. He also contended that all humans have this potential. But before that can happen, other needs which are positioned below self actualization must be met. These include physiological needs, needs for safety, needs for love and belonging, and the need for esteem. Once these needs are met, the individual can look toward self actualization. Not striving toward being all you can be is your pathology. He is using this bold statement to get your attention and to encourage you to take action.
It can be assumed most people in this country (particularly if you are reading this article online) have the lower needs met. Most have enough food, water, and shelter. Most do not feel constant threats to their safety. And, hopefully, we feel loved and a sense of belonging. So with these needs met, we can move toward feeling esteemed. This need encompasses self confidence, feeling competent, and believing at least some others hold you in high esteem. Again, it seems reasonable that many readers have these needs met as well. This is not to say you feel this way all of the time. There may always be flare-ups of self doubt. But it is understood that generally, most of the time, you feel confident in yourself and your abilities. So, with all of these important needs met, why aren't more people becoming self actualized?
The answer is simple: we become complacent *) with these lower, but important needs. Then, instead of working toward self-actualization people become consumers: keeping up with the Joneses, being the first on our block to have the newest gadget, over-indulging in "entertainment needs" (movies, television, trips) and otherwise trying to fill the yearning for a higher purpose with purchases, rather than self-improvement. *) complacent = pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation,etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: e.g.:The voters are too complacent to change the government.
Perhaps what is keeping the majority of people from self actualizing is that they are misinterpreting their yearning for self-actualization as a need for more of something else: More love, more things, more fun. Therefore the solution is to cease filling the void with things, and instead, focus on you, and what you can be. What are you doing that is creative? What are you doing to exercise your mind? What are you doing to make the planet (and your fellow humans) better? What are you doing to be happier with you, rather than your possessions? Answer these questions and the movement toward self-actualization begins.
If you still have trouble getting started or maintaining progress, it is possible that there are unconscious forces that lie within you that are keeping you stagnated. One suggestion is to enter therapy so you can discover these blocks, remove them, and get back on track. Making the unconscious more conscious is one of the most beneficial aspects of therapy. So often today we view therapy simply as a place to vent or get some direction with other life problems. But at its best, therapy is geared toward insight, toward understanding yourself, and to becoming self-actualized. Good luck on your journey.
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Maslow's point is that being normal, being average, although normally perceived as okay, is pathology. Pathology can be defined as disease or sickness.
The dictionary's definition of psychopathology is "The study of the origin, development, and manifestations of mental or behavioral disorders," or "the manifestation of a mental or behavioral disorder." Most people would be offended if someone were to say that they were average. Yet, by definition, most are. Average in psychological terms is a huge category, encompassing the majority of the population. Those that are not average are outliers. Outliers are the small percentage at either end of the bell curve. They are either well below average, or well above. Average in this sense doesn't have much to do with not being an individual. You can be an individual yet fall well within the average. Click: The Bell Curve
So now that we are all feeling insulted, let's discuss what Maslow was saying and why it is so important. Maslow's contention was that the ultimate goal of humans is to self-actualize, to become all they can in a lifelong process of self-improvement. He also contended that all humans have this potential. But before that can happen, other needs which are positioned below self actualization must be met. These include physiological needs, needs for safety, needs for love and belonging, and the need for esteem. Once these needs are met, the individual can look toward self actualization. Not striving toward being all you can be is your pathology. He is using this bold statement to get your attention and to encourage you to take action.
It can be assumed most people in this country (particularly if you are reading this article online) have the lower needs met. Most have enough food, water, and shelter. Most do not feel constant threats to their safety. And, hopefully, we feel loved and a sense of belonging. So with these needs met, we can move toward feeling esteemed. This need encompasses self confidence, feeling competent, and believing at least some others hold you in high esteem. Again, it seems reasonable that many readers have these needs met as well. This is not to say you feel this way all of the time. There may always be flare-ups of self doubt. But it is understood that generally, most of the time, you feel confident in yourself and your abilities. So, with all of these important needs met, why aren't more people becoming self actualized?
The answer is simple: we become complacent *) with these lower, but important needs. Then, instead of working toward self-actualization people become consumers: keeping up with the Joneses, being the first on our block to have the newest gadget, over-indulging in "entertainment needs" (movies, television, trips) and otherwise trying to fill the yearning for a higher purpose with purchases, rather than self-improvement. *) complacent = pleased, especially with oneself or one's merits, advantages, situation,etc., often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied: e.g.:The voters are too complacent to change the government.
Perhaps what is keeping the majority of people from self actualizing is that they are misinterpreting their yearning for self-actualization as a need for more of something else: More love, more things, more fun. Therefore the solution is to cease filling the void with things, and instead, focus on you, and what you can be. What are you doing that is creative? What are you doing to exercise your mind? What are you doing to make the planet (and your fellow humans) better? What are you doing to be happier with you, rather than your possessions? Answer these questions and the movement toward self-actualization begins.
If you still have trouble getting started or maintaining progress, it is possible that there are unconscious forces that lie within you that are keeping you stagnated. One suggestion is to enter therapy so you can discover these blocks, remove them, and get back on track. Making the unconscious more conscious is one of the most beneficial aspects of therapy. So often today we view therapy simply as a place to vent or get some direction with other life problems. But at its best, therapy is geared toward insight, toward understanding yourself, and to becoming self-actualized. Good luck on your journey.
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Healthcare providers should aggressively treat unhealthy lifestyles
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Healthcare providers should aggressively treat unhealthy lifestyles
Statement Highlights:
- Unhealthy habits, such as smoking, poor diet, and being overweight should be treated as aggressively as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and other cardiovascular disease risk factors.
- Insurance reimbursement policies need to be improved so that registered dieticians, psychologists and others can become part of the primary practice team.
“We’re talking about a paradigm shift *) from only treating biomarkers**) — physical indicators of a person’s risk for heart disease — to helping people change unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy body weight, poor diet quality and lack of physical activity,” said Bonnie Spring, Ph.D., lead author of the statement and a professor of preventive medicine and psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University in Chicago.*) paradigm shift = a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions
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“We already treat physical risk factors that can be measured through a blood sample or a blood pressure reading in a doctor’s office, yet people put their health at risk through their behaviors. We can’t measure the results of these behaviors in their bodies yet.”
Among the statement’s recommendations, healthcare providers should create “inter-professional practices” to connect patients with behavior change specialists such as dietitians or psychologists and implement the five A’s when caring for patients:
- Assess a patient’s risk behaviors for heart disease.
- Advise change, such as weight loss or exercise.
- Agree on an action plan.
- Assist with treatment.
- Arrange for follow-up care.
Under an effective healthcare system, professionals can work with patients and draw on community and technology resources to provide intensive behavior interventions.
“This isn’t a problem that can be solved alone by the patient or the doctor who is strapped for time,” Spring said. “We need to break out of our silos and get ahead of the curve in prevention.”
She said to achieve the American Heart Association’s 2020 impact goals --to improve the cardiovascular health of all Americans by 20 percent while reducing deaths from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent -- we must make preventing cardiovascular diseases a priority.
Judith K. Ockene, Ph.D., co-chaired the writing group with Spring. Other co-authors are Samuel S. Gidding, M.D.; Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Dr.PH.; Shirley Moore, R.N., Ph.D.; Milagros C. Rosal, Ph.D.; Michael D. Brown, Ph.D.; Dorothea Vafiadis, M.S.; Debbie L. Cohen, M.D.; Lora E. Burke, Ph.D., M.P.H.; and Donald Lloyd-Jones, M.D., Sc.M. Author disclosures and sources of funding are on the manuscript.
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The mere presence of female family members — even infants —
can be enough to nudge men toward being generous, studies show
That's Why Men Need Women
Date: July 20, 2013
By ADAM GRANT - Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “ Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.”
WHAT makes some men miserly and others generous? What motivated Bill Gates, for example, to make more than $28 billion in philanthropic gifts while many of his billionaire peers kept relatively tightfisted control over their personal fortunes?
New evidence reveals a surprising answer. The mere presence of female family members — even infants — can be enough to nudge men in the generous direction.
In a provocative new study, the researchers Michael Dahl, Cristian Dezso and David Gaddis Ross examined generosity and what inspires it in wealthy men. Rather than looking at large-scale charitable giving, they looked at why some male chief executives paid their employees more generously than others. The researchers tracked the wages that male chief executives at more than 10,000 Danish companies paid their employees over the course of a decade.
Interestingly, the chief executives paid their employees less after becoming fathers. On average, after chief executives had a child, they paid about $100 less in annual compensation per employee. To be a good provider, the researchers write, it’s all too common for a male chief executive to claim “his firm’s resources for himself and his growing family, at the expense of his employees.”
But there was a twist. When Professor Dahl’s team examined the data more closely, the changes in pay depended on the gender of the child that the chief executives fathered. They reduced wages after having a son, but not after having a daughter.
Daughters apparently soften fathers and evoke more caretaking tendencies. The speculation is that as we brush our daughters’ hair and take them to dance classes, we become gentler, more empathetic and more other-oriented.
There are even studies showing that American legislators with daughters vote more liberally; this is also true of British male voters who have daughters, especially in terms of referendum and policy choices about reproductive rights. “A father takes on some of the preferences of his female offspring,” argue the researchers Andrew Oswald at the University of Warwick and Nattavudh Powdthavee, then at the University of York. For male chief executives, this daughter-driven empathy spike may account for more generous impulses toward employees that temper the temptation toward wage cuts.
Is it possible that proximity to infant girls prompts greater generosity? Additional studies, in a variety of fields, suggest this is the case — and that it might extend beyond daughters. Consider, for example, the series of studies led by the psychologist Paul Van Lange at the Free University in Amsterdam. To figure out what motivates people to act generously, Professor Van Lange and three colleagues set up a game in which more than 600 people made choices about sharing resources with someone they didn’t know and would never meet again. The participants chose between these basic options:
(a) You get $25 and your partner gets $10.
(b) You get $20 and your partner gets $30.
The first option is the selfish one; you’re claiming most of the resources for yourself. The latter option is more generous as it involves sacrificing a small amount ($5) to increase your partner’s gains by a much larger amount ($20).
The players expressed consistent preferences in each of the nine rounds they played on Professor Van Lange’s watch. The data showed that players who made the more generous choices had more siblings. The givers averaged two siblings; the others averaged one and a half siblings. More siblings means more sharing, which seems to predispose people toward giving.
And once again, gender mattered. The givers were 40 percent more likely to have sisters than the people who made more self-serving, competitive choices. (There was no difference in the number of brothers; it was the number of sisters, not siblings, that predicted greater giving.) And Professor Van Lange’s team pointed to another study showing that the more sisters a father has, the more time he spends raising his own children. After growing up with sisters, men who have opportunities to give are more likely to do so.
SOCIAL scientists believe that the empathetic, nurturing behaviors of sisters rub off on their brothers. For example, studies led by the psychologist Alice Eagly at Northwestern University demonstrate that women tend to do more giving and helping in close relationships than men. It might also be that boys feel the impulse — by nature and nurture — to protect their sisters. Indeed, Professor Eagly finds that men are significantly more likely to help women than to help men.
Some of the world’s most charitable men acknowledge the inspiration provided by the women in their lives. Twenty years ago, when Bill Gates was on his way to becoming the world’s richest man, he rejected advice to set up a charitable foundation. He planned to wait a quarter-century before he started giving his money away, but changed his mind the following year. Just three years later, Mr. Gates ranked third on Fortune’s list of the most generous philanthropists in America. In between, he welcomed his first child: a daughter.
Mr. Gates has reflected that two female family members — his mother, Mary, and his wife, Melinda — were major catalysts for his philanthropic surge. Mary “never stopped pressing me to do more for others,” Mr. Gates said in a Harvard commencement speech. The turning point came in 1993, shortly before he and Melinda married. At a wedding event, Mary read a letter aloud that she had written to Melinda about marriage. Her concluding message was reminiscent of the Voltaire (or Spiderman) mantra that great power implies great responsibility: “From those to whom much is given, much is expected.”
Along with guiding much of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s philanthropy, Melinda played a pivotal role in shaping the Giving Pledge. She read a book about a family that sold their home and gave half the proceeds to charity, and began spreading the word about the idea. When Bill Gates and Warren Buffett convened dinners for billionaires to discuss philanthropy, Ms. Gates made sure that wives were invited, too. “Even if he’s the one that made the money, she’s going to be a real gatekeeper,” she said. “And she’s got to go along with any philanthropic plan because it affects her and it affects their kids.”
In a provocative 2007 presentation in San Francisco, the psychologist Roy Baumeister asked, “Is there anything good about men?” (The short answer, if you haven’t read “Demonic Males,” by Dale Peterson and Richard Wrangham, is not much.) But our saving grace, Professor Baumeister argues, is that across a wide range of attributes, “men go to extremes more than women.” Men are responsible for the lion’s share of the worst acts of aggression and selfishness, but they also engage in some of the most extreme acts of helping and generosity.
On this point, the economists James Andreoni at the University of California, San Diego, and Lise Vesterlund at the University of Pittsburgh report evidence that whereas many women prefer to share evenly, “men are more likely to be either perfectly selfish or perfectly selfless.” It may be that meaningful contact with women is one of the forces that tilt men toward greater selflessness.
THE warming effect of women on men has important implications for education and work. In schools, we need to think carefully about how we organize children into groups. In 1971, in the wake of Texas school desegregation, Elliot Aronson, a psychologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, validated a simple but powerful approach to reducing stereotypes and prejudice.
His core idea was that students would learn to respect and care about one another if they had to rely upon one another when collaborating in small groups toward shared goals. Professor Aronson made each student responsible for teaching the group about a different topic that would be covered on a coming test. It was like working on a jigsaw puzzle: the group needed pieces of information from every member in order to put together the general understanding that would be measured on the test. After the experiment, stereotypes and prejudice fell — the students became significantly less hostile toward one another — and the minority students got better grades.
What would happen if every classroom followed the jigsaw structure, with mixed-gender study groups providing boys with the opportunity to learn from girls? In addition to gaining knowledge, perhaps they would learn something about teaching, helping and caring for others. When some of those boys grow up to become rich men, they might be less like Scrooge and more like Mr. Gates — or at least less likely to become your wealthy neighbor who refuses to pay his share of the hedge trimming. Or your (not so) great-uncle who always flies first class but sends your kids cheap birthday presents.
At work, we sorely need more women in leadership positions. We already know from considerable research that companies are better off when they have more women in top management roles, especially when it comes to innovation. Professors Dezso and Ross have recently shown that between 1992 and 2006, when companies introduced women onto their top management teams, they generated an average of 1 percent more economic value, which typically meant more than $40 million.
We recognize the direct advantages that women as leaders bring to the table, which often include diverse perspectives, collaborative styles, dedication to mentoring and keen understanding of female employees and customers. But we’ve largely overlooked the beneficial effects that women have on the men around them. Is it possible that when women join top management teams, they encourage male colleagues to treat employees more generously and to share knowledge more freely? Increases in motivation, cooperation, and innovation in companies may be fueled not only by the direct actions of female leaders, but also by their influence on male leaders.
It’s often said that behind every great man stands a great woman. In light of the profound influence that women can have on men’s generosity, it might be more accurate to say that in front of every great man walks a great woman. If we’re wise, we’ll follow her lead.
By Adam Grant is a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of “ Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success.”
Source: NYT
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Why Men Need Women The mere presence of female family members — even infants — can be enough to nudge men toward being generous, studies show.
July 20, 2013 - By ADAM GRANT - Opinion / Sunday Review - Article - Print Headline: "Why Men Need Women"
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Allergic Teen Dies After Eating Cookie
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His mother, Robin Fitzpatrick, never knew peanuts could kill her son.
Cameron Groezinger-Fitzpatrick, 19, a college freshman who suffered from a severe nut allergy, died Friday, 3/8/13 after eating a cookie that contained peanut oil. His friend had sworn it didn't.
"We were all so shocked, it came out of nowhere," Fitzpatrick told ABCNews.com. "For 19 years, he had been knock-on-wood safe." Plymouth, Mass., native was first diagnosed with a nut allergy when he was 8, after projectile-vomiting "across the room" at a Chinese restaurant, his mother said. In high school he suffered from a serious allergic reaction after he dropped his asthma inhaler into a pile of acorns while running. The wild nuts caused his throat to constrict. But he was fine after getting prompt treatment, his mother said.
Then, one week ago, he ate half a cookie.
Spring break had just started and the international business major with plans to study abroad in Australia had only been home for two hours, on a visit from Rhode Island where he attended Bryant University, according to his mother.
PHOTOS: 17 Scary Allergy Triggers In case the photo link has expired search the web to find the original article and click there the link for the pictures
He and his friend were out driving and bought cookies. Groezinger- Fitzpatrick's friend ate one first. The friend said he didn't taste any hint of peanut.
"He said, Ah, the hell with it, I'm sure it's fine," his friend recalled Groezinger- Fitzpatrick as saying, his mother said.
Within minutes the teen was home; it was about 6:30 that evening, and he was doubled over and turning black and blue, his mother said. "I can't breathe, I can't breathe," he had said. He hadn't unpacked yet so his mom couldn't find his Epi-Pen -- an epinephrine autoinjector. She had one in her cupboard but it had expired two months earlier. First responders told her over the phone that she shouldn't use it.
A fire chief who lived next door brought over an Epi-Pen, which was administered to the teen. (Later, his doctor told his mother she could have used the expired pen, but couldn't say whether it would have helped him.)
Once at the hospital, 15 people tag-teamed to perform CPR on the dying teen. For two hours, they tried to revive him.
"I was begging so much, these people were crying and working on him, thinking, 'We're only doing this for the mother,'" she said.
At 9 p.m., he was declared dead. Fitzpatrick stayed with her son's body until 1 a.m.
"I didn't know you can die from nut allergies. I feel foolish," she said.
At least three million American children suffer from a food or digestive allergy, and the problem is growing, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 1997 and 2007, the figure rose 18 percent.
Severe food allergies stem from a combination of genes, environment and possibly diet, said Dr. Kari Nadeau, associate professor of allergies and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
"We need more research to be done to help save lives," she said. "We don't have all the answers now."
As a small child, Groezinger-Fitzpatrick refused to nuts because their smell made him sick.
"It's almost like his body knew," said his mother.
Doctors later diagnosed him with an allergy to all nuts and told Groezinger- Fitzpatrick he could live a normal life. But he had to be very careful.
He wrote a bucket list at age 9. He carried an Epi-Pen. He checked food labels and questioned food service workers constantly.
But on Friday, there was no label. And his body didn't alert him to danger.
Now Groezinger-Fitzpatrick, who was on the dean's list at his college, won't be able to live in Australia with his girlfriend or work in finance.
He just might be able to cross off one of his bucket list items, though -- to save a life. He donated his organs.
"He always wanted to do something big," said his mother, as she prepared to attend his wake. More than 1,000 people were expected. "He's going out big. He's going to make others realize [they need to] be supercautious. Be your biggest advocate," she said.
Source: ABCNews.com
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16 Scary Allergy Triggers
(1) Even small traces of peanuts can cause deadly reactions in people with severe peanut allergies. Constriction of the airways, a drop in blood pressure, a racing heart and dizziness are signs of anaphylaxis, which requires an emergency injection of epinephrine.
(2) Tree nuts like walnuts, pecans, cashews and pistachios can also cause anaphylaxis in people with allergies. Some people can tolerate certain nuts, but are sometimes advised to avoid all nuts just in case.
(3) Wheat and its glue-like protein gluten can cause itchiness and swelling of the mouth, throat and skin, as well as gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, cramping and diarrhea in people with allergies. Severe wheat allergies can trigger anaphylaxis. The best treatment is to avoid exposure, a tall order for such a common ingredient.
(4) Weeds tend to release their pollen in late summer or early fall. Ragweed, a common culprit, can trigger allergic rhinitis, better known as hay fever, a miserable set of symptoms that includes runny nose, watery eyes and sore throat.
(5) Milk allergies can cause wheezing, hives, vomiting, diarrhea and anaphylaxis, a life-threatening reaction. The only way to prevent milk allergy symptoms is to avoid milk, and replace it with another good source of calcium.
(6) Soy allergies can cause hives and, in rare cases, life-threatening anaphylaxis. Most children grow out of soy allergies, but some have to avoid the bean for life.
(7) Allergic reactions to shellfish like shrimp, crab, lobster and squid can range from hives and nasal congestion to anaphylaxis. Antihistamines can quell the more mild symptoms, but people with severe allergies should carry an epinephrine injector at all times.
(8) Bony fish like cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel, trout and salmon can trigger rashes, hives, digestive symptoms and anaphylaxis in people with fish allergies. Some people can tolerate certain kinds of fish and not others.Egg allergies can trigger hives, nasal inflammation, vomiting and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. Some people can tolerate eggs when cooked into foods like cookies, but others have to avoid them altogether.
(9) Egg allergies can trigger hives, nasal inflammation, vomiting and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. Some people can tolerate eggs when cooked into foods like cookies, but others have to avoid them altogether.
(10) Most trees release their pollen in late winter or early spring, wreaking havoc on the sinuses of seasonal allergy sufferers. The worst offenders include ash, birch, cedar, elm, oak and willow trees.
(11) Mold can grow outside in compost piles and rotting leaves, as well as inside in moist crevices, triggering a runny nose, itchy throat and eyes, and coughing in people with allergies. The best treatment is avoidance.
(12) Pets can trigger allergic reactions through their dander, saliva or urine. People with pet allergies can opt for animals without fur or ones that don't shed dander. When visiting pet owners, antihistamines can help keep mild allergy symptoms at bay.
(13) Allergic reactions to drugs can cause rashes and hives, wheezing and swelling and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. Treatments range from antihistamines to emergency epinephrine. Penicillin is the most common drug allergen.
(14) Latex can cause skin rashes and hives as well as asthma symptoms in people with allergies. In severe cases, the natural rubber can trigger anaphylaxis. Avoidance of the stretchy material, commonly used in medical supplies, is key.
(15) Dust can trigger a runny nose, itchy eyes and sneezing in people with allergies, not to mention asthma symptoms like wheezing and shortness of breath. Non-carpet flooring and HEPA air filters can help minimize exposure.
(16) Bug bites and stings can trigger swelling, hives and difficulty breathing in people with allergies. They can also trigger a drop in blood pressure, dizziness and cardiac arrest. People with severe allergies should carry an epinephrine injector.
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Mislabeled Fish Raise Food Allergy Risk
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Nearly 40 percent of seafood sold in New York City is mislabeled, according to a conservation group’s new report on a fishy practice that spells trouble for people with food allergies.
“Recent testing has revealed that dishonest labeling and fraudulent seafood substitution for certain species is rampant and widespread,” researchers from the ocean conservation group Oceana wrote in their report, which they said was based on DNA testing of 142 seafood samples collected from unidentified New York City grocery stores, restaurants and sushi bars.
Oceana previously reported fish mislabeling rates as high as 48 percent in Boston and 55 percent in Los Angeles.
Oceana said the findings are particularly troubling given that seafood ranks among the top eight food allergens. And since fish allergies are often species-specific, experts say the bait-and-switch opens the door to dangerous exposures.
“If [a person] is not allergic to the fish they think they are getting, and that fish is substituted with one to which they are allergic, they obviously could have a serious allergic reaction,” said Dr. David Fleischer, an associate professor of pediatric allergy and immunology at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colo. “Patients need to be able to trust the people they purchase fish from.”
Here’s a table of commonly substituted fish from the report:
What You BoughtWhat You Gotred snapperCaribbean red snapper, crimson snapper, goldbanded jobfish, ocean perch, porgy/seabream, spotted rose snapper, tilapia, tilefish, white bass, yellowtail snapperwhite tunaescolarhalibuttilefishwild salmon, king salmonrainbow trout, farmed Atlantic salmonPacific codfarmed Pangasius “catfish”grouperNile perch, breamlemon solesummer flounder, blackback flounderstriped basswhite bassAmong the “most troubling substitutions,” according to the report, was fish labeled as white tuna that turned out to be escolar, a type of snake mackerel linked to gastrointestinal problems. Also, fish sold as red snapper and halibut turned out to be tilefish, which has mercury levels that land it on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “do-not-eat” list for pregnant or nursing women and young children.
“Without accurate, honest labels that show exactly what fish you are eating and where it was harvested, those who need this critical advice about specific fish will be left unprotected,” the report authors wrote.
Previous reports on fish fraud have sparked outrage from politicians, who argue the FDA should do more to curb seafood mislabeling.
“Seafood fraud is not only deceptive marketing, but it can also pose serious health concerns, particularly for pregnant women seeking to limit exposure to heavy metals or individuals with serious allergies to certain types of fish,” Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. wrote in an October 2012 letter to the FDA. “Consumers should not have to question the safety of their seafood.”
But it’s unclear where along the chain “from bait to plate” the mislabeling is taking place. Citing a 2009 Government Accountability Office report, Boxer said 86 percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. originates overseas but only 2 percent of it is inspected by the FDA and only 0.01 percent is “explicitly inspected for fraud or mislabeling.”
“Seafood can follow a complex path from the point when it is caught to the point when it is sold to a consumer, making it difficult to isolate the point where fraud occurs,” she wrote. “To effectively address this problem, we need better traceability and enforcement throughout the entire chain of sale, from bait to plate.”
A spokeswoman for the FDA said the agency had not yet reviewed the Oceana report and “therefore cannot comment on the report at this time.” But, she added, “All seafood is required to be labeled in a manner that is truthful and not misleading and in accordance with federal regulations. It is not acceptable to misrepresent the identity of a product, including at the final point of sale to a consumer.”
Buying fish from reputable dealers and being wary about unusually low prices can help protect consumers from fish fraud, according to the FDA. The agency also has a list of commonly substituted seafood products and photos of whole fish and fillets.
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Article 1 of 4
His mother, Robin Fitzpatrick, never knew peanuts could kill her son.
Cameron Groezinger-Fitzpatrick, 19, a college freshman who suffered from a severe nut allergy, died Friday, 3/8/13 after eating a cookie that contained peanut oil. His friend had sworn it didn't.
"We were all so shocked, it came out of nowhere," Fitzpatrick told ABCNews.com. "For 19 years, he had been knock-on-wood safe." Plymouth, Mass., native was first diagnosed with a nut allergy when he was 8, after projectile-vomiting "across the room" at a Chinese restaurant, his mother said. In high school he suffered from a serious allergic reaction after he dropped his asthma inhaler into a pile of acorns while running. The wild nuts caused his throat to constrict. But he was fine after getting prompt treatment, his mother said.
Then, one week ago, he ate half a cookie.
Spring break had just started and the international business major with plans to study abroad in Australia had only been home for two hours, on a visit from Rhode Island where he attended Bryant University, according to his mother.
PHOTOS: 17 Scary Allergy Triggers In case the photo link has expired search the web to find the original article and click there the link for the pictures
He and his friend were out driving and bought cookies. Groezinger- Fitzpatrick's friend ate one first. The friend said he didn't taste any hint of peanut.
"He said, Ah, the hell with it, I'm sure it's fine," his friend recalled Groezinger- Fitzpatrick as saying, his mother said.
Within minutes the teen was home; it was about 6:30 that evening, and he was doubled over and turning black and blue, his mother said. "I can't breathe, I can't breathe," he had said. He hadn't unpacked yet so his mom couldn't find his Epi-Pen -- an epinephrine autoinjector. She had one in her cupboard but it had expired two months earlier. First responders told her over the phone that she shouldn't use it.
A fire chief who lived next door brought over an Epi-Pen, which was administered to the teen. (Later, his doctor told his mother she could have used the expired pen, but couldn't say whether it would have helped him.)
Once at the hospital, 15 people tag-teamed to perform CPR on the dying teen. For two hours, they tried to revive him.
"I was begging so much, these people were crying and working on him, thinking, 'We're only doing this for the mother,'" she said.
At 9 p.m., he was declared dead. Fitzpatrick stayed with her son's body until 1 a.m.
"I didn't know you can die from nut allergies. I feel foolish," she said.
At least three million American children suffer from a food or digestive allergy, and the problem is growing, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Between 1997 and 2007, the figure rose 18 percent.
Severe food allergies stem from a combination of genes, environment and possibly diet, said Dr. Kari Nadeau, associate professor of allergies and immunology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
"We need more research to be done to help save lives," she said. "We don't have all the answers now."
As a small child, Groezinger-Fitzpatrick refused to nuts because their smell made him sick.
"It's almost like his body knew," said his mother.
Doctors later diagnosed him with an allergy to all nuts and told Groezinger- Fitzpatrick he could live a normal life. But he had to be very careful.
He wrote a bucket list at age 9. He carried an Epi-Pen. He checked food labels and questioned food service workers constantly.
But on Friday, there was no label. And his body didn't alert him to danger.
Now Groezinger-Fitzpatrick, who was on the dean's list at his college, won't be able to live in Australia with his girlfriend or work in finance.
He just might be able to cross off one of his bucket list items, though -- to save a life. He donated his organs.
"He always wanted to do something big," said his mother, as she prepared to attend his wake. More than 1,000 people were expected. "He's going out big. He's going to make others realize [they need to] be supercautious. Be your biggest advocate," she said.
Source: ABCNews.com
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16 Scary Allergy Triggers
(1) Even small traces of peanuts can cause deadly reactions in people with severe peanut allergies. Constriction of the airways, a drop in blood pressure, a racing heart and dizziness are signs of anaphylaxis, which requires an emergency injection of epinephrine.
(2) Tree nuts like walnuts, pecans, cashews and pistachios can also cause anaphylaxis in people with allergies. Some people can tolerate certain nuts, but are sometimes advised to avoid all nuts just in case.
(3) Wheat and its glue-like protein gluten can cause itchiness and swelling of the mouth, throat and skin, as well as gastrointestinal symptoms like nausea, cramping and diarrhea in people with allergies. Severe wheat allergies can trigger anaphylaxis. The best treatment is to avoid exposure, a tall order for such a common ingredient.
(4) Weeds tend to release their pollen in late summer or early fall. Ragweed, a common culprit, can trigger allergic rhinitis, better known as hay fever, a miserable set of symptoms that includes runny nose, watery eyes and sore throat.
(5) Milk allergies can cause wheezing, hives, vomiting, diarrhea and anaphylaxis, a life-threatening reaction. The only way to prevent milk allergy symptoms is to avoid milk, and replace it with another good source of calcium.
(6) Soy allergies can cause hives and, in rare cases, life-threatening anaphylaxis. Most children grow out of soy allergies, but some have to avoid the bean for life.
(7) Allergic reactions to shellfish like shrimp, crab, lobster and squid can range from hives and nasal congestion to anaphylaxis. Antihistamines can quell the more mild symptoms, but people with severe allergies should carry an epinephrine injector at all times.
(8) Bony fish like cod, haddock, halibut, mackerel, trout and salmon can trigger rashes, hives, digestive symptoms and anaphylaxis in people with fish allergies. Some people can tolerate certain kinds of fish and not others.Egg allergies can trigger hives, nasal inflammation, vomiting and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. Some people can tolerate eggs when cooked into foods like cookies, but others have to avoid them altogether.
(9) Egg allergies can trigger hives, nasal inflammation, vomiting and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. Some people can tolerate eggs when cooked into foods like cookies, but others have to avoid them altogether.
(10) Most trees release their pollen in late winter or early spring, wreaking havoc on the sinuses of seasonal allergy sufferers. The worst offenders include ash, birch, cedar, elm, oak and willow trees.
(11) Mold can grow outside in compost piles and rotting leaves, as well as inside in moist crevices, triggering a runny nose, itchy throat and eyes, and coughing in people with allergies. The best treatment is avoidance.
(12) Pets can trigger allergic reactions through their dander, saliva or urine. People with pet allergies can opt for animals without fur or ones that don't shed dander. When visiting pet owners, antihistamines can help keep mild allergy symptoms at bay.
(13) Allergic reactions to drugs can cause rashes and hives, wheezing and swelling and, in severe cases, anaphylaxis. Treatments range from antihistamines to emergency epinephrine. Penicillin is the most common drug allergen.
(14) Latex can cause skin rashes and hives as well as asthma symptoms in people with allergies. In severe cases, the natural rubber can trigger anaphylaxis. Avoidance of the stretchy material, commonly used in medical supplies, is key.
(15) Dust can trigger a runny nose, itchy eyes and sneezing in people with allergies, not to mention asthma symptoms like wheezing and shortness of breath. Non-carpet flooring and HEPA air filters can help minimize exposure.
(16) Bug bites and stings can trigger swelling, hives and difficulty breathing in people with allergies. They can also trigger a drop in blood pressure, dizziness and cardiac arrest. People with severe allergies should carry an epinephrine injector.
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Mislabeled Fish Raise Food Allergy Risk
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Nearly 40 percent of seafood sold in New York City is mislabeled, according to a conservation group’s new report on a fishy practice that spells trouble for people with food allergies.
“Recent testing has revealed that dishonest labeling and fraudulent seafood substitution for certain species is rampant and widespread,” researchers from the ocean conservation group Oceana wrote in their report, which they said was based on DNA testing of 142 seafood samples collected from unidentified New York City grocery stores, restaurants and sushi bars.
Oceana previously reported fish mislabeling rates as high as 48 percent in Boston and 55 percent in Los Angeles.
Oceana said the findings are particularly troubling given that seafood ranks among the top eight food allergens. And since fish allergies are often species-specific, experts say the bait-and-switch opens the door to dangerous exposures.
“If [a person] is not allergic to the fish they think they are getting, and that fish is substituted with one to which they are allergic, they obviously could have a serious allergic reaction,” said Dr. David Fleischer, an associate professor of pediatric allergy and immunology at National Jewish Health in Denver, Colo. “Patients need to be able to trust the people they purchase fish from.”
Here’s a table of commonly substituted fish from the report:
What You BoughtWhat You Gotred snapperCaribbean red snapper, crimson snapper, goldbanded jobfish, ocean perch, porgy/seabream, spotted rose snapper, tilapia, tilefish, white bass, yellowtail snapperwhite tunaescolarhalibuttilefishwild salmon, king salmonrainbow trout, farmed Atlantic salmonPacific codfarmed Pangasius “catfish”grouperNile perch, breamlemon solesummer flounder, blackback flounderstriped basswhite bassAmong the “most troubling substitutions,” according to the report, was fish labeled as white tuna that turned out to be escolar, a type of snake mackerel linked to gastrointestinal problems. Also, fish sold as red snapper and halibut turned out to be tilefish, which has mercury levels that land it on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “do-not-eat” list for pregnant or nursing women and young children.
“Without accurate, honest labels that show exactly what fish you are eating and where it was harvested, those who need this critical advice about specific fish will be left unprotected,” the report authors wrote.
Previous reports on fish fraud have sparked outrage from politicians, who argue the FDA should do more to curb seafood mislabeling.
“Seafood fraud is not only deceptive marketing, but it can also pose serious health concerns, particularly for pregnant women seeking to limit exposure to heavy metals or individuals with serious allergies to certain types of fish,” Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. wrote in an October 2012 letter to the FDA. “Consumers should not have to question the safety of their seafood.”
But it’s unclear where along the chain “from bait to plate” the mislabeling is taking place. Citing a 2009 Government Accountability Office report, Boxer said 86 percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. originates overseas but only 2 percent of it is inspected by the FDA and only 0.01 percent is “explicitly inspected for fraud or mislabeling.”
“Seafood can follow a complex path from the point when it is caught to the point when it is sold to a consumer, making it difficult to isolate the point where fraud occurs,” she wrote. “To effectively address this problem, we need better traceability and enforcement throughout the entire chain of sale, from bait to plate.”
A spokeswoman for the FDA said the agency had not yet reviewed the Oceana report and “therefore cannot comment on the report at this time.” But, she added, “All seafood is required to be labeled in a manner that is truthful and not misleading and in accordance with federal regulations. It is not acceptable to misrepresent the identity of a product, including at the final point of sale to a consumer.”
Buying fish from reputable dealers and being wary about unusually low prices can help protect consumers from fish fraud, according to the FDA. The agency also has a list of commonly substituted seafood products and photos of whole fish and fillets.
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Tick May Be Spreading Vegetarianism
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A tiny tick*) might be to blame for a rash of meat allergies in central and southern regions of the U.S.
A bite from the lone star tick, so-called for the white spot on its back, looks innocent enough. But researchers say saliva that sneaks into the wound might trigger a reaction to meat agonizing enough to convert lifelong carnivores into wary vegetarians.
"People will eat beef and then anywhere from three to six hours later start having a reaction; anything from hives to full-blown anaphylactic shock," said Dr. Scott Commins, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. "Most people want to avoid having the reaction, so they try to stay away from the food that triggers it."
Cases of the bizarre allergy are cropping up in areas ripe with lone star ticks, according to research presented today at the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology annual meeting in Anaheim, Calif. But whether the bugs cause meat allergies remains unclear.
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A New Reason to Worry About Ticks?
"It's hard to prove," said Commins. "We're still searching for the mechanism."
Allergies are immune reactions to foreign substances, from pet hair to peanuts. As antibodies attack the substance that caused the reaction, they trigger the release of histamine, a chemical that causes hives and, in severe cases, life-threatening anaphylaxis.
Commins said blood levels of antibodies for alpha-gal, a sugar found in beef, lamb and pork, rise after a single bite from the lone star tick. He said he hopes experiments that combine tiny samples of tick saliva with the invisible antibodies will prove the two are directly connected.
"It's complicated, no doubt," said Commins. "But we think it's something in the saliva."
The long lag between exposure to meat and the allergic reaction complicates things even more.
"Most food allergies occur very quickly," said Dr. Stanley Fineman, president of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. "It's also a bit unusual to see adults develop a food allergy."
But the tick bite theory could help explain the sudden onset of some meat allergies, Fineman added.
Other Common food allergens include peanuts, shellfish, milk, eggs, soy and wheat. And most food allergy sufferers are glad to discover the source of their misery, even if it means upheaval for their diets.
"Avoidance is the best way to handle any food allergy," he said.
But meat allergies are hard for some brawny barbecuers to swallow.
"Some people are totally destroyed," said Commins. "Others say, 'Maybe I'm better off without it.'"
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**) Arachnids are a class (Arachnida) of joint-legged invertebrate animals in the subphylum Chelicerata. All arachnids have eight legs, although the front pair of legs in some species has converted to a sensory function, while in other species, differentappendages can grow large enough to take on the appearance of extra pairs of legs. The term is derived from the Greek word ἀράχνη (aráchnē), meaning "spider"
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Almost all extant arachnids are terrestrial. However, some inhabit freshwater environments and, with the exception of the pelagic zone, marine environments as well. They comprise over 100,000 named species, including spiders, scorpions, harvestmen,ticks, mites and Solifugae
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The Wisdom of Ancient Skin Care
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GCG is not endorsing any of the products mentioned in the article
There is no denying it—ancient wisdom still prevails today, even in the ways we care for our skin. Beauty regimens from long ago have lasting power for one simple reason—they work!
Yet some of these skin care rituals may surprise you. With all the fancy ingredients in skin care products today, these uncomplicated and cost-effective treatments taken from our ancestors are definitely worth a try.
Rub On Olive Oil
As early as Biblical times, people unlocked the power of olives by using the extra-virgin, first cold-pressed oil in everything from food to anointing the skin.
Nutrient-rich, extra-virgin olive oil is high in antioxidants, protects against bacteria, and assists with the body’s ability to heal itself. Due to its small molecular structure, it absorbs easily into the skin. In fact, its lipid profile is very close to that of human skin.
For many people with oily or acne-prone skin, the thought of putting more oil on the skin may seem counterintuitive. Contrary to what you would think, olive oil can balance overproductive oil glands and can even clear out blackheads, since it is naturally anti-inflammatory.
If you’re not into slathering olive oil on your skin, try Norma Kamali’s Olive Only Soap made with puréed olives. It can be used on both the face and the body.
You can find it for $15–$85 at the Wellness Cafe (www.thewellnesscafe.com).
Take Baths in Milk
Cleopatra, famous for her beauty, reputedly took regular baths in milk, among other beauty rituals. French and English aristocracy also bathed in milk in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Milk contains lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid that naturally exfoliates*) the skin. This type of acid gently dissolves proteins to exfoliate dead skin cells and reveal fresh, younger-looking skin underneath. *) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers; e.g. "the bark exfoliates in papery flakes" (bark = the hard outer covering of a tree)
Choose creamier milk, as it is better at moisturizing dry skin.
For products containing milk to be effective, labels should list “milk” or “lac” within the first five ingredients, and the contents should be opaque, according to Cyren Organics, an Australian company that produces a beauty line based on goat’s milk.
The company also warns against soap bars with milk ingredients.
“When milk is used in soap bar manufacturing,” Cyren Organics says on its website (www.cyrenorganics.com), “soaps are naturally alkaline, which negates any benefit ‘lactic acids’ would have on the skin. Lactic acid in milk is already quite mild; put that into a highly alkaline environment and the acid won’t work.”
A nice, no-fuss formula to try is Osmia Organics Organic Milk Bath (www.osmiaorganics.com). It contains organic buttermilk powder, organic oats, and baking soda, combined with essential oils.
Or simply add two to four cups of milk or buttermilk to your bath and soak for 20 minutes.
Slather*) On Raw Honey
Once again, we turn to beauty icon Cleopatra who used honey and natron, or baking soda, as a facial scrub.to slather = spread or smear (a substance) thickly or liberally, e.g. "slather on some sunscreen lotion"
Raw honey has naturally antibacterial, antiseptic, and moisturizing properties.
To blend a honey mask, Jennifer Taveras, an acupuncturist and herbalist in New York, recommended in an email to combine one tablespoon of raw honey with one teaspoon of ground cinnamon and apply as a facial mask for 15 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water.
“Cinnamon works to kill acne by drying out the affected area and bringing blood and oxygen to the surface to open the pores,” says the Acne Skin Site (www.acneskinsite.com).
Once considered an elixir of health and immortality in oriental and ayurvedic medicine, the combination of honey and cinnamon can also be brewed as an anti-aging tea used by an ancient Himalayan tribe called Hunza.Ayurveda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
Ayurveda or ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional medicine native to the Indian subcontinent and a form of alternative medicine. The oldest known ...
Health Secrets of the Hunzas - Live a Long & Healthy Lifethepdi.com/hunza_health_secrets.htm
The Health from Nature website (www.health-from-nature.net) recommends using one tablespoon of cinnamon and four tablespoons of honey in one cup of hot water. Drink this four times a day to slow down the aging process.
Use Mud and Clay
Rhassoul clay has been used for over 1,400 years as a soap, shampoo, and skin conditioner, according to the Mountain Rose Herbs website (www.mountainroseherbs.com).
Hailing from the Atlas Mountains in Eastern Morocco, the reddish-brown cosmetic clay contains high percentages of silica, magnesium, potassium, and calcium—topical nutrients that benefit skin and hair. The clay’s properties cause it to swell when water is added to it, which makes it a popular choice in spas and skin care regimens from facial masks to hair care.
One pound of raw Rhassoul clay powder costs only $9 on the Mountain Rose Herbs website and can be used in multiple ways.
Mud from Israel’s Dead Sea is renowned for its therapeutic properties for the skin due to the high mineral content. We still cover our bodies with it today to help heal eczema and psoriasis, and to deliver beautifying minerals to the epidermis.
Can’t travel to Israel to get it? Dead Sea Warehouse Mud Mask is practically the real deal, with minimal processing. It costs $24.95 on the Dead Sea Warehouse website (www.deadseawarehouse.com).
Grind Mint LeavesMint leaves have been used for their medicinal and anti-inflammatory properties since the earliest stages of human evolution. Mint was used by the ancient Egyptians and Romans for its fragrance. In Greek mythology, mint symbolized hospitality.
“Mortals rubbed mint leaves on the table to welcome gods,” says one blog post on the Dr. Vita website. “During the Middle Ages, people used mint as a cleaning agent and as a way to purify drinking water.”
Mint leaves and mint oil help heal acne and acne scars due to their high content of salicylic acid, according to Aida Duncan, writer of How to Improve Your Skin with Mint on the How Stuff Works website. It also contains vitamin A, which can strengthen skin tissue and help reduce oily skin.
Duncan recommends a mask, which combines two tablespoons (15 milliliters) of mint with oatmeal and yogurt. Apply this mixture to your face and rinse off with warm water after 10 minutes.
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There is no denying it—ancient wisdom still prevails today, even in the ways we care for our skin. Beauty regimens from long ago have lasting power for one simple reason—they work!
Yet some of these skin care rituals may surprise you. With all the fancy ingredients in skin care products today, these uncomplicated and cost-effective treatments taken from our ancestors are definitely worth a try.
Rub On Olive Oil
As early as Biblical times, people unlocked the power of olives by using the extra-virgin, first cold-pressed oil in everything from food to anointing the skin.
Nutrient-rich, extra-virgin olive oil is high in antioxidants, protects against bacteria, and assists with the body’s ability to heal itself. Due to its small molecular structure, it absorbs easily into the skin. In fact, its lipid profile is very close to that of human skin.
For many people with oily or acne-prone skin, the thought of putting more oil on the skin may seem counterintuitive. Contrary to what you would think, olive oil can balance overproductive oil glands and can even clear out blackheads, since it is naturally anti-inflammatory.
If you’re not into slathering olive oil on your skin, try Norma Kamali’s Olive Only Soap made with puréed olives. It can be used on both the face and the body.
You can find it for $15–$85 at the Wellness Cafe (www.thewellnesscafe.com).
Take Baths in Milk
Cleopatra, famous for her beauty, reputedly took regular baths in milk, among other beauty rituals. French and English aristocracy also bathed in milk in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Milk contains lactic acid, an alpha hydroxy acid that naturally exfoliates*) the skin. This type of acid gently dissolves proteins to exfoliate dead skin cells and reveal fresh, younger-looking skin underneath. *) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers; e.g. "the bark exfoliates in papery flakes" (bark = the hard outer covering of a tree)
Choose creamier milk, as it is better at moisturizing dry skin.
For products containing milk to be effective, labels should list “milk” or “lac” within the first five ingredients, and the contents should be opaque, according to Cyren Organics, an Australian company that produces a beauty line based on goat’s milk.
The company also warns against soap bars with milk ingredients.
“When milk is used in soap bar manufacturing,” Cyren Organics says on its website (www.cyrenorganics.com), “soaps are naturally alkaline, which negates any benefit ‘lactic acids’ would have on the skin. Lactic acid in milk is already quite mild; put that into a highly alkaline environment and the acid won’t work.”
A nice, no-fuss formula to try is Osmia Organics Organic Milk Bath (www.osmiaorganics.com). It contains organic buttermilk powder, organic oats, and baking soda, combined with essential oils.
Or simply add two to four cups of milk or buttermilk to your bath and soak for 20 minutes.
Slather*) On Raw Honey
Once again, we turn to beauty icon Cleopatra who used honey and natron, or baking soda, as a facial scrub.to slather = spread or smear (a substance) thickly or liberally, e.g. "slather on some sunscreen lotion"
Raw honey has naturally antibacterial, antiseptic, and moisturizing properties.
To blend a honey mask, Jennifer Taveras, an acupuncturist and herbalist in New York, recommended in an email to combine one tablespoon of raw honey with one teaspoon of ground cinnamon and apply as a facial mask for 15 minutes. Then rinse off with warm water.
“Cinnamon works to kill acne by drying out the affected area and bringing blood and oxygen to the surface to open the pores,” says the Acne Skin Site (www.acneskinsite.com).
Once considered an elixir of health and immortality in oriental and ayurvedic medicine, the combination of honey and cinnamon can also be brewed as an anti-aging tea used by an ancient Himalayan tribe called Hunza.Ayurveda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda
Ayurveda or ayurvedic medicine is a system of traditional medicine native to the Indian subcontinent and a form of alternative medicine. The oldest known ...
Health Secrets of the Hunzas - Live a Long & Healthy Lifethepdi.com/hunza_health_secrets.htm
The Health from Nature website (www.health-from-nature.net) recommends using one tablespoon of cinnamon and four tablespoons of honey in one cup of hot water. Drink this four times a day to slow down the aging process.
Use Mud and Clay
Rhassoul clay has been used for over 1,400 years as a soap, shampoo, and skin conditioner, according to the Mountain Rose Herbs website (www.mountainroseherbs.com).
Hailing from the Atlas Mountains in Eastern Morocco, the reddish-brown cosmetic clay contains high percentages of silica, magnesium, potassium, and calcium—topical nutrients that benefit skin and hair. The clay’s properties cause it to swell when water is added to it, which makes it a popular choice in spas and skin care regimens from facial masks to hair care.
One pound of raw Rhassoul clay powder costs only $9 on the Mountain Rose Herbs website and can be used in multiple ways.
Mud from Israel’s Dead Sea is renowned for its therapeutic properties for the skin due to the high mineral content. We still cover our bodies with it today to help heal eczema and psoriasis, and to deliver beautifying minerals to the epidermis.
Can’t travel to Israel to get it? Dead Sea Warehouse Mud Mask is practically the real deal, with minimal processing. It costs $24.95 on the Dead Sea Warehouse website (www.deadseawarehouse.com).
Grind Mint LeavesMint leaves have been used for their medicinal and anti-inflammatory properties since the earliest stages of human evolution. Mint was used by the ancient Egyptians and Romans for its fragrance. In Greek mythology, mint symbolized hospitality.
“Mortals rubbed mint leaves on the table to welcome gods,” says one blog post on the Dr. Vita website. “During the Middle Ages, people used mint as a cleaning agent and as a way to purify drinking water.”
Mint leaves and mint oil help heal acne and acne scars due to their high content of salicylic acid, according to Aida Duncan, writer of How to Improve Your Skin with Mint on the How Stuff Works website. It also contains vitamin A, which can strengthen skin tissue and help reduce oily skin.
Duncan recommends a mask, which combines two tablespoons (15 milliliters) of mint with oatmeal and yogurt. Apply this mixture to your face and rinse off with warm water after 10 minutes.
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Study: Americans Waste 40 Percent of Their Food
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Americans throw away as much as 40 percent of their food per year; the equivalent of around $165 billion, according to a study.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group, said in its study that the average American family of four throws away the equivalent of $2,275 annually in food.
The study also found that in American landfills, food is the single largest component, while there has been a 50 percent increase in U.S. food waste since the 1970s.
The NRDC - Natural Resources Defense Council noted that if there were only a 15 percent reduction in the amount of food thrown away, then there would be enough to feed approximately 25 million Americans per year.
“As a country, we’re essentially tossing every other piece of food that crosses our path—that’s money and precious resources down the drain,” said Dana Gunders with the NRDC in a press release.
With drought affecting much of the country as well as corn and soybean crops, “now is the time to embrace all the tremendous untapped opportunities to get more out of our food system,” she added. “We can do better.”
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Americans throw away as much as 40 percent of their food per year; the equivalent of around $165 billion, according to a study.
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), an environmental advocacy group, said in its study that the average American family of four throws away the equivalent of $2,275 annually in food.
The study also found that in American landfills, food is the single largest component, while there has been a 50 percent increase in U.S. food waste since the 1970s.
The NRDC - Natural Resources Defense Council noted that if there were only a 15 percent reduction in the amount of food thrown away, then there would be enough to feed approximately 25 million Americans per year.
“As a country, we’re essentially tossing every other piece of food that crosses our path—that’s money and precious resources down the drain,” said Dana Gunders with the NRDC in a press release.
With drought affecting much of the country as well as corn and soybean crops, “now is the time to embrace all the tremendous untapped opportunities to get more out of our food system,” she added. “We can do better.”
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Letter to
President Obama,
The U.S Congress & The U.S. Senate Lifestyle & Nutritional Solutions to save human suffering and hundreds of billions dollars of
health care costs every year - Detailed advice for a real solution for the U.S. health care system.
Part 1 and Part 2 - a "must" to study letter
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“I will teach you wisdom’s ways and lead you in straights paths. If you live a life guided by wisdom, you won’t limp or stumble as you run.” Proverbs 4: 11-12, The Bible
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"Automatic Millionaire”
program will bring the results it claims
A unique financial program created by Global Church of God (GCG) together with a leading nationwide/worldwide financial institution
The professional degree programs in this University/College will also educate you how
to guide your future clients to become millionaires – not a joke – when they take your services. A brilliant system that works.
HOW would that be possible?
GCG has developed with a leading nationwide/worldwide financial organization (honest & reliable) a special program that allows your client to invest the same money he/she will be saving as the results of your life improving services. It is a real and realistic “Automatic Millionaire” program. GCG and the University/College are not involved in the investments except in teaching the techniques to you in your degree program.
Only your client and the leading financial company are – YOU will teach the techniques to your client and the financial institution handles the rest. This amazing program is a strong point for you to succeed in marketing your high-level professional services and is not available anywhere else.
You yourself are allowed to apply the same “Automatic Millionaire” principles in your own life and in your family.
The purpose of this program is to create a reliable “second” retirement account.
A person in his/her 20’s – to 50’s can easily reach a millionaire status, even a multi-millionaire status. If your client’s (or you) are over 50 the same “Automatic Millionaire” program principles will still bring the results but involves added actions.
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The first department in Nordic College was the Education & Language Dept.
Even though Dr. Christian was the youngest College President in Europe, he successfully guided the College to become in the 1970's the largest and one of the leading Colleges in Europe.
Dr. Christian is also the founder of Global Church of God - GCG - the modern American church for today's internet generation worldwide. In addition, Dr. Christian founded the separate butassosicated organization, Save The American Family -STAF, Inc.,
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CIU concentrates on the modern, new sciences and leaves most of the traditional sciences to the other higher institutes of learning. CIU program will prepare its students to earn high income either as F/T or P/T careers in professions that the modern society needs but the traditional Colleges & Universities are not handling so largely. The CIU programs will also knowledge wise improve your and your family's and your children's quality of life and provide solutions to have a healthier, happier, longer, richer, and more satisfying life.
CIU is reorganizing its operations and starts taking students worldwide latest in 2014.
All degree levels. Create a p/t or f/l profession that commands a high income level. Add a Ph.D. level degree in your resume and learn to substantially increase your income. At the same time improve your and your family quality of life in all aspects. Additional information in our Radio/TV Shows (see the Radio/TV page). The University and College accept students worldwide - see the above information in smaller print.
CIU will accept the College/University/CEU credits you can earn free just by listening to the STAF, Inc. radio show original recordings available on the internet 24/7. You need to register as the achiever of the free credits - see info in Radio/TV shows tab. See the link info to then original recording on the internet in Radio/TV shows tab.
Additional information will be posted in this page when it becomes available
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The only University and College concentrating on
Lifestyle Sciences™ , Successological™ Sciences,
Biblical & Pastoral Sciences
CIU was founded in 1966 in Europe as the Nordic College which became Europe's largest College in its geographical area.
Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., was the founder of Nordic College.
The first department in Nordic College was the Education & Language Dept.
Even though Dr. Christian was the youngest College President in Europe, he successfully guided the College to become in the 1970's the largest and one of the leading Colleges in Europe.
Dr. Christian is also the founder of Global Church of God - GCG - the modern American church for today's internet generation worldwide. In addition, Dr. Christian founded the separate butassosicated organization, Save The American Family -STAF, Inc.,
not-for-profit. Go to STAF, Inc.'s website - it is for every person - for you and for your family also. STAF, Inc.'s work covers every area of life. STAF, Inc. is expanding its operations nationwide and worldwide. Study its website: www.staf1org.weebly.com - it is full of practical, helpful, needed information. STAF, Inc. has also a Radio Show (see the link in its website at the tab: Radio/TV Shows). Dr. Christian is hosting that show. As the listener you can get free CEU/College/University credits. In every radio show, at the end of the show, there is a valuable, free offer fit for every person. In STAF, Inc.'s website,home page, you will see the connection to view its New York State founding documents. The founding documents show the operational areas and the purpose of STAF, Inc.'s and its work for the American family - and for every family in the world.
Christophers International University - CIU continues with the plans becoming the world's largest College & University.
CIU concentrates on the modern, new sciences and leaves most of the traditional sciences to the other higher institutes of learning. CIU program will prepare its students to earn high income either as F/T or P/T careers in professions that the modern society needs but the traditional Colleges & Universities are not handling so largely. The CIU programs will also knowledge wise improve your and your family's and your children's quality of life and provide solutions to have a healthier, happier, longer, richer, and more satisfying life.
CIU is reorganizing its operations and starts taking students worldwide latest in 2014.
All degree levels. Create a p/t or f/l profession that commands a high income level. Add a Ph.D. level degree in your resume and learn to substantially increase your income. At the same time improve your and your family quality of life in all aspects. Additional information in our Radio/TV Shows (see the Radio/TV page). The University and College accept students worldwide - see the above information in smaller print.
CIU will accept the College/University/CEU credits you can earn free just by listening to the STAF, Inc. radio show original recordings available on the internet 24/7. You need to register as the achiever of the free credits - see info in Radio/TV shows tab. See the link info to then original recording on the internet in Radio/TV shows tab.
Additional information will be posted in this page when it becomes available
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“Nothing Can Separate Us from God’s Love “What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else?” Romans 8:31-32
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Notice:
The new
Healthy Lifestyle & Correct Nutritional Program
presented below still has about 65 % of the final information to be placed in this website.
Also all footnotes and source information will be placed after the full material is in this website.
The material below is abbreviated from the longer version of this new program.
The longer version is available for your view in the website of the organization Save The American Family - STAF, Inc., not for profit, headqueartered in New York City.
STAF, Inc.'s scientists are the developers of this amazing new Healthy Lifestyle & Correct Nutritional Program.
We at the GCG Church urge you (in addition to viewing there the longer version of this new program) to study STAF, Inc.'s website in full (hundreds of pages long) - because it will provide to you (as to everyone) earthly, every day information and guidance for a healthy, happy, successful, rich life.
Spread the "Good News" for both websites to your friends and associates - you would do a big favor for them.
By applying the Biblical Success Laws and then also by applying the new, really amazing information in the STAF, Inc.'s website you will see how all relates to everything. The information in our Church website and in The STAF, Inc.'s website will provide all you and anyone needs for successful life.
The information can help only when you APPLY it.
Quote: "Knowledge is no power - only applied knoweledge is power" (Dr. Christian, GCG Pastor)
The longer version of this new Healthy Lifestyle and Correct Nutritonal Program in STAF, Inc.'s website is there in the tab: University & College.
The information is tens and tens of pages of long.
STAF, Inc.'s website is: www.staf1org.weebly.com
However, it is still (purposely) only about 65 % of the whole new program material. It must still be protected for its copyrights and other related legal rights.
The exclusive, new, delicious recipes are not published in STAF, Inc.'s site, yet (for the above reasons, even though they are all ready to use).
The full material (including the footnotes) will be published after this new Healthy Lifestyle and Correct Nutrition program has been introduced in Washington D.C.
to the U.S. Congress. U.S. Senate, The White House, The President, and to all related federal agencies.
The introduction will happen in Washington D.C. after the 2012 election.
This new program has a unique name. For all related legal & copyright reasons the name will be announced publicly at the time of the introduction.
The longer version is available for your view in the website of the organization Save The American Family - STAF, Inc., not for profit, headqueartered in New York City.
STAF, Inc.'s scientists are the developers of this amazing new Healthy Lifestyle & Correct Nutritional Program.
We at the GCG Church urge you (in addition to viewing there the longer version of this new program) to study STAF, Inc.'s website in full (hundreds of pages long) - because it will provide to you (as to everyone) earthly, every day information and guidance for a healthy, happy, successful, rich life.
Spread the "Good News" for both websites to your friends and associates - you would do a big favor for them.
By applying the Biblical Success Laws and then also by applying the new, really amazing information in the STAF, Inc.'s website you will see how all relates to everything. The information in our Church website and in The STAF, Inc.'s website will provide all you and anyone needs for successful life.
The information can help only when you APPLY it.
Quote: "Knowledge is no power - only applied knoweledge is power" (Dr. Christian, GCG Pastor)
The longer version of this new Healthy Lifestyle and Correct Nutritonal Program in STAF, Inc.'s website is there in the tab: University & College.
The information is tens and tens of pages of long.
STAF, Inc.'s website is: www.staf1org.weebly.com
However, it is still (purposely) only about 65 % of the whole new program material. It must still be protected for its copyrights and other related legal rights.
The exclusive, new, delicious recipes are not published in STAF, Inc.'s site, yet (for the above reasons, even though they are all ready to use).
The full material (including the footnotes) will be published after this new Healthy Lifestyle and Correct Nutrition program has been introduced in Washington D.C.
to the U.S. Congress. U.S. Senate, The White House, The President, and to all related federal agencies.
The introduction will happen in Washington D.C. after the 2012 election.
This new program has a unique name. For all related legal & copyright reasons the name will be announced publicly at the time of the introduction.
Letter to
President Obama,
The U.S. Congress & The U.S. Senate
Lifestyle & Nutritional Solutions to save human suffering and hundreds of billions dollars of
health care costs every year - Detailed advice for a real solution for the U.S. health care system
Part 1 - a "must" to study letter
President Barack Obama
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama,
New, effective & result-producing Lifestyle & Nutritional Solutions
(1) to ease human suffering and (2) to save hundreds of billions dollars
every year of health care costs.
Detailed advice for a real solution for the U.S. health care system
Because of your eagerness and your high ambition to fight for real change to improve our society, I am encouraged to write and urge to take bold action and include a campaign for a "Rewarding Lifestyle & Healthier Way of Eating" as an important part of disease fighting system in your universal healthcare plan. Promoting a correct lifestyle and healthier way of eating will provide Americans with the most powerful means to prevent disease and will save not only millions of lives, but billions of dollars in healthcare costs every year.
In the U.S. we have, time being, a highly inefficient health system that's taking away financial resources from other lifesaving programs. By any measure, the United States spends now more on health care than any other nation. Yet according to the World Fact Book (published by the Central Intelligence Agency), it ranks 49th in life expectancy. That is a shame, a real shame. In 1975 the United States was close to the average in health care costs, and last i15-year survival for 45-year-old men. By 2005 its costs had more than tripled, far surpassing increases elsewhere but the survival number was still last.
In our organization, STAF, Inc., we have a solution for you, Mr. President,
and we have solution for our nation.
Save The American Family - STAF, Inc. (not-for-profit), founded 2005, headquartered in New York, has during the past 6 years developed a new, unique system for the U.S. Health Legislation as a real game changer in the costs of our health care and in the human suffering. Prior to this final 6-year period, research and related work had been done in 3 continents starting already in 1986. Thus this project has taken about 25 years to develop. No other organization can provide similar scientifically proven, tested techniques and result-bringing solutions for our health and sickness challenges.
Staf. Inc. website: www.staf1org.weebly.com
Interesting details about the new STAF, Inc. developed nutritional program and its ingredient list is available on its Home page.
Additional details in the tab University & College.
STAF, Inc. is ready to introduce the solutions to you, Mr. President & the White House, to the U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, and to all Federal Agencies related to these matters.
The STAF, Inc. founding documents will give the details for the purpose of the organization. To inspect STAF, Inc.'s original founding acceptance documents provided by the STATE of New York click here: click
You, Mr. President and The White House, need the most talented and leading professionals to be your advisors. This letter will show that the leading and the most knowledgeable specialists in health, family, lifestyle, and all life success related matters are in our organization, Save The American Family- STAF, Inc. (not-for-profit). We are available to serve our country and help you, Mr. President, and the U.S. Congress & Senate to find the correct solutions for these most important matters in our country and in our lives.
Our country needs the best solutions based on the most advanced science facts. You, Mr. President and the White House desperately need the STAF, Inc. organization as your adviser for consulting and guiding to have the effective solutions applied in our serious health crisis including lowering dramatically the related expenses. STAF, Inc. is probably the only organization capable of providing all these solutions.
Good health is made of several components. To provide a valid Health Insurance for everyone is NO solution to our serious health problems. Yes, every individual should have a health insurance. However, that does not prevent nor eliminate most sicknesses. First of all it is important to realize that the noun "health insurance" is a totally wrong and actually harmful word to use. Let me explain. To start with, it is not a "health" but a "sickness" insurance. Secondly, if the insurance is marketed as a "health" insurance, it is giving a misleading statement and will only lull people to think and believe: now when I have finally (as in many cases is: finally) a "health" insurance I, my family, and my children will stay healthy. That is not the case at all. It is a bad mistake to call it "health insurance" - it is a seriously misleading term.
A cow is a cow, not a horse, and a cat is a cat, not a dog. This is a "sickness insurance". It is an insurance for sickness. The insurance is not used for getting rid of health but for getting rid of sickness. In Europe it is called SICKNESS INSURANCE. In Canada it is called MEDICAL INSURANCE. When the Colleges in the USA sell a related insurance to the students, the U.S. Colleges call it a "SICKNESS INSURANCE". Thus this question is logical: is it so that the people in Washington do not know the English language but the American Colleges do know. In addition, the sickness insurance provides mostly allopathic medical science services which is a short-term solution and mostly covers the symptoms of the sickness - sometimes eliminating the reasons when the body is given a chance to repair itself and heal itself. Only one's own body can heal itself. The body is the real "Doctor". The sickness insurance provides short-term solutions as "emergency medicine". The long-term solutions are in natural principles, and manifest through a fit & proper lifestyle. It is important to call a cow as it is: a cow. By calling this important insurance "health insurance" can be damaging. This is not semantic in itself. The wrong word can prevent sick or potentially sick people from learning a healthier way of eating and from accepting a health providing lifestyle. A wrong term can easily kill a person's motivation for a necessary change. STAF, Inc.'s founding President, Dr. Christian, is a highly experienced professional not only in health and lifestyle related sciences but also in subconscious motivational sciences as he also is the founder of the new science Successology (Reg. US Pat.Off. 1991).
It takes a correct LIFESTYLE with correct NUTRITION to stay healthy - yet those two elements are NOT enough for anyone's GOOD health. Several other elements are necessary to maintain health and to restore one's lost health. When it comes to correct NUTRITION the ingredients, no matter how good and perfect and healthy for a human being, that is not enough. There are three other elements: (1) how to handle the food before cooking or otherwise preparing - this includes the food transportation from the producer to the consumer - how safely that happens, (2) how to cook = prepare the meals from perfect ingredients - most people cook out the health from their food ingredients, then (3) food combination - almost 100 % of the population have no clue what this means - we cannot (as most people do) stuff our stomachs with all kinds of food combinations. Different food categories use differently digestive chemicals. Wrong food combining creates toxins in the human body.
These toxins then create inflammation in the body opening the door to a sickness to enter the human body.
In addition, correct lifestyle for staying healthy involves many more details than most people have ever heard. Human relationships are one key in good health. Unhappiness causes mental and emotional sicknesses manifesting in serious physical health challenges. The most important relationship is our precious family and the fruit of a marriage: our precious children. As sick as the American family union is today, as sick will be our nation tomorrow. The children are the future society. Yet over 50 % of our children grow in a one-parent family. The separation and divorce rate is an outrageous shame in our country - the worse in the developed world. Most people, and sorry to say, most doctors, most lawyers, most court judges, most nurses, and other professionals and caregivers have no knowledge about any of these matters and of the serious problems how badly this all affects our children's development. In the USA over 50 % of first marriages fail, over 70 % of second marriages fail, and over 80 % of the 3rd marriages fail. Does this mean that people get dumber when they get married again and again? No. It simply means that most people, close to 100 % have NO clue, NO knowledge HOW to be happily married, HOW to handle a baby, HOW to raise a child, etc. - yet the family is the most important element in our an in any other society. The fact is that all aspects in any society, including in ours, depend on the happiness level of the marriages or generally of the human relationships. We humans are social creatures and need happy & rewarding human relationships to stay healthy (so do other creatures). The licensed marriage counselors fail over 70 % in the USA - that is another big shame. Couples report after one year of marriage counseling (given by a licensed, "competent" College trained "counselor") that they are either worse off or divorced - and: one year counseling costs thousands of dollars plus takes much time and emotional investment. On the contrary, the STAF, Inc. - Save The American Family, with its worldwide experience and exceptionally high-level expertise and dedication to create new solutions, new techniques, new methods, new ideas and RESULTS exceeds all traditional expectations. As a result we are the ONLY ones in the USA who dare giving a result guarantee in our private services and in an exceptional manner. In our private services our STAF, INC. professionals give a LIFETIME guarantee with ONLY ONE TIME FEE - no one else anywhere dares. The 3 most important services STAF, Inc. provides with this unique guarantee are: (1) Easy Stop Smoking, (2) Natural Weight Loss, and (3) Restoring any Marriage - RAM™. When smoking and overweight are eliminated, it eliminates the REASONS for about 90 % of all sicknesses. Notice: I did not write: "eliminates sicknesses", I WROTE: eliminates the REASONS for... To eliminate a sickness we must first eliminate the reason(s) for the sickness - then the body heals itself. This reminds me of a quote by Mr. Voltaire (French philosopher) "The Doctor's duty is to entertain the patient while the patient's body heals itself". STAF, Inc. gets 100 % results in these services, when other specialists have only 30 - 60 % success rate. STAF, Inc. applies only NEW, MODERN, UNIQUE METHODS developed in its broad global research.
There is still a need in this letter little further to discuss the family matters in our country. SAVE THE AMERICAN FAMILY - STAF, Inc. -not-for-profit- will potentially grow wider than the Red Cross. STAF, Inc. covers all areas of life, all topics in life. The American Family, the most important element for our better future, is in really, really bad, bad shape. A dysfunctional family, separation, and divorce are more common than is a healthy, happy family. The bad condition of the American family affects everything in our society, including the Wall Street. The family law is in bad shape, most judges do not know what they are doing and how their hastened, routine orders do to our innocent children - they are destroying our families thus destroying our children and the children's healthy development. That in its turn will hurt our nation. The family issue is far more important than most people realize. It affects everything, even our total economy. STAF, Inc. is the leading organization in getting results in these enormous problems.
Most people have no knowledge about the terrible disasters facing both spouses when they get separated and/or divorced. Most people have no knowledge that separation and divorce affects very negatively the mental, emotional, and physical health of BOTH spouses. In addition, the innocent children face terrible disasters. If the judges would know the facts, they would have a different approach to their decision making. STAF, Inc. was also founded to inform and educate the nation's courts and judges about family science related facts.
The STAF, Inc. founding documents will give the details for the purpose of the organization. To inspect STAF, Inc.'s original founding acceptance documents provided by the STATE of New York click here: click
Every marriage runs sooner or later into difficulties - that's life. The common (wrong) belief is "the love is dead" and most spouses just give up without any knowledge of the devastating life-destroying science facts the spouses themselves will face and what their children will face. These matters OUGHT TO BE TAUGHT IN EVERY SCHOOL AND EVEN IN EVERY COLLEGE TO EVERYONE - but it is not (in Europe it is). In addition, the basic baby care and child rearing principles ought to be taught in our schools and Colleges. STAF, Inc. has created (based on long experience and on global research) all necessary educational and training programs and system and is ready to introduce them all to you, Mr. President, to the whole White House, to the U.S. Congress and the U.S. Senate. The modern internet generation life style with many of its toxic habits has almost no clue of how important all these topics are for our whole nation, and of course, for every individuals as for every American Family.
All information provided in this letter is based on long-term worldwide research.
Next 12 fact examples of life-destroying disasters every child faces when our precious American family fails - yet every failure can be avoided - especially NOW by applying the new STAF, Inc. developed techniques and programs:
EVERY child in a family separation or divorce situation FACES :
(1) overall increased risks to health and welfare;
(2) 5 times more likely to commit suicide;
(3) 32 times more likely to run away;
(4) 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders;
(5) 14 times more likely to commit rape;
(6) 9 times more likely to drop out of school;
(7) 10 times more likely to abuse alcohol and drugs;
(8) 20 times more likely to end up in prison;
(9) increased learning difficulties;
(10) increased risk of divorce when grown;
(11) increased out of wedlock pregnancies;
(12) seriously increased risk of having a stroke during his/her life time.
STAF, Inc.'s President, Dr. Christian, is hosting two Radio Shows (for over 3 year now) and guiding the US public to become aware of these facts. One show is titled DrDrCanYouHelpMe and one The Miracle Show
In the following pages of this letter, I want to demonstrate how you can cut as much as 50% of current healthcare costs over the next 4 years, without cutting healthcare services, by implementing a campaign to put a healthier way of eating at the forefront of healthcare. It is my conviction that the health of Americans and the national economy will be unable to overcome our current healthcare crisis. Without a campaign promoting a healthier way of eating, your universal healthcare plan will not be addressing one of the most significant underlying causes of disease and therefore its likelihood of either improving healthcare or cutting costs will be greatly reduced.
Scientific studies continue to demonstrate that among all lifestyle factors, no single factor is more important to our health than the food we eat. A campaign educating Americans about the benefits of eating healthier-and how to make healthy eating choices-would be a highly effective and relatively inexpensive means of improving our health.
Because the concept of practicing a healthier way of eating is so amazingly simple, a campaign focusing on healthy eating can easily be overlooked as a means to resolve our healthcare problems. Yet, promoting the intake of nutrient-rich, health-promoting, and satisfying foods-such as delicious fresh fruits, vegetables, salads, whole grains, protein-rich beans, and omega-3 rich seafood-would prove to be one of the most powerful ways to affect positive change in our national health.
A healthier way of eating is beneficial because it will deliver the daily requirements for the essential vitamins, minerals, fiber and other nutrients that are needed to work together synergistically to promote health. A healthier way of eating centered around whole, nutrient-rich, and unprocessed foods does not just provide our bodies with calories, but also the nutrients we must have to grow, create energy, and maintain optimal physiological function.
Implementing a campaign for eating healthier will automatically result in decreasing consumption of unhealthy foods-nutrient-poor refined foods that are high in trans-fats, sugar, and salt (such as cookies, sodas, snack bars, candies, and fast foods), and which do not satisfy your appetite for any length of time. These foods spike blood sugar levels, providing a short burst of energy, but do little to curb satiety. This means hunger quickly returns, and, for many people, the result is a vicious cycle of consuming more calorie-laden nutrient-poor foods, a formula that perpetuates our national obesity epidemic and the chronic preventable diseases associated with obesity: type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
When it comes to health, we are particularly interested in the health of our children. Studies have correlated school success with eating health-promoting foods. The impact of nutrition on the ability of our youth to succeed in school is a core reason for a campaign for a healthier way of eating. This is of utmost importance because, currently, half of all high school students drop out before graduation. And, with respect to the rest of the world, we come in 24th in science and 25th in mathematical competency.
The Federal Government has long assumed the responsibility for protecting the health of Americans, by providing education about food safety and the dangers of cigarette smoking. Today, Americans' greatest need is an understanding of the effects of the foods we eat upon our health. In its role as the protector of our society, it falls to the Federal Government to educate Americans that healthy eating can promote health and help reduce the risk of chronic preventable diseases.
A public-health educational campaign about the benefits of a healthier way of eating could be just as aggressive and effective as public-health campaigns have been about the dangers of smoking. Judging by the success of recent antismoking campaigns, such an effort would result in the promotion of health and substantial savings to the healthcare system.
The Key Reasons for our Healthcare Crisis
Healthcare costs have risen from $3,468 per person in 1993 to $8,160 in 2008, and costs continue to rise. It is estimated that in the next 5 years, healthcare costs will increase almost another 50% to $13,100. These high costs might be justifiable if Americans benefitted by being among the healthiest people in the world, but sadly, we are far less healthy than people living in countries where healthcare costs are much lower. Our current system attempts to manage end-stage disease; it does not promote health. We need to change not just the way in which disease-care costs are paid, but the care that is provided. To lower healthcare costs and make true health care available to all, we need to focus on health promotion and disease prevention, not on how to shift the costs of disease care.
One of the most important contributors to health promotion is a healthy diet. Our current public-health crisis calls for a strong public-health message about the importance of diet, even at the expense of offending the food industry and pharmaceutical companies, whom I believe to be largely accountable for the current state of our national health.
Food manufacturers and restaurant chains have created a toxic food environment that is detrimental to the health of our nation. Huge servings of soft drinks, snacks, and "value" meals, which are literally penny-wise and pound foolish, have become the mainstay of the standard American diet (not ironically, abbreviated as "SAD"). We have become a nation addicted to foods high in sugar, salt, and fat, to foods of convenience rather than health. We have succumbed to advertisers and promoters of empty-calorie foods. They have become the primary influence on what foods we eat and are now so powerful that they have changed our traditional eating habits.
This type of advertising is obviously effective. Each year, the average American consumes 600 cans (or 56 gallons) of soda, 150 hamburgers, 200 orders of french-fries, 175 pounds of sugar, and 180 pounds of meat. And we purchase, on average, 125 take-out meals each year. What is more disturbing is that 90% of foods Americans purchase every year are processed foods lacking in essential vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants; in 1940, this statistic was only 10%. The number of people eating five servings of fruits and vegetables declined in the last 18 years from 42% to 26%. Twenty-eight hundred new types of snacks, candies, desserts, and ice cream are introduced to the marketplace every year. And these numbers continue to rise.
Food manufacturers keep us ignorant about the dangers of unhealthy foods. We must prevent them from glorifying disease-promoting foods. Advertisers effectively spend $40 billion every year convincing us of the benefits of choosing these products and brainwashing us by making them appear fashionable, fun, and glamorous while rarely mentioning nourishment. And anyone who has watched Saturday morning TV programming for children knows how the power of this type of advertising can impact us starting at a very young age.
The nutrient-poor foods the food industry produces are overly refined, overly stimulating foods, which are not satisfying because they are lacking in fiber, vitamins, minerals, and the plethora of phytonutrients found in unprocessed foods. In addition, these "foods" are rich in sugar, salt, fat, and often cause us to unknowingly consume more calories than our bodies require. Because these products contain so little of the nutrients our bodies' need, these unhealthy foods are not just addictive but harmful, causing undernourishment and nutrient deficiencies that, over time, damage our bodies and impair our health. They are the primary cause of low energy, insomnia, fatigue, and poor memory, shortly followed by insulin resistance and unwanted weight gain, leading to obesity and all the chronic preventable diseases that plague us, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.
When drafting your proposal to improve the health of Americans, we call on you to stop the epidemic of food-related chronic preventable diseases by educating individuals about a healthier way of eating. Eating health-promoting foods and avoiding nutrient-poor foods are key preventative measures to avoid disease in the first place. With every individual in whom the onset of disease is prevented, hundreds, thousands, and perhaps even millions, of dollars can be saved.
A recent American Heart Association survey disclosed that 29% of the participants were purchasing fewer perishable items-including fruits and vegetables (March 2009, American Heart Association). During difficult economic times, people turn to supposedly cheap, highly processed, refined unhealthy foods. Advertisers convince them that these foods are less expensive when, in actuality, highly refined and processed foods are some of the most expensive foods one can buy. They are more costly because we pay extra for the fancy packaging, refining, processing, handling, and advertising-and also for their transport since virtually none of these foods are locally produced.
Instead of promoting health, these highly processed foods ultimately deprive us of physical and mental fitness. You get the least benefit for your money. I wouldn't even consider these items "food," but rather "food-like products."
Americans need to learn that healthy foods do not necessarily have to cost more than their unhealthy counterparts; in fact, a review of data by the USDA published in 2008 found that refined grains, added sugars, added fats, and processed foods were not the way to go in developing a low-cost, yet still nourishing food plan. The only way for the meal to remain both nourishing and low-cost was to emphasize nutrient-rich foods such as fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains.
The USDA found that the strategy used to keep food costs down at the level of 10% of earnings was none other than nutrient-richness (used as equivalent to the term "nutrient-density" which is often cited in the scientific literature); it is determined by comparing the number and amount of nutrients a food contains in relationship to its caloric content. The USDA researchers concluded that "For many American households, achieving an affordable healthy diet will require moving nutrient-dense foods, such as fruit and vegetables, to the center of their plates and budgets."
In addition to food manufacturers, I believe Big Pharma also holds responsibility for the sorry state of our national health. We need to shift our focus from the use of drugs to suppress disease symptoms to programs that help us prevent disease and promote health. Pharmaceutical companies profit from managing the health of individuals after-the-fact through the use of expensive drugs and harsh therapies, and they tell us that more money is needed for research as they are on the cusp of a long-awaited breakthrough for the cure of diseases.
Selling prescription drugs is a profit-making business, which spends $4 billion each year on direct-to-consumer advertising and $16 billion influencing physicians to prescribe their drugs. Through the use of the media, they have manipulated us to believe that drugs can provide us with the answer to all our health problems.
Consequently, we have spent enormous amounts of both time and money on symptom palliation rather than on preventing disease or treating its true underlying causes. We need to remember that while infectious diseases caused by viruses (such as typhoid, malaria, AIDs, etc) may not be preventable by lifestyle changes of diet and exercise, obesity and chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer resulting from excessive consumption of refined foods and insufficient amounts of vitamins, minerals, fiber, antioxidants and other nutrients are largely preventable.
History has taught us that looking for cures for disease is not always medically nor economically effective. President Nixon's "War on Cancer" is a great example of the unproductive nature of this approach. In 1971, he signed the National Cancer Act legislating $1.6 billion expenditure to find a cure for cancer. That year, 335,000 Americans died of cancer. In 2008, 37 years later, this number has increased to 565,650 people-up by 69%!
Since 1971, the Federal Government, private foundations and companies have spent around $200 billion in a quest to cure cancer. This $200 billion generated 1.5 million scientific papers about the basic biology of cancer. For 37 years, the War on Cancer (the majority of the funding for cancer) has gone into research to eradicate malignant cells rather than to keep normal cells from becoming malignant in the first place. The American Cancer Society and other health organizations now state that the best way to reduce the risk of cancer and other diseases is through prevention. The best way for prevention is to adopt a healthier way of eating and enjoying nutrient-rich foods, which have been found to contain many potent disease-fighting compounds that help prevent disease. Americans need to learn that the drugs used to treat today's chronic preventable diseases not only do not cure them, but would be rendered largely unnecessary.
The World Health Organization recently noted that by 2020-and for the first time in history-non-communicable chronic preventable diseases such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer will constitute more than half of all diseases on a worldwide basis. This means that over half of the diseases that drain our healthcare budget are preventable through lifestyle changes such as the food we eat.
Experts in all areas of health policy agree that the United States is facing an unprecedented healthcare crisis. About one-fourth of the entire federal budget is currently spent on healthcare; yet, in spite of this very large expenditure of our resources (over $2.5 trillion), only half of U.S. adults say they have confidence in the healthcare system. Since the 1980s, average spending on healthcare per person in the U.S. has increased at twice the rate of healthcare spending in many other industrialized countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Sweden, Germany, and Australia. And unlike most of those countries, where approximately 8% of the country's productivity (measured as gross domestic product) is spent on healthcare, in the U.S., that percentage is twice as high at 16%.
The World Health Organization rated the United States 37th in health outcome. We spend nearly twice as much per capita than other industrialized countries, yet have a lower life expectancy, higher disease mortality among children, and we are rated 45th when it comes to longevity. We also have a shortage of nurses and primary care doctors, and our emergency rooms are overcrowded. And, perhaps the most frightening statistic, for the first time in history, our children are projected to have a shorter lifespan than we do.
How We Can Cut Healthcare Cost and Save Billions of Dollars
I would like to outline how measures to enhance the eating habits of Americans can result in reductions in healthcare expenses.
Obesity: If obesity continues to increase at its current rate, analysts predict that by the year 2020, we will be spending 20% of all our healthcare dollars on obesity-related problems. We now know that excess fat, especially visceral fat, is not merely a storage depot for extra calories, but functions as an endocrine organ significantly increasing inflammation and the risk for chronic degenerative disease. The enormous impact of obesity is due to its promotion of other chronic preventable diseases, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancers. For example, experts estimate that one-half of all type 2 diabetes cases could be prevented simply by controlling obesity! If we could lower the rate of obesity (even by a modest amount) through a healthier way of eating campaign, researchers project that we could also lower cases of chronic preventable disease by about 15 million cases. That reduction in chronic preventable disease translates into $60 billion dollars less in treatment costs, and $254 billion dollars more in workplace productivity.
Heart disease: According to research experts, it would not take complicated dietary changes to trigger major reductions in heart disease rates and their associated healthcare costs. For example, if we could simply take the 2% of the calories the typical American is consuming in the form of trans-fat and replace this 2% with polyunsaturated fat, we could reduce our rate of coronary artery disease (CAD) by at least 8%, and probably by much more in the 25-30% range! Since healthcare costs related to CAD total nearly $200 billion per year, we're talking about a potential savings of $50 billion dollars from a single dietary change that swaps a small amount of polyunsaturated fat for trans-fat.
Diabetes: In 2002, an estimated $132 billion was spent on diabetes-related health problems, including about $40 billion on sick day costs and disability related to this chronic preventable disease, including blindness, amputation, heart disease, and early death. Since healthcare analysts predict that half of all diabetes cases could be prevented if obesity were prevented, approximately $40 billion in diabetes-related costs could be cut simply by the implementation of a healthier way of eating that corrected or prevented obesity. I don't have good estimates for the cost savings related to other dietary steps that can be taken to lower risk of type 2 diabetes, but I definitely know what these steps are.
Even without reversing the problem of obesity, I am confident that dietary changes to a healthier way of eating could save many lives and billions of dollars in healthcare costs related to diabetes, its treatment, and its impact on everyday productivity.
Cancer: The American Cancer Society estimates that we are spending over $100 billion each year on cancer-related costs, and there is some research to suggest that about one-third of all cancer deaths could be prevented by simply choosing to eat healthier food. Since $57 billion dollars are estimated to be lost each year following premature death from cancer, prevention of 33% of these deaths by a healthier way of eating alone would mean about $20 billion dollars in healthcare savings each year. In the case of colorectal cancer, it has been estimated that a healthier way of eating combined with exercise could prevent more cases than implementation of early screening.
While it is somewhat mind-boggling to consider, all of the evidence described above points to a very clear-cut conclusion. According to healthcare experts, our best bet for reversing chronic preventable disease rates does not lie in more expensive medical procedures, or in more sophisticated technology or in further specialization with respect to testing and medication. Our best bet experts agree, lies in the simple, everyday practice of a lifestyle change in the foods that we eat. We could be saving millions of lives and several hundred billion dollars in healthcare costs related to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer if we would consistently eat health-promoting foods-foods that the peer-reviewed medical research has already demonstrated can prevent or help prevent these diseases. Instead of spending more money and having more disease (our current situation), we would be spending less money and having less disease!
What's also remarkable about the chronic preventable disease patterns described above is the degree to which they overlap when it comes to dietary prevention. Based on current research, we do not seem to need one diet for preventing heart disease, a second diet for preventing diabetes, a third diet for preventing obesity, and a fourth diet for preventing cancer.
What seems to be needed in the case of all four chronic preventable diseases is that the changes in the foods we eat move in the same general direction: decreased intake of sugar, salt, animal fat, and processed foods, and increased intake of lower-calorie, lower-fat plant foods, especially fruits and vegetables. Dietary prevention in the case of all four chronic preventable diseases calls for a greater focus on health-promoting foods, and a food plan that can be followed and enjoyed day after day, year after year.
Countless experts, health professionals, scientists, and not-for-profit health organizations offer strategies for avoiding heart disease, cancer, and other chronic preventable diseases through a healthier way of eating:
American Heart Association
1600 calorie diet
Fruits and vegetables - 8 servings/day
Whole grains - 6 serving/day
Low-fat dairy - 2-3 serving/day
Fish or lean meat - 3-6 oz (cooked) /day
Nuts, seeds, legumes - 3-4 servings/week
Fats and oils - 2 servings/day
They also advise people to eat less saturated fat and "nutrient-poor foods"
- Limit saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
- Choose skinless lean meats and poultry and don't prepare them with saturated or trans fats
- Minimize intake of whole-fat dairy products
- Cut back on foods and beverages that have added sugars
- Enjoy foods that have little or no salt
Eat 5 or more servings of vegetables and fruits each day
Choose whole grains over processed (refined) grains and sugars
Limit intake of processed meats and red meats
If you drink alcoholic beverages, limit your intake
Maintain a healthy weight throughout life
Choose foods and beverages in amounts that help achieve and maintain a healthy weight
Fats and oils - 2 servings/day
How a Healthier Way of Eating Affects Success in School
Studies have found that almost twice as many high school graduates report that they are healthy and in good health compared to non-graduates. As a parent and great supporter of our educational system, you may find the correlation between healthy eating and students' success in school of particular interest.
While many people might question the importance of diet as a key factor in school success, the research here is clear. Academic success and high-level performance require the support of a healthy diet, and without such a diet, it is unreasonable to expect high-level school outcomes.
Our children's doing well in school is a top priority not only for the students themselves, but their parents and the teachers who teach them. It has also become a top priority for many communities and countries as a whole since excellence in education is so important for solving global problems that face today's generation, as well as generations to come. The list of key factors that influence school success is a long one that includes not only a child's economic status, school and home environment, self-esteem, and access to good teachers and role models who can inspire a love of learning, but also their nutritional status, which is dependent upon what foods the child is given!
No area of diet and school performance is better studied than breakfast. Studies have repeatedly shown that a good breakfast improves academic performance. For example, in a study of students in the Boston Public School System, participants who rarely ate breakfast (and that was over 60% of all participants!) had a 40% greater risk of doing poorly in math and reading. Their math and reading scores were about 25% lower than the scores of students who regularly ate breakfast, and their Grade Point Averages were also about 25% lower. Students who skip breakfast have also been shown to have more days absent from school and more days being tardy.
Research in the area of breakfast goes a step further. It shows that it's not just breakfast that counts, but the nutritional adequacy of breakfast. Calories are important, but so are slowly digesting foods rich in protein, fiber, vitamins, and minerals. The worst cost of sugary, refined cereals or breakfast bars is that these products will spike the child's blood sugar leaving him or her restless and hungry within little more than an hour.
Students are required to perform a wide variety of mental tasks in school, and there's good evidence to show that high-level performance of these tasks takes a nourishing diet. For example, school performance has been found to suffer if a student's intake of RDA (Recommended Dietary Allowance) nutrients falls below a minimum level. Researchers have found that it's important to get at least 50% of the RDA level for all RDA nutrients if school performance is to be maintained at the normal level. If students meet less than 50% of the RDA intake goals for as few as two nutrients, their school performance has been found to suffer.
Similarly, in a study exploring literacy test performance in 5th graders in Nova Scotia, Canada, students whose overall diet quality ranked in the top third of the class were about 40% less likely to fail on at least one component of the test. In fact, in terms of overall diet quality, even students in the middle third were 25% less likely to fail than students in the bottom third. Also striking was the connection between fruit and vegetable intake and literacy. Even though many individual aspects of the diet were studied, including intake of other foods like grains, as well as intake of foods rich in nutrients like vitamin C or calcium, only fruit and vegetable intake showed up as being a significant factor for lowering risk of failure on components of the literacy test.
Fat quality is another aspect of diet that seems critical. Students ages 6 to 16 turn out to have significantly poorer reading performance and poorer short-term and working memory when their diet contains too much saturated and too little polyunsaturated fat. The types of testing studied have included digit span testing, where students have been asked to repeat-both backwards and forwards-a series of numbers that increase in length as the test goes on. (This approach is part of a very widely used test called the WISC-R, or Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Revised.)
Doing well in school also means having good vision, good hearing, and an ability to concentrate and think clearly. Without adequate nutritional support of the nervous system and brain, and without a good balance in overall metabolism, school success becomes less likely.
One balance that seems especially important for cognitive performance is blood sugar balance. Several studies have shown poorer performance on cognitive tests (like recalling a long list of words) in individuals with poor blood sugar control (called glycemic control). And there is some evidence that intake of sugar-laden foods or high glycemic index (high-GI) foods is associated with impairment of short-term memory.
Whether it's vegetable and fruit consumption, adequate polyunsaturated fat intake, provision of vitamins and minerals at the RDA level or emphasis on low-GI foods and healthy blood sugar control, nutrient-rich foods are perfectly matched with the science of school success. Focusing on nutrient-rich health-promoting foods that support body systems and metabolic balance, as well as focusing on helping students eat less nutrient-poor refined foods, is 100% in accord with the research that consistently reports that a diet, which provides proper nourishment, can be a key factor in school success. An organized eating plan that includes a nourishing breakfast will also pay dividends with school performance, let alone overall health and wellness.
Many people believe that some students are going to do well, others are not, and there's really nothing anyone can do about it. The research shows otherwise, and it shows that diet can make a real difference for students and their school success!
What We Can Learn From Other Countries
The blueprint for initiatives to improve health by focusing on the food we eat has already been laid out by the World Health Organization (WHO) in its 2004 Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health. The WHO identified policy initiatives that should be undertaken by national authorities to help reduce the incidence of obesity and diet-related disease; they include efforts to reduce the salt, trans-fat, and sugar content of processed foods, improve food labeling, and set guidelines for foods that should or should not be advertised to children. Other countries have taken the lead in protecting the health of their citizens and provide examples of how we can follow suit:
- In Japan, health officials check the waistlines of citizens over 40, and those considered too fat undergo diet counseling. Failure to slim down can lead to fines.
- New Zealand has rules barring people it deems too fat from immigrating to the country.
- Germany plans to spend $47 million on healthy eating and sports programs and to set tougher nutritional standards for school lunches.
- Denmark limits the amount of artery-clogging trans-fatty acids in restaurant foods.
- In an effort to prevent overweight in schoolchildren, a community approach that started in two towns in France has now expanded to 200 towns in Europe under the name "Together let's prevent obesity in children." The program encourages children to eat better and exercise more by taking such measures as building sporting facilities and playgrounds, and offering cooking workshops.
- And of course, there are the Mediterranean countries where they are practicing a healthier way of eating, by enjoying traditional diets that feature whole unprocessed foods from nature. The Mediterranean diet, lauded for its contribution to health, features fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish, olive oil, and red wine.
- No other countries in the world allow the advertising of prescription drugs to the public except the United States and New Zealand.
- In Great Britain, residents in some cities are being recruited to wear electronic tracking tags to calculate how much they move each day and how many calories they burn off. Daily exercisers can be rewarded with coupons and even days off from work. Britain's National Health Service is paying for at least 30,000 people to take weight-loss classes.
- Efforts are being made by the UK's Food Standards Authority (FSA) to persuade companies to reformulate processed foods, use standardized front-of-pack symbols to communicate nutritional values, and set nutritional guidelines for limiting food advertising to children.
- The FSA has successfully conducted a sodium reduction program in the UK and is presently conducting a similar effort to reduce saturated fat in processed food products.
- FSA has developed a set of nutrition criteria and established a system of "traffic lights" that can be used on the fronts of food packages to communicate nutritional value. The red, amber, and green dots indicate whether a food contains high, moderate or low levels of fat, saturated fat, salt, and sugars.
- The UK traffic light system is voluntary, but may be made mandatory in the future - despite food manufacturers' objections.
- The UK has prohibited the broadcast advertising of low-nutrition foods on television and radio programs that appeal to children under the age of 16. American food companies like Kellogg, Coca-cola, and McDonalds must comply with this new UK law (yet they continue to expose American children to advertisements now banned in England).
I have drafted the following proposals to implement the solutions to the problem of our present healthcare crisis through the legislative process, public education, and the all-important examples provided by you and your family in the White House. Through legislation:
Create food labeling laws: We can begin by following the lead of New York and California in product reformations, such as their current war on saturated fat, and combine it with efforts to eliminate artificial trans-fats from foods. Legislation providing for mandatory food labeling would help inform and educate consumers about the nutritional value of the foods they are purchasing.
Create a legal definition of "food": Defining "food" as something that is not only edible, but required to contain a certain minimal ratio of nutrients per calorie without the addition of synthetic supplements could raise the quality of school lunches. Providing guidelines as to what constitutes wholesome food would also discourage the sale of unhealthy food products, whose purchase could be further lessened by prohibiting their purchase with food stamps or through the implementation of taxes on certain products.
Prohibit broadcast advertising: The UK has passed laws prohibiting the broadcast advertising of low-nutrition foods on TV programs appealing to children. These laws have reduced the broadcast advertising of foods of low nutritional value to British children by about one-third, thus helping remedy the vast imbalance that exists between the information provided in food advertisements and the information provided in government-sponsored nutrition education programs. Both the WHO and the U.S. Institute of Medicine have recognized that food marketing can adversely affect children's health. It would behoove us to follow in their footsteps.
Through education:
Create a government-sponsored nutrition-education campaign: The effectiveness of legislation will be minimal without a strong educational campaign advocating the benefits of a healthier way of eating to motivate Americans to make better food choices. At the forefront of this campaign should be a program designed to help individuals make better decisions about healthy eating. The effect of education on healthy eating has already been made clear. Learning more about a healthier way of eating and cooking can lay the foundation for healthier citizens and less disease care.
Educating parents about healthy eating: Learning about healthy eating should begin with our children, and those lessons should begin in the home. With many parents having been raised in a generation of fast and processed foods that are convenient and are thought to be less expensive than healthful food, we need to educate parents as to the benefits of healthy eating. They need to learn which foods are health-promoting and why, and that healthy eating choices can be easy, inexpensive, and practical. This sets the stage for healthy eating to become the norm for their children.
Increasing parents' awareness of how differentiating between nutrient-rich, health-promoting foods and nutrient-poor foods that are high in calories (and can translate into weight gain) can impact children's health and ability to succeed in school will help motivate them to put healthier eating into practice in the home. So will providing comparisons of the cost of processed, refined foods versus whole foods. For example, an "economy-size" box of twenty-four 1.9 ounce single serving bowls of national brand of instant oatmeal with brown sugar flavor costs around $31.00. In contrast, organic thick, cut rolled oats can be purchased in bulk at a whole foods grocery store for about $1.37 a pound, which contains 4 cups worth of rolled oats. So, for $1.37, you can have 48 servings of organic oatmeal. Or you can pay $31.00 for 12 servings of processed oatmeal with added chemicals. Cost comparisons between numerous other processed foods, such as instant rice or canned beans and their organic, unprocessed counterparts, will reveal similar cost disparities.
Teaching children to eat healthier lays the foundation for optimal health and prevents the nutritional deficiencies related to many health conditions and chronic preventable diseases. For example, foods rich in dietary fiber, like our very affordable organic oatmeal above, help maintain healthy cholesterol levels, while a deficiency of fiber can contribute to high cholesterol levels as well as high blood sugar levels. Inexpensive omega 3-rich foods like canned salmon reduce inflammation and support brain function, while a deficiency of omega-3s in the diet can cause fatigue, depression, and joint pain. Calcium and magnesium, found not only in dairy products but in tofu and leafy greens like spinach, help maintain strong healthy bones and proper functioning of nerves and muscles, while a lack of either can result in muscular pain and spasms.
Initiate pilot programs in schools to create vegetable gardens and provide cooking classes: Children can learn more about how food is grown and how much fun it is to prepare food by government-sponsored pilot programs designed to help create vegetable gardens and provide cooking classes for kids. These programs would help children's awareness of where food comes and would be not only practical, but would lay the foundation for their future health, and would also be great fun, helping children to look forward to school! A small part of your White House vegetable garden cared for by your daughters would inspire children across America, and imagine the delight of eating the just picked vegetables they have personally grown for your family!
Improve school lunch programs: Education about healthier eating can help increase the awareness of the importance of healthier food services for children in schools. According to food experts, an increase of $1 a day on school lunches could shift cafeteria food from fast foods to freshly prepared nutrient-rich foods, an amount that could be saved many times over in terms of health-care savings. These early childhood education programs and improved school lunch programs should become a mandatory part of the school system. All our children deserve decent nourishment and need it to do their best in school. And educating children to eat well will gift them with a skill they will carry with them for a lifetime.
Promoting better healthcare through self-care:Educating individual citizens about practicing a healthy lifestyle and promoting healthy eating habits should be wrapped within a campaign to promote better healthcare through self-care. Since we are making healthy eating choices every day, this must be seen as renewed responsibility for our own health. Just as we take care of our own cars, clothing, and personal hygiene, our health has to become an arena of personal responsibility. Self-care means practicing a lifestyle of healthy eating and regular exercise, and avoiding the intake of excess amounts of fast foods, sugary, salty, and fatty foods, has been proven over and over again around the world to be the best way to a long and healthy life-a life in which we can contribute to society instead of contributing to the costs of disease care.
Education about healthier ways of cooking -
Is Your Cooking Sucking the Health Out of Your Food?
* Below two detailed articles about healthy cooking
A campaign for educating citizens about healthy eating should also promote healthier ways of cooking that retain the greatest number of nutrients and also produce meals that taste great. Encouraging more at-home cooking will greatly help individuals to take control of their sugar, salt, and fat intake. People should be aware that some foods are more delicate than others, and if cooked too long and on high heat, can lose not only 50-80% of their nutritional value, but their taste as well. For example, meats can cook for hours without much nutrient loss, but a delicate vegetable like spinach should be cooked for only 1 minute to retain the maximum number of nutrients and best flavor. A major reason some people do not enjoy vegetables is that they have never eaten any that were properly prepared, but instead have had only overcooked, flavorless, soggy vegetables.
Many of the cooking programs that are now available on TV focus on entertainment rather than on preparing nourishing foods. Americans need to learn that they can cook for health, quickly and easily, without spending lots of money or forgoing the aesthetics or flavor of exceptionally delicious food. Placing greater emphasis not only on what foods are healthy but how to prepare them is an essential part of a healthier way of eating.
Through examples set by the First Family
The First Family as a Role Model: Through the power of example set by the First Family in the White House, you can influence change in America's thinking about food, and you are the ideal choice to lead us by becoming the role model for a healthy eating lifestyle. You, Michelle, and your wonderful children can set the national tone about how healthy eating can impact health. You can reverse the negative image of broccoli put in place by the first President Bush and the honor given to jelly beans by President Reagan.
The power of your example has already been witnessed by Michelle's continued expression of the importance of basic nutritious foods and family meals, and in the groundbreaking of her vegetable garden, which has already been an inspiration to thousands of Americans. In fact, her praise of community vegetable gardens has increased the sale of vegetable seeds by 50%! These examples set by you and your family can be as effective as any legislation in changing the consciousness of the American public towards their focus on the relationship between food and health.
You can continue as a role model for Americans by focusing on the healthful meals provided by White House chefs committed to cooking simply from fresh local ingredients. In addition to feeding you and your family exceptionally well, your chefs can demonstrate how it is possible, even in Washington, D.C., to eat locally for much of the year, and that good food needn't be fussy nor complicated. Michelle's order to serve spinach not with cream sauce but in a more healthy style at the first State dinner was already a boost to this image.
Another idea would be to have the White House chef post daily menus on the Web, listing the farmers who supplied the food, as well as recipes. Realizing that the First Family places so much stock in healthy eating on a day-to-day basis sets a great example for the American people and provides them with ideas of what they can include in their personal menus for healthy eating.
How to Raise Money to Fund This Campaign
One idea of how to raise the money to fund this campaign would be by taxing the purchase of what will be defined as nutrient-poor, unhealthy foods and drinks. Like alcohol and tobacco, such foods are detrimental to health and contribute to the health crisis we are currently experiencing. Taxing the purchase of these foods can offset the costs in healthcare that result from their consumption as well as educating the public towards a healthier way of eating as they take on the responsibility of their own health and the health of our nation.
I urge you to make a commitment to include a campaign for a "Healthier Way of Eating" as an essential part of your universal healthcare reform package. I urge you to take strong and aggressive action to pass legislation and take measures to educate Americans on a healthier way of eating. I sincerely believe it is the only way to save millions of lives and billions of American dollars and extricate us from our current healthcare crisis. We, and countless others in and out of government, would welcome the opportunity to help you tackle this challenging problem.
About Healthier ways of cooking
Is Your Cooking Sucking the Health Out of Your Food?
Richard E. Collins, MD
South Denver Cardiology Associates - Richard E. Collins, MD, director of wellness at South Denver Cardiology Associates in Littleton, Colorado. He is board-certified in cardiology and internal medicine, has performed more than 500 cooking demonstrations nationwide and is author of The Cooking Cardiologist (Advanced Research) and Cooking with Heart (South Denver Cardiology Associates). www.TheCookingCardiologist.com
How can home cooking be bad for you? Well, Richard E. Collins, MD, author of The Cooking Cardiologist, has news on the connection between cancer and roasted, grilled and broiled meats and sautéed vegetables. But wait -- Dr. Collins has a solution to make these foods tasty and healthful.
Inflammation is the body’s natural, temporary, healing response to infection or injury. But if the process fails to shut down when it should, inflammation becomes chronic -- and tissues are injured by excess white blood cells and DNA-damaging free radicals.
Result: Elevated risk for heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis and other diseases.
STAF, Inc. asked Richard E. Collins, MD, "the cooking cardiologist," how to prevent chronic inflammation.
His advice: Follow a diet that is rich in immune-strengthening nutrients... and use cooking techniques that neither destroy food’s disease-fighting nutrients nor add inflammatory properties to it.
HEALTHY WAYS WITH VEGETABLES
Deeply colored plant foods generally are rich in antioxidants that help combat inflammation by neutralizing free radicals.
Examples: Healthful flavonoids are prevalent in deep yellow to purple produce... carotenoids are found in yellow, orange, red and green vegetables.
Exceptions: Despite their light hue, garlic and onions are powerful antioxidants.
Unfortunately, these nutrients are easily lost.
For instance: Boiling or poaching vegetables causes nutrients to leach into the cooking water -- and get tossed out when that potful of water is discarded. The high heat of frying causes a reaction between carbohydrates and amino acids, creating carcinogenic chemicals called acrylamides. And even when healthful food-preparation techniques are used, overcooking destroys nutrients. Better...
Microwave. This uses minimal water and preserves flavor (so you won’t be tempted to add butter or salt). Slightly moisten vegetables with water, cover and microwave just until crisp-tender.
Stir-fry. In a preheated wok or sauté pan, cook vegetables over medium-high heat for a minute or two in a bit of low-sodium soy sauce.
Steam. This beats boiling, but because steam envelops the food, some nutrients leach out. To "recycle" them, pour that bit of water from the steamer into any soup or sauce.
Stew. Nutrients that leach from the vegetables aren’t lost because they stay in the stew sauce.
Roast. Set your oven to 350°F or lower to protect vegetables’ nutrients and minimize acrylamides.
HEALTHY METHODS FOR MEAT JUST AFTER THIS ARTICLE YOU SEE IMPORTANT INFO
When beef, pork, poultry or fish is roasted at 400°F or higher, grilled, broiled or fried, it triggers a chemical reaction that creates inflammatory heterocyclic amines (HCAs) -- especially when food is exposed to direct flame and/or smoke. At least 17 HCAs are known carcinogens, linked to cancer of the breast, stomach, colon and/or pancreas.
Safest: Roast meat, poultry and fish at 350°F. Avoid overcooking -- well-done meats may promote cancer. Also, be sure to avoid undercooking to prevent food poisoning.
If you love to grill: Buy a soapstone grilling stone, one-and-a-quarter inches thick and cut to half the size of your grill. (Stones are sold at kitchen-counter retail stores and at Dorado Soapstone, 888-500-1905, www.DoradoSoapstone.com). Place it on your grilling rack, then put your food on top of it. Soapstone heats well, doesn’t dry out food and gives the flavor of grilling without exposing food to direct flames or smoke.
If you eat bacon: To minimize HCAs (heterocyclic amines), cook bacon in the microwave and take care not to burn it.
STAF, Inc. advice: Do not eat pork or bacon – too unhealthy – if you do at least prepare it in a healthier way (as Dr. Collins guides above).
THE RIGHT COOKING OILS
Do you cringe when the Food Network chefs sauté in unrefined extra-virgin olive oil? You should. This oil has a very low smoke point (the temperature at which a particular oil turns to smoke) of about 325°F -- and when oil smokes, nutrients degrade and free radicals form.
Best: Sauté or stir-fry with refined canola oil, which has a high smoke point. Or use tea seed cooking oil (not tea tree oil) -- its smoke point is about 485°F.
Try: Emerald Harvest (www.Emerald-Harvest.com) or Republic of Tea (800-298-4832, www.RepublicofTea.com).
Rule of thumb: If cooking oil starts to smoke, throw it out. Use a laser thermometer (sold at kitchenware stores) to instantly see oil temperature -- so you’ll know when to turn down the heat.
Richard E. Collins, MD, director of wellness at South Denver Cardiology Associates in Littleton, Colorado. He is board-certified in cardiology and internal medicine, has performed more than 500 cooking demonstrations nationwide and is author of The Cooking Cardiologist (Advanced Research) and Cooking with Heart (South Denver Cardiology Associates). www.TheCookingCardiologist.com
About Meat - Can Prime Rib Be Healthy?
Sure, some people love their vegetarian diet... but others just can’t imagine living life without steak, burgers and beef bourguignon. Maybe there’s no reason they should have to!
It’s definitely unhealthy to eat a lot of red meat... but just how unhealthy? It depends in part on how the beef is prepared and in part on something you may not have thought much about -- what the cow ate on its way to becoming your dinner.
If you want to eat steak (or prime rib, beef stew or any other beef dish), it pays to be particular about what kind of beef you eat. Even your run-of-the-mill supermarket has lots of different alternatives you can choose from... not only a variety of cuts of beef with varying fat content, but also beef that is "antibiotic-free," "organic," "grass-fed" and even "free range." Are any of these truly healthier or just marketing gimmicks? It’s a fair question. I took the query to nutritionist Jonny Bowden, CNS, author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth.
GRAIN IS JUNK FOOD FOR COWS
I’m sure you are familiar with the old saying, "you are what you eat." It should come as no surprise to learn that it applies not only to people but also to cows -- and to a cow, eating grass is the equivalent of eating natural, whole foods. Unfortunately, only a very few cows have that luxury. At this point, 100% grass-fed cows (also called "pasture-fed") constitute only about 1% of the nation’s beef, though the number is growing.
Instead, most cows eat grain, which is like junk food to them -- and (just like with people) eating unhealthy food extracts a toll. "Cows are meant to eat grass, not grain," Bowden told me. Since grain is high in omega-6 fatty acids, cows raised on grain produce meat that is high in inflammatory omega-6 fats. Grass in pastures contains healthier omega-3 fatty acids in abundant amounts and that, too, is reflected in cows’ meat.
Related problem: While all cows start out eating grass, 75% are moved to commercial feedlots where they eat grain and live very short, brutish lives in confined quarters. Cows from factory farms (called "CAFOs," for "confined animal feeding operations") also are fed antibiotics (to prevent disease) and growth hormones and steroids (to make them very fat very quickly). The beef produced this way is laced with unhealthy drug residue that you don’t want to ingest, Bowden points out.
Grass-fed beef, however, is a whole different animal. Not only is it richer in omega-3s, but it also contains measurable amounts of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a healthful type of fat that is thought to help fight cancer. Several studies have demonstrated that grass-fed beef has more vitamin A and E than its grain-fed counterpart, not to mention antioxidants such as glutathione and superoxide dismutase (SOD) that help fight cancer.
Grass-fed beef is also better for you because of what it does not have. Most grass-fed beef is antibiotic- and steroid-free. It’s also lower in fat. For instance, a USDA study of one brand (Mesquite Organic Foods) found that their grass-fed ground beef was 65% lower in saturated fat than grain-fed beef, while their New York strip cut was 35% lower in fat
WHAT THE LABEL SAYS... AND DOESN’T SAY
Now that I’ve explained why grass-fed beef is healthier, my job is only half done -- you need to know exactly what you are looking for when you head out to buy your meat, since it’s not quite as clear-cut as you might guess. You’ll need to read the labels closely. Bowden offered some tips...
- You want to buy beef that is labeled "100% Grass Fed" or has the "American Grassfed" logo on its label -- which indicates that the farmer meets standards set by the American Grassfed Association. You can find this kind of beef at high-end grocery stores such as Whole Foods.
- Don’t be fooled into thinking buying "organic beef" necessarily solves the problem. It may merely mean that the cow was fed organic grain (meaning, essentially, pesticide-free grain), but "beef shouldn’t be raised on any grain diet," Bowden said.
- A label that says "grass-fed" isn’t good enough either, believe it or not. Beef only needs to be 80% grass-fed to earn this label, and many so-called "grass-fed ranches" send their cattle to feedlots for the final weeks of life, where they are fattened up on corn (which may or may not be organic) and sometimes given growth hormones as well. So, look for that 100% grass-fed label.
IS IT WORTH THE PRICE?
Obviously, raising a 100% grass-fed animal is far more time-consuming and expensive than raising one on a feedlot farm... and, as you’d expect, the price reflects that. This kind of beef can be 20% to 100% more expensive. I’m convinced that the health benefits alone are worth the extra cost -- but is it as good to eat?
Well, grass-fed beef can be tough. "Dry-aging," a process by which the meat is refrigerated for up to several weeks before being sent to market, is done by some meat purveyors -- it makes the meat more tender and flavorful, but is another factor that can drive up the cost even more. For tips on how to cook grass-fed beef, check the American Grassfed Association site at www.americangrassfedbeef.com/tips-for-cooking-grass-fed.asp .)
As far as taste, I did an "informal" test and cooked up some regular rib-eye steaks and burgers along with others that were grass-fed for a gathering that included two families, adults and teens, and a seven-year-old child. The verdict was nearly unanimous: Every person except the seven-year-old said that the grass-fed beef was loads better -- more succulent, juicy, tender and delicious.
The seven-year-old simply asked if we could pass the ketchup.
Jonny Bowden, CNS, board-certified nutritionist based in Woodland Hills, California, and author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What You Should Eat and Why (FairWinds).
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Study: Alcohol More Dangerous Than Heroin
“Alcohol More Dangerous Than Heroin", a recently published health research finds.
Based on a British abstract study of various drugs (such as cocaine, heroin, ecstasy, marijuana, and alcohol), the research assessed the effects that these substances have on individuals and on our society.
The researchers looked at the addictive potential of each substance, harmful physical effects to users, emotional/functional costs of substance use to family systems, and financial costs to society for such things as health care, social services, and prison.
Their conclusions? The most severe effects on individual users came from heroin, crack cocaine, and crystal meth (methamphetamine). Social costs were greatest from the use of alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine. But, when all parameters were considered as a total package, alcohol was at the top of the list, causing the greatest combination of overall individual physical disability, as well as widespread social dysfunction. The next substances on the ranking were heroin and crack cocaine, with marijuana, ecstasy and LSD lower in rank.
It’s possible that alcohol’s rank comes in part due to our society’s acceptance of both alcohol use and abuse, the ready availability of alcohol, and the devastating effects of excess alcohol on nearly every organ system.
I worry most about the effect of alcohol on teenagers. Some of the costs of alcohol use among younger users include an increased risk of:
- Depression, anxiety, and attention problems
- Alcoholism – the younger the drinker, the higher the risk of that individual eventually becoming addicted
- Injury or death in motor vehicle accidents, as well as increased risk of violent death from other causes
- Suicide attempts in girls who drink
- Risky sexual practices (including earlier age of sexual activity, and higher risks of unprotected sex and sex with strangers)
- Other drug use (including marijuana, cocaine, heroin)
Our schools try to educate our teens about alcohol use and abuse, but we all need to join their efforts. We adults need to lead by modeling responsible alcohol use, by refusing to be amused by drunkenness, and by making it clear that underage drinking is wrong not just because it is illegal, but because it is potentially seriously harmful to the underage drinker.
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HOW TO RESTORE YOUR BRAIN POWER
Copyrights: August 2010 issue of the journal Sleep
Evidence demonstrates that sleeping in on the weekend is a smart idea after a tough week at work (or anywhere else). I’ve been known to sleep late myself on occasion, but always with a twinge of guilt, since we’re told that it’s better to go to sleep and get up at the same time every day. But juggling my job, kids, household tasks and other requirements all week sometimes leaves me weary and sleep-deprived by Friday afternoon -- and I bet you know exactly how I feel.
Americans have a sleep debt that makes the national budget deficit look minor, warns Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH, an expert on rest, biological clocks, performance and sleep based in Sarasota, Florida, and author of the new book, The Power of Rest. Sleep is as important to health as food and water, and we should stop feeling guilty for allotting time for our bodies to rest, recharge and regenerate, he said.
HERE’S PROOF...
At the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, researchers conducted a study of the effect of sleep deprivation on the brain power of 159 healthy adults aged 22 to 45. A control group of 17 spent 12 consecutive days in the sleep lab -- 10 hours in bed each night for seven nights -- while the others spent 10 hours in bed for the first two nights, then were in bed only from 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. for five consecutive nights. Next, this group was assigned randomized amounts of recovery sleep, up to 10 hours per night.
All participants completed 30-minute computerized tests to assess their levels of alertness and neurobehavior performance every two hours while awake -- and no one will be surprised to learn that in comparison with those who had adequate sleep, people with restricted sleep experienced:
· Impaired alertness
· Shortened attention span
· Reduced reaction time.
WHY YOU NEED A VACATION
But here’s the happy finding: Normal function (alertness and performance, as above) was restored in sleep-deprived participants after just one solid night of recovery sleep -- 10 hours, or the equivalent of squeezing in extra shut-eye on Saturday morning after a long week. (The more recovery sleep, the higher the scores.) In contrast, participants whose sleep continued to be restricted to an average of four to six hours per night performed poorly on tests and continued to get worse as their restricted sleep continued. Researchers also warned that even 10 hours of sleep in one night is not enough to bounce back if you continually push yourself too hard and burn the candle at both ends. Dr. Edlund said that, in fact, many studies have shown that even a few weeks of normal sleep won’t make up for a longtime habit of sleep deprivation -- and he added that nowadays people rarely know what it’s like to feel fully rested. In that case, it is likely to take more than a day -- think many weeks, and that’s only if you don’t go back to your old ways -- to get back to par... which is why we need to take vacations!
These results were published in the August 2010 issue of the journal Sleep.
Just as we don’t expect our bodies to function without adequate nutrition, we can’t expect to feel fully fueled and alert without sufficient sleep, Dr. Edlund told. The best scenario, of course, is to not allow yourself to become sleep-deprived in the first place -- but this is not always possible. Most people require seven or eight hours a night to be at their best the next day. But when that doesn’t happen, we now know that you can get tremendous benefit from snoozing a little longer even for just one morning. It gives your brain time to recover and reboot -- you’ll be more focused, productive and energetic as a result.
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Matthew Edlund, MD, MOH (masters in occupational health), Center for Circadian Medicine, Sarasota, Florida. Dr. Edlund is author of The Power of Rest: Why Sleep Alone is Not Enough: A 30-Day Plan to Reset Your Body (HarperOne). Visit his Web site atwww.TheRestDoctor.com.
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Sitting at a Desk All Day Can Cause Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea is dangerous -- it’s even linked to premature death, so it is disconcerting to learn that it can be caused by something we all do nearly every day: Sit. T. Douglas Bradley, PhD, director of the Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology at the University of Toronto, explains why and tells how to prevent it.
When you sit for long periods, blood and water pool in your legs. If you sit long enough and collect a great deal of fluid in your legs, when you lie down to go to sleep, gravity causes this fluid to flow to your neck. In some people, so much fluid moves to their necks that it puts pressure on the throat, causing it to collapse from the pressure, leading to obstructive sleep apnea and making it difficult to breathe and get a good night’s sleep.
Self-defense: Take a walk every hour while you’re at work to prevent fluid retention in your legs. (see the following article)
Source: T. Douglas Bradley, PhD, professor of medicine and director, Centre for Sleep Medicine and Circadian Biology, University of Toronto, Canada, and leader of a study published in American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
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Modern Technology :
A bad match with your and your children's sleep
Cell phones and computers ... we love 'em (most of the time). We can keep in touch with our wives and kids no matter what. If we're not 100 percent sure what clouds are made of, we can find out instantly (tiny ice crystals and air). What would we do without them? Simple: We'd sleep better! And so would our kids.
Turns out that 8-to-22-year-olds who send texts and e-mails, surf the Web or play computer games around bedtime have sleep troubles ranging from restlessness and insomnia to leg pain, reports a new study. The daytime effects: anxiety, depression and learning difficulties. Not what anybody (your child or you) needs.
Healthy sleep at night does for kids what it does for you: boosts alertness, productivity, creativity and general well-being. Improves sex quality, too (that one's just for you). So make it happen.
Put kids' cell phones to bed -- say, in your closet. Remember sneaking a flashlight under the covers after lights-out? Some things don't change. Half the parents in the study said they didn't know their kids were surfing and texting hours after bedtime. Clear TVs and computers out of bedrooms, too (including yours).
Limit total screen time to two hours a day. The typical kid watches three hours of TV alone. That's time not spent playing outside and reading, activities that are more likely to induce sweet dreams.
Keep it down. Kids can't sleep if your TV is blaring and your cell phone is beeping. Besides, all that screen time isn't good for your zzz's either.
Unplug. Sleep tight.
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The answer is YES - a danger
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Our environment is increasingly impacting our health, separating us from the natural forces that interact with our physiology to keep us well. The most pervasive forces are light and darkness. The lights we use or are exposed to at night cause the greatest disruption.
Every bit of light has an effect on our melatonin (click: Melatonin production, our own homemade sleep remedy, to the extent that perfect production for a good night’s sleep would have to take place deep in a cave. However, caves have other drawbacks that are not conducive to sleep, and there aren’t enough of them to go around.
The presence of modern light pollution is labeled “light noise,” according to clinical psychologist Rubin Naiman.
Most of us can sleep in spite of it. We handle the intrusion of outside lights by covering our heads with a pillow or putting up a shade.
“There is strong evidence showing there is a dose-dependent relationship between exposure to light at night and a significant increased risk for breast cancer,” says Naiman.
Satellites have measured nighttime light intensity in urban areas. A study by William J. Blot and others showing a link to breast and prostate cancer occurring in the most lit-up areas was written up in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1977, vol. 59.
It has been found that red light does not inhibit melatonin production, but as light progresses toward the blue end of the spectrum, melatonin ceases to be produced. TV screens, iPhones, and now iPads emit light at the blue end.
IPhones are small and TV screens are usually across the room. But iPads are read close up and could cause insomnia if read just before bedtime because they emit light, according to expert Frisca Yan-Go, M.D., who runs the Sleep Center at UCLA Santa Monica. She recommends old-fashioned books, as they are less likely to keep you awake after you stop reading.
Alon Avidan, director of UCLA Neurology Clinic, would agree with Yan-Go. “The take-home lesson is that insomnia and electronic gadgets emitting light should not [be] mixed before bedtime. … Kindle is better for your sleep,” Dr. Avidan says. Kindle, which is not backlit, is like book print.
There were also many comments online from those who fell asleep while reading from an iPad, but their melatonin production is unknown.
“I’ve been reading solely from my iPad now for two weeks, including in bed at night. I’ve never been sleepless yet. In fact, I’ve fallen asleep twice while reading. Once I woke up in the morning at my usual time to find my iPad under me. The second time, it was on the carpet next to my bed in the morning,” said an iPad user.
Others called for studies to show whether their bedtime companion was really bad for them.
Computer or monitor screens can also keep you awake to finish a job, as I know from staying up until 3 a.m. on occasion. However, I haven’t had much trouble sleeping afterward. Making a habit of such behavior, however, as in the case of students and nightshift workers, can lead to health problems from not getting enough sleep and lowered melatonin production.
According to Richard G. Stevens, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center, there are clock genes. U.S. geneticists Ron Konopka and Seymour Benzer discovered these clock genes in the 1970s in fruit flies: (copy the link & search the web): Thebrain.mcgill.ca/flash/capsules/histoire_bleu08.html. When mutated, these genes caused changes in the circadian rhythms extending or contracting them from 24 hours or even deleting them.
Stevens has been studying the role of these genes in breast cancer. In mammals, there are eight or nine clock genes. Some of these genes control the destruction of abnormal cells while others control cell division.
Night work for women disrupts the production of melatonin, which in turn creates excessive hormone production, leading to malfunction of the clock genes. This then opens the door for the click: development of cancer.
So the introduction of the iPad & tablets is just another layer of an enormous environmental iceberg leading to serious health problems. It’s all brought about by artificial light during the night hours, which shuts off our production of melatonin and disrupts our clock genes.
If insomnia were the only problem, we could all get more work done. Interrupting the functions of our hard-working cells and not getting enough sleep lead to much more serious maladies, both mental and physical
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10 TIPS to avoid sicknesses caused by a too short or disturbed sleep
APPLY FOR YOUR HEALTH & HAPPINESS -study together with your spouse/partner & your children
Do not keep any computers or other technology in your bedroom - they radiate harmful elements
(1) Creating a cave-like bedroom, (2) going to bed every evening about the same time, (3) NOT watching TV news or reading negative news articles or working on any computer close to the bed time, (4) taking a brief walk outside with your whole family (when safe, a few blocks), and getting six, seven to eight hours of sleep are worth considering. Teenagers need 8- 10 hours, younger children 9 - 11 hours. (5) Do NOT start taking any sleeping pills, do not start taking any supplements (as melatonin, no ), (6) do not drink tea, coffee or any drinks with caffeine in the evening (leave 5 + hours between), (7) eat dinner 3 hours before your bedtime, (8) use quality earplugs during nigh time if there is any noise (also if your partner is snoring - one big reason for unnecessary divorces), (9) go together to a specialist sleep doctor (not just any M.D.) to avoid life-threatening sleep-apnea (overweight + snoring leads to sleep apnea)- see below the links for sleep apnea and study the info together with your spouse/partner and with your children so they can learn and avoid the conditions later, (10) Do not listen any recordings, spoken or music while sleeping - perhaps for a few minutes before bed time classical baroque music or other smooth music.
Getting full-spectrum daylight outdoors (for Vitamin D) is also important, but that is the subject of another article.
- What Is Sleep Apnea? - NHLBI, NIHwww.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/sleepapnea/
Sleep apnea (AP-ne-ah) is a common disorder in which you have one or more ... Sleep apnea usually is a chronic (ongoing) condition that disrupts your sleep.Other Names for Sleep Apnea - Signs & Symptoms - How Is Sleep Apnea Treated? - Sleep apnea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep_apnea
Sleep apnea is a type of sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing or instances of shallow or infrequent breathing during sleep. Each pause in ...Obstructive sleep apnea - Sequela - Polysomnography - Snoring
- Melatonin supplements side effects: What are the risks? - MayoClinic.comwww.mayoclinic.com › ... › Adult health › Expert Answers Melatonin side effects include daytime sleepiness, dizziness and headaches. Medication interactions also are possible.
STAF, Inc.'s advice: DO NOT USE ANY MELATONIN SUPPLEMENTS - apply the natural, no-negative side effects tips given above.
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A Wake-Up Call on Teen Obesity
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Obese teens are at high risk of severe obesity in adulthood. This recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association is not surprising, but it should serve as a call to action.
Statistical analysis of data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health demonstrated that adolescents whose BMI (body mass index) is in the obese range (that is, a BMI of 30 or more) are at extremely high risk of being severely obese in adulthood – that is, a BMI of 40 or more. By “extremely high risk,” I mean that these adolescents have a 16 times increased risk.
While this study underscores adolescent obesity as a strong risk factor for severe adult obesity, I think it stands to reason that we don’t actually know at what age obesity or overweight begins to become a risk for obesity in adulthood. Is it by mid-childhood? Is it by school age? Is it in the preschool years?
We’ve got to take control of our children’s diets to protect them from this risk. We have to take seriously all the advice to learn how to cook healthily, eat moderately, and exercise regularly; we have to model these behaviors for our kids; and we have to work to ingrain these behaviors as habits in our children.
Food activists know that one of the shocking problems in poor neighborhoods is the dearth of full-service supermarkets, where fruits and vegetables are available. Families who live in these inner-city “food deserts” are forced to buy all their food at convenience stores, where the only choices are high-fat, high-sodium, high-sugar, processed foods. If we want to have an impact on our nation’s health, we are going to have to band together to insist that access to good, healthy, fresh food is a right. It should not be a privilege or a luxury to have the opportunity to act on the old adage “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.”
A project in Michigan called Project Fit Community Assessment examined the inventory of 23 inner-city stores in Grand Rapids, demonstrating that none of the 23 stocked all four of the food categories that would qualify them as a “healthy food store,” such as “quality produce, lean meat, and whole-wheat bread.”
So step one: Let’s get healthy food stores in the inner cities. And step two: Let’s teach people how to prepare and enjoy healthy foods. A palate that has grown up on high-fat, high-salt, high-sugar processed foods is not going to immediately accept fresh steamed vegetables or other unfamiliar (but healthier) foods.
Fully 10 percent of the cost of health care in our country goes to pay for the medical consequences of obesity — such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and the medications required to control these conditions. So we’re all bearing the burden of obesity in this country, whether we are obese ourselves or not.
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It’s Time for Recess: Just Keep on Moving
Exercise in Small Increments for Personal Health
One doctor’s prescription for exercise: Do it where you gather, even 10 minutes at a time.
We all know by now that we should be getting 30 minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical activity on most days. Yet for all the proselytizing, wheedling and cajoling, only about 5 percent of the population has bought into the program.
“Being sedentary is the norm in America,” writes Dr. Toni Yancey, a professor of health services at the University of California, Los Angeles. Thanks to the plethora of labor-saving devices and motorized vehicles, we now “spend most of our waking time sitting, reclining or lying down.”
“Even activities that we still do regularly demand less exertion,” Dr. Yancey continued. “And the less people have to do, the more quickly they get tired when they exert themselves just a little bit, which of course discourages them from exercising.”
Clearly, a new approach is needed. And Dr. Yancey is offering one that has already shown great promise to counteract what she calls “sedentary behavior disorder.”
She calls it “Instant Recess” — the title of her new book (University of California Press), in which she demonstrates the value of two 10-minute breaks of enjoyable communal activity as part of people’s everyday lives. The sessions can be instituted wherever people gather: day care centers, schools, workplaces, conferences, places of worship, senior centers and the like.
At 6-foot-2, Dr. Yancey was a college basketball star, and she remains a staunch believer in the value of lifelong physical activity. She says the secret to motivating more Americans to make regular physical exercise a part of their lives is to incorporate enjoyable bouts of activity into their everyday behavior.
Office or Other Workplace
Take a Break and Exercise
As an alternative to a structured exercise break, she suggests “gathering groups of people to take a brisk walk around the grounds for 10 minutes twice a day.” Getting people to exercise in groups is easier because “everyone’s doing it,” and these brief exercise sessions deliver the most benefit to those who need it most.
Dr. Yancey has a wealth of experience at motivating highly sedentary people to move more. She describes instant recess as “a point of entry, a calling card for national physical activity” — a way to stimulate health-promoting activity, especially among those whose lives and value systems have not caught up with the top-down prescriptions for regular physical exercise.
“These short bouts of activity can spill over to the rest of a person’s life,” she said in an interview. “Once people feel more fit and better about themselves, they are more likely to engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity during their leisure time.”
She calls the recess model “the aerobics of the 21st century — an updated exercise prescription for an increasingly over scheduled, ethnically diverse, multicultural, media-and-information-technology-driven global modern society.”
“People want to be healthier, fitter and thinner,” she writes. “But the cost is just more than most are willing to pay, and the rewards are too far in the future.”
By making instant recess the default option, she said, no one has to decide to exercise or carve out a special time to do it, and some of the rewards are immediate — among them camaraderie, social interaction with friends and co-workers, stress relief, muscle relaxation, increased energy, improved mood and better concentration.
So at sites around the country, students, employees and older people, among others, are taking dancelike exercise breaks to music that have been shown to enhance achievement, productivity, self-esteem and well-being.
As Dr. Yancey puts it, “What’s good for the waistline is good for the bottom line.” Companies including L. L. Bean and Replacements Ltd. have found that the kinds of breaks Dr. Yancey is promoting can increase output and decrease injuries and workers’ compensation claims. L. L. Bean employees who take part in three five-minute stretch breaks each workday have given back to the company “a 100 percent return on its investment — 30 minutes of productivity in terms of what comes off the assembly line,” Dr. Yancey reported. And within three years, she said, “work-related injuries dropped from 14 a year to essentially none.”
After the introduction of 10-minute exercise breaks at Replacements Ltd., which sells replacement pieces for sets of china and silverware, fewer employees lost time from work because of problems like carpal tunnel syndrome and low back pain. Dr. Yancey is now involved in a study of recess breaks at 70 work sites in Los Angeles County.
Schools – Kinder Gardens - Motivating the Young
Take a Break and Exercise
Likewise, she said, 10-minute exercise breaks during the school day could do more to forward the goals of No Child Left Behind than double that amount of time spent trying to stuff math and English into students’ heads. She cited a federally financed study by theUniversity of Kansas conducted at 24 low-income public schools.
The study, which included a matched control group, found that 10-minute activity breaks, usually done to music, led to improved scores in math, spelling and composition among the participants. The students also increased their activity levels outside school, on weekdays and weekends, and gained less weight than those in the schools who did not institute fitness breaks.
This study is especially telling because in schools around the country, physical education classes and outdoor recess have fallen prey to the demands to improve test scores.
“Getting kids to sit shoulder to shoulder for six hours a day is not going to do it,” Dr. Yancey said. “Even in schools that still have 30-minute periods of physical education or recess, many children get only about five minutes of moderate to vigorous activity. Most just stand around texting or talking with their friends.”
But studies by Dr. Yancey and colleagues at U.C.L.A. showed, for example, that athlete-led exercise breaks in school, even via DVDs or CDs, could motivate otherwise sedentary youngsters to get moving and improve their fitness levels.
In a charter school in Phoenix, instant recess was tested among low-income minority students from kindergarten through sixth grade. They loved the 10-minute sessions, according to researchers, saying things like “It gave me energy throughout the day,” “It was way better than sitting down in class all the time” and “I think other schools should do it so they can become more active.”
Text by JANE E. BRODY
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Be Sure Exercise Is All You Get at the Gym
When you go to the gym, do you wash your hands before and after using the equipment? Bring your own regularly cleaned mat for floor exercises? Shower with antibacterial soap and put on clean clothes immediately after your workout? Use only your own towels, razors, bar soap, water bottles?
About washing your hands: rub your hands with the soap long enough, about 20 seconds = the same amount it takes you to hum in your mind 2 times "Happy Birthday to you". Teach this to your older children also. The younger children could hum in their mindsonce "Now I know my ABCs" or 2 times "Happy Birthday to you" (which ever they like best). After 20 seconds rubbing your hands with the soap rinse well (the water temperature for rinsing in itself does not matter - the temperature is up to you).
If you answered ''no'' to any of the above, you could wind up with one of the many skin infections that can spread like wildfire in athletic settings. In June, the National Athletic Trainers' Association, known as N.A.T.A., issued a position paper on the causes, prevention and treatment of skin diseases in athletes that could just as well apply to anyone who works out in a communal setting, be it a school, commercial gym or Y.
The authors pointed out that ''skin infections in athletes are extremely common'' and account for more than half the outbreaks of infectious diseases that occur among participants in competitive sports. And if you think skin problems are minor, consider what happened to Kyle Frey, a 21-year-old junior and competitive wrestler at Drexel University in Philadelphia.
Mr. Frey noticed a pimple on his arm last winter but thought little of it. He competed in a match on a Saturday, but by the next morning the pimple had grown to the size of his biceps and had become very painful.
His athletic trainer sent him straight to the emergency room, where the lesion was lanced and cultured. Two days later, he learned he had MRSA*) , the potentially deadly staphylococcus infection that is resistant to most antibiotics. _________________________
*) Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a bacterium responsible for several difficult-to-treat infections in humans. It may also be called multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or oxacillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(ORSA). MRSA is, by definition, any strain of Staphylococcus aureus bacteria that has developed resistance to beta-lactam antibioticswhich include the penicillins (methicillin, dicloxacillin, nafcillin, oxacillin, etc.) and the cephalosporins. MRSA is especially troublesome in hospitals where patients with open wounds, invasive devices and weakened immune systems are at greater risk ofinfection than the general public._______________________
Mr. Frey spent five days in the hospital, where the lesion was surgically cleaned and stitched and treated with antibiotics that cleared the infection. He said in an interview that he does not know how he acquired MRSA: ''The wrestling mat might have been contaminated, or I wrestled with someone who had the infection.''
If it could happen to Mr. Frey, who said he has always been health-conscious in the gym and careful about not sharing his belongings, it could happen to you.
The Risks
Recreational athletes as well as participants in organized sports are prone to fungal, viral and bacterial skin infections. Sweat, abrasion and direct or indirect contact with the lesions and secretions of others combine to make every athlete's skin vulnerable to a host of problems. While MRSA may be the most serious skin infection, athlete's foot, jock itch, boils, impetigo, herpes simplex and ringworm, among others, are not exactly fun or attractive.
Athletes who are infected should be kept from competing in matches for a week or more until treatment renders them noninfectious. The authors of the trainers' study warned against simply covering infections like herpes and active bacterial lesions in order to return to competition.
Likewise, people like you and me who work out at a facility or swim in a public pool should stay away until cleared by a doctor who is well versed in skin diseases.
Steven M. Zinder, a trainer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and chief author of the new paper, said in an interview that these recommendations are not esoteric.
''It's what we all learned -- or should have learned -- in sixth-grade health class,'' he said. ''It's all common sense. You need to keep yourself and your equipment clean. You never know who last used the equipment in a gym. It can be a great breeding ground for these bugs, some of which are pretty nasty.''
The report, published in the August issue of The Journal of Athletic Training, stated, ''Athletes must shower after every practice and game with an antibacterial soap and water over the entire body.''
Dr. Zinder noted that after a workout, women tend not to shower at the facility, while men, who are more likely to shower, often fail to cleanse their entire bodies, including their feet. Well-equipped facilities should provide antibacterial liquid soap.
''You should be showering at the gym and putting on clean clothes that are kept separate from the dirty ones,'' he said. In fact, he added, it's best to have two bags, one only for clean clothes, and to wash the dirty-clothes bag now and then.
Assume Exposure
Jack Foley, athletic trainer and director of sports medicine at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and co-author of the report, said athletes should always assume they are exposed to skin infections.
At any given time, he said in an interview, one person in three in the United States suffers from a skin disease that can be spread to others, even while in the incubation stage.
The report noted that there had been ''an alarming increase in the prevalence of MRSA'' in the noses of both healthy children and adults. Thus, sneezing into one's hand or blowing one's nose without washing with an antibacterial cleanser afterward may spread these dangerous bacteria to others.
While hand hygiene is most important over all , avoiding fungal infections requires a daily change of athletic socks and underwear; carefully drying the armpits and groin and between toes (perhaps blow-drying the feet on low heat); and using foot powder. Shower shoes can help prevent infection as long as they don't keep you from soaping your feet.
A viral infection called molluscum contagiosum may not be on the popular tongue, but it is commonly seen in young children and , spread through skin-to-skin contact, is not uncommon among athletes, including swimmers, cross-country runners and wrestlers, the report stated.
Prevention of this highly contagious infection requires ''meticulous hygiene'' after contact with secretions from other athletes through benches, towels and mats.
If you plan to work out in a gym or use a locker room, Mr. Foley suggested that before choosing a facility, you quiz the management about the cleaning agents used (they should be approved by the Environmental Protection Agency) and daily cleaning schedule for all surfaces and equipment. If exercise mats are not cleaned between classes, he suggested bringing your own. Antibacterial wipes or spray bottles should be provided and used by everyone to clean equipment after a workout.
Text by JANE E. BRODY
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Exercise: For Type 2 Diabetes, 2 Types of Training
Type 2 diabetics can significantly lower their blood sugar — and lose body fat in the bargain — with an exercise program that combines aerobics and weight lifting, a new study reports.
While that regimen is already recommended in Type 2 diabetes, researchers say the study offers some of the best evidence to date that a combined program offers greater benefits than aerobics or weight lifting by itself, even if it does not increase total exercise time.
“We can now look at individuals with diabetes right in the face and tell them, ‘This is the best exercise prescription for you,’” said the paper’s lead author, Dr. Timothy S. Church, director of preventive medicine research at Louisiana State University’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Such a program consists of “about 100 minutes of higher-intensity aerobics a week, and then give yourself one to two days of resistance training for 15 to 20 minutes a day,” he said.
The study randomly divided 262 inactive Type 2 diabetics, average age 55.8, into four groups — 73 assigned to resistance training three days a week, 72 to aerobic exercise, 76 to the combination and 41 to a non-exercise comparison group. The study was notable in that almost half the participants were not white, and 63 percent were women.
After nine months of observed exercise, participants who did the combination training lowered their blood level of the glucose markerHbA1c to 7.3 percent from 7.7 percent, on average, a drop that corresponds to a significantly reduced risk of heart disease, Dr. Church said. The improvements in the other exercise groups were not significantly different from those in the non-exercise group.
Dr. Church said he was surprised but added that the findings made sense. “Diabetes is the failure to control the amount of sugar in your blood, and the biggest user of blood sugar is skeletal muscle,” he said. “The healthier your skeletal muscle, the more blood sugar it’s chewing up and taking out of the blood.”
Text by RONI CARYN RABIN
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"We’ll Give you a NEW life"
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to life - to joy, health, happiness, success, wealth
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According to the gospel accounts,
here are the miracles Jesus performed
(though this is an incomplete list according to John 21:25):
here are the miracles Jesus performed
(though this is an incomplete list according to John 21:25):
- Jesus changed water into wine (John 2:1-11).
- Jesus cured the nobleman's son (John 4:46,47).
- The great haul of fishes (Luke 5:1-11).
- Jesus cast out an unclean spirit (Mark 1:23-28).
- Jesus cured Peter's mother-in-law of a fever (Mark 1:30,31).
- Jesus healed a leper (Mark 1:40-45).
- Jesus healed the centurion's servant (Matthew 8:5-13).
- Jesus raised the widow's son from the dead (Luke 7:11-18).
- Jesus stilled the storm (Matthew 8:23-27).
- Jesus cured two demoniacs (Matthew 8:28-34).
- Jesus cured the paralytic (Matthew 9:1-8).
- Jesus raised the ruler's daughter from the dead (Matthew 9:18-26).
- Jesus cured a woman of an issue of blood (Luke 8:43-48).
- Jesus opened the eyes of two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31).
- Jesus loosened the tongue of a man who could not speak (Matthew 9:32,33).
- Jesus healed an invalid man at the pool called Bethesda (John 5:1-9).
- Jesus restored a withered hand (Matthew 12:10-13).
- Jesus cured a demon-possessed man (Matthew 12:22).
- Jesus fed at least five thousand people (Matthew 14:15-21).
- Jesus healed a woman of Canaan (Matthew 15:22-28).
- Jesus cured a deaf and mute man (Mark 7:31-37).
- Jesus fed at least four thousand people (Matthew 15:32-39).
- Jesus opened the eyes of a blind man (Mark 8:22-26).
- Jesus cured a boy who was plagued by a demon (Matthew 17:14-21).
- Jesus opened the eyes of a man born blind (John 9:1-38)
- Jesus cured a woman who had been afflicted eighteen years (Luke 17:11-17).
- Jesus cured a man of dropsy (Luke 14:1-4).
- Jesus cleansed ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19).
- Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1-46).
- Jesus opened the eyes of two blind men (Matthew 20:30-34).
- Jesus caused the fig tree to wither (Matthew 21:18-22).
- Jesus restored the ear of the high priest's servant (Luke 22:50,51).
- Jesus rose from the dead (Luke 24:5-6).
- The second great haul of fishes (John 21:1-14).
HOW TO "POWER PRAY"
WITH THE RESULTS COMING
A 3-step guide
By Dr. Christian, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG
Prepare to pray
(1) Take your Bible - Use a modern language Bible
The content and the biblical message is the same - only the language is based on today's English: (a) NLT = New Living Translation (published in the 2000's), or (b) The Book (= the title of this Bible - published in the 1980's- (a) and (b) both by Tyndale Publishing House), or (c) another recent one: New International Version (NIV) or (d) any other modern language Bible as your favorite.
Use a dedicated Bible for your studying and learning - a Bible copy that is only in your use. Then you can write notes on the pages and want to keep your notes private.
If English is your first language and you have a "dear" family Bible - King James (KJV) Version, you may use it; however, use also a second version aside, any of the modern English language Bibles because The KJ version Bible is based on the 1600's / 1700's English. English is spoken differently today than 300 - 400 years ago. If English is not your 1st language, you would not necessarily understand a KSV. When you use KJV and a modern language version compare their texts because the modern language Bible text often can make the meaning of The Bible even for a native English speaker easier to understand and to apply. Not applying is plain lip service or ear service and is not helpful for you. Read your Bible aloud as often you can - for any human it is then easier to comprehend. Reason: when additional senses are in use at the same time, it helps in your concentration and the brain will process and allow you to comprehend the meaning of the text effortlessly and with deeper clarity. This is called the "5-Sense Method"™ and was developed by Dr. Christian, Pastor of GCG, in the early 1990's for the then new super-learning techniques and is now in a worldwide use. In a public place read study your Bible by silently forming the text.
If English is not your first language, use anyway a modern English language Bible (not your native language Bible except, perhaps only for comparing the translations) - you then learn modern English for everyday use and thus you benefit more and for many other purposes. Study always the new words from your dictionary or using an internet English language dictionary (= put the new word on "search" plus ask for its "definition". Create a file in your computer and easily transfer the meaning for further studying..
(2) Study (by reading aloud) in The Bible the following passages
(important: in this following order)
(1) John 14: 1 and John 14: 11-14
(2) Mark 11: 22 - 25 + 26 (Verse 26 is not in every Bible but is important = it is the same as in Matthew
6:15 - Study it from Matthew 6:15 if your Bible is lacking it)
(3) John 15: 7
(4) John 15: 16 (the last full sentence, only) and the verse 17
(5) James 1: 2 - 6
(6) Romans 8: 31 - 32
(7) Jeremiah
(3) PRAY "IN THE NAME OF LORD JESUS CHRIST"
(1) Say first: "God, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ I am praying this prayer"
(2) Then: "say what you are praying for - describe in all details
(3) AND: believe it to happen without any doubt",
(4) At the end you say "Thank you, God - for your miracles, in the Name of Lord Jesus
Christ I am asking you to hear my prayer. In the name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."
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YOUR PRAYERS WILL ALWAYS BE ANSWERED when it is to your own real best
and is not hurting anyone else.
*) "Amen" actually means "So be it"
The Greek Old Testament usually translates it as "so be it"; in the English Bible it is often translated as "verily" or "truly." As regards the etymology, Amen is a derivative from the Hebrew verb "aman" = "to strengthen" or "Confirm".
Please remember: God is NOT you "wish fountain" - your prayer content must not be hurting
anyone - God knows best what you need. When your prayer is for your own best, God will grant
it. On the other hand, none of us always knows what is best for us.
INTERNET BIBLE STUDY TOOLS:
(1) Create a file in your computer for your Bible Studies
(2) Copy Bible quotes or chapters directly from the internet by using:
(a) This an active hyperlink and will go directly to that site - click it: Bible Gateway
The instructions are on that site. You can choose any Bible translation version - but: follow GCG advice to get the best results.
On the website: Enter the Bible passage (e.g. John 3:16), keyword (e.g. Jesus, prophet, etc.) or topic (e.g. salvation) - you find
it. Their main website: BibleGateway.com
(b) A second tool is this site - this is an active hyperlink - click it: http://www.biblestudytools.com
(c) Listen to every Radio Show or see every TV Show - both titled The Miracle Show.
The links on this website at tab: "Radio & TV Shows" - (a) you'll earn CEU & College/University credits free, never expire, (b) in the shows you'll learn continuously new to improve your and your family's life. The shows will also teach our Power Healing - supernatural healing by God.
Copyrights By Dr. Christian, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG - Global Church of God, New York, NY - Mailing: address: GPO 339, New York, NY 10116-0339
Phone: (401) 427-2227 or (212) 946-1234 or 1-(888) HAVE GOD (= 428-3463) - Email: [email protected]
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Take Care of Your Precious Body
Your Body Is Your Tool And Vehicle to Success & Happiness in Life
"Know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."1 Corinthians 6:19-20
We live in a body-conscious world. No one can escape the pressure to be thinner, eat right, look a certain way, or wear a certain perfume/cologne. The messages bombard you every time you turn on the TV, read a magazine or walk through a mall. Hundreds of diet books and health magazines line the shelves of bookstores across the nation. Why? I'll say it again: Because we live in a body-conscious world.
The Christian life, however, directs us to look at the body differently than the world sees it. The Bible tells us that our body is a temple. In fact, if you look in the Old Testament and read the details that went into forming the temple, you'll find a vast amount of information. Page after page describes the incredible care and detail that went into creating the House of the Lord. Psalm 139 tells us that the Lord created us with the same detail and care. He knit us together in our mother's womb. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. The Lord, our Creator, took care when He designed us. Still, because the world's body-conscious message can be found anywhere at any time, the probability of missing God's message increases.
Too often we don't treat our bodies well. Whether it is sexual immorality, poor eating habits, lack of rest, or drug and alcohol use, we would be wrong to think that the damage to our body does not affect our spirit. The Lord made our bodies special; a place where the New Testament says the Holy Spirit will live within us. He leaves it up to us to take care of our bodies.
Robert Murray McCheyne, a Scottish theologian and pastor, was never known for having great health, but throughout his seven years of ministry he was forced to take time off periodically due to his overworking and exhausting himself. Robert Murray McCheyne said to a friend as he lay dying at the age of thirty, "God gave me a message to deliver and a horse to ride. Alas, I destroyed the horse, and now I cannot deliver the message." The horse he referred to was his own body.
The Lord made you special and unique and with great purpose. He also gave you a body in which to deliver your message. Regardless of calling or station in life, you have a message and a purpose in Christ. So, don’t kill the horse. Take care of your body and keep delivering your message.
GOING DEEPER:
1. What are ways you are not treating your body well? How can you make changes?
2. Why is it often hard to hear above the voices of people to hear the Lord? What are ways you can be deliberate in seeking peace with Him?
FURTHER READING:
Psalm 139:13-19; John 14:15-17
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WITH THE RESULTS COMING
A 3-step guide
By Dr. Christian, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG
Prepare to pray
(1) Take your Bible - Use a modern language Bible
The content and the biblical message is the same - only the language is based on today's English: (a) NLT = New Living Translation (published in the 2000's), or (b) The Book (= the title of this Bible - published in the 1980's- (a) and (b) both by Tyndale Publishing House), or (c) another recent one: New International Version (NIV) or (d) any other modern language Bible as your favorite.
Use a dedicated Bible for your studying and learning - a Bible copy that is only in your use. Then you can write notes on the pages and want to keep your notes private.
If English is your first language and you have a "dear" family Bible - King James (KJV) Version, you may use it; however, use also a second version aside, any of the modern English language Bibles because The KJ version Bible is based on the 1600's / 1700's English. English is spoken differently today than 300 - 400 years ago. If English is not your 1st language, you would not necessarily understand a KSV. When you use KJV and a modern language version compare their texts because the modern language Bible text often can make the meaning of The Bible even for a native English speaker easier to understand and to apply. Not applying is plain lip service or ear service and is not helpful for you. Read your Bible aloud as often you can - for any human it is then easier to comprehend. Reason: when additional senses are in use at the same time, it helps in your concentration and the brain will process and allow you to comprehend the meaning of the text effortlessly and with deeper clarity. This is called the "5-Sense Method"™ and was developed by Dr. Christian, Pastor of GCG, in the early 1990's for the then new super-learning techniques and is now in a worldwide use. In a public place read study your Bible by silently forming the text.
If English is not your first language, use anyway a modern English language Bible (not your native language Bible except, perhaps only for comparing the translations) - you then learn modern English for everyday use and thus you benefit more and for many other purposes. Study always the new words from your dictionary or using an internet English language dictionary (= put the new word on "search" plus ask for its "definition". Create a file in your computer and easily transfer the meaning for further studying..
(2) Study (by reading aloud) in The Bible the following passages
(important: in this following order)
(1) John 14: 1 and John 14: 11-14
(2) Mark 11: 22 - 25 + 26 (Verse 26 is not in every Bible but is important = it is the same as in Matthew
6:15 - Study it from Matthew 6:15 if your Bible is lacking it)
(3) John 15: 7
(4) John 15: 16 (the last full sentence, only) and the verse 17
(5) James 1: 2 - 6
(6) Romans 8: 31 - 32
(7) Jeremiah
(3) PRAY "IN THE NAME OF LORD JESUS CHRIST"
(1) Say first: "God, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ I am praying this prayer"
(2) Then: "say what you are praying for - describe in all details
(3) AND: believe it to happen without any doubt",
(4) At the end you say "Thank you, God - for your miracles, in the Name of Lord Jesus
Christ I am asking you to hear my prayer. In the name of Lord Jesus Christ, Amen."
_____
YOUR PRAYERS WILL ALWAYS BE ANSWERED when it is to your own real best
and is not hurting anyone else.
*) "Amen" actually means "So be it"
The Greek Old Testament usually translates it as "so be it"; in the English Bible it is often translated as "verily" or "truly." As regards the etymology, Amen is a derivative from the Hebrew verb "aman" = "to strengthen" or "Confirm".
Please remember: God is NOT you "wish fountain" - your prayer content must not be hurting
anyone - God knows best what you need. When your prayer is for your own best, God will grant
it. On the other hand, none of us always knows what is best for us.
INTERNET BIBLE STUDY TOOLS:
(1) Create a file in your computer for your Bible Studies
(2) Copy Bible quotes or chapters directly from the internet by using:
(a) This an active hyperlink and will go directly to that site - click it: Bible Gateway
The instructions are on that site. You can choose any Bible translation version - but: follow GCG advice to get the best results.
On the website: Enter the Bible passage (e.g. John 3:16), keyword (e.g. Jesus, prophet, etc.) or topic (e.g. salvation) - you find
it. Their main website: BibleGateway.com
(b) A second tool is this site - this is an active hyperlink - click it: http://www.biblestudytools.com
(c) Listen to every Radio Show or see every TV Show - both titled The Miracle Show.
The links on this website at tab: "Radio & TV Shows" - (a) you'll earn CEU & College/University credits free, never expire, (b) in the shows you'll learn continuously new to improve your and your family's life. The shows will also teach our Power Healing - supernatural healing by God.
Copyrights By Dr. Christian, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG - Global Church of God, New York, NY - Mailing: address: GPO 339, New York, NY 10116-0339
Phone: (401) 427-2227 or (212) 946-1234 or 1-(888) HAVE GOD (= 428-3463) - Email: [email protected]
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Take Care of Your Precious Body
Your Body Is Your Tool And Vehicle to Success & Happiness in Life
"Know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body."1 Corinthians 6:19-20
We live in a body-conscious world. No one can escape the pressure to be thinner, eat right, look a certain way, or wear a certain perfume/cologne. The messages bombard you every time you turn on the TV, read a magazine or walk through a mall. Hundreds of diet books and health magazines line the shelves of bookstores across the nation. Why? I'll say it again: Because we live in a body-conscious world.
The Christian life, however, directs us to look at the body differently than the world sees it. The Bible tells us that our body is a temple. In fact, if you look in the Old Testament and read the details that went into forming the temple, you'll find a vast amount of information. Page after page describes the incredible care and detail that went into creating the House of the Lord. Psalm 139 tells us that the Lord created us with the same detail and care. He knit us together in our mother's womb. You were fearfully and wonderfully made. The Lord, our Creator, took care when He designed us. Still, because the world's body-conscious message can be found anywhere at any time, the probability of missing God's message increases.
Too often we don't treat our bodies well. Whether it is sexual immorality, poor eating habits, lack of rest, or drug and alcohol use, we would be wrong to think that the damage to our body does not affect our spirit. The Lord made our bodies special; a place where the New Testament says the Holy Spirit will live within us. He leaves it up to us to take care of our bodies.
Robert Murray McCheyne, a Scottish theologian and pastor, was never known for having great health, but throughout his seven years of ministry he was forced to take time off periodically due to his overworking and exhausting himself. Robert Murray McCheyne said to a friend as he lay dying at the age of thirty, "God gave me a message to deliver and a horse to ride. Alas, I destroyed the horse, and now I cannot deliver the message." The horse he referred to was his own body.
The Lord made you special and unique and with great purpose. He also gave you a body in which to deliver your message. Regardless of calling or station in life, you have a message and a purpose in Christ. So, don’t kill the horse. Take care of your body and keep delivering your message.
GOING DEEPER:
1. What are ways you are not treating your body well? How can you make changes?
2. Why is it often hard to hear above the voices of people to hear the Lord? What are ways you can be deliberate in seeking peace with Him?
FURTHER READING:
Psalm 139:13-19; John 14:15-17
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According to the gospel accounts, here are the miracles Jesus performed (though this is an incomplete list according to John 21:25):
How to Create A Miracle
Miracle Creation Prayer
By Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG
(1) Supernatural Miracle Instructions to Reach Any Goal
and/or
(2) Supernatural Miracle Instructions to Conquer Any Difficulty
whether mental, emotional, physical, money, love, marriage, other relationship, work, career, children, guilt, or any other - you name it. Either do this Miracle Creation Prayer as its own session and the daily Power Prayer as its own OR IF TIME ALLOWS, do both in one session, but always first the Power Prayer. For the Miracle Creation Prayer study a 2nd time (separately from the Power Prayer Session) the verses that belong to the Miracle Creation Prayer.
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 1: Do this practice daily - plan NOT to leave a day between;
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 2: Perform a complete Power Prayer session; Study The Bible verses + Pray;
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 3: Study (1) Jeremiah 29: 11-13, (2) Mark 22-26 (some Bibles have 25 as last),
(3) John 14:12-14
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 4: From the above list "Miracles Jesus did" (click the colored Bible verse = connects you
instantly) starting from #1 (has 34) then the next day/next session # 2 - in the
numerical order - do: study the miracle from The Bible.
(use your own Bible or Internet Bible tool (= also on the GCG website)
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 5: Describe your Goal in a Prayer form - talk to Jesus and God (as if they are next to you - they are next to you (they are part of you), ask for wisdom & guidance how to reach your goal. It your goal is not causing harm to anyone and is good for someone, God will listen. Take Daily steps forward reaching your goal, make notes what to do, keep pen/paper/recorder to save your thoughts. Jesus says :"Believe in Jesus, ask in Jesus name. believe it will be done for you, and it will be given to you."
DO Miracle Creation Prayer once a day related to your goal as long as you have reached your goal. When you have a new goal, repeat the Miracle Creation Prayer according to the same instructions daily until you have reached your new goal. And then again the same with your 3rd goal.
Every time you start the Miracle Creation Prayer for a new goal (1) send GCG an email to: [email protected] and inform the Church that you are starting (+ day) the MCP process and briefly describe your goal. GCG will pray for your success and for divine, heavenly blessings from Jesus Christ and God. Put your name and mailing address in the email (for our prayer for you that is needed). We will email to you the confirmation that GCG has performed its part for you. When you have reached you goal, send us via email the good news (give details as you see proper).
If you need to call us in addition, call 212-946-1234.
In Jesus name - Amen.
Copyrights by Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG
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- (1) Jesus changed water into wine (John 2:1-11).
- (2) Jesus cured the nobleman's son (John 4:46,47).
- (3) The great haul of fishes (Luke 5:1-11).
- (4) Jesus cast out an unclean spirit (Mark 1:23-28).
- (5) Jesus cured Peter's mother-in-law of a fever (Mark 1:30,31).
- (6) Jesus healed a leper (Mark 1:40-45).
- (7) Jesus healed the centurion's servant (Matthew 8:5-13).
- (8) Jesus raised the widow's son from the dead (Luke 7:11-18).
- (9) Jesus stilled the storm (Matthew 8:23-27).
- (10)Jesus cured two demoniacs (Matthew 8:28-34).
- (11)Jesus cured the paralytic (Matthew 9:1-8).
- (12)Jesus raised the ruler's daughter from the dead (Matthew 9:18-26).
- (13)Jesus cured a woman of an issue of blood (Luke 8:43-48).
- (14)Jesus opened the eyes of two blind men (Matthew 9:27-31).
- (15)Jesus loosened the tongue of a man who could not speak (Matthew 9:32,33).
- (16)Jesus healed an invalid man at the pool called Bethesda (John 5:1-9).
- (17)Jesus restored a withered hand (Matthew 12:10-13).
- (18)Jesus cured a demon-possessed man (Matthew 12:22).
- (19)Jesus fed at least five thousand people (Matthew 14:15-21).
- (20)Jesus healed a woman of Canaan (Matthew 15:22-28).
- (21)Jesus cured a deaf and mute man (Mark 7:31-37).
- (22)Jesus fed at least four thousand people (Matthew 15:32-39).
- (23)Jesus opened the eyes of a blind man (Mark 8:22-26).
- (24)Jesus cured a boy who was plagued by a demon (Matthew 17:14-21).
- (25)Jesus opened the eyes of a man born blind (John 9:1-38)
- (26)Jesus cured a woman who had been afflicted eighteen years (Luke 17:11-17).
- (27)Jesus cured a man of dropsy (Luke 14:1-4).
- (28)Jesus cleansed ten lepers (Luke 17:11-19).
- (29)Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead (John 11:1-46).
- (30)Jesus opened the eyes of two blind men (Matthew 20:30-34).
- (31)Jesus caused the fig tree to wither (Matthew 21:18-22).
- (32)Jesus restored the ear of the high priest's servant (Luke 22:50,51).
- (33)Jesus rose from the dead (Luke 24:5-6).
- (34)The second great haul of fishes (John 21:1-14).
How to Create A Miracle
Miracle Creation Prayer
By Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG
(1) Supernatural Miracle Instructions to Reach Any Goal
and/or
(2) Supernatural Miracle Instructions to Conquer Any Difficulty
whether mental, emotional, physical, money, love, marriage, other relationship, work, career, children, guilt, or any other - you name it. Either do this Miracle Creation Prayer as its own session and the daily Power Prayer as its own OR IF TIME ALLOWS, do both in one session, but always first the Power Prayer. For the Miracle Creation Prayer study a 2nd time (separately from the Power Prayer Session) the verses that belong to the Miracle Creation Prayer.
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 1: Do this practice daily - plan NOT to leave a day between;
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 2: Perform a complete Power Prayer session; Study The Bible verses + Pray;
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 3: Study (1) Jeremiah 29: 11-13, (2) Mark 22-26 (some Bibles have 25 as last),
(3) John 14:12-14
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 4: From the above list "Miracles Jesus did" (click the colored Bible verse = connects you
instantly) starting from #1 (has 34) then the next day/next session # 2 - in the
numerical order - do: study the miracle from The Bible.
(use your own Bible or Internet Bible tool (= also on the GCG website)
GOLDEN MIRACLE STEP # 5: Describe your Goal in a Prayer form - talk to Jesus and God (as if they are next to you - they are next to you (they are part of you), ask for wisdom & guidance how to reach your goal. It your goal is not causing harm to anyone and is good for someone, God will listen. Take Daily steps forward reaching your goal, make notes what to do, keep pen/paper/recorder to save your thoughts. Jesus says :"Believe in Jesus, ask in Jesus name. believe it will be done for you, and it will be given to you."
DO Miracle Creation Prayer once a day related to your goal as long as you have reached your goal. When you have a new goal, repeat the Miracle Creation Prayer according to the same instructions daily until you have reached your new goal. And then again the same with your 3rd goal.
Every time you start the Miracle Creation Prayer for a new goal (1) send GCG an email to: [email protected] and inform the Church that you are starting (+ day) the MCP process and briefly describe your goal. GCG will pray for your success and for divine, heavenly blessings from Jesus Christ and God. Put your name and mailing address in the email (for our prayer for you that is needed). We will email to you the confirmation that GCG has performed its part for you. When you have reached you goal, send us via email the good news (give details as you see proper).
If you need to call us in addition, call 212-946-1234.
In Jesus name - Amen.
Copyrights by Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., Pastor of GCG
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November 9, 2012
Necessary to study this and all veterans related articles
When War Comes Home
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About half a million American soldiers have suffered from brain-rattling concussions in Afghanistan or Iraq, and one result is an epidemic of traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. We’re seeing many more suicides among recent veterans than among earlier generations, probably because of repeated, extended deployments in combat, coupled with an increase in improvised explosive devices and concussions.
We still aren’t doing nearly enough to provide timely mental health services for these soldiers and veterans. The administration and members of Congress talk a good game about honoring young men and women who went to war, but they don’t allocate the resources necessary to care of them. A result is certainly disability and suicides. Could it also include brutal crimes like this one?
WILMINGTON, Del. - A DECORATED combat veteran, Staff Sgt. Dwight L. Smith Jr. seemed the perfect soldier. Until, that is, he visited his family in Delaware last Christmas and, as he later told the police, “clicked on.”Inexplicably one morning, while driving his bright red Hummer on a public street, he ran down a 65-year-old woman, Marsha Lee, as she walked her dog, according to police accounts. Then, as a witness watched, he got out and threw Ms. Lee, injured and screaming, into the back seat and drove off.
Ms. Lee’s body, naked except for socks, was found discarded in a wooded area half a mile away. Her head had been bashed in with a heavy, sharp object, perhaps a rock. The police later established that she had been raped.
Police officers searched frantically for the Hummer, and that evening they arrested Sergeant Smith as he drove such a vehicle, still spattered with blood. A police affidavit says that Sergeant Smith admitted to the slaying that night, explaining that he had decided that he “wanted to kill someone.”
Ms. Lee was much loved in the community, for she had devoted herself nearly full time to local causes like an animal shelter and a home for the elderly. Her funeral was one of the biggest anyone can remember in Delaware, and the town has honored her by giving her street a second name: Marsha Lee Way. Her husband, Scottie Lee, declined to speak to me at the request of prosecutors. But family friends see this as straightforward: a case of a young man committing an act of pure evil.
Sergeant Smith, now 25, is in prison, and a trial is still more than a year off, but this may emerge as the pre-eminent American case exploring whether soldiers’ brain injuries and trauma overseas can lead to crimes committed later. The basic question is whether Ms. Lee, as she walked her dog on a quiet street here, became an indirect casualty of our foreign wars.
About half a million American soldiers have suffered from brain-rattling concussions in Afghanistan or Iraq, and one result is an epidemic of traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder. We’re seeing many more suicides among recent veterans than among earlier generations, probably because of repeated, extended deployments in combat, coupled with an increase in improvised explosive devices and concussions.
We still aren’t doing nearly enough to provide timely mental health services for these soldiers and veterans. The administration and members of Congress talk a good game about honoring young men and women who went to war, but they don’t allocate the resources necessary to care of them. A result is certainly disability and suicides. Could it also include brutal crimes like this one?
“I know my child,” said Sergeant Smith’s father, Dwight Sr., a 49-year-old manager in the Philadelphia schools. “This isn’t my kid. He was a goofy kid. This isn’t the same man that I sent over.”
The father was sitting morosely in his dimly lit dining room, the curtains all drawn. In the corner of the room was the purple heart that Dwight Jr. earned in Afghanistan, and in the living room just beyond was his wedding photo and a military portrait. It’s impossible to reconcile that beaming young man in the photos with the one who murdered and raped Ms. Lee.
“This is a tragedy for two families,” Mr. Smith added. “I just don’t think my son was ready to come back in regular society.”
Mr. Smith thinks that his son’s mind became poisoned by war, and Dwight Jr. seems to think that as well. I couldn’t get access to him in prison, but in a recent handwritten letter to his father (which is posted with the online version of this column), he wrote:
“I am going to be honest with you dad. I have killed a lot of men and children. Some that didn’t even do anything for me to kill them. Also some that begged for mercy. I have a problem. I think I got addicted to killing people. I could kill someone go to sleep wake up and forget that it ever happened. It got normal for me to be that way. I never wanted to be this way. I just took my job way to serious. I took things to the extreme. Anyone can tell you that I changed. It is like being a completely different person.”
If Sergeant Smith did indeed randomly kill civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, I could find no record of that. What is clearer is that he was exposed to concussions while in combat, apparently at least two of them. One occurred when he was in Iraq and his Humvee was thrown into the air in an explosion. He was not visibly injured.
Then, in March 2011, a mortar shell landed near him in Afghanistan and blew him 15 feet in the air, shattering a ceramic plate in his body armor, according to his public defender, Bradley V. Manning. Sergeant Smith was hospitalized, flown back to the United States, and given a diagnosis of a traumatic brain injury with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jasmin Smith, a 29-year-old German woman who is now his wife, and was then his girlfriend, recalls seeing him in the hospital shortly after his return.
“He was in a wheelchair,” she said. “His hand was shaking. He looked pretty bad. He didn’t say anything for 15 or 20 minutes. At the beginning, he didn’t even recognize me.”
She says they celebrated his apparent recovery by marrying two months later. But the recovery seemed fleeting, she says, for he began to abuse alcohol and prescription painkillers and would sometimes fly into violent rages.
“He was always angry about little things,” Mrs. Smith said. “He would throw laptops, punch holes in walls.”
“He used to go crazy,” she added. “He stood in front of me one time and said, ‘I should kill you, I should kill you.’ ”
Mrs. Smith says that he did once choke her and, fearing for her safety, she flew back to Germany. “I didn’t tell him I was leaving, because I was scared.”
Dwight Sr. says his son called then, despondent. “Dad, I don’t know what’s wrong with me,” the father quoted his son as telling him. “I just get mad. I can’t help myself.” Eventually, after he promised to control himself, Mrs. Smith did return to his base at Fort Drum, N.Y., and they resumed married life.
TWO months later, on the day of the murder, they were at Dwight Sr.’s home for Christmas vacation. Jasmin says that her husband asked her to go jogging in the morning, but she declined. Then he left the house — and allegedly killed and raped Ms. Lee.
He seemed relatively normal when he returned, Mrs. Smith told me, and they went Christmas shopping that afternoon. After he was arrested that evening, she spoke briefly to her husband; she says that his only explanation for the crime was that he had become enraged while running that he wasn’t physically fit enough. Sometimes since, she says, he has suggested that he blacked out and can’t remember exactly what happened. He also says that he wants to apologize to Ms. Lee’s family.
Rape hasn’t been part of the typical pattern of crimes committed by returning soldiers with T.B.I. or PTSD. But Bennet Omalu, an expert on brain injuries who is also a clinical professor of pathology at University of California, Davis, told me that T.B.I. could indeed lead to such sexual violence. Indeed, Dr. Omalu said he had recently performed an autopsy on an elderly woman who had been randomly raped and murdered by an Iraq war veteran.
Frankly, I hesitated to write this column. I feel strongly that we as a nation have let down our veterans, failing to provide the mental health services they need, and we owe them better. But I can’t be sure that the murder of Ms. Lee is related to these failures. In the end, I decided to go ahead because here’s a young man with no adult criminal record who was promoted rapidly within the military and then suffered brain injuries. And then on his return he allegedly committed a horrific rape and murder that do not make any sense — not to me, not to you, not to his family.
“You lie next to your husband every night,” Mrs. Smith said. “I know he had anger issues, but didn’t think he would do something like that.”
Could the Army have done a better job screening Sergeant Smith’s mental health and addressing his needs? The Army does indeed ask returning soldiers questions about mental health, but self-reporting doesn’t work well because soldiers don’t answer questions honestly. “They don’t want to get kicked out of the Army, and they don’t want to admit anything is wrong,” Mrs. Smith said.
Dwight Sr. notes that his son’s PTSD wasn’t diagnosed until after his arrest and thinks the Army should have given him more help after his brain injury in 2011. “I believe if he’d been in a program, I don’t think we’d be sitting here talking,” he said.
Stephen N. Xenakis, a psychiatrist and retired brigadier general who has advised the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on military mental health issues, agrees that we have failed our service members exposed to blasts. He compares it to the runaround soldiers were given for decades about damage from Agent Orange.
What the military most needs, he says, isn’t new weapons systems but a “surge against brain disease” to invest in protecting its most valuable assets — its people.
To its credit, the military this year has stepped up efforts to elevate mental health concerns. But the Defense Department and Department of Veterans Affairs will have to do far more — and this will suck up resources that planners may prefer to invest in ships and planes.
Another lesson has to do with the larger cost of war: President George W. Bush’s worst mistake was the Iraq war, and President Obama’s was roughly tripling the number of troops in Afghanistan. Let’s hope that future presidents remember that the cost of dispatching ground troops on foreign battlefields isn’t measured only in lives and limbs lost but also in the invisible mental health toll on warriors and those around them.
Mr. Manning, the public defender, is himself a veteran, and he thinks that there are going to be many more crimes like this. He declined to discuss his strategy for the trial, which is set for early 2014 because of the complex mental health issues involved, but added, “It’s hard to make sense of, but when you take somebody’s brain and rattle it around, it damages it in ways they don’t understand.”
I don’t know just what could have led an apparently normal young man to commit such a crime. All we know for certain is that a caring, much loved woman here in Delaware has been horrifically murdered, leaving a vacuum of sadness and a vexing uncertainty about whether there is a link to distant wars.
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Education: A Predictor of Longer Life - below
GCG: Comment to this article: Excellent level of information - The Bible tells the same facts - knowledge, education of God's word, The Bible, is the key to a long life.
Knowing The Bible is education. The article below refers to our earthly education (High School, College, University) and shows: the broader the education the better choices we make and the longer we stay healthy and the longer we live. The same principle applies to becoming financially rich. God wants you, us all, to stay healthy, live long, and be rich financially (as long as the money is not becoming our "god").
Education: A Predictor of Longer Life
By Philip Moeller
U.S.News & World Report
This is for your personal use, only
If you want to know how long you will live, you might stop fretting over genetics and family history and instead look at your educational achievements. Education is certainly not the only variable associated with longer lives, but it may be the most powerful.
[See Top 10 U.S. Places for Healthcare.]
Recent study findings published in the journal Health Affairs present a remarkable update to the already considerable research showing education to be a powerful predictor of longer life spans.
"The lifelong relationships of education and its correlates with health and longevity are striking," the article said. "Education exerts its direct beneficial effects on health through the adoption of healthier lifestyles, better ability to cope with stress, and more effective management of chronic diseases. However, the indirect effects of education through access to more privileged social position, better-paying jobs, and higher income are also profound."
While the findings are good news for educated Americans, they also indicate that medical and lifestyle breakthroughs that have triggered the much-publicized longevity revolution are not being enjoyed by less-educated Americans whose lifespans have fallen further behind over time. This trend has implications for the debate about raising the Social Security retirement age. It also adds a compelling mortality tale to the economic costs of the nation's falling educational-achievement levels compared with other nations.
Within U.S. racial groups, educational achievement is associated with significant longevity benefits. But compared across racial groups, the longevity gap is even greater, which indicates continued race-based differences in how long Americans live. The Health Affairs article was co-authored by 15 leading academic experts in aging and longevity. The research was conducted by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society.
[See 10 Things Aging Americans Want.]
"We found that in 2008 U.S. adult men and women with fewer than twelve years of education had life expectancies not much better than those of all adults in the 1950s and 1960s," the article said. "When race and education are combined, the disparity is even more striking."
Within racial and ethnic groups, there was a pronounced longevity benefit when comparing people with 16 or more years of school with those with less than 12 years. Among women, the differences in life expectancy at birth were 10.4 years among whites, 6.5 years among blacks, and 2.9 years for Hispanics. Among men, the gaps were 12.9 years among whites, 9.7 years among blacks, and 5.5 years for Hispanics.
But the differences were more striking across all racial groups. "White U.S. men and women with 16 years or more of schooling had life expectancies far greater than black Americans with fewer than 12 years of education--14.2 years more for white men than black men, and 10.3 years more for white women than black women," the article said.
"These gaps have widened over time and have led to at least two 'Americas,' if not multiple others, in terms of life expectancy, demarcated by level of education and racial-group membership." Compared with similar 1990 measures, by 2008, the gap among men had widened by nearly a year, and among women, by more than two-and-a-half years.
[See Tips on Social Security Spousal Benefits.]
"The current life expectancy at birth for U.S. blacks with fewer than twelve years of education is equivalent to the life expectancy observed in the 1960s and 1970s for all people in the United States, but blacks' longevity has been improving with time," the article said.
That hasn't been the case for whites. "White males with fewer than twelve years of education currently have a life expectancy at birth equivalent to that of all men in the United States born in 1972, while white females with similar education have the life expectancy of all women in the country born in 1964," it added. "And the longevity of these white males and females is growing worse over time."
The impact of education on lifespans is so powerful, the authors said, that improving people's health and lifestyle behaviors alone "are not likely to have a major impact on disparities in longevity." The authors called on policymakers to "implement educational enhancements at young, middle, and older ages for people of all races, to reduce the large gap in health and longevity that persists today."
More From US News & World Report
By Philip Moeller
U.S.News & World Report
This is for your personal use, only
If you want to know how long you will live, you might stop fretting over genetics and family history and instead look at your educational achievements. Education is certainly not the only variable associated with longer lives, but it may be the most powerful.
[See Top 10 U.S. Places for Healthcare.]
Recent study findings published in the journal Health Affairs present a remarkable update to the already considerable research showing education to be a powerful predictor of longer life spans.
"The lifelong relationships of education and its correlates with health and longevity are striking," the article said. "Education exerts its direct beneficial effects on health through the adoption of healthier lifestyles, better ability to cope with stress, and more effective management of chronic diseases. However, the indirect effects of education through access to more privileged social position, better-paying jobs, and higher income are also profound."
While the findings are good news for educated Americans, they also indicate that medical and lifestyle breakthroughs that have triggered the much-publicized longevity revolution are not being enjoyed by less-educated Americans whose lifespans have fallen further behind over time. This trend has implications for the debate about raising the Social Security retirement age. It also adds a compelling mortality tale to the economic costs of the nation's falling educational-achievement levels compared with other nations.
Within U.S. racial groups, educational achievement is associated with significant longevity benefits. But compared across racial groups, the longevity gap is even greater, which indicates continued race-based differences in how long Americans live. The Health Affairs article was co-authored by 15 leading academic experts in aging and longevity. The research was conducted by the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on an Aging Society.
[See 10 Things Aging Americans Want.]
"We found that in 2008 U.S. adult men and women with fewer than twelve years of education had life expectancies not much better than those of all adults in the 1950s and 1960s," the article said. "When race and education are combined, the disparity is even more striking."
Within racial and ethnic groups, there was a pronounced longevity benefit when comparing people with 16 or more years of school with those with less than 12 years. Among women, the differences in life expectancy at birth were 10.4 years among whites, 6.5 years among blacks, and 2.9 years for Hispanics. Among men, the gaps were 12.9 years among whites, 9.7 years among blacks, and 5.5 years for Hispanics.
But the differences were more striking across all racial groups. "White U.S. men and women with 16 years or more of schooling had life expectancies far greater than black Americans with fewer than 12 years of education--14.2 years more for white men than black men, and 10.3 years more for white women than black women," the article said.
"These gaps have widened over time and have led to at least two 'Americas,' if not multiple others, in terms of life expectancy, demarcated by level of education and racial-group membership." Compared with similar 1990 measures, by 2008, the gap among men had widened by nearly a year, and among women, by more than two-and-a-half years.
[See Tips on Social Security Spousal Benefits.]
"The current life expectancy at birth for U.S. blacks with fewer than twelve years of education is equivalent to the life expectancy observed in the 1960s and 1970s for all people in the United States, but blacks' longevity has been improving with time," the article said.
That hasn't been the case for whites. "White males with fewer than twelve years of education currently have a life expectancy at birth equivalent to that of all men in the United States born in 1972, while white females with similar education have the life expectancy of all women in the country born in 1964," it added. "And the longevity of these white males and females is growing worse over time."
The impact of education on lifespans is so powerful, the authors said, that improving people's health and lifestyle behaviors alone "are not likely to have a major impact on disparities in longevity." The authors called on policymakers to "implement educational enhancements at young, middle, and older ages for people of all races, to reduce the large gap in health and longevity that persists today."
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The cheating activity is widely spread - something must be done about it
It degrades everyone - the honest & the crooked ones
42 percent of incoming Harvard freshmen
cheated in past: survey
PART A
Well, at least they're honest about being cheats.
A survey by the Harvard Crimson says 42 percent of incoming Harvard freshmen admit they've cheated on a homework assignment or problem set in the past. One in 10 (= 10 %) copped (= admitted) to having cheated on an exam.
The jocks*) especially have a lot to answer for. The Crimson's survey found that those recruited to play sports for Harvard were more likely to have cheated in the past than other students. *) jock = an enthusiast or participant in a specified activity (in this case sports); also: disc jockey; computer jock;
Additionally, male freshmen were "twice as likely as their female counterparts to have cheated on an exam and one-and-a-half times more likely to admit to cheating on a paper or take-home assignment."
The number of students who admitted to cheating pre-Harvard is higher than those who graduated from the university last spring. In a similar survey, 7 percent of Harvard's class admitted to cheating on an exam, paper or take-home test during their undergraduate years. Thirty-two percent said they had cheated on homework or a problem set at Harvard.
The survey, which covered other topics including student finances, sexual experience and drug use, comes a year after Harvard was embroiled in a cheating scandal that resulted in dozens of students being forced to withdraw.
Incoming freshmen would be well-advised to learn from their mistakes.
PART B
After going public a year ago with their investigation into Harvard’s largest cheating scandal in recent memory, administrators went to great lengths to promote a culture of academic integrity in the Harvard community.
But the results of a Crimson survey of the Class of 2017 conducted last month suggest that some of the newest members of that community are already guilty of academic dishonesty.
Ten percent of respondents admitted to having cheated on an exam, and 17 percent said they had cheated on a paper or a take-home assignment. An even greater percentage—42 percent—admitted to cheating on a homework assignment or problem set.
Recruited athletes were even more likely to admit to cheating—20 percent admitted to cheating on an exam, compared to 9 percent of students who were not recruited to play a varsity sport at Harvard. Twenty-six percent of recruited athletes said they had cheated on a paper or take-home assignment, compared to 16 percent of non-recruits.
Across the board, the incoming freshman class reported higher rates of cheating than did Harvard’s Class of 2013 in a Crimson senior survey conducted last spring. In that survey, 7 percent of graduating seniors said they had cheated on an exam, and 7 percent said they had cheated on a paper or take-home test. Thirty-two percent of graduating seniors said they cheated on a problem set or homework assignment during their undergraduate careers.
The Crimson’s survey of the Class of 2017 generated responses from more 1,300 incoming freshmen—nearly 80 percent of the class. Part III of a four-part series on the results of the survey focuses on the academic and extracurricular lives of freshmen.
ACADEMICS
Recruited athletes were not the only demographic to be more likely to cheat. Men were more likely than women to report having cheated. Male freshmen were twice as likely as their female counterparts to have cheated on an exam and one-and-a-half times more likely to admit to cheating on a paper or take-home assignment.
Despite the number of freshmen who admitted to academic dishonesty, their responses indicate that they overwhelmingly expect to prioritize academics at Harvard. Eighty-four percent of respondents put academics first when asked to rank their anticipated priorities among academics, extracurriculars, varsity sports, paid employment, and social life. Not a single respondent put academics at the bottom of their list.
The academic interests of the new freshman class were not always consistent with concentration numbers at the College. Twenty-six percent of surveyed freshmen said they plan to concentrate in economics or government, the two most populous concentrations at Harvard that represent 21 percent of current Harvard concentrators. And not a single freshman expressed plans to study African and African American Studies, Germanic Languages and Literatures, or South Asian Studies.
And just three months after a faculty committee released a set of reports advocating the revitalization of the study of the arts and humanities at Harvard, just 11 percent of surveyed freshmen said they plan to concentrate in that discipline. That figure is even lower than the current percentage of arts and humanities concentrators, who already make up just 16 percent of the student body.
Surveyed freshmen were also ambitious in their undergraduate academic plans. Fifty-nine percent said they plan to pursue a secondary field, and 36 percent a language citation. Among all surveyed freshmen, 23 percent plan to pursue both.
The survey results suggest that these high achievers are self-motivated. Eighty-two percent identified their greatest source of pressure as their own expectations. Just 8 percent named their parents as their greatest source of pressure. But not everyone was stressed out—7 percent of respondents said they are not under pressure.
The majority of surveyed freshmen said they expect to spend more time studying in college than they did in high school. A plurality of respondents—36 percent—indicated that they anticipate studying between 20 and 29 hours a week in college, and 26 percent said they anticipate spending between 30 and 39. Four percent said they anticipate studying 50 or more hours a week, and only 2 percent said they anticipate studying for 10 or fewer.
In comparison, 58 percent said that they studied for 19 or fewer hours in high school. However, pre-college study habits varied widely between respondents who went to public and private secondary schools. Only 17 percent of students who attended a non-denominational private school said they studied for 10 or fewer hours a week, compared to 39 percent of public, non-charter school students.
EXTRACURRICULARS
Although a large majority of respondents ranked academics as their anticipated highest priority for college, a plurality—40 percent—ranked extracurriculars*) second, and another 35 percent ranked it third.
*) = extracurriculars = Being outside the regular curriculum of a school or college, e.g.: Sports and drama are the school's most popular extracurricular activities
Surveyed freshmen were also enthusiastic about their secondary school extracurriculars. A large majority—84 percent—were involved in community service in high school. Also popular were music clubs/bands and student government, at 39 and 37 percent, respectively.
Respondents also reported being drawn to academic clubs in high school: 34 percent were involved in math clubs or competitions, 32 percent in science clubs or competitions, and 25 percent in other academic clubs.
Of those who were involved in student government in high school, 79 percent said they believe that student government has the power to effect change. Respondents who did not participate in student government were a bit more skeptical, with 60 percent expressing faith in the potential of student government.
Many surveyed freshmen rose to the top of their high school extracurriculars. A plurality of respondents—27 percent—were the president or top leader of two clubs in high school, and 26 percent were in charge of one. Two percent were the leaders of six or more clubs, and 9 percent were the editors-in-chief of their high school newspapers.
But not all freshmen obtained a top leadership role in their extracurriculars—19 percent led zero clubs.
ATHLETICS
One particularly popular high school extracurricular was athletics. Sixty-nine percent of surveyed freshmen reported being involved in athletics in high school, but just 12 percent of respondents were recruited to play a varsity sport at Harvard. An additional 9 percent of the class planned to walk on to a varsity team at Harvard.
Three quarters of freshman athletes, including both walk-ons and recruits, said they were likely or very likely to play their sport for all four years. However, recruited athletes were more likely than intended walk-on athletes to envision themselves graduating as four-year athletes, coming in at 93 and 47 percent, respectively.
Intended walk-on athletes were disproportionately drawn to certain sports. Among the intended walk-on athletes, more than 27 percent said they plan to try out for the men’s or women’s lightweight or heavyweight crew teams. Only three were ambitious enough to say they plan to walk on to the men’s basketball team that made it to March Madness the past two seasons.
Twenty-two percent of incoming recruited and walk-on athletes reported having received at least one concussion while playing a sport. Of those, two-thirds said they had been concussed once. But for most, these experiences did not dissuade them from playing their sports. Just 5 percent of all athletes and 19 percent of those who had been concussed from sports said they felt that concussions had affected their approach to their sport or desire to play that sport.
Athletes and non-athletes reported differing academic backgrounds. Coming into Harvard, 33 percent of incoming recruited athletes said that BC Calculus was the highest level of math they had completed prior to college, compared to 43 percent of non-athletes.
Athletes also expressed different academic plans for Harvard than their non-athlete counterparts. Although the “Gov Jock” is a commonly referenced stereotype among Harvard students, just one incoming recruited athlete expressed plans to concentrate in government. In comparison, 11 percent of non-athlete respondents were interested in becoming government concentrators.
On the other hand, economics, the most popular concentration among Harvard students, was disproportionately represented among incoming recruited athletes. Thirty-two percent said they expect to become economics concentrators, compared to 15 percent of non-athletes.
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The resume information has the following components - all provided for you to study
(1) Detailed information how this leading professional will benefit your organization - definitely in a more effective manner than most professionals you could locate even worldwide. Dr. Christian will find the solutions to any situation, will raise your income, and will create substantial savings in your operational expenses as well as in your health care costs.
When it comes to creating good deals for you and for your organization, his talents are yours to hire: he is a highly experienced negotiator - send him anywhere to meet anyone and he will give you the desired results.
(2) 2-page Resume: Professional experience and Academic background
(3) Dr. Christian's Recent Project
(4) An impressive endorsement letter and its introduction
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Academic Resume
Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D. ________________(Page 1/c)
Call/text: (203) 788-1876 - e-mail; [email protected]
>>> Pastor/Preacher (ordained on 11/5/1996) – TV/Radio Ministry - Choir Leader & Voice Trainer – Solo Singer – Piano/Keyboard/Organ Player – Hymnist - Biblical Counselor - Therapist – English Teacher
Known internationally as the real proactive, persistent Top-Producer and by applying innovative action principles he:(1) solves ALL your challenges with his D.D.,Ph.D. level competence in Church Services, Business & Sciences, (2) brings out the best in your staff, as a BIBLE SPECIALIST, as a HEALTH & NUTRITION SCIENTIST guides your staff & your whole congregation to healthier, happier, joyful, productive, God-blessed lifestyle and brings savings in Health Care costs to all, streamline operations in wide range by most modern solutions, (3) is an experienced “Miracle Healer”, (4) will increase your Church donations
Before becoming a Pastor & Preacher “Fireproofed” in several industries with impressive track record positions in 2 continents with demanding responsibilities & consulting assignments relating to: Wall Street & Global Investments, Consulting, Language Institute, Casino; Publishing, Real Estate, Health & Nutrition, Not-for-Profit Organizations, College & Educational (named “Most Inspiring Educator of the Year”), Car Dealerships, Broadcasting (is Radio & TV Show Host), Professional & Creative Writing (educational, business, technical, legal, other), Public Seminar Leader. Professional growth for over 20 years through positions from entry level sales and customer service all the way to HR Director, Director of Training, Program & Product Development Director, Sales/Marketing & Research Director, Senior VP, President/CEO, College President and finally, by God’s clear calling, as a Pastor. Skilled in all areas of executive & church management. Consistently exceeded all company or church objectives.
University Education from B.A. all the way to Ph.D. in the following: Columbia University (New York City), Helsinki University (Europe), New York City University (New York City), Clayton College (Birmingham).
Personal: Home language English. Married to a US-born, CA-raised lady, two (2) New York City born sons (age: 11 and 9)
Present position: TWO “PART-TIME” POSITIONS: (1) 2005 - Global Church of God – GCG, Reverend, Pastor, Radio/TV Ministry as its sole Host Pastor, material Creator, Preacher. Web: www.gcg1org.weebly.com - (2) 2005 – Save The American Family – Staf, Inc., New York, nationwide, not-for-profit, CEO, Web: www.staf1org.weebly.com As the Public Spokesperson running for both organizations nationwide/worldwide 2 Radio/TV Shows as the sole Host creating & writing all material. Planning and executing for both (= gcg & staf) their operations. Writing new books, motivational programs, language programs, creating marketing strategies, increasing publicity & sales.
Created, written & designed both of the above websites - (1) www.gcg1org.weebly.com and (2) www.staf1org.weebly.com
Previous - 2- positions: (1) American Know-How, Inc., Wall Street, New York, CEO for the European Office, investments (created a new Bond type, DVC, for the worldwide market), consulting, training, publishing (reasonposition ended: moved to USA); (2) PKK College; as the new College President made the revenue-losing College into the industry leader and the largest College in Europe with over 2 300 employees. (reasonposition ended: moved to USA), rescued the College from disaster and made it successful and finally the leading & the largest (reasonposition ended: moved to USA) _______________________________________
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Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D. ________________(Page 2/c)
Selected Achievements and Special Skills
To Exceptionally Benefit Your Organization
What Your Organization Needs Is Here For increased success, your organization needs talented individuals with a proven track record of having God-blessed “brains” - brains that create new solutions & new achievements of higher level.
“Real talents” is the key.
Early signs for exceptional talents: Dr. Christian started school in Europe 2 (two) years younger than any other kid. After graduation known as the youngest School Principal (age 19) and then as the youngest College President (age 24). Since age 5 performed continuously in Radio nationwide (blessed by God to have: excellent piano playing, singing, song writing-composing & performing arts talents). As adult a well-known public figure, a household name on a level that his political supporters in Europe wanted him to run for the Presidency of the “old” country (they all said “he’ll win the election”). After a careful evaluation of the suggestion, he said “No thanks, my heart, my wife, and my two (2) young sons (then 1 & 3 years of age) are in America”.
In High School: Class President, Best Student & Valedictorian.
In College: Student Union President already in his first year. The only person in the history of his first Alma Mater to be elected as a Student Union Leader in his freshman year.
Some Professional Achievements Internationally published author (volume wise among the most published educational writers in Europe with the present goal: volume wise among the world’s most published).
See below (end of page) a sample of some famous quotes created & written by Dr. Christian (study as a writing sample).
Strong verbal, written, conversational & public platform performance skills. Proficient in solving problems & implementing solutions under tight deadlines. Hands-on-Executive, capable of efficiently managing all levels of budgets. In complicated negotiations, demanding sales, legal & otherprocesses named as “The Closer”. Known to continue in a difficult task & to produce desired results even when others have given up, thus known as “the miracle producer in mission impossibles”. Creative writer (books, winning sales & ad scripts, other). Traveled all major continents, communicates in several languages. Personable & presentable anywhere to anyone as the Ambassador for your organization, capable of always leaving a memorable impression alive.
My photo: www.gcg1org.weebly.com or www.staf1org.weebly.com – the blog tab.
Outstanding human relationship skills (is a Certified Biblical & Successological Counselor – Therapist – Life Coach). Specialist in Behavioral Sciences, founder of the new Science Successology® (Reg. US Pat.Off. in 1991) & creator of the professional title Successologist™.
Developer of © Copyrighted methods, techniques, health & lifestyle systems & therapies for wide international use. Inventor of patentable medical devices.
With all of the above & more: capable in an extraordinary manner of improving the positive results in every area of activities in YOUR organization.
To negotiate: call/text: 203-788-1876, email: [email protected]
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" (Aristotle) _______
Sample of -5- Quotes by Dr. Christian – quotes that are created & written by Dr. Christian:
“In truth alone hides wisdom – in wisdom happiness and success”(Dr. Christian)
“Knowledge is no power - only applied knowledge is power” (Dr. Christian)
Many of Dr. Christian’s quotes (all written & created by him) will be appearing in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
The following 3 quotes are also created by Dr. Christian.
Because his quotes serve him as some of his own life principles he lives by, they will show the high level of
effectiveness & wit you will gain when you invite Dr. Christian to build new success in your organization.
“The more attention is paid to the smallest of the details, the bigger the results” (Dr. Christian)
“Character is what you do when no one is watching” (Dr. Christian)
“To stay healthy is to eat what your body wants, not what you want” (Dr. Christian)
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* * Your Organization Will Succeed Better with Dr. Christian’s Clearly Superior Experience & Talents * *
Do you seriously believe you (easily) find as talented individuals as Dr. Christian has proven to be? You need the most qualified, the most effective solution provider, the most capable professional. As you do see -Dr. Christian is.
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Recent project
is with GCG's associated, scientific not-for-profit organization.
Dr. Christian is also the Chairman of that organization in addition to being the Pastor of GCG.
Go to that organization's website: www.staf1org.weebly.com - a beneficial website for all our church members
for Healthy Lifestyle & Correct Nutrition.
The organization is SAVE THE AMERICAN FAMILY - STAF, INC.,-not-for-profit-
As the lead author Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., developed a new Healthy Lifestyle & Nutritional Program meant for the U.S. government use to be included in the U.S. health care system as the solution for the enormous obesity & other wrong lifestyle challenges in the USA - all leading to multitudes of sicknesses in our nation. When applied nationwide, this new program will save every year hundreds of billions of dollars for the federal government, ease much human suffering, and save millions of human lives.
Dr. Christian will introduce this new system in Washington D.C. to the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Senate, the White House & our President, and to all related federal agencies.
No one else has ever before created a similar program that has proven to bring the desired results - the results that have been searched for a long time by many other specialists.
This new Healthy Lifestyle & Nutritional Program took the past six (6) years to be modified for the U.S. needs. The program is based on nineteen (19) years of previous worldwide research. This means: it has taken over a quarter of a century to develop and create, totally 26 years. No other Healthy Lifestyle & Nutritional Program in the world has so many years effective research, material creation, and testing as this program has.
This program will save substantial amounts for every American family in food expenses, yet covers & provides everything & all nutrients in correct amounts any human being needs daily. New in this program is also the following fact: everyone can afford to follow the program - even a person working on the minimum wage or living on social security. That is an important key - what good is any good program in only a few can afford it. In addition: all food ingredients a person needs to apply this program are available in every supermarket. We do not sell you any food - we give you precious, easy-to-follow guidance what to buy and how to prepare it yourself in your own home for fully healthy meals. All information anyone needs is in this new program. Brief information about the amazingly low cost in the home page - more in this tab: University/College.
This new system is also an automatic weight loss program - nothing additional to buy, no gimmicks, all natural with no negative side effects and most importantly: it will bring the weight loss results, easily & effortlessly.
It is a program that that has, for the first time, the solution how to motivate the U.S. public to apply the program - an important key for a real success. Tested widely to bring the desired results.
The same program is suitable worldwide for every country and for every nation. The foreign governments are welcome to contact STAF, Inc. through the contact information in the home page in this website.
Quote by Dr. Christian: "Knowledge is no power - only applied knowledge is power"
The website showing the details of this new program is this same one you are on now: www.staf1org.weebly.com
You will find brief information on this site's home page and over 80 pages in tab: University/College
Some information will be still added - also the footnotes are still not placed. About 25 % of information for this whole program is still not placed in this website.
The related Radio Show hosted by Dr. Christian in tab: Radio/TV Shows - it has the link to the original radio show recordings 24/7. College/University/CEU credits available for the listeners to the original recordings on the web. Based on the original recordings the Show material is modified and distributed nationwide & worldwide.
The show title"DrDrCanYouHelpMe" (Tab (in this website): Radio/TV Shows has the link to the show recordings.)
Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., is available for any organization to come to teach this result-bringing Healthy Lifestyle & Nutritional Program to your staff no matter what size your staff - a few or a million. The easy-to-apply principles will keep your staff healthy and restore their lost health due to a wrong, unhealthy lifestyle. Your organization will benefit in a BIG way: (1) less absentees, (2) less sicknesses, (3) better, more effective work results - all saving you and your organization substantial amounts in health care costs.
SAVE THE AMERICAN FAMILY - STAF, Inc.,not-for-profit, is the publisher of this new program.
STAF, Inc. has been educating new trainers to be available nationwide to bring these important results for you and for your organization.
STAF, Inc. trainers are available to come to any school, college, or university to teach your students to learn the Healthy Lifestyle & Nutritional Program details. As the result your school, college, and university will function much smoother in every aspect, you save in health care costs, you have less behavioral challenges - your students learn better and get higher results.
STAF, Inc. also sends a trainer to a single family to train your family privately in all these details. Your family members will have a better, healthier life. Your family spirit will be happier in every aspects. Your marriage will be happier. Your health care expenses are much less. Good health provides a longer, more satisfying life. Less suffering more life.
For training negotiations contact 203-788-1876.
STAF, Inc. training services are available nationwide and worldwide.
Additional info for Academic studies & some details relating to Dr. Christian's professional experience:
In addition to Divinity & Health Sciences, Dr. Christian von Christophers has a University degree in Business & Economics, Communication, Education & Political Science, and he can communicate in five (5) languages.
Dr CvC started his career in Europe as a School Principal (was the youngest school principal - only 19), became a College President (at the age of 24 - was the youngest College President). Dr. Christian was leading that College successfully to become the largest College in its geographical area.
He also has European legal training and was a co-owner of a law office in Europe.
He continued his studies in the USA starting at the Columbia University (NYC) and completed his exceptionally broad academic studies in several other U.S. Colleges. In total he has studied 16 different academic disciplines in 2 continents.
Dr. Christian is also musically talented - plays music and has a good singing voice (on the level of a Broadway show performer).
In 2003 he became a Certified Piano Teacher (NYCU - Queens College Music School) and is a singing trainer for any level.
He is also a Church Choir leader.
Dr. Christian is an experienced public solo performer: sings & plays the music himself using the keyboard.
He is available to train, to perform & entertain.
He developed a fast keyboard playing method - in six (6) months your playing sounds like you are a pro.
Dr. Christian founded the movement "Keyboard in every hand"(TM). Music & singing has great mental & physical health benefits. Every child willing deserves to learn to play keyboard. Every family can afford a keyboard - at $100 you'll get a good-enough a keyboard. Not every family can afford a 5K piano - a piano you cannot carry with you anywhere you go, but your keyboard to can. Playing music and learning to sing is a life-time beneficial matter. It is never too learn to start keyboard training - you can start at any age. If your child is interested aim to have him/her starting at the age of 3 except if the child wants to start earlier.
Music training (playing & family singing) is suggested as a part of the new Healthy Lifestyle program described in this material and in this STAF, Inc. website.
Dr. Christian married a U.S. California born & raised lady, and his 2 sons (11 & 9) are born in the New York City.
He has traveled & done research in all major continents and has visited all U.S. States except Alaska.
He is willing to relocate (even to Alaska). He is available to come anywhere in the U.S. and in the world to train, to teach, to run seminars, and to lecture.
No matter what the size of your organization, his presence in your organization will help you in a grand manner.
Endorsement letter by one of Dr. Christian's private clients
Please go to the tab: Testimonials in this same website, and see there (at the beginning of that tab) an informative endorsement letter and its introduction. The information you'll see will prove to you that you & your organization need Dr. Christian's presence.
Dr. Christian's picture in tab: blog in this same website
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Please notice: The client giving the endorsement (below) has agreed to give (by phone) additional information relating to his experience with Dr. Christian's result-bringing private services. Call 212-946-1234 to make arrangements to talk to this client.
Introduction to the endorsement letter below
As any business or organization, so also your organization, is only as good as its staff is.
Dr. Christian von Christophers (referred below as Dr. C.) is an internationally leading expert, an experienced specialist, to guide & train your whole staff, no matter what size, to function more effectively, yet happier & more content, and to produce results on a higher scale.
Improving your staff’s satisfaction level, raising sales or improving services & have the public co-operating, is always a human relationship & motivational skill.
They are in many ways the same methods & techniques as used in any effective emotional, mental, or behavioral counseling and therapy.
Dr. C. has developed several techniques and methods for world wide use to ease the human suffering.
He has also developed more effective and enjoyable learning & training techniques.
Dr. C. is the founder of Successology (Reg.U.S.Pat.Off. 1991) – the new science for success.
The enclosed endorsement letter given to Dr. C. by one of his counseling clients proves that Dr. C. is a professional who does not give up before the desired results are developed.
The client testifies that, in his case, several other well-known specialists, during several years, could not get any results for him. Dr. C. did and gave the client his life back.
In the same manner, Dr. C. will in your organization be the one who will find the answers.
Dr. C. is described as the specialist in “Missions Impossible”.
He believes that to any human situation and challenge there is always a positive solution – and he will find it.
The client's opinion is truly an exceptionally positive and effective endorsement.
This endorsement strongly proves that when others may fail, he still competently succeeds.
With the same principles, also in your organization, he will bring the desired results you truly want.
Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., will bring new success for you.
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To Whom It May Concern:
* Printed with the Client’s Permission
I have known Dr. Christian over many years.
In every way he always finds ways to create harmony and balance for the human race.
With his incredible abilities he has been able to assist me with undeniable Healing!
Regardless of how much he has on his table he always manages to come through for me.
Dr. Christian amazed me with his Purity of intent, he is by far the most talented Therapist I have ever known.
I truly feel that everyone should take advantage of any opportunity to meet or talk with him as it is rare to come in contact with a master of his level.
I have worked with only the best and Dr. Christian clearly reflects the highest gifts.
Joel Fertakos
Baltimore, Md.
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Client’s Background Information
This client had gone for over 15 years to different doctors and therapists and no one could solve his problems.
The client had steep difficulties in every area of life. The challenges paralyzed him fully for a very long time, years after years. According to the Client, Dr. Christian, was the first and only one who finally gave him his life back.
I, Dr. Christian, have witnessed it to happen for him in this process.
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Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., is an exceptionally competent, result-producing counselor.
It is hard to find an as competent professional as he has proven to be.
Dr. Christian is a highly experienced Life Coach, Counselor, Therapist & Successologist (TM)
He gets the desired results when others have failed.
In your business the principles for great success are
the same principles than in any individual counseling.
NOW your organization can benefit from Dr. Christian’s outstanding talents.
Your organization will benefit from Dr. C’s presence in a grand manner.
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Your organization can choose to hire Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., in the following manner:
(1) as an independent contractor (for any time period);
(2) as a consultant provided by Global Church of God - GCG, Inc., -not-for-profit- (for any time period);
(3) As a temporary or permanent employee in your organization (for any time period);
(4) or with any combinations of these options (for any time period);
(5) seminars & training assignments (of any length) nationwide & worldwide are available.
(6) As a SIP = Specialty Itinerary Professional (of any length) traveling to different locations (nationwide/worldwide)
functioning in any business activities.
*) SIP is a copyrighted "title" owned by GCG and by its affiliated organization Save The American Family -STAF, Inc.,-not-for-profit-
(visit: www.staf1org.weebly.com)
STAF, Inc. is a scientific organization for all successful life topics endorsing the biblical services provided by the GCG
Any of the above options can be applied - the choice is yours.
For negotiations (1) call / text: 203-788-1876 or (2) email: [email protected]
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N:o 2 Letter of Recommendation
With great eagerness I, Professor Jarmo Korhonen, Ph.D. (University of Helsinki, Finland), highly recommend Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D. ,N.D. ,D.D., for a position in our organization.
I have known Dr. Christian as my close friend since the first days we both started in the same College (Oulu State University, Finland) studying Education & Language Teaching. After a while he added Economics, Business & Communication in his study plan and finishedhis first degree in a record time. Quite fast his talents as a leader were recognized as he was selected as the Student Union President already in his first freshman year - an exceptional achievement. At the age of 20 (then still a student) Dr. Christian founded a language institute and made it grow fast nationwide finally known as the leading language school in Finland, his former country. I myself was among the first teachers in his language institute teaching German language. Later I became a Professor and the Dean of the Germanic Philology Department in Finland's leading University, Helsinki University (first in Turku State University, Finland) - an achievement for me that had much to do with Dr. Christian's encouragement and positive influence of anything being possible to reach in life.
Dr. Christian himself became the youngest College President of a private College in Finland. Under his leadership the young College grew fast and became in a few years the largest College in Finland with excellent reputation of high level of programs. Dr. Christian was leading every group developing new College Programs - under his guidance they all achieved great success.
Knowing him since our first College years, having seen the exceptional achievements and the speed he finished them all, is so amazing that I have not seen anyone showing so high and so many talents as Dr.Christian has.
His leadership talents and capabilities of motivating everyone around him to achieve any desired result is so impressive that any organization selecting him in any demanding position will definitely be proud of his result-bringing work. Dr. Christian is known as a professional who gets any demanding project finished on time as planned - even in situations where someone else had failed before. Because I know your organization will be proud of his effectiveness and his high work levels, it is my great honor to highly recommend Dr.Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., for any leadership position.
Respectfully
Jarmo Korhonen
Prof. Jarmo Korhonen, Ph.D. University of Helsinki Department of Modern Languages Chair of Germanic Philology
P.O. Box 24 (Unioninkatu 40) FI-00014 Helsinki Tel.: +358-(0)9-19123175 Fax: +358-(0)9-19123072
E-Mail: Jarmo.Korhonen@Helsinki, Finland
With great eagerness I, Professor Jarmo Korhonen, Ph.D. (University of Helsinki, Finland), highly recommend Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D. ,N.D. ,D.D., for a position in our organization.
I have known Dr. Christian as my close friend since the first days we both started in the same College (Oulu State University, Finland) studying Education & Language Teaching. After a while he added Economics, Business & Communication in his study plan and finishedhis first degree in a record time. Quite fast his talents as a leader were recognized as he was selected as the Student Union President already in his first freshman year - an exceptional achievement. At the age of 20 (then still a student) Dr. Christian founded a language institute and made it grow fast nationwide finally known as the leading language school in Finland, his former country. I myself was among the first teachers in his language institute teaching German language. Later I became a Professor and the Dean of the Germanic Philology Department in Finland's leading University, Helsinki University (first in Turku State University, Finland) - an achievement for me that had much to do with Dr. Christian's encouragement and positive influence of anything being possible to reach in life.
Dr. Christian himself became the youngest College President of a private College in Finland. Under his leadership the young College grew fast and became in a few years the largest College in Finland with excellent reputation of high level of programs. Dr. Christian was leading every group developing new College Programs - under his guidance they all achieved great success.
Knowing him since our first College years, having seen the exceptional achievements and the speed he finished them all, is so amazing that I have not seen anyone showing so high and so many talents as Dr.Christian has.
His leadership talents and capabilities of motivating everyone around him to achieve any desired result is so impressive that any organization selecting him in any demanding position will definitely be proud of his result-bringing work. Dr. Christian is known as a professional who gets any demanding project finished on time as planned - even in situations where someone else had failed before. Because I know your organization will be proud of his effectiveness and his high work levels, it is my great honor to highly recommend Dr.Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D., for any leadership position.
Respectfully
Jarmo Korhonen
Prof. Jarmo Korhonen, Ph.D. University of Helsinki Department of Modern Languages Chair of Germanic Philology
P.O. Box 24 (Unioninkatu 40) FI-00014 Helsinki Tel.: +358-(0)9-19123175 Fax: +358-(0)9-19123072
E-Mail: Jarmo.Korhonen@Helsinki, Finland
N:O 3 Letter of Recommendation
Most enthusiastically I, Ms. Anna Swiezak, EdD (c), Columbia University, New York, write this letter of recommendation for Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D.
I have known him since our College days. We both studied at the Ivy League Columbia University, at the Teachers College, in New York City.We had several science interests in common.
I learned to know Dr. Christian as an excellent orator who has the rare talents to inspire & motivate any individual to a higher success through education and other positive adjustments in life.
While he was continuing his studies in the U.S., he was at the same time leading Finland's largest College in Europe.
In those days we did not have all the modern technology helping in the international communication as we have today. Yet, with his unique innovative management & administrative solutions, he was able to lead successfully professional activities in two continents. It was rare in those times. This was a strong proof for his new creative, positive thinking of getting "things done" no matter what the circumstances.
In addition to being a great educator, Dr. Christian is today also one of our leading Healthy Lifestyle Specialists recognized by many as the # 1 professional nationwide & worldwide.
Dr. Christian is well-known in getting the desired, searched-after results in everything he works on, also when some other professionals have given up in desperation.
Having known Dr. Christian von Christophers since our College days, I gladly recommend him for the position of Program Specialist/Assistant Director, SUNY, WCC Ossining Extension Center.
I know he will match all your highest expectations. As has happened before, perhaps he will again, as once before, be voted & named "as the most inspiring educator/administrator" of the year.
Respectfully,
Ms. Anna Swiezak, EdD (c) Columbia University, New York
Phone: 610-373-6109
1028 Muhlenberg Street, Reading, PA 19602-1925
Most enthusiastically I, Ms. Anna Swiezak, EdD (c), Columbia University, New York, write this letter of recommendation for Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D.
I have known him since our College days. We both studied at the Ivy League Columbia University, at the Teachers College, in New York City.We had several science interests in common.
I learned to know Dr. Christian as an excellent orator who has the rare talents to inspire & motivate any individual to a higher success through education and other positive adjustments in life.
While he was continuing his studies in the U.S., he was at the same time leading Finland's largest College in Europe.
In those days we did not have all the modern technology helping in the international communication as we have today. Yet, with his unique innovative management & administrative solutions, he was able to lead successfully professional activities in two continents. It was rare in those times. This was a strong proof for his new creative, positive thinking of getting "things done" no matter what the circumstances.
In addition to being a great educator, Dr. Christian is today also one of our leading Healthy Lifestyle Specialists recognized by many as the # 1 professional nationwide & worldwide.
Dr. Christian is well-known in getting the desired, searched-after results in everything he works on, also when some other professionals have given up in desperation.
Having known Dr. Christian von Christophers since our College days, I gladly recommend him for the position of Program Specialist/Assistant Director, SUNY, WCC Ossining Extension Center.
I know he will match all your highest expectations. As has happened before, perhaps he will again, as once before, be voted & named "as the most inspiring educator/administrator" of the year.
Respectfully,
Ms. Anna Swiezak, EdD (c) Columbia University, New York
Phone: 610-373-6109
1028 Muhlenberg Street, Reading, PA 19602-1925
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