///////////////Mediterranean-Like Diet Linked to Lower Risk for Chronic Disease, Death
Strict adherence to a Mediterranean-style diet is associated with reduced risk for mortality and chronic disease, according to a meta-analysis in BMJ.
Researchers combined data from 12 prospective cohort studies comprising 1.6 million subjects with 3 to 18 years' follow-up. They found that a two-point increase in adherence to a Mediterranean-like diet (on a nine-point scale) was associated with significantly reduced risk for:
* all-cause mortality (relative risk, 0.91);
* death from cardiovascular disease (RR, 0.91);
* incidence of or death from cancer (RR, 0.94);
* incidence of Alzheimer or Parkinson disease (RR, 0.87).
/////////////////Fluctuations in serotonin transport may explain winter blues
Researchers have discovered greater levels of serotonin transporter in the brain in winter than in summer. These findings have important implications for understanding seasonal mood change in healthy people, vulnerability to seasonal affective disorders and the relationship of light exposure to mood.
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Sunday, 14 September 2008
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/////////////UAC,UVC IN 15 MINS-OPHTHLMIC MAGNIFYING GLASSES
///////////Big Bang Day, Radio 4
Hurrah! Public service broadcasting with knobs on
By Nicholas Lezard
Sunday, 14 September 2008
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Well, is it the Higgs boson or the Higgs particle? We seem to be inclining towards the latter, which is a shame. For while more people may know what a particle is than know what a boson is, "Higgs boson" sounds better: more mysterious, more scientific.
Thanks to Radio 4's Big Bang Day last Wednesday, there are more people than ever before who could give the then science minister William Waldegrave the answer he craved in 1993, when he asked facetiously for a comprehensible definition of what a Higgs boson was and why we should be looking for it.
We now know that the Higgs boson is the reason everything, even William Waldegrave's brain, has mass; we just haven't seen one yet. Which is why the Large Hadron Collider has been built, and why Radio 4 sent Today's Andrew Marr to watch it being switched on. According to the Afternoon Play Lost Souls, a specially commissioned episode of Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off, it should not have been switched on until the possibility of murderous extra-dimensional aliens jumping into our universe had been ruled out. (Most people have been worried about the LHC sucking the earth into a black hole. They worry needlessly. It won't happen until October, when the really interesting experiments start.)
Most successful of the laudable attempts to get our heads round this subject have been Simon Singh's daily 15-minute programmes, 5 Particles, which patiently and lucidly tell us about electrons, quarks, antiparticles and the like. We are a long way, it transpires, from agreeing on the pronunciation of "quark" – does it rhyme with "ark" or "walk"? – let alone powering the Enterprise with antimatter. Incidentally, it's quite legitimate to use the noises made by the Enterprise to keep people's attention in programmes like this, but when, as in Ben Miller's r Great Big Particle Adventure, you use the music from the Winter Olympics while a scientist makes an analogy using snowshoes, then that's just distracting.
My favourite, though, was Steve Punt's one-off comedy, The Genuine Particle, which proposed that turning on the LHC would create a wormhole in time. It was an almost direct homage to Douglas Adams ("If we'd wanted an experiment that could have been halted by cups of tea we would have held it in England" or "It's very hard to smuggle an X-ray detector through an X-ray detector"), and none the worse for that. It also used more science, less patronisingly, than the episode of Torchwood. (It was disconcerting to learn that I knew more about particle physics than the good people of Torchwood. And I don't really know that much either.)
But let us salute Radio 4 for going crazy about the LHC. This is public service broadcasting with knobs on, a massive vote of confidence in general levels of interest and intelligence. I'm rather sorry it's over.
//////////////////CDE=CNCR DGNSS EQVLNT
///////////////////Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.66. There is no knowledge of the Self to the unsteady and to
the unsteady no meditation is possible, and to the unmeditative
there can be no peace, and to the man who has no peace, how can
there be happiness?
COMMENTARY: The man who cannot fix his mind in meditation cannot
have knowledge of the Self. The unsteady man cannot practise
meditation. He cannot have even intense devotion to Self-knowledge
nor can he have burning longing for liberation or 'Moksha'. He
who does not practise meditation cannot possess peace of mind.
How can the man who has no peace of mind enjoy happiness?
Desire or 'Trishna' (thirsting for sense-objects) is the
enemy of peace. There cannot be an iota or tinge of happiness for
a man who is thirsting for sensual objects. The mind will be ever
restless, and will be hankering for the objects. Only when this
thirsting dies, does man enjoy peace. Only then can he mediatate
and rest in the Self.
/////////////////
From Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.65. In that peace all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of
the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.
COMMENTARY: When the mental peace is attained, there is no
hankering after sense-objects. The Yogi has perfect mastery over
his reason. The intellect abides in the Self. It is quite
steady. The miseries of the body and the mind come to and end.
/////////////////Immaturity of the brain may cause schizophrenia
The dentate gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus in the brain and thought to be responsible for working memory and mood regulation, remained immature in an animal model of schizophrenia.
http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/Immaturity_of_the_brain_may_cause_schizophrenia.asp
////////////////// 1977: Steve Biko dies in custody
The leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, dies in police custody.
///////////////////thomaskempis5
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
//////////////////////MedWatch - The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
FDA issued a Health Information Advisory to consumers and healthcare professionals regarding milk-based infant formula manufactured in China. The Chinese manufactured infant formula may be contaminated with melamine. Melamine artificially increases the protein profile of milk and can cause kidney diseases. Currently, no Chinese manufacturers of infant formula have fulfilled the requirements to sell this product in the United States. FDA officials are investigating whether or not infant formula manufactured in China is being sold in specialty markets which serve the Asian community. Caregivers should not feed infant formula manufactured in China to infants and should replace any product from China with an appropriate infant formula manufactured in the United States. Individuals should contact their health care professional if they have questions regarding their infant’s health or if they note changes in their infant’s health status.
Read the entire 2008 MedWatch Safety Summary, including a link to the FDA Health Information Advisory regarding the above issue:
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm#formulaChina
////////////////
///////////Big Bang Day, Radio 4
Hurrah! Public service broadcasting with knobs on
By Nicholas Lezard
Sunday, 14 September 2008
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Well, is it the Higgs boson or the Higgs particle? We seem to be inclining towards the latter, which is a shame. For while more people may know what a particle is than know what a boson is, "Higgs boson" sounds better: more mysterious, more scientific.
Thanks to Radio 4's Big Bang Day last Wednesday, there are more people than ever before who could give the then science minister William Waldegrave the answer he craved in 1993, when he asked facetiously for a comprehensible definition of what a Higgs boson was and why we should be looking for it.
We now know that the Higgs boson is the reason everything, even William Waldegrave's brain, has mass; we just haven't seen one yet. Which is why the Large Hadron Collider has been built, and why Radio 4 sent Today's Andrew Marr to watch it being switched on. According to the Afternoon Play Lost Souls, a specially commissioned episode of Torchwood, the Doctor Who spin-off, it should not have been switched on until the possibility of murderous extra-dimensional aliens jumping into our universe had been ruled out. (Most people have been worried about the LHC sucking the earth into a black hole. They worry needlessly. It won't happen until October, when the really interesting experiments start.)
Most successful of the laudable attempts to get our heads round this subject have been Simon Singh's daily 15-minute programmes, 5 Particles, which patiently and lucidly tell us about electrons, quarks, antiparticles and the like. We are a long way, it transpires, from agreeing on the pronunciation of "quark" – does it rhyme with "ark" or "walk"? – let alone powering the Enterprise with antimatter. Incidentally, it's quite legitimate to use the noises made by the Enterprise to keep people's attention in programmes like this, but when, as in Ben Miller's r Great Big Particle Adventure, you use the music from the Winter Olympics while a scientist makes an analogy using snowshoes, then that's just distracting.
My favourite, though, was Steve Punt's one-off comedy, The Genuine Particle, which proposed that turning on the LHC would create a wormhole in time. It was an almost direct homage to Douglas Adams ("If we'd wanted an experiment that could have been halted by cups of tea we would have held it in England" or "It's very hard to smuggle an X-ray detector through an X-ray detector"), and none the worse for that. It also used more science, less patronisingly, than the episode of Torchwood. (It was disconcerting to learn that I knew more about particle physics than the good people of Torchwood. And I don't really know that much either.)
But let us salute Radio 4 for going crazy about the LHC. This is public service broadcasting with knobs on, a massive vote of confidence in general levels of interest and intelligence. I'm rather sorry it's over.
//////////////////CDE=CNCR DGNSS EQVLNT
///////////////////Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.66. There is no knowledge of the Self to the unsteady and to
the unsteady no meditation is possible, and to the unmeditative
there can be no peace, and to the man who has no peace, how can
there be happiness?
COMMENTARY: The man who cannot fix his mind in meditation cannot
have knowledge of the Self. The unsteady man cannot practise
meditation. He cannot have even intense devotion to Self-knowledge
nor can he have burning longing for liberation or 'Moksha'. He
who does not practise meditation cannot possess peace of mind.
How can the man who has no peace of mind enjoy happiness?
Desire or 'Trishna' (thirsting for sense-objects) is the
enemy of peace. There cannot be an iota or tinge of happiness for
a man who is thirsting for sensual objects. The mind will be ever
restless, and will be hankering for the objects. Only when this
thirsting dies, does man enjoy peace. Only then can he mediatate
and rest in the Self.
/////////////////
From Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.65. In that peace all pains are destroyed; for the intellect of
the tranquil-minded soon becomes steady.
COMMENTARY: When the mental peace is attained, there is no
hankering after sense-objects. The Yogi has perfect mastery over
his reason. The intellect abides in the Self. It is quite
steady. The miseries of the body and the mind come to and end.
/////////////////Immaturity of the brain may cause schizophrenia
The dentate gyrus, which is located in the hippocampus in the brain and thought to be responsible for working memory and mood regulation, remained immature in an animal model of schizophrenia.
http://www.brainmysteries.com/research/Immaturity_of_the_brain_may_cause_schizophrenia.asp
////////////////// 1977: Steve Biko dies in custody
The leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, Steve Biko, dies in police custody.
///////////////////thomaskempis5
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
//////////////////////MedWatch - The FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
FDA issued a Health Information Advisory to consumers and healthcare professionals regarding milk-based infant formula manufactured in China. The Chinese manufactured infant formula may be contaminated with melamine. Melamine artificially increases the protein profile of milk and can cause kidney diseases. Currently, no Chinese manufacturers of infant formula have fulfilled the requirements to sell this product in the United States. FDA officials are investigating whether or not infant formula manufactured in China is being sold in specialty markets which serve the Asian community. Caregivers should not feed infant formula manufactured in China to infants and should replace any product from China with an appropriate infant formula manufactured in the United States. Individuals should contact their health care professional if they have questions regarding their infant’s health or if they note changes in their infant’s health status.
Read the entire 2008 MedWatch Safety Summary, including a link to the FDA Health Information Advisory regarding the above issue:
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety/2008/safety08.htm#formulaChina
////////////////
Friday, 12 September 2008
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/////////////////////Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
— Blaise Pascal
//////////////////////Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert N. Casson (1869-1951)
Journalist
It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jurist and philosopher
/////////////////////Do not underestimate your ability. (Geshe Chekawa, in _Advice from a
Spiritual Friend_)
///////////////////Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
~African Proverb~
///////////////////Boffinry bitchslap brouhaha: Higgs and Hawking head to head
Proton cannons for two, coffee for one
By Lewis Page → More by this author
Published Thursday 11th September 2008 11:46 GMT
Download free whitepaper - A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
Famous retired physics prof Peter Higgs - of boson renown - has stingingly counter-poohpoohed the theories of his equally well known Nobel Prize rival, Stephen Hawking, who has already poohpoohed Higgs' particle concept. The clash of intellects is expected to be settled by particle-punishment results at the Large Hadron Collider.
Speaking of Hawking's methods at a press conference yesterday, Higgs was sternly critical.
"I don’t think the way he does it is good enough," he snapped, quoted in today's Times.
“He puts together theories in particle physics with gravity ... in a way which no theoretical particle physicist would believe...
“From a particle physics, quantum theory point of view, you have to put a lot more than just gravity into the theory to have a consistent theory and I don’t think Stephen has done that. I am very doubtful about his calculations.”
Hawking is well known to have bet $100 that Higgs' boson brainchild, the so-called "god particle", doesn't exist.
It's thought among boffins that if the elusive deiton - postulated by Higgs back in 1964, but never yet detected - is real, it ought to appear in coming years among the variegated debris to be produced at the LHC by smashing up protons with extreme violence. If it does, Higgs will be in line for a Nobel Prize.
Hawking, however, reckons that instead a number of "partner" particles will appear. These would potentially torpedo the Standard Model on which modern physics is based, and snatch away Higgs' long-awaited Nobel laurels to rest instead atop Hawking's eminent brainbox.
It would seem that the duelling boffinry heavyweights will have to settle the matter in the only honourable way open to men of their sort: with enormous hyper-powered magnetic proton cannons at fifty paces*. Higgs for one seemed confident about the result, telling the Times that he has champagne waiting on ice to celebrate victory. ®
* Underground. The LHC is situated 50 to 175m beneath the surface.
/////////////////////
/////////////////////Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
— Blaise Pascal
//////////////////////Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert N. Casson (1869-1951)
Journalist
It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jurist and philosopher
/////////////////////Do not underestimate your ability. (Geshe Chekawa, in _Advice from a
Spiritual Friend_)
///////////////////Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
~African Proverb~
///////////////////Boffinry bitchslap brouhaha: Higgs and Hawking head to head
Proton cannons for two, coffee for one
By Lewis Page → More by this author
Published Thursday 11th September 2008 11:46 GMT
Download free whitepaper - A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
Famous retired physics prof Peter Higgs - of boson renown - has stingingly counter-poohpoohed the theories of his equally well known Nobel Prize rival, Stephen Hawking, who has already poohpoohed Higgs' particle concept. The clash of intellects is expected to be settled by particle-punishment results at the Large Hadron Collider.
Speaking of Hawking's methods at a press conference yesterday, Higgs was sternly critical.
"I don’t think the way he does it is good enough," he snapped, quoted in today's Times.
“He puts together theories in particle physics with gravity ... in a way which no theoretical particle physicist would believe...
“From a particle physics, quantum theory point of view, you have to put a lot more than just gravity into the theory to have a consistent theory and I don’t think Stephen has done that. I am very doubtful about his calculations.”
Hawking is well known to have bet $100 that Higgs' boson brainchild, the so-called "god particle", doesn't exist.
It's thought among boffins that if the elusive deiton - postulated by Higgs back in 1964, but never yet detected - is real, it ought to appear in coming years among the variegated debris to be produced at the LHC by smashing up protons with extreme violence. If it does, Higgs will be in line for a Nobel Prize.
Hawking, however, reckons that instead a number of "partner" particles will appear. These would potentially torpedo the Standard Model on which modern physics is based, and snatch away Higgs' long-awaited Nobel laurels to rest instead atop Hawking's eminent brainbox.
It would seem that the duelling boffinry heavyweights will have to settle the matter in the only honourable way open to men of their sort: with enormous hyper-powered magnetic proton cannons at fifty paces*. Higgs for one seemed confident about the result, telling the Times that he has champagne waiting on ice to celebrate victory. ®
* Underground. The LHC is situated 50 to 175m beneath the surface.
/////////////////////
Thursday, 11 September 2008
CDS 091108-SUBHOMOY-ENTEL-TV-JLR CRSS
///////////////TECALD-DNATUK
/////////////////////Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
— Blaise Pascal
//////////////////////Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert N. Casson (1869-1951)
Journalist
It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jurist and philosopher
/////////////////////Do not underestimate your ability. (Geshe Chekawa, in _Advice from a
Spiritual Friend_)
///////////////////Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
~African Proverb~
///////////////////Boffinry bitchslap brouhaha: Higgs and Hawking head to head
Proton cannons for two, coffee for one
By Lewis Page → More by this author
Published Thursday 11th September 2008 11:46 GMT
Download free whitepaper - A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
Famous retired physics prof Peter Higgs - of boson renown - has stingingly counter-poohpoohed the theories of his equally well known Nobel Prize rival, Stephen Hawking, who has already poohpoohed Higgs' particle concept. The clash of intellects is expected to be settled by particle-punishment results at the Large Hadron Collider.
Speaking of Hawking's methods at a press conference yesterday, Higgs was sternly critical.
"I don’t think the way he does it is good enough," he snapped, quoted in today's Times.
“He puts together theories in particle physics with gravity ... in a way which no theoretical particle physicist would believe...
“From a particle physics, quantum theory point of view, you have to put a lot more than just gravity into the theory to have a consistent theory and I don’t think Stephen has done that. I am very doubtful about his calculations.”
Hawking is well known to have bet $100 that Higgs' boson brainchild, the so-called "god particle", doesn't exist.
It's thought among boffins that if the elusive deiton - postulated by Higgs back in 1964, but never yet detected - is real, it ought to appear in coming years among the variegated debris to be produced at the LHC by smashing up protons with extreme violence. If it does, Higgs will be in line for a Nobel Prize.
Hawking, however, reckons that instead a number of "partner" particles will appear. These would potentially torpedo the Standard Model on which modern physics is based, and snatch away Higgs' long-awaited Nobel laurels to rest instead atop Hawking's eminent brainbox.
It would seem that the duelling boffinry heavyweights will have to settle the matter in the only honourable way open to men of their sort: with enormous hyper-powered magnetic proton cannons at fifty paces*. Higgs for one seemed confident about the result, telling the Times that he has champagne waiting on ice to celebrate victory. ®
* Underground. The LHC is situated 50 to 175m beneath the surface.
/////////////////////
/////////////////////Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
— Blaise Pascal
//////////////////////Goodness is always an asset. A man who is straight, friendly and useful may never be famous, but he is respected and liked by all who know him. He has laid a sound foundation for success and he will have a worthwhile life.
Herbert N. Casson (1869-1951)
Journalist
It is the greatest good to the greatest number which is the measure of right and wrong.
Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Jurist and philosopher
/////////////////////Do not underestimate your ability. (Geshe Chekawa, in _Advice from a
Spiritual Friend_)
///////////////////Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.
~African Proverb~
///////////////////Boffinry bitchslap brouhaha: Higgs and Hawking head to head
Proton cannons for two, coffee for one
By Lewis Page → More by this author
Published Thursday 11th September 2008 11:46 GMT
Download free whitepaper - A Pragmatic Approach to Server and Data Center Consolidation
Famous retired physics prof Peter Higgs - of boson renown - has stingingly counter-poohpoohed the theories of his equally well known Nobel Prize rival, Stephen Hawking, who has already poohpoohed Higgs' particle concept. The clash of intellects is expected to be settled by particle-punishment results at the Large Hadron Collider.
Speaking of Hawking's methods at a press conference yesterday, Higgs was sternly critical.
"I don’t think the way he does it is good enough," he snapped, quoted in today's Times.
“He puts together theories in particle physics with gravity ... in a way which no theoretical particle physicist would believe...
“From a particle physics, quantum theory point of view, you have to put a lot more than just gravity into the theory to have a consistent theory and I don’t think Stephen has done that. I am very doubtful about his calculations.”
Hawking is well known to have bet $100 that Higgs' boson brainchild, the so-called "god particle", doesn't exist.
It's thought among boffins that if the elusive deiton - postulated by Higgs back in 1964, but never yet detected - is real, it ought to appear in coming years among the variegated debris to be produced at the LHC by smashing up protons with extreme violence. If it does, Higgs will be in line for a Nobel Prize.
Hawking, however, reckons that instead a number of "partner" particles will appear. These would potentially torpedo the Standard Model on which modern physics is based, and snatch away Higgs' long-awaited Nobel laurels to rest instead atop Hawking's eminent brainbox.
It would seem that the duelling boffinry heavyweights will have to settle the matter in the only honourable way open to men of their sort: with enormous hyper-powered magnetic proton cannons at fifty paces*. Higgs for one seemed confident about the result, telling the Times that he has champagne waiting on ice to celebrate victory. ®
* Underground. The LHC is situated 50 to 175m beneath the surface.
/////////////////////
Monday, 8 September 2008
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DNATUK
///////////////And the legendary Higgs Boson - an elusive particle theorised for over 40 years but never actually witnessed - is allegedly about to be tracked to its lair by CERN's atom smasher the Large Hadron Collider. What if after all that it isn't there? Is it so crucial to our understanding of modern physics that we'll need a mass bonfire of the textbooks? Susan Watts meets the eponymous Peter Higgs who may be about to look very clever - or not.
///////////////////"One dumb tumor is still smarter than ten smart oncologists."
--George Sledge, MD
My only retort is that, slowly but surely, oncologists and we oncologic surgeons are getting smarter.
///////////////////////Buster Martin, United Kingdom's Oldest Employee at 102 Years Old
Posted: 07 Sep 2008 05:49 PM CDT
Still alive and kicking at 102 years old, Pierre Jean "Buster" Martin is considered the United Kingdom's oldest employee. He retired at the age of 96 and returned to work at the age of 99 because of boredom of retirement. He is still very active and works in a plumbing company as a van cleaner. He even runs in marathon for the charity. Making him also the world's oldest marathon runner.
Buster, a father of 17, was born on September 1, 1906 and has been working for over 90 years. At a young age, he joined the British Army as a Physical training instructor. He is a veteran of the World War II having served in the British Armed Forces and retired in 1955.
He says, he still smokes and drink to this day having been started the vice at age of 7. (I thought it's bad for the health)
buster marting, uk's olderst employeeBuster Martin was born in France but, as a result of his teenage mother's illegitimate pregnancy or death, was sent to a Cornish orphanage, when he was three months old. Martin says that he picked up his nickname "Buster" at age three for "whacking a priest on the nose". Martin was thrown out of the orphanage at the age of ten "for eating too much and growing too fast". He travelled to London, and found work running errands for stallholders in the Brixton market, the beginning of nearly 90 years of work.
////////////////////
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
- Enrique Jardiel Poncela
//////////////////
"Walking Benefits"
Walking is my favorite activity/exercise. And it
is so important in any weight loss program to add
activity to your plan. That is, if you are
physically able. (Please be sure to check with
your doctor before starting any type activity.)
It is so great when an activity can benefit in
other ways besides our weight loss effort.
In a study by the University of Massachusetts
it was found that walking is a most effective
way to keep both your body and mind in shape.
The study also showed that five three-mile walks
a week increases HDL... or your good cholesterol.
Stops colds by raising your immunity-boosting T-cell
levels. Prevents osteoporosis by increasing bone
density. Improves memory by slowing the loss of
brain function while it boosts your creativity.
And... by walking four hours a week you can cut
your risk of breast cancer.
I belong to a breast cancer support group and our
speaker recently was a nurse who talked on
osteoporosis. She said that more women die from
osteoporosis related injuries than breast cancer.
She said walking three times a week along with
strength building activities can help prevent or
slow down the bone loss.
The weather is cooler in many areas, so put those
walking shoes on and head out the door! Lots of
great benefits to walking... including weight loss.
Here's to slimming down and feeling great!
Lillie
.//////////////////////
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
~Christina of Sweden~
////////////////////
From Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.60. The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do violently carry away the
mind of a wise man though he be striving (to control them).
COMMENTARY: The aspirant should first bring the senses under his
control. The senses are like horses. If you keep the horses
under your perfect control you can reach your destination safely.
Turbulent horses will throw you down on the way. Even so the
turbulent senses will hurl you down into the objects of the senses
and you cannot reach your spiritual destination, viz., Param
Dhama (the supreme abode) or the abode of eternal peace and
immortality or Moksha (final liberation).
////////////////////////////Heavy snoring linked to stroke
Researchers have found that heavy snorers have a higher risk of cholesterol plaque in the neck arteries, leading to an increased risk of stroke.
//////////////////////////////
///////////////And the legendary Higgs Boson - an elusive particle theorised for over 40 years but never actually witnessed - is allegedly about to be tracked to its lair by CERN's atom smasher the Large Hadron Collider. What if after all that it isn't there? Is it so crucial to our understanding of modern physics that we'll need a mass bonfire of the textbooks? Susan Watts meets the eponymous Peter Higgs who may be about to look very clever - or not.
///////////////////"One dumb tumor is still smarter than ten smart oncologists."
--George Sledge, MD
My only retort is that, slowly but surely, oncologists and we oncologic surgeons are getting smarter.
///////////////////////Buster Martin, United Kingdom's Oldest Employee at 102 Years Old
Posted: 07 Sep 2008 05:49 PM CDT
Still alive and kicking at 102 years old, Pierre Jean "Buster" Martin is considered the United Kingdom's oldest employee. He retired at the age of 96 and returned to work at the age of 99 because of boredom of retirement. He is still very active and works in a plumbing company as a van cleaner. He even runs in marathon for the charity. Making him also the world's oldest marathon runner.
Buster, a father of 17, was born on September 1, 1906 and has been working for over 90 years. At a young age, he joined the British Army as a Physical training instructor. He is a veteran of the World War II having served in the British Armed Forces and retired in 1955.
He says, he still smokes and drink to this day having been started the vice at age of 7. (I thought it's bad for the health)
buster marting, uk's olderst employeeBuster Martin was born in France but, as a result of his teenage mother's illegitimate pregnancy or death, was sent to a Cornish orphanage, when he was three months old. Martin says that he picked up his nickname "Buster" at age three for "whacking a priest on the nose". Martin was thrown out of the orphanage at the age of ten "for eating too much and growing too fast". He travelled to London, and found work running errands for stallholders in the Brixton market, the beginning of nearly 90 years of work.
////////////////////
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."
- Enrique Jardiel Poncela
//////////////////
"Walking Benefits"
Walking is my favorite activity/exercise. And it
is so important in any weight loss program to add
activity to your plan. That is, if you are
physically able. (Please be sure to check with
your doctor before starting any type activity.)
It is so great when an activity can benefit in
other ways besides our weight loss effort.
In a study by the University of Massachusetts
it was found that walking is a most effective
way to keep both your body and mind in shape.
The study also showed that five three-mile walks
a week increases HDL... or your good cholesterol.
Stops colds by raising your immunity-boosting T-cell
levels. Prevents osteoporosis by increasing bone
density. Improves memory by slowing the loss of
brain function while it boosts your creativity.
And... by walking four hours a week you can cut
your risk of breast cancer.
I belong to a breast cancer support group and our
speaker recently was a nurse who talked on
osteoporosis. She said that more women die from
osteoporosis related injuries than breast cancer.
She said walking three times a week along with
strength building activities can help prevent or
slow down the bone loss.
The weather is cooler in many areas, so put those
walking shoes on and head out the door! Lots of
great benefits to walking... including weight loss.
Here's to slimming down and feeling great!
Lillie
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Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
~Christina of Sweden~
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From Chapter II: Sankhya Yoga
(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
II.60. The turbulent senses, O Arjuna, do violently carry away the
mind of a wise man though he be striving (to control them).
COMMENTARY: The aspirant should first bring the senses under his
control. The senses are like horses. If you keep the horses
under your perfect control you can reach your destination safely.
Turbulent horses will throw you down on the way. Even so the
turbulent senses will hurl you down into the objects of the senses
and you cannot reach your spiritual destination, viz., Param
Dhama (the supreme abode) or the abode of eternal peace and
immortality or Moksha (final liberation).
////////////////////////////Heavy snoring linked to stroke
Researchers have found that heavy snorers have a higher risk of cholesterol plaque in the neck arteries, leading to an increased risk of stroke.
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Friday, 5 September 2008
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
CDS 020908-EMPLYR LTTR FR JLR
//////////////////////The concept of duhkha or dukkha does not include, in Advayavada Buddhism,
emotional grief nor physical pain. It refers solely to the existential
suffering, angst and regret non-enlightened human beings are prone to. The
enlightened person accepts with understanding and compassion the sorrow and
pain which are part and parcel of human existence.
J
//////////////////////Common Treatment To Delay Labor Decreases Pre-term Infants' Risk For Cerebral Palsy (August 29, 2008) -- Pre-term infants born to mothers receiving intravenous magnesium sulfate -- a common treatment to delay labor -- are less likely to develop cerebral palsy than are pre-term infants whose mothers do not receive it, report researchers in a large National Institutes of Health research network. ... > full story
//////////////////////FLIP-2 Study: Risk Factors Linked to Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Requiring Hospitalization in Premature Infants Born in Spain at a Gestational Age of 32 to 35 Weeks.
Original Studies
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 27(9):788-793, September 2008.
Figueras-Aloy, Jose MD, PhD *; Carbonell-Estrany, Xavier MD, PhD *; Quero-Jimenez, Jose MD, PhD +; Fernandez-Colomer, Belen MD, PhD ++; Guzman-Cabanas, Juana MD [//]; Echaniz-Urcelay, Inaqui MD [P]; Domenech-Martinez, Eduardo MD, PhD #; for the IRIS Study Group
Abstract:
Background: Ex-premature infants are more predisposed to complicated primary respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The aim of the present study was to validate the risk factors found in a previous epidemiologic case-control study regarding hospitalization as a result of RSV infection in premature infants born at 32-35 weeks of gestational age (WGA) in Spain.
Methods: A prospective 2-cohort study was conducted during the 2005-2006 (October 2005 to April 2006) and 2006-2007 (October 2006 to April 2007) RSV seasons, respectively. Cases were premature infants hospitalized for RSV infection whereas controls were premature infants of the same age who did not require any hospitalization for respiratory causes.
Results: During the study period 5441 children from 37 Spanish hospitals were included in the risk factor analysis. Two hundred two (3.7%) were cases and the rest controls. Of the cases, 17.8% were admitted to the intensive care unit and 7.4% required mechanical ventilation. None of the patients died. Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the risk of RSV-related respiratory infection requiring hospital admission in preterm infants (32-35 WGA) was associated with the following factors: absolute chronologic age of <=10 weeks at the onset of RSV season [odds ratio (OR): 2.99; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.23-4.01]; presence of school-age siblings or day care attendance (OR: 2.04; 95% CI: 1.53-2.74); and smoking during pregnancy (OR: 1.61; 95% CI: 1.16-2.25).
Conclusions: In premature infants (32-35 WGA), only 3 independent risk factors were found to significantly increase the risk of RSV-related respiratory infection and hospitalization.
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emotional grief nor physical pain. It refers solely to the existential
suffering, angst and regret non-enlightened human beings are prone to. The
enlightened person accepts with understanding and compassion the sorrow and
pain which are part and parcel of human existence.
J
//////////////////////Common Treatment To Delay Labor Decreases Pre-term Infants' Risk For Cerebral Palsy (August 29, 2008) -- Pre-term infants born to mothers receiving intravenous magnesium sulfate -- a common treatment to delay labor -- are less likely to develop cerebral palsy than are pre-term infants whose mothers do not receive it, report researchers in a large National Institutes of Health research network. ... > full story
//////////////////////FLIP-2 Study: Risk Factors Linked to Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection Requiring Hospitalization in Premature Infants Born in Spain at a Gestational Age of 32 to 35 Weeks.
Original Studies
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. 27(9):788-793, September 2008.
Figueras-Aloy, Jose MD, PhD *; Carbonell-Estrany, Xavier MD, PhD *; Quero-Jimenez, Jose MD, PhD +; Fernandez-Colomer, Belen MD, PhD ++; Guzman-Cabanas, Juana MD [//]; Echaniz-Urcelay, Inaqui MD [P]; Domenech-Martinez, Eduardo MD, PhD #; for the IRIS Study Group
Abstract:
Background: Ex-premature infants are more predisposed to complicated primary respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection. The aim of the present study was to validate the risk factors found in a previous epidemiologic case-control study regarding hospitalization as a result of RSV infection in premature infants born at 32-35 weeks of gestational age (WGA) in Spain.
Methods: A prospective 2-cohort study was conducted during the 2005-2006 (October 2005 to April 2006) and 2006-2007 (October 2006 to April 2007) RSV seasons, respectively. Cases were premature infants hospitalized for RSV infection whereas controls were premature infants of the same age who did not require any hospitalization for respiratory causes.
Results: During the study period 5441 children from 37 Spanish hospitals were included in the risk factor analysis. Two hundred two (3.7%) were cases and the rest controls. Of the cases, 17.8% were admitted to the intensive care unit and 7.4% required mechanical ventilation. None of the patients died. Logistic regression analysis demonstrated that the risk of RSV-related respiratory infection requiring hospital admission in preterm infants (32-35 WGA) was associated with the following factors: absolute chronologic age of <=10 weeks at the onset of RSV season [odds ratio (OR): 2.99; 95% confidence interval (CI): 2.23-4.01]; presence of school-age siblings or day care attendance (OR: 2.04; 95% CI: 1.53-2.74); and smoking during pregnancy (OR: 1.61; 95% CI: 1.16-2.25).
Conclusions: In premature infants (32-35 WGA), only 3 independent risk factors were found to significantly increase the risk of RSV-related respiratory infection and hospitalization.
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