Perry
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Because that's the way they want it.so I don't understand why it's only a couple of times a year.
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I've been trying to get my dad and his wife to join for years, just so they can see what's going on in the lives of their grandchildren. We see them once every year or two, and talk on the phone maybe twice a year. They are both successful professionals, tech savvy, and have no reason at all not to do it, other than they think it's beneath them.
As a result, they have absolutely no connection to their grandkids. I find it baffling.
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Yea!!!! My dh was just told last month to NOT mow..... the reason is the vibration of the mower breaks off plague and must clog the heart etc. ...
We are seeing a super amazing ex doctor and bio chemist who specializes in homeopathy, naturopath, Chinese medicine and more.
LOL.
The reason people have heart attacks while mowing (and shoveling snow) is due to the increased strain on the heart. They are usually older people who lead sedentary lives and aren't used to exercise, and go out into the extremes of weather (super hot/cold) and get their heart working too hard.
Please show me ONE reputable source for your claim.
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I'd try not to let others' dietary choices get to you, or any decision that doesn't directly affect you.
P.S. I drink diet coke. :auto:
Unfortunately, obesity, which is a direct result of dietary choices, is an enormous public health problem and it affects us all.
A new report says the cost of obesity worldwide has risen to $2 trillion a year -- more than the global economic drain caused by alcoholism and nearly as much as the financial toll taken by smoking.
The study by the McKinsey Global Institute, released Thursday, focused on the economics of obesity, ranking it as one of the top three preventable social burdens on global economies. The study estimates its impact at 2.8 percent of global gross domestic product.
"Obesity isn't just a health issue," one of the report's authors, Richard Dobbs, said in a podcast. "But it's a major economic and business challenge."
On the study's scale of preventable social burdens, obesity ranks third behind smoking and the combined total of all types of armed violence, war and terrorism, which are pegged at $2.1 trillion. Obesity costs more than global military spending, estimated at $1.75 trillion in 2012.
The report says 2.1 billion people -- about 30 percent of the global population -- are overweight or obese and that about 15 percent of health care costs in developed economies are driven by it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obesity-costs-more-than-war-and-terrorism-combined/
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I have mine done professionally because I've never been happy with the results of my diy efforts... BUT, if I were to ever do it myself, I would use esalon. I've heard great things about them.
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our belief that the internet is a scary, dangerous place for our kids to be.
The world in general is a scary, dangerous place. You can't protect them from everything. At some point in their lives, they're going to be exposed to something you don't like. And they are going to need to know how to handle it.
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I don't like the look of it. It doesn't look like anyone lives there.
I don't like clutter though. I have a lot of counter space, and all I have out is a bowl of fruit on the island, a pretty glass container with pistachios on one small counter, a pretty crock with utensils next to the stove, and a toaster oven. It's homey, but organized and efficient.
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I'm not going to put her on a very low carb diet. Whatever we do has to be sustainable, and very low carb diets aren't, at least not for most children.
I agree, it wouldn't be sustainable long term. It's only for weight loss, not maintenance.
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That's seriously what you believe?
Yes. What part of it do you disagree with?
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You can get a doctor's note with a goal to attend Weight Watchers as your DD's age. You have to go to in-person meetings. In terms of sane no weird food group eliminations, it's probably one of the better diets out there.
Precisely the reason Weight Watchers doesn't work very well. They let you eat carbs.
The best weight loss approach for kids is a low carb, normal calorie diet combined with exercise, for the entire family. That means getting rid of bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and junk food. Eat lots of good protein with healthy fats and some fruit.
While diets in general have a low success rate overall, there are many, many people who have successfully lost weight and kept it off. Good luck!
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Claire
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I also feel like its a very bad idea for parents to assume a threat of suicide is "attention getting" or "to get out of class" or the like. I know its common to blow kids off but its a bad idea.
All suicide threats should be taken seriously for sure, but you don't have to commit every kid that mentions it. There are other ways to handle it.
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So let's say you *have* talked to your kids about drugs and alcohol, and they know what your expectations are, and they choose to experiment anyway. I'm not talking about addictions, but an otherwise normal functioning teen who likes to "party." How have you handled that?
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That is absolutely ridiculous. The hospitals acted appropriately, but the school didn't. HIPAA doesn't apply to them and I would be furious. :cursing:
They should have called a lawyer immediately.
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But she was having symptoms. I don't think it is possible to detect Ebola in a blood test before the onset of symptoms. So it seems to me that going to all that trouble to test the person on the cruise ship was totally unnecessary.
Susan in TX
If they hadn't tested her there would have been an uproar. They can't win.
There are several different tests. One detects virus. The sicker someone is, the more virus they tend to have.
Another test looks for antibodies to the virus, which tells if someone has been infected or not. It is possible to have been infected and not ever have gotten sick. In that case, your blood would have antibodies.
My guess is that she had both tests, and all were negative, meaning she was never exposed.
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According to reports today, the ship has docked and all the passengers have gone their separate ways. So it doesn't sound like they were waiting for tests results first.
She tested negative.
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I agree with others that he needs a good psych evaluation and possibly medication. One thing you can do right away though, is to start him on a Low Carb High Fat diet. There is a growing body of evidence that LCHF has protective effects on the brain, and can have dramatic impacts on behavior.
Here's one study (not specifically anger issues, but effects on the brain in general)
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Do you have a medical supply store nearby? When I bought mine (Littman) I went in and tried a variety of them first.
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CDC chief went on record to state that nurse Nina Pham did not get infected because of a breach of protocol. So, what does that mean? To me it means that the protocol was designed with poor understanding of what it takes. Which further means that there is lack of knowledge in designing the protocols.
Nurses were told by their supervisors to wear tape around their necks, to cover exposed skin, which is not protocol anywhere, ever. There is no possible way to remove tape without contaminating yourself.
CDC had nothing to do with that. It was a hare-brained idea and I have no idea what the supervisors were thinking.
If the nurses had actually stuck with the CDC guidelines they might well have not got sick.
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My personal belief is that the CDC thinks that it knows how this virus spreads, but in reality, this virus is defying all their protocols. The gross underestimation of the ability of this virus to spread...
So far we have two cases, both in HCW who were inappropriately protected and had massive exposures to a patient in the end stages of disease.
What am I missing here?
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UN. REAL.
So, I guess my question is, what exactly is the process for testing for Ebola, and how long does it take?
http://nypost.com/2014/10/16/alarm-after-vomiting-passenger-dies-on-flight-from-nigeria-to-jfk/
Other articles say he was having chest pain and started vomiting. If he was fine up until then, he probably had a heart attack. Ebola patients get severely ill over the course of days, have multi-organ failure, and high fevers. They don't just drop dead over the course of hours.
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I have a Chinese friend who runs several manufacturing businesses in the Guangdong province. He regularly flies to countries like Sierra Leone, Cameron, Ivory coast and Liberia because he sources the raw materials for all his manufacturing from there. And, I am told that his business contacts from these countries also fly into China often. You might be surprised at how much traffic there is between China and many parts of Africa.
He probably isn't coming into contact with many bodily fluids though. It really is the HCW and the caregivers that are at high risk.
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Two unrelated things I've been pondering on and off:
1) Why has ebola not showed up in a country such as India or China or Canada? I have some ideas in mind but I'd like to hear what others think.
Largely because the incubation period is fairly short, and once people have symptoms they get severely ill very rapidly. They aren't contagious before they have symptoms, and once they have symptoms they're far too sick to travel.
In addition, Liberians aren't nearly as mobile as many Westerners. There just aren't that many Liberians traveling to China.
Grammar gurus, First or 1st?
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I'm preparing a program for my daughter's senior night, and I need to list awards her team has received throughout the year. Which is correct?
1st place Hip Hop
2nd place Pom
3rd place Jazz
etc.
or
First place Hip Hop
Second place Pom
Third place Jazz
Thanks