Not true that athletes need to carb load. http://www.fatchancerow.org Many serious athletes no longer do it.

The sugar lobby in the US is extremely powerful. Their purpose is to buy influence which means to outright obtain or purchase legislation that is favorable to them. This is how lobbying works. Many government agencies are overseen by former leaders of private industries who are less concerned about the consumer and more concerned with helping their industry (captured agencies). It sounds cynical but buying influence is how they get their way.

You can find information about salt therapy by Googling: Polish salt mines respiratory (or asthma, bronchitis). It can also help with other conditions.

You did fine just by trying to stay safe from a crazed lunatic.

I got special glasses just for the computer because with my bifocals, I had to either tilt my head back at a weird angle or move my chair away about 3 feet. Does the trick.

Maybe he was projecting. Still, very scary.

I understand, Dawn. My mom taught elementary school for years and loved teaching. I always felt that she was born to teach. She made squat, though, and there were just so many unnecessary problems that came with the job. I would have gone into teaching as well but not after I saw what my mom dealt with. My hat is off to all the good, caring teachers who are out there trying to make a difference despite all the difficulties.

It's a nice place to work. It's true that it's not a representative area, though. My point is that, IMO, good teachers should be paid well! And respected.

I was talking about average salary at New Trier. I don't know what the salaries at Chicago Heights have to do with that. Maybe I missed something in one of your earlier posts. Here is a 2012 article from a local newspaper which gives a little more info. "More than 200 teachers at New Trier High School District make more than $100,000 a year in base salary. The district superintendent explains that as the cost of having good schools." https://patch.com/illinois/wilmette/new-trier-superintendent-explains-high-salaries New Trier HS takes in students from five suburbs. Small compared to Chicago Public Schools but still over 4,000 students altogether. Frankly, I think teachers should get good salaries. My mother was a teacher, chemistry and music major and an advanced degree, and she made peanuts. It was pathetic.

Could you please remove their personal names from your post? Also, those salaries you posted are Chicago Heights salaries which is a city south of Chicago but in the same county as Chicago. If you want to look up New Trier's teacher salaries, go to the second field of the first link I posted. It should say "Find A District." In the box, type in "New Trier Twp" without the quotes. Then, at the bottom on the left, click on New Trier Twp HSD 203. That should take you to New Trier. I do not know exactly why the salaries are all over the place. What I can tell you is that most are teachers. I cannot say for sure because the school is very large and I only knew some of them. Some are also coaches and they get a salary for coaching as well. Almost all of them have advanced degrees (around 96%) and some also have PhDs. Some have many years of experience which would explain the higher salaries as well. Here is the link to the Chicago Tribune article which mentions New Trier's average salary as well as the percentage of teachers who have a masters. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-teacher-salary-comparison-met-20161008-story.html "In the affluent and top-performing New Trier Township High School District, 96 percent of teachers have master's degrees. In contrast, 57 percent of CPS teachers have master's degrees." "New Trier's average salary was $105,850 in 2014-15, according to average teacher salary data published by the Illinois State Board of Education. "If you look at our teaching staff, it is extraordinarily experienced. We don't have a lot of turnover and over 95 percent our teachers have master's degrees," Dizon said."

The majority are teachers. My son's math teachers made in the 130s, a history teacher/fencing coach 160, etc. That's not what everyone makes, of course, but even starter salaries are not too bad. Avg teacher salary in 2014-15 was $105k+. COL is high in the area around the high school but it is possible to find more affordable homes not too far away. They're more likely small and fixer uppers, though.

Some high school teachers make that at New Trier HS in Winnetka, IL. Most teachers have advanced degrees in the subject they teach and quite a few even have PhDs but choose to teach at NT because it pays better than the offers they received from universities. It was ranked the best place to teach in the US. I believe it. They offer not only good salaries but also an excellent child care facility on campus, specially catered teachers' meals, plenty of extra time during the day for lesson planning/grading and good benefits. But, no, definitely not average. 2012 salaries: http://www.familytaxpayers.org/salary.php NT also spends about $20k per student and works very hard to learn the best ways to deal with problems that teens might encounter. One of my kids went there. It's a fabulous school, I think.

One of the highest paid public high school teachers in our former suburb is the football coach. $130k but not sure that includes coaching as well. To be fair, he teaches shop class. This is the high school just north of Evanston, btw. Other schools, probably not the same.

This is a terrific suggestion and something I'm almost certain could work long term. Thanks.

Yes, it's possible to predict fairly accurately who will do well in life and who won't. Some of the indicators are whether a child exhibits secure attachment, the number of early traumatic events and whether they come from a home that values education. Paul Tough has written about this in his book How Children Succeed. Ideally, vulnerable children need intervention well before they enter school. Thankfully, there are some good programs out there, and in the long run, they are proving to be far less expensive than the consequences that not intervening yields.

Thanks for the resources. I will be looking into those. I've been reading about trauma (Bessel van der Kolk, Bruce Perry, Berceli, Levine, etc.) and working with a group from my old reservation to help prevent mental health issues, especially suicides. Abuse is rampant. The professional help available there is practically non-existent--a whopping two-day visit per year from someone in Florida. We're trying to line up some well-qualified psychologists who will live there for a few years to offer therapy and set up programs. I live right by Northwestern U where they are setting up a Native American program so we're going to try to see if that can be expanded to include something from their psychology department. I've been trying the exercises. Definitely interesting.

I am not suggesting people do distilled water fasts on their own. If not carefully monitored, they can be dangerous. However, it is what Seyfried and Longo do in their studies for particular reasons but always under close supervision in a medical setting. They are each doing outstanding research in cancer and autoimmune diseases. Alan Goldhamer's clinic has not lost a single patient in over 30 years. He works with researchers. Patients there are monitored 24/7 by MDs and other medical staff.

I'm interested, too.

That is why both Longo and Seyfried recommend medically-supervised distilled water fasts. These are done in special clinics like Alan Goldhamer's where patients are always monitored. People don't necessarily immediately go into a life-threatening situation. It's highly individual. But again, these should be done at a place like Goldhamer's clinic. Here is an interview with Goldhamer if anyone is interested: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684131/ I probably didn't word the second part well. I am not at home and don't have access to my articles that explain this but the idea behind distilled water fasting is to remove nutrients so that the body will then respond to what is not there.

2016 Nobel prize for medicine or physiology awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi and his discoveries about autophagy. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/japanese-scientist-won-nobel-prize-cell-self-eating/ YouTube and Ted Talk have some good info, too.

The best fast for a serious health problem like cancer would be distilled water in a medical setting. The reasoning is that anything ingested other than distilled water tells the body that food is close by which changes the body's reactions. Valter Longo is the researcher who designed the fasting protocols used alongside the treatment of cancer and he used distilled water. Thomas Seyfried, another researcher, recommends the same thing for cancer. Always in a medical setting. Alan Goldhamer has been running a fasting clinic for years. He works with excellent researchers as well and none of Goldhamer's studies have been published. Fung's studies haven't been published either. The reasons their studies haven't been published is not because they're poorly designed. Longo also designed two special diets-in-a-box. One is for people with cancer -- because there is still some benefit even on a low calorie diet -- and the other is for other medical problems or just better health. Longo also is seeing good results in fasting studies of autoimmune diseases like MS. These are now being done on humans. Fasting for a period of time causes your body to create new stem cells, as many as 40%. These can be used all over the body. Seyfried's work with cancer shows that it's the mitochondria that damage the nucleus and not the other way around. Fasting helps repair or dispose of damaged mitochondria. And it does other things but you'd want to read all this yourself. The short articles on the internet do a good job explaining. Seyfried and Dominic D'Agostino work together on certain studies. Recently they've shown that adding hyperbaric oxygen treatments (hbot) gives even better results while fasting for cancer treatment. I believe those were not human studies, though. Can't remember. I fast just to improve my general health. When I do, I always start by measuring my blood glucose. Then, the following night I start measuring my blood ketones. My goal is to get the ratio of glucose to ketones as close to 1.0 or below. This is what Seyfried calls the autolytic state and what he recommends. If my glucose falls too much, I eat olives and continue. My muscle does not deteriorate either according to scans. Fasting and starving are two different processes. Fung explains the difference and you can find a lot of his info on his blog. He has a great sense of humor, too, so it's not heavy reading. Pregnant and nursing women, children, people with eating disorders, people with certain medical problems or taking certain kinds of medications should not fast. It is best to work with someone.

It's very interesting. I did my third routine last night and had a lot of upper spine involvement but didn't feel emotionally different. It can take awhile to get to that point, though. There was an older MD in Phoenix, I think? who did craniosacral therapy. He was amazing and charged very little for his services. Hospitals would send some of their sickest patients to him often with very good results.

I intermittent fast all the time, eating in a 6 to 12 hour window, usually 2 meals and no snacking. The main reason for me is to reap the benefits of autophagy. Sometimes I do longer fasts of 3-4 days of water, black coffee and unsweetened tea to induce even more autophagy. Fasting under the right conditions is extremely healthy. Jason Fung (an MD) has written a book explaining how to fast, including intermittent, but you might be able to find the same info online.

Sounds like he has hemochromatosis and is also iron avid. People in that situation tend to have wonky iron panels. It is a tricky situation because someone with HH needs to be careful taking in more iron. Has your dad had to do the phlebotomies? What momacacia said -- giving up gluten/dairy -- might be worth trying. Gut issues can cause iron problems.

Did my second night of Berceli's exercises and my spine had some mild tremors moving partially up my spine. Nothing major. These are fairly easy to do, btw, and don't take much time. The important moves seem to involve stretching and working the deep psoas muscle. Night shift hive, have any of you tried these?