tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23857248791212685892024-03-13T23:17:51.411-07:00BalogBlogUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger369125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-52586767434437607482023-07-17T19:26:00.005-07:002023-07-24T17:50:10.277-07:00The Twenty Worst Americans<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111; font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large; font-weight: 700;">"Thoughtful and Thought-provoking"</span></p><div class="a-row a-spacing-none reviewByLine" data-hook="review-by-line" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 356px;"><span class="a-size-small a-color-tertiary review-date" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" data-hook="review-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.4;">Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-none reviewByLine" data-hook="review-by-line" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; width: 356px;"><span class="a-size-small a-color-tertiary review-date" color="rgb(86, 89, 89) !important" data-hook="review-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.3rem; line-height: 1.4;"><br /></span></div><span class="cr-original-truncatable-content" face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111;"><div class="a-row a-spacing-small cr-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; width: 356px;"><span class="review-text-sub-contents" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-uaQxpN-cvmdgnPyW5AaDgUpmvndpyPdmlyITf8cmPE0LTfk-qGTp6lyZtm9W3FYXqLV9Sz3GzaZjK08ntrjve1S0boaX_SvciLeamepVpbpZP3t2LTikYmMzmHoGcu5VvpeWxxoUX729nHUi9Q9wIOa6KHrPdUTvwTlc0740bP6egWvK4DYn2GDbEFc/s728/Screenshot_20230715_061913_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-uaQxpN-cvmdgnPyW5AaDgUpmvndpyPdmlyITf8cmPE0LTfk-qGTp6lyZtm9W3FYXqLV9Sz3GzaZjK08ntrjve1S0boaX_SvciLeamepVpbpZP3t2LTikYmMzmHoGcu5VvpeWxxoUX729nHUi9Q9wIOa6KHrPdUTvwTlc0740bP6egWvK4DYn2GDbEFc/s320/Screenshot_20230715_061913_Chrome.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://a.co/bRkc1xv" target="_blank">Start reading today.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: left;">PRAISE FOR THE BOOK</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="text-align: left;"><br /></b></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b style="text-align: left;">At first glance, David</b><span style="text-align: left;"> Balog’s The Twenty Worst Americans may seem to be a simple laundry list of villainy. But this is no tirade of personal grievances; nor is it a whining screed against those who think differently than the author.</span></i></div></span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small cr-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; width: 356px;"><span class="review-text-sub-contents" data-hook="review-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Instead, Balog has called upon his background in history writing to present the citizens whose behavior he sees as particularly heinous (Harvey Weinstein, Paul Castellano), ignorant (Phyllis Schlafly, Eddie Cicotte, Betsy DeVos), vicious (Dan White, Rupert Murdoch) or simple grifters (Henry Ford, Charles Coughlin, James A. Baker and Donald Trump). There are twenty short essays in all. Each is easy to read, pleasantly brief, but never glib or lightweight. Balog has something to say and he says it plainly.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Balog calls upon an encyclopedic knowledge of history to make his points, which he does not hide behind manipulative propaganda. No, we know where the author stands and he is transparent in his views. What surprises us is his gentle tact while discussing subjects that could infuriate readers if presented by a lesser writer.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />"All of which makes some of his choices that much more challenging.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Balog has personal knowledge of William Safire. As a fellow history writer, I have certainly read many of Safire’s books. Some are quite good. But his affairs—business and personal—seem to veer far from his written work. It is eye opening, and this begs the question that many of us must face sooner or later: at what point do we toss out the better work of creation because its creator was repulsive? We enjoy the distance of centuries between us and, say, a Caravaggio or Michelangelo. Those who are closer to our time strike us where we live.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There is much to take exception to, of course.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In just one example, I have published enough about the Roosevelts to have different views on FDR than Balog. This is as it should be. The moment we accept every word of any individual as inviolable, we start on the dangerous path that Balog decries in this book. Heated discussions are part of what make this kind of text interesting.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Balog occasionally digresses into information that is only tangentially related. This is when the author is at his best.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In my favorite example, in the chapter on Bill Maher, Balog provides eight fascinating pages on the physical and neurological aspects of gender, well supported by medical experts. As with his section on FDR, Balog demonstrates a rare talent for engendering discussion without badgering or patronizing.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />I agree here, I disagree there; but by the time I was done, I had learned something and want to learn more. I can think of no higher compliment.</span></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small cr-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; width: 356px;">--<i>David Bannon, author, historian</i></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small cr-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; width: 356px;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small cr-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; width: 356px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUkich2dambhE0H6tSaG3yl7FGdIZ3G3BSJ4GOGWaib11OtwD97pbvduyhbIvG24uO3yA-p5zh0gTaJSD9S28IN7Nr5TYiKb8BfbBBJr7poZ12Q6o6KuC1ykfnd5_36dL8OkqRYxg1pCtY4o2G45pP_KO2Oe9LWAtU0zTj6ZOQtQNzU9ngn8DtCoWeTzn/s720/Screenshot_20230719_203920_Messenger.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="720" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmUkich2dambhE0H6tSaG3yl7FGdIZ3G3BSJ4GOGWaib11OtwD97pbvduyhbIvG24uO3yA-p5zh0gTaJSD9S28IN7Nr5TYiKb8BfbBBJr7poZ12Q6o6KuC1ykfnd5_36dL8OkqRYxg1pCtY4o2G45pP_KO2Oe9LWAtU0zTj6ZOQtQNzU9ngn8DtCoWeTzn/s320/Screenshot_20230719_203920_Messenger.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="a-row a-spacing-small cr-full-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 0.8rem; width: 356px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-uaQxpN-cvmdgnPyW5AaDgUpmvndpyPdmlyITf8cmPE0LTfk-qGTp6lyZtm9W3FYXqLV9Sz3GzaZjK08ntrjve1S0boaX_SvciLeamepVpbpZP3t2LTikYmMzmHoGcu5VvpeWxxoUX729nHUi9Q9wIOa6KHrPdUTvwTlc0740bP6egWvK4DYn2GDbEFc/s728/Screenshot_20230715_061913_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="728" data-original-width="535" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-uaQxpN-cvmdgnPyW5AaDgUpmvndpyPdmlyITf8cmPE0LTfk-qGTp6lyZtm9W3FYXqLV9Sz3GzaZjK08ntrjve1S0boaX_SvciLeamepVpbpZP3t2LTikYmMzmHoGcu5VvpeWxxoUX729nHUi9Q9wIOa6KHrPdUTvwTlc0740bP6egWvK4DYn2GDbEFc/s320/Screenshot_20230715_061913_Chrome.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://a.co/bRkc1xv" target="_blank">Start reading today.</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div aria-expanded="true" class="a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px; position: relative;"><div class="celwidget" data-cel-widget="drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div" data-csa-c-asin="" data-csa-c-content-id="drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent" data-csa-c-id="wk5psu-e5b0jl-ouomkc-9566qf" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row="false" data-csa-c-slot-id="drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div" data-csa-c-type="widget" data-feature-name="drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent" id="drengr_MobileTabbedDescriptionOverviewContent_feature_div" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Table of contents</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Author’s Note………………..</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Prologue……………………………</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 1. Antonin Scalia</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Supreme Court Justice Whose Personal Views Moved America Back to 1787…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 2. Bill Maher</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Quickly Moving from Progressive to Regressive……</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 3. Elizabeth Holmes</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Blood money and a Monumental Scam……</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 4. Donald Trump</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Enabling the Catastrophe of Covid-19……..</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 5. Trump, The Early Years</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> in New York City: Wilding Among the Powerful…..</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 6. Rupert Murdoch</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Power for Power’s Sake…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 7. James A. Baker, III</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Republican Fixer and Mastermind of Bush v Gore…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 8. Phyllis Schlafly</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">– Baking Cookies to Stop Equal Rights……</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 9. Paul Castellano</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Real-life Godfather…..</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 10. Franklin D. Roosevelt</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Allowed Incarceration Camps for Americans of Japanese Descent……….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 11. Betsy DeVos </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">– The Education Secretary Clueless About Education…..</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 12. Eddie Cicotte</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Throwing Baseballs, Games and the National Pastime………</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 13. Chief Justice Roger B. Taney</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Author of the Worst Decision in Supreme Court History that Ignited the Civil War…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 14. Herbert Hoover</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – The Great Humanitarian with Political Hands of Stone…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 15. William Safire</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> and the Death of Political Civility…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 16. Walter O'Malley</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Changed America's Pastime into a Cold Business…….</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 17. Father Charles Coughlin</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Pastor, Media King and Dangerous Anti-semite……</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 18. Henry Ford</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – Pioneer of the Automobile and Hitler Ally……</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -0.4rem 0px 1.3rem; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 19. Harvey Weinstein</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> – As a Movie, Rate Him X…….<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span class="a-text-bold" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chapter 20. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqJMEpbUtgywbb2it937ciTGeI-h3vzZYPtCo0cVDraTvri4tDhXwkSutFhrrflR4pMrjslgo9rGLCcLP_A7tKi9a1XfDb2d8lVQLau7PlEejcv9yomWbX4gesjBqR7LJo6K-F5E0_wCvNa_ncwLwrO666_ZmO3CoJqCWhtCkWu8wPv_tV9CK595PWw/s667/Screenshot%202022-11-24%206.07.48%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="667" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKqJMEpbUtgywbb2it937ciTGeI-h3vzZYPtCo0cVDraTvri4tDhXwkSutFhrrflR4pMrjslgo9rGLCcLP_A7tKi9a1XfDb2d8lVQLau7PlEejcv9yomWbX4gesjBqR7LJo6K-F5E0_wCvNa_ncwLwrO666_ZmO3CoJqCWhtCkWu8wPv_tV9CK595PWw/w394-h209/Screenshot%202022-11-24%206.07.48%20AM.png" width="394" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><h1 class="headline" id="headline" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004276; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px;">New study reveals that exposure to outdoor artificial light at night is associated with an increased risk of diabetes</h1><dl class="dl-horizontal dl-custom" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;">Date:</dt><dd id="date_posted" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">November 14, 2022</dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;">Source:</dt><dd id="source" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Diabetologia</dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;">Summary:</dt><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">A new study finds that outdoor artificial light at night (LAN) is associated with impaired blood glucose control and an increased risk of diabetes, with more than 9 million cases of the disease in Chinese adults being attributed to LAN exposure.</dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; 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color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</span></span></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Exposure to artificial LAN at night is a ubiquitous environmental risk factor in modern societies. The intensity of urban light pollution has increased to the point that it not only affects residents of big cities, but also those in distant areas such as suburbs and forest parks that may be hundreds of kilometres from the light source. The authors note: "Despite over 80% of the world's population being exposed to light pollution at night, this problem has gained limited attention from scientists until recent years."</dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Earth's 24-hour day-night cycle has resulted in most organisms, including mammals, having an inbuilt circadian (roughly 24-hour) timing system which is adapted to the natural sequence of light and dark periods. Light pollution has been found to alter the circadian rhythm of insects, birds and other animals, resulting in premature death and loss of biodiversity.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Artificial LAN has also been implicated as a potential cause of metabolic dysregulation through altering the timing of food intake. Rats exposed to artificial LAN developed glucose intolerance, exhibiting elevated blood sugar and insulin. Another study found that mice exposed to nocturnal dim white light of minimal brightness for 4 weeks had increased body mass and reduced glucose tolerance compared to animals whose environment was completely dark at night, despite having roughly equivalent energy consumption and expenditure.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Associations have also been found between artificial LAN and health problems in humans. A study of night-shift workers found that those exposed to brighter LAN were more likely to have disrupted circadian rhythms, as well as a greater risk of coronary heart disease. Other research found that higher LAN exposure was associated with a 13% and 22% increase in the likelihood of being overweight and obese, respectively, while exposure to LAN in the bedroom was reported to be positively associated with the development of diabetes in elderly people.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The potential impact of outdoor artificial LAN was revealed by a study in South India which used satellite images to map light pollution and compared this with data on general health markers among adults across the region. With increasing LAN intensity, there were corresponding rises in average body mass index (BMI), systolic blood pressure and 'bad' (LDL) cholesterol levels in the exposed population.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Diabetes is a critical public health problem in China, and the onset and progression of the disease is largely governed by behavioural and environmental risk factors. The nation's rapid urbanisation and economic growth has resulted in a dramatic increase in urban lighting, and the number of people exposed to it. Those living in cities are prone to being shifted away from a natural 24-hour day-night cycle, to one of round-the-clock working and leisure time, often staying out late and being exposed to artificial LAN.</p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 320px; overflow: hidden; width: 245px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6OLZkGbgMAJ49Ufh2QPJWIn62F0COEFHo7xCML6X_SamFtZTUENtjE58dachGYg3mns_Ffflp74loKaPrWWeluT9wUJXdrBSzmYMiy-yyDiBhCw_5o1uYZcpcA94QWzIjZ4-INwMe0UQDz_cwNMoNColIZrSL91fzasFQDkUsqZtJP2EIrHVVJPLQ-Q/s374/Screenshot%202022-11-24%206.17.29%20AM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;">Credit: © Brian Jackson / stock.adobe.com</em></div><br /><p></p><h1 class="headline" id="headline" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004276; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px;">Less than five hours' sleep a night linked to higher risk of multiple diseases</h1><dl class="dl-horizontal dl-custom" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"><dt style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; width: 70px;">Date:</dt><dd id="date_posted" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">October 19, 2022</dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; width: 70px;">Source:</dt><dd id="source" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">University College London</dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; width: 70px;">Summary:</dt><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">Getting less than five hours of sleep in mid-to-late life could be linked to an increased risk of developing at least two chronic diseases, finds a new study.</dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Getting less than five hours of sleep in mid-to-late life could be linked to an increased risk of developing at least two chronic diseases, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.</span></dd><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmG6q-WAcrPlzTk67cv05EMfhZzB7r3gbncL5HfqAIIUiYuaAdX-iHCSYD03WHJooX5shFqsC3L8pEV9RdVotvY21DWS7zj1LoV61hsG7CAsUgQe_1M3GVuri51dupvLEw-d1KEQX_b7Rw43Rtvaa6TJiOwx63xY_bqSEGYUixOYN-UwnB-eIvMaMjw/s936/Screenshot_20221120-183035_Chrome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="590" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmG6q-WAcrPlzTk67cv05EMfhZzB7r3gbncL5HfqAIIUiYuaAdX-iHCSYD03WHJooX5shFqsC3L8pEV9RdVotvY21DWS7zj1LoV61hsG7CAsUgQe_1M3GVuri51dupvLEw-d1KEQX_b7Rw43Rtvaa6TJiOwx63xY_bqSEGYUixOYN-UwnB-eIvMaMjw/s320/Screenshot_20221120-183035_Chrome.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1652933638/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1668986925&sr=8-3">Your brain at risk. Start reading for FREE</a>.</div><br /><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The research, published in <em style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box;">PLOS Medicine</em>, analysed the impact of sleep duration on the health of more than 7,000 men and women at the ages of 50, 60 and 70, from the Whitehall II cohort study.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Researchers examined the relationship between how long each participant slept for, mortality and whether they had been diagnosed with two or more chronic diseases (multimorbidity) -- such as heart disease, cancer or diabetes -- over the course of 25 years.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">People who reported getting five hours of sleep or less at age 50 were 20% more likely to have been diagnosed with a chronic disease and 40% more likely to be diagnosed with two or more chronic diseases over 25 years, compared to people who slept for up to seven hours.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Additionally, sleeping for five hours or less at the age of 50, 60, and 70 was linked to a 30% to 40% increased risk of multimorbidity when compared with those who slept for up to seven hours.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Researchers also found that sleep duration of five hours or less at age 50 was associated with 25% increased risk of mortality over the 25 years of follow-up -- which can mainly be explained by the fact that short sleep duration increases the risk of chronic disease(s) that in turn increase the risk of death.</p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Lead author, Dr Severine Sabia (UCL Institute of Epidemiology & Health, and Inserm, Université Paris Cité) said: "Multimorbidity is on the rise in high income countries and more than half of older adults now have at least two chronic diseases. This is proving to be a major challenge for public health, as multimorbidity is associated with high healthcare service use, hospitalisations and disability.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"As people get older, their sleep habits and sleep structure change. However, it is recommended to sleep for 7 to 8 hours a night -- as sleep durations above or below this have previously been associated with individual chronic diseases.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"Our findings show that short sleep duration is also associated with multimorbidity.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"To ensure a better night's sleep, it is important to promote good sleep hygiene, such as making sure the bedroom is quiet, dark and a comfortable temperature before sleeping. It's also advised to remove electronic devices and avoid large meals before bedtime. Physical activity and exposure to light during the day might also promote good sleep."</p><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">As part of the study, researchers also assessed whether sleeping for a long duration, of nine hours or more, affected health outcomes. There was no clear association between long sleep durations at age 50 and multimorbidity in healthy people.</p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmG6q-WAcrPlzTk67cv05EMfhZzB7r3gbncL5HfqAIIUiYuaAdX-iHCSYD03WHJooX5shFqsC3L8pEV9RdVotvY21DWS7zj1LoV61hsG7CAsUgQe_1M3GVuri51dupvLEw-d1KEQX_b7Rw43Rtvaa6TJiOwx63xY_bqSEGYUixOYN-UwnB-eIvMaMjw/s936/Screenshot_20221120-183035_Chrome.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="936" data-original-width="590" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvmG6q-WAcrPlzTk67cv05EMfhZzB7r3gbncL5HfqAIIUiYuaAdX-iHCSYD03WHJooX5shFqsC3L8pEV9RdVotvY21DWS7zj1LoV61hsG7CAsUgQe_1M3GVuri51dupvLEw-d1KEQX_b7Rw43Rtvaa6TJiOwx63xY_bqSEGYUixOYN-UwnB-eIvMaMjw/s320/Screenshot_20221120-183035_Chrome.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1652933638/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1668986925&sr=8-3">Your brain at risk. Start reading for FREE</a>.</div></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><p style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><br /></dd><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px !important; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: left;"><br /></dd></dl>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-51059515256630815432022-06-19T01:37:00.005-07:002022-06-19T01:38:28.372-07:00Baseball Makes Progress on LGBTQ Support--Mostly<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJWQUQFuxv2bkyvvrDn_tUX6kcAdHE78Czibmv6z-qsqdKe-S_ehxODKsbMsbV3N2RrUPYwple5nLnbI8Qh8rK-b7pMTlOrUBM9AQ7DMmybtEtBz5EzGD_00xcUJEUP_fFTQ_fz2rJrLnzWd1H1sW2mxtl6wt1BLBtDg1SHWb2s9Xm29VhBpwrrWY0Cg/s527/Screenshot_20220619-033537_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="526" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJWQUQFuxv2bkyvvrDn_tUX6kcAdHE78Czibmv6z-qsqdKe-S_ehxODKsbMsbV3N2RrUPYwple5nLnbI8Qh8rK-b7pMTlOrUBM9AQ7DMmybtEtBz5EzGD_00xcUJEUP_fFTQ_fz2rJrLnzWd1H1sW2mxtl6wt1BLBtDg1SHWb2s9Xm29VhBpwrrWY0Cg/s320/Screenshot_20220619-033537_Chrome.jpg" width="319" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mets.com/The N.Y. Mets for once beat the Yankees with a successful LGBTQ Pride Night.</span></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />"Remember the turtle," a boss once said to me. I had to ask him to explain. "We're like turtles," he replied. "The turtle can't move forward without sticking its head out of its shell."</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Pride Nights have been Major League Baseball's slow motion effort to move forward in support of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender rights. The first event was held 16 years ago by the Tampa Bay Rays. In 2022 two of baseball's thirty professional teams are not hosting Pride Nights. Sadly, the iconic New York Yankees being one.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The Yankees crosstown rivals, the Mets, however, just held their largest and most successful Pride Night, their sixth annual event. Members of the gay community were pleased with the full support of the team's management for a program that was well organized and supported by comments of several players and their manager, Buck Showalter. One player, Mark Canha, tweeted that he welcomed "his beautiful LGBTQ fans" to the Mets Pride Night. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF0xLfCNXGzlpouCZ3q_Ifw7zd-Nlu_yR_OxBlECMisrswSAcU7lKZzldNNCTlYW-dlNtRjOtaydBZI7BcIetRGTRHnApLN5HsTtvGGYAhJUpidWawlQnz6GAmhmXkdE_zhNtF9ifV2W9POh8JGgz-oFcdFlMYu6RMST2gcjwAVSYDYESleCj7GBFXTA/s708/Screenshot_20220619-033212_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="708" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF0xLfCNXGzlpouCZ3q_Ifw7zd-Nlu_yR_OxBlECMisrswSAcU7lKZzldNNCTlYW-dlNtRjOtaydBZI7BcIetRGTRHnApLN5HsTtvGGYAhJUpidWawlQnz6GAmhmXkdE_zhNtF9ifV2W9POh8JGgz-oFcdFlMYu6RMST2gcjwAVSYDYESleCj7GBFXTA/s320/Screenshot_20220619-033212_Chrome.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Athletics.com/The Oakland A's celebrated Glenn Burke Pride Night.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Elsewhere, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants jointly celebrated a Pride Night at in the same game in San Francisco. The Dodgers previously held their pride night in Los Angeles, in which they honored the legacy of Glenn Burke, the first openly gay major league player. The Oakland Athletics honored Burke, as well. The team honored their alumnus by naming their event in his memory. The online magazine, The Athletic, reported during the week that one major league free agent, pitcher Liam Hendriks, based off-season signing decision at least partly on whether a prospective team was planning to hold a Pride Night.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEH5VePZEYphKIv6PyTChTpMh9ClCyRSMJdc1yDlms9e4sTm-DwJxfd9ayphlLNNcyBMN0qe48YFbf45hTF5j-p8u67HrM2IeJhWoep2e3Uz6hJWjHF9-PEu26K3H1NPXOxx1TDdUGrLXYQZ49Pp1bXBe51JY5WOm2Yo5O1EbGHoiwMdemaVXJMhuuw/s945/Screenshot_20220504-223550_Chrome.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="704" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEH5VePZEYphKIv6PyTChTpMh9ClCyRSMJdc1yDlms9e4sTm-DwJxfd9ayphlLNNcyBMN0qe48YFbf45hTF5j-p8u67HrM2IeJhWoep2e3Uz6hJWjHF9-PEu26K3H1NPXOxx1TDdUGrLXYQZ49Pp1bXBe51JY5WOm2Yo5O1EbGHoiwMdemaVXJMhuuw/s320/Screenshot_20220504-223550_Chrome.jpg" width="238" /></a></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=1VTV5UL5J6PBW&keywords=david+balog&qid=1655627568&sprefix=%2Caps%2C267&sr=8-2">Click here to preview.</a></p><p> </p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">All did not go well, however, in Tampa Bay. Five of the team's players refused to participate, citing religious objections, and declined to wear rainbow colored caps and arm patches. Symbolically, they ripped the patches off their uniforms and wore the team's traditional cap. Ironically, two of the five players, all pitchers, participated in the evening's game and were responsible for the team's loss.</span></span></p><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-25007547560695967862022-06-04T17:53:00.004-07:002022-06-13T01:39:33.620-07:00Trump, the Times "scandal monger," and me.<p style="text-align: center;"> <img height="250.0" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Gs68ifw71BqmRMH5RcUecgj3pbBYQRxgo_kdPZ3qXY-B43ESUzSeCoYCrQEcd0AINojpZCB2mGByICXqUvPlTY5witoce8nGjgL0zCQT42gmnVDAn6vn4Fy-8mo416tMfoda73D_aXqizCqTnQ" style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="202.0" /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They laughed at us. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">William Safire, the self-described "scandal monger" of Trump's early years and my boss.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In major ways, William Safire was the godfather of today's right wing, backstabbing Republican party. Along with Roy Cohn, Safire was an early an avid supporter of Donald Trump. Safire help Trump's sister get an undeserving Federal judgeship. Introduced him early to Richard Nixon, for whom Safire had worked as speech writer (ever hear of the "nattering nabobs of negativism?"). Taught him to dominate by intimidation.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Safire undoubtedly taught Trump never to apologize, never to take responsibility. And run things as an autocrat. Employ nepotism and cronyism. And be mean. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 334px; overflow: hidden; width: 226px;"><img height="334.0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kNmuPmQuOxRzu4drhSFPbvXwXUC58A1PZjLbjdckewzYLdv-RvApaYphi2hpK83vfvH4xOFcYWDnOIQd1BK6jkQyRGxPKMeeAHeVFEYEmnaltchiJRfm_5e4HM0FQ4bCc4VJr049NkxH183ywg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="226.0" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4556ecfk">H</a><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4556ecfk">ow</a><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4556ecfk"> Trump learned his political lessons early and other topics on democracy.</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4556ecfk">CLICK HERE!</a></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I had a front-row seat for 12 years as an editor to Safire at the Dana Foundation in New York City. The Foundation was at 745 5th Avenue. Trump Tower was right next door at 725 5th. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On a hunch, years after I left Dana, I asked a high-up former employee if Safire had a close relationship with Trump. "Oh yes, absolutely." she said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">At the <i>New York Times,</i> where Safire wrote his political column, he was known as the creator of "hatchet journalism." Find a person, usually a Democrat, and go after him or her, and put the fear of God in them. People such as Hillary Clinton (remember "She's a congenital liar?"). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the facts didn't hold up, hold your tongue, find a new target and move on. In the style of today's Fox News. Safire called himself, with only a touch of irony, "the vituperative right-wing scandalmonger." He did all he could to polarize the political parties into deep and lasting ideological corners.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There was a time in this country, roughly before Nixon and Safire, where we did have a bipartisan government, one where Democrats and Republicans could work together and did. Roughly about the time he's to arrive in Washington, that all began to change. It took someone like Trump to drive Americans on the right to such extremism that it threatens the core of our Democracy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now our great democracy, as Lincoln called it the "last best hope of Earth," literally stands on the brink of destruction. I saw the beginning of the end and I think you might want to hear what are I witnessed. <a href="https://tinyurl.com/4556ecfk">Take a look at my new book, <i>Say No to Fascism or Say Farewell to Lincoln’s Last Best Hope of Earth. </i>Start reading it for free by clicking this link.</a></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 334px; overflow: hidden; width: 226px;"><img height="334.0" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/kNmuPmQuOxRzu4drhSFPbvXwXUC58A1PZjLbjdckewzYLdv-RvApaYphi2hpK83vfvH4xOFcYWDnOIQd1BK6jkQyRGxPKMeeAHeVFEYEmnaltchiJRfm_5e4HM0FQ4bCc4VJr049NkxH183ywg" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="226.0" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/4556ecfk">H<span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ow Trump learned his political lessons early and other topics on democracy. CLICK HERE!</span></a></p><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-11264813291961386632022-05-11T02:35:00.005-07:002022-05-11T02:35:50.042-07:00Close the blinds during sleep to protect your health<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><b>Even moderate light exposure during sleep harms heart health and increases insulin resistance</b></i></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbSBh8mZuOC_VtYvsn2hPuwnSFqWKyl0XTj3fn-qSD1XlWAnMIUmpHmI2kT4q3urjXcpa9q3C84kH_JZvV03RQENkZZRr8t6VaaeIEtSdm93NT5Cd4qa39joBJVbJiYdcsRFRwDTXd8PCyts9zCKMXwrJ3fe4ZI8dLDIaFx1u-QaWluqcc-TDD75fAyw/s646/Screenshot_20220511-052409_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="646" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbSBh8mZuOC_VtYvsn2hPuwnSFqWKyl0XTj3fn-qSD1XlWAnMIUmpHmI2kT4q3urjXcpa9q3C84kH_JZvV03RQENkZZRr8t6VaaeIEtSdm93NT5Cd4qa39joBJVbJiYdcsRFRwDTXd8PCyts9zCKMXwrJ3fe4ZI8dLDIaFx1u-QaWluqcc-TDD75fAyw/s320/Screenshot_20220511-052409_Chrome.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-50482b2d-7fff-0851-be49-cb2e294f4cc7" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bedroom with full moon | Credit: © Brilliant Eye / stock.adobe.com</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Summary:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning, reports a new study. Just a single night of exposure to moderate room lighting during sleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation, which are risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome.</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 36pt 0pt 18pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 320px; overflow: hidden; width: 245px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/74uqqtJKLh1O5gO5Wilk8Mcfc0XAYJx-_rIACHHe6yK_LEx2iJFn0g1ckWjCzBiag997awOSueuz2uTh13hEc49lAXqtUjKeSkQvvQI9Y7O6h4V7K1JWIGg3HGR8aCQz-DOcSMjGuG5NIeubdA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="245" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 36pt 0pt 18pt; padding: 4pt 0pt 2pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2385724879121268589/7662782426925001541#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</span></span></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Close the blinds, draw the curtains and turn off all the lights before bed. Exposure to even moderate ambient lighting during nighttime sleep, compared to sleeping in a dimly lit room, harms your cardiovascular function during sleep and increases your insulin resistance the following morning, reports a new Northwestern Medicine study</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"The results from this study demonstrate that just a single night of exposure to moderate room lighting during sleep can impair glucose and cardiovascular regulation, which are risk factors for heart disease, diabetes and metabolic syndrome," said senior study author Dr. Phyllis Zee, chief of sleep medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a Northwestern Medicine physician. "It's important for people to avoid or minimize the amount of light exposure during sleep."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is already evidence that light exposure during daytime increases heart rate via activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which kicks your heart into high gear and heightens alertness to meet the challenges of the day.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Our results indicate that a similar effect is also present when exposure to light occurs during nighttime sleep," Zee said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heart rate increases in light room, and body can't rest properly</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"We showed your heart rate increases when you sleep in a moderately lit room," said Dr. Daniela Grimaldi, a co-first author and research assistant professor of neurology at Northwestern. "Even though you are asleep, your autonomic nervous system is activated. That's bad. Usually, your heart rate together with other cardiovascular parameters are lower at night and higher during the day."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems to regulate our physiology during the day and night. Sympathetic takes charge during the day and parasympathetic is supposed to at night, when it conveys restoration to the entire body.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How nighttime light during sleep can lead to diabetes and obesity</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Investigators found insulin resistance occurred the morning after people slept in a light room. Insulin resistance is when cells in your muscles, fat and liver don't respond well to insulin and can't use glucose from your blood for energy. To make up for it, your pancreas makes more insulin. Over time, your blood sugar goes up.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">An earlier study published in JAMA Internal Medicine looked at a large population of healthy people who had exposure to light during sleep. They were more overweight and obese, Zee said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Now we are showing a mechanism that might be fundamental to explain why this happens," Zee said. "We show it's affecting your ability to regulate glucose."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The participants in the study weren't aware of the biological changes in their bodies at night.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 36pt 0pt 18pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 320px; overflow: hidden; width: 245px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/74uqqtJKLh1O5gO5Wilk8Mcfc0XAYJx-_rIACHHe6yK_LEx2iJFn0g1ckWjCzBiag997awOSueuz2uTh13hEc49lAXqtUjKeSkQvvQI9Y7O6h4V7K1JWIGg3HGR8aCQz-DOcSMjGuG5NIeubdA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="245" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt 36pt 0pt 18pt; padding: 4pt 0pt 2pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2385724879121268589/7662782426925001541#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</span></span></a></h4><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"But the brain senses it," Grimaldi said. "It acts like the brain of somebody whose sleep is light and fragmented. The sleep physiology is not resting the way it's supposed to."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exposure to artificial light at night during sleep is common</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Exposure to artificial light at night during sleep is common, either from indoor light emitting devices or from sources outside the home, particularly in large urban areas. A significant proportion of individuals (up to 40%) sleep with a bedside lamp on or with a light on in the bedroom and/or keep the television on.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Light and its relationship to health is double edged.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"In addition to sleep, nutrition and exercise, light exposure during the daytime is an important factor for health, but during the night we show that even modest intensity of light can impair measures of heart and endocrine health," Zee said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study tested the effect of sleeping with 100 lux (moderate light) compared to 3 lux (dim light) in participants over a single night. The investigators discovered that moderate light exposure caused the body to go into a higher alert state. In this state, the heart rate increases as well as the force with which the heart contracts and the rate of how fast the blood is conducted to your blood vessels for oxygenated blood flow.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"These findings are important particularly for those living in modern societies where exposure to indoor and outdoor nighttime light is increasingly widespread," Zee said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zee's top tips for reducing light during sleep</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(1) Don't turn lights on. If you need to have a light on (which older adults may want for safety), make it a dim light that is closer to the floor.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(2) Color is important. Amber or a red/orange light is less stimulating for the brain. Don't use white or blue light and keep it far away from the sleeping person.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(3) Blackout shades or eye masks are good if you can't control the outdoor light. Move your bed so the outdoor light isn't shining on your face.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Is my room too light?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"If you're able to see things really well, it's probably too light," Zee said.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Story Source:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Materials provided by Northwestern University. Original written by Marla Paul. Note: Content may be edited for style and length.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-76317153523246411542022-05-09T14:25:00.001-07:002022-05-09T14:25:36.732-07:00Social media break improves mental health<p> </p><span id="docs-internal-guid-5273eeb9-7fff-a37a-59f4-3bfd788883bc"><h1 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.32; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #004276; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social media break improves mental health, study suggests</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">May 6, 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Source:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Bath</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Results of a new study which asked participants to take a week-long break from TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook find positive effects for wellbeing, depression and anxiety.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 351px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img height="351" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Qa6uHJEYeWOOJrtxHxN4HO9J76QdHNkfDnB-0zEFBluEWMA1leBENrXyKAuiWv8Pm9qeBu-2rpC9REN9HYE_HeSJMoC_qXBgPr7TT1FHzFdsLuCNN9gDBQ9hRU8w6cr0s2yJg2z9eIn0CS837g" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.714284; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Share:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 0.06; margin-bottom: 8pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 11pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 1pt 0pt 9pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FULL STORY</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.68; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 11pt 0pt 15pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Asking people to stop using social media for just one week could lead to significant improvements in their wellbeing, depression and anxiety and could, in the future, be recommended as a way to help people manage their mental health say the authors of a new study.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: -4pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The study, carried out by a team of researchers at the University of Bath (UK), studied the mental health effects of a week-long social media break. For some participants in the study, this meant freeing-up around nine hours of their week which would otherwise have been spent scrolling Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 320px; overflow: hidden; width: 245px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/74uqqtJKLh1O5gO5Wilk8Mcfc0XAYJx-_rIACHHe6yK_LEx2iJFn0g1ckWjCzBiag997awOSueuz2uTh13hEc49lAXqtUjKeSkQvvQI9Y7O6h4V7K1JWIGg3HGR8aCQz-DOcSMjGuG5NIeubdA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="245" /></span></span></span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 4pt 0pt 2pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2385724879121268589/7662782426925001541#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</span></span></a></h4><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 9pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their results -- published today (Friday 6 May 2022) in the US journal </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cyberpsychology, Behaviour and Social Networking</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> -- suggest that just one week off social media improved individuals' overall level of well-being, as well as reduced symptoms of depression and anxiety.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the study, the researchers randomly allocated 154 individuals aged 18 to 72 who used social media every day into either an intervention group, where they were asked to stop using all social media for one-week or a control group, where they could continue scrolling as normal. At the beginning of the study, baseline scores for anxiety, depression and wellbeing were taken.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Participants reported spending an average of 8 hours per week on social media at the start of the study. One week later, the participants who were asked to take the one-week break had significant improvements in wellbeing, depression, and anxiety than those who continued to use social media, suggesting a short-term benefit.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Participants asked to take a one-week break reported using social media for an average of 21 minutes compared to an average of seven hours for those in the control group. Screen usage stats were provided to check that individuals had adhered to the break.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lead researcher from Bath's Department for Health, Dr Jeff Lambert explains: "Scrolling social media is so ubiquitous that many of us do it almost without thinking from the moment we wake up to when we close our eyes at night.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"We know that social media usage is huge and that there are increasing concerns about its mental health effects, so with this study, we wanted to see whether simply asking people to take a week's break could yield mental health benefits.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Many of our participants reported positive effects from being off social media with improved mood and less anxiety overall. This suggests that even just a small break can have an impact.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Of course, social media is a part of life and for many people, it's an indispensable part of who they are and how they interact with others. But if you are spending hours each week scrolling and you feel it is negatively impacting you, it could be worth cutting down on your usage to see if it helps."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The team now want to build on the study to see whether taking a short break can help different populations (e.g., younger people or people with physical and mental health conditions). The team also want to follow people up for longer than one week, to see if the benefits last over time. If so, in the future, they speculate that this could form part of the suite of clinical options used to help manage mental health.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 320px; overflow: hidden; width: 245px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img height="320" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/74uqqtJKLh1O5gO5Wilk8Mcfc0XAYJx-_rIACHHe6yK_LEx2iJFn0g1ckWjCzBiag997awOSueuz2uTh13hEc49lAXqtUjKeSkQvvQI9Y7O6h4V7K1JWIGg3HGR8aCQz-DOcSMjGuG5NIeubdA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="245" /></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2385724879121268589/7662782426925001541#" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</span></span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Over the past 15 years, social media has revolutionized how we communicate, underscored by the huge growth the main platforms have observed. In the UK the number of adults using social media increased from 45% in 2011 to 71% in 2021. Among 16 to 44-year-olds, as many as 97% of us use social media and scrolling is the most frequent online activity we perform.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Feeling 'low' and losing pleasure are core characteristics of depression, whereas anxiety is characterised by excessive and out of control worry. Wellbeing refers to an individual's level of positive affect, life satisfaction and sense of purpose. According to the Mind, one in six of us experience a common mental health problem like anxiety and depression in any given week.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;"></p><hr /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 11pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Story Source:</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 18pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 3pt 0pt 8pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/social-media-break-improves-mental-health-new-study/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #004276; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Materials</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> provided by </span><a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #004276; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Bath</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Note: Content may be edited for style and length.</span></span></p><br /></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-76627824269250015412022-04-18T15:41:00.002-07:002022-04-18T18:01:25.595-07:00Overlooked: Millions suffer tension, migraine headaches at work<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"> </p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><h1 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.32; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Q32F5zief-e1FJYDrc43g8nd8V3t6kBvMIDhW9oYKC7tY-TYqFWzGxDpVrEOoB2QMQYDIrd2kV_qniBvDD2jvMXB5KL-uUfk1-tYQaKn7uCpa0kjmWRYNtSJ_l6f_CUzXprWcTjscaWQEudyDSkQ_96OVZ6ZCooscVbZXqZEeNaPXs_9-jivOPYH8w/s225/images%20(41).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7Q32F5zief-e1FJYDrc43g8nd8V3t6kBvMIDhW9oYKC7tY-TYqFWzGxDpVrEOoB2QMQYDIrd2kV_qniBvDD2jvMXB5KL-uUfk1-tYQaKn7uCpa0kjmWRYNtSJ_l6f_CUzXprWcTjscaWQEudyDSkQ_96OVZ6ZCooscVbZXqZEeNaPXs_9-jivOPYH8w/w400-h400/images%20(41).jpg" width="400" /></a></div></h1></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><h1 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.32; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></h1><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">NIH/</span>Migraines at work overlooked, understudied.</span></h4></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><h1 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.32; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Millions suffer tension, migraine headaches at work, in silence</h1></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date:</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 68pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">February 9, 2022</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Source:</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 68pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">University of Copenhagen - The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary:</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 11pt; margin-left: 68pt; margin-top: 15pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new study shows that people with migraine or frequent tension headaches have a reduced work ability in particularly three areas. The researchers hope that the new knowledge may help workplaces become better at accommodating those suffering from headaches.</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-03cee243-7fff-c25b-e634-1eabfca2c4cc"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.71428; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 15pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin: 9pt -11pt 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 9pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #595959; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FULL STORY</span></p></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span><hr /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Imagine your head pounding. And when you try to move, a door slams, or curtains are drawn it gets much worse. Ideally, you would like to crawl under your blanket in a dark and quiet room.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is how it may feel for people suffering from migraine or frequent tension headaches. Untreated, a migraine attack may last for 4-72 hours, and tension headaches may potentially last for a week. In Denmark, it is estimated that approximately 770,000 people suffer from migraine or frequent tension headaches.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, for the first time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen shows specifically how migraine or frequent tension headaches affect the ability to work.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It is especially the ability to remember, make quick decisions and do hard physical work that cause difficulties for people with these headache disorders," says Project Manager and author of the study Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fHaPVdIIjsoizGu2DmEURtp5YeOEO8toqK5Q6h3j7TM0BV0cZUhZjfupdvU7h1iGF99vDtCRAUQUs8STrGAkxXAbhBlB7JeV7T2gZ79jMYsjTivS8jBHiy2aIWidhbYktKFxlKGiA6Whq-q0JRviw3hj2JtFrIYZ8c_OjmPX8HdoWBwPu6_UP7Gzhg/s338/Screenshot%202022-04-18%206.33.49%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="259" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fHaPVdIIjsoizGu2DmEURtp5YeOEO8toqK5Q6h3j7TM0BV0cZUhZjfupdvU7h1iGF99vDtCRAUQUs8STrGAkxXAbhBlB7JeV7T2gZ79jMYsjTivS8jBHiy2aIWidhbYktKFxlKGiA6Whq-q0JRviw3hj2JtFrIYZ8c_OjmPX8HdoWBwPu6_UP7Gzhg/s320/Screenshot%202022-04-18%206.33.49%20PM.png" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+Healing+the+Brain%3A+Stress%2C+Trauma+and+Development&qid=1631221155&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</a></b></h4><br /><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">She hopes that the study will help to focus on the consequences which headaches may have for working life.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Migraine is the leading cause of functional impairment among people under the age of 50. And headaches have negative effects on sick leave and productivity. So, it would benefit workplaces to open their eyes to the untapped potential that you find here," says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, adding:</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Indeed, we cannot afford </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">not</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to take it seriously."<br /></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you ask the Danish working population, 24 per cent of women and 10 per cent of men suffer from migraines or frequent tension headaches.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The possibilities of adapting the work during headache attacks depend on the type of work you have, says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, stressing:</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"So also in this context, there is a significant inequality in health."</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">While people with academic jobs will often be able to go home a little earlier, work from home or choose to postpone the tasks that demand the highest concentration, other people, such as cleaning staff or nursing staff in old people's homes, do not have the same opportunities to adjust the working hours or postpone the tasks to be solved. Instead, they may have to call in sick.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, it takes creativity on the part of the manager and the employees to find out which solutions may be helpful:</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It is about having a good overview of the tasks that need to be solved, and then having a talk as to the best way to arrange a work day. For example, there may be tasks that can be performed later in the day, or that can be solved at a leisurely pace or in a quiet space until the pain has gone."</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">"I am going to lay down"</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen believes that headache disorders such as migraine and frequent headaches are an overlooked epidemic.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"We are stuck with the idea of the character Maude from the Danish TV series Matador saying 'I am going to lay down' whenever she is a bit stressed," she says, explaining:</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Most people have experienced headaches. Therefore, it may be difficult to understand how debilitating migraine and frequent headaches may be for a colleague, friend or family member. People still have the notion that it will be sufficient to swallow a pill."</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen believes that there is a lack of knowledge in the general population about the importance of headache disorders. The same applies to the fact that taking too many painkillers to soothe the headache may actually lead to </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> headaches.<br /></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Some studies show that headaches are the second-most common cause of sick leave -- surpassed only by infectious diseases. Therefore, headache disorders carry large personal and socio-economic costs," says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Associated with depressive symptoms and muscular pain</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The researchers have used self-reported information from more than 5,000 active Danes with different educational backgrounds -- from people with long academic educations to unskilled workers.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"It is new that we combine information about migraine and frequent headaches with the participants' use of painkillers and with their description of the ability to cope with seven different, specific requirements at work," says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The participants also answered questions about their health, depressive symptoms and pain in muscles and joints.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Here, the researchers found that depressive symptoms and pain in muscles and joints play an important role for the context between headache disorders and the ability to work.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Our results indicate that the handling of depressive symptoms and pain in the musculoskeletal system may be an important factor in improving the ability to work among people with headache disorders," says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Previous studies support the finding that headaches, muscle and joint pain coincide with depressive symptoms. </span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Among other things, you may see mood changes, and neck pain may be a warning sign of a migraine attack, just as frequent headache attacks may affect the mood negatively.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Under- and overmedication</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The researchers find the lowest ability to work in the group of headache sufferers who do not use painkillers at all and the group who use painkillers on a daily basis.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This raises the question whether these two groups are undertreated and overtreated, respectively," says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">According to Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen, it seems to indicate that the group taking painkillers on a daily basis may not receive a treatment that works as intended -- and they might even suffer from medication overuse headaches.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">"On the other hand, when you look at the group who does not take medication at all, it seems to indicate that they are undermedicated. And maybe it has to do with the fact that they do not consider their illness to be severe enough to seek medical attention -- but that is just our guess," says Kirsten Nabe-Nielsen.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facts: What are migraines and frequent headaches?</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">The two most common forms of headaches are migraine and tension headache.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Migraine is characterised by bouts of moderate or severe pulsating headache accompanied by nausea, vomiting and sensitivity to light and sound. Chronic migraine occurs more than 14 days a month.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tension headache is characterised by mild to severe pain on both sides of the head. Nausea and vomiting are usually absent. Chronic headache occurs more than 14 days a month.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fHaPVdIIjsoizGu2DmEURtp5YeOEO8toqK5Q6h3j7TM0BV0cZUhZjfupdvU7h1iGF99vDtCRAUQUs8STrGAkxXAbhBlB7JeV7T2gZ79jMYsjTivS8jBHiy2aIWidhbYktKFxlKGiA6Whq-q0JRviw3hj2JtFrIYZ8c_OjmPX8HdoWBwPu6_UP7Gzhg/s338/Screenshot%202022-04-18%206.33.49%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="259" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1fHaPVdIIjsoizGu2DmEURtp5YeOEO8toqK5Q6h3j7TM0BV0cZUhZjfupdvU7h1iGF99vDtCRAUQUs8STrGAkxXAbhBlB7JeV7T2gZ79jMYsjTivS8jBHiy2aIWidhbYktKFxlKGiA6Whq-q0JRviw3hj2JtFrIYZ8c_OjmPX8HdoWBwPu6_UP7Gzhg/s320/Screenshot%202022-04-18%206.33.49%20PM.png" width="245" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+Healing+the+Brain%3A+Stress%2C+Trauma+and+Development&qid=1631221155&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Learn about your brain in clear, jargon-free language.</a></b></h4><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Facts: Recommendations</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">Based on the study, and seen in the light of other research, the researchers are making two recommendations:</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">People with headaches should see their doctor for advice and possible medical treatment.</span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Managers and employees should discuss the possibilities for adapting work during attacks, in order to reduce absenteeism, such as the opportunity to work in a room with less noise or outdoors, the opportunity to perform less physically demanding tasks or the opportunity to perform tasks that are not emotionally or cognitively demanding.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; 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The tragedy is they are being ignored, sometimes willfully. As Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, M.D., has said, "the problem is urgent, particularly for transgender people of color who suffer horrifically high rates of depression, substance abuse, suicide, and murder.” Speaking on a PBS special series, Dr. Eric Kandel also said, “Brain science can be a liberating influence in our lives. As we understand the biology of our own gender identity and sexual orientation better and become more comfortable with ourselves, we've become more empathic to somebody else's identity and orientation.</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4a4a4a; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">”</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Join us via Zoom</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="total-main-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #232333; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: start;"><div class="zoom-newcontent" id="content_container" style="background-color: white; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(16, 113, 193); box-sizing: border-box; color: #1071c1; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 5px 12px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-btn glyphicon-ical-btn" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: -24px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 120px; background: url("../image/plugin_sprite.png") -24px 0px / 120px no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings"; height: 24px; line-height: 1; margin-right: 4px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;"></span> Outlook Calendar (.ics)</a> <a class="btn btn-default" href="http://calendar.yahoo.com/?v=60&VIEW=d&TITLE=Stress%2C%20Trauma%20and%20LGBTQ%20Youth&in_loc=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81695713497%3Fpwd%3DQjRrVXFBeWZHU0g3akhha3BGK0FHdz09&URL=https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81695713497%3Fpwd%3DQjRrVXFBeWZHU0g3akhha3BGK0FHdz09&ST=20220316T210000Z&DUR=0100&DESC=David%20Balog%20is%20inviting%20you%20to%20a%20scheduled%20Zoom%20meeting.%0D%0A%0D%0AJoin%20Zoom%20Meeting%0D%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fj%2F81695713497%3Fpwd%3DQjRrVXFBeWZHU0g3akhha3BGK0FHdz09%0D%0A%0D%0AMeeting%20ID%3A%20816%209571%203497%0D%0APasscode%3A%2042PCRU%0D%0AOne%20tap%20mobile%0D%0A%2B16468769923%2C%2C81695713497%23%2C%2C%2C%2C%2A634724%23%20US%20%28New%20York%29%0D%0A%2B13126266799%2C%2C81695713497%23%2C%2C%2C%2C%2A634724%23%20US%20%28Chicago%29%0D%0A%0D%0ADial%20by%20your%20location%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20646%20876%209923%20US%20%28New%20York%29%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20312%20626%206799%20US%20%28Chicago%29%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20301%20715%208592%20US%20%28Washington%20DC%29%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20669%20900%206833%20US%20%28San%20Jose%29%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20253%20215%208782%20US%20%28Tacoma%29%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20346%20248%207799%20US%20%28Houston%29%0D%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%2B1%20408%20638%200968%20US%20%28San%20Jose%29%0D%0AMeeting%20ID%3A%20816%209571%203497%0D%0APasscode%3A%20634724%0D%0AFind%20your%20local%20number%3A%20https%3A%2F%2Fus02web.zoom.us%2Fu%2Fkx4ROYqgR%0D%0A%0D%0A" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(163, 7, 214); box-sizing: border-box; color: #a307d6; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 5px 12px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-btn glyphicon-yahoo-btn" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 120px; background: url("../image/plugin_sprite.png") -48px 0px / 120px no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings"; height: 24px; line-height: 1; margin-right: 4px; position: relative; top: 1px; vertical-align: top; width: 24px;"></span>Yahoo Calendar</a></div></div></div></div><div class="z-form-row" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 239, 242); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 30px 4px; position: relative;"><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><label class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Meeting ID</label><div class="control col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">816 9571 3497</div></div></div><div class="z-form-row" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 239, 242); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 30px 4px; position: relative;"><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><label class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Security</label><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="z-form-row-action" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-right: 25px;"><label class="checkbox checked" id="label_option_password" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; padding-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><i class="status-icon" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background: url("../image/settings/enabled.png") 0px 0px / cover no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 10px; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 6px; width: 10px;"></i>Passcode</label> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;"><span id="hidePassword" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">********</span></span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 13px; margin-right: 16px;"></span> <a id="showPassword" role="button" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e71eb; margin-right: 10px;">Show</a></div> <label class="checkbox" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; padding-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><i class="status-icon" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background: url("../image/settings/no.png") 0px 0px / cover no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 10px; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 6px; width: 10px;"></i>Waiting Room</label><div class="mgt-sm" id="auth" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 8px;"><label class="checkbox" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; padding-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><i class="status-icon" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background: url("../image/settings/no.png") 0px 0px / cover no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 10px; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 6px; width: 10px;"></i><span id="enforceLoginLabelText" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Require authentication to join</span></label></div></div></div></div><div class="z-form-row" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 239, 242); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 30px 4px; position: relative;"><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><label class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Invite Link</label><div class="controls col-md-offset-2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><label style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px;"></label> <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81695713497?pwd=QjRrVXFBeWZHU0g3akhha3BGK0FHdz09" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e71eb; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81695713497?pwd=QjRrVXFBeWZHU0g3akhha3BGK0FHdz09</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; float: right; margin-right: 32px;"><a aria-labelledby="copyInvitation copy-invite-title" aria-modal="true" class="edit" id="copyInvitation" role="button" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e71eb;"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-share" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Glyphicons Halflings"; line-height: 1; position: relative; top: 1px;"></span> Copy Invitation</a></span></div></div></div><div class="z-form-row" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 239, 242); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 30px 4px; position: relative;"><div class="form-group clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><label class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Video</label><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><label class="col-md-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Host</label> <label class="col-md-offset-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px;">Off</label></div></div><div class="form-group clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><label class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"> </label><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><label class="col-md-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Participant</label> <label class="col-md-offset-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px;">Off</label></div></div><div class="form-group clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><label class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; display: inline-block; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 5px; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Audio</label><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><label style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 5px;">Telephone and Computer Audio</label><div id="globalDialinCountries" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666;">Dial from <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">United States</span></span></div></div></div><div class="form-group clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><div class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-weight: bold; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;">Meeting Options</div><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><label class="checkbox" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; padding-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><i class="status-icon" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background: url("../image/settings/no.png") 0px 0px / cover no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 10px; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: 5px; 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border-radius: 50%; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e71eb; display: inline-block; height: 16px; overflow: visible; position: relative; top: 3px; width: 16px;"></a></label></div></div><div id="auth-water-mark" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div id="auth-video-order" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="form-group" id="meet-autorec" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><div class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-weight: bold; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"></div><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><label class="checkbox" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; padding-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><i class="status-icon" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background: url("../image/settings/no.png") 0px 0px / cover no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 10px; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 6px; width: 10px;"></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Automatically record meeting</span></label></div></div><div class="form-group" id="meet-region" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"><div class="meeting-label col-md-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-weight: bold; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"></div><div class="controls col-md-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><label class="checkbox" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 27px; padding-left: 16px; padding-top: 0px;"><i class="status-icon" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; background: url("../image/settings/no.png") 0px 0px / cover no-repeat scroll transparent; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; height: 10px; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 6px; width: 10px;"></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Approve or block entry for users from specific countries/regions</span></label><div id="regions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 8px; padding-left: 20px; width: 450px;"></div></div></div></div><div class="z-form-row" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(238, 239, 242); box-sizing: border-box; padding: 12px 30px 4px; position: relative;"><div class="form-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: -10px; margin-right: 0px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left;"><a class="btn_Start_meeting btn btn-primary" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/s/81695713497" style="background: none rgb(14, 113, 235); border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(14, 113, 235); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 5px 16px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;" target="_blank" type="button">Start</a> <a class="btn btn-default" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/81695713497/edit" role="button" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(186, 186, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 5px 12px; text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;">Edit</a> <a class="btn btn-default delete" data-duration="60" data-id="81695713497" data-s="" data-t="2" data-time="Mar 16, 2022 05:00 PM" data-topic="Stress, Trauma and LGBTQ Youth" id="btn_Delete_meeting" role="button" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 8px; border: 1px solid rgb(186, 186, 204); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 8px; padding: 5px 12px; text-align: center; user-select: none; vertical-align: middle; white-space: nowrap;">Delete</a> <a aria-labelledby="saveMeetingTemplate saveMeetingTemplateDialog_title" aria-modal="true" class="saveMeetingTemplate btn btn-default" data-id="81695713497" data-s="" role="button" style="background-attachment: initial; 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color: white; text-decoration-line: none;">Privacy, Security, Legal Policies, and Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement</a></li></ul></div><div class="cm-language" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; padding-left: 50px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 30px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; width: 344px;"><div aria-level="2" class="h4" role="heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #eaeaea; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.1; margin: 24pt 0px 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Language</span></div><ul class="clearfix" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #919191; float: left; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 8px; width: 147px;"><div class="dropdown-language dropdown" role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; position: relative;"><a aria-haspopup="listbox" class="dropdown-toggle" data-close-others="true" data-hover="dropdown" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" style="background: transparent; border: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; padding: 4px 15px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">English</span> <span class="caret" style="border-left: 4px solid transparent; border-right: 4px solid transparent; border-top: 4px solid; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 0px; margin-left: 2px; vertical-align: middle; width: 0px;"></span></a></div></li></ul><div class="info-icons" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 36px; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 0px; position: relative; width: 280px; z-index: 10;"><a class="icon" href="https://blog.zoom.us/" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; height: 36px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 36px;" target="_blank" tracking-category="NavFooter" tracking-id="footerBlogIcon"><span class="sr-only" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") center center no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: inline-block; height: 36px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 36px;">Zoom on Blog</span><span class="wordpress" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") 0px 0px no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 36px; vertical-align: middle; width: 36px;"></span></a> <a class="icon" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/2532259" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; height: 36px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 36px;" target="_blank"><span class="sr-only" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") center center no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: inline-block; height: 36px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 36px;">Zoom on LinkedIn</span><span class="linkedin" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: -45px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") -45px 0px no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 36px; vertical-align: middle; width: 36px;"></span></a> <a class="icon" href="https://twitter.com/zoom" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; height: 36px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 36px;" target="_blank"><span class="sr-only" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") center center no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: inline-block; height: 36px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle; width: 36px;">Zoom on Twitter</span><span class="twitter" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: -90px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") -90px 0px no-repeat; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 36px; vertical-align: middle; width: 36px;"></span></a> <a class="icon" href="https://www.youtube.com/zoommeetings" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 50%; box-sizing: border-box; color: white; display: inline-block; height: 36px; padding-right: 5px; text-decoration-line: none; width: 36px;" target="_blank"><span class="sr-only" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; background: url("../image/new/home/social_icons_footer.png") center center no-repeat; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); display: inline-block; height: 36px; margin: -1px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; 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"I think we're smarter and more talented and more aware."</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A new study in the American Sociological Review (Feb. 20) poses a provocative theory that gay men are markedly for inclined to excel academically than their straight male peers. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/s343/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/w249-h400/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" width="249" /></span></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A new study in the American Sociological Review (Feb. 20) poses a provocative theory that gay men are markedly for inclined to excel academically than their straight male peers. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the paper, sociologist Joel Mittleman found that <span style="color: #1d2228;">on an array of academic measures, gay males outperform all other groups on average, across all major racial groups. Conversely, he concluded that lesbians perform more poorly in school overall and that Black gay women have a much lower college graduation rate than their white counterparts.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">“This article is focusing a lens on what we do to all kids,”</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">Lisa Diamond, a psychology professor at the University of Utah, said of the societal pressures that appear to impede lesbians in school</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">even as these stressors possibly unnerve gay males into compensating for homophobia through academic striving. “And the most vulnerable kids are going to show it first.”</span></p><p><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">In recent years, academics, lawmakers and journalists alike have sounded an increasingly urgent alarm that on balance, American males are stuck in a scholastic funk. As the economic gap between those with and without a college degree has widened, women’s college graduation rate has</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;"> </span><a class="link" data-rapid_p="10" data-v9y="1" data-ylk="slk:risen in tandem" href="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20.4.133" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #188fff; cursor: pointer; font-family: georgia; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">risen in tandem</a><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">, but men’s rate has remained largely stagnant for decades. Today, women comprise 59.2 percent of college students,</span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;"> according </span><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">to the National Student Clearinghouse.</span></p><p><span style="color: #1d2228; font-family: georgia;">Mittleman’s research indicates that this characterization of the educational gender gap is critically lacking in specificity. It is, in fact, straight males who tend to be mired in a scholastic morass. And the considerable academic progress that young women have charted since the advent of second-wave feminism has been largely restricted to the heterosexuals among them.</span></p><div class="caas-body" style="padding-right: 77.3906px;"><div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/s343/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/w249-h400/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" width="249" /></span></a></div><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </span></a></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-55821065586928775702021-12-23T17:23:00.001-08:002021-12-23T17:23:33.627-08:00College football players are not healthy, says study<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-11d73536-7fff-0b19-68b9-8183604a4795"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>College football players may appear healthy, but this is not the case. A significant number have abnormalities in coordination and inflammation, according to a new study.</i></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 397px; overflow: hidden; width: 274px;"><img height="397" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/o5RrAEx7Sim7ytRCyhYg_GtH5Mnaj4MO3zt7bTO6IMfh7_42ajr98YI2R4FRFESztfrjBoPPhafjg1E35cw8HTPX2QxyF0BvJYnMvNa6_ybNowQfn1uY4xgj6NlQzAC34YRR9G7m" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="274" /></span></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">December 16, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Source:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Northwestern University</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Collegiate football athletes with a decade or more of experience with the sport have related abnormalities in inflammation, energy production and coordination that are apparent before the football season and across the season, a new study has found. The abnormalities are related to routine repetitive head impacts from tackling and blocking.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">College football players may appear healthy and successful on the field, but a number of biological measures say otherwise.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new study between Northwestern Medicine, Pennsylvania State University and other collaborating universities has found collegiate football athletes with a decade or more of experience with the sport have related abnormalities in inflammation, energy production and coordination that are apparent before the football season and across the season. The abnormalities are related to routine repetitive head impacts from tackling and blocking.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most head trauma studies tend to focus on injury being severe enough to cause a clinical concussion, as opposed to assessing the routine effect of repeated tackles or blows to the head over a season. These findings argue that impact sport athletes, regardless of history of concussion, have chronic problems.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 338px; overflow: hidden; width: 259px;"><img height="338" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/j6sk4IFhACx2GsahXCSmQEKN6emIeVSDZ9rwYEvP-c7K1Pa_ECTBvoLxW6lKZHPSFRDX5c5KlFv77G9YURu__sse4F0AhzirbRsNdcbEXzWTxDHo7Dyuy36S42CRMZwAdJcZxXKD" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="259" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+Healing+the+Brain%3A+Stress%2C+Trauma+and+Development&qid=1631221155&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain, in simple, non-technical language. </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+Healing+the+Brain%3A+Stress%2C+Trauma+and+Development&qid=1631221155&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more by clicking here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These problems were found in measures that show abnormal regulation of inflammation, less coordinated movement and abnormalities in how cells produce energy. These three measures are significantly related to each other before the football season and to changes observed across the football season. They were also related to the number of head impacts a player received over the season.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"These findings support over a decade of reports about the negative effects of repetitive head impacts along with studies of animal brain injury," said co-senior author Dr. Hans Breiter, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "At this point, it appears the canary is dead in the coal mine."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This problem affects much of youth and professional impact sports in the U.S., along with training of U.S. military personnel," said co-senior author Dr. Semyon Slobounov, professor of neurosurgery at Penn State College of Medicine.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new study between Northwestern Medicine, Pennsylvania State University and other collaborating universities has found collegiate football athletes with a decade or more of experience with the sport have related abnormalities in inflammation, energy production and coordination that are apparent before the football season and across the season. The abnormalities are related to routine repetitive head impacts from tackling and blocking.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Most head trauma studies tend to focus on injury being severe enough to cause a clinical concussion, as opposed to assessing the routine effect of repeated tackles or blows to the head over a season. These findings argue that impact sport athletes, regardless of history of concussion, have chronic problems.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These problems were found in measures that show abnormal regulation of inflammation, less coordinated movement and abnormalities in how cells produce energy. These three measures are significantly related to each other before the football season and to changes observed across the football season. They were also related to the number of head impacts a player received over the season.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"These findings support over a decade of reports about the negative effects of repetitive head impacts along with studies of animal brain injury," said co-senior author Dr. Hans Breiter, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "At this point, it appears the canary is dead in the coal mine."</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This problem affects much of youth and professional impact sports in the U.S., along with training of U.S. military personnel," said co-senior author Dr. Semyon Slobounov, professor of neurosurgery at Penn State College of Medicine.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 338px; overflow: hidden; width: 259px;"><img height="338" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/j6sk4IFhACx2GsahXCSmQEKN6emIeVSDZ9rwYEvP-c7K1Pa_ECTBvoLxW6lKZHPSFRDX5c5KlFv77G9YURu__sse4F0AhzirbRsNdcbEXzWTxDHo7Dyuy36S42CRMZwAdJcZxXKD" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="259" /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+Healing+the+Brain%3A+Stress%2C+Trauma+and+Development&qid=1631221155&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The brain, in simple, non-technical language. </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+Healing+the+Brain%3A+Stress%2C+Trauma+and+Development&qid=1631221155&sr=8-1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn more by clicking here</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-16744576333624112562021-12-22T15:00:00.001-08:002021-12-22T15:01:17.230-08:00Beat Omicron, Get Vaxxed <p> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVgx479Udf2EbdVlpkxFltlPr-3vKk0Fye4rm7I4Mxezj1LdN91JhDI-dn_ZL8UDb2yaRrN91XZ5kAM0H2s_McINBR3UtOcLQDXl93cv8p2KLax8bx6lB0KtuHX_vROSqFOIH2vu7OAy88tL813kgLv6DEUtBrpfoz61BalKu9ew1yZ1uGEJX8u5ivCA=s483" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVgx479Udf2EbdVlpkxFltlPr-3vKk0Fye4rm7I4Mxezj1LdN91JhDI-dn_ZL8UDb2yaRrN91XZ5kAM0H2s_McINBR3UtOcLQDXl93cv8p2KLax8bx6lB0KtuHX_vROSqFOIH2vu7OAy88tL813kgLv6DEUtBrpfoz61BalKu9ew1yZ1uGEJX8u5ivCA=w276-h400" width="276" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-COVID-19-Vaccine-ASAP-Remarkable-ebook/dp/B091JFL41G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18LLL3S8R417N&keywords=david+balog+covid&qid=1640211356&sprefix=david+balog+covid%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1"><b><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Learn more and order your copy by clicking here.</span></i></b></a></div><p></p><p><i><span style="font-size: medium;">In this updated look at the Covid-19 vaccine we examine its rollout, one year ago. Now with the Omicron variant ravaging the world, getting the vaccine is more important than ever. Stubborn resistance continues...and Covid variations will continue to happen unless we get everyone vaxxed.</span></i></p><p><b><span style="font-family: georgia;">How did that COVID-19 vaccine happen so fast? </span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Years, even decades of research brought us to yesterday, the initial rollout of a vaccine for COVID-19, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">the most disastrous public health calamity in modern times.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In layman's terms, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are all about genetics, DNA, and cell biology. The vaccine utilizes our genetic processes and what they do...which is to create life in our bodies and in all living things. We lay people have known about genetics since high school, when we studied a little bit about Gregor Mendel and his experiments with peas. Mendel <span style="background-color: white;">discovered the basic principles of heredity and laid the mathematical foundation of the science of genetics.</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">What James D. Watson and Francis Crick discovered by 1953, and which revolutionized biology and medicine, was how each of our 30 trillion cells (except for mature red blood cells) is able to pack inside its nucleus the 20,000 genes that serve as the instruction manual for us and for all living things.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, is the material from which the 46 chromosomes in each cell's nucleus are formed. DNA contains the codes for the body's approximately 20,000 genes, which govern all aspects of cell growth and inheritance. Watson and Crick discovered that DNA has a double helix structure--two intertwined strands resembling a spiraling ladder. A gene is a distinct section of that DNA and contains the codes for producing specific proteins involved in our body function. In a very short-handed description, genes send information to single-strand structures called messenger RNA (messenger ribonucleic acid). It is the messenger RNA that leaves the cell's nucleus and begins the process of protein building, the essential work of life.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">What the scientists and doctors at Pfizer accomplished was to harness the messenger RNA of the Corona-19 virus, which is the active agent of the of the corona virus. The scientists made <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">a synthetic copy of the virus's messenger RNA instead of using a section of living, or dead, virus as has been typically done in previous vaccines. Also, it has been reported that the Pfizer and the Moderna vaccines are less risky to the body and easier to make in mass doses...qualities much needed in an unprecedented pandemic.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; white-space: pre-wrap;">As noted scientist and Nobel laureate Leon Cooper said, our investment in basic scientific research must be generous and ongoing. Advances that led to the creation of the personal computer, for example, relied on previous research on transistors, which relied on previous research in basic physics. Had the revolution in our understanding of genes and cellular biology not stood where it is, these vaccines, providing hope to a despairing world, would not have been possible.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Contents </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FOREWORD: HOW A TINY VIRUS CHANGED THE WORLD…..1. LET'S GET BACK TO NORMAL, WHEREVER POSSIBLE….2. THIS IS NOT THE SEASONAL FLU-- IT'S MUCH MORE DANGEROUS….. 3. OUR LUNGS AND COVID-19: A CLOSER LOOK…..4. HOW DID THE COVID-19 VACCINES GET DEVELOPED SO FAST?.....5. THE VACCINES ARE SAFE: THE ROLE OF CLINICAL TRIALS…..6. IMMUNITY: A SMART SYSTEM AND ITS SECRETS…..7. A POWERFUL ACHIEVEMENT: DR. JONAS SALK CONQUERS POLIO…. 8. TAKE PART IN HISTORY...BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE HAPPEN….. 9. SCIENCE SAVES MONEY, SAVES LIVES…..10. THE AGE OF THE GENOME BODES WELL FOR HUMAN HEALTH…..11. FAQS ABOUT THE COVID-19 VACCINES EPILOGUE: LIVING UNDER THE UNIQUE STRESS OF A PANDEMIC </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Online review:</span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">"You might have read articles here and there about the Covid vaccines and the miracle of their development in less than a year. But here in book form, all the ingredients of this remarkable story are brought together in one place by author Dave Balog. Mr. Balog has a medical background, but he writes in clear, easy-to-understand prose that any reader will appreciate.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">"Specifically, fundamental questions about the virus and the vaccines are answered in the book such as how did the vaccines get developed in record time, how was safety ensured -- particularly given the speed involved -- and the implications not only for the management of future pandemics, but also for overall public health in general.</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif;" /><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">"Mr. Balog's book is titled, "Get The Covid-19 Vaccine ASAP." Many people, but by no means everyone, know this. The nine chapters, however, explain why vaccination is so urgent in the face of a still evolving disease, the dimensions of which are detailed therein in no uncertain terms."</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVgx479Udf2EbdVlpkxFltlPr-3vKk0Fye4rm7I4Mxezj1LdN91JhDI-dn_ZL8UDb2yaRrN91XZ5kAM0H2s_McINBR3UtOcLQDXl93cv8p2KLax8bx6lB0KtuHX_vROSqFOIH2vu7OAy88tL813kgLv6DEUtBrpfoz61BalKu9ew1yZ1uGEJX8u5ivCA=s483" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVgx479Udf2EbdVlpkxFltlPr-3vKk0Fye4rm7I4Mxezj1LdN91JhDI-dn_ZL8UDb2yaRrN91XZ5kAM0H2s_McINBR3UtOcLQDXl93cv8p2KLax8bx6lB0KtuHX_vROSqFOIH2vu7OAy88tL813kgLv6DEUtBrpfoz61BalKu9ew1yZ1uGEJX8u5ivCA=w276-h400" width="276" /></a></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-COVID-19-Vaccine-ASAP-Remarkable-ebook/dp/B091JFL41G/ref=sr_1_1?crid=18LLL3S8R417N&keywords=david+balog+covid&qid=1640211356&sprefix=david+balog+covid%2Caps%2C141&sr=8-1"><b><i><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Learn more and order your copy by clicking here.</i></b></a></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">About the author </span></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-size: medium;">David Balog, a freelance science/medical writer, served as an editor at the Charles A. Dana Foundation from 1995-2006. There he worked for William Safire, language columnist for the New York Times. David created, wrote, and edited the Dana Sourcebook of Brain Science through four editions. More than 50,000 copies were distributed to elementary schools, middle schools, colleges and to professionals and the general public. He worked with leading brain scientists and doctors, including Nobel laureates. David was also a contributing editor of the Dana Sourcebook of Immunology. and has created the Healing the Brain series of books and videos. Please visit www.HealingTheBrainBooks.Com to learn more. David is a graduate of Hamilton College, where he received a BA in History.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-82082245162805934892021-12-08T17:57:00.002-08:002021-12-20T17:16:14.340-08:00New book helps parents and youth in "coming out" process<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlY8PD-wwxgpqvS-LAbdKK33DN-rAxhHNRsDIVtf4K012TprAwzJXewnccyGVUKCsMxXUWzMbrV47qvy1V4Yxr0uMWFQ18DlZULnzdx8KbF9kskKGMG8SeQ7rFCMLp_QGo_YIRZzPjI1Jm2ZD9XpzPFiodMYHKCzkBLubt44ksloY-LDxSH1qi6kR1Xw=s346" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="233" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlY8PD-wwxgpqvS-LAbdKK33DN-rAxhHNRsDIVtf4K012TprAwzJXewnccyGVUKCsMxXUWzMbrV47qvy1V4Yxr0uMWFQ18DlZULnzdx8KbF9kskKGMG8SeQ7rFCMLp_QGo_YIRZzPjI1Jm2ZD9XpzPFiodMYHKCzkBLubt44ksloY-LDxSH1qi6kR1Xw=s320" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;">204 pages, illustrated with art and photos, 2021</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Independently published through Kindle Direct Publishing</i></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: large;">$5.95 introductory price. (Also available as Kindle book, $2.95)</i></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Available directly on Amazon.com by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WW077X1A2KNP&keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1639013601&sprefix=david+balog+%2Caps%2C236&sr=8-1">CLICKING HERE</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the author's words: "This is a book that I wish I could have given to my parents. We never could have the conversation that I was gay...and years of needless stress and hiding followed."</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Sadly, parents and youth still struggle with the issue of coming out. It is like crossing the Rubicon, a moment of endless anxiety with potentially traumatic aftermaths. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj18JlCUzlcqEYG3532TQojB2e1USEqkRxt4POBxqkMcf4LHx1eVcoLKgvDAN8DNXf0nE1HszcAK9QjncHQvInwt9NhvyhCFoN5mhni4qhc_6S6-4to_szO67yJl_Ed3lyWpnG9xnthNN6aZQ4G0LG_rXWOtw25y43WrbB8aWi3AmvsWj0SWVxmJi4J-g=s720" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="661" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj18JlCUzlcqEYG3532TQojB2e1USEqkRxt4POBxqkMcf4LHx1eVcoLKgvDAN8DNXf0nE1HszcAK9QjncHQvInwt9NhvyhCFoN5mhni4qhc_6S6-4to_szO67yJl_Ed3lyWpnG9xnthNN6aZQ4G0LG_rXWOtw25y43WrbB8aWi3AmvsWj0SWVxmJi4J-g=s320" width="294" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><i>The author, r, with his father.</i></b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />As Nobel prize-winning neuroscientist Eric Kandel, M.D., has said, "the problem is urgent, particularly for transgender people of color who suffer horrifically high rates of depression, substance abuse, suicide, and murder.” Speaking on a PBS special series, Dr. Eric Kandel also said, “Brain science can be a liberating influence in our lives. As we understand the biology of our own gender identity and sexual orientation better and become more comfortable with ourselves, we must become more empathic to somebody else's identity and orientation.”</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book begins with a look at how all parents influence their children’s lives. This is especially important for gay youth, who struggle mightily with self-esteem and confidence. In Chapter Two we share the stories of LGBTQ people, and their parents, told in their own voices. Gay people and parents share their experiences, positive and negative:</span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matt, from New Jersey calmly talks his mother out of crashing the car as he answers yes to he question whether he is gay...at least until he can get out of the car.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ben, a researcher, gives his first presentation after transitioning from woman to man and hears a comment that the "presentation was good, but I like his sister's work better."</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mary, the mother of a suicide victim, discovers that she was wrong to condemn her son on regligious grounds and comes to say that he was "perfect, just as he was."</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Pastor Jackie from Kansas, mother of two gay youth, urges parents to s</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">earch deep inside you and ask why you are troubled so much.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Next, the book addresses the progress and the previous shortcomings of research into understanding how the brain develops and controls human sexuality. It is an important field, and one watched closely, because many lay people think there should be a simple answer and brain science is about clarity and explaining complexity and nuance.</span></p><div>Resources for parents and gay youth and adults include support organizations, other books, and movies dedicated to portraying the lives of family member who work to overcome stigma and trauma.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-1c58e44a-7fff-895e-73ba-78cd64f48a6e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: -27pt; margin-right: -30.75pt; margin-top: 0pt; margin: 0pt -30.75pt 0pt -27pt;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the author:</span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David Balog </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">created, wrote, and edited </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Dana Sourcebook of Brain Science</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> through four editions. More than 50,000 copies were distributed to elementary schools, middle schools, colleges, and to professionals and the general public. He worked with leading brain scientists and doctors, including Nobel laureates, throughout 12 years at the Dana Foundation.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWpZjru6mraOMM0MZDYL95TF3-7DcT2ppzcD9oWp5HT90uQG448bUNJWYCXmEqc-bh32x6UXV5CW68fpihtT4vBEIVCaBzy7MncfMmGchAnaN8c2CXzwtyJTjMXLpmL6TucT0f9EaHDz2cyrfNvk_VdgGkk7qSftAi6CatzwKih4VoNeNS62FkyvqrCQ=s234" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="201" data-original-width="234" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWpZjru6mraOMM0MZDYL95TF3-7DcT2ppzcD9oWp5HT90uQG448bUNJWYCXmEqc-bh32x6UXV5CW68fpihtT4vBEIVCaBzy7MncfMmGchAnaN8c2CXzwtyJTjMXLpmL6TucT0f9EaHDz2cyrfNvk_VdgGkk7qSftAi6CatzwKih4VoNeNS62FkyvqrCQ" width="234" /></a></div><br /><div><i>This book is a publication of A Thousand Moms, a Schenectady, NY-based organization devoted to supporting the emotional and developmental needs of LGBTQ youth in foster/adoptive care. athousandmoms@yahoo.com</i></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-53871985855619286252021-11-29T17:33:00.001-08:002021-11-29T17:35:21.215-08:00Lesbian and Bisexual Women's Health Issues<p> </p><h1 class="main-content__title" data-anchor="Introduction" id="introduction" style="background-attachment: initial; 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margin-right: 10px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease-out 0s;">Diagnosis and Screening for Gynecologic Conditions</a></nav><div class="rtf" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research has shown that the following are some of the most common health concerns faced by lesbian and bisexual women. While they may not all apply to everyone, they are important concerns for lesbian and bisexual women and their health care providers to be aware of.</p><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_serifregular, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 2.5rem 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Breast Exams</h2><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lesbian and bisexual women have a greater risk of developing breast cancer than heterosexual women, but they are less likely to obtain regular cancer screenings, like <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/adult/breast_health/mammogram_85,p00149/" style="color: #006dc7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease-out 0s;">mammograms</a>, which are used to diagnose the condition in its early stages. This is very problematic because early detection is key to the treatment of the disease and increases the woman’s chances of remission.</p><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_serifregular, serif; font-size: 1.75rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 2.125rem; margin: 2.5rem 0px 1.5rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Intimate Partner Violence</h2><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">While people may not associate same-sex relationships with <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/adult/womens_health/domestic_violence_85,p01568/" style="color: #006dc7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease-out 0s;">intimate partner violence</a>, the statistics show that it is a major concern for lesbian and bisexual women. <a href="http://www.ncadv.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: #006dc7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease-out 0s;" target="_blank">The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence</a> reports that compared to 35 percent of heterosexual women, 43.8 percent of lesbian women and 61.1 percent of bisexual women have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner. Compounding this problem are barriers accessing support services, lack of training on the part of the service providers and discrimination in shelters.</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p></div><div class="cta cta--blue js-cta" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("../images/lt_blue_lines.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(0, 115, 207); box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25rem -1rem; max-width: 950px; padding: 2rem 1rem; position: relative; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="cta__wrap" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; background: rgb(0, 115, 207); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 75rem; padding: 1.5rem; position: relative; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="cta__image" style="-webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1rem 0px 1.5rem; order: 2; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Happy Couple Relaxing at Home" src="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/-/media/images/health/3_-wellness/lgbt-health/lgbtcoupleistock_000088769131.ashx?h=300&iar=0&mh=300&mw=500&w=300&hash=0AE875DA242CBA79A0019FFC7464E108" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline; width: 304px;" /></figure><h4 class="cta__title" style="-webkit-box-ordinal-group: 2; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: noto_sansbold, sans-serif; font-size: 1.313rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.625rem; margin: 0px 0px 10px; order: 1; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Expert Answers</h4><p style="-webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; order: 2; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Looking for a health care provider is never easy, but for LGBT individuals, the search is especially challenging. 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Neira, a nurse educator, lawyer and former naval officer, explains the importance of coming out and offers advice for finding the right doctor.</p><h3 style="-webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Noto Serif", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; order: 2; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; transition: font-size 0.3s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"></h3><div class="cta__link--left" style="-webkit-box-ordinal-group: 3; background: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1.5rem 0px 0px; order: 2; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="btn--ghost-arrow" href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/articles-and-answers/ask-the-expert/lgbt-health-care" style="background: transparent; border: 3px solid white; color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.125rem; 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font-size: medium; text-align: center;" target="_blank">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </a>Substance Abuse</h2><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;">On average, lesbian and bisexual women drink more than heterosexual women and have a higher occurrence of alcohol-related problems, like alcoholism and <a href="http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/conditions/adult/mental_health_disorders/substance_abuse_chemical_dependency_85,p00761/" style="color: #006dc7; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.4s ease-out 0s;">alcohol abuse</a>. Research has also discovered higher rates of smoking, cocaine and marijuana use among lesbian and bisexual women than heterosexual women. The use and abuse of these substances is linked to multiple forms of cancer and conditions of the heart and lungs, which are the top three causes of death among women.</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">Like some of the other health concerns common among lesbian and bisexual women, rates of drug use may be tied to stress resulting from discrimination, homophobia and/or sexism. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">MORE TO COME</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: noto_sansregular, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; 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font-size: 1rem; line-height: 1.75em; margin: 0px 0px 2rem; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </a></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-22714627607352155692021-11-23T16:37:00.003-08:002021-11-23T16:38:16.135-08:00Positive LGBTQ Self Images Save Lives<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7tcMDfbi7mlzjRHVCDEnJQly4208KiomONA_8DTDm61d8S-ID3S8V3O6fpz06j6b_fDp4aMkkEwCuphlt8DfkXG-XdWAM80p8v0WBhrRvIguItGSAiko2GKBAyK_DCkerKpYQony6sT9/s720/FB_IMG_1629791390471.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA7tcMDfbi7mlzjRHVCDEnJQly4208KiomONA_8DTDm61d8S-ID3S8V3O6fpz06j6b_fDp4aMkkEwCuphlt8DfkXG-XdWAM80p8v0WBhrRvIguItGSAiko2GKBAyK_DCkerKpYQony6sT9/s320/FB_IMG_1629791390471.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>LGBTQ + positive self-images matter and save lives</b></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">Dr. Bill Buffie, an Indiana interrnist and a gay-rights supporter, tells the terrible story of a lesbian young woman who refused to see a doctor, because she was terrified of coming out to one, even a woman. Indiana is conservative country and this woman was raised to live in shame about her sexuality.</div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Having missed routine breast care screenings, she developed a large metastatic breast tumor. It quickly became untreatable and she died at age 32.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">What are barriers to health care for LGBTQ people?</span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/s343/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/w249-h400/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" width="249" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Click here.</a></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Access to care.</span> LGBTQ+ people have less access to the health care they need. They are:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; counter-reset: item 0; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Less likely to have health insurance.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">More likely to delay getting care, especially in older LGBTQ+ adults.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">More likely to report lack of cultural competence by health care providers.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">More likely to report poor quality of care and unfair treatment by healthcare providers.</li></ul><h3 class="subhead-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "HCo Gotham SSm", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 1.375rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.27273; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">What causes these disparities?</h3><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">There are many causes of the health disparities faced by LGBTQ+ people. These include:</p><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; counter-reset: item 0; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">The minority status of LGBTQ+ people</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">A lack of specific education and training for health care workers</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">A lack of clinical research on LGBTQ+ health-related issues</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Restrictive health benefits</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Limited role models</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Fear due to stigma, discrimination, and institutional bias in the health care system.</li></ul><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/s343/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/w249-h400/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" width="249" /></a></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; counter-reset: item 0; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2rem;"><li></li></ul>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-1393951476675484962021-11-19T17:18:00.001-08:002021-11-19T17:18:38.143-08:00LGBTQ+ Health Disparities Part 1<p> </p><div class="ls-row" id="header-row" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";"><div class="ls-lqr" id="ls-gen61461884-ls-lqr" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="ls-area" id="ls-row-1-area-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: visible;"><div class="ls-area-body" id="ls-gen61461885-ls-area-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: visible;"><div class="ls-cmp-wrap" id="w1523192033500" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 1px 0px;"><div class="iw_component" id="1523192033500" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -1px 0px;"><div class="hero hero-basic" data-ct-component="hero" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-bottom: 3rem; position: relative; z-index: 1;"><div class="container hero-padding" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; padding-top: 2rem; width: 384px;"><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: -16px;"><div class="col-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; position: relative; width: 384px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVmyJQRgwjO7dfQ9t6Q-x7g24Vb0nhuMTCN-kD_2JITnOWLlPNVLR7x2rq_jgZjvlvsPQtyr4qEUJ-fpIkbho-LUmSPnWhq8tbRHky4HWEWUN8ognzf8igI8bc7RnRrTRvafkBmYm36mw/s1200/gay+youth+II.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvVmyJQRgwjO7dfQ9t6Q-x7g24Vb0nhuMTCN-kD_2JITnOWLlPNVLR7x2rq_jgZjvlvsPQtyr4qEUJ-fpIkbho-LUmSPnWhq8tbRHky4HWEWUN8ognzf8igI8bc7RnRrTRvafkBmYm36mw/s320/gay+youth+II.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i style="font-size: 16px;">LGBTQ+ youth face crises of mental and physical health that can last a lifetime.</i><br /><h1 class="display" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "HCo Gotham SSm", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="display" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "HCo Gotham SSm", Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; letter-spacing: -0.25px; line-height: 1.25; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(First published on Cigna.com)</span></span></h1></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="ls-row full-width-wrapper" id="full-width-page" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol";"><div class="ls-lqr" id="ls-gen61461886-ls-lqr" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="ls-col container" id="main-row-column" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; overflow: visible; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 384px;"><div class="ls-col-body" id="ls-gen61461887-ls-col-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: visible;"><div class="ls-row row d-block" id="main-row-column-row" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: -16px;"><div class="ls-lqr" id="ls-gen61461888-ls-lqr" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="ls-area col-xs-12 col" id="ls-row-2-col-1-row-1-area-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: 0px; flex-grow: 1; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow: visible; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; position: relative; width: 384px;"><div class="ls-area-body" id="ls-gen61461889-ls-area-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; overflow: visible;"><div class="ls-cmp-wrap ls-1st" id="w1518351103156" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; padding: 1px 0px;"><div class="iw_component" id="1518351103156" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: -1px 0px;"><div class="row seven-five" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -16px; margin-right: -16px;"><div class="col-12 col-md-7 variant-block-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; margin-bottom: 3rem; max-width: 100%; padding-left: 16px; padding-right: 16px; position: relative; width: 384px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;">Health disparities are differences in health between different groups of people. LGBTQ+ people experience a number of health disparities. They're at higher risk of certain conditions, have less access to health care, and have worse health outcomes. These disparities are seen in the areas of behavioral health, physical health, and access to care.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/s343/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/w249-h400/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" width="249" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Click here.</a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Behavioral health.</span> Behavioral health includes mental health, substance abuse, and addiction. LGBTQ+ people are at greater risk of:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; counter-reset: item 0; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Suicide and suicidal thoughts</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Mood disorders and anxiety</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Eating disorders</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Alcohol and substance abuse</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;">Tobacco use</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Physical health.</span> LGBTQ+ people are at greater risk for certain conditions, diseases, and infections:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; counter-reset: item 0; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 2rem;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Gay and bisexual men are more likely to have HIV/AIDS.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Transgender Women, Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino men have the highest risk for HIV infection.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative;"><span style="color: #333333;">Older LGBTQ+ adults are more likely to rate their health as poor and report more chronic conditions while having less social support.</span><br /><span style="color: #505050;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Lesbian and bisexual women are more likely to be obese.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">LGBTQ+ people are less likely to have a regular health care provider.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">Lesbian and bisexual women have higher rates of breast cancer, and transgender men and women are at greater risk.</li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;"><br /></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; position: relative;">LGBTQ+ people have higher rates of HPV infection and related cervical or anal cancers.</li></ul><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/s343/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="343" data-original-width="213" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTsBWf_zXHKiNcGKPJd-u1ZkND9b2JmcxejowHXFhtdVnnYKsXJD-KSVgfvBIEozqzyhOk3W-QZQGoaKoBhYR6YqjXq2WEqDwYnEpcjzZBREVGl5AMb4V3-Yj00iG_e9XdQhJCkJgSZ-hE/w249-h400/Screenshot+2021-11-08+8.03.11+PM.png" width="249" /></a></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Help gay youth get a healthy start in life. </a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Parents-Children-Ending-Stigma-Trauma/dp/B09L555KW2/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=david+balog+parents&qid=1637370663&qsid=137-4573542-2465906&sr=8-1&sres=B09L555KW2%2CB07GD31TGC%2CB091F3LFKL%2CB087L8RR93%2CB08PMBZPQ3%2CB08KS512TJ%2CB07GDGJFHV%2CB07XDMBDVW%2CB08HD8LNLF%2CB099X7YFL9%2CB07T11PP2T%2CB089SXGFQF%2CB08DNQ8RTX%2CB08HQCBLMT%2CB08LGK6W93%2CB07TZMDMNX&srpt=ABIS_BOOK" target="_blank">Click here.</a></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-87327764595389302122021-10-27T04:42:00.014-07:002021-10-27T15:32:05.067-07:00The health benefits of your PB&J<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTiNrRebrPp_GDOdr0s1zhxQ9ofY5wBIUoIVTJbwaFe4susBvQtwQ-FYJwkJw2wN8CMsNEwzbtoHTsRTjhxXCXpArBmLlGvuZpuTixHLbzIf_1oe6xF0YcIPH_VOjE76P6OhkzUxKUllO/s1000/intro-1593182235.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="1000" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTiNrRebrPp_GDOdr0s1zhxQ9ofY5wBIUoIVTJbwaFe4susBvQtwQ-FYJwkJw2wN8CMsNEwzbtoHTsRTjhxXCXpArBmLlGvuZpuTixHLbzIf_1oe6xF0YcIPH_VOjE76P6OhkzUxKUllO/s320/intro-1593182235.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="media-container" style="position: relative;"><amp-img alt="A typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich packs about 390 calories." class="inline-image i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-built i-amphtml-layout" height="3" i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-visited="" i-amphtml-layout="responsive" layout="responsive" lightbox="i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-1" src="https://www-gannett--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/AW/s/www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ac688eec997d2fce10372bf71657297ff863814d/c=171-0-1195-768/local/-/media/2021/05/02/USATODAY/usatsports/imageForEntry14-XDZ.jpg?quality=50&width=640" style="display: block; overflow: hidden; position: relative;" width="4"><div class="media-container" style="position: relative;"><amp-img alt="A typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich packs about 390 calories." class="inline-image i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-built i-amphtml-layout" height="3" i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-visited="" i-amphtml-layout="responsive" layout="responsive" lightbox="i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-1" src="https://www-gannett--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/AW/s/www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ac688eec997d2fce10372bf71657297ff863814d/c=171-0-1195-768/local/-/media/2021/05/02/USATODAY/usatsports/imageForEntry14-XDZ.jpg?quality=50&width=640" style="display: block; overflow: hidden; position: relative;" width="4"><div class="media-container" style="position: relative;"><amp-img alt="A typical peanut butter and jelly sandwich packs about 390 calories." class="inline-image i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined i-amphtml-element i-amphtml-built i-amphtml-layout" height="3" i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-visited="" i-amphtml-layout="responsive" layout="responsive" lightbox="i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-1" src="https://www-gannett--cdn-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/AW/s/www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ac688eec997d2fce10372bf71657297ff863814d/c=171-0-1195-768/local/-/media/2021/05/02/USATODAY/usatsports/imageForEntry14-XDZ.jpg?quality=50&width=640" style="display: block; overflow: hidden; position: relative;" width="4"><img class="i-amphtml-blurry-placeholder" i-amphtml-auto-lightbox-visited="" placeholder="" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http%3A//www.w3.org/2000/svg' xmlns%3Axlink='http%3A//www.w3.org/1999/xlink' viewBox='0 0 8 6'%3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='.5'%3E%3C/feGaussianBlur%3E%3CfeComponentTransfer%3E%3CfeFuncA type='discrete' tableValues='1 1'%3E%3C/feFuncA%3E%3C/feComponentTransfer%3E%3C/filter%3E%3Cimage filter='url(%23b)' x='0' y='0' height='100%25' width='100%25' xlink%3Ahref='data%3Aimage/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2wBDABALDA4MChAODQ4SERATGCgaGBYWGDEjJR0oOjM9PDkzODdASFxOQERXRTc4UG1RV19iZ2hnPk1xeXBkeFxlZ2P/2wBDARESEhgVGC8aGi9jQjhCY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2NjY2P/wAARCAAGAAgDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAFQABAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT/xAAcEAACAgIDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAgAEAxEFMTL/xAAUAQEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAE/8QAGBEAAgMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAECETH/2gAMAwEAAhEDEQA/AI+PxULdJglRV0gDM3reuwYiINyd6NUVWH//2Q=='%3E%3C/image%3E%3C/svg%3E" style="display: block; height: 0px; inset: 0px; line-height: normal; margin: auto; max-height: 100%; max-width: 100%; min-height: 100%; min-width: 100%; opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; position: absolute; transition: opacity 0.3s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 0px; z-index: 1;" /><b style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans"; font-size: 24px;">Peanut butter jelly time: How healthy is the American classic? </b></amp-img></div></amp-img></div></amp-img></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><br />First published in USA Today</div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">The peanut butter and jelly sandwich dates back to a 1901 recipe. </span><span style="font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">A PB&J can have 12 grams of protein, 18 grams of sugar and 390 calories. </span><span style="font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18px;">Experts say the sandwich can be part of a healthy meal, depending on how it's made.</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches do it all. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">The sandwich has maintained its popularity for decades. It's spurred on the creation of products like Uncrustables, a circular, freezable version of the sandwich without – you guessed it – the crust.</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="color: black; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p></span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">According to "Peanuts: The Illustrious History of the Goober Pea," written by Andrew F. Smith, the first reference to the sandwich was a recipe written by a woman named Julia Davis Chandler in 1901. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Since then, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches have maintained their place as an iconic part of many American school lunches. The protein-rich peanut butter makes it a parent go-to, and kids love the sweet taste of jelly.</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">But just how healthy is this American classic? We asked experts. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans"; font-size: 20px;">Let's talk nutrition</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">The three ingredient sandwich seems fairly straight forward, but great debate surrounds the PB&J. Crunchy peanut butter or smooth? Grape jelly or strawberry? Crust on or crust off?</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Because of this, the exact nutritional details will depend on how you make your PB&J. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">For argument's sake, let's breakdown the typical sandwich.</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Two slices of </span><a href="https://www.nutritionvalue.org/Bread%2C_white_51101000_nutritional_value.html?size=1+medium+or+regular+slice+%3D+28+g" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 155, 255); color: #626262; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.56; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">white bread</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> have about 5 grams of protein and 3 grams of sugar. Two tablespoons of </span><a href="https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/1470159/nutrients" style="border-bottom: 2px solid rgb(0, 155, 255); color: #626262; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.56; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">peanut butter</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> contain about 7 grams of protein and 3 grams of sugar, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. One tablespoon of grape jelly has 12 grams of sugar. In total, a run-of-the-mill PB&J has about 12 grams of protein and 18 grams of sugar, coming out to around 390 calories. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #303030; font-family: "Unify Sans"; font-size: 20px;">How to make your PB&J healthier </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Making this signature snack better for you can happen with just a few substitutions, especially when it comes to the most sugary part. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">"Healthy would be a small amount of a low sugar jelly or better yet not jelly at all but perhaps a banana instead," said Dr. Natalie Muth, a pediatrician, registered dietitian and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Making smart choices when it comes to which bread is used is important, too.</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Choosing a whole grain bread can contribute more protein and fiber. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">As for the "PB," choosing a natural peanut butter is just as important as the amount you put on the sandwich.</span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">And for those allergic to peanuts or other types of nuts, sunflower seed butter can be a healthy and safe alternative. </span></div><div class="author-box" style="color: #626262; font-size: 14px; margin: 28px 29px 7px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Unify Serif", Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="color: black; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. 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Researchers also found that supplementing the processed diet with the omega-3 fatty acid DHA prevented memory problems and reduced the inflammatory effects almost entirely in older rats.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FULL STORY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Four weeks on a diet of highly processed food led to a strong inflammatory response in the brains of aging rats that was accompanied by behavioral signs of memory loss, a new study has found.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Researchers also found that supplementing the processed diet with the omega-3 fatty acid DHA prevented memory problems and reduced the inflammatory effects almost entirely in older rats.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Neuroinflammation and cognitive problems were not detected in young adult rats that ate the processed diet.</span></p><div><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. 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By being aware of this, maybe we can limit processed foods in our diets and increase consumption of foods that are rich in the omega-3 fatty acid DHA to either prevent or slow that progression."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The research is published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Brain-Stress-Trauma-Development/dp/1535179058/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=">ORDER HERE</a></span></span></p><div><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barrientos' lab studies how everyday life events -- such as surgery, an infection or, in this case, an unhealthy diet -- might trigger inflammation in the aging brain, with a specific focus on the hippocampus and amygdala regions. This work builds on her previous research suggesting a short-term, high-fat diet can lead to memory loss and brain inflammation in older animals, and that DHA levels are lower in the hippocampus and amygdala of the aged rat brain.</span></p><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-58042789395355305282021-10-14T07:37:00.001-07:002021-10-14T07:37:40.825-07:00Children who eat more fruit and veggies have better mental health<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6K2nDxra7xNADb8tK8YYdKfqETR0cvhgUbPvF-LaIkZ9QxZiWpR_FSoZ7NQXUnBjDQhNP3f4RABFdLuvgjbY8gVx0I7Yx5OrOE8eF5QS92MiSBmEU-zThyuN3XHt_h7FNGSngHEx8Bffj/s800/210928075004_1_900x600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6K2nDxra7xNADb8tK8YYdKfqETR0cvhgUbPvF-LaIkZ9QxZiWpR_FSoZ7NQXUnBjDQhNP3f4RABFdLuvgjbY8gVx0I7Yx5OrOE8eF5QS92MiSBmEU-zThyuN3XHt_h7FNGSngHEx8Bffj/s320/210928075004_1_900x600.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h1 class="headline" id="headline" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004276; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px;"><br /></h1><dl class="dl-horizontal dl-custom" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; width: 70px;">Date:</dt><dd id="date_posted" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">September 28, 2021</dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; width: 70px;">Source:</dt><dd id="source" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">University of East Anglia</dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; width: 70px;">Summary:</dt><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;">New research finds that children who eat more fruit and veg have better mental health. The study is the first to investigate the association between fruit and vegetable intakes, breakfast and lunch choices, and mental wellbeing in UK school children. The research team studied data from almost 9,000 children in 50 schools. They found that the types of breakfast and lunch eaten by both primary and secondary school pupils were significantly important. </dd></dl><div class="row" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px;"><div class="col-md-8 col-md-push-4" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative;"><div class="hyphenate" id="story_photo" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin-top: 4px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="photo-caption" style="background-color: #f2f3f4; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 10px 10px 5px;"><br /></div><div class="clearfix" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div class="clearfix" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div class="hyphenate" id="story_text" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; hyphens: auto; margin-top: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;">Children who eat a better diet, packed with fruit and vegetables, have better mental wellbeing -- according to new research from the University of East Anglia.</p><div class="mobile-top-rectangle hidden-md hidden-lg" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; min-height: 320px; text-align: center; width: 354px;"><div data-ad-imp="kur1bnzeboapc4" data-google-query-id="CK_vxt6NyvMCFR8A0AQdnd0I6A" id="adslot-mobile-top-rectangle" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 280px;"><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">A new study published today is the first to investigate the association between fruit and vegetable intakes, breakfast and lunch choices, and mental wellbeing in UK school children.</span></div><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It shows how eating more fruit and veg is linked with better wellbeing among secondary school pupils in particular. And children who consumed five or more portions of fruit and veg a day had the highest scores for mental wellbeing.</span></div><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="color: black; 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vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Easy to read. Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p></span></div><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div id="google_ads_iframe_/1002721/ScienceDaily_Mobile_Top_Rectangle_0__container__" style="border-radius: 0px; border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The study was led by UEA Health and Social Care Partners in collaboration with Norfolk County Council.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">The research team say that public health strategies and school policies should be developed to ensure that good quality nutrition is available to all children before and during school to optimise mental wellbeing and empower children to fulfil their full potential.</span></div></div></div><div id="text" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Lead researcher Prof Ailsa Welch, from UEA's Norwich Medical School, said: "We know that poor mental wellbeing is a major issue for young people and is likely to have long-term negative consequences.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"The pressures of social media and modern school culture have been touted as potential reasons for a rising prevalence of low mental wellbeing in children and young people.</p><p data-spx-slot="1" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"And there is a growing recognition of the importance of mental health and wellbeing in early life -- not least because adolescent mental health problems often persist into adulthood, leading to poorer life outcomes and achievement.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><p data-spx-slot="1" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"While the links between nutrition and physical health are well understood, until now, not much has been known about whether nutrition plays a part in children's emotional wellbeing. So, we set out to investigate the association between dietary choices and mental wellbeing among schoolchildren."</p></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-3452425516300829162021-10-07T02:33:00.000-07:002021-10-07T02:33:02.223-07:0010 Proven Ways How to Lose Weight Without Exercise<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizIotRtIotxN1U7bicH1-TO6ivGi2Iuz2P3Au9YP-7vPURenaRwa_6tT46xJXRos_KgRlWhQ0gu5YacUqJ8dnJnXnawl0GyBguefR0yzgJC-B1CsvdyVTr0_psYqQlIX4Qe7UHl5PosWK7/s785/M66FJBGDT43WEZVXCOTESLRIH4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="785" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizIotRtIotxN1U7bicH1-TO6ivGi2Iuz2P3Au9YP-7vPURenaRwa_6tT46xJXRos_KgRlWhQ0gu5YacUqJ8dnJnXnawl0GyBguefR0yzgJC-B1CsvdyVTr0_psYqQlIX4Qe7UHl5PosWK7/s320/M66FJBGDT43WEZVXCOTESLRIH4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Popsci.com</div><p></p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-10-get-enough-sleep-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">10. Get enough sleep to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Insufficient sleep is associated with reduced leptin and elevated ghrelin, two opposing hormones involved in the regulation of appetite. Leptin decreases your appetite and ghrelin increases appetite. These differences in leptin and ghrelin caused by lack of sleep are likely to increase your appetite.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15602591" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[22]</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do?</span> Make sure you are getting 8 hours of sleep every night to keep your hunger hormones in balance.</p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-9-drink-more-water-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">9. Drink more water to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Increasing your water intake to a liter (34 oz) or more every day without making any other changes to your lifestyle can help you lose weight.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18787524" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[20]</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; 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border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Easy to read. Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Drinking half a liter (17 oz) of water before a meal can help boost your weight loss efforts</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19661958" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[</a></span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do?</span> Replace sugary drinks with water to give your weight loss efforts even more of a boost. If you don’t like drinking plain water, make yourself some infused water, there are many recipes available on the Internet.</p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-8-make-smart-alcohol-choices-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">8. Make smart alcohol choices to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Ideally, alcohol should be eliminated for maximum weight loss results. But if you do choose to drink alcohol, drink in moderation. Research has shown that moderate alcohol consumption has health benefits. Moderate alcohol consumption of about a drink a day is linked to a 14-25% reduction in heart disease risk compared to no alcohol at all.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.d671" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[18]</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Your choice of alcohol can have a significant impact on your calorie intake. Cocktails and other sugar filled alcoholic drinks are the worst calorie culprits. And unfortunately those yummy craft beers are also packed with calories, so if you have to drink beer, light beers are the better option. Although straight shots or on the rocks drinks have the least calories, the ellagic acid in <a href="https://www.shape-able.com/wine-infographic.html" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">red wine</a> helps to delay the growth of fat cells while slowing the development of new fat cells.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnutbio.2014.09.010" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[19]</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do?</span> Eliminate alcohol or drink in moderation. Avoid sweetened drinks, the sweeter a drink is, the more calories it has. Switch to red wine.</p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-7-drink-green-tea-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">7. Drink green tea to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Several studies have shown that green tea can help with weight and fat reduction by helping to increase energy expenditure.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15640470" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[14]</a></span><span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15640470" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[15]</a></span><span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15640470" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[16]</a></span><span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15640470" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[17]</a></span> This is mostly due to a phytochemical compound in green tea called EGCG (epigallocatechin gallate).</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do? </span>Look for a green tea that has a high catechin content. Research has also shown that green tea steeped in bottled water contains more antioxidants in comparison to tea steeped in tap water.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11010080" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[1]</a></span> The green tea had almost twice the amount of the EGCG antioxidant when steeped in bottled water, making it more bitter compared to tea steeped in tap water. If you do not enjoy drinking green tea, try an EGCG extract, which is available as a dietary supplement</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Tinos;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-6-increase-your-protein-intake-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">6. Increase your protein intake to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Increasing your daily protein intake can help you consume less total daily calories. A 15% to 30% dietary protein increase at a constant carbohydrate intake helped study participants eat 441 less calories a day and lose 11 lbs in 12 weeks.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16002798" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[12]</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Starting your day with a protein rich breakfast can help to reduce hunger cravings during the day.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; 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font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">5. Cut out sugary drinks to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Research has proven that sugary drinks increase the risk of obesity,<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21696306" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[9]</a></span> as well as heart disease, diabetes, and gout. A typical 20-ounce soda contains 240 calories or more. These calories do not give a feeling of fullness, so you will not eat any less. Replacing sugary drinks with non-sugary drinks can result in an average weight loss of 2% to 2.5%.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22301929" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[10]</a></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Beware of artificially sweetened drinks, artificial sweeteners can increase appetite.</p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-4-increase-your-baseline-activity-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="border: 0px; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">4. Increase your baseline activity to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Baseline activity is your day to day activity, the usual light or sedentary activities of daily living such as walking, household chores, etc. These activities generally don’t burn up a lot of calories, but increasing your baseline activity can help increase your energy expenditure. Study results suggest that any increase in physical activity can help reduce belly fat and body weight and is useful for preventing chronic diseases.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21346093" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[8]</a></span></p><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do?</span> Adjust your daily routine to allow for at least one baseline activity to be increased, e.g. get into the habit of taking the stairs instead of the escalator/elevator. 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Snack wisely to help lose weight without exercise</b></span></div><div class="inside-header" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;">Avoid mid-morning snacking. A one year long study has shown that women who did not snack between breakfast and lunch lost on average 4% more body weight in comparison to mid-morning snackers.</span><span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22117666" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[6]</a></span><span style="font-size: 18px; text-align: left;"> But waiting too long between meals can also sabotage weight loss efforts. Snacking can help you manage your hunger better and help in making healthier choices at your next meal.</span></div></header><div class="site grid-container container hfeed grid-parent" id="page" style="border: 0px; font-size: 22px; height: auto; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1200px; padding: 0px; width: auto;"><div class="site-content" id="content" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div class="content-area grid-parent mobile-grid-100 grid-70 tablet-grid-70" id="primary" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; float: none; height: auto; left: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; right: 0px; width: 384px;"><main class="site-main" id="main" style="height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-top: 10px; margin: 10px 10px 0px 0px;"><article class="post-20413 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-health-infographics category-obesity-weight-loss post-ftoc" id="post-20413" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" style="height: auto; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><div class="inside-article" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 15px;"><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="border: 0px; font-size: 18px; height: auto; margin: 2em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="ftwp-postcontent" style="border: 0px; height: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Choosing healthy snacks is important. 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Weigh yourself every day to help lose weight without exercise</h2><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">A four year study involving 875 participants revealed that those who used their smart scales the most lost more weight.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.4767" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[4]</a></span> Men lost an additional 2.5 lbs and women lost 2 lbs in 1 year.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Research has shown that more or less 40% of weight lost by any means is regained in 1 year, and close on 100% of weight lost is regained after 5 years.</p><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-1-use-smaller-plates-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;">1. Use smaller plates to help lose weight without exercise</h2><h2 class="ftwp-heading" id="hbtoc-3-snack-wisely-to-help-lose-weight-without-exercise" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: "Fira Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 22px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 400; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">Dinner plate sizes have increased on average by 23% since 1900.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/662615" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[1]</a></span> Using bigger plates can result in you serving 9% to 31% bigger portions than you usually would.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/oby.2004.64" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[2]</a></span> Larger portions encourage you to eat more, and will inevitably lead to an increase in weight gain.</p></h2><div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">In one study, participants who were offered a larger portion increased their calorie intake by 30% compared to those offered a smaller portion.<span style="border: 0px; bottom: 1ex; font-size: 13.5px; height: 0px; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12450884" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">[3]</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;">If the plate or bowl size encourages you to eat only 50 more calories a day, your increase in weight would be about 5 pounds a year.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What can you do?</span> Invest in smaller plates and either get rid of all bigger plates and bowls or store them so that they cannot be used. Use <a href="http://amzn.to/2a8o6Ft" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #3b5998; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0s ease-in-out 0s;">disposable portion control plates</a> for eating on the go.</p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">Crefit: https://www.shape-able.com/ </span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3a3a3a; font-family: -apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px;"><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-59935670128385609012021-10-06T04:12:00.002-07:002021-10-06T04:17:26.227-07:00A new tool to fight COVID soon?<p><b><span face="Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 18px;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfz4s-NA9n8rNCFn4t6qNzY8pWW7Mvp72gehhlmYcKjMnRE0CkRbKj2HJmQqBrIYP9fM6w1yhb2VgOCEb5YUyBaSWdIoS9jdxE2lB0MqznzY4P6W3vlO6JFLwU37EBX8gafiE56V6aPGx/s800/800px-B_vitamin_supplement_tablets.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="800" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqfz4s-NA9n8rNCFn4t6qNzY8pWW7Mvp72gehhlmYcKjMnRE0CkRbKj2HJmQqBrIYP9fM6w1yhb2VgOCEb5YUyBaSWdIoS9jdxE2lB0MqznzY4P6W3vlO6JFLwU37EBX8gafiE56V6aPGx/s320/800px-B_vitamin_supplement_tablets.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Wikimedia.com</b></div><br />The<span face="Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 18px;"> </span><a href="https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/01/mercks-antiviral-pill-reduces-hospitalization-of-covid-patients-a-possible-game-changer-for-treatment/" style="color: #1fadb6; font-family: Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px;">announcement</a><span face="Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span face="Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 18px;">that a pill from Merck and partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics kept Covid patients out of the hospital made headlines and moved stocks late last week. But as is so often true when data are released by press release, there are still many questions left unanswered.</span></b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 2px;">Doctors are excited about the medicine, molnupiravir, because a regimen of pills, even one that involves taking several pills twice a day for five days, should be far easier to deliver to patients than current antiviral Covid-19 treatments, which must be given intravenously. But it’s still unclear how widely this treatment will be used. There will also be debate among financial analysts at investment banks regarding exactly how many billions of dollars in sales the new drug will generate.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjijC170OppqUCastK2IC2Qdg2-86hkbH8wUBlBLIQ5gzMJqGRVEDo-NmyhwXwJzKQj9GolKYg0bQfW2qRcVwZuDeJ32nH17FjnQUi_Pk_sgZGQx1HG-s_bQqbXPe_YOtNkdI7X6Gk8Sj/s482/41Mk6582G8L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjijC170OppqUCastK2IC2Qdg2-86hkbH8wUBlBLIQ5gzMJqGRVEDo-NmyhwXwJzKQj9GolKYg0bQfW2qRcVwZuDeJ32nH17FjnQUi_Pk_sgZGQx1HG-s_bQqbXPe_YOtNkdI7X6Gk8Sj/s320/41Mk6582G8L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-COVID-19-Vaccine-ASAP-Remarkable/dp/B091F3LFKL/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=david+balog+covid&qid=1633518285&sr=8-3" target="_blank"><br /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-COVID-19-Vaccine-ASAP-Remarkable/dp/B091F3LFKL/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=david+balog+covid&qid=1633518285&sr=8-3" target="_blank">Understanding Covid and the vaccine.</a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 2px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 2px;">Here are some things to keep in mind as we learn more about molnupiravir and about other Covid-fighting pills in development at other companies.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 2px;"><span face="Circular, sans-serif" style="font-size: 23px; letter-spacing: 2px; text-transform: uppercase;">How many other anti-Covid pills will end up proving effective?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1c1c; font-family: Baskerville-eText, Baskerville, Garamond, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.7; margin-bottom: 24px; margin-top: 2px;">One of the reasons that the success of molnupiravir is such a big deal is that there were questions as to whether an antiviral pill could help Covid-19 patients if given early enough. This medicine certainly did, reducing hospitalizations by 50%; it also appeared to have an impact on whether patients survived. That makes it a game-changer. Its success also ups the odds that other medicines will prove effective, too.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjijC170OppqUCastK2IC2Qdg2-86hkbH8wUBlBLIQ5gzMJqGRVEDo-NmyhwXwJzKQj9GolKYg0bQfW2qRcVwZuDeJ32nH17FjnQUi_Pk_sgZGQx1HG-s_bQqbXPe_YOtNkdI7X6Gk8Sj/s482/41Mk6582G8L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsjijC170OppqUCastK2IC2Qdg2-86hkbH8wUBlBLIQ5gzMJqGRVEDo-NmyhwXwJzKQj9GolKYg0bQfW2qRcVwZuDeJ32nH17FjnQUi_Pk_sgZGQx1HG-s_bQqbXPe_YOtNkdI7X6Gk8Sj/s320/41Mk6582G8L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Get-COVID-19-Vaccine-ASAP-Remarkable/dp/B091F3LFKL/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=david+balog+covid&qid=1633518285&sr=8-3" target="_blank">Understanding Covid and the vaccine</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-19885151308852031102021-10-03T00:51:00.006-07:002021-10-03T09:52:27.043-07:00More effective treatment of Alzheimer’s<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipegZmJqs8bkljyW-4a5vmNYDmKbI1GChIs_e5rCTGykcbzumCxDmpAIn2Oyskuh8y0Bg9-aZIumPy2u-XT-zWQhG446PQalKcXFkRXMqM1kV3G1ifwdwwXNoSboEBOYrbMXX7OR6-JXSN/s800/photo%255B1%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipegZmJqs8bkljyW-4a5vmNYDmKbI1GChIs_e5rCTGykcbzumCxDmpAIn2Oyskuh8y0Bg9-aZIumPy2u-XT-zWQhG446PQalKcXFkRXMqM1kV3G1ifwdwwXNoSboEBOYrbMXX7OR6-JXSN/w240-h320/photo%255B1%255D.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Alzheimer's is not an inevitable part of aging. </b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Treatments, even cures, may be on the way.</b></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><dl class="dl-horizontal dl-custom" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 20px 0px 0px;"><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Date:</span></dt><dd id="date_posted" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September 30, 2021</span></dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Source:</span></dt><dd id="source" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uppsala University</span></dd><dt style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; clear: left; color: #595959; float: left; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.42857; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 5px; text-align: right; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; width: 70px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Summary:</span></dt><dd id="abstract" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 90px; padding-bottom: 5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Researchers have designed new antibodies that might provide more effective treatment methods for Alzheimer's disease. By designing antibodies that bind even to the smaller aggregates, or clumps, of the amyloid-beta protein, it may be possible to check the progress of the disease.</span></dd></dl></blockquote><p><br /></p><div class="fullstory" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #595959; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; margin: 12px 0px;">FULL STORY</div><hr class="hr-fullstory" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px rgb(204, 204, 204); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px rgb(204, 204, 204); border-radius: 0px; border-right: 0px rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-top-style: solid; box-sizing: content-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: -1px;" /><div class="clearfix" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><div class="hyphenate less-top-margin" id="story_text" style="background-color: white; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; hyphens: auto; margin-top: 15px; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Researchers at Uppsala University have designed new antibodies that might provide more effective treatment methods for Alzheimer's disease. By designing antibodies that bind even to the smaller aggregates, or clumps, of the amyloid-beta protein, it may be possible to check the progress of the disease.</span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="color: black; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Easy to read. Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p class="lead" id="first" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px 0px 20px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><div id="text" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div id="text" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Developing effective treatment methods for Alzheimer's disease has proved difficult. The most effective, which have just been approved, only provide marginal effects. There are several major reasons why they are not effective, one of which is that the antibodies used do not bind to all the types of toxic clumps that cause Alzheimer's disease.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">In Alzheimer's disease, the amyloid-beta protein begins to form clumps. This process is called aggregation, and the clumps created are called aggregates. The research group has previously shown that treatment with the peptide somatostatin causes the body to begin breaking down building blocks of the aggregate. In the new study, the researchers use an antibody that can bind to the toxic aggregates to stop them from harming cells.</p><p data-spx-slot="1" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The problem with the treatment methods currently tested in patient studies is that the antibodies bind much more strongly to large clumps and hardly at all to small clumps. The small clumps are just as toxic as the large ones and many think that they are actually even more dangerous since they can move more.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The purpose of the current study was to develop an antibody format that can bind to both large and small clumps of amyloid-beta. Antibodies use the avidity effect to bind strongly to their targets. This requires the binding of both arms of the antibody to the same target at the same time.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The distance between the arms of the antibody is crucial for how small an aggregate the antibody can bind to strongly. If the aggregate is smaller than the distance between the arms, they do not bind to the aggregate strongly. If it is larger, they bind to the aggregate very strongly. In the new article, the researchers have developed a new antibody format with shorter distances between the arms so that they bind to smaller aggregates. The new format also has more binding sites to make the binding extra strong.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"Thanks to the avidity effect, the new antibody format is at least 40 times stronger in binding to the clumps. The new type of antibody can also bind to small aggregates with avidity, which we have not previously seen any other antibody do. That is fantastic," says Greta Hultqvist, Senior lecturer and Associate Professor in Protein drug design at Uppsala University who led the study.</p><p data-spx-slot="1" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The effects of the antibodies were also tested in a cell culture experiment, which showed that the new antibody format could save cells from death caused by amyloid-beta aggregates. Although no pre-clinical experiments were included, the team thinks their results suggest that the new antibody design could be more effective than those trialled so far.</p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">"The focus of the study was targeting the amyloid-beta protein in Alzheimer's disease, but the new antibody design can be general and applicable to other disease-causing clumps. From a long-term perspective, we hope that the new format can open up new avenues for the generation of future treatments, not only in Alzheimer's disease, but also other diseases where proteins start to form aggregates, like Parkinson's disease," says Fadi Rofo, doctoral student and first author of the study.</p></div><div class="impact-unit-wrapper" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 25px 5px 25px 0px;"><div class="pgs-dpg-btn" data-loaded="true" data-pgs-partner-id="sciencedaily" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;" widget-loading="true"></div></div><hr style="border-bottom: 0px; border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-top-style: solid; box-sizing: content-box; height: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px;" /><div id="story_source" style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><strong style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Story Source:</strong></p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://www.uu.se/en/news/article/?id=17480&typ=artikel&lang=en" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004276; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Materials</a> provided by <a href="https://www.uu.se/en" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #004276; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><strong style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Uppsala University</strong></a>. Original written by Elin Bäckström. <em style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Note: Content may be edited for style and length.</em></p><div><em style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></em></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="color: black; font-family: Tinos; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="border-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-86921684919250496982021-09-24T15:36:00.006-07:002021-09-25T01:45:33.074-07:00 Likely cause of Alzheimer’s disease identified<p style="text-align: center;"> <img height="410" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/8CjT23Uoa9KQsiyJMFHov4vWaRo4KIFcJXytKC9IqSa5n7ikVOf6ig5RYtCsPXsmg-OHttOFSV6qlGQSxP3A7thy7emhGvMywRgyV1d0WcDGbpwAV8YZn9qRRpggVaIb3IDyb8Ci=w640-h410" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="640" /></p><div style="text-align: center;">A likely cause of Alzheimer's disease.</div><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">September 15, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Source:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Curtin University</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Summary</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground-breaking new research has discovered a likely cause of Alzheimer's disease, in a significant finding that offers potential new prevention and treatment opportunities.'</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">FULL STORY</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground-breaking new Curtin University-led research has discovered a likely cause of Alzheimer's disease, in a significant finding that offers potential new prevention and treatment opportunities for the second-leading cause of death.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The study, published in the PLOS Biology journal and tested on mouse models, identified that a probable cause of Alzheimer's disease was the leakage from blood into the brain of fat-carrying particles transporting toxic proteins.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lead investigator Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) Director Professor John Mamo said his collaborative group of Australian scientists had identified the probable 'blood-to-brain pathway' that can lead to Alzheimer's disease, the most prevalent form of dementia globally.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Tinos;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; 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background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Easy to read. Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. Colucciello, Jr., NY State pharmaceutical researcher, retired.</span></span></span></p><p class="font_8" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: rgb(var(--color_15)); font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; pointer-events: auto; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px;">“David Balog takes a subject fraught with difficulty and makes it simple and accessible to everyone. The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"While we previously knew that the hallmark feature of people living with Alzheimer's disease was the progressive accumulation of toxic protein deposits within the brain called beta-amyloid, researchers did not know where the amyloid originated from, or why it deposited in the brain," Professor Mamo said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"Our research shows that these toxic protein deposits that form in the brains of people living with Alzheimer's disease most likely leak into the brain from fat carrying particles in blood, called lipoproteins.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"This 'blood-to-brain pathway' is significant because if we can manage the levels in blood of lipoprotein-amyloid and prevent their leakage into the brain, this opens up potential new treatments to prevent Alzheimer's disease and slow memory loss."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Building on previous award-winning research that showed beta-amyloid is made outside the brain with lipoproteins, Professor Mamo's team tested the ground-breaking 'blood-to-brain pathway' by genetically engineering mouse models to produce human amyloid-only liver that make lipoproteins.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"As we predicted, the study found that mouse models producing lipoprotein-amyloid in the liver suffered inflammation in the brain, accelerated brain cell death and memory loss," Professor Mamo said.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"While further studies are now needed, this finding shows the abundance of these toxic protein deposits in the blood could potentially be addressed through a person's diet and some drugs that could specifically target lipoprotein amyloid, therefore reducing their risk or slowing the progression of Alzheimer's disease."</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alzheimer's WA Chairman Adjunct Professor Warren Harding said the findings may have a significant global impact for the millions of people living with Alzheimer's disease.</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Story Source:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Materials provided by Curtin University.</span></p><br /><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2385724879121268589.post-45513532721758601842021-09-23T23:53:00.000-07:002021-09-23T23:53:33.300-07:00In Case You Missed It...9/24<p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4r25VSnguwCfxIlTfQxL5jpg153HZdKe7VRsZqlFIe6oQKU4jeF9Pr8LL3S1SmA7JcmTFvLG7ha1R1W8iJ2lJh53FBjcMe4-b_gP3LHm6Vh2fe3_PtG2po5_5tWh49ETzIeiPWgbMlVLL/s2048/O57FFTYWZROANOH4GXIS57QTBE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1377" data-original-width="2048" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4r25VSnguwCfxIlTfQxL5jpg153HZdKe7VRsZqlFIe6oQKU4jeF9Pr8LL3S1SmA7JcmTFvLG7ha1R1W8iJ2lJh53FBjcMe4-b_gP3LHm6Vh2fe3_PtG2po5_5tWh49ETzIeiPWgbMlVLL/s320/O57FFTYWZROANOH4GXIS57QTBE.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b>American Carnage, Steve Bannon</b></div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>TRUMP WORLD MADNESS</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/house-jan-6-panel-subpoenas-234603848.html" target="_blank">RELEASE THE SUBPOENAS </a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://email.punchbowl.news/t/ViewEmail/t/CE5FF82047980C1B2540EF23F30FEDED/FFB136BFCB205A06D57E886DBB2F7C8E">PELOSI'S STRATEGY</a></b></span> </p><p><b><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://youtu.be/I6H7urz-HgA" target="_blank">MAGA MASK MENACE</a></span></b></p><p><span face="san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #424c55; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #424c55; font-family: arial; font-size: 17px; font-weight: 700;">INVEST IN US</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-nancy-pelosi-10f0a84bc96fdaf86a92fa4d3ab69a5c" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">BIDEN PRESSES FELLOW DEMS: FIND YOUR WAY TO ‘YES’ AND GET IT DONE</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/573530-pelosi-signals-she-wont-move-35t-bill-without-senate-house-deal" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;">PELOSI SIGNALS SHE WON’T MOVE RECONCILIATION BILL WITHOUT SENATE DEAL; WON’T BE SCREWED BY SENATE LIKE IN 2010</a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span><a href="?keywords=david+balog+healing&qid=1623288577&sr=8-3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="386" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnsEhKMo2kbB9hEwTswDRjUfXrPlOSQrl7NsMz1fowhfCRqL8IAfVL-REoog8hnm_pLT7bXs-CwFo8-C0lcBcwAb0jhaleayrrZ-Bui7pGpyxyaRCVzDAYT50hl70XqKL5IJSFqsFhxlmS/w247-h320/5188NWjxt4L._AC_SY1000_.jpg" width="247" /></a></p><p style="font-family: Tinos;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; 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Difficult to put down.”<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Micheal J. 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The book goes a long way in helping one understand how and why and in what ways stress affects how we live and cope. Invaluable.”</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">--Jessica Hudson, former president, National Association of Former Foster Children</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: black; font-family: georgia, palatino, "book antiqua", "palatino linotype", serif; 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color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="https://www.mtpr.org/montana-news/2021-09-21/postcard-from-an-overrun-icu-the-problem-is-we-are-running-out-of-hallways" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">ICU CRISIS IN BILLINGS, MONTANA: WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF HALLWAY SPACE!</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/michael-flynn-spreads-bizarre-conspiracy-011631564.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">MICHAEL FLYNN SPREADS BIZARRE CONSPIRACY THEORY ABOUT VACCINES IN SALAD DRESSING</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/22/us/florida-desantis-students-covid-symptoms/index.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FLORIDA GOVERNOR DESANTIS SAYS PARENTS CAN SEND ASYMPTOMATIC KIDS EXPOSED TO COVID-19 BACK TO SCHOOL</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">AMERICA’S POLICING PROBLEMS<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_Justice_in_Policing_Act" style="background-color: transparent; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">FROM THE ARCHIVES: WHAT THE “DEFUND THE POLICE” SLOGAN REALLY MEANS</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424c55; font-family: san_francisco_displayregular, sans-serif; font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/police-reform-consequences/620150/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #337ab7; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">WHAT THE REST OF AMERICA CAN LEARN FROM COLORADO’S POLICE REFORMS</span></a></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0