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The relation of alcohol consumption to cardiovascular risk factors and stroke. The west Birmingham stroke project.
R Shinton,
G Sagar,
G Beevers
Department of Medicine, University of Birmingham.
The disputed relation between recent alcohol consumption and stroke was examined in a community case control study. One hundred and twenty five incident first time stroke patients and 198 controls, aged 35 to 74 years, were recruited over two years from a general practice population. The age and sex adjusted relative risks for stroke by recent weekly "drinks" of alcohol were; 0-1.0 (reference), 1 to 14-0.57, 15 to 29-0.63, and > 29-0.99. Among the controls it was noted that non-drinkers were more likely than light/moderate drinkers (1 to 29 drinks per week) to have the following characteristics; history of obesity (p < 0.001), not a recent walker (p < 0.05), and no vigorous exercise in early adulthood (p < 0.01). The apparent association of light and moderate alcohol consumption with decreased stroke risk disappeared when these variables were included in the multiple risk factor adjusted analysis; 0-1.0, 1 to 14-0.88, 15 to 29-1.11, and > 29-1.23. The pattern for proved cerebral infarction (n = 81) was similar. The results of this study do not support the idea that recent heavy alcohol consumption is an important cause of either overall stroke or cerebral infarction. The association of non-drinking with a history of overweight and inactivity may explain the apparent protective effect of lighter alcohol consumption on the risks of both stroke and coronary heart disease.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jnnp.56.5.458

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From Italy's San Marco (external link) to Turkey's The Garden House via Thailand's Asia Villa (external link), the Caribbean's Brown Eagle (external link), America's Chicken Town (external link) and pizza parties from Lovenpresents (external link), whatever your cuisine of choice you will have your taste-buds tickled in Tottenham. Most of the restaurants here are family owned and run so you can guarantee a warm welcome as well as fabulous food.
Wildes Cheese (external link) - the capitals only artisan cheesemaker and officially voted London's favourite cheese can be found at Tottenham Green Market or you can buy direct from their North Tottenham dairy. They also run cheese making courses for you Wallace and Gromits out there.
Tottenham's favourite baristas Craving Coffee (external link) are an independent cafe run by Tottenham locals. Alongside a 7-days a week cafe menu, every Thursday and Friday Craving Coffee host an evening of good food and drink and music. Each month there is a new resident street food seller serving up delicious small plates.
We have some great local pubs including the Antwerp Arms (external link), the community owned and run pub that recently won a CAMARA award, the Beehive (external link), the Elbow Room (external link) and the Coach and Horses amongst many others.
Tottenham's is home to craft beer brewers, Beavertown Brewery (external link) and Redemption Brewery (external link) who both have Taprooms where you can sample their wares. Check their websites for upcoming dates.
New kid on the block is One Mile End Brewery (external link), a craft bewer that started out in Mile End, and have made Tottenham their home too.
Tottenham is also home to family run Jeffries Vintage Drinks (external link) who have been brewing their own drinks for over half a century.
For a food and drink guide to Tottenham visit the All in London website (external link).


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PROPERTY STRATEGY
Staying agile and flexible in the face of new challenges
In this 'question and answer'-style article, Adrian Powell, head of Property Development at NHS Property Services, discusses future NHSPS and wider NHS estates optimisation strategy 'post-COVID-19' with HEJ editor, Jonathan Baillie.
Jonathan Baillie (JB): "What have been some of the biggest impacts and challenges for NHSPS in managing its various properties during the COVID-19 crisis?"
Adrian Powell (AP): "This is not unique to NHSPS, but, as you can imagine, among the challenges we've faced has been the lack of face-to-face contact and the ability to be mobile and visit sites. This is particularly true for properties that needed extra capacity during the crisis, or facilities planned for renovation/expansion and needing local planning authorities involved. It was a challenge at first, but I feel we've found ways to overcome this, and have continued to support our customers and their needs. By way of example, where we and local planning authorities were unable to meet, both parties have been able to adapt to meetings online, and have run digital public consultations.
"As previously mentioned, this is not a challenge unique to our organisation. Indeed, our customers and stakeholders face the same challenges. The key has been to maintain momentum and continue on with 'business as usual' where possible. Digital solutions have helped to support us through the COVID-19 pandemic. Our ability to transition into remote working has been a huge advantage, enabling us to continue to deliver to a high standard to support the NHS during this time, while ensuring that patients can still access the care they need – whether that's now, or in the future. Allied to the innovations in digital communications is the willingness from all of us to flexibly engage with the technology. There's been a real cultural shift in how we work.
Ensuring GP access
"One of the other challenges NHSPS has faced has been ensuring that people across England could access their GP or healthcare facility for non-COVID-related issues. Sadly, patients still break their legs, have heart attacks, and other ailments. They require their NHS to be able to treat them regardless of a pandemic. A
Plans for various modular buildings.
collaborative approach with NHS England and colleagues throughout the country was essential in order for us to be flexible and agile in the way the estate delivers these services, particularly for those self- isolating or with long-term illnesses. Our work with NHS England has been key to providing use of vacant space and extended facilities management services where required, addressing 350 additional space requests from our customers during this time."
JB: "How quickly did you have to put together your NHSPS COVID-19 Modular Building Guide, and how much of a part to play have rapidly constructed/ erected modular buildings actually had during the COVID-19 crisis?" AP: "We proactively developed the NHSPS Covid-19 Modular Building Guidance Document in March, with it being issued in April, near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. As soon as it became apparent that there was going to be a capacity issue, and it was likely we would have to mobilise to create additional capacity, we wanted to develop guidance and solutions for our
customers. To do this, we had to look at what space we already had available for conversion, and what we had to build new; we developed a dedicated workstream for this.
"After recommissioning and/or reconfiguring vacant or underused space across our estate, the next challenge was how we could add structures quickly – quicker than the traditional construction delivery route. Modular buildings were an obvious choice, due to their quicker lead- in time and delivery, and, as it turned out, the relaxation in town planning requirements alongside the extension of permitted development rights to include them.
Real-life application examples "We issued the first version of the modular guidance note in April, and then began to expand it as we assessed our portfolio in London to provide real-life application examples for our customers. This revised version was able to demonstrate how modular buildings could accommodate more patients, at what density, and any layout or configuration issues this would give rise
September 2020 Health Estate Journal 29


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a 5X7 area rug for 14.99?? Wowsers!
a 5X8 natural fiber rug for 44.99!
Tons more, go see~have a wonderful Wednesday!
THANK. YOU. I have been looking for some of this "fruit" for some time -- at a reasonable price! any idea where I can find some artichokes with stems??
I did not know that Home Decorators had faux fruit! They actually have a desk I'm interested in, but not yet ready to get. I love shopping at JC Penney online when they have free shipping.
Wow!! These are great buys!! I will head over and check them out:) Thanks for sharing!
p.s. I LURVEEEEE YOUR BLOG!!
Oh dear, my husband will not be happy with you. I just clicked over to jcp and ended up buying a winter coat (retail $250, I paid $40 incl shipping.) But personally - thank you! I had no idea they did Wednesday specials. Thanks for the great deals!!
I just bought that rug and 4 different kinds of the fruit AND those cute red and white ceramic apples AND a pretty serving bowl AND the pad for the rug: $64.
Thanks for sharing the deals!!
I started a Goodwill Goodies Party. Come by and enjoy every Wednesday!!
I bought the large, hanging, wrought iron lantern and two kinds of fruit - pears and pomegranates.
I'm NOT clicking on JCP. I'm not...!
Ohhhh Thanks for sharing!! Great deals! I have to order some of the fruit and the rugs are a great deal!
There goes getting rid of my penney's card! Great find Melissa!
I bought some of the fruit (green apples), the rug, a finial vase, ivy topiary, and a big pear basket. All for $56 shipped - can't beat it!
Thank you for sharing those super finds. I'm liking the tote ideas and will checkout HOme Decorator's Outlet. Thanks again!
Thanks Melissa for the hookup. I never knew about the home depot sister company. I ordered a few things and thought I'd tell you like you asked. I got the silverware candelier, 3 galvinized tin finials for the garden and some tubes of fruit to decorate for fall.
Just been lurking around your blog and thought I'd say hi! I think you would like my blog too, c'mon over and check it out!
LOVE the bargins. Thanks so much for sharing. I am off to check them out.
Wow- thanks Melissa! I am always on the lookout for a good deal. I actually am looking for a runner for my kitchen. Thanks!
I like to stack my goodwill stuff in a big messy pile that overflows into "keepers." The family won't know who I am if I actually get a little organized with the goodwill pile - I mean BASKET. Thanks for the great idea!


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In 2020, Ascension Parish, LA had a population of 125k people with a median age of 36 and a median household income of $82,594. Between 2019 and 2020 the population of Ascension Parish, LA grew from 123,114 to 125,061, a 1.58% increase and its median household income grew from $80,527 to $82,594, a 2.57% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Ascension Parish, LA are White (Non-Hispanic) (68.8%), Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) (21.7%), White (Hispanic) (4.13%), Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (2.68%), and Asian (Non-Hispanic) (1.06%).
None of the households in Ascension Parish, LA reported speaking a non-English language at home as their primary shared language. This does not consider the potential multi-lingual nature of households, but only the primary self-reported language spoken by all members of the household.
97.9% of the residents in Ascension Parish, LA are U.S. citizens.
The largest universities in Ascension Parish, LA are River Parishes Community College (1,207 degrees awarded in 2020).
In 2020, the median property value in Ascension Parish, LA was $224,300, and the homeownership rate was 82.5%.
Most people in Ascension Parish, LA drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 31.4 minutes. The average car ownership in Ascension Parish, LA was 2 cars per household.
Ascension Parish, LA borders Assumption Parish, LA, East Baton Rouge Parish, LA, Iberville Parish, LA, Livingston Parish, LA, St. James Parish, LA, and St. John the Baptist Parish, LA.
Ascension Parish, LA is home to a population of 125k people, from which 97.9% are citizens. As of 2020, 3.47% of Ascension Parish, LA residents were born outside of the country (4.34k people).
In 2018, there were 3.17 times more White (Non-Hispanic) residents (83.4k people) in Ascension Parish, LA than any other race or ethnicity. There were 26.3k Black or African American (Non-Hispanic) and 5.01k White (Hispanic) residents, the second and third most common ethnic groups.
As of 2020, 97.9% of Ascension Parish, LA residents were US citizens, which is higher than the national average of 93.4%. In 2019, the percentage of US citizens in Ascension Parish, LA was 97.9%, meaning that the rate of citizenship has been increasing.
The following chart shows US citizenship percentages in Ascension Parish, LA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The 3 largest ethnic groups in Ascension Parish, LA
5.45% of the people in Ascension Parish, LA are hispanic (6.6k people).
The following chart shows the 7 races represented in Ascension Parish, LA as a share of the total population.
The PUMS dataset is not available at the County level, so we are showing data for Louisiana.
As of 2020, 3.47% of Ascension Parish, LA residents (4.34k people) were born outside of the United States, which is lower than the national average of 13.5%. In 2019, the percentage of foreign-born citizens in Ascension Parish, LA was 3.15%, meaning that the rate has been increasing.
The following chart shows the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ascension Parish, LA compared to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
Ascension Parish, LA has a large population of military personnel who served in Vietnam, 1.19 times greater than any other conflict.
The economy of Ascension Parish, LA employs 60.1k people. The largest industries in Ascension Parish, LA are Manufacturing (9,096 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (7,444 people), and Retail Trade (6,182 people), and the highest paying industries are Utilities ($97,857), Mining, Quarrying, & Oil & Gas Extraction ($93,718), and Manufacturing ($88,151).
From 2019 to 2020, employment in Ascension Parish, LA grew at a rate of 1.18%, from 59.4k employees to 60.1k employees.
The most common job groups, by number of people living in Ascension Parish, LA, are Office & Administrative Support Occupations (7,246 people), Sales & Related Occupations (6,909 people), and Management Occupations (5,796 people). This chart illustrates the share breakdown of the primary jobs held by residents of Ascension Parish, LA.
The most common employment sectors for those who live in Ascension Parish, LA, are Manufacturing (9,096 people), Health Care & Social Assistance (7,444 people), and Retail Trade (6,182 people). This chart shows the share breakdown of the primary industries for residents of Ascension Parish, LA, though some of these residents may live in Ascension Parish, LA and work somewhere else. Census data is tagged to a residential address, not a work address.
The industries with the best median earnings for men in 2020 are Professional, Scientific, & Management, & Administrative & Waste Management Services ($99,898), Manufacturing ($96,610), and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($82,903).
The industries with the best median earnings for women in 2020 are Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing & Hunting, & Mining ($92,869), Information ($80,804), and Transportation & Warehousing, & Utilities ($53,835).
In the 2020 presidential election, the popular vote in Ascension County, LA went to Donald J. Trump with 65.3% of the vote. The runner-up was Joseph R Biden Jr. (32.7%), followed by Jo Jorgensen (1.31%).
The following chart shows the popular vote results in Ascension County, LA for each registered party from 1976 to 2020.
In 2020, universities in Ascension Parish, LA awarded 1,207 degrees. The student population of Ascension Parish, LA in 2020 is skewed towards men, with 1,406 male students and 1,349 female students.
Most students graduating from Universities in Ascension Parish, LA are White (699 and 58.2%), followed by Black or African American (299 and 24.9%), Unknown (86 and 7.16%), and Hispanic or Latino (62 and 5.16%).
The largest universities in Ascension Parish, LA by number of degrees awarded are River Parishes Community College (1,207 and 100%).
The most popular majors in Ascension Parish, LA are Other Industrial Production Technology (403 and 33.4%), General Studies (355 and 29.4%), and Instrumentation Technology (163 and 13.5%).
In 2020 there were 2,755 students enrolled in Ascension Parish, LA, 51% men and 49% women.
Other Industrial Production Technology
Instrumentation Technology
In 2020, the most common concentation for 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate recipients in Ascension Parish, LA was General Studies with 332 degrees awarded.
This visualization illustrates the percentage of students graduating with a 1 to 2 Year Postsecondary Certificate from schools in Ascension Parish, LA according to their major.
In 2020, the institution with the largest number of graduating students was River Parishes Community College with 1,207 degrees awarded.
In 2020, 719 men were awarded degrees from institutions in Ascension Parish, LA, which is 1.47 times more than the 488 female students who received degrees in the same year.
In 2020 the most common race/ethnicity group awarded degrees at institutions was White students. These 699 degrees mean that there were 2.34 times more degrees awarded to White students then the next closest race/ethnicity group, Black or African American, with 299 degrees awarded.
Public, 2-year ($3,335) is the sector with the highest median state tuition in 2020.
Public, 2-year ($744) is the sector with the highest median state fee in 2020.
The median property value in Ascension Parish, LA was $224,300 in 2020, which is 0.976 times smaller than the national average of $229,800. Between 2019 and 2020 the median property value increased from $207,400 to $224,300, a 8.15% increase. The homeownership rate in Ascension Parish, LA is 82.5%, which is approximately the same as the national average of 64.4%.
People in Ascension Parish, LA have an average commute time of 31.4 minutes, and they drove alone to work. Car ownership in Ascension Parish, LA is approximately the same as the national average, with an average of 2 cars per household.
Median household income in Ascension Parish, LA is $82,594. In 2020, the tract with the highest Median Household Income in Ascension Parish, LA was Census Tract 306 with a value of $69,258, followed by Census Tract 301.02 and Census Tract 309, with respective values of $63,385 and $44,135.
In 2021, 11.1% of the population was living with severe housing problems in Ascension Parish, LA. From 2014 to 2021, the indicator declined 3.32%.
The following chart display owner-occupied housing units distributed between a series of property tax buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. In Ascension Parish, LA the largest share of households pay taxes in the < $800 range.
The chart underneath the paragraph shows the property taxes in Ascension Parish, LA compared to it's parent and neighbor geographies.
In 2020, 82.5% of the housing units in Ascension Parish, LA were occupied by their owner. This percentage grew from the previous year's rate of 81.5%.
This chart shows the percentage of owner in Ascension Parish, LA compared it's parent and neighboring geographies.
Race/Ethnicity TotalWhiteBlackAsianOtherTwo Or MoreWhite Non-HispanicHispanic
Census Tract 306
Census Tract 301.02
In 2020, the tract with the highest Median Household Income (Total) in Ascension Parish, LA was Census Tract 306 with a value of $69,258, followed by Census Tract 301.02 and Census Tract 309, with respective values of $63,385 and $44,135.
The following map shows all of the tracts in Ascension Parish, LA colored by their Median Household Income (Total).
In 2020, the median household income of the 44k households in Ascension Parish, LA grew to $82,594 from the previous year's value of $80,527.
The following chart displays the households in Ascension Parish, LA distributed between a series of income buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households have an income in the $75k - $100k range.
The closest comparable wage GINI for Ascension Parish, LA is from Louisiana.
In 2020, 84.5% of workers in Ascension Parish, LA drove alone to work, followed by those who carpooled to work (8.42%) and those who worked at home (5.24%).
Using averages, employees in Ascension Parish, LA have a longer commute time (31.4 minutes) than the normal US worker (26.9 minutes). Additionally, 3.31% of the workforce in Ascension Parish, LA have "super commutes" in excess of 90 minutes.
The chart below shows how the median household income in Ascension Parish, LA compares to that of it's neighboring and parent geographies.
The following chart displays the households in Ascension Parish, LA distributed between a series of car ownership buckets compared to the national averages for each bucket. The largest share of households in Ascension Parish, LA have 2 cars.
9.97% of the population for whom poverty status is determined in Ascension Parish, LA (12.3k out of 124k people) live below the poverty line, a number that is lower than the national average of 12.8%. The largest demographic living in poverty are Females 25 - 34, followed by Females 35 - 44 and then Females < 5.
The most common racial or ethnic group living below the poverty line in Ascension Parish, LA is Black, followed by White and Hispanic.
In 2021, 12.9% of the children was living in poverty in Ascension Parish, LA. From 2014 to 2021, the indicator declined 3.2%.
In 2021, the number of reported violent crimes offenses per 100,000 population was 337 in Ascension Parish, LA. From 2014 to 2021, the indicator declined 52.7 per 100,000 population.
92.5% of the population of Ascension Parish, LA has health coverage, with 59.5% on employee plans, 13.4% on Medicaid, 9.83% on Medicare, 9.25% on non-group plans, and 0.563% on military or VA plans.
Primary care physicians in Ascension Parish, LA see 2445 patients per year on average, which represents a 2.55% decrease from the previous year (2509 patients). Compare this to dentists who see 3246 patients per year, and mental health providers who see 974 patients per year.
Patient to Primary Care Physician Ratio in Ascension Parish, LA
Primary care physicians in Ascension Parish, LA see an average of 2,445 patients per year. This represents a 2.55% decrease from the previous year (2,509 patients).
The following chart shows how the number of patients seen by primary care physicians has been changing over time in Ascension Parish, LA in comparison to its neighboring geographies.
Between 2017 and 2018, the percent of uninsured citizens in Ascension Parish, LA declined by 12.5% from 8.55% to 7.48%.
The following chart shows how the percent of uninsured individuals in Ascension Parish, LA changed over time compared with the percent of individuals enrolled in various types of health insurance.
In 2021, the number of deaths among residents under age 18 per 100,000 population was 54.7 in Ascension Parish, LA.
The graphic shows the trend of the indicator in Ascension Parish, LA.
In 2021, the percentage of the adult population (age 18 and older) that reports a body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to 30 kg/m2 (age-adjusted) was 35.4% in Ascension Parish, LA.
In 2021, the percentage of population under age 65 without health insurance was 6.55% in Ascension Parish, LA.
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We are working with a client near the Bryan/Huntsville area who is need of an Occupational Therapist to join their team on a full time basis for an 8-12 week contract beginning in January.
* The clinic treats children of all ages with a variety of diagnoses and focuses on developmental delays and children with autism.
* They see Medicaid families as well as private pay.
* Electronic medical record system, notes are 24 hours completion.
* Laptops are provided to clinicians.
They are seeking a therapist who has adult/pediatric experience or fieldwork in an outpatient setting.
Qualifications: Must hold a Bachelor's Degree (or higher) in Occupational Therapy and a current state license (or be eligible for same).
PediaStaff, Inc. offers flexible staffing solutions for pediatric and educational based settings. Our expertise is backed by excellent hourly rates and per diem offered based upon IRS eligibility. Additional benefits for full-time contractors include nationally recognized medical insurance, 401K with matching employer contributions, generous relocation and continuing education assistance, optional summer pay program, and reimbursement for state licensure and/or teacher certifications.


Hey, I was young. I didn't know any better!
And the money was good. So, how could I turn it down? As a high school kid, you make money any way you can, even if it's something you're not thrilled about.
That's right, your boy Steve – a guy who once wrote an article explaining why Sugar is Worse than Jar Jar Binks – used to work for the enemy!
For two summers, my brother and I would wake up at 5AM, put on the sweet Coke polo shirts pictured above, hop into our Coca-Cola cars (old station wagons with Coca-Cola logos on the side), and stock shelves full of Coke products for 50-60+ hours a week on Cape Cod.
Now, hopefully you know that the above "enemy" comment is in jest.
If you happen to be currently employed by Coca-Cola or a company that sells products or services that are unhealthy, I don't mean to pick on you or your employer…kind of. After all, Coca-Cola is a company that aims to make a profit by selling products that are delicious. I get it. Give me an ice-cold Mexican Coke made with real sugar in a glass bottle on a hot day, and it's heaven. I also know they donate lots of money to charity, employ thousands, and do plenty of good things, and blah blah blah.
Twelve years after working indirectly for Big Sugar and seven years after starting Nerd Fitness, I now know just how detrimental sugar can be to our health, and it brings me to the point of today's article!
We know sugar is bad for us (right? I hope?), but I wasn't aware just how insidious this stuff has become in society and until I learned the history behind sugar's rise in our day-to-day lives – and the rise in our obesity rates.
The history of sugar is both fascinating and pretty messed up. For starters, in the 1960's the sugar industry actually paid scientists to downplay the connection between sugar and heart disease and instead promote saturated fat as the culprit.
Screw facts and data; there's money to be made!
If you know anything about sugar, you can't help but look at that ad and start laughing. "Use sugar to help you BUILD willpower? And NOT overeat." Seriously!?
Fortunately, these days we're MUCH better off and way smarter, and silly tricks like that can't work anymore.
We know here at NF that you can't outrun your fork (it's one of our Rules of the Rebellion), and you can't out-train a bad diet, so telling people to ONLY focus on exercising more without worrying about what you put in your bodies is horrible advice.
Luckily, this group was shut down amidst widespread scrutiny and pressure by the public!
Also, pesky things like "facts" and "experimentation" kept getting in the way.
With all of the information coming out about how unhealthy soda can be in recent years, soda sales have steadily dropped to 30 year lows. This is AWESOME news, but don't expect Coke and Pepsi to go quietly into the night.
Like any animal or company that's been cornered or attacked, they're adapting and fighting to stay relevant.
Thus, the strategy they've adopted is marketing "healthy" soda alternatives to find another pathway to connect their sugar water with our bloodstreams.
If you've picked up a Vitamin Water, a Naked Juice: Green Machine, or a Smoothie King fruit smoothie lately, and patted yourself on the back for making the healthy choice, your head is in the right place…but your blood sugar level will say otherwise!
At least when you drink a soda you know you're making an unhealthy choice!
Shame on these other companies for convincing you their products are pure and healthy when they often have as much or more sugar as a can of Coke.
If you're currently pissed off that you've been dutifully chugging Vitaminwater for the past few months instead of soda, assuming it's healthier, I don't blame you! The marketing and packaging leave you no choice BUT to assume it's healthy and good for you.
What's as funny as it is depressing is that even Coca-Cola executives themselves know their "healthy" marketing of these beverages is horseshit.
I read that quote and my eyeballs almost fell out of my head. Are you furious yet? I am. Let's fix it.
I get it. Sugar is awesome. It's delicious and makes us happy…temporarily.
It also makes us fat.
And holy **** is it addicting. It targets the pleasure centers in our brains, and is more available now than it has ever been in the history of our species. Unfortunately, our lizard brains have not adapted to its widespread availability instead of scarcity, which means our bodies can't say "no" or "just a little." This means we can ACTUALLY get hooked on the stuff. There are even studies that claim sugar can be as addicting as cocaine.
So the solution is simple: do more cocaine, less sugar!
Hahahaha, kidding. I'm not a doctor, and I don't currently have pants on as I type this, but my advice would be to probably avoid both sugar and cocaine as much as possible.
Unfortunately, avoiding sugar is more than just giving up soda (though that's a DAMN good start!). Other problems arise because sugar is in EVERYTHING and often hidden.
Why can't we just tell the truth, people?
We talk a lot about a nefarious shadow organization making us fatter and lazier in our monthly story-driven adventure, Rising Heroes.
It's like there really is a conglomeration of bad guys aiming to make us unhealthy.
1) Whenever possible, minimize liquid calories. This includes frappucinos and sodas, but also "real fruit smoothies" and "healthy" Naked Juice drinks, Gatorade, and even things like apple juice, orange juice, grape juice, cranberry juice, etc. Every once in a while? Sure. Just make it a rare treat ("treat yo' self!") – you'll actually enjoy it more and be healthier!
I personally prescribe to the "out of sight, out of mind" philosophy because I have the willpower and restraint of a 5-year kid in a candy store. I don't keep sugary beverages in my house so I'm not tempted and have to waste willpower trying not to drink them.
I've found that drinking sparkling water like LaCroix can really help me THINK I'm drinking soda, and provide me with the same level of happiness and fizzy satisfaction – without the sugar.
To answer your next question: here's a whole article on "Is Diet Soda bad for me?" High five!
2) Don't trust the front of the label, and learn to recognize sugar's aliases. A label is required to list ingredients by amount, so by adding multiple types of sugar with weird names, a company can get away with moving sugar down the list.
Look for the following names: Agave nectar, Brown sugar, Cane crystals, Cane sugar, Corn sweetener, Corn syrup, Crystalline fructose, Dextrose, Evaporated cane juice, Organic evaporated cane juice, Fructose, Fruit juice concentrate, Glucose, High-fructose corn syrup, Honey, Invert sugar, Lactose, Maltose, Malt syrup, Molasses, Raw sugar, Sucrose, Sugar Syrup.
If you only look at two numbers on the back of a box, look at grams of sugar and total calories. You want minimal sugar and fewer calories. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Do the best you can!
Oh, and if a product says "no sugar added" on the front of it, you can bet your life savings on it having a RIDICULOUS amount of sugar.
Note: please don't bet your life savings on this.
3) Be skeptical, because sugar is in practically everything. When in doubt, eat things with fewer ingredients. We consume 130 pounds of sugar per year on average (holy crap), which means the white stuff in in way more foods than we realize. Not just candy and soda, but practically everything.
Nature Valley Granola Bars? Plenty of sugar. In fact, most "protein bars" have tons of sugar. And, until outraged customers complained, "Nature Valley" Granola Bars were made with high fructose corn syrup. Mmmm, nature.
Pasta sauce? Should just be tomatoes right? Nope. Add in heaping tablespoons of high fructose corn syrup too and you're getting closer.
Wheat bread? That's gotta be healthy, right? Check the ingredients. I bet one of the top 5 is "high fructose corn syrup" too.
Hell, look at what's advertised as a "balanced breakfast" these days on TV! Cereal and skim milk, fruit, a glass of orange juice, and toast. Or, in other words: sugar and sugar water, sugar, sugar water, and pile-o-carbs.
4) Track your sugar intake, and minimize it over time. As I cover in "Star Wars Explains Why We're Fat," everybody has a different amount of "gimme gimme gimme" in our brains that craves instant gratification.
This means we all have different abilities to get addicted to things, including sugar. Some people can eat sugar (or have one drink, or try drugs) and not get hooked, while others struggle with addiction instantly – once is enough to get hooked for life.
This comic explains human behavior and addiction quite well…with dinosaurs.
If you are somebody who is actually hooked on sugar, start by tracking your sugar intake each day (actually look up the sugar content of everything you consume!), and see how many grams you're eating every day. Don't worry about total numbers, just focus on eating less sugar than the day before. Repeat.
Michael Pollan, author of the Omnivore's Dilemma said it succinctly: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." Eat real food (meat, vegetables, unprocessed stuff), keep your calorie total down, and stick to mostly plants along with healthy protein. Done!
We'll continue digging into this battle against Big Sugar, shadow organizations, and false advertising in future posts. It's amazing how heavily the deck is stacked against us when we try to be healthy, and how tough it is to find the actual truth!
I have no problem with sugar and people making choices that don't line up with their health goals occasionally.
What really grinds my gears is when sugar is snuck into products and falsely marketed as healthy. We're going to fight, and it starts by educating ourselves on how much sugar we're actually eating.
Over the next week, your mission is to read the labels on the food and beverages you're consuming. Specifically keep an eye on how many grams of sugar you're consuming. Then over the next few weeks, try to drop that amount down by 10% each week. And then let me know how you did!
I want to hear from you: did you find this post useful? Hit reply and let me know if this article is actually gonna help you start to remove more sugar from your life!
PS: We've recently overhauled our monthly story-driven experience, Rising Heroes. We'll be opening doors for it next Monday, a few weeks later than normal – if you were waiting to get in, sorry for the delay. I promise it'll be worth it – we've unrolled some big updates! ?
PPS:If you want to learn about the history of sugar and a contrarian viewpoint to "calories in, calories out no matter what they are," check out Taube's book "The Case Against Sugar." It's thought provoking and entertaining.


Recently I bought my first DSLR, the Canon EOS 100D. I've always loved taking pictures and videos of everywhere I go so I can keep the memories and share it with my friends and family who aren't there to experience the fun. For myself personally, the most important thing when it comes to choosing a camera is filming quality and size of camera. EOS 100D felt like the perfect choice after reading a lot of reviews online.
I bought it in Harbour City. Including the lens, battery pack, camera bag, 16GB memory, and one more protecting lens, the total came out to be around $5200 HKD. The thing I was most excited to try out is the miniature filming mode. So I went around Hong Kong (mainly in the Central and Tsim Sha Tsui area) and filmed this short clip. It turned out really well, so I'm bringing my camera everywhere I go! Hopefully by the end of the year I will have more amazing videos I can share!


Of these nine offices, CRA failed to endorse in the following races: Controller, Insurance Commissioner, and, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Thus CRA ceded one third of the races. Of these three, the Controller race has a registered Republican that made it to November with no help from CRA; recovering Republican Steve Poizner came in first for Insurance Commissioner; and Superintendent of Public Instruction did not indicate party on the ballot so I don't know who they were. The implications of this inaction is that we must conclude that CRA doesn't care about California.
Look at what each of these offices do.
First, Betty Yee is arguably the worst incumbent on the ballot. Yes, even worse that Garvin Newsom. Her track record is terrible and in my opinion, she is the worst Controller that California has seen in decades.
The backbone of California's financial records system is a UNIX based program called CalSTARS that was implemented last time Jerry Brown was Governor back in 1983. Yeah, this is the program that caused the Y2K crisis in California. Millions were spent to pay retired state employees to return to work to patch this P.O.S. so it could handle four digit years.
For many documents that her office processes, SCO has a backlog to 2015.
Under her leadership—or lack thereof—the Controller's Office is slower and less efficient in a state that thinks it is the technology leader of the world. Can you say Irony? Oh, her Agency still uses tractor-feed paper and dot-matrix printers to give documents to various departments because they aren't available in digital formats.
I could go on but the thing that should really frost not only CRA but all Californians is that Betty Yee and Fiona Ma—the Treasurer candidate—are personally responsible for the disinformation campaign that dismantled the Board of Equalization last year. Since CRA's current President, Tom Hudson, worked for BOE, I would think it a slam-dunk that CRA had a candidate they could support to "take-out" Yee but no dice. Like everything else under Hudson's leadership, all you get from CRA is crickets.
You would think that Hudson, Sue Blake, George Runner and the other so-call Republican stalwarts would stand-up for themselves and their livelihoods even if they won't stand-up for the taxpayers that they claim to represent at BOE. Democrats threw the token black guy (one of their own) under the bus and all you got was crickets.
CRA claims they hate Obamacare. We all know that Obamacare was a stopgap solution on the socialist road to single payer healthcare. So did CRA run or endorse anybody that is running for Insurance Commissioner? Heck No! Once again, their rhetoric and their actions don't agree.
CRA has had many opportunities to change their endorsement process to conform to the "Jungle Primary" system that we have in California. They have refused to face the reality that not every race will have a Republican in it. At my last CRA convention (you know the one where they overwhelmingly endorsed Lyin' Ted), I brought the issue before the convention and they killed it at the earliest opportunity.
In his Republican days, Poizner was a CRA endorsed candidate but in a race with no Republican, CRA didn't have the guts to go with him when he clearly is the best guy on the ballot.
At my last CRA Convention, much energy was spent bashing Common Core but again CRA has no dog in the hunt for this job; somehow I don't think it's because they figured-out that in California, Common Core is here to stay.
CRA did actually hit two winners in the statewide offices. For Secretary of State, Mark P. Meuser, came in second. For Attorney General, Steven C Bailey also came in second. If the June results are any indicator, both Republicans will face the slaughter in November.
Sadly, this brings us to the third act of the CRA train wreck. CRA had four big misses in the endorsement department. Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, and US Senate.
Before I get into the details, I know some will try to nitpick what I'm about to say so in the interest of full disclosure, the numbers used below are from the Secretary of State's website on June 12, 2018.
At Convention, CRA spent much time debating the pool of potential candidates and threw their weight behind Travis Allen. Meanwhile, their arch enemy, Donald J Trump, threw his support to John Cox. From the votes tallied thus far, Cox received 25.8 percent of the votes cast while CRA's all-star candidate received 9.55 percent. Trump's guy got about three times the number of votes. Oh, Allen came in fourth place in the race while Trump's guy will be on the ballot in November. Since the jungle primary was implemented, this is the first time a Republican gubernatorial candidate has made it to November. For that we have Donald Trump to thank not CRA.
CRA fared even worse in their choice for governor in waiting. Their choice was David Hernandez. Hernandez received 6.1 percent of the vote. Out of four republicans on the ballot, CRA's anointed came in fourth. My prolife Facebook friends said to go with Cole Harris who ended up being the top Republican vote getter. Sadly, Harris was beat by two Dems so he won't be going to November. Oh, CRA's guy came in seventh place.
CRA had a chance to go after Fiona Ma with their choice of a Treasurer candidate. They picked Jack Guerrero. Jack apparently didn't know jack and came in third place. He was bested by Ma and Republican Greg Conlon.
From a Conservative Republican point of view, if any candidate on the ballot embodies the opposite of what is good, right, and Constitutional it is Dianne Feinstein. Surely CRA had a guy to go after the ancient Senator from San Francisco. Charged with this task at their Spring Convention was the noble Tom Palzer. In a field of 32 candidates, surely the CRA endorsement would be decisive in propelling a solid Republican to the head of the pack. 11 of the candidates were Republicans. Among Republicans, Palzer placed a solid fifth place thanks to CRA. Sadly, he came in seventh place overall with 3.09 percent of the statewide total.
CRA is a lost and irrelevant organization. In my mind, their "jump the shark moment" was the endorsement of Ted Cruz. Their vote of over eighty percent endorsing Ted Cruz on the first ballot proves that they are out of touch with rank-and-file Republicans. They are bleeding membership and still have many paper clubs in their midst. Tom Hudson was supposed to be a caretaker President to heal the organization and provide stability and integrity. Instead, he is the undertaker President leading the group into the wilderness to atrophy and die. They should either pull the plug on the organization or hand it over to Johnnie Morgan and his group in LA. Either way, the current leadership needs to walk away now.


I was quite happy to come across the CD re-issue of Dion's "Wonder Where I'm Bound", an LP issued in 1969 but featuring mostly recordings from around 1965. Columbia wanted to piggy-back on Dion's renewed success with the single "Abraham, Martin & John" and threw this together from sessions Dion had recorded with various folks including producer Tom Wilson. I have a copy of the vinyl, but this CD has a nice booklet with detailed notes on Dion's lost years in the mid-sixties. It's a good set of songs, with a couple Dylan covers – early folk-rock-blues that never got a chance at the time.
Here's a site with the title song.


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Last year, the LTFRB cited that 74 died and 301 were injured in 395 bus-related accidents. That's more than one accident a day involving any one of only 5,400 city buses, which, as vehicle type goes, is far less in number than jeepneys, trucks, taxis and cars. At the risk of sounding pedantic, we echo the sentiments of the Pro-Gun lobby: It's people who kill, not guns. No, we are not advocating shooting bus drivers and let God sort them out. What we mean is that its drivers who speed and not buses or trucks or cars. That is why we looked forward to ex-DOTC Secretary Ping de Jesus plan to mandate TESDA training for ALL bus drivers to tame the wild speeding beast in most male drivers. We also applaud the continuos drug testing of drivers to at least discourage the motive for driving under the influence of narcotics to stretch driving hours and meet the driver's commission or boundary. We put great faith that when all bus drivers are treated as proper employees with full benefits beginning July, the piratical motivation for cut-throat driving, fare paying passenger grabbing aggravated by the boundary system and turning fugitive after a traffic accident will be a thing of the past. We, as a nation, have put a lot of hope, MMDA constables' health and taxpayer money just to tame these wild bus drivers.
Last February, the LTFRB proposed mandatory installation of speed limiters on all buses in reaction to the inordinate proportion of traffic accident deaths caused by speeding buses. By May, the LTFRB added that the speed limiting device will be set at the city speed limit to 40km/h, but should allow adjustment in case a change in speed limit arises in the future. This June, the LTFRB had to extend the deadline for submission of bus speed-limiter designs as no proposals were submitted.
Most speed limiters fitted to almost all of the commercial vehicles sold and driven in most developed countries since the 70s, are simple vacuum or electronic controlled devices that are set so the vehicle does not exceed legal 120km/h maximum speed on expressways, plus or minus 3.0% speedometer error. Trucks and buses that criss cross between the Asian and European continent sport stickers which conform to the international speed limits that trucks and buses adhere to; i.e. 120km/h for expressways, 100km/h for single carriageway highways, 60km/h for urban highways and 40km/h for highly populated urban areas. The speed limits decrease to 10km/h slower per category as the passenger capacity of the bus or the number of axles or trailers towed increase. Since these old speed limiters only tackle maximum velocity, it is up to the drivers to observe the other intermediate speed limits. Today's GPS Navigation screens even display the relevant speed limit in the zone one is driving through, so some day, GPS enforced speed limits through the engine ECU may become a reality.
Also, Seventies Japan had a very effective and simple method for the Police and drivers of oncoming traffic to monitor the speed that a bus or truck is traveling. On the front roof top of the vehicle, just above the windshield are three green pilot lights. When one green light out of the three is lit, it means the vehicle is traveling at 40km/h. Two lights lit means 60km/h and three lights aglow means 80km/h. Unfortunately, these 3 green lights are usually mistaken by Philippine truck re-conditioners as US regulation clearance lights and convert them to turn on with the parking lights. Or worse, rewire them to blink to amuse in anticipation of the Christmas season.
Trucks and buses, even those from 30 years ago, are also engineered to accept after market speed limiters connected to the Tachograph, an analogue 24 hour driver's log that records idling, off time and driving times including speeds and distance covered. Locally, Chevron and Petron tanker fleets that use Volvo, MAN and Mercedes Benz prime movers, have speed limiters with adaptive cruise control and driver drowsiness warnings that conform to EU practice. Many of the old Airport and city buses imported from Japan and converted to local use have speed limiters too, although, owing to their age, they may not be as sophisticated and versatile.
Self-set variable speed limiters, usually manufactured by OEM module suppliers like Bosch, Valeo and Denso, have been available for some time. These devices are usually integrated with other safety features like Adaptive Cruise control. Mercedes Benz models, like the 2006 E280 Elegance and their premium brand rivals use Tempomat speed limiters that are so easy to use. Select a speed as identified by a floating arrow on the speedometer, press the stalk and drive. However you press the gas pedal to exceed the speed limit set by that floating arrow, you won't go over it. Its great for drivers who can't keep their gas pedal foot steady or when you lend your car to high testosterone teenagers and avowed speed demons. Internationally, it helps enforce the legal limit of 100km/h imposed on unaccompanied learner or student drivers, usually identified by a big "L" posted on the front of the vehicle driven.
Thus, LTFRB's specifications for speed limiters should include what's already available, and with today's cheap electronics, anything is possible. Our experience with the Mercedes E280 and what Chevron and Petron tanker truck fleet drivers enjoy shows we need not re-invent the wheel. Besides it would be silly and even downright dangerous if all 5,400 city buses, and soon to include the Provincial "express" buses, were speed limited to 40km/h by some cheap and crude device. They would banned from entering the SCTEx and NLEx and they'd instantly be caught by the LIDAR teams of Skyway-SLEx for driving below the minimum speed limit of 60km/h. Take note that many city bus routed include the NLEx and SLEx as part of their franchised route.
Meantime, we wait with anticipation for the RFID tagging to work in order to re-impose bus scheduled dispatch stops, so buses go back behaving like trains with scheduled stops and trips. Eliminating the scrimmage at bus stops, eliminates the need to cut each other off with pointless overtaking, that also entails speeding. Adding to our hopes were the relatively successful MMDA anti-speeding LIDAR guns that cover Commonwealth and D. Macapagal avenues. We crossed our fingers hoping it would catch on to EDSA and other wide thoroughfares that become truck and bus race tracks when traffic diminishes after 9PM.
To survey the zones where to position the LIDAR cameras, all the MMDA has to do is to send researchers to ride buses during off peak hours and record the time and sections of the route where they "feel" the driver was speeding. Then another team is dispatched to position the LIDAR device on the span of road where the speeding was felt. Monitor the said span of road at the same time the researchers felt the incidence of speeding and MMDA can record a pattern where and when bus speeding happens.
Off the top of our head, these bus-truck speed zones after 9PM on an ordinary week day are the stretches of EDSA between Kaingin and Roosevelt, Phil Am Life Homes and GMA-7, Kamuning flyover, Cubao underpass, Santolan to Ortigas, Guadalupe to Magallanes. Speeds go higher later in the night which is, the time when colorum non-air-conditioned buses, sneak in to join the fun. Our list is practically all the spaces of EDSA in between major bus terminals.
Much as we agree the buses should be tamed, Sec. Mar Roxas order that all buses be fitted with the speed limiters by year end is a bit of a tall order. Until that speed limiter device invented for retrofitting on the motley fleet of Philippine buses, bus travel can be still be made safer by implementing all those previous programs; i.e. TESDA training, RFID scheduling, drug testing, compensation based on adherence to bus schedules instead of sardine packing their buses, etc. Its about time the MMDA aim their LIDAR speed guns on buses on EDSA and other Metro bus routes, especially during off peak hours.
If bus drivers can be reformatted into proper drivers, like the way bus drivers were in the 60s or during Martial Law, there wouldn't be any need for raised fines, speed limits, speed limiters and drug testing. But like the LTFRB, we agree that decent bus driving seems several generations away so draconian measures, barring selective breeding and castration, are needed.
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Steve's greatest feats were to be recorded on the gridiron of Shore Regional. He was the first Shore Regional football player to be named 1st Team All-State - All-Groups as a defensive back in his senior year. In addition, Steve received All-County, All-Shore, also both 1st Team sections in his senior year. He captained the 1979 team, after having shown evidence of things to come in his 1978 junior year. Steve was rewarded with his first great season by getting 1st team recognition in All-County, All-Shore and All-State Group II, again as a defensive back.
As a result of his achievements. Steve earned a full scholarship to Division I Boston College where he continued to star as a 4 year letter winner. Steve switched to outside linebacker for BC, where he started in his junior and senior years. Not coincidentally, BC finished ranked in the top 20 both years. Steve's 1984 team was recognized as the Eastern Champion with the "Beast of the East" Award. Steve was personally recognized as 2nd Team All East Outside Linebacker, as well as, the schools Unsung Hero, Senior Dedication Award, 1983-84 season. In addition, Steve enjoyed the spotlight while playing 2 Bowl games with BC, once in Tangerine Bowl and again in the Liberty Bowl. Another claim to fame Steve enjoys is having been a teammate to Heisman Trophy Winner, Quarterback Doug Flutie.
Professional football recognized this man's talent and called him after Boston College. Steve played with the Philadelphia Eagles, the Oakland Raiders and the Miami Dolphins, both in preseason and regular season games until a neck injury prematurely ended a promising pro career.
Steven is presently in Sales Management and is living with his wife and children in Oceanport.