那件事渐渐有了眉目。 That matter is settling into shape.
上次我们谈的那件事已经有点眉目了。 I'm getting on with what we talked about last time.
那件事刚刚有点儿眉目。 That matter is just beginning to come into focus.
Это дело постепенно обрело очертания.
That matter is just beginning to come into focus.
He tried in a hundred ways to convey his own feelings, casting arch glances at them.
I'm getting on with what we talked about last time.


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Thursday 21st January 2021 | Cambridge, UK
Cancellation of Cambridge Chinese New Year events branded "racist"
The events were cancelled in light of 2 people having tested positive for coronavirus in the UK yesterday
A wishing tree has been placed in the Grand Arcade, where people can write messages and prayers for people in ChinaPxfuel
by Sophie Huskisson
Saturday February 1 2020, 6:31pm
Chinese New Year (CNY) events due to take place this weekend in Cambridge have been partly or fully cancelled in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
A Chinese New Year ceremony at the Lion Yard shopping centre, due to take place tomorrow and include a parade around Cambridge and performances, was cancelled yesterday.
"It is with regret that due to the recent outbreak of the Coronavirus which has now escalated to the UK we feel we are left with no choice but to cancel the Chinese New Year event… I'm sure everyone will agree that this is the right decision to take and our thoughts are with those that are affected by this terrible virus and Chinese community as a whole," the shopping centre wrote in a Facebook post.
The cancellation was branded "racist" and "xenophobic" by some Facebook users and students.
The shopping centre responded saying this was a decision first made by the members of the Cambridge Chinese Federation (CCF): "we are simply informing you."
Kerry, the Director of CCF and a first year student at Lucy Cavendish college, told Varsity: "It's supposed to be a time to celebrate the Chinese New Year, but we are not celebrating right now. We want people to reflect on the situation in China. We want everyone to pray for Chinese people."
Kerry said that a wishing tree has been placed in the Grand Arcade, where people can write messages and prayers for people in China; "it is touching to see people care and hope that people in China get better. Instead of carrying on with the planned performances, we think this is a more appropriate response to the virus."
People have written messages to people in China on a wishing tree in Grand ArcadeCambridge Chinese Federation
A few hours after the event at Lion Yard was cancelled, the Fitzwilliam Museum announced that their partner Cambridge China Centre (CCC) had taken the decision to cancel some planned activities, including calligraphy and lantern making workshops, at the CNY event taking place today at the museum.
Varsity has reached out to CCC for comment.
According to The Guardian, some Chinese people living in Europe said they have been the target of racist abuse. One example given was La Repubblica's publication of a photograph showing a cafe in Rome with a sign outside saying "all people coming from China" were barred from entering.
Two cases of the coronavirus were confirmed in the UK yesterday. Both cases, one a student at the University of York, have been quarantined in a specialist centre in Newcastle.
The York student was staying in a hotel at the time and is not thought to have come into contact with any other students at the University.
Virus experts said they were not surprised to see cases in the UK, but this was no reason to panic.
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The Department of Health said no further positive cases have been confirmed in the UK, as of 2pm Saturday, with 201 people testing negative from 203 tests.
The World Health Organisation declared a global emergency on Thursday, as the number of coronavirus cases surpassed those from the 2003 SARS epidemic.
But the organisation's Chief Medical Officer said the mortality rate for the new strain of the virus is currently low, at 2% - less than SARS' 10% and Ebola's 70%.
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Art in General Gallery Moving from Lower Manhattan to Dumbo
by Jeff Scherer
Art in General, the nonprofit organization that has been giving support to up-and-coming artists from 1981, is moving to Dumbo in January. It will be leaving its longtime home in the General Hardware building on Walker Street for a ground floor space at 145 Plymouth.
According to ARTnews, Art in General has signed a three-year lease for the space, which Two Trees Management Company offered to them for below the market rate. Its new neighbors will include other galleries such as the Sculptors Guild and the A.I.R. Gallery.
"We're just completely thrilled to be experiencing the community in Brooklyn and the audience that has been growing in the past few years," Anne Barlow, executive director of Art in General, told ARTnews.
Pictured above: Collage of 2015 exhibitions, courtesy of Art in General.
The move to Dumbo is not necessarily for the long term. Art In General is looking for a permanent home while it puts up shows in its Brooklyn space.
Upcoming exhibitions include a collaboration with the Center of Contemporary Art in Tbilisi showcasing five Georgian artists, which will open on January 30. They will also be continuing their New Commissions series — with work by Colleen Asper, Alison O'Daniel, and Marika Kandelaki — and are preparing for their annual symposium, What Now?
Art In General will be a prestigious addition to the Dumbo art scene. Some of their New Commissions artists have gone on to be included in the Whitney Biennial and exhibited at such major institutions as MoMA, the New Museum, and the Tate Modern.
Dumbo Art Galleries
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Q: Not connecting to internet on iOS 9 simulator I'm using Xcode 7. when iOS 9 simulator did not connect to internet, I added App transport security to info.plist to allow insecure communication. It did work for some time. But again, it has stopped working. Have tried 'reset content and settings', restarting. nothing seems to work.
Has anyone come across this? know how to solve?
Thanks.

A: You can find detail related to issue here
App Transport Security Exceptions in iOS 9 and OSX 10.11
Apple provides a way to disable ATS altogether
<key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
<dict>
  <!--Include to allow all connections (DANGER)-->
  <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
      <true/>
</dict>

There are other keys that you can use to configure App Transport Security as well
NSRequiresCertificateTransparency
NSTemporaryExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy
NSTemporaryThirdPartyExceptionAllowsInsecureHTTPLoads
NSTemporaryThirdPartyExceptionMinimumTLSVersion
NSTemporaryThirdPartyExceptionRequiresForwardSecrecy

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Q: Returning Value From Window To Class WPF Within a method in my class I call Login.Show(), which is a Login Window. I would like the window to pass the email back to the class when the Login button is clicked, without creating a new instance of the class.
Is there any way to do this?
Currently I have
Login loginWindow;
public void AppStartup {
    loginWindow = new Login();
    loginWindow.Show();
    //in this instance I'd like the email to be returned here

Within the Login.xaml.cs
public void Login_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    string email;
    try {
        email = InputEmail.Text;
        //ideally I would like to return email to AppStartup without
        //using new AppStartup(); , rather back in the same instance
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);
    }
}

A: You could call ShowDialog() instead of Show() to display the window and then access the Text property of the InputEmail control directly:
loginWindow = new Login();
loginWindow.ShowDialog();
string email = loginWindow.InputEmail.Text;

Unlike Show(),  ShowDialog() won't return until the window has been closed.
Or you could add a property to the Login window or its DataContext, and set this one when the button is clicked.
public string Email { get; set; }

public void Login_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    Email = InputEmail.Text;
}

string email = loginWindow.Email;


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Myanmar (Burma) · March, 2021
Stories about Myanmar (Burma) from March, 2021
Timeline of the second month of military coup and terror in Myanmar
Governance 28 March 2021
Images and videos of the brutality unleashed by Myanmar's military are widely shared on social media. Despite the terror tactics, pro-democracy forces are fighting back.
Myanmar's anti-coup protesters include DIY shields, women's sarongs in their defensive arsenal
Human Rights 18 March 2021
Myanmar's security forces have become more brutal in suppressing the anti-coup movement but protesters have devised creative and unusual tactics to survive and avoid the riot police.
An interview with a blogger who connects Myanmar and Hong Kong's dream for democracy
Hong Kong (China) 17 March 2021
"Exchanges among activists could help reflect on the inadequacy of local protests and develop a wider horizon in understanding the significance of the pro-democracy movement in Asia."
Sunday's death toll rises to 71 in crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar
"These shooting[s] are totally unacceptable. They are not dispersing the protests. They are just murdering the people with violence."
'This goes way beyond brutality': Myanmar coup and the military's violent suppression of democracy
Freedom of Speech 15 March 2021
Myanmar protesters are being killed for resisting the military government. As violence continues to worsen, many are appealing for urgent UN intervention.
In the streets and online, Myanmar's citizens unite in creative opposition to the military junta
"The protests have also been highly inclusive, welcoming people representing a diversity of professions and identities, including people from a range of religious faiths and from the LGBTQ community."
Scenes from Myanmar's deadliest week as coup enters second month
Freedom of Speech 9 March 2021
"They are so determined to see the death of the military dictatorship, there is simply no way their movement can die."
Coup and resistance in Myanmar: A timeline of the first month under the 2021 military junta
Censorship 6 March 2021
From the coup to violent crackdowns and arrests, February 202a was a month of turmoil in Myanmar. But the people are fighting back.
Myanmar's bloody Sunday sees highest death toll so far at hands of security forces
Human Rights 1 March 2021
"If we don't resist out of fear, we would be enslaved by them. I believe others will move the protest ahead even if I am taken down."


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27 January 2021 — Unreal Estate
Advert for Homeless Hostel Estimates Profits of €250,000 a Year
Ardfert House. Photo by Eve Vaughan.
On Nelson Street in Phibsborough, a privately run homeless hostel is for sale.
Ardfert House, as it's known, has 28 rooms for residents and a price tag of €3.2m.
Dublin City Council has a ten-year lease on the premises and pays €480,000 each year to the private operator, the advert says.
More than half of that is profit, it seems – although that's based wholly on the seller's advert. "Estimated profit €250,000 per year," the advert says. on property website Daft.ie.
The listing has given councillors a rare insight into the council's spending on a private hostel for single people, and an opportunity to compare that against charity-run hostels.
"This illustrates the enormous profits that are being made in the private homeless sector," says Green Party Councillor Janet Horner.
Horner says she thinks the council should buy the hostel instead of shelling out €4.8m to a private operator over ten years.
She's worried, too, she says, about whether many of those who are homeless and living in private hostels are not being supported with move-on plans. In other words, routes into permanent healthy homes.
The entire ethos of the approach is wrong, she says. "A profit-based, institutionalised approach to our vulnerable populations is a deeply dangerous approach to take."
Getting Stuck
Many homeless hostels accommodate people in shared rooms and don't have kitchens where they can cook for themselves.
By contrast, Ardfert House has a large shared kitchen and individual en-suite rooms with TVs, according to the advert.
The Minister for Housing Darragh O'Brien indicated recently that the national quality standards don't apply in private hostels.
That leaves a big question as to what standards, if any, are in place in those hostels.
"It is really concerning that we have reason to believe that the private providers don't provide the same level of care as NGOs," says Horner.
She has requested a report showing how many people have moved on to permanent housing from charity-run hostels compared with private hostels, she says.
For those who become stuck in homelessness, the psychological costs are huge, she says.
Charity-run hostels are expected to implement a detailed national quality standards framework and that includes supporting homeless people to find a permanent home.
Caoimhe O'Connell, communications officer with Dublin Simon Community, said last June that the charity offers "a supportive, person-centred approach, providing unique support plans to help individuals address and overcome their own personal barriers to exiting homelessness".
Each client has a key worker who works closely with them to help them with their housing situation, and links them into other supports like counselling, treatment, employability and health and wellbeing services, she said.
Following the Money
Horner has asked Dublin City Council to consider buying the property. It would be cheaper and the council could sell it later or convert it to housing if homelessness falls, she says.
A spokesperson for the DRHE says that it has a property team tasked with sourcing new emergency accommodation throughout Dublin.
"This can be difficult in light of the strong opposition that almost inevitably arises from local residents and businesses to the implementation of such facilities," they said.
They are in regular contact with the Department of Housing to secure funding to buy new properties, says the spokesperson.
A spokesperson for the Department of Housing said via email that it is up to Dublin City Council to decide how to run homeless services.
In 2019, the Dublin Region Homeless Executive (DRHE) spent almost €144m on emergency accommodation and around a further €7m on long-term supported accommodation, shows a report from the Department of Housing.
Most was spent on private providers. They got around €85m. That includes €22m on private hostels, €11.5m on private family hostels, and €51.7m on hotels.
Around €59m went on charity-run emergency accommodation for single people and families. That is the homeless charities including Focus Ireland, Simon Community and the Peter McVerry Trust.
An additional €7m went on long-term supported accommodation, all of which was charity-run.
Each charity-run hostel is listed individually in the report, along with the final spend for that facility. Some privately run family hostels appear in a similar format.
But some other private hostels are all bundled in together in one line, listed as "Private Emergency Accommodation".
This includes both hostels for adults and some that include families too, says a spokesperson for the DRHE.
From 2018 to 2019, spending on "private emergency accommodation" increased by 64 percent from around €13.36m in 2018 to almost €22m in 2019.
In 2019, independent Councillor Anthony Flynn tried to find out how much the council pays to private hostel owners and what the private operators provide in return.
The DRHE refused his FOI requests. In response to questions, the DRHE indicated that some spending had not been as it appeared in the report.
For example, money paid to a private operator that ran Lynam's Hotel in O'Connell Street was listed as Focus Ireland Onsite Supports.
Lynam's had only opened in December 2017, but the DRHE said it had spent €1,320,000 on it that year.
The report doesn't differentiate between current and capital spending and part of the council's response suggested it may have paid for work on Lynam's, a building owned by a private company.
"The accommodation was retrofitted to adhere to current building standards," it said.
While charity hostels employ trained social-care workers who offer support to homeless people, it is not always the case that they are more expensive.
The council pays the private operator at Nelson Street €480,000 a year for shelter for 28 homeless people. That works out at €17,142 per person.
Meanwhile, beds provided by a homeless charity, Depaul Ireland range from €9,800 per person at Peter's Place, to €13,629 per person for Back Lane, to €38,461 per person on Little Britain Street on average, according to figures on its website.
"Running costs for individual homeless services can differ depending on any number of variables including the type of service being provided, the number of service users, running costs and the nature of the building," says a spokesperson for Depaul Ireland.
The DRHE spokesperson says that both private providers and homeless charities "represent value for money in terms of the service they provide".
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Q: How to adjust Winamp (MilkDrop) preset appearance frequency? I just installed the Winamp 5.63, and I have a few questions:
The second question:
Is it possible in the MilkDrop visualizations to set how frequently a preset appears depending on its rating?
In the MilkDrop settings it is implied that a preset's appearance frequency depends on its rating. The rating is from 0 to 5, with rating 0 meaning that a preset is never shown. From this, one may conclude that a preset with rating 5 is shown most frequently. I rated the presets, yet the player still shows me a lot of presets with ratings of 1 and 2, and not so frequently those with rating 5. Is it possible at all to change that rating-frequency dependence?
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San Pedro de Atacama All Destinations
Explore San Pedro de Atacama
San Pedro de Atacama Tours
All San Pedro de Atacama Tours
Things to do in San Pedro de Atacama
Atacama Salt Flats (Salar de Atacama) Tours & Tickets
Moon Valley (Valle de la Luna) Tours & Tickets
Chaxa Lagoon Tours & Tickets
Los Flamencos National Reserve (Reserva Nacional Los Flamencos) Tours & Tickets
Rainbow Valley (Valle del Arcoiris) Tours & Tickets
Ojos del Salar Tours & Tickets
Altiplanic Lagoons Tours & Tickets
How to Spend 3 Days in San Pedro de Atacama
How to Spend 1 Day in San Pedro de Atacama
North Chile
Things to do in Chile
Things to do in North Chile
Three days in San Pedro de Atacama give you chance to explore the surrounding desert in a myriad of ways; see geysers, lunar landscapes, flamingos. You'll also be able to soak up the town's atmosphere and learn about its history. Here's how.
Day 1: Head to Another Planet
San Pedro de Atacama is best-known as a base for adventures wanting to discover the surrounding desert, but the town itself offers plenty to see and do. Spend the morning exploring the historic center; tick off the centuries-old adobe church in the Plaza de Armas, the roof of which is made partially of dried cactus, and the R.P. Gustavo Le Paige Archaeological Museum, which exhibits more than 1,000 artefacts collected by a Belgian priest.
In the afternoon, take a trip to the Valley of the Moon (Valle de la Luna), where lunar landscapes have been shaped by wind and water over millions of years. Tours from San Pedro de Atacama typically also visit Valle de la Muerte (Death Valley) and are timed to coincide with sunset over the desert.
Day 2: Geysers, Hot Springs, and the Stars
Begin your second day bright and early with a pre-dawn tour of El Tatio, one of the biggest geothermal fields in the world. The trip north from San Pedro de Atacama takes around two hours, so letting someone else drive allows you to catch up on sleep in the vehicle. Watch the sunrise as dozens of steaming geysers burst into the air, then take a dip in a geothermal pool. Tours from San Pedro de Atacama typically include breakfast and some also add on a visit to the village of Machuca, where you'll see grazing llamas and have chance sample goat's cheese empanadas.
Spend your afternoon soaking in the thermal pools of Puritana Natural Springs; tours tend to include hotel transfers and admission tickets. In the evening, discover why the Atacama Desert is one of the world's best places for stargazing on a night tour of South America's largest astronomical observatory.
Day 3: Salt Flats and Flamingos
Your third day begins with another early start, but it's more than worth it to see the Atacama Salt Flats, one of the largest salt flats in the world. Highlights of typical full-day tours include seeing flocks of brightly colored flamingos at Chaxa Lagoon, part of Los Flamencos National Park, and exploring the high-altitude lakes of Miscanti and Miñique, which are framed by bright-white mineral deposits and yellow pampa grass. Tours tend to also visit the village of Socaire, where a traditional Chilean lunch made with regional produce is often included, and Toconao, where you can admire a 18th-century whitewashed church, see buildings made from volcanic stone, and browse craft shops for treasures made from alpaca wool and volcanic rock.
Atacama Salt Flat and Toconao Town Tour
Knowing the best spots to appreciate Chile's natural landscape can be tricky. Discover the country's largest salt flat on a day tour to Salar de Atacama, and visit one of the elevated region's villages along the way for insight into traditional Chilean culture. Explore the rural terrain with ease, with round-trip transfer from San Pedro, and benefit from insights provided by your local guide.
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General, Love & Relationship, Marsha Reeves-Jews, Round Table Discussions January 8, 2015 January 9, 2015
Middle Age Doesn't Mean You Are Out of The Game!
by Marsha Reeves-Jews
There are actually quite a few women who are 40 plus still wondering if anyone will ever "put a ring on it." Or "back on it!" In today's world, mature couples have read and reread the "marriage penalty" that married couples face when paying their income taxes; however, the truth is that marriage has plenty of legal and financial benefits, including tax benefits. Funny, I will always remember Tina Turner's song "What's Love Got To Do With It" and it made me think then as I do now, that Love has everything to do with it.
Today, many folks are indulging their hearts and making life a little sweeter with someone they love as opposed to being alone. Right or wrong or whichever way you think or believe there are a whole lot of folks who would rather ignore all the clinical reports and articles that would rather instill fear than to keep you open to true happiness.
Last month we were very happy to witness the perfect wedding of Rosalind and Tyres Jones. A beautiful ceremony held in Baltimore on the south harbor waterfront in November. The beautiful fall colors of peach and dark grey were perfect for the brick background in the main hall. The bride was stunning with her beautiful gray hair highlighted by an incredible up swing-braided twists that intertwined with her short veil and flawless makeup. The beautiful couple did not allow age or time to become a factor when planning the folks in their wedding party, which was comprised of ten bridesmaids, nine groomsmen, two flower girls and a ring bearer. It was a delightful afternoon brunch with a mixture of young and old alike enjoying an afternoon of jazz, loving family and friends and the promise of a wonderful lifetime together.
These two have spent time getting to know one another with truth and dignity. Their love is palatable and their joy was infectious. It certainly was a reminder for all of us single girls: that love is there if you are open to the universe and you choose to put down your guard and allow the universe to attract what you need to you!
Marsha Reeves-Jews
Marsha Jews is the Editor-At-Large(USA) for World Bride Magazine and the founder of Marsha Jews & Company a full service marketing, business development, Wedding/Events/ Conference planning & management; and communications company. Marsha Jews is the Founder/CEO of WKIMRadioNetwork.com.
and the former Founder/Curator of the Herbert Bearman Art Gallery & Director of Events & Weddings at the Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum.
Marsha was Project Director on two community technology development grants: Harlem Renaissance 2K1 and NY-OneNet at the Institute of Learning Technologies and the Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Columbia University, New York.
As President/COO/Associate Publisher at Career Communications Group Marsha managed Black Engineer/Hispanic and Information Technology Magazines; the Black Engineer of the Year Awards Conference and was Co-Founder of the Women of Color Technology Awards Conference; Black Family and LaFamilia Technology Awareness Week(s).
The former Executive Director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation of Maryland; presenting Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Ailey II and AileyCamp and Director of Advertising for the 125-year-old Afro-American Newspaper, Inc.
Marsha was Vice President of Operations for the Marine Corps League Exhibit Company, and was the first black woman to produce the Modern Day Marine Force in Readiness Military Exposition and Awards Gala a program of the United States Marine Corps, Capitol Marines and the Marine Corps League, while simultaneously the Director of Advertising for the Amphibious Warfare Review Magazine.
Marsha is active in the community; former board member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and was the first Black Trustee to chair their Annual Gala; Commissioner- Maryland Public Television Commission; Founding board member of the Maryland Association for Nonprofit Organizations; former trustee for the College of Notre Dame and the Maryland Institute College of Art; Trustee at the Enoch Pratt Library, and has won numerous awards; Co‐Author in Incredible Business and is an avid volunteer and speaker.
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A public university, the UGA embraces France's values for higher education, and welcomes international faculty, staff, and researchers.
These pages offer detailed information for those wishing to join our community as students, staff, and scholars.
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Q: Flutter app not run with android studio can anyone help me out? I have a Flutter app and when I try to run it, I see an error. I mention belove but app is running when I use Xcode.
In android studio:
Launching lib/main.dart on iPhone 11 in debug mode...
Running pod install...

CocoaPods' output:
      CDN: trunk Relative path: CocoaPods-version.yml exists! Returning local because checking is only performed in repo update

Error output from CocoaPods:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/universal-darwin20/rbconfig.rb:229: warning: Insecure world writable dir /usr/local/bin in PATH, mode 040777
        WARNING: CocoaPods requires your terminal to be using UTF-8 encoding.
        Consider adding the following to ~/.profile:
        export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
       /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/2.6/usr/lib/ruby/2.6.0/unicode_normalize/normalize.rb:141:in `normalize': Unicode Normalization not appropriate for ASCII-8BIT (Encoding::CompatibilityError)
        from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.2/lib/cocoapods/config.rb:166:in `unicode_normalize'
        from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.6.0/gems/cocoapods-1.11.2/lib/cocoapods/config.rb:166:in `installation_root'
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"Nutrition in Twin Pregnancies: Simple, yet Critical" – with Dr. Barbara Luke
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Dr. Barbara Luke, an MPH, reproductive epidemiologist, nurse, nutritionist, and author of a book on expecting twins, joins Dr. Fox to discuss prenatal nutrition in twin pregnancies. Dr. Luke says that she finds prenatal nutrition to be "the most positive and preventative medicine you could possibly do, building healthy babies." In this episode, she explains her research into the subject and what expectant twin mothers need to know.
Dr. Fox: Welcome to today's episode of "Healthful Woman," a podcast designed to explore topics in women's health at all stages of life. I'm your host, Dr. Nathan Fox, an OB-GYN and maternal-fetal medicine specialist practicing in New York City. At "Healthful Woman," I speak with leaders in the field to help you learn more about women's health, pregnancy, and wellness. All right, Dr. Barbara Luke, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. It is great to talk to you. How's life?
Barbara: Life's good.
Dr. Fox: So, you're in the great state of Michigan, enjoying the cold weather.
Barbara: Yep, we have snow on the ground. It's 22 degrees. Yeah, long winters in Michigan.
Dr. Fox: Beautiful. People are gonna think we're recording in August and there's snow on the ground. No, it is December, so, there's expected to be snow in Michigan. For some of our listeners, they will already know who you are by reputation. Others will not. But I will state that you are like the person when it comes to nutrition and twins. You're an author of a book on when you're expecting twins, and there's a ton of stuff on nutrition there. You are an MPH, you're a reproductive epidemiologist, you're a nurse, you're a doctor of science, you're a nutritionist, and you are all over twin nutrition. So, I'm so happy to have you here. Welcome.
Barbara: For me, prenatal nutrition is the most preventive medicine you could possibly do. I mean, so many women, when they get pregnant, it's sort of clean slate, "What can I do to have the healthiest diet, the healthiest pregnancy?" And nutrition is the one factor that's completely under there.
Dr. Fox: And it's low-cost. It's like everyone thinks it's fancy. And, honestly, you know, just nutrition, particularly with twins, it is such an important aspect of it. And I think that it's…you know, we're always looking for the next new thing and this is always been there and it is really important, I agree. I want you to give our listeners a sense just who you are, like, where you came from originally, and how you got to hear…this could be a very long tale but just hit the highlights just so we can, sort of, understand your arc to where you are now.
Barbara: My undergraduate degree is in nursing. My father would only let me go to college if I studied nursing, which my mother was a nurse. And I started in…I went to Columbia University. So, graduated, went into the Visiting Nurse Service, which is one of the oldest in the country, and did public health nursing in the South Bronx, Lower East Side, and took care of things that never got better, people at the end of their lives, diabetic problems, wounds that never healed.
And I got very discouraged, as a young person, starting in medicine, and decided to either do something more positive, more preventive, or get out of medicine completely. I was brought up in a home of arts, so that was my other calling, and I do that really for my own pleasure. But I decided to go back and get a master's in foods and nutrition. And I'm a native New Yorker. I went to NYU and became a registered dietitian. And I approached the people at Columbia Presbyterian to start a prenatal nutrition program. And they were very receptive, I started back in 1974.
Dr. Fox: Why prenatal?
Barbara: Part of my master's degree, I had done a project on prenatal nutrition. And to me, it's the most positive and preventive medicine you could possibly do, building healthy babies.
Dr. Fox: And, in 1974, this is basically predating most of ultrasound, this is predating most of genetic testing, this is really just at the time where you're lucky if your doctor told you not to smoke.
Barbara: I started a WIP [SP] program, which is now the SNAP program, I wrote a grant and we got a program for Columbia Presbyterian. It's still operating today 50 years later. So, when I started my program, actually I've flooded with patients. The residents and attendings loved that there was someone who would talk to patients about nutrition.
Nice thing about pregnancy is it starts, it ends, and there's things you can measure. So, weight gain, someone's diet, we would do blood glucose at 28 weeks. A lot of things we could measure. And what I started to notice is that women pregnant with twins, there were no guidelines. And there were some women who did very well with twins, others who did terribly.
So, when I went back to literature, there was lots of hand-wringing, isn't it a [inaudible 00:05:01]? Twins are small, born premature. And I thought, "No, they're not all small. What is associated with nice big twins?" And I did pilot studies and, eventually, went on and got my doctorate in perinatal epidemiology, reproductive epidemiology, at Hopkins, and looked at a decade of twin births in Baltimore.
Now, Baltimore is an interesting city in that people tend to stay there. You open someone's medical record, there's their birth certificate, their whole childhood, and then each of their pregnancies. So, when I was looking at women having twins, I actually knew a lot about their childhood before they even got pregnant. But 10 years' worth of twins was enough for a dissertation, not enough really for research.
So, I formed a consortium around the country of people interested in multiple births. Basically, we had four universities, continued with Hopkins, Medical University of South Carolina with Roger Newman. He has the longest running twin program in the country, started in 1987. The University of Michigan, Tim Johnson was chosen to be the chair of OB-GYN, and he was at Hopkins when I was there. And he recruited me to start the twin program at University of Michigan. And the other was Mary Jo O'Sullivan who was a maternal-fetal medicine physician at University of Miami, at Jackson Memorial.
So, these were four very different locations. And we pooled our data, we pooled every aspect of multiple pregnancy. Eventually, ultrasound cost, length of stay, and, of course, weight gain, placental pathology, all the labs. So, what started as just a couple of hundred twin births ended up being 3,600 with comprehensive data on all different aspects. And we published a great deal of research.
And the research I'm most proud of is we looked at pregnancies that ended with nice big, healthy children, about 6.5 to 7 pounds each for the twins born at 37 to 39 weeks without complications. And we looked backwards at what these women weighed before they were pregnant. So, underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese.
And we modeled the data to see how much they gained by each trimester. And to take it further, it actually ended up being the first half of pregnancy, by 20 weeks, by 28 weeks, and then by term, 38 weeks. That particular piece of research, the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine took as the first national recommendations for weight gain in twin pregnancies.
Dr. Fox: Yeah. I wanted to ask you this for a moment because, you know, you're talking about this massive consortium of twins, you're talking about tons of publications from you guys. And these are the ones that any of us who are interested in twins, and read about twins, and do research about twins, and publish about twins, you know, we see these articles, we quote these articles, we read these articles. You know, we're all over them.
One of the unique things about it, other than the fact that this was such a comprehensive program running for so long, is the person, sort of, overseeing all of it, you, your primary degree was in nursing. People, sort of, always expect, when they run into Dr. Barbara Luke who ran the whole twin program, that you're an MFM, you're an OB-GYN, or whatever. And your original degree is in nursing.
And I'm curious, when this was happening, did you have any trouble, sort of, getting off the ground or getting people to buy in because of that? You know, I'm not saying it's a reality that it should be a problem, but I'm curious, did you have that? Was there like a stigma because you weren't "the doctor" initially?
Barbara: Well, I'll tell you, I don't dye my hair anymore. I've got lots of white hair. Being a woman in medicine, being a nurse in medicine, when I became a professor, that changed the rules a bit. You have to be twice as good as a physician, you have to know what they know and more. Most physicians don't know much about nutrition. There's a lot of other things they need to learn.
So, my master's is in food and nutrition. And, actually, the book I wrote for parents, there's a big section on recipes, all of which I invented. But I learned how to write recipes. I had cooking labs. I have skills that the physicians don't have. Plus, I had a number of good mentors and advocates all along the way, physicians who realized this was a powerful tool. They would much rather deliver 7-pound twins than 3-pound twins. It was much more gratifying.
Dr. Fox: I think it is a testament also not just to you and your, you know, abilities and your fortitude, but also to the doctors that you teamed up with, for their ability to, sort of, see beyond all these things and realize, "This is good for research, this is good for the patients," it's good for them. Yeah. They probably didn't know much about nutrition.
They're like, you know, "Here's this professor who knows so much about this, and can really, A, help our patients and, B, help us learn more about it." And I think that it's great. I mean, you're still working with all them. I mean, this is who you write the book with, you know. And, so it's pretty cool that you've had such a long relationship with them. And I think it's a fantastic example of collaboration that we don't always see out there.
Barbara: But it takes an effort. You know, whenever you work with other disciplines, you need to learn about them, they need to learn about you. It's easy to work within your own little world. It takes much more effort to span disciplines. And I am a member of the American College of OB-GYN, I'm a member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine. I present at these meetings and I get challenged. I get challenged from the audience. But the science is really solid. I'd say you have to be extra careful when you are really outside your main field.
Sample size is always important. To me, that's the single biggest flaw in a lot of medical research, is inadequate sample size. People make sweeping conclusions on small sample sizes, and it may not be accurate. I mean, I could've just stuck with the few hundred twin pregnancies that was the basis of my dissertation, but, to me, it wasn't enough. We needed more racial diversity. We needed larger numbers. With twins, you've got monozygotic, dizygotic, you've got, you know, chorionicity, you've got placental issues. So, more numbers are always better in nearly every area of research.
Dr. Fox: And it's also nice because, when you have a large sample, like you did, and you do, and you publish on, when others, you know, look at their own data, we can see how it's similar and how it's different. I know, when we looked at our own data and published it, we had the same findings as you. Like what you described before about, you know, the people who had full-term, big babies that were healthy and went back, we saw the same thing, very, very early weight gain was directly correlated to how far pregnant they got and how big the babies were. Sort of, both.
Barbara: Exactly.
Dr. Fox: And how big the babies were wasn't as surprising to people, I think. I think there's some logic, you know, to that, all right, you eat more, you take more calories, you get more healthy food, the babies will grow better, but that you would stay pregnant longer, that you guys saw and that we saw, I think, was surprising to a lot of people. Was that surprising to you when you first saw it?
Barbara: Well, when we really thought about it, the early weight gain makes a good placenta, and expands the blood volume. So it's like a garden. You know, if you're really getting everything ready, growth is gonna take off. And that's what we saw. When all the components were good, when everything was in place, growth just continued, continued like singletons, which, if you think of it, every child has the potential to grow like a singleton.
And that really was our goal, because once growth starts to fall off that curve, it doesn't recover. So, if you can keep them growing well, as long as possible, you're going to have nice-sized mature babies at birth. It's all those ingredients. If the placenta is good, if the mother is healthy and she's got a good blood volume, lots of iron on board, good calcium, a good diet, growth just continues.
It's amazing how many pregnancies, delivery had to be induced because the woman was so uncomfortable, the children were so big, and she'd gone past 39 or 40 weeks with twins. You know, the children start to lose weight after a while. But, yes, it was surprising, but it was gratifying. It's like, "Yes. This is the recipe for a healthy pregnancy."
Dr. Fox: How do you feel about this idea? There's a lot of debate, like, in the ultrasound world, in the MFM world, about, since twins are so commonly smaller than singletons, whether we should be saying that's "normal?" Like the new normal. Or it's so common that they have that abnormality that they're not growing. Meaning, since, like, the average birth weight of twins in each week of pregnancy is gonna be lower than a singleton, a lot of people say, "Oh, that's adaptive. That's the twins, like, intentionally taking less calories to save themselves." I'm not a big fan of that, either.
I tell people, just because something happens commonly doesn't mean it's normal. I mean, twins commonly deliver prematurely. That's not good for them. It's not good to be born in 35 weeks necessarily, even though that's common. And so, if the babies are small, just because it's common, I don't think that that's necessarily normal.
So, I'm pretty sure I knew how you were gonna answer that question, but I want you to talk about it for a little bit, because people do hear that, and there's a lot of debate about what to do. You know, if you see a twin who's, you know, measuring in the 10th percentile for a singleton. [Inaudible 00:15:59] oh, for a twin, that's the 50th percentile. And a lot of people say you should do that.
Barbara: No. I mean, like I said earlier, every child has the potential to be nice and big. And if the mother is tall, particularly it's a larger uterus, there's more room to grow. There is that potential to be 7, 8 pounds. Now, there may be factors in the placenta, there may be factors in the mother's health, but to set that standard lower is to buy into growth restriction.
Dr. Fox: It's like when they changed the norms on the SAT. Everyone started doing better. "Hey, I got a better score."
Barbara: Yeah. I don't buy it. This has been a debate in the twin societies for a long time, and I don't agree with separate standards.
Dr. Fox: Yeah. We also rarely have twins go past 38 weeks anymore because, like you said, there's diminishing returns and risk of stillbirth. So, we don't get a lot of 9-pound twins because they just aren't pregnant long enough to get to that point. Occasionally, but that's another factor, obviously. And, was there anything else about your research, or your findings in your research that was surprising to you?
Barbara: Body image is an issue, and getting women to gain weight after so many years of trying not to gain weight. And this is really, the weight-gain recommendations that we've shown, this early weight gain and less weight gain in the third trimester is opposite of what the Institute of Medicine suggests for singletons. I think their recommendations are wrong. The babies are growing fastest in the third trimester, second and third, and really using what is basically put on board for the mom.
So, we actually see arm circumference come down a little bit. Those fat stores are mobilized. So this rapid mobilization of weight. There's fat that's put on in the woman's legs, her arms. We know that. But it's there not only for pregnancy, but also for lactation. And there have been studies done that have shown that to get your metabolism back on track, you need to breastfeed. And if you don't breastfeed, your metabolism will not recover as quickly after delivery. So, although it's a challenge with twins, I would recommend it. I mean, there's so many reasons to breastfeed. But one is a selfish reason, to get your body back into shape.
Dr. Fox: Yeah. I mean, because when I talk to women with twins about nutrition, you know, sort of, start the conversation…you know, like you said, I'm not a nutritionist. I don't have, you know, advanced understanding of all of the, you know, micronutrients and, you know, all the tricks of the trade, and whatnot. But, you know, I have a working knowledge of it, and I generally just start with, you know, weight gain just so their expectations are set.
And when I tell women, sort of, the recommended weight gain based on, you know, their starting, you know, body-mass index and their weight, they're like, "What?" You know, because it's…and for, you know, sort of, an average-weight woman, you're talking a pound a week, give or take, over the course of her pregnancy.
And, you know, that comes to, ballpark, you know, 30 to 40 pounds. And for someone of a normal weight, that's, well, scary to them. Number one, like, they don't wanna do that. Number two, how are they gonna necessarily achieve that? It's not as easy as you would think. For some people it is, and others, it's not because, you know, as you get more pregnant, your stomach gets more full and it's harder to take in some of these meals. And that's where a lot of…you know, a good nutritionist can help you with high-calorie, and high-protein, and high-vitamin foods, and how to do that.
Did you find, in your multiples clinic, that the women who achieved the weight gain, sort of, in a healthy way, you know, with your direction and, you know, postpartum, saw you, and followed with you, and, hopefully, were nursing as well, that they were able to take off the weight? Meaning, were you able to be encouraging with them that, "Hey, listen, it's a lot of weight to gain, but it's gonna come off?"
Barbara: Yes. Absolutely. Actually, women who had the hardest time with gaining weight were overweight women, because they've struggled with their weight for so long. So, when I would tell them to drink milk, whole milk at lunch, it's like, "What?"
Dr. Fox: It's poison.
Barbara: "I'm used to diet soda." You know, "Have ham and cheese, you know, omelet for breakfast. And put cheese on your toasts," adding the calories. But, suddenly, they felt so much better. They weren't ravenously hungry by the end of the day, which is how many overweight women, they start every day as a diet, sort of, punishing themselves, "You're not allowed to have calories." But, by the end of the day, splurging.
Dr. Fox: Yeah. I mean, the weight gain is a little bit less if you started overweight or higher, you know, but it is more than they were expecting, and more than in a singleton pregnancy. If you're carrying one baby, we're pretty…I wanna say, I guess, lenient with not gaining weight frequently with one baby. But with twins it's not the same, because they still need the calories. And it's not all gonna come from maternal fat stores. It has to come from what you're eating. It's an important part.
And so, you know, all of our women with twins are seeing a nutritionist, and following. And, like I said, some find it easier, some find it harder, but it is work. It tends to be…and like you said, it's really the one thing that's under someone's control.
You know, we know that, like, better rest is not that helpful, and most of the medications we have for these things are not so helpful. And ultrasounds have their role for certain things, but they're not gonna make the babies grow better, that's for sure. And this is like the simplest, in terms of technology, way to do it. I don't want to say "it's simple" to minimize. It is work to do this, but it is pretty low-tech, fortunately.
Barbara: You know, you mentioned ultrasound. We use that as a goal every month, the estimated weight. And we also use femur length, head circumference, the individual measures to watch how the children are growing. That is incredibly useful. Don't wait for birth weight. Look at how they're growing every single month as a goal. Let's keep them growing at a good rate rather than waiting for the surprise, you know, at the end.
Dr. Fox: I wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about your research. Specifically because…I'm gonna ask you about, you know, recommendations that you would make, so, you know, women listening who are carrying twins and wanna say, "Hey, specifically, like, what does Dr. Luke think I should do?" And all this. But just so people understand the reason these recommendations are there.
I mean, you published an amazing study. I know that you know the study. I quote it all the time, where you looked at the women who were enrolled in this intensive twin program that included, you know, frequent visits, and nutritional counseling, and, you know, dietary help, and everything you're talking about. And, essentially, you published this…and we're talking, it's almost 20 years now. You published in 2003 I think, right?
Barbara: Mm-hmm.
Dr. Fox: And, you know, you're talking about twice-monthly visits with dietary education, they were getting 3,000 to 4,000 kilocalories a day, with supplements, and you had your weight gain goals, and you compared those twins to the ones who didn't. Now, it wasn't what we call "randomized," where you, sort of, randomly choose people into the program or not, which would be perfect, but instead they were self-selected. Okay, there's some downside to that, but the differences between those groups were so impressive.
I mean, you're talking about the likelihood of delivering under 32 weeks. It's 2-months premature in your cohort of 7% versus 21%. The chance of preeclampsia. Why would this affect preeclampsia? Well, healthy pregnancy is a good way to prevent preeclampsia, 8% versus 17%. And you also had improved neonatal outcomes, birth weight, NICU admission, morbidity. I want you to talk about that. When you did that study, what kind of an impact did it have, sort of, in practice around, you know, 2003?
Barbara: Well, we actually even got a grant from the Gerber Foundation, which is based here in Michigan, to follow those children, and the controls for 3 years. And the chances of better development, neurologic development, growth, being readmitted was much less likely. If you're born healthy, chances are you're gonna stay healthy.
We tried to do this as a randomized trial. And we approached…we wrote NIH grants. We got up to $21-million NIH grants' sites around the country, and we were turned down. And at that point, I was so fed up. I said, "Let me just take this to the streets. Let me take it to the people. If NIH is not gonna fund a randomized trial with this kind of evidence, then let me just take it to the families that this affects the most, and explain to them what this entails and how they can do it."
Dr. Fox: Why do you think they didn't approve?
Barbara: Who knows? Who knows? A lot of medicine is pharmaceutically-oriented.
Dr. Fox: Fair. Okay.
Barbara: Anyone who eats breakfast is a nutrition expert.
Dr. Fox: Does iced coffee count?
Barbara: Yeah. Who knows? So that's when we decided to write a book. And I partnered with a professional writer who herself had twins. She'd actually interviewed me a number of times, Tamara Eberlein. And our first little book was not very long. We just hit 1,000 reviews on Amazon. And we're gonna write a fifth edition. So it's been in print for a long time. The first book was under 200 pages. It's now 650. So, yeah, it's done extremely well.
And, basically, it's a common-sense recipe. I picked best evidence, all the components are basically best evidence, what works. We know the most about a diabetic diet. That's the oldest diet, the most studied diet ever. And it's a very balanced diet, the idea that your blood sugar should be stable. If your blood sugar goes too high, goes too low, bad things happen. And particularly fetal growth, we want growth to be as normal as possible. Like I said before, once growth starts to fall, it doesn't recover. So you only have this one chance. And diet is the biggest influence over your blood-sugar level.
Protein, the only thing that builds tissue is protein. And certainly my vegetarian patients did not do as well as those who grew up on farms, and drank milk, and ate eggs, and meat, and chicken. Makes a huge difference. Iron is a limiting factor for growth. Vitamin D is extremely important. We recommend every woman gets her vitamin D level checked. There's certain supplements that a woman should take. Folic acid is one of them. Folic acid is not stable in food, so it's better to take it as a supplement.
The other is omega-3s. Very few women eat a lot of fish. And the fish we get, we're not sure about pollutants. So pharmaceutical-grade omega-3s are very important for brain growth, for neurologic development. So, even if the twins are born prematurely, they're less likely to have neurological sequelae.
Dr. Fox: Let's start with that. So, someone comes to you, they're newly pregnant with twins. And everything's going okay from the pregnancy side, and, you know, she has no medical issues, and she's starting with, let's say, a normal body weight. So, you know, we'll start from there. And she says, "Okay, what do I need to do in terms of, let's say, calories, and then in terms of, let's say, supplements, and then in terms of weight gain?" How would you, sort of…if you had to list it for them as a summary?
Barbara: So, weight-gain goals are actually not by trimester. As I said earlier, when we did our paper that the National Academy of Sciences took as recommendations, we actually found that it was this long runway, was the goal by the first half of pregnancy, and then by 28 weeks, and then 38 weeks. So, depending on what her pregravid weight was, underweight, normal weight, overweight, obese, we talk about, what is the weight gain goal by 20 weeks?
From conception to 20, and 20 to 28 are the most critical periods for fetal growth. After 28 weeks, it really doesn't make much difference what a woman gains. And actually, she can really…you're big by that point. It's hard to eat much at any point after 28 weeks. And that's when the fat stores get mobilized.
The other is calories don't really mean much to the average person. It's really, what do you eat, and how much? That's what we would go over. When patients would see me every week or every other week, I would ask them, "What did you have for breakfast? What did you have for lunch? What did you have in between meals?" So frequent meals, and always protein and carbohydrate together.
And the reason for that is that if you just eat carbohydrates, just eat fruit, just eat cookies, just eat bread, your blood sugar goes up and then it drops. And that's not what you want when you're pregnant. You want a stable blood sugar level. So protein and fat will help keep your blood sugar at a nice steady rate. Dairy before bed. Ice cream is therapeutic because it's…I love my job. It's broken down slowly and gets you through the night.
Dr. Fox: The benefits of a milkshake, it's really whole-milk milkshake.
Barbara: Well, or ice cream, you know, just before you go to bed. Doesn't have to be a lot. I don't have stock in Ben & Jerry's.
Dr. Fox: Ben & Jerry & Barbara's.
Barbara: Right. It's just the idea that, you know, you can't go to bed on an empty stomach. And you want to sleep. You want these kids to grow all night long, and you need your sleep. So Barbara tells you to eat ice cream before you go to bed.
Dr. Fox: Do you notice that in, at least American women's diets, one of those is lacking the most? Would you say it's protein, or would you say it's eating protein and carbs together? Or would you say people are so worried about eating fat that they won't have, you know, higher fat foods in pregnancy? Like, what tends to be people's, you know, difficulty or sticking point with this kind of diet?
Barbara: Well, protein, men need much more protein than women. And I had a number of vegetarians who, you know, I convinced them, "Unless it was for religious reasons, please, just you and your husband get off the vegetarian diet while you're pregnant. Go back after you deliver" But this is the easiest, quickest way to build children. It takes protein to build protein. You want nice-sized children. You know, it's the best gift you could ever give your child, to be well-grown at birth.
Dr. Fox: It's not an iPad? Are you sure? I thought an iPad at age 5. Okay. What's your view on plant-based protein? Because that's a big thing nowadays, you know, vegan diets, plant-based protein, it's gonna save the world, and cure cancer, and solve the crisis in the Middle East and everything. What do you think about that?
Barbara: There's two kinds of iron. There's heme iron and non-heme iron. Heme iron is much more readily absorbed. Non-heme iron is like the iron in plant protein. Is affected by fiber, it's affected by everything else in the diet, calcium…is, you know, very, very poorly absorbed. And iron is a limiting factor for growth. Here we get back to square one again. Growth is the most important factor. You want these children growing well.
And there's other tissue you're building. You're building the placenta. You're building your blood supply. You're expanding that blood supply. So iron is critical not just for the children, but for the pregnancy. So plant protein, you would have to eat a lot of it, and you're still not going to get the nutrients you really need. So, you know, you have one chance to build these children. A lot of these dietary decisions are social, and that's fine, but as an adult, you're fully made. You're fully formed. It is not as critical as when you are pregnant.
Dr. Fox: Got it. So plant-based protein diets and twins, Barbara Luke, not a fan. All right.
Barbara: Not a fan.
Dr. Fox: Not a fan. And then, in terms of other, let's say, supplements, you mentioned iron that pretty much everyone's gonna need to be on some form of iron, unless they eat a tremendous amount of meat. Is that correct?
Barbara: Well, I actually don't like iron supplements. They're non-heme iron.
Dr. Fox: They're unpleasant.
Barbara: Right. And they're hard to take. They're hard in your stomach. So I don't use irons. I don't recommend iron supplements. I said folic acid, I recommend. Calcium, magnesium, and zinc as a supplement, unless you are a big dairy fan. Most women are not. Calcium, magnesium, and zinc are the nutrients the World Health Organization has found to be most lacking in women's diets.
And calcium, magnesium, and zinc are critical for fetal development. I mean, zinc has to do with…actually breaks the cell walls in viruses and bacteria. So it has an antibacterial effect. Magnesium is protective of the developing nervous system. Calcium has been shown to reduce preeclampsia. So there are three nutrients that are powerhouses for complications in pregnancy.
Like I said, omega-3s, most women don't get enough. They're essential fatty acids. You know, unless you're eating a lot of fish, which most women don't do, better to get them as supplements. And vitamin D, you should have your vitamin D level checked. Depending on where you live, you may have low levels. That's related to infection and prematurity. So you may need to take vitamin D in proportion to how deficient you are. So that's one test that your doctor should run.
Dr. Fox: Yeah. And then, in our practice, we recommend that all women with twins see a nutritionist formally. And I'm sure you're gonna be in favor of that, so I don't have to ask you. But just so our listeners understand, what is it that a nutritionist, a dietitian is going to be able to do with someone who's pregnant? And in what way will they help that their doctor may not be able to, or they may not be able to get on the Google, for example?
Barbara: Well, plan a diet within what foods they like and don't like within their means. Not everyone can afford organic food in farmers markets. Some people have very hectic lives. You know, how to plan meals so that you don't have to cook every day. How to plan a balance. You know, asking for calories, calories don't mean much. They're numbers.
In a practical way, you know, what a nutritionist can do is make recommendations for what you should eat, plan your meals, help you with grocery lists. You know, "How can I map out, sort of, the best food course for this pregnancy? You know, I don't like milk, or I'm allergic to eggs. Can you help me figure out where I can get my protein, or my calcium? What's a good lunch that I can take to work?" I mean, you know, people are taking lunches to work.
Dr. Fox: "What's a good lunch that I can order on Uber Eats at work?"
Barbara: Right. You know, "I want to go out to eat. I want to have Chinese tonight. What should I order? Can I have pizza? And what should I put on it?" "Of course, you can have pizza." "What's a good breakfast?" You know, it's sort of the practical side of it, but with the science behind it.
Dr. Fox: You've been doing this a long time. You've thought about this a long time. You've been helping people for a long time. I'm just curious, sort of, from an overall perspective, both looking back, but also looking ahead, what do you see is maybe the biggest challenge we face ahead, or something that we're really gonna need to continue to work on moving forward, either for yourself or if you pass that baton to somebody else?
Barbara: Boy, that's a big-picture question.
Dr. Fox: Yeah. We're big. This is not a fluff podcast. We get right in there, you know. We're doing this.
Barbara: Well, to me, nutrition is critical. There was a paper I read when I was finishing my master's back in 1974. And it was done by a pathologist at Columbia Presbyterian. And it was unusual and it stuck with me my entire career. He was a pathologist. So he looked at these children who died during labor. They died of cord problems, which does not happen today, has not happened for 20 years because of monitoring during labor. But back then, this happened.
Like you say, it's before ultrasound, before a lot of things. What he found is that children born small for gestational age, there was brain-sparing. The brain was a good size, but other organs were a third or a half the size, had fewer cells, the kidneys, the liver, the pancreas. And if those children had lived, this would have translated into chronic disease. So children born small for gestational age have this deficit right in the beginning.
There's a reason children should be born nice, and big, and healthy. They start their life with the complement of healthy organs to begin a healthy life, and that nutrition is really at the heart of all of that. Where are we going to get the iron? Where are we going to get the protein? Where is it going to come from? It's not from food. It doesn't come from the mother. She pays the price that even that is not a perfect match. The mother will survive if the baby is not doing well. So, to keep a healthy mother and healthy babies, nutrition is really at the heart of good prenatal care.
Dr. Fox: Barbara, thank you so much for agreeing to come on the podcast. I loved you before I knew you. And then once I knew you, I loved you more. And you have this book. It's called "When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy." You're the first author. It's a great book. It's such a great book that I know that there's some idiots who's quoted on the front cover of your book saying, "This book is both thorough and practical, and offers expert insights and evidence-based information on how to optimize outcomes for multiple pregnancies. It is essential reading for women expecting multiples."
And that idiot's name is Nathan Fox, MD. Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associates in New York, and father of twins. I think I would have said something snappier now. I would have said something like, "This book is better than cats," or something, which probably would have sold you more copies. But I had to sound like a doctor on the quote. But, no. It's…yeah.
Barbara: It's a wonderful quote.
Dr. Fox: Listen, I'm honored that you asked me to put something on the cover. But, listen, it's the book I recommend to, you know, the women I see who are expecting twins. And I say, "Listen, just read this. Read the nutrition chapters. Read nothing else. Read that." And it's mind-blowing for people. It's not what they would have expected, but it's good stuff.
And I not only appreciate you coming on the podcast, but obviously all these years of the research you've been doing and, you know, the education you've been providing not just to your own patients, but to all of us who take care of twins nationally, internationally. What we do is different because of the work you put into it. And it's a big accomplishment.
Barbara: Thank you so much.
Dr. Fox: It is. It's a big thing. Good stuff. Enjoy the freezing cold.
Barbara: Thank you for inviting me.
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I CAN BE SNARKY, BISHY AND MY SHIRTS GIVE AWAY THE MOOD OF THE DAY.
Spicechinodiva posted a topic in General
I'm not one to be polite and quiet, If I have something to say. I'll make sure it's said even with a T shirt. Everytime I go to wal mart to go grocery shopping that T shirt mood Is I see Dumb people, It's wal Mart the statement is valid and True. Target, Always. Retail therapy My man Works and I shop. That's the definition of workshop in a relationship. But My friend reminded me How her ex Came at me in a very awkward way. The comeback is epic. He definitely shut up. I grew up in a small hick town, Chino valley Arizona where The famous Local celebrity is The X Factor's Drew. The school is a baby mama curse. I swear every girl by graduation is about to pop or word got out she's pregnant, It's that kind of town where everybody knows your business and reputation. The minors have it harder than most especially teens, It's drug addicts, Or promiscuous teens cos there is literally nothing to do with the town's total population is basically 13,000 and they only promote stuff for kids and not teens. So a forgotten generation always happens when you become teenagers in this town. Most fly to the big city because there is more people like them after high school. And the drop out rate is hilarious. My class had a 150 freshman year well the graduating class of 2004 was basically 75, some were banned due to legal convictions as they can't associate with minors. It's also known that many girls who are 16 get into relationships with men in their early 20s, cos that's chino for u. We mockingly said if MTV was gonna do a reality show it's going to be called Chino valley, 86323 since literally it's a farm town soap opera for teens. One day my friends ex told me to stop listening to The angry chick music (Jagged little pill was my soundtrack to high school) told me to listen to 2pac instead. Okay so a cowboy wearing overalls and a weed (not the drug but typical farner look) in his mouth telling me to listen to 2pac. That must have set off what was already storm brewing I replied "Why would you listen to 2pac, u don't know anything about that lifestyle or what he represents. Stick to your George strait, cos thats the actual life you live. He asked me But why do you listen to angry chick music, that slams men like me? Well For real I relate to her, The fact that I have to answer stupid questions and share oxygen with an idiot like you in this town, Is plenty of actually validated reasons, if you ask me. He was quiet and shocked.
Is 'Confessions on a Dance Floor' Madonna's Most Overrated Album?
KillersWhoArePartying posted a topic in Music Discussions
I'm fully prepared to be dragged for this but I think we should have this conversation. Confessions On A Dancefloor is an album that has aged very well, the production is amazing, and it was cool of her to release an album of this style in the middle of the 2000s. That being said, a great portion of the songs just aren't very good. In fact, the production might be so good that they hide the fact that many of the songs are quite weak on their own. The album does have great songs like Hung Up, Get Together, Let It Will Be, and How High, but the rest just isn't great. Madonna herself doesn't seem to be a fan of this album either, which is why after the era was finished she stopped performing songs from it (besides hung up on the occasional tour). Confessions was the beginning of her creative decline, where she started feeling obligated to make a certain type of music after American Life (one of her best albums) flopped. Thankfully Madonna's creative spirit lives on with Madame X. It's not that I don't like dance music, her 80s albums are great examples of dance music well done, because the songs themselves are actually good and can stand on their own if they were to be stripped down and played acoustically. Even Hard Candy and MDNA are at least good for working out to. Most of the songs on Confessions are too slow to work out to or even dance to, but too fast to just listen to while relaxing at home. I'm always confounded to see Confessions consistently ranked in the top 3 of most Madonna fans album ranking; people really like Confessions more than masterpieces like Ray of Light, Erotica, or Like A Prayer? Really? I think fans at the time were just happy to see Madonna making music for the dance floor again, but the album really is a sad shadow of what her dance music used to be. The album definitely sounds better in the mixed version, but that just adds to my point that it's the production techniques that makes the album seem good, not the songs themselves. Anyways, I think it's time to stop pretending like Confessions is her best/only good album of this century. Every time she releases something new, it's always compared to Confessions or called "her best work since confessions", as if nothing she does will ever measure up. I am not saying it's a bad album I just think it's overrated and honestly maybe one of the most overrated pop albums of this century (because of how incredibly highly it is regarded). Anyone else agree? disagree? let's discuss
Madonna came to Phoenix for the first time in 21 years 14 years ago.
Spicechinodiva posted a topic in Music Discussions
Madonna brought her Universally acclaimed but Highly controversial Confessions tour to Phoenix. It was her first trip back to the valley of the Sun in 21 years since The Virgin tour First show sold out in 48 seconds (The Arizona republic said the fan club Icon literally took 92.86% of the venues capacity creating the fastest sellout in Arizona tours history for the General public. I was lucky to get two nosebleeds. Cos after i got the two seats. The concert was sold out.) Due to the instant sell out which shocked the conservative state of Arizona. A second and final show was added to meet demand. But the second show was on a Saturday. Due to Madonna's rest day on the Kabbalah is no work or shows can happen on a Friday. strict rules. My aunt merri wanted to get me tickets to her second and final show. Grandpa talked her out of it. Stating the favoritism towards your nephew has caused a rift between your own children and his own mom. The fact you can't see that is still sad. So I only got to go to club Madonna in Thursday Important facts Phoenix is 125 degrees in june. The arena was set at 100 degress for vocal comfort. This has been a major complaint from fans especially in Florida during the Madame X tour. Apparently after the show. It was so hot. Everybody went home to shower cos they smelled like Body odor. No matter how much deodorant or cologne you wear sweat wears it all off. Anti perspirants don't even work. They just want more money. After like it or not. She challenged bush to walk the walk cos all he does is talk the talk. During I love New york. She told us to go ti texas to suck George bush's peen. Live to tell despite being a classic Madonna song. Which is about child abuse. Caused controversy cause she performed it on a mirrored cross. The screens counted to 12,000,000 to reveal that in Malawi (It all began here) that by 2010 12,000,000 kids will be orphaned or have died of AIDS. Several homoeroticism imagery especially during The performance of Confessions version of Forbidden love. The opening sequence made some women uncomfortable cos it appeared she dominated men. Like a virgin shows her actual broken bones x rays from her fall in 2005 on her 47th birthday. Non Madonna fans who watch it when I pop in a DVD always becomes a fan after that performance cos of the breakdown she does on the saddle makes everybody believe that even if the music sucks. You're going to leave entertained knowing you actually went to a show and not a typical concert. Happy 14 years of Entertaining me Madonna and pissing the religious freaks out. Love ya, Empress @Roxxy Feature this.


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Reliance Jio Wi-Fi Internet goes live in Himachal Pradesh
Reliance Jio Infocomm today announced the launch of Jionet Wi-Fi Internet service in Dharamshala and Mcleodganj in Himachal Pradesh.
Jionet Wi-Fi service will be covering Macleo Chowk and Temple road in Mcleodganj and Kotwali in Dharamshala of HP. Jionet is also live at Mall Road, Manali, Kullu and Hamirpur locations.
Reliance Jio Infocomm will be using the users' feedback to improve the services further as Jio gets ready for its formal launch. Once 4G LTE service commences, Wi-Fi and LTE networks will operate seamlessly with each other.
On Tuesday, Bharti Airtel announced the commercial launch of its 4G LTE services in Himachal Pradesh starting with Shimla.
"With the help of the feedback received from the beta launches, we have now built India's first commercial 4G network," said Manu Sood, Hub CEO – Upper North, Bharti Airtel.
RJIL has 2300MHz spectrum across the country and 800MHz or 1800MHz or both in 20 out of total 22 circles in the country. JIO is present in all of the 29 states of India, with a direct physical presence in nearly 18,000 cities and towns.
JIO's wireless footprint covers over one lakh villages. This footprint will be expanded to cover nearly 80 percent of India's population by the end of this year. JIO's roadmap is to have 100 percent national coverage within the next three years.
Reliance Jio Infocomm has deployed a network of nearly 250,000 route kilometres of fiber optics for its digital backbone across India. Over the next 3 years, JIO will more than double this fiber coverage by deploying fiber optics in the last mile.
By April next year, Jio would have connected over 1 million homes via fiber with a capability of rapidly scaling up in the top 50 cities of India.
The Mukesh Ambani promoted company has an initial capacity to serve in excess of 100 million wireless broadband and 20 million Fibre-to-the-Home customers, with capability to easily expand further as the business scales up.
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