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More fallout from Obama’s “Affordable Care Act.” The sad fact is the company didn’t want to drop coverage. The new law prohibits the type of plan Universal offered its part-time employees.
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First Coke, Now Bloody Center – Government Feed-tervention Escalates | ZeroHedge.
The do-gooder, busy-body, health Nazis in the UK want to protect Brits from making a decision to eat a rare or medium-rare hamburger. The UK government is warning restaurants not to offer their customers rare, or medium-rare burgers. Why?
“…(to make) sure customers are eating meat that is a not a threat to their health.”
This is part of an ongoing assault on personal freedom. While this rule is subject to a legal review, it’s hard to imagine that it would be turned down. Governments all over the world are blatantly, and proudly exercising control over their citizens.
We are already far down the slippery slope to Hell. Sugary drinks over 16 oz are banned in New York. Smoking has been banned in your own home in several cities. Eating while driving is part of ban in a small South Dakota town. All of this sounds inconsequential but it is part of a bigger problem of government control on our behavior. It only leads to more and more control. Now that the UK government can dictate how hamburger is served in restaurants, what’s stopping them from dictating how a juicy ribeye or New York strip can be cooked? It’s very easy to see them force restaurants to only offer steaks cooked medium and above. Say goodbye to your medium-rare steak.
All of this means that those you elect to govern you think you are too stupid to make decisions for yourself. They will make the decisions for you. You will live your life according to their will, not yours. Is that how you want to live your life?
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http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2012/10/sugar-industry-lies-campaign
The recent issue of Mother Jones magazine has cover story on the lobbying efforts of the sugar industry in convincing society that sugar is good for you, and fat is bad.
It worked! Sugar consumption has risen considerably over the past forty years, while fat consumption has decreased.
Back in the 1940s sugar was advertised as a means of weight loss. When that claim was challenged, sugar companies fought back with paid research studies claiming fat was the real culprit. Over the years, fat became the enemy and sugar was given a pass, even though the science behind fat as a cause of heart disease and obesity was false.
Since low-fat became nutritional gospel, fat has been replaced by sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Why? When you take out the fat in food, it tastes like crap. Sugar makes low-fat food taste better. Score one for the sugar and corn industry!
It is no surprise that obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed ever since the low-fat, high-carb/high-sugar diet became dogma.
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New York Times and Wall Street Journal Warn that Hospitals Are Killing Us by Joseph Mercola.
This is a fascinating article based on stories from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal stating that medical errors in hospitals are “killing the equivalent of four jumbo jets’ worth of passengers every week.”
Whether it’s drug reactions, infections, overtreament, or leaving surgical instruments inside you, hospitals can be quite dangerous!
Not all hospitals are dangerous. Many are quite exceptional. But, is there one in your area, and will your insurance cover it? Those are the tough questions.
The article states to avoid going to the hospital unless it’s an absolute emergency.
The best way to stay out of the hospital is to adopt a healthy lifestyle. A low-carb diet, exercise, moderate alcohol consumption, a morning cup of coffee, plenty of sunshine, and a positive outlook will keep you out of the hospital and the doctor’s office for a very long time!
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How sleep deprivation poses risks to physical and mental health | KurzweilAI.
This is nothing shocking, of course. We all know the importance of a good night’s sleep. We know those days where we do not sleep well and we feel like crap the entire day. Add that up over the years and serious health problems occur.
Get a good night’s sleep, at least 6-8 hours a night.
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High-carb foods associated with cognitive impairment: Mayo Clinic study | KurzweilAI.
A new Mayo Clinic study shows that people over 70 who eat a high-carb, high-sugar diet have an increased risk of cognitive impairment.
…(T)hose whose diets were highest in fat — compared to the lowest — were 42 percent less likely to face cognitive impairment, and those who had the highest intake of protein had a reduced risk of 21 percent.
When total fat and protein intake were taken into account, people with the highest carbohydrate intake were 3.6 times likelier to develop mild cognitive impairment.
We can add this to the list of problems associated with a high-carb diet. Stay with high-fat, high-protein, low-carb for a lifetime of optimum health!
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This is an interesting post about the rise in child and teenage obesity since the 1980s as a result of successful treatment and cures of infectious diseases amongst those already obese. In a sense, the obese are living longer because of medical advances. People are surviving past the age of 40 in ever increasing numbers.
Americans are clearly eating more, particularly highly palatable industrialized foods whose calorie-to-nutrient ratio is high. Americans are also less active. But one of the fundamental reasons for the sharp increase in obesity rates in the USA since the 1980s is that Americans have been surviving beyond age 40 in significantly greater numbers.
I think it’s obvious that medical advances have prolonged human life, whether or not the person is healthy. An obese person can live well into his or her seventies, even though he may be plagued with health problems throughout his life.
The author does state at the end people are eating more processed food with a high calorie-to-nutrient ratio. It has nothing to do with the caloric quantity of food. It has to do with the types of food. People are eating far too many carbohydrates, and not enough protein and fat. The switch from a low-carb, high fat diet to a high-carb, low-fat diet beginning in the 1960s and 1970s has contributed to rise in obesity over the past 35 years. The conventional medical wisdom on nutrition is wrong.
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Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression – Hit & Run : Reason.com.
Steve Cooksey, who lives in North Carolina, wrote a blog about the benefits of a paleo diet, that is a low-carb diet that restricts carbs. He wrote about how it helped with his diabetes. Later, he started answering readers’ questions about the diet. This is no different to what other writers do about health and diet issues.
That didn’t sit well with the North Carolina Board of Dietetics/Nutrition. The board “…informed Steve that he could not give readers personal advice on diet, whether for free or for compensation, because doing so constituted the unlicensed, and thus criminal, practice of dietetics.” The board also told Mr. Cooksey, “…that his private emails and telephone calls with friends and readers were illegal. Violating the North Carolina licensing law can lead to fines, court orders to be silent, and even jail.”
All of this sounds crazy even before Mr. Cooksey took the board to court. The board censored a writer because he wasn’t licensed to practice dietetics in the state of North Carolina. He couldn’t even give advice to his friends and family, privately! That is illegal.
Mr. Cooksey would have none of it and took them to court. Now here’s the even crazier part. The judge dismissed the case. Why? ”Steve’s case was dismissed October 5 on the grounds that Steve did not suffer an injury that gives him a basis to challenge the government’s actions.” The court said he could not challenge the state’s law because he was not arrested or fined under the law! What the hell?
Censoring his blog was not considered an injury so he had no right to challenge the law. The board got away with this because they did not forcibly shut his site down. They only threatened to do so. What’s the difference? When the state threatens you with violence, it’s damn near the same thing as the state shackling you in cuffs and hauling you off to jail. The state goons know most people will not fight the state because they have a monopoly on violence.
The judge, another employee of the state, didn’t even look at the idiocy of the state’s action. He accepted the state’s licensing law verbatim.
The Institute for Justice is representing Mr. Cooksey and plans to appeal all the way to Supreme Court if necessary. This could have a chilling effect on free speech.
I write and speak about the benefits of a paleo diet. I provide advice to my readers and viewers. Yet, I have no license. Thankfully, I do not live in North Carolina. However, what would stop other states from cracking down on “unlicensed” health writers. What about health writers for newspapers? Are they licensed? Probably not. What about other topics such as finance, investments, and economics?
Free speech is in peril here. This is a case I’ll be watching with great interest. Unless I get arrested first for writing about something I’m not licensed for…
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I had recently come off a medical procedure that sidelined me from any exercise for a week, and any weight training for two weeks. I was so anxious to work out again but I knew I had to take it slow. My body needed to regroup and get back into the routine. As with most people who love to exercise, it’s hard to not exercise and then have to take it slow for a few days or weeks before you’re back to normal. But, as is common sense, it is the best, and safest way to start exercising again. It’s almost like starting over. However, the body is pretty quick to adapt, but you have to be careful not to re-injure yourself or cause a new injury.
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The low carb diet, and its variations, have been around for 150 years. It had been the standard way of eating. It wasn’t until the 1960s through the 1970s that low-carb, high fat was replaced by low-fat, high carb due to some faulty studies in the 1950s linking high-fat diets to heart disease. The medical establishment, and the government, ran with it and it’s been the standard “healthy” diet ever since. It’s all hogwash.
Low-carb diets have had a resurgence over the past 10-15 years. The Atkins diet had been around since the early 1970s but saw a renaissance in the early 2000s. More recently, there has been a successful variation known as “primal” or “paleo”. They key being to eat like our prehistoric brethren ate: lots of fat, protein and fibrous fruits and vegetables. All sugars, grains, and processed carbs are eliminated. The diet works great for losing weight, and more importantly, those who live this lifestyle are healthier, in general, than those who still eat low-fat, high carb.
That said, it is very hard to convince traditionally-trained doctors of the benefits of low-carb eating. They just don’t get it. It shatters nearly everything they’ve learned about nutrition and physiology. Some are open to it and see its benefits. Others remain steadfastly reluctant.
The blog post from Dr. Briffas says it all. A 56-year old diabetic man decides to go low-carb after seeing first hand that his doctor-prescribed high-carb, low-fat diet did nothing for his diabetes, or his weight. He lost weight, has more energy and sleeps better. In general, he has felt better than he ever felt before. More importantly, when he went to see his doctor, all of his tests on cholesterol, blood pressure, liver and kidney functions showed vast improvement. His doctor was quite surprised by the results. After the patient told him he was not eating carbs, his doctor told he had to eat more starchy carbs! Why? “For energy!”
Dr. Briffas writes that if the patient was quoting the doctor correctly, he should get another doctor. That doctor does not know the basics of physiology. The body doesn’t need starchy carbs from energy. It can get it from fat and, “…sugar can be made from other dietary elements (e.g. protein) in the liver.”
Low-carb works whether your doctor likes it or not. I know it, because I’m on it. I feel great. I’ve lost weight. I sleep better. I have more energy. I do not feel sluggish or bloated anymore. I’m not eating as much as the protein and fat fill me up faster. I feel healthier than before. I hike everyday for 45 minutes, ride my exercise bike for 20 minutes, and weight train with dumbbells. One added element to my diet is the inclusion of alcohol. I drink scotch, wine, dark beers, vodka and gin. There are noted health benefits to moderate drinking, which I won’t go into in this post. However, this diet, along with drinking and exercise is the basis for a book I’m writing called, Beef Bacon and Bourbon.
Go low-carb, paleo, primal, whatever you want to call it. You’ll notice the difference immediately. And if your doctor doesn’t like it, find one who does.
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I am a 20-year information technology professional specializing in Macintosh enterprise technologies, systems integration, documentation and project management. I took an interest in personal development many years ago as an outlet for continuous improvement. Anyone can achieve anything they want if they really believe in themselves. Oh yes, I love scotch and cigars.
