Mandatory Worker Health Care Not Working For Some
I just read this disturbing article on a mandatory health care system that shows Mass. workers working more for health care than they do for food, rent, and even time spent with young school age children they have.
Can you get by earning $500 a week and have insurance premiums that cost you $287 a week? This woman does and she has a couple of kids she barely sees and very little time for rest or sleep between shifts because of it.
This could give us all a glimpse of where the entire country will go when the federal law goes into effect.
Not to mention what kind of health shape will this woman be at in a year or two at this pace? Take a look for yourself and tell me what you think.
Interval Fitness Training
So now the fitness experts are saying that a 15 or 20 minute intense workout, done about once a week is all you really need to get in shape and stay in shape.
They say that 4 sets of 4 minute hard workouts with a three minute rest is better than the half hour every day or every other day. The Olympic athletes came up with this as a training program and it works for them.
Does anyone else but me see a problem with this kind of advice? Of course it works well for them. They are in excellent shape to begin with!
The rest of us however, especially those who are obese and in terrible shape may need a little more convincing.
In fact those of us who are out of shape and fat could drop dead from starting such a routine just to save some time in our week.
You should always consult your doctor before you change your diet or exercise routine, especially to this extent.
Study Finds Fault With Pot
A new study has found that smoking cannabis over a long period of time can cause delusions, hallucinations, or psychosis.
The study shows that people who use pot at the age of 15 or younger were twice as likely to have psychosis than those who never smoked it.
The study involved 3,801 people. Of those 65 had “non affective psychosis like schizophrenia and 233 had one or more hallucination,
That sounds very scary to those who smoke pot, however I find this quote suspicious in meaning.
“People who were vulnerable to psychosis, in other words had isolated psychotic symptoms, “were more likely to commence cannabis use, which could then subsequently contribute to an increased risk of conversion to a non-affective psychotic disorder,” the research said.”
I could be wrong but that seems to say to me that there was something amiss with these folks to begin with and then they started smoking pot, which made their mental problem worse.
I also think they are talking about a very small number of people and did not account for other factors that could cause these psychosis.
I guess it’s like any other study where you can always find the outcome you’re looking for.
The New Dog?
Pediatricians are saying lately that the hot dog has been sliding down whole in the gullets of innocent children, thus causing them to choke to death.
They further insist that if a child is going to eat a hot dog, they should be redesigned to avoid the choking hazard. Some suggestions have been a hollow wiener, since once a bite is taken it becomes a flat piece of meat. Others say children would probably like them square or even patty shaped like hamburger are.
I don’t know what to say. I must admit they are slippery little things but I don’t know if reshaping is going to make that much of a difference.
Some experts are recommending that warning labels for choking be included on the hot dog packaging.
Darn it! I know they’re not good for you but as an American I like the occasional hot dog and sugary apple pie. Maybe parents could cut up hot dogs for their little ones and pay closer attention to what and how their children are eating. Just a thought!
Stents Or Surgery For Clogged Arteries In Neck
Surgery has long been the “gold standard” in treating those people with clogged arteries in their necks. Now, however Stents have come on the scene and have saved lives.
Stents are tubes that are put into arteries. They do two things. The first is to open up clogged arteries and the second is to remove the clog and keep the arteries open enough for the blood to flow freely through.
In using both they have found that in the first two years after surgery, those folks had slightly more heart attacks. In the first two years after stents were placed in the arteries those folks had slightly more strokes. They say after about 2 years and 5 months no real difference was found between the two groups.
From personal experience my mom had almost complete blockage in the neck arteries on both sides. They implanted stints and all went well.
What In The HELthcare Has Passed?
About a month ago I heard on the news that Obamas new health care reform has passed Congress. Yeah?
I got a couple of facts out of what I heard but not much, so I decided to look around the net and find the plan itself. I was going to read it line by line and then translate it to English.
I thought I did find it, but most of it was lawyer speak. You know, blah, blah, blah, and a little bit of truth or fact. OK I thought, maybe that’s all there is to it. Yet now I’m still reading articles in the news about it and or parts of it are still being debated.
So did anything get passed? If so what and where can we read about it?
New Concerns About BPA
BPA if you remember was in the news and up for a lot of debate about its safety in plastic baby bottles. A couple of states have banned it’s use in baby bottles for children under 4 years old and more states seem to be following.
Manufactures of baby bottles have decided to steer clear of it and are advertising this on their labels to ease moms minds so they will buy their products made of plastic.
Now the experts are saying that they see in mice that there is a connection between BPA and children’s asthma.
We’ve got a tot in our home who is still on the bottle at bedtime and we do not purchase bottles with that chemical in it. However, you should know that BPA is also used in the lining of some cans. So if you use any kind of canned foods in the home you could still be exposing your young children to this dangerous chemical.
I don’t know if there is anything completely safe with the packaging of our food but the best advice I could give is to read, keep up on the latest news, and do your own research.
Autism and Jenny McCarthy
I’ve heard Jenny McCarthy speak about her sons autism and her struggle to find any kind of treatment or help for him. Somehow she did and now she’s written three books and opened up a school across the street from her house.
Jenny seems like a down to earth mom struggling to find answers and treatment and is making great headway. She also seems to be convinced that her son developed autism from a vaccination he received as an infant. Who knows, she’s been right so far in my eyes. I saw her on a special and she seems to have come a long way in healing her son.
I wonder what she thinks about the medical community expanding the diagnosis of autism to include one in every hundred children. I think now maybe the drug companies or medical people are trying to say it’s from a bad gene to throw light off the real cause.
Shaker Weights
OK, maybe they really provide a wonderful arm workout, and maybe I just have a dirty mind. However I can’t take the commercial for this product seriously especially because it states it was made for woman.
If you haven’t seen it before it looks like a long metal dumbbell but when you use it it shakes back and forth. To be frank the women in the commercial look like they’re giving hand jobs. Some of them look like they’re practicing for marathon hand jobs. Once more they are happy and smiling, loving every minute of it.
Sorry, sorry, sorry, but I just find this so offensive as it obviously was invented by a man. Maybe by a man who wanted his women to be able to do this action non stop for a long period of time. I don’t know and I don’t want to know. If you enjoy it go for it. For me I just think I’ll skip it till they come out with the mens version.
Finally Hits Home
My daughter, grandson, and I have been staying at my parents home till we sell it, so it won’t sit vacant. My son and husband are still at our apartment.
My son called several days ago that he was sick, so sick he could not only not go to work but could barely get out of bed. I knew he must have a fever from him describing how he got dizzy and could barely stand up.
Luckily I have a couple caring neighbors in the building, and when one of them called him and heard how sick he was he immediately brought my son some flu supplies, for which I’m very thankful.
He’s better today and my husband said he had it too and he felt worse than he’s ever felt with the flu. Everything on his body hurt and although he still went to work, he is sure they had H1N1.
He says he’s better now too, but still feels a little sick. Thank God!
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