12 Reasons Why You Need to Start Moving – All 33

12 Reasons Why You Need to Start Moving – All 33

The average American adult sits for 6.5 hours a day. Alarmingly, that number is only increasing as we continue to increase the time we spend sitting even while we’re not at work on the computer, watching TV, or just hanging out on the couch.

But our bodies were not designed to be sedentary! Sitting has serious, frankly scary, consequences. Spending too much time sitting on our butts increases our risk of many life-threatening conditions.

Here are the specific ways that too much sitting harms your health: beware.

Your Life Expectancy Goes Down,  Your Risk of Heart Disease Goes Up, Cancer is More Probable, You’re at Greater Risk for Type 2 Diabetes, You’re More Likely to Develop Dementia, Osteoarthritis Becomes a Greater Hazard, Varicose Veins are Very Likely,  Added Anxiety,  

You Pack on Pounds

Being sedentary, by definition, involves minimal energy expenditure. In other words, sitting limits the number of calories you burn which can cause you to gain weight. Additionally, when you sit, your body’s production of the enzyme that your body produces to break down fat in your blood (lipoprotein lipase) drops by about 90 percent. Your body can’t use fat, so it stores it.

Your Back Takes a Toll

This is probably the easiest side effect of sitting to notice, and one of the most aggravating for our everyday physical and mental health. Sitting (improperly) puts stress on your back, neck, and spine because our bodies were built to be on the move, not at a desk. Additionally, most of us slouch when we sit, which can cause chronic back pain.

So What Do We Do?

The evidence that sitting is dangerous is loud and clear. But what are we supposed to do in this day and age when some many of us work desk jobs and so much of our lives take place online?

1. Move More

The most important thing is to work more movement into your every day. Be diligent about taking breaks during which you stand up, walk around, and stretch. Doctors recommend you try to stand for eight minutes and move around for two minutes for every 20 minutes of sitting. Using a fitness tracker, app, or pedometer to track your steps can do wonders. While 10,000 steps is recommended, at first just aim to increase your time spent movement and it will be beneficial.

2. Set Up an Ergonomic Workspace

 

Follow these 8 simple steps for setting up an ergonomic workspace. Make sure your screen is at eye-level, your feet rest on the floor, and your elbows are at a 90 degree angle.

 

3. When You Sit, Sit Smart

When you do sit, you need to sit in a chair that helps instead of hurts you. There’s only one chair that can help you both move more and ensure ergonomics. The BackStrong C1 was designed by chiropractor Dr. Dennis Colonello and industrial engineer Jim Grove specifically to combat the dangers of sitting.

Stationary sitting leaves your muscles completely inactive. The BackStrong C1 has a saddle-like seat that moves, which keeps your blood flowing and counteracts the dangerous effects of being sedentary.

Net Neutrality Is Officially Dead. Here’s What’s Next. – Mother Jones

Will your EHR cloud service be affected?
The battle is on. The recent FCC ruling will open up the threat of measured ISP services. Despite a federal ruling many states are considering legal opposition to the FCC ruling.

After a drawn-out battle between internet advocates and Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, today marks the official end of net neutrality. Led by current Chairman Ajit Pai, the FCC voted 3-2 in December to repeal the Obama-era open internet rules. The decision went into effect on Monday. 
The fight has also started playing out at the state level.  Three states, including Washington and Oregon, have enacted legislation to enforce net neutrality and governors in six states, including Montana and New York, have signed executive orders

to enforce net neutrality. As of May, legislators in 29 states have introduced bills to ensure net neutrality, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. In its repeal, the FCC asserted that it alone has the authority to write these types of regulations and that states cannot pass laws inconsistent with federal net neutrality rules, something that could lead to a legal battle down the road.

Advocates have warned that the repeal of the 2015 regulation, which barred internet service providers from creating slow and fast lanes for preferred content, would open the door for ISPs to start charging more for preferred content (paid prioritization), slowing certain content (throttling), and fully blocking content. Advocates often point to the situation in Portugal, where striking net neutrality led to tiered-internet packages that charged more for services like Netflix and Spotify. 

A coalition of nonprofits and tech companies, including the ACLU, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Netflix, and Reddit have called for an “internet-wide day of action to save Net Neutrality” on July 12th. The group is asking websites to display a “red alert” image that will show what the site would look like without net neutrality. It is also asking users to harness their social media accounts to raise awareness and contact House lawmakers to ask them to overrule the FCC.

Net Neutrality Is Officially Dead. Here’s What’s Next. – Mother Jones

When the Doctor Doesn’t Look Like You

So, your doctor doesn't look like you ?  Don't sweat it !

For more than 50 years, international medical school graduates have filled the gaps in the physician work force in the United States. Currently, they make up fully one-quarter of all practicing physicians, and although a majority are foreign-born, approximately 20 percent are American citizens who have chosen to go abroad, most notably to the Caribbean, for medical school.

Regardless of whether they are United States citizens, all international graduates must go through an arduous regulatory process before practicing in this country, a process that includes verification of medical school diplomas and transcripts, residency training in American hospitals and the same national three-part licensing exams and specialty tests that their medical school counterparts in this country take. Many go on to choose specialties or work in the rural and disadvantaged geographic locations that their American counterparts shun. International graduates, for example, now account for nearly 30 percent of all primary care doctors, a specialty that has had increasing difficulties attracting American medical students.

Editorial comment:

That figure, 25% surprised me.  However in some regions of the U.S. the figure is much higher, especially in rural areas, or less attractive settings.

Though these doctors have filled an important national health care need for over half a century, doubts regarding the quality of care they provide have continued to plague them. Health care experts interested in this issue have been stymied over the years by inadequate methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of large groups of physicians and so have chosen instead to focus on exam scores, an admittedly crude proxy for quality of care.

Though these doctors have filled an important national health care need for over half a century, doubts regarding the quality of care they provide have continued to plague them. Health care experts interested in this issue have been stymied over the years by inadequate methodologies for evaluating the effectiveness of large groups of physicians and so have chosen instead to focus on exam scores, an admittedly crude proxy for quality of care.

But even that data has proven confusing. Studies initially revealed that international graduates tended to score lower, while more recent research shows that they routinely outperform their peers on training exams in areas like internal medicine.

Now researchers from the Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research in Philadelphia have published the first study incorporating new research methods for evaluating the performance of large groups of physicians. And it turns out that contrary to certain individuals’ worst fears, accent or nationality did not affect patient outcomes. Rather, the main factor was being board-certified: completing a full residency at an accredited training program, passing written and, depending on the specialty, oral examinations, and having proof of experience with a defined set of clinical problems and technical procedures.

Foreign medical graduates also tend to 'cluster' choosing to practice in like minded communities, Asian, Phillipino, Latino, Jewish, and other minorities. These demographics also tend to refer internally when possible.

Racial prejudice exists even in health care.

How Good Are Foreign-Trained Doctors? - The New York Times

Did President Trump Just Save Western Civilization?

My mind has been busy analyzing the UNpredictable actions of Donald Trump.

It should be no surprise to you Donald Trump grew up as a CEO of an enterprise.  His mantra is take charge and own your decisions.  CEOs report to their Board of Directors and must inevitably satisfy them and the shareholders. Shareholders like dividends,  from profits.  Enough said?  The U.S.A. by any financial analysis is in debt by  20 trillion dollars.  How much are our assets ?  Accountants will tell us that our net worth is the amount of assets less our liabilities (debt). Are you getting the picture?

The mainstream media spent the weekend lying about President Donald Trump instituting a Muslim ban, lying about the contents of the recent executive order, lying about those impacted by the new guidelines and lying about why seven specific countries were included in the travel restrictions.

President Trump was painted as a monster for placing a temporary ban on accepting Syrian refugees - while other world leaders bent over backwards to virtue signal and express their willingness to destabilize their countries.

While the mainstream media, politicians, corporations and Hollywood celebrities were virtue signaling - President Trump made a few phone calls and may have just saved Western Civilization

The financial facts are outlined in this You Tube Video by Stefan Molyneux, the voice of Freedom Radio.

Trump has the integrity to lead, and not follow.  The media only reports part of the story choosing to focus on the headline rather than the meat of the story.  Hence the great outcry when 500 . or so refugees and Visa cardholders were temporarily held from entering  OUR country. They were individually vetted and those who cleared were allowed admission to our free country.  Freedom cannot endure without order and a plan. Yes, many were inconvenienced.  Trump has our attention, and hopefully, those who sit on the couch never questioning, nor participating in the American experiment will wake up.  It will take some time to filter the swamp.

Trump is the ultimate negotiator. He leads with a high price from which he can afford to offer relief when the other side contributes to the deal.

Mr. Molyneux has given me great hope with his knowledge and explanation of what Donald Trump was up to this past week, while women were marching (by the way that march was planned months ago as a victory parade for the defeated Hillary Clinton,  not as an anti-trump protest)

DISCLAIMER:  I am not an avid supporter

The Story of Your Enslavement

It seems fitting to analyze the quick shift from liberal to conservative government.  Can we even define the change in those terms.?

The ruling congress is Republican while the President can hardly be called a Republican except for his ties and history of capitalism.  The Democrats have been flailing about  with larger and larger government and never ending hackneyed sound bytes about social welfare and increasing health care bureaucracy while at the same time blabbering on about health care savings.

Are we enslaved by either system?  Do both systems prey upon us in a universal manner ? The video should prick your interest.

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13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married - The New York Times

13 Questions to Ask
Before Getting Married

By ELEANOR STANFORD MARCH 24, 2016

When it comes to marriage, what you don’t know really can hurt you.

Whether because of shyness, lack of interest or a desire to preserve romantic mystery, many couples do not ask each other the difficult questions that can help build the foundation for a stable marriage, according to relationship experts.

In addition to wanting someone with whom they can raise children and build a secure life, those considering marriage now expect their spouses to be both best friend and confidant. These romantic-comedy expectations, in part thanks to Hollywood, can be difficult to live up to.

Sure, there are plenty of questions couples can ask of each other early in the relationship to help ensure a good fit, but let’s face it: most don’t.

“If you don’t deal with an issue before marriage, you deal with it while you’re married,” said Robert Scuka, the executive director of the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement. It can be hard to keep secrets decade after decade, and reticence before the wedding can lead to disappointments down the line.

The following questions, intimate and sometimes awkward, are designed to spark honest discussions and possibly give couples a chance to spill secrets before it’s too late.

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13 Questions to Ask Before Getting Married - The New York Times