Get a fun and fabulous daily dose of Cosmo by checking out Cosmopolitan.com. Things I Hate - A Comedy Site Man oh man. There are a lot of dumb things I notice every day. Here are a few of them. Feel free to add your own. Things I Hate - A Comedy Site. People who get really offended when you compare someone to a famous person. Yes, yes I did. IT'S JUST A COMPARISON. TAKE THE MAIN POINT AND MOVE ONRappers who hit me with so much of the same thing (saying . Give me something new. Tell me your business plan. Tell me your favorite breakfast restaurant. Tell me something!!!! Video games because they're not fun any more. Ooh FPS games!! Wow, I can spend 4. Please give me a god damned break and let me jump on some turtles' heads. The last fun game: Super Mario Kart on SNESCALTRAIN I HATE YOU SO MUCH. What kind of POS transportation system has the most CONFUSING schedule on earth, a web page that obfuscates its own times, and trains that sporadically don't run at normal hourly times? Now I am an educated man, but one look at their schedule here made me question the dozens of years I have spent and thousands of dollars I have spent learning how to read. Is this a personal story? MAYBE LIKE LAST THURSDAY NIGHT WHEN I WAS STUCK IN SF THANKS TO THIS HORRIFICALLY POORLY RUN SERVICEWhen you go to a restaurant and try to pour the crushed red pepper on your pizza, only the stupid bottle doesn't pour more than one flake out at a time. This means that I have to spend about 1. I sincerely wish there was a dump truck full of crushed red pepper that unloaded its glorious cargo whenever I snapped my fingers. It's these moderate dreams that get me through the day. Bagels. I don't how stupid Americans started liking bagels in the late 9. ABSURD ACT OF EATING PLAIN BREAD WITH NO TOPPING OR TOASTING. My favorite bagels are the 1. TOAST and put cream cheese on. Yet unbelievable amounts of people will go order plain bagels (or sesame, or whatever) and just EAT THEM PLAIN!!!!! Perhaps I'm blowing this out of proportion but I can't remember ever seeing someone walk into a Safeway, buy a loaf of bread, then casually eat it while walking around on the street, hands in pockets, whistling, all the while moaning in pleasure for how . I hate you, bagels. Registrars. What is it that draws the meanest, most anti- social people to this position- -at any school? Or perhaps the position actually creates disgruntled, socially awkward people. Whatever the case, I will welcome the day when this job is offshored or computerized. Puzzles, Sudoku, and any other . How many times have you been at a table when this horrific monologue started, and you and your friends are just looking at each other embarrassedly? Quick tip: If it looks like someone is going through the pain of giving birth while listening to you, you can safely assume TO STOP TALKING RIGHT NOW. That stupid Josh Groban song, . This is like me trying out for a cooking show and making an entire meal around Spam. Why not at least pick something good to copy? People who go on Elimidate and then get sanctimonious about others' behavior. IT'S ELIMIDATE, NOT TRAINING FOR A NUNNERY. Girls will be like, . Stop wasting my time. My favorite time was when an Indian girl went on Elimidate (. WHY DID SHE GO ON!? And the best part was that she said, . I will short you all. When you get into bed and are all comfortable, but then realize you're on TOP of the sheet, so you have to get up and readjust yourself. This is so nitpicky that it's a surprise I haven't had a heart attack yet. The moronic tendency of people to pre- judge a jury verdict before it comes out. How on earth do people purport to know (1) whether someone really did it and (2) what a jury will say when (a) THEY ARE NOT IN THE TRIAL, (b) THEY DIDN'T WATCH ANY OF THE TRIAL, and (c) EVEN IF YOU DID YOU STILL COULDN'T PREDICT IT WITH CERTAINTY. Yet these people will nod reassuringly and essentially pat themselves on the back, . Will they ever be held accountable? Will they ignore disconfirming evidence if they're wrong? Yes. People who get overly serious about recycling stuff: Me: . Now, I'm all for saving the environment when it takes a few minutes of my time, but perhaps we can stop the global war on putting ONE COKE CAN IN THE GARBAGE CAN. Find out what's going on this weekend in orange county. Shows,concerts,family activities & sports Weekend events in Orange County, California. IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ADVERTISING There is an enormous variety of images, or representations, of females in magazine advertising, ranging from pictures of women in with. On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that parts of Donald Trump’s travel ban were acceptable, leading the State Department to create a set of new guidelines on the. Sure, event photographers are great, but what about all those pictures your wedding and party guests are taking on their smartphones? Tracking down all those great.
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A rise in life expectancy to 100 years in the United States in this century would profoundly influence many aspects of society, 41 including the solvency. Fyre Festival organizer ARRESTED by the FBI: Disastrous event's promoter is charged with fraud and faces up to 20 years in prison over claim he LIED about being worth. Human growth, height, size: Reasons to be small. By Thomas Samaras. March 1. 5, 2. 01. This commentary originally appeared in World. Nutrition, the monthly on- line journal of the World Public Health. Nutrition Association, to whom many thanks. All interested in public or. Association's. website, at www. Association. Introduction. Almost everybody these days thinks that it is best to be tall, meaning much taller than the average traditional height of Asian populations, and even taller than the current average height of populations in high- income countries. It is also often believed – though people might be shy to admit this – that tall people are intrinsically superior to short people. The expressions 'look up to' and 'look down on' are significant. I take a different view. All relevant things considered, I am sure that it would be better if the human species was shorter and smaller than is now the case in most countries. Over 3. 5 years of study and thought have confirmed me in this judgement. Indeed, I will go further and say that given dwindling non- renewable resources, yet a rapidly increasing global population, a smaller human race is essential for the welfare and perhaps even the continued survival of our species. In this commentary I will sometimes refer to specific people. No general theory can be upheld on the basis of individual evidence – this should go without saying. I do this partly because of the obnoxious prejudice against small people, a phenomenon mostly of the last half- century or so, reinforced by what I see as short- sighted views of nutrition scientists. The result has been to overlook and even degrade the eminence and achievements of people who happen to be relatively short. Thus to introduce and illustrate my thesis, here above is a picture of a meeting hosted by Margaret Chan, the current Director- General of the World Health Organization. The man next but one to Dr Chan to the left is Kul Gautam, recently retired as deputy executive director of UNICEF, and a leading contender to chair the UN Summit on non- communicable diseases to be held in New York this September. As can be seen by comparison with former UK prime minister Gordon Brown, whose height is 1. Dr Chan to the right, her height is about 1. Kul Gautam's height is about 1. Margaret Chan is taller than was the British Queen- Emperor Victoria, and is perhaps about the same height as the current Queen Elizabeth now is. Kul Gautam is a bit shorter than the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, and a lot taller than the Mexican statesman Benito Juarez. There is a special reason to note that Margaret Chan and Kul Gautam are decidedly short, measured against the average heights of people native to high- income countries, and even of people from their own countries. They hold, or have held, very high office in the two UN agencies that are specially dedicated to ensuring that children 'fulfil their genetic potential' for height. This dogma is commonly interpreted to mean that short small young children, including those showing no sign of illness, should be fed special energy- dense diets that will accelerate their growth, so that their weight and height 'catches up' to ranges that are deemed in childhood and then as adults, to give them the best chance in life. But would Margaret Chan and Kul Gaetam have done better, if their 'genetic potential' had been successfully 'fulfilled' so that that they were now taller? Or are they simply very unusual cases of individuals genetically programmed to be short? Two people prove nothing.
But in rural areas of their native Asian countries of China and Nepal, they would not be very unusual – they would not be conspicuously short, as they seem to be in the photograph. So I start this commentary with questions addressed to public health and nutrition professionals, and also to all of us who are concerned with human welfare. Why do practically all of us believe that it is better that individuals, and populations, are comparatively tall, and very tall relative to the traditional heights of many Asian populations? What is the basis of this view? Why do we seem to be so sure of it? Isn't it possible that traditional Asian heights represent a better adaptation? Isn't this obviously so, if we take economic and environmental as well as biological factors into account, in a world increasingly short of fuel and food? Isn't it possible that higher- income and urban populations throughout the world are too tall, and that almost all readers of this commentary are unnecessarily tall, and not a model for future generations? These are challenging questions, which I believe that the public health and the nutrition professions, and all other relevant policy- makers, need to face, now. Box 1. A personal journey. Here is some information about me and my work, which the WN editor asked me to supply. What's here below elaborates some of the information in my Association member's profile, on- line this month. I am not a medical doctor, nor a qualified nutrition scientist. However, like other professionals outside these fields, my training and profession is relevant to public health. I graduated in engineering in 1. This is a sub- discipline of systems engineering that emphases evaluation of relevant factors on the success of a physical system. Later in my career, and after retirement from engineering, I have applied this approach to the human system by evaluating how body height and associated weight affect physical performance, chronic disease, longevity, intelligence, and our environment. I also have looked at the fiscal costs of increased body size. Since childhood I have been interested in health and longevity, and about why we age. The discipline of thermodynamics provided an answer for me. From the sub- discipline of thermal physics, I found that the tendency towards disorder (entropy) of a physical system is related to its mass and energy content. I thought that this simple law could be applied to human systems. My thesis that mass and energy promote entropy, which in turn promotes human ageing, was first published in 1. While the entropy concept was around before I formulated my thesis, I believe that my mass- energy combination in relation to humans was original. I was aware that studies involving calorie restriction had for many years shown that this was an effective method for avoiding chronic diseases and extending the longevity of animals. Studies involving rats, mice, dogs and monkeys have found that calorie restriction reduces chronic diseases and extends longevity. This may well also be true in humans (2,3). I decided to see whether body mass also reduced longevity in humans, using height as an index of body mass, and I looked for registers of populations of people whose height had been reliably measured. A survey of over 7. US presidents, boxers, baseball players, and other celebrities, showed a substantial decline in longevity with increasing height. These findings were published in 1. I subsequently used the Baseball Encyclopedia to examine the height- longevity relation for about 3. The results were similar, as were those of later studies (5). Around 1. 99. 0 I was introduced to Lowell Storms of the Medical School of the University of California at San Diego. He suggested that we look at the longevity data of US veterans. The data was made available by the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Diego. We found that shorter veterans lived longer. Our findings were published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization in 1. A few years later I met Harold Elrick, a physician who spent his life studying nutrition, exercise and longevity. Storms, Elrick and I agreed to work together. In 1. 99. 3 I established Reventropy Associates to focus full- time on the implications of increasing body height as well as weight on human health, longevity, resource needs and other aspects of body size. We published a number of papers in medical and scientific journals. By now I had evaluated over 5. Much of this work has now been summarised in the book of which I am chief editor, published in 2. Recently I have published other papers in scientific journals (1. And the answer to the question you are too polite to ask? No, as a young man I never had sand kicked in my face. My height is average for a US male. The 'big is best' paradigm. This commentary explores the impact of body size, independent of body mass, on physical performance, intelligence, resource consumption, environmental damage, chronic disease and longevity. My findings are based on the laws of physics, and a review of over 5. My findings do not agree with the existing paradigm that rapid growth and taller bodies are best. Indeed, I think that a physically big world population is not consistent with long- term human survival. In any one paper, it is possible only to give a broad view with a few examples and a small number of references. More details and many more references are in my book on this topic (7). Throughout history, within any society, the better off and ruling classes have on average, been taller than the working or peasant classes. As a result, we associate taller height with privilege, higher status and power. Today, probably everywhere in the world, taller people tend to earn more, and are more likely to hold higher positions in their fields. In addition, populations in materially rich countries are taller than populations in lower- income countries, due to abundant food including that which promotes growth, good medical care, and healthful environments. Taller height is almost universally viewed as a desirable physical feature, and promotion of increased height and body weight has been an axiom for nutrition scientists (1. The belief that it is best to be tall, is linked with a general way of thinking, that it is best to grow fast and to be big. This is not just a matter of human size, it is part of a general ideology. Lower- income countries are termed 'developing'. An error occurred while setting your user cookie. Please set your. browser to accept cookies to continue. This cookie stores just a. ID; no other information is captured. Accepting the NEJM cookie is. Day Vegetarian Meal Plan & Grocery List. Planning and shopping for a week's worth of vegetarian meals is not that much different than planning non- vegetarian menus. You need to ensure that calorie and nutrition needs are met, which is easier to do when you plan in advance. Taking a little extra time before your week starts to plan menus and create a grocery list saves time during the week because you won't have to make any last minute decisions. Grocery shopping with list in hand will prevent unhealthy impulse purchases and can save money. Make a simple calendar with meals listed for each day and use it to create a grocery list. Real Simple recommends creating meals based on fresh, in- season produce. The cost is less and fresh produce is healthier. Consider whether or not you will be dining out during the week or taking lunches to work. Plan meals based on the type of vegetarian diet you want to follow. Vegans do not eat meat, dairy or eggs. Lacto- vegetarians include dairy products in their diet, while lacto- ovo vegetarians also eat eggs. Create your grocery list with a subheading for each step on the vegetarian food pyramid to ensure you are getting enough of the nutrients you need. A vegetarian food pyramid produced by the American Dietetic Association recommends six servings of grain and five servings of legumes, nuts or other plant- based proteins per day. Four servings of vegetable, two servings of fruits and two servings of fat round out the daily dietary recommendations. It's important to carefully monitor your diet to ensure you're getting enough calcium, iodine, iron, omega- 3 fatty acids, protein, vitamins and minerals. Vegans in particular may want to consider supplements for omega- 3 fatty acids, vitamin B1. D, which may be difficult to get in adequate amounts from plant foods. Make sure to consume a diet that includes a wide variety of foods which is the best way for vegetarians to meet nutritional needs. Don't plan on eating the same breakfast every day. Try oatmeal with berries and soy milk one day, and a tofu scramble with vegetables the next. Sandwiches made with whole grain bread, salads and vegetarian soups are easy lunches and provide a good mix of different ingredients. Whole grain pasta dishes, meatless chili and steamed vegetables are good for dinner. Don't forget to factor in snacks. Cheap Diet Plan - Week 1 and 3. Use our cheap 1 week diet plans to help you diet on a budget. Our cheap diet plan contains budget recipes for a 1 week menu. Women have different daily nutritional requirements to men, and below our nutritionist has offered guidance and recipe ideas for women seeking a balanced diet for. Pescetarian Diet Shopping List. No meal plan would be complete without a shopping list to follow. We’ll make some assumptions here that you have a few storecupboard. If you’re a vegetarian, or are tempted to cut back on the meat, make sure you’re getting all the nutrients you need with our guide for a healthy, balanced. Make sure to consume a diet that includes a wide variety of foods which is the best way for vegetarians to meet nutritional needs. Don't plan on. Hummus is a good high- protein snack with raw vegetables and pita chips. Varying your menus will keep meals interesting. A lacto- ovo vegetarian diet that is also low in fat may lower blood pressure, help prevent heart disease and lower your risk of developing diabetes and certain cancers. Most vegetarian diets contain less fat and cholesterol than non- vegetarian eating plans. EatingWell’s 28-day vegetarian diet meal plans are designed by our nutrition and culinary experts to offer delicious, nutritionally balanced meals for vegetarians. The Sacred Heart Diet is a fad diet that has been circulating for many years. The diet was supposedly thought to come from the cardiology department at Sacred Heart. Find healthy vegetarian recipes and complete meat-free menus from Cooking Light magazine. Food for Diabetics – Diabetic Diet Plan. Not all carbs are bad. Foods made with whole grains, such as whole- wheat bread and brown rice, are sources of filling fiber (aiding weight loss, which can reduce your diabetes risk) and nutrients such as potassium, which helps the pancreas release insulin, the hormone that helps your cells use glucose for energy. Bloating - Wikipedia. Bloat is any abnormal gas swelling, or increase in diameter of the abdominal area. Rarely, bloating may be painful or cause shortness of breath. Pains that are due to bloating will feel sharp and cause the stomach to cramp. These pains may occur anywhere in the body and can change locations quickly. What is constipation and why does it occur so frequently with Parkinsons? Constipation is defined as having fewer than three bowel movements per week. Learn about medications, therapy, and changes in your diet that can relieve constipation from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Pains on the right side are often confused with problems in the appendix or the gallbladder. One symptom of gas that is not normally associated with it is the hiccup. Hiccups are harmless and will diminish on their own; they also help to release gas that is in the digestive tract before it moves down to the intestines and causes bloating. Important but uncommon causes of abdominal bloating include ascites and tumors. An inadequate intake of water will cause excessive stomach bloating. A buildup of fat cells slows down the body's ability to empty the stomach. Once these foods are digested, the bloating will fade. Common causes of abdominal bloating are: Important but uncommon causes of abdominal bloating include: In animals, causes of abdominal bloating include: Gastric dilatation volvulus, a condition of dogs which occurs when gas is trapped inside the stomach and gastric torsion prevents it from escaping. Ruminal tympany, a condition of ruminant animals which occurs when gas cannot escape from the rumen. Irritable bowel syndrome. IBS is a brain- gut dysfunction that causes visceral hypersensitivity and results in bloating in association with recurrent diarrhea (or constipation) and abdominal pain. While there is no direct treatment for the underlying pathology of IBS, the symptom of bloating can be well managed through dietary changes that prevent the over- reaction of the gastrocolic reflex. Having soluble fiber foods and supplements, substituting dairy with soy or rice products, being careful with fresh fruits and vegetables that are high in insoluble fiber, and eating regular small amounts can all help to lessen the symptoms of IBS (Van Vorous 2.
Foods and beverages to be avoided or minimized include red meat, oily, fatty and fried products, dairy (even when there is no lactose intolerance), solid chocolate, coffee (regular and decaffeinated), alcohol, carbonated beverages, especially those also containing sorbitol, and artificial sweeteners (Van Vorous 2. IBS is most commonly found in patients around the age of 2. In people with IBS, the intestines squeeze too hard or not hard enough and cause food to move too quickly or too slowly through the intestines. Symptoms of the condition will worsen as a person is placed under stress, during travel, and at other times when the daily routine is tampered with. Common symptoms include bloating, constipation, abdominal cramp or pain after bowel movement, or feeling like a movement is required even after one has been completed. Most cases of stomach bloating are due to improper diet. Inadequate or irregular intake of fiber and water will cause a person to experience bloating or constipation. The most common natural sources of fiber include fruits and vegetables as well as wheat or oat bran. These fibers are most likely to cause flatulence. There are two main types of dietary fiber: soluble and insoluble fiber. Soluble fiber is prebiotic and readily fermented in the colon into gases, while insoluble fiber is metabolically inert and absorbs water as it moves through the digestive system, aiding in defecation. Most types of fiber (insoluble) are attached to body water in the intestine and increase the volume of stools. Belching and flatulence. It is either swallowed air or is produced by bacteria that normally inhabit the intestines, primarily the colon. The stomach can become bloated when too much air is swallowed during eating and drinking too quickly. As the stomach swells, belching removes the gas and alleviates the pain associated with it. Burping can also be used as a form of relief from abdominal discomfort other than too much gas in the stomach. Flatulence or farting works much like burping, but helps the body pass gas through the anus instead of the mouth. Bacteria present in the intestinal tract cause gas to be expelled from the anus. They produce the gas as food is digested and moved from the small intestine. This gas builds up and causes swelling or bloating in the abdominal area before it is released. Constipation. Since most cases of constipation are temporary, simple lifestyle changes, such as getting more exercise and increasing one's intake of fiber, can go a long way toward alleviating constipation. Blood in the stool, intense pain in the abdomen, rectal pain, and unexplained weight loss should be reported to a doctor. Bloating consistently accompanies constipation, and they will not develop without an underlying cause. Heartburn and acid reflux. Reflux is the back flow of gastric acid juices from the stomach into the oesophagus. Heartburn has different triggers, including certain foods, medications, obesity, and stress. These triggers are different for each individual. Gastroesophageal reflux disease or GERD is a chronic condition that can lead to more serious complications like esophageal cancer. Treatment options are available to treat the symptoms and the condition, but there is no cure for the disease. Symptoms include burping, abdominal and stomach bloating, along with pain and discomfort. Heavy meals, lying down or bending over after eating should be avoided to help prevent reflux from occurring. The stomach bloating experienced with reflux is intense and will remain until the food is digested all the way. Postmortem bloating occurs in cadavers, due to the formation of gases by bacterial action and putrefaction of the internal tissues of the abdomen and the inside of the intestines. Related conditions. All of these conditions share the same symptoms and can share the same causative agents. These causes include unhealthy diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, low amount of exercise, and overall health. Each of these conditions can be experienced as a symptom of the others and is also a cause for each of them. In most cases where one of the conditions is present, there is at least one if not two of the others. Treatment for each condition is performed using the same medications and recommended dietary changes like increased fiber intake and reduced fat intake. If the conditions develop into disease such as gastroesophageal reflux disease or chronic constipation, additional medications will be required. Bloating and flatulence are sometimes related to constipation, and treating the underlying condition may be helpful. Food enzymes can be found in some products that will help break down the sugars found in grains, vegetables and dairy products. They can be taken before food is consumed or added to the food that causes the gas and bloating. Another type of medicine is activated charcoal tablets which decrease the odor from gas. The most common treatment is antacids. These medications have no effect on the gas that is presently in the intestines, but enable gas build- up to be belched away more easily, reducing the amount of bloating that develops. Another treatment is Simethicone, an oral anti- foaming agent that helps the body to expel the gas more quickly. Also combinations of prokinetics, such as domperidone + metoclopramide + diphenhydramine (the latter for the prevention of extrapyramidal reactions, especially acute dystonic reactions) + proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), have dramatic effects on bloaters and belchers especially (9). Lifestyle changes. Taking a walk after eating a meal is a good way to nudge the contents of the bowels along. Exercising releases hormones that work to encourage activity in the bowels. Foods like bubble gum or bubbly beverages also cause a build- up of air that results in excessive gas and bloating, as does smoking. There are also certain types of vegetables and fruits that contain types of starches which are poorly digested by people but well digested by bacteria. Medline. Plus (US public domain Medical Encyclopedia). Update Date: 1. 0 November 2. Updated by: Christian Stone, M. D., Division of Gastroenterology, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, St. Review provided by Veri. Med Healthcare Network. Ahmed Shazly. Van Vorous, Heather. Eating for IBS. ISBN1- 5. Excerpted with author's permission at Help for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (see IBS Diet Section). |
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