Oh, one more thing DC's idea is super and should have been incorporated moons ago.....date became a member............................maybe we're not members, maybe were just lost souls in a giant vat of BEER!!!!!!
Hi Biff, I would like the option to delete the entire blog from my screen if I choose not to be a part of it and I would like the option to delete my own comment if I have a change of heart in what I said. And one more, I would like a voting box on the side of each persons comments. a thumbs up/down would work...now this can be anonymous or reflect the true person voting on the comment......can you get this done by the First???
Hi J, yes its definitely an attack......Good vs Evil...and right now it would appear that evil has the upper edge. But, on the good side,my neighbor just snow plowed my driveway. have a great day
Abby, your a sweet woman and I have no doubt there is someone out there that you will find trustworthy. As you said, you need to give yourself time to heal and figure out what things were good and what things you can change to have a great relationship again. I wish you the best of luck...
Abby dear....I think you're getting tied into believing only FB is the problem. CS could have contributed as well, it's all social media isn't it?? Now, if your advertising on CS that your looking for a man and spec out the qualifiers and your BF reads that....don't you think that he would be upset? I know I would. That's why I say once again to everyone here if your're in a relationship and wish to preserve that relationship then you should not be on CS. CS is a dating website, there are many other blogging sites that will meet your criteria....... I hope this helps a little Abby....
Fears over the Zika virus have intensified after El Salvador warned women not to get pregnant for the next two years, as the mosquito-borne virus could cause birth defects among newborns.
The virus is thought to cause severe brain damage in new-born babies and may also be behind rising instances of a separate potentially fatal illness that can leave patients paralysed, doctors say.
It is already suspected of being responsible for a dramatic increase in cases of microcephaly, where babies are born with abnormally small heads, in Latin America.
Nearly 4,000 cases have been recorded in Brazil since October, a trend specialists are attributing to Zika, although they concede the link is not 100 per cent certain.
Now doctors in the country believe the virus - which was previously virtually unknown on the American continent - may also be causing a sudden surge in a potentially fatal condition known as Guillain-Barre.
North-eastern Brazil, the area hardest hit by the Zika virus, recorded 554 cases of Guillain-Barre last year, leading doctors to suspect a link, although that too is still unproven.
Guillain-Barre syndrome, also known as Landry's Paralysis, is defined as a rapid onset of muscle weakness caused by damage to the peripheral nervous system.
It can be life-threatening in its acute phase and leaves sufferers unable to move and dependent on life support.
The United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is helping authrorities in Brazil to conduct studies aimed at establishing if Guillain-Barre is connected to Zika, the New York Times reported.
The CDC last week advised pregnant women against travelling to 13 Latin American countries, as well as Puerto Rico, where Zika has become prevalent.
More than half-a-dozen Zika cases have been reported in the US, most recently a woman in Texas who had returned from a trip to El Salvador
America's first case of a baby born with an unusually small head and brain was recorded last week in Hawaii. The mother had visited Brazil while pregnant. Although the CDC says the link between Zika and microcephaly is not definite, no other explanation has been offered.
First discovered in Uganda's Zika forest in 1947, the virus is said to be related to dengue, yellow fever and the West Nile virus. While common in Africa and Asia, it only started spreading in the Western hemisphere last May following an outbreak in Brazil.
Increased foreign travel and rising temperatures caused by global warming are two common theories given to explain its sudden spread.
There is no separate test for the infection and symptoms can be relatively mild, with only 20 per cent of sufferers reporting signs such as rashes, fever, joint pain and red eyes.
It is thought to be most commonly spread by mosquitoes, which breed in or near stagnant water pools.
Here Soc, this is a Gates quote: His very first sentence reads, "My concern in this book is not with the will but with the intellect, not with sanctity but with sanity." A few pages later he says, "To overlook God's presence is not simply to be irreligious; it is a kind of insanity, like overlooking anything else that is actually there. . . . God is not only a fact of religion: he is a fact. Not to see him is to be wrong about everything, which includes being wrong about one's self."
Soc. first of all Buffet is an agnostic, Bill and Melinda are practicing Catholics and George Soros is a manipulator of financial markets.And in response to calm hearts post is yes, but the person who gives the most gets the highest tax benefit. But, Mark Zuckerberg who just donated the largest amount in history is an atheist, but lets not lose sight that he stole the company from his fellow Harvard classmates. So, what's your point...atheist are crooks and thieves?????
and the latest....Majority of Americans support strengthening Medicare law to require coverage of obesity programs January 20, 2016
More than two years after the American Medical Association declared obesity a disease, a strong majority of Americans believe Congress should approve legislation to require Medicare to cover FDA-approved medicines to treat obesity.
Sixty-eight percent of Americans believe Medicare should invest in programs to reduce the rate of obesity, according to a national Ipsos poll commissioned by The Gerontological Society of America. The poll also found:
89 percent of Americans believe obesity is a problem in their state. 71 percent of Americans believe Medicare should expand coverage to include prescription obesity medicines. 77 percent were unaware that federal law specifically prohibits Medicare from covering patient costs for prescription obesity medicines. 73 percent of Americans were unaware that the FDA has found that current prescription obesity medicines are safe and effective in treating obesity. Under the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, Medicare is prohibited from covering prescription obesity medicines. In the 13 years since the legislation passed, however, multiple medicines have been approved as safe and effective by the FDA.
The Treat and Reduce Obesity Act, which was introduced by Congress last year, would require Medicare to cover prescription obesity medicines. The legislation enjoys significant bipartisan support including 11 cosponsors in the Senate and 125 cosponsors in the House.
"Public policy and society seldom associate obesity with advanced age," said The Gerontological Society of America Executive Director and CEO James Appleby, BSPharm, MPH. "But recent research has shown that, for those who are over 65 and significantly overweight, the risk of mortality is far greater that it is for younger individuals with excessive body weight. The preponderance of evidence is clear: Obesity at an older age carries with it a plethora of health problems like diabetes and heart disease and the likelihood of premature death"
"Medicare must begin covering medicines to treat obesity because chronic diseases are a primary driver of higher costs in the Medicare system—and, as we know, obesity is a primary cause of chronic disease," former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said. "Common sense tells us that if Medicare begins covering these medicines, it would reduce the long term costs associated with obesity-related chronic diseases."
These are findings from an Ipsos poll conducted Dec. 9 to 15, 2015, on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. For the survey, a sample of 1,006 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii was interviewed online in English. The poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all respondents. Post-hoc weights were made to the population characteristics on gender, age, region, race/ethnicity and income.
Hi LJ, as of June 2014 or there abouts the American Medical Association has labeled obesity a disease....(about time).....it has nothing to do with exercise at all....it is a malfunction of a serotonin recepture in the brain..there is an FDA approved drug called Belviq that works on 40-50% of the patients and blocks the recepture successfully.....Canada has recently labeled obesity a disease as well.....
The first case of brain damage linked to the Zika virus within the United States was reported on Friday in Hawaii.
The Hawaii State Department of Health said that a baby born in an Oahu hospital withmicrocephaly — an unusually small head and brain — had been infected with the Zika virus, which is believed to have caused the same damage in thousands of babies in Brazil in recent months. The presence of the virus was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The child’s mother had lived in Brazil in May last year and probably was infected by a mosquito then, early in her pregnancy, the health department said. The virus presumably reached the embryo and damaged its developing brain.
“We are saddened by the events that have affected this mother and her newborn,” Dr. Sarah Park, Hawaii’s state epidemiologist, said in a statement. “This case further emphasizes the importance of the C.D.C. travel recommendations released today.”
The first case of brain damage linked to the Zika virus within the United States was reported on Friday in Hawaii.
The Hawaii State Department of Health said that a baby born in an Oahu hospital withmicrocephaly — an unusually small head and brain — had been infected with the Zika virus, which is believed to have caused the same damage in thousands of babies in Brazil in recent months. The presence of the virus was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The child’s mother had lived in Brazil in May last year and probably was infected by a mosquito then, early in her pregnancy, the health department said. The virus presumably reached the embryo and damaged its developing brain.
“We are saddened by the events that have affected this mother and her newborn,” Dr. Sarah Park, Hawaii’s state epidemiologist, said in a statement. “This case further emphasizes the importance of the C.D.C. travel recommendations released today.”
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