Buttigieg: AFFORDABLE MEDICINE FOR ALL A Plan to Slash Drug Prices and Boost Medical Innovation

AFFORDABLE MEDICINE FOR ALL
A Plan to Slash Drug Prices and Boost Medical Innovation

I support this premise. Additionally, it is an addiction to stress that causes many

To "go for more" eventually losing the ability to forego the physiological addiction. The body becomes familiar with this stress often requiring more, to the point of actually craving the stressor. The form of the stimulus of viewed stress can be via television or even radio. Thus creating the vicious cycle that eventually disintegrates the ability to reject the stress and seek other more logical and less damaging sources of stimulation. Television can easily be a barrier to truthful interactions in the real world. TV, mobile devices and computers have all been reported as harbingers of stress while we often treat them as benign.

Some reading here: https://www.talkspace.com/blog/can-you-be-addicted-to-stress/

50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts

50 Foods You Should Never Eat, According to Health Experts
Doctors and dietitians share the foods they refuse to eat due to pesticides, GMOs, and carcinogenic ingredients.

By The Editors Of Prevention
May 21, 2019

What's the one food you refuse to eat? Whatever it is, it's probably because you don't like the way it tastes—not because it contains ingredients that can be damaging to your health. Yet, there are still a lot of foods that fit this description on store shelves, and food industry insiders, who know what goes on behind the scenes, refuse to eat them.

We polled some of those insiders—people who know the business and work daily to evict pesticides, genetically modified organisms (GMOs), animal cruelty, social injustice, and unhealthy foods from the food supply—to find out what they know about the dark side of "convenience" foods and what they will eat instead. Take note so you, too, can avoid the worst of what grocery stores have to offer.

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The problem: Modern wheat is nothing like the grain your mother or grandmother consumed. Today, wheat barely resembles its original form, thanks to extensive genetic manipulations during the 1960s and 1970s to increase the grain's yields. "You cannot change the basic characteristics of a plant without changing its genetics, its biochemistry, and its effects on humans who consume it," says William Davis, MD, creator of Wheat Belly 10-Day Detox.

Davis makes the case that modern-day wheat is triggering all sorts of health problems, everything from digestive diseases like celiac and inflammatory bowel disease to acid reflux, obesity, asthma, and skin disorders.

The solution: Try eliminating wheat altogether from your diet for a few weeks to see if you note health improvements. But be prepared for the wheat withdrawal syndrome of nausea, headache, fatigue, depression, and a host of other strange side effects.

More at the link.

https://www.prevention.com/food-nutrition/g20498199/50-foods-you-should-never-eat/

Choose the winner of the Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award!

I would definitely try AARP. Their supplemental policies are very good but you have to join AARP.

There are other benefits of joining but you may be looking for different coverage. I just know that they have worked for me. There are other benefits that you may not want or need but I would definitely check them out.

Here's a link that may be helpful:

Top 10 Medicare Supplement Companies in 2019

https://boomerbenefits.com/top-10-medicare-supplement-companies/

Good luck. ❤

The Happiness Lab

I'm late to the party, but how about this one...?

"Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is."

Cooper signs bill requiring NC license plates to be replaced every seven years

BY RICHARD STRADLING
SEPTEMBER 27, 2019 05:25 PM

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article235552917.html

Car and truck owners will need to turn in their North Carolina license plate and get a new one every seven years, under a bill signed into law Friday by Gov. Roy Cooper.

Up to now, the state has set no time limit for replacing a license plate; you could keep the one you were given as long as it held up. State law includes a provision that says it can order someone to give up a plate that “has become illegible or is in such a condition that the numbers thereon may not be readily distinguished.”

The bill signed into law Friday says simply, “All registration plates shall be replaced every seven years.”

The Division of Motor Vehicles won’t charge for the replacement plates required by the new law, said spokeswoman Binta Cisse. Beyond that, the DMV is still developing a plan to implement the new requirement, Cisse said, so it’s not clear yet how the DMV will notify vehicle owners that it’s time to get a new plate or whether they’ll have to go to a license plate office to get a new one.

More at the link.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article235552917.html

Sugaree, Jerry Garcia

Yep, DBoon. PBS has an American Experience episode

about the author, Rachel Carson:

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NOW STREAMING

AIRED MAY 28, 2019
Rachel Carson
SHE SET OUT TO SAVE A SPECIES… US.
FROM THE COLLECTION: THE ENVIRONMENT

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/rachel-carson/#part01

When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in 1962, the book became a phenomenon. A passionate and eloquent warning about the long-term dangers of pesticides, the book unleashed an extraordinary national debate and was greeted by vigorous attacks from the chemical industry. But it would also inspire President John F. Kennedy to launch the first-ever investigation into the public health effects of pesticides — an investigation that would eventually result in new laws governing the regulation of these deadly agents.

Featuring the voice of Mary-Louise Parker as the influential writer and scientist, Rachel Carson is an intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. Drawn from Carson’s own writings, letters and recent scholarship, this film illuminates both the public and private life of the woman who launched the modern environmental movement and revolutionized how we understand our relationship with the natural world