"Life is pleasant.Death is peaceful.It's the transition that's troublesome."
Isaac Asimov (genius,scientist & prolific author)
aloha again,
CSPAN is running a recap of the book FLU by a NYT reporter (Kaluto?) from a few years ago.i found it timely & interesting.
this may be TMI for some of you so just skip to past or future blogs.
bird flu is usually BENIGN in birds and lives happily in their guts. wildfowl can spread this flu easily to domestic fowl and then onto to pigs and sometimes humans...in 1997 a UNIQUE BIRD FLU hit Hong Kong,it was fatal to BOTH HUMANS & CHICKENS.this was the prototype of a Pandemic. Hong Kong took notice.
the Chinese like their chickens fresh really fresh.u pick a bird and they kill it in front of you.Hong Kong destroyed over 1 million live chickens to stop the bird flu in its tracks,it worked. this is why the appearance of new bird flu strains in Southeast Asia is making flu specialists uneasy.this is also why everyone was caught flat footed when this new Swine Flu emerged from Mexico ( southern proviences of China are usually the incubators for new flu strains).so,as the late Paul Harvey usedta say,Now you know the rest of the story.
in other news,
the California Special Elections looms.
it's like a choice between many fatal poisons 1A-1F.
the local DIMS are counting on a Dim Obama for the next Governator to clean up this Unholy Mess. speaking of Unholy Mess, check out the Paul Krugman column (Nobel winning economist) on the fraudulent bank stress tests.i believe the last words of his article are ..."be afraid,be very afraid." the Bible has some verse about not building your house on a base of sand or maybe bank corruption? Krugman posits that the Obama Dims are tryiing to fix Frankenstein's monster (u knew a movie reference would pop up sometime) so it can run amok again and terrorize the peasantry (namely us).think of the line from Jurassic Park 'just because we could,doesn't mean we should'. so anyway, check the net and ready your pitchforks & torches, the undead monster is ready to rise anew from the Ponzi scheme graves of Wall Street.
PAGANI,My Vulcan Buddha
1.Parental Guilt like PTSD & Survivors Guilt is often irrational.
2.diet control (unchanged) vs. apparent growing "insulin resistance"...
3. i just forgot what three was...anyway Soul Mate likes your paintings but is confused,as am i, by your logo project???
i think that about covers it for today.
namaste
semper grumpy
mega
Well, we live in interesting times. In the history of humans, things have been unstable and unpredictable. The relative stability of the recent past is an anomaly - we've just come to expect it. Our ancestors dealt with far worse - and so will we.
ReplyDeleteOn point 2, I don't know which type of diabetes you have - I was just shooting in the dark, so to speak. I was riffing on your mention of a pretty uncomfortable episode of low blood sugar.
My understanding of insulin resistance (as it relates to type II diabetes) is that you would tend to have high blood sugar rather than low blood sugar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin_resistance
Of course, if you are having trouble getting your blood sugar down to 100 or so (and the low blood sugar episodes are more rare) then that would certainly indicate insulin resistance and a change of meds would be in order.
Having worked with more than a few diabetics (worked MANY years ago as a cna and rma - home health care aid), I've noticed that low blood sugar comes from a)over-medication AND/OR b)unbalanced diet - particularly too much protein to complex carbs, consumption of sugar/simple starches [white bread,bagels, hamburger buns, etc = very bad and basically metabolically equal to high fructose corn syrup]; AND/OR c)meals too infrequent, especially if you get some exercise between meals.
Solutions; more veggies, less meat (but SOME or substitute nuts for proteins), whole grain breads, no white flour bread products, swear off the mashed potatoes - more frequent/smaller meals. I've heard 6 small meals per day, spaced out, as a suggestion. But those are just some thoughts.
AND btw, glucose tablets (chewable) are available at all kinds of stores without a prescription - my sister gets hers at Safeway - you should always have some handy for when your blood sugar drops like that.
On point 3, it's OK nobody got it - so the answer to the humor art puzzle is now available at the bottom of that page -
http://www.chrisspagani.com/475/guess-what/
It was either too obscure or not funny enough. I'm known for my obscure thinking, of course. :)