Help your Heart – Reducing the Risk of Heart Disease
This article will discuss several ways you can help your heart and reduce the risk of heart disease.
1. TAKE THE TEST!. That’s the highly sensitive C-reactive protein test, or
HSCRP. It has been found that this blood test is as effective as a standard
cholesterol test in predicting heart attacks and strokes. It measures the levels
of a specific blood protein that indicates that you have inflamed heart
arteries–the kind that rupture and cause heart failure. Seeing as how 50% of
all heart attack victims have normal cholesterol levels, the hsccrp test is much
more accurate and important see your doctor and have one done .
2. Who Cares what you could lift…. for the last forty years various studies
have told us that exercise is good for your heart but none have told you that
you are only as healthy as your last work out, the affects of exercise develop
and deteriorate quickly so constant exercise is key to good health and a healthy
heart. Doctors have compared those that still exercise to those that used to but
stopped and the health rate was much higher in those that still, maintained
there exercise schedule. While the effects of exercise diminish quickly doctors
note that it is never too late to start and maintain an active healthier
lifestyle to promote longevity.
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Career Advice: Why Do People Make Bad Decisions?
By
Ramon Greenwood
Common Sense Career Advice
It is wise to spend some time examining the question as to why people make bad decisions because there’s an inescapable correlation between the quality of one’s decisions at work and the total of one’s career success.
“Think Again: Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions and How To Keep It From Happening To You”, a new book co-authored by Sydney Finkelstein, a professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, provides some keen insight on the issue.
Mr. Finkelstein and his co-authors studied research in neuroscience and psychology and concluded there are four reasons good managers make bad decisions.
1. They tend to rely on past experiences. Situations seldom are exactly like what’s happened in the past.
2. Decisions are driven by self-interest. That force is always at work even when it is not recognized.
3. Decisions are based on judgment made before all the facts are available and sticking with them even when later findings indicate a chance of course.
4. Decisions are strongly influenced by attachments to people, places or things that managers are reluctant to change or give up.
The reader of this book will be made aware of steps managers can take to avoid making bad decisions along their career path.
One is to be aware that there is no such thing as complete objectivity. Managers can shift in favor of making good decisions by recognizing biases and guarding against them.
Another step that will help assure good decisions is to avoid the trap of the yes man syndrome by encouraging open debate by people who have differences of opinion.
Other career coaches teach that bad decisions are made because the right questions are not asked in the process. Another obstacle is that more information is assembled than is needed. Fact gathering is confused with decision-making. This often occurs because no one wants to step up and make a decision.
A contributing factor to bad decisions is that the wrong mode has been employed in the process.
Decisions are usually made in one of three ways, each of which can lead to a sound conclusion if used in the proper context.
1. An immediate decision is required so the person in charge “commands”.
2. Time permits assimilating opinions and reaching a decision.
3. Arriving at a consensus so as to help assure support by those who participated in the decision.
The key is to make sure the correct mode is put to work.
Each decision carries with it some degree of risk as well as reward. Traveling a career path to success requires the courage and ability to make good decisions. To be a good manager one doesn’t have to be right all of the time, just most of the time to reach his career goals.
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Detailed Information on Menkes Syndrome
Menkes syndrome is an inborn error of metabolism in which cells in the body cannot absorb enough copper. Copper added at oddly low levels in the liver and brain, but at elevated than normal levels in the kidney and intestinal lining. The disorder causes severe cerebral degeneration and arterial changes, resulting in death in infancy. The disease can often be diagnosed by looking at a victim’s hair, which appears to be both whitish and kinked when viewed under a microscope. There is often extensive neurodegeneration in the gray matter of the brain. Menkes’ disease is transmitted as an X-linked recessive trait.
A condition is considered X-linked if the transformed gene that causes the disorder is sited on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes. In males, one altered copy of the gene in each cell is enough to cause the condition. In females, a mutation must be present in both copies of the gene to cause the disorder. Males are affected by X-linked recessive disorders much more frequently than females. A number of other diseases, including type IX Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, may be the result of allelic mutations and it is hoped that research into these diseases may prove useful in fighting Menkes’ disease. About 1 in 300,000 individuals are affected.
About one-third of cases results from new mutations in the gene and occurs in people with no history of the disorder in their family. Menkes syndrome is characterized by thin and coarse hair, growth failure, and deterioration of the nervous system. Extra signs and symptoms comprise weak muscle tone, sagging facial features, seizures, mental retardation, and developmental delay. In rare cases, symptoms begin later in childhood and are less severe. Symptoms appear during infancy and are largely a result of abnormal intestinal copper absorption with secondary deficiency in copper-dependent mitochonrial enzymes.
Normal or faintly slowed development may proceed for 2 to 3 months, and then there will be severe developmental delay and a loss of premature developmental skills. Menkes syndrome affected children may be born prematurely, but appear healthy at birth and develop normally for 6 to 8 weeks. Treatment usually only helps when started very early in the course of the disease. Treatment with daily copper injections may improve the outcome in Menkes disease if it begins within days after birth. Other treatment is symptomatic and supportive. See a genetic counselor if you want to have children and you have a family history of Menkes syndrome.
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How to achieve better career decision
Don’t you just know when you’re at a point that’s just crying out for a decision? You begin to recognize it’s coming when you start getting cranky, tense and easily irritated. You know something’s gotta give soon, because you’re just not happy or comfortable with what you’re feeling. On the other end, some people experience a “stalling out” unable to move forward or backwards to where they last had good momentum.
What is common is the need to examine what is holding you back, i.e. fear and why it’s happening. This isn’t easy. That’s why there are so many books on facing your fears, dealing with fears, pushing through fears, etc. But in order to break through the block that’s holding you in place, you have to admit to yourself that there is a block or fear. You don’t have to tell the world, but just like the power of forgiveness, telling yourself will set you free. Here’s an example of what I mean…
A friend was on the verge of marrying a man she had been dating for two years. She was concerned that he wasn’t taking control of his career so that they could move to another part of the country, where they would be surrounded by friends and family. So she talked with me over many lunches about “how” she could get him to talk to his boss about moving. Since she was a friend, I was gentle – at first.
After listening to her concerns and challenging her to talk with him and listen to what his real desires were, I realized she was blocked with her own “stuff”. So, I shifted the discussion to focus on her and what she was afraid of and why. Of course, her response was she wasn’t afraid of anything they had talked about moving, but he wasn’t willing to do anything about it. I coached her to recognize where the truth really lay. That she had to open to the possibility that he was perfectly happy where he was and it was she who feared not being with friends and family. Reconciling this was between herself and her heart. Not with him and certainly not with me.
This story had an interesting ending – which I’ll share another time, but I will say they did marry and they are still in the area. When I see her, she seems happier that this is the way it is. I think there was a little “fear busting” as a result of some truth-telling.
So if you don’t have a trusted friend, mentor or coach to help you work through your “stuff”, marinate. Give yourself time, as you need, to work through whatever may be trying to breakthrough. Recognize that it’s just marinating something tender and flavorful for your life.
Let it help you move through the fear and bring you something juicy!
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Family Tree
It’s not hard to begin your search for the roots of your family tree. Here is some useful information.
The first step toward building your tree is to start with yourself and move backwards. You can use a regular notebook to document your information or use a software program that will help you keep everything sorted out.
Next, you will want to find as much information as possible about each of the members of your family. The basic pieces of information you need are the date and place of birth, wedding date, spouse name and date and place of death. These bits of information will allow you to work further towards getting the information you need. If you don’t have all the information, you will be able to do research to find it later.
Begin to write down your family tree. Start with who you know and work backwards in time. Don’t worry if you have blank spaces – that’s what researching your family tree is all about. Later you can conduct research for your family tree to fill in the missing information.
There are many places to research your family tree. Start with your current family members. Interview your family members to gather as much information as possible. Sometimes family stores that have been passed down may hold clues to important information about your family tree. Document the information so that you can go back to it later. Another family resource is the family bible. The bible is the place where past generations recorded life events such as births, deaths and marriages. Someone in your family may also have records like birth or death certificates and marriage certificates.
Besides the family there are other places you can go to research your family tree. With access to the Internet, you won’t even need to leave home. Some resources on the Internet have free access. Other websites that specialize in genealogy require a subscription. You can access many public records for free. However, the further you go back, the fewer records you are likely to find. You can use birth records, death records, marriage records and even the census records to find information that is useful.
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