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"The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before." -Albert Einstein
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Hello December! We’re ready for you!
This Health & Fitness Challenge starts today! Let’s GO! :)
Reblog so we can get everyone around us motivated, too <3
Lets go! SUMMER 2013!!!!
I can do this! I already drink unsweetened Green Tea all of the time. Especially, since I cut out soda!
Let’s do it!!!!! :)
going to try this starting today until January1st.
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Photoset reblogged from Sin Verguenza
My diet now keeps my body alkaline. I also do not eat high histamine foods and food containing gluten. My diet change has made a huge difference to my life.
The Acid Alkaline Balance
Human blood pH should be slightly alkaline ( 7.35 - 7.45 ). Below or above this range means symptoms and disease. A pH of 7.0 is neutral. A pH below 7.0 is acidic. A pH above 7.0 is alkaline.
An acidic pH can occur from, an acid forming diet, emotional stress, toxic overload, and/or immune reactions or any process that deprives the cells of oxygen and other nutrients. The body will try to compensate for acidic pH by using alkaline minerals. If the diet does not contain enough minerals to compensate, a build up of acids in the cells will occur.
An acidic balance will: decrease the body’s ability to absorb minerals and other nutrients, decrease the energy production in the cells, decrease it’s ability to repair damaged cells, decrease it’s ability to detoxify heavy metals, make tumor cells thrive, and make it more susceptible to fatigue and illness. A blood pH of 6.9, which is only slightly acidic, can induce coma and death.
The reason acidosis is more common in our society is mostly due to the typical American diet, which is far too high in acid producing animal products like meat, eggs and dairy, and far too low in alkaline producing foods like fresh vegetables. Additionally, we eat acid producing processed foods like white flour and sugar and drink acid producing beverages like coffee and soft drinks. We use too many drugs, which are acid forming; and we use artificial chemical sweetners like NutraSweet, Spoonful, Sweet ‘N Low, Equal, or Aspartame, which are poison and extremely acid forming. One of the best things we can do to correct an overly acid body is to clean up the diet and lifestyle.
To maintain health, the diet should consist of 60% alkaline forming foods and 40% acid forming foods. To restore health, the diet should consist of 80% alkaline forming foods and 20% acid forming foods.
Generally, alkaline forming foods include: most fruits, green vegetables, peas, beans, lentils, spices, herbs and seasonings, and seeds and nuts.
Generally, acid forming foods include: meat, fish, poultry, eggs, grains, and legumes.
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Post reblogged from Christina D... Straight. No Chaser.
What exactly is Obamacare and what does it change?
big thanks to reddit user CaspianX2 for typing all this out!
What people call “Obamacare” is actually the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, people were calling it “Obamacare” before everyone even hammered out what it would be. It’s a term mostly used by people who don’t like the PPaACA, and it’s become popularized in part because PPaACA is a really long and awkward name, even when you turn it into an acronym like that.
Anyway, the PPaACA made a bunch of new rules regarding health care, with the purpose of making health care more affordable for everyone. Opponents of the PPaACA, on the other hand, feel that the rules it makes take away too many freedoms and force people (both individuals and businesses) to do things they shouldn’t have to.
So what does it do? Well, here is everything, in the order of when it goes into effect (because some of it happens later than other parts of it):
Already in effect:
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It allows the Food and Drug Administration to approve more generic drugs (making for more competition in the market to drive down prices)
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It increases the rebates on drugs people get through Medicare (so drugs cost less)
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It establishes a non-profit group, that the government doesn’t directly control, to study different kinds of treatments to see what works better and is the best use of money.
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It makes chain restaurants like McDonalds display how many calories are in all of their foods, so people can have an easier time making choices to eat healthy.
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It makes a “high-risk pool” for people with pre-existing conditions. Basically, this is a way to slowly ease into getting rid of “pre-existing conditions” altogether. For now, people who already have health issues that would be considered “pre-existing conditions” can still get insurance, but at different rates than people without them.
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It renews some old policies, and calls for the appointment of various positions.
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It creates a new 10% tax on indoor tanning booths.
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It says that health insurance companies can no longer tell customers that they won’t get any more coverage because they have hit a “lifetime limit”. Basically, if someone has paid for life insurance, that company can’t tell that person that he’s used that insurance too much throughout his life so they won’t cover him any more. They can’t do this for lifetime spending, and they’re limited in how much they can do this for yearly spending.
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Kids can continue to be covered by their parents’ health insurance until they’re 26.
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No more “pre-existing conditions” for kids under the age of 19.
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Insurers have less ability to change the amount customers have to pay for their plans.
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People in a “Medicare Gap” get a rebate to make up for the extra money they would otherwise have to spend.
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Insurers can’t just drop customers once they get sick.
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Insurers have to tell customers what they’re spending money on. (Instead of just “administrative fee”, they have to be more specific).
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Insurers need to have an appeals process for when they turn down a claim, so customers have some manner of recourse other than a lawsuit when they’re turned down.
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New ways to stop fraud are created.
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Medicare extends to smaller hospitals.
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Medicare patients with chronic illnesses must be monitored more thoroughly.
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Reduces the costs for some companies that handle benefits for the elderly.
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A new website is made to give people insurance and health information.
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A credit program is made that will make it easier for business to invest in new ways to treat illness.
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A limit is placed on just how much of a percentage of the money an insurer makes can be profit, to make sure they’re not price-gouging customers.
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A limit is placed on what type of insurance accounts can be used to pay for over-the-counter drugs without a prescription. Basically, your insurer isn’t paying for the Aspirin you bought for that hangover.
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Employers need to list the benefits they provided to employees on their tax forms.
8/1/2012
- Any health plans sold after this date must provide preventative care (mammograms, colonoscopies, etc.) without requiring any sort of co-pay or charge.
1/1/2013
- If you make over $200,000 a year, your taxes go up a tiny bit (0.9%)
1/1/2014
This is when a lot of the really big changes happen.
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No more “pre-existing conditions”. At all. People will be charged the same regardless of their medical history.
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If you can afford insurance but do not get it, you will be charged a fee. This is the “mandate” that people are talking about. Basically, it’s a trade-off for the “pre-existing conditions” bit, saying that since insurers now have to cover you regardless of what you have, you can’t just wait to buy insurance until you get sick. Otherwise no one would buy insurance until they needed it. You can opt not to get insurance, but you’ll have to pay the fee instead, unless of course you’re not buying insurance because you just can’t afford it.
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Insurer’s now can’t do annual spending caps. Their customers can get as much health care in a given year as they need.
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Make it so more poor people can get Medicare by making the low-income cut-off higher.
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Small businesses get some tax credits for two years.
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Businesses with over 50 employees must offer health insurance to full-time employees, or pay a penalty.
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Limits how high of an annual deductible insurers can charge customers.
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Cut some Medicare spending
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Place a $2500 limit on tax-free spending on FSAs (accounts for medical spending). Basically, people using these accounts now have to pay taxes on any money over $2500 they put into them.
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Establish health insurance exchanges and rebates for the lower-class, basically making it so poor people can get some medical coverage.
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Congress and Congressional staff will only be offered the same insurance offered to people in the insurance exchanges, rather than Federal Insurance. Basically, we won’t be footing their health care bills any more than any other American citizen.
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A new tax on pharmaceutical companies.
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A new tax on the purchase of medical devices.
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A new tax on insurance companies based on their market share. Basically, the more of the market they control, the more they’ll get taxed.
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The amount you can deduct from your taxes for medical expenses increases.
1/1/2015
- Doctors’ pay will be determined by the quality of their care, not how many people they treat.
1/1/2017
- If any state can come up with their own plan, one which gives citizens the same level of care at the same price as the PPaACA, they can ask the Secretary of Health and Human Resources for permission to do their plan instead of the PPaACA. So if they can get the same results without, say, the mandate, they can be allowed to do so. Vermont, for example, has expressed a desire to just go straight to single-payer (in simple terms, everyone is covered, and medical expenses are paid by taxpayers).
2018
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All health care plans must now cover preventative care (not just the new ones).
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A new tax on “Cadillac” health care plans (more expensive plans for rich people who want fancier coverage).
2020
- The elimination of the “Medicare gap”
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Aaaaand that’s it right there.
The biggest thing opponents of the bill have against it is the mandate. They claim that it forces people to buy insurance, and forcing people to buy something in unconstitutional. Personally, I take the opposite view, as it’s not telling people to buy a specific thing, just to have a specific type of thing, just like a part of the money we pay in taxes pays for the police and firemen who protect us, this would have us paying to ensure doctors can treat us for illness and injury.
Plus, as previously mentioned, it’s necessary if you’re doing away with “pre-existing conditions” because otherwise no one would get insurance until they needed to use it, which defeats the purpose of insurance.
Reblogging to put back on the blog’s front page.
putting this back up
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Photo reblogged from Pistols & Koolaid
have you ever seen Half Baked? Remember that part when Dave Chappelle was talking to the scientist and he said, “If you ever need a guinea pig, my grandfather was in the Tuskegee Experiments.” ? This is what he was referencing. This is something EVERYON needs to know.
My God…The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was a clinical study, conducted between 1932 and 1972 in Tuskegee, Alabama, in which 399 (plus 201 control group without syphilis) poor — and mostly illiterate — African American sharecroppers were denied treatment for Syphilis.
This study became notorious because it was conducted without due care to its subjects, and led to major changes in how patients are protected in clinical studies. Individuals enrolled in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study did not give informed consent and were not informed of their diagnosis; instead they were told they had “bad blood” and could receive free medical treatment, rides to the clinic, meals and burial insurance in case of death in return for participating. In 1932, when the study started, standard treatments for syphilis were toxic, dangerous, and of questionable effectiveness. Part of the original goal of the study was to determine if patients were better off not being treated with these toxic remedies. For many participants, treatment was intentionally denied. Many patients were lied to and given placebo treatments—in order to observe the fatal progression of the disease.
By the end of the study, only 74 of the test subjects were still alive. Twenty-eight of the men had died directly of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children had been born with congenital syphilis.
kind of pisses me off how the number notes is easily comparative to the number of people who actually know about this.
went to Tuskegee University where this is widely known but seldom discussed outside of the university.
