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I just tried and failed to get my 8yo kid into a doctor's office. And I want to talk about that.
I live in #Vancouver, #BC. #Canada. Many in the US see this as some kind of promised land, because there's a public health system. But it doesn't work.
It CAN work. I've also lived in Strasbourg, France. And in comparison, there my kid would have seen a pediatrician within hours of a call.
This failure is a POLICY CHOICE by authorities. Not some impossible social hurdle.
I'm about to embark on my second week long fast (3 days "water" + transition in/out days) targeting potential reduction in cancer risks. I've made some small tweaks from the lessons learned from the one in July, hence Version 2.0.
"Eliminating a small co-payment appears to have had a substantial effect on patients’ risk of being hospitalised. Given the small amount of revenue gathered from the charges, and the comparative large costs of hospitalisations, the results suggest that these charges are likely to increase the overall cost of healthcare, as well as exacerbate ethnic inequalities."
Thanks to @LifeTimeCooking for pointing out the benefits of eating sprouted grain and a Canadian source of sprouted grains (and pseudo-grains and beans and lentils).
I blogged the details, and note the warning against doing the sprouting yourself Grains apparently are more risky to sprout than the usual run of seeds.
Pandering to a lack of tenacity in society has become acceptable. Not universal as those with cancer & chronic illness show great determination. However, when it comes to supporting those suffering in #wars & public #health we read "does the #public still have the appetite for" &
"#pandemic fatigue" & there's acceptance of giving up or not bothering.
If those who went through #WWll had done this en masse many of us would never have been born. Has shared #survival instinct been lost?
I sometimes wonder what is being concealed from us today that we'll find out has been killing us decades later? Are these sorts of efforts underway for cellphones or food supplements or some other ubiquitous good?
The Link Between Highly Processed Foods and Brain #Health
Eating packaged foods like cereal and frozen meals has been associated with anxiety, depression and cognitive decline. Scientists are still piecing together why.
Brooklyn skies turned brown today due to smoke pouring down from the huge Canadian wildfires. You can see the vast expanse of smoke in this 7-hour timelapse from the GOESEast satellite. #wildfires#canada#health
A large amount of grayish smoke from Canadian wildfires is drifting across the eastern U.S. You can see it in stark contrast with the white clouds in this 7-hour loop via #GOESEast.
Going to be seeing some old friends, and also planning on having some phe exchanges outside.
What are folks tips and tricks for managing phe for foods that you don’t know (e.g. restaurant food)? Mine is skipping either lunch exchanges or both lunch and dinner exchanges to ensure I stay in the green…
Hi there #Fediverse
I've not been able to find an app where you can track weight training exercises - you can log what type of exercise, weight used and reps etc.
If you know of any please let me know?
well #TIL that the mood log is already in #Apple#Health and i've got Siri checking on me a few times every day so i can make a note about how stressed, anxious, ashamed, scared, and insecure i am!
can't wait for the #Journal app to get out the door. i am so mad at DayOne that i don't really use it much for the last couple of years in spite of paying for it 🤦
As we learn more about #light (especially at night) and human #health, it's becoming apparent that we need more direct #dosimetry of the light exposures people actually get.
Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests (12ft.io)
Highly processed foods resemble drugs of misuse in a number of disturbing ways
Help me Kbin-wan-kenobi. You're my only hope. Or...how can we end the enshittification of the World?
I want to like Kbin. I really do. But it's just not the same. There are no apps. The format is not reader-friendly. Usability is way low....
A new device can detect the coronavirus in the air in minutes (www.sciencenews.org)
The detector can sense as a few as seven to 35 coronavirus particles per liter of air — about as sensitive as a PCR test but much quicker.