Stephan: The study is published in the April 25 issues of the Archives of Internal Medicine, and may be something you want to consider.
Tai chi, often called ‘meditation in motion,
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Stephan: The media may have moved on but the people abide, and suffer. Everything is a struggle, and the environment remains severely compromised. Americans everywhere ought to be outraged that one of their most precious environmental assets has been so debased.
Five years ago, Cherri Foytlin’s family moved from Oklahoma to Louisiana, staking out a new life in her husband’s hometown of Rayne. A 38-year-old mother of six, the wife of a deepwater oil worker, and a reporter at the local paper, Foytlin was just finalizing the purchase of a new home when her husband’s rig was idled for the offshore drilling moratorium. They had just signed off on the house when her husband lost his job on the rig, a devastating blow.
Not long after the spill, she took a trip out on the water with a local fisherman. They came upon a pelican in the water completely covered in oil. ‘We pulled it up into the boat and we were going to try and get it back to Fort Jackson, the cleanup area, but it started having convulsions and it died-right there between us,’ says Foytlin. ‘I felt really guilty for not just this pelican, but the ecosystem. And not because my husband is an oil worker, but mainly because of what I know we waste in this country and what we take for granted.’
Since then, she’s spent much of her time organizing the group she founded, Gulf Change, and […]
Stephan: The food crisis trend is gathering momentum, and has the most profound geopolitical implications. None of which are being properly addressed. So prepare for disasters all over the world, and the societal unrest that is its handmaiden. Remember the uprisings in the Middle East began as food crises.
Thanks to Brando Crespi.
In the United States, when world wheat prices rise by 75 percent, as they have over the last year, it means the difference between a $2 loaf of bread and a loaf costing maybe $2.10. If, however, you live in New Delhi, those skyrocketing costs really matter: A doubling in the world price of wheat actually means that the wheat you carry home from the market to hand-grind into flour for chapatis costs twice as much. And the same is true with rice. If the world price of rice doubles, so does the price of rice in your neighborhood market in Jakarta. And so does the cost of the bowl of boiled rice on an Indonesian family’s dinner table.
Welcome to the new food economics of 2011: Prices are climbing, but the impact is not at all being felt equally. For Americans, who spend less than one-tenth of their income in the supermarket, the soaring food prices we’ve seen so far this year are an annoyance, not a calamity. But for the planet’s poorest 2 billion people, who spend 50 to 70 percent of their income on food, these soaring prices may mean going from two meals a day to one. […]
Stephan: A reader asked me to find something reliable about BPAs, and here it is. You can click through and download their .pdf guide which has much greater detail.
Although completely eliminating exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) may not be possible, there are steps you can take to reduce your family’s exposure to this chemical by avoiding common sources and limiting exposure for the highest risk groups.
The developing fetus and baby are the most vulnerable to BPA’s toxic effects. Unfortunately they also have the most intense BPA exposure of any age group. Many parents who have replaced their polycarbonate baby bottles are unaware that BPA contaminates liquid baby formula sold in metal cans. Since formula can make up 100% of a baby’s diet over her first 6 months of life, parents should choose BPA-free types
Adults ingest much less BPA than babies. But a recent study linking BPA exposures in adults to heart disease and diabetes raises concerns about the safety of current exposures. Adult exposure comes primarily from canned foods and polycarbonate food containers, but BPA-containing medical devices could also be a source. Pregnant women and older children should avoid BPA. Eat a varied diet, avoid canned foods, and don’t use polycarbonate plastics for warm food or drinks.
BPA in formula and baby bottles
The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimates that babies have 12.5 times more BPA exposure than […]
Stephan: Recently I have run several pieces on the gender wage disparity, a subject about which I have very strong feelings. Why? Well, because independent of basic fairness, societies that both recognize gender differences and affirm fundamental equality are healthier and prosper in direct proportion to the degree such gender equality is authentic. The evidence for this is overwhelming. Poverty almost always is associated with extreme gender inequality. And when this is severely out of balance, history shows us there is also a deadening of creativity and innovation within that society. I have predicted and state flatly that two of the defining determinants of societal health and prosperity in the 21st century are the assimilation of minorities and gender equality. On both counts the Right is in explicit opposition to those goals.
Several readers have complained about my emphasis on this subject. If you have been following this you will note that their comments are almost entirely polemic and fact free. The one exception was citing this piece from the Wall Street Journal, which I am happy to run today.
If you have a moment, read the stories I have run and compare their very clear facts -- based on U.S. Census and Labor Department figures -- with this very artfully worded WSJ piece. Pay particular attention to the Atlantic piece in comparison with the WSJ piece. Then do a Google on 'pay disparity between men and women' and peruse the 874,000 results that come back on that query, and reach your own conclusions.
Ms. Lukas, the author of the piece is executive director of the far Right Independent Women's Forum. Here is their URL: http://www.iwf.org/. Take a moment and go to their site and read what they post there. Then reach your own conclusions.
Tuesday is Equal Pay Day-so dubbed by the National Committee for Pay Equity, which represents feminist groups including the National Organization for Women, Feminist Majority, the National Council of Women’s Organizations and others. The day falls on April 12 because, according to feminist logic, women have to work that far into a calendar year before they earn what men already earned the year before.
In years past, feminist leaders marked the occasion by rallying outside the U.S. Capitol to decry the pernicious wage gap and call for government action to address systematic discrimination against women. This year will be relatively quiet. Perhaps feminists feel awkward protesting a liberal-dominated government-or perhaps they know that the recent economic downturn has exposed as ridiculous their claims that our economy is ruled by a sexist patriarchy.
The unemployment rate is consistently higher among men than among women. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 9.3% of men over the age of 16 are currently out of work. The figure for women is 8.3%. Unemployment fell for both sexes over the past year, but labor force participation (the percentage of working age people employed) also dropped. The participation rate fell more among men (to 70.4% today from […]
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