Delicious

Takes one to know one.  Heh.

Woman Bites Radio Host Danny Bonaduce - Zombie or Vampire?

The Logical Conclusion

Of childrens' sugar poisoned minds.

University of Tennessee student hospitalized after alcohol enema nearly kills him
Drunkorexia: No eating, more drinking

I'm shocked, I tell you

Programs to get kids moving do little to fight obesity

Evidence:  Programs encouraging children to be physically active have little impact on their weight, a review suggests.

Conclusion:  Changing indoor and outdoor built environments to foster kids' physical activity is a key area for research.

Cheery Today

Know Hope

Silliness

Five Historical Attempts to Ban Coffee 

In 1777, Frederick the Great of Prussia issued a manifesto claiming beer’s superiority over coffee. He argued that coffee interfered with the country’s beer consumption...

ht PMC

Just a Suggestion

Give schoolchildren less grain and more milk.

California Dairies Going Broke Due to high Feed, low Milk Prices

This is Why

Child obesity: Why do parents let their kids get fat?

"When I got hungry I would get so angry and scream and shout," says Stacey, a mother-of-one from London. "My mum would often end up shouting 'just have it then'. The pressure I put on her was huge and unfair, it put a real strain on our relationship."

People do not want to be fat.
People do know how to follow directions.
And yet they can't lose weight.

Maybe there's something else going on...

Medical Theater

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

Mogul Behind Drug Rehab 'Torture' Centers Is Bankrolling Opposition to Pot Legalization in Colorado

Smart Colorado, led former Republican senate candidate Ken Buck and a team of Republican lobbyists and campaign operatives, hopes to drive down the popularity of Amendment 64 before Election Day. The supposedly family-friendly group, however, relies heavily on funds from a pair of controversial Republican fundraisers who once led a drug rehab center shut down over wide-ranging child abuse scandals.

As I was saying

They. Know. This.

Post-streptococcal antibodies are associated with metabolic syndrome in a population-based cohort.

Aran A, Lin L, Finn LA, Weiner K, Peppard P, Young T, Mignot E. 
Source Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America.

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Streptococcal infections are known to trigger autoimmune disorders, affecting millions worldwide. Recently, we found an association between post-streptococcal autoantibodies against Protein Disulphide Isomerase (PDI), an enzyme involved in insulin degradation and insulin resistance. This led us to evaluate associations between post-streptococcal antibodies and metabolic syndrome, as defined by the updated National Cholesterol Education Program definition, 2005.
METHODS AND FINDINGS: Metabolic data (HDL, triglycerides, fasting glucose, blood pressure, waist circumference, BMI, smoking), post-streptococcal antibodies (anti-Streptolysin O (ASO) and anti-PDI), and C-reactive protein (CRP, as a general inflammatory marker), were assessed in 1156 participants of the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Study. Anti-PDI antibodies were found in 308 participants (26.6%), ASO≥100 in 258 (22.3%), and 482 (41.7%) met diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome. Anti-PDI antibodies but not ASO were significantly associated with metabolic syndrome [n = 1156, OR 1.463 (95% CI 1.114, 1.920), p = 0.0062; adjusted for age, gender, education, smoking]. Importantly, the anti-PDI-metabolic syndrome association remained significant after adjusting for CRP and fasting insulin.
CONCLUSIONS: Post-streptococcal anti-PDI antibodies are associated with metabolic syndrome regardless of fasting insulin and CRP levels. Whereas these data are in line with a growing body of evidence linking infections, immunity and metabolism, additional studies are necessary to establish the post-streptococcal-metabolic syndrome association.
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Fat Red Faces.   Just sayin'.

Brain Eating Zombie of the Day

Righteous White Guy David Brooks who apparently read a book on psychology last week or something.

The Psych Approach

When you look over the domestic policy landscape, you see all these different people in different policy silos with different budgets: in health care, education, crime, poverty, social mobility and labor force issues. But, in their disjointed ways, they are all dealing with the same problem — that across vast stretches of America, economic, social and family breakdowns are producing enormous amounts of stress and unregulated behavior, which dulls motivation, undermines self-control and distorts lives.

Maybe it’s time for people in all these different fields to get together in a room and make a concerted push against the psychological barriers to success.

Yes, that approach seems to be having excellent results.  Suicide rates are increasing at an alarming pace.  Let's do it some more.

Bedtime Stories

Wake the Fk Up
Samuel L. Jackson debuts profanity-laced pro-Obama ad

I need an antisocial network

Sorry kids, but I had no intention of running a Zombie site on Facebook.  I was just trying to join some of your groups.   However that account wouldn't let me, and the response was overwhelming, so it's been disabled.   I am pursuing other options within the borg.

Y'all go out and join Gluten Free PWN.  
I will have another try at putting on the harness.

Update- Yeah, I don't see me hanging out on Facebook.  After a few hours looking around-  It's everything I hate, and more.  I haven't got enough time or brain cells left to use them being agitated.

To Be Clear

Narcolepsy Network is NOT a patient organization.
Narcolepsy Network does not exist to help or educate Narcoleptics.
Narcolepsy Network does not want you to get better. 
Narcolepsy Network is now almost fully funded by drug companies.  It is not a source FOR patients.  It is a Source OF Patients.
Look at it-  their goal is "Raising Awareness".  Translated, that means "Drum up Business".
Find you as soon as po$$ible, get you into a Doctor$ office, give you lots of Te$ts and put you on ¢Pap and Drug$.
And then suck your family into the vortex, too.

It's not about you.  It's about your diagnosis.  Period.
Narcolepsy makes you eligible for life-long big-dollar insurance reimbursement.


The patient forum and conference are merely ways to get you to become personally invested in their charade. And do their public relations for them.

Jazz has coopted the Zombies into literally trolling schools to find kids to put on Xyrem.

Exciting Results

Eye Proteins Have Germ-Killing Power, Could Lead to New Antimicrobial Drugs

A team of UC Berkeley vision scientists has found that small fragments of keratin protein in the eye play a key role in warding off pathogens. The researchers also put synthetic versions of these keratin fragments to the test against an array of nasty pathogens. These synthetic molecules effectively zapped bacteria that can lead to flesh-eating disease and strep throat (Streptococcus pyogenes), diarrhea (Escherichia coli), staph infections (Staphylococcus aureus) and cystic fibrosis lung infections (Pseudomonas aeruginosa).

Brain Eating Zombie of the Day

Craig Taro Gold

The (Not-So-Secret) Angry-Old-White-Man Agenda 

The fact is that nearly 75 percent of all suicides in America are now white males, and the older the white male, the higher his likelihood of killing himself. The highest suicide rate among any group of Americans is white men over the age of 50.

And none of it has anything to do with any agenda.  It is not divine justice for closed minded selfishness.  They do not twist their minds into mental knots.
Those men are sick and their fat red faces, lack of empathy and progressively increasing righteousness are overt symptoms. 

Nothing will change until we address that.

(It does tend to run in families, son...  and you do know they make that same argument about your social group, right? )

Amphetamines and GHB

Why does that sound so familiar?  

Santa Clara elementary school principal charged with selling drugs

More Fruits and Vegetables!

Retired military chiefs: Obesity levels mean US is 'too fat to fight'

Combined with other disqualifying factors — including criminal backgrounds and poor education — excess weight means that an estimated 75 percent of young adults could not serve in the military even if they desired to, according to the report. 

and then there's this:

Their report praised government action against obesity, specifically efforts by municipalities such as Philadelphia and New York City to reduce junk food in schools.
U.S. students consume 400 billion calories from junk food sold in schools each year, or more weight than the aircraft carrier Midway, according to the report.

(Apparently this author's school didn't teach that calories are not a measure of weight.)

But yes of course, old white guys are absolutely the right people to make that decision. 

A Post-Apocalyptic Nursery Rhyme

Sugar makes you sleepy. sugar makes you sad.
Sugar makes you crazy. sugar makes you mad.

Sugar makes you stupid. sugar makes you fat.

But sugar is addictive- so you just ignore all that.

The Root of the Problem

Their mistakes just make more business for them.

How to Stop Hospitals From Killing Us
Medical errors kill enough people to fill four jumbo jets a week. A surgeon with five simple ways to make health care safer.

The Cycle Begins

Lady Gaga Gains Weight

A low fat diet should fix her right up...

They're Heeeere

State's first case of 'zombie bees' reported

Mark Hohn didn't pay much attention to the dead bees scattered outside his shop when he got home from vacation a few weeks ago. He just pulled out a leaf blower and blasted away the mess.
It took him a few days to realize he had an invasion of the living dead on his hands.
"I joke with my kids that the zombie apocalypse is starting at my house," said the novice beekeeper. The dead and dying honeybees from Hohn's 1.25-acre spread in Kent are the first in Washington confirmed to be infected by a parasitic fly that causes the bees to lurch around erratically before dropping dead.

Very Bad Timing

Attempted burglar found asleep on floor 

Old Song of the Day

You Learn.  

Compare and Contrast

Marijuana Fights Cancer and Helps Manage Side Effects

Chemotherapy can backfire, make cancer worse by triggering tumor growth 

It's Not About You

Medicare Bills Rise as Records Turn Electronic

When the federal government began providing billions of dollars in incentives to push hospitals and physicians to use electronic medical and billing records, the goal was not only to improve efficiency and patient safety, but also to reduce health care costs. 
But, in reality, the move to electronic health records may be contributing to billions of dollars in higher costs for Medicare, private insurers and patients by making it easier for hospitals and physicians to bill more for their services, whether or not they provide additional care.
...Critics say the abuses are widespread. “It’s like doping and bicycling,” said Dr. Donald W. Simborg, who was the chairman of federal panels examining the potential for fraud with electronic systems. “Everybody knows it’s going on.” 

The prime directive of medical business management is upgrading the reimbursment level and extracting as much money as possible.    Period.   If they can get away without providing the service, even better.