One of my idols when I was a boy was Popeye the Sailor Man. I liked to eat spinach just like Popeye.
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Straight out of a can?
Haha . My mom prepared it with love.
ArmoredRodent
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Well, the title, at least, is appropriate here:The first ( Well he does have an earlier book, but never read so cannot comment on it) book/audiobook:
The Dorito Effect
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. In The Dorito Effect, Mark Schatzker shows us how our approach to the nation's number-one public health crisis has gotten it wrong. The epidemics of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes are not tied to the overabundance of fat or carbs. Instead we have...www.audible.com
The Surprising Story Of How Doritos Were Invented At Disneyland
Is it bad that we still think they're delicious?
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JoeCamel
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With vinegar I hope.....
That spinach/vinegar weight loss diet is a fad that some fall for.
JoeCamel
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No fad, it is the only way I eat cooked spinach. I grew up on dilled green beans too.
It is regional
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hopemax
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Omicron update. Another Tweet thread from Trevor Bedford. I am linking to a later tweet, because it's his concern. Lots of explanation in the prior tweets so click thru and scroll up.
Estimate of Rt in South Africa is 3. South Africa is estimated to have immunity around 90%, primarily through natural infection (full vax is only 25%). It's still Rt of 3. That's not good. If you have been vaccinated or prior infection, mild infection is likely. Most people in South Africa have some immunity so that's why they are reporting mostly mild illness. Last week (?) I posted to a link of CDC estimates of natural infection in the US. We still have millions of people with no immunity against SARS-COV-2. We don't have evidence to say for these people that their infection will be any milder than wild, Alpha or Delta. We don't know how the people with immunity but also significant comorbidities will fare. I don't have good expectations for the continuing strain on our hospitals and health care workers, because the math is still not in our favor, and most people won't be expecting it anymore than they expected what happened with Delta.
Estimate of Rt in South Africa is 3. South Africa is estimated to have immunity around 90%, primarily through natural infection (full vax is only 25%). It's still Rt of 3. That's not good. If you have been vaccinated or prior infection, mild infection is likely. Most people in South Africa have some immunity so that's why they are reporting mostly mild illness. Last week (?) I posted to a link of CDC estimates of natural infection in the US. We still have millions of people with no immunity against SARS-COV-2. We don't have evidence to say for these people that their infection will be any milder than wild, Alpha or Delta. We don't know how the people with immunity but also significant comorbidities will fare. I don't have good expectations for the continuing strain on our hospitals and health care workers, because the math is still not in our favor, and most people won't be expecting it anymore than they expected what happened with Delta.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
JoeCamel
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Keep yo slime to yo self
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Dr. Paul Cieslak, the medical director for communicable diseases and immunizations with OHA, says making the rule permanent doesn't mean it'll be in place forever.
RELATED | Reporter in DC asks Oregon governor when statewide mask mandate will end
"Permanent means indefinite. It doesn’t necessarily mean permanent," Dr. Cieslak said. "We can repeal it as well, but we are only allowed to have a temporary rule for 180 days, and anything that goes beyond 180 days, we cannot extend it."
GimpYancIent
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Hey! Each his or her own. I take one a day / Cod Liver oil and I admit it a gummy here and there, but I do enjoy a good medium steak w onion, chicken breast on a bead of rice or good old pulled BBQ pork w a side of potato salad, Yum.I don't eat much meat - I do take some multivitamins to compensate. I love gummies - so I grew up from Flintstones
danlb_2000
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Actually when you read past the headline, it seems reasonable.
danlb_2000
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Big jumps in the case numbers in the North East that last few days..
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Andrew C
You know what's funny?
All laws and rules can be repealed. What is their motivation to repeal it?
“nobody wants masks forever”
2 days later…
“Ooo let’s make our mask mandate permnanent even though pretty much every state has or is ending their own…but don’t worry, we can always repeal it. Permanent isn’t really permanent. We just won’t tell you when we will repeal or the conditions for doing so. And we can change the conditions anytime anyways. But trust us!!”
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correcaminos
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I actually don't do gummies regularly. Only recently because they were in stock and my others were not lol. My husband does some type of fish oil himself. As one with a mild allergy to onions and intentionally avoids all steak that meal would be out. Love rice and chicken though.
Smooth
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Danissmart
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Good thing we implemented laughable travel restrictions
correcaminos
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Beginning reports from Europe are promising
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Explainer: Could the Omicron variant bring milder illness?
The Omicron variant, spreading now in southern Africa and detected in over 30 other countries, has prompted fears it could significantly undermine the effectiveness of vaccines against COVID-19.
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Smooth
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WHO says no deaths reported from Omicron yet as Covid variant spreads
US and Australia became the latest countries to confirm locally transmitted cases of variant
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DisneyFan32
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A day after announcing New Jersey has recorded its first case of the omicron COVID-19 variant, Gov. Phil Murphy told NJ Advance Media on Saturday that many more cases are likely to hit the state.
Murphy also stressed that “early evidence” suggests the variant is more transmissible but tends to come with moderate symptoms — though he called on residents to remain “vigilant” by taking health precautions.
“As we were saying for the past week, we just assumed it was in our state,” the governor said during a short interview after an unrelated event in Carteret. “My gut tells me this is the first of many to come.”
Though Murphy said “the science is incomplete” on the variant, the “early sense” is that it’s “much more transmissible, including to folks that have already been infected.”
“But again, I almost don’t want to say this, but please God it’s true, early evidence is the impacts are mild,” Murphy said. “I know the one case in New Jersey is mild symptoms.
“But that is incomplete,” he added. “So folks need to be vigilant, wearing the masks, getting vaccinated, getting boosted. Because so far at least, there’s no evidence that lineup is not working.”
The state’s first case was discovered in an adult Georgia woman who traveled to New Jersey recently after traveling to South Africa, officials said. Her identity not been revealed.
The woman, who is fully vaccinated against COVID-19, tested positive Nov. 28, has been in isolation since, and has experienced moderate symptoms, officials said. She is receiving care in the emergency department of an unidentified North Jersey hospital, they said.
Asked Saturday where her case was identified, where she is recovering in the state, and whether she was taking a trip to New Jersey, Murphy said: “I don’t have the details.”
“She was in South Africa and she is somehow in New Jersey,” he said.
Murphy said it took “some time” for the results of the test on the woman to come back because testing the variant is “more complicated to sequence.”
RELATED: N.J. has its first omicron case. Here’s what we know as the COVID variant arrives.
This comes as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are on the rise again in New Jersey as the state continues to deal with the delta variant of the virus.
The state on Saturday reported another 18 deaths and 3,634 cases. The state’s seven-day average for new positive tests increased to 2,779, up 55% from a week ago and more than double the average (up 161%) from a month ago. That’s also the highest average since April 22. By comparison, however, the seven-day average was 4,367 on Dec. 4, 2020, when vaccinations were not yet available.
There were 1,118 patients hospitalized with confirmed or suspected coronavirus cases across New Jersey’s 71 hospitals as of Thursday night. It was the fifth straight day the state reported more than 1,000 hospitalizations.
Officials said they expected cases to keep rising with colder weather and holiday events.
Murphy said Tuesday there are no immediate plans for more lockdowns or other restrictions in New Jersey amid concerns over omicron. But the governor stressed things could change as the nation learns more about the variant.
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Omicron is the latest strain of COVID-19 to spread across the globe. The World Health Organization designated omicron a “variant of concern,” saying it poses a “very high” global risk.
President Joe Biden this week called omicron “a cause for concern, not a cause for panic” as he laid out the steps the country is taking to combat the variant.
It was first identified in South Africa and has since spread to more than 20 countries, in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
The United States’ first case was found this week in California. Locally, multiple cases have been identified in New York City, and Pennsylvania reported its first case Friday, in Philadelphia. The variant has also been found in Colorado, Hawaii, and Minnesota.
It is also unclear so far how well vaccines work against the variant. Moderna said this week it could have a booster shot to target omicron ready for approval by March 2022.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it expects the vaccines will “continue to offer protection against hospitalization and death” even against omicron, though the mutations in the variant will likely result in “significant reductions” in the ability of some antibodies from the vaccines or a prior coronavirus infection to battle the variant.
The CDC announced this week that every American adult should receive a vaccine booster shot if eligible because of the strain’s threat.
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