Obesity has been around for 20+ years. What is new in the last year or two?
Since obesity doesn't kill quickly perhaps it's now beginning to claim more lives.
Obesity has been around for 20+ years. What is new in the last year or two?
Here ya go: Metagenomic Analysis of Kimchi
Probiotics - a.k.a gut flora (bacteria). Naturally occurring in fermented foods.What are the organisms that are supposed to be in sauerkraut and kimchi? Are they the same and how do they get there?
A very long time ago, probably when my mother was feeling ambitious, she made kimchi but I don't recall her adding any kind of starter culture.
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That's OK since the idea behind sauerkraut isn't to introduce live organisms but rather feed the existing ones. The good intestinal bacteria like an acidic environment: acidophilus.
You can find store bought sauerkraut with live organisms.
Yes, Bubbies is a good one. It needs to be kept cold so has not been heated and canned. There are other brands with live organisms. The prices are generally higher on the fresh stuff.
I really doubt that eating some sauerkraut is gonna affect your stomach acidity enough and long enough to matter.
How about more obesity, diabetes, and sugar consumption?Obesity has been around for 20+ years. What is new in the last year or two?
Drug overdoses?
Mass shootings?
Obamacare?
Prices for essential drugs?
It has to be something recent?
Here ya go: Metagenomic Analysis of Kimchi
And for those asking about the process - the probiotics naturally occur on the cabbage leaves and in the air (lacto-bacillus mainly). Nothing is added, other than salt (at least when made at home).
Not to mention breathing air that is 78% nitrogen. The government should do something!
I have not looked for any studies on this, but there has been a lot in the news about death rates from opiod addiction growing in the SE and mid Atlantic states. Primarily among young adults in those regions. if accurate, that would pull the avg age down more so than with growing addiction rates among the middle aged, as an early poster mentioned. Anecdotally, I have a good friend who recently lost a 28 yr old granddaughter to heroin overdose.
No question it is a factor but not suddenly in the last year?How about more obesity, diabetes, and sugar consumption?
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Now that opiod based pain pills are getting harder to get, the cartels have replaced the pill machine with heroin. It's a shame what is going on and how ineffective the drug agencies are in stopping it. We have also lost a dear family member to this tragic situation.
Now that opiod based pain pills are getting harder to get, the cartels have replaced the pill machine with heroin. It's a shame what is going on and how ineffective the drug agencies are in stopping it. We have also lost a dear family member to this tragic situation.
And the adulteration of illicit heroin with fentanyl (30-50 times more potent than heroin) and carfentanil (100 times more deadly than fentanyl, according to the DEA) has significantly increased the death toll. Dealers put it in because it is cheaper than heroin and gets users hooked even faster. Users have no idea how much of these other things have been added to the heroin along the way (which is also typically of unknown purity). The stuff they are injecting can be instantly deadly, even to long-tern heroin addicts with high opiate tolerance.Now that opiod based pain pills are getting harder to get, the cartels have replaced the pill machine with heroin.
The actuarial tables are for a relevant population. So unless you were working with a drug-using workforce, there will be no change. In my case (retired on DB pension at 49), they had no insight into the fact that retiring early increased life expectancy! Their loss was my gain.Will this trend, if it continues, lead to some downward funding pressure on DB plans based on revised actuarial estimates?
The health care cost within USA become ridiculously high vs other developed countries with top level health care. I think it is mostly because of health care insurance companies...
Then how to explain a $2,611 average MRI cost in USA? Google it. A lowest reported cost of new MRI machine is $150K and it goes as high as $1.2 millions. If you take the number of scans the equipment makes during it's life span and divide on the equipment cost with installation, add energy, facility, MRI tech and doctor cost , add 15% for profit, do you truly believe that the cost is going to be $2,611? Some hospitals charge as much as $13,000 per MRI. I think that other medical procedures are charged in similar way.Insurance companies are required to pay out 85% of the collected premium for health care expenses. That means they have 15% max for profits and for operating costs.
The Medicaid program run by the government has an operating cost of 10%. If we take that as the norm, then insurance companies have a 5% profit margin.
Compare the above with Apple's net profit margin of 19% in the most recent quarter.
The above suggests that cost controlling should be looked at the health care providers. They are the ones where 85% of the cost goes.
add 15% for profit,
This is not the insurance company. This is the hospital. The medical costs going up in the US have been hospitals, drug companies, and other medical providers such as doctors. The insurance company just passes those costs on to the individual.Then how to explain a $2,611 average MRI cost in USA? Google it. A lowest reported cost of new MRI machine is $150K and it goes as high as $1.2 millions. If you take the number of scans the equipment makes during it's life span and divide on the equipment cost with installation, add energy, facility, MRI tech and doctor cost , add 15% for profit, do you truly believe that the cost is going to be $2,611? Some hospitals charge as much as $13,000 per MRI. I think that other medical procedures are charged in similar way.
There's the problem right there. Your math is off. Profits are whatever can be had. See pharmaceuticals. 99 cent pill can go for 50 bucks 100 bucks 100 thousand bucks... whatever