lunes, 25 de noviembre de 2013
Nee-Me-Poo
Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Tu-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led the young men [Ollokot] is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food; no one knows where they are – perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt
The first documented contact between the Nee-Me-Poo and white men occurred in 1805-6, when the Meriwether Lewis and William Clark army expedition to the Pacific passed through their lands, received assistance from them, and collected initial information about them. Subsequent exploring parties, principally those of the establishing fur companies, provided additional data. Early French-Canadian observers called the Nee-Me-Poo "Nez Perces" (pronounced in French "Nay-pair-SAY," but later anglicized to today's "Nez Purse"), in actuality a term prescribed for numerous groups who pierced their noses with dentalium shells. And although the Nee-Me-Poo apparently never practiced this custom extensively, they nonetheless retained the name. A brave, intelligent, and spiritual people, they had occupied their home territory for millennia, with archeological evidence reaching back for as many as thirteen thousand years. In their traditions, the people believe that they have been here since the time the world was first populated. They lived in several modes of housing, notably rush mat lodges, pine-board structures, and large semi-subterranean bark-covered dwellings, all capable of accommodating several families. Linguistically, the Nee-Me-Poo were of the Penutian language group and spoke a Sahaptian dialect, as did neighboring tribes of the Columbia Plateau. Like the mostly sedentary groups to the west, the Nee-Me-Poo traditionally subsisted on salmon, but they also hunted game in the forests and prairies and consumed local berries, roots, and tubers, especially relishing those of the camas and kouse plants.
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, or Young Joseph (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904) was the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Nez Perce to a reservation in Idaho. For his principled resistance to the removal, he became renowned as a humanitarian and peacemaker.
In 1873, Joseph negotiated with the federal government to ensure his people could stay on their land in the Wallowa Valley. But in 1877, the government reversed its policy, and Army General Oliver Howard threatened to attack if the Wallowa band did not relocate to the Idaho Reservation with the other Nez Perce. Joseph reluctantly agreed. General Howard held a council to try to convince Joseph and his people to relocate. Joseph finished his address to the General, which focused on human equality, by expressing his "[disbelief that] the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do." Howard reacted angrily, interpreting the statement as a challenge to his authority. When Toohoolhoolzote protested, he was jailed for five days.
Returning home, Joseph called a council among his people. At the council, he spoke on behalf of peace, preferring to abandon his father's grave over war. Toohoolhoolzote, insulted by his incarceration, advocated war. The Wallowa band began making preparations for the long journey, meeting first with other bands at Rocky Canyon. At this council too, many leaders urged war, while Joseph argued in favor of peace. While the council was underway, a young man whose father had been killed rode up and announced that he and several other young men had already killed four white settlers. Still hoping to avoid further bloodshed, Joseph and other non-treaty Nez Perce leaders began moving people away from Idaho.
With 2,000 U.S. soldiers in pursuit, over 800 Nez Perce went north in an attempt to reach Canada. For over three months, the Nez Perce outmaneuvered and battled their pursuers traveling 1,170 miles (1,900 km) across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. General Howard was impressed with the skill with which the Nez Perce fought, using advance and rear guards, skirmish lines, and field fortifications. Finally, after a devastating five-day battle during freezing weather conditions with no food or blankets, with the major war leaders dead, Joseph formally surrendered to General Nelson Appleton Miles on October 5, 1877 in the Bear Paw Mountains of the Montana Territory, less than 40 miles (60 km) south of Canada in a place close to the present-day Chinook in Blaine County. The battle is remembered in popular history by the words attributed to Joseph at the formal surrender:
The popular legend deflated, however, when the original pencil draft of the report was revealed to show the handwriting of the later poet and lawyer Lieutenant Charles Erskine Scott Wood, who claimed to have taken down the great chief's words on the spot. In the margin it read, "Here insert Joseph's reply to the demand for surrender"[9][10] Although Joseph was not technically a war chief and probably did not command the retreat, many of the chiefs who did had died.Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.[8]
Colonel Miles left Fort Keogh on September 18 with a force of 520 soldiers, civilian employees, and scouts, including about 30 Indian scouts, mostly Cheyenne but with a few Lakota (Teton Sioux).[14] Some of the Indian scouts had fought against Custer in the Battle of the Little Big Horn only 15 months earlier, but had subsequently surrendered to Miles.[15]
Miles was anxious to get involved in the pursuit of the Nez Perce and marched expeditiously north-west. He hoped to find the Nez Perce south of the Missouri River. His first destination was the mouth of the Musselshell River and from there he planned to move up the south bank of the Missouri. At the Missouri, Miles was joined by scout Luther “Yellowstone” Kelly. On September 25, Miles received a dispatch informing him of the Cow Creek fight and that the Nez Perce had crossed the Missouri going north. He changed his plans, crossed the Missouri, and headed toward the northern side of the Bear Paw Mountains passing the east side of the Little Rocky Mountains. Miles made every effort to keep his presence unknown to the Nez Perce whom be believed were only a few miles to his west. [16]
On September 29, several inches of snow fell. That day, Miles’ Cheyenne scouts found the trail of the Nez Perce and a few soldiers and civilian scouts had a skirmish with Nez Perce warriors. The next morning the Cheyenne found the Nez Perce encampment on Snake Creek north of the Bear Paw mountains. Miles soldiers advanced toward it.[17]
That same day, scouts reported to the Nez Perce leaders the presence of a large number of people to their east. Most of their leaders wished to continue quickly on toward Canada, but Looking Glass prevailed. The people seen, he said, must be other Indians. Assiniboine and Gros Ventre were known to be hunting in the area. Consequently, the Nez Perce went into camp on Snake Creek only 42 miles (70km) from Canada and slowly the next morning, September 30, prepared to continue their journey.[18]
Miles hurried his attack on the Nez Perce camp for fear that the Indians would escape. At 9:15 a.m, while still about six miles from the camp, he deployed his cavalry at a trot, organized as follows: the 30 Cheyenne and Lakota scouts led the way, followed by the 2nd cavalry battalion consisting of about 160 soldiers. The 2nd cavalry was ordered to charge into into the Nez Perce camp. The 7th cavalry battalion of 110 soldiers followed the 2nd as support and to follow the 2nd on the charge into the camp. The 5th Infantry (mounted on horses) of about 145 soldiers followed as a reserve with a Hotchkiss gun and the pack train. Miles rode with the 7th cavalry.[19]
Miles was following a tried and true tactic of the U.S. army in fighting Plains Indians: attack a village suddenly and “shock and demoralize all the camp occupants – men, women, and children, both young and old – before they could respond effectively to counter the blow.” [20] However, the Nez Perce were warned by scouts of the approach of the soldiers a few minutes in advance. They were scattered, some gathering up the horse herd, west of the encampment, others packing to leave. Some men quickly gathered to defend the encampment while 50 to 60 warriors and many women and children rushed out of the village to attempt an escape to the north and Canada.[21]
Miles’ plan fell apart quickly. Rather than attacking the camp, the Cheyenne scouts veered to the left toward the horse herd and the 2nd Cavalry, commanded by Captain George L. Tyler, followed them. The Cheyenne and Tyler captured most of the horse herd of the Nez Perce and cut off from the village about seventy men, including Chief Joseph, plus women and children. Joseph told his 14 year old daughter to catch a horse and join the others in a flight toward Canada. Joseph, unarmed, then mounted a horse and rode through a ring of soldiers back into the camp, several bullets cutting his clothing and wounding his horse.[22]
Tyler’s detour to the horse herd eliminated him from the van of the advancing soldiers and the main battle. He detached one company to chase the Nez Perce heading toward Canada. The company pursued the Nez Perce about five miles and then retreated as the Nez Perce organized a counter-attack. Once the women and children were safely out of reach of the soldiers some of the Nez Perce warriors came back to join their main force.
While the Cheyenne, Tyler, and the 2nd Cavalry were chasing horses, the 7th Cavalry, under Captain Owen Hale, followed Miles’ plan by continuing a rapid advance on the village. As they approached, a group of Nez Perce rose up from a coulee and opened fire, killing and wounding several soldiers. The soldiers fell back. Miles ordered two of the three companies in the 7th cavalry to dismount and quickly brought up the mounted infantry, the 5th, to join them in the firing line. Company K meanwhile had become separated from the main force and was also taking casualties. By 3 p.m. Miles had his entire force organized and on the battlefield and he occupied the higher ground. The Nez Perce were surrounded and had lost all their horses. Miles ordered a charge on the Nez Perce positions with the 7th Cavalry and one company of the infantry, but it was beaten back with heavy casualties.
At nightfall on September 30, Miles’ casualties amounted to 18 dead and 48 wounded, including two wounded Indian scouts. The 7th Cavalry took the heaviest losses. Its 110 men suffered 16 dead and 29 wounded, two of them mortally. The Nez Perce had 22 men killed, including three leaders: Joseph’s brother Ollokot, Toohoolhoolzote, and Poker Joe – the last killed by a Nez Perce sharpshooter who mistook him for a Cheyenne.[23] Several Nez Perce women and children had also been killed.
Miles said of the battle that "The fight was the most fierce of any Indian engagement I have ever been in....The whole Nez Perce movement is unequalled in the history of Indian warfare."[24]
During the cold and snowy night following the battle both the Nez Perce and the soldiers fortified their positions. Some Nez Perce crept out between the lines to collect ammunition from wounded and dead soldiers. [25] The Nez Perce dug large and deep shelter pits for women and children and rifle pits for the warriors covering all approaches to their camp which was a square about 250 yards (220 mts) on each side. About 100 warriors manned the defenses, each armed with three guns including a repeating rifle.[26] In the words of a soldier: “to charge them would be madness.[27]
Miles greatest fear – and the Nez Perce’s greatest hope – was that Sitting Bull might send Lakota warriors south from Canada to rescue the Nez Perce. The next morning, the soldiers saw what they thought were mounted columns of Indians on the horizon, but they turned out to be herds of bison. Looking Glass was killed at some point during the siege, when he thought he saw an approaching Lakota and raised his head above a rock to see better and was hit and killed instantly by a sniper’s bullet. [28]
The Cheyenne scouts may have initiated negotiations. Three of them rode into the Nez Perce fortifications and proposed talks with Miles. When Miles agreed, Chief Joseph and five other Nez Perce, including Tom Hill, of mixed Nez Perce\Delaware heritage who acted as interpreter. Soldiers and warriors collected the bodies of their dead during the truce. When the negotiations were unsuccessful, Miles apparently took Joseph prisoner. According to a Nez Perce warrior, Yellow Wolf, “Joseph was hobbled hands and feet” and rolled up in a blanket.[29] Miles’ violation of the truce, however, was checkmated by the Nez Perce. A young lieutenant named Lovell H. Jerome wandered “through his own folly” into the Nez Perce camp during the truce. The Nez Perce took Jerome hostage and the next day, October 2, an exchange of Chief Joseph for Jerome was carried out.[30]
On October 3, the soldiers opened fire again with a 12-pounder Napoleon gun which did little damage to the dug-in Nez Perce although one woman and one small girl were killed when a shell hit a shelter pit. On October 4, in the evening, General Howard with an escort arrived at the battlefield. Howard generously allowed Miles to retain tactical control of the siege.[31]
Meanwhile, the Nez Perce were divided on the subject of surrender, Joseph apparently in favor while White Bird, the one other surviving leader, opposed surrender and favored a break-out through the army’s lines and a dash toward Canada. Joseph later said, “We could have escaped from Bear Paw Mountain if we had left our wounded, old women, and children behind. We were unwilling to do this. We had never heard of a wounded Indian recovering while in the hands of white men.”[32]
In 1879 Chief Joseph went to Washington, D.C. to meet with President Rutherford B. Hayes and plead the case of his people. In 1885, Chief Joseph and his followers were allowed to return to the Pacific Northwest. Some of the Nez Perce were allowed to settle on the Nez Perce reservation around Kooskia, Idaho, but Joseph and others were taken to the Colville Indian Reservation far from both the rest of their people in Idaho and their homeland in the Wallowa Valley.
Colonel Nelson A. Miles gained the most benefit from his participation in the Nez Perce War. His success at Bear's Paw boosted his stock among the leading Indian-fighting officers of the army. In 1880, Miles won the rank of brigadier general commanding the Department of the Columbia, succeeding Howard in this assignment. Five years later, he took command of the Department of the Missouri, headquartered at Fort Leavenworth. In 1886, he supplanted General Crook in the campaign against the Chiricahua Apaches, finally forcing Geronimo's surrender. When Crook died in 1890, Miles moved to Chicago to command the Division of the Missouri, and in 1895, based on seniority, he became Commanding General of the Army. Yet Miles's astounding lack of strategic vision about how the army should change as it assumed new responsibilities in the world during and following the Spanish-American War, as well as his obstinate and increasingly outspoken disposition, rendered him expendable, and he retired in 1903. Largely forgotten in the years that followed, he collapsed and died in 1925, while attending a circus with his grandchildren in Washington, D.C.
Decades later, many Nez Perce men and women related their experiences with the army in 1877, adding significantly to the knowledge, but also to the perspective, of that history. Among them were Wottolen, the tribal historian (who lived to age 109), Two Moon, White Hawk, and Peopeo Tholekt, all participants in the battles and skirmishes. Over the course of almost three decades, Yellow Wolf, who as a young warrior had lived through the events, gave data to historian Lucullus V. McWhorter and accompanied him several times to the sites of the actions, including Big Hole and Bear's Paw. His reminiscences comprise a vital body of information essential to understanding the course of the struggle from Camas Prairie through Bear's Paw, Canada, the Indian Territory, and after. Yellow Wolf died at the Colville Reservation in 1935.[20]
The last Nez Perce survivor of the odyssey was Josiah Red Wolf, who had been but a child when the war took place. He passed away on March 23, 1971, at age ninety-nine.
NEZ PERCE SUMMER, 1877
The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis
420 (cannabis culture)
420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is a code-term used primarily in North America that refers to the consumption of cannabis and by extension, as a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture or simply cannabis itself. Observances based on the number 420 include smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m. (with some sources also indicating 4:20 a.m.[1][2]), on any given day, as well as smoking cannabis on the date April 20 (4/20 in American form).[3]
A widely discussed story says that a group of teenagers in San Rafael, California,[4][5] calling themselves the Waldos,[6] because, "their chosen hang-out spot was a wall outside the school",[7] used the term in connection with a fall 1971 plan to search for an abandoned cannabis crop that they had learned about.[6][8] The Waldos designated the Louis Pasteur statue on the grounds of San Rafael High School as their meeting place, and 4:20 p.m. as their meeting time.[7] The Waldos referred to this plan with the phrase "4:20 Louis". Multiple failed attempts to find the crop eventually shortened their phrase to simply "4:20", which ultimately evolved into a codeword that the teens used to mean pot-smoking in general.[8] Mike Edison says that Steve Hager of High Times was responsible for taking the story about the Waldos to "mind-boggling, cult like extremes" and "suppressing" all other stories about the origin of the term.[9]
Hager wrote "Stoner Smart or Stoner Stupid?" in which he called for 4:20 p.m. to be the socially accepted hour of the day to consume cannabis.[10] He attributes the early spread of the phrase to Grateful Dead followers, who were also linked to the city of San Rafael.[10]
April 20 has become a counterculture holiday in North America, where people gather to celebrate and consume cannabis.[2][3] Some events have a political nature to them, advocating for the legalization of cannabis. North American observances have been held in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park near the Haight-Ashbury district,[11] the University of Colorado's Boulder campus,[5][12][13] Ottawa, Ontario, at Parliament Hill and Major's Hill Park,[14][15] Montréal, Québec at Mount Royal monument,[16][17] Edmonton, Alberta at the Alberta Legislature Building,[18] as well as Vancouver, British Columbia at the Vancouver Art Gallery.[19] The growing size of the unofficial event at UC Santa Cruz caused the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs to send an e-mail to parents in 2009 stating: "The growth in scale of this activity has become a concern for both the university and surrounding community."[20]
Events have also occurred in Auckland, New Zealand at the Daktory.[21][unreliable source?] and Dunedin, New Zealand, at University of Otago.[22][23][24][25][26][27]
domingo, 24 de noviembre de 2013
PLANEAT
Dr T. Colin Campbell, Dr Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., and environmental scientist Professor Gidon Eshel are the heroes of the new award-winning documentary film PLANEAT, the story of these men’s search for a diet, which is good for our health, and good for the future of the planet. The film features an additional cast of pioneering chefs and some of the best plant-based cooking you have ever seen.
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Alan Watts - The Pathetic Fallacy
Published on May 21, 2012
If you can really understand this, then the seed of that radical revolution has already been planted
Change comes into being when there is no fear, when there is neither the experiencer nor the experience; it is only then that there is the revolution which is beyond time. But that cannot be as long as I am trying to change the 'I', as long as I am trying to change what is into something else. I am the result of all the social and the spiritual compulsions, persuasions, and all the conditioning based on acquisitiveness -my thinking is based on that. To be free from that conditioning, from that acquisitiveness, I say to myself, 'I must not be acquisitive; I must practice nonacquisitiveness.' But such action is still within the field of time, it is still the activity of the mind. Just see that. Don't say, 'How am I to get to that state when I am nonacquisitive?' That is not important. It is not important to be nonacquisitive; what is important is to understand that the mind which is trying to get away from one state to another is still functioning within the field of time, and therefore there is no revolution, there is no change. If you can really understand this, then the seed of that radical revolution has already been planted and that will operate: you have not a thing to do.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ark
Uploaded on Jan 10, 2011
«Inspirado» en el calentamiento global y en el consiguiente aumento del nivel del mar, el arquitecto ruso Alexander Remizov ha realizado un proyecto de hotel totalmente sostenible.
Se llama «Ark» y ha sido ideado en colaboración con una empresa de ingeniería alemana y el científico moscovita Lev Britvin. Para su construcción se necesitarán madera, acero y plástico Etileno-TetraFluorEtileno.
La estructura ha sido diseñada con el objetivo de ser completamente autosuficiente gracias a un sistema de generadores de energía eólica y solar.
Este hotel flotante mediría cerca de 14.000 metros cuadrados y estaría pensado para albergar a 10.000 personas.
«Podría ser construido en sólo 3 o 4 meses y en cualquier parte del mundo» ha declarado Remizov, quien abrió su primer estudio en 1991.
Human Bacteria
Human Bacteria Mapped; Gut Bacteria Linked To Happiness, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, And Body Weight / Obesity
MONDAY, JUNE 18, 2012 AT 9:56AM
Campylobacter, a bacteria found in the human gut
Researchers recently completed an extensive, 5-year Human Microbiome Project (HMP)identifying more than 10,000 bacterial species living in and on our bodies. The goal of HMP was to “map the normal microbial make-up of healthy humans.”[I] Many believe the Human Microbiome Project will allow scientists and physicians to prevent and treat diseases in the future. Researcher and pediatric gastroenterologist Dr. Phillip Tarr commented “This is really a new vista in biology. This opens up many, many new opportunities to improve the health of our population.”
Coincidentally, the conclusion of the Human Microbiome Project coincided with the publication of several fascinating articles about gut bacteria and human health.[Ii] For example, researchers recently linked gut bacteria with:
- Happiness
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Body weight / obesity
Happiness
Scientists at the University College Cork in Ireland recently discovered that an Absence Of Bacteria In Early Life May Decrease Levels Of Brain Serotonin later in life (serotonin is an important neurotransmitter implicated in depression). This expounds upon previous research investigating potential Mind-Microbe Links.
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Researchers also believe they may have identified why Western Diet Changes Gut Bacteria And May Trigger Immune-Mediated Diseases Like Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Westernized countries tend to consume foods high in saturated fats, and researchers at the University of Chicago found that concentrated milk fats (common in processed foods and confectionary foods) alter the composition of bacteria in our digestive systems. One bacteria in particular, Bilopha wadsworthia, thrives in the presence of saturated milk fats. Interestingly, this same bacteria has been found in elevated levels in patients with inflammatory bowel conditions like IBD and appendicitis.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic Linked Gut Bacteria To The Autoimmune Disease Rheumatoid Arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis is caused by the body’s immune system attacking its own tissue (like our joints).
Through clever manipulation of genetic susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis and introduction of different gut bacteria in mice, researchers concluded that gut bacteria may play an important role in developing rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases like type I diabetes and multiple sclerosis (MS). The researchers noted that changes related to aging (such as hormonal changes) may modulate gut bacteria and contribute to autoimmune disorders. Specifically, the researchers believe autoimmune disorders may actually begin as an immune system attack on gut bacteria that have penetrated our intestinal walls. [Iii]
Body Weight / Obesity
Interestingly, researchers also recently summarized Evidence That Gut Bacteria Might Modify Body Weight. Researchers at Arizona State University recently noted that bacteria play an important role in helping our body extract and synthesize important nutrients. In fact, the body is unable to digest some carbohydrates without gut bacteria (the bacteria digest these carbs for us), and gut bacteria also produce important vitamins like biotin and folate and help us absorb other nutrients like magnesium, calcium, and iron.
The researchers noted that obese individuals frequently have distinct gut bacteria. For example, obese individuals typically have a greater proportion of bacteria from the phylum Bacteroidetes, while lean individuals have a greater proportion of bacteria from the phylulm Firmucutes. Correlation does not imply causation.[Iv] However, researchers are beginning to identify some compelling mechanisms by which gut bacteria may contribute to obesity.[V] The researchers at Arizona State believe that we may be able to manipulate or exploit our gut bacteria in order to control weight.
Future Implications
In an article titled Gut Check: Future Of Drugs May Rest With Your Microbes, Henry Haiser and Peter Tumbaugh of Harvard University note that “The trillions of microbes associated with the human body are a key part of a comprehensive view of pharmacology.” In other words, future treatment of diseases (such as those noted above) and optimization of health will likely take into account our gut bacteria to a greater extent. Once fairly obscure, gut bacteria (and the manipulation of gut bacteria) will likely play a greater role in maintaining health and preventing disease in the future.
What Do You Think?
- Do you know of ways to optimize gut bacteria in order to optimize health?
- What role do you think gut bacteria will play in managing health and preventing disease in the future?
Related:
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) And Gut Bacteria Definitively Linked [vi]
- Additional relevant articles tagged 'Microorganisms' or 'Medicine'
[I] The human “microbiome” refers to microscopic bacteria, yeasts, protozoa, small parasitic worms, and viruses. However, most microbes in the human microbiome are bacteria; therefore, the terms human “microbiome” or “microbe” are often used to refer specifically to bacteria.
[Ii] Note that most of our human microbiome resides in our gut.
[Iii] Gut bacteria typically do not penetrate the intestine’s walls and enter the body. However, researchers believe that under certain conditions (such as certain hormonal conditions and other conditions related to aging), the gut bacteria may penetrate the intestinal wall stimulating an immune response that manifests as rheumatoid arthritis or possibly other autoimmune disease like type I diabetes or MS.
[Iv] In other words, just because an increase in Bacteroidetes is correlated (or related) to an increase in body weight (obesity), this does not necessarily mean that an increase of Bacteroidetes causes obesity.
[v] For example, researchers have noted that obesity and insulin-resistance (which could lead to Type II diabetes) are often accompanied by inflammation. One marker of inflammation that has been associated with obesity and insulin-resistance is blood lipopolysaccharides (LPS). Interestingly, LPS primarily comes from bacteria such as those that live in our gut.
Additionally, scientists found that “germ free mice” (literally mice with no germs on or in them) experienced a 60% increase in body fat content and insulin resistance when gut bacteria from obese mice were transplanted to their guts. Scientists also found that these same mice transplanted with gut bacteria from obese mice experienced a decreased production of a compound called Fiaf (“fasting-induced adipocyte factor). Fiaf is produced in intestinal tissue and promotes leanness (in other words, opposes obesity). Therefore, researchers believe that the gut bacteria of obese mice may suppress Fiaf production which in turn promotes obesity.
[vi] If you're curious, here's an excellent reference on the Difference Between Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) And Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
Nutrition for Eyesight
"Eat your carrots" is good advice for your eyes. Carrots are loaded with beta-carotene, which converts to vitamin A and forms a purple pigment in the retina of the eye called rhodopsin, which is needed by the eye in order to see in dim light. If you don't get enough vitamin A or beta-carotene, your body cannot produce an adequate amount of rhodopsin. For this reason, many people end up with night blindness. The lack of beta-carotene is also attributed to macular degeneration.Plants and vegetables that are bright and colorful are often loaded with beta-carotene. Carrots, pumpkin, dark leafy green and sweet potatoes are all excellent sources.Lutein, a compound found in eye tissue, also aids in preventing macular degeneration. Sources of lutein include spinach, corn and leafy green vegetables. It is also available in over-the-counter supplements.Since free radicals can cause eye damage, eating foods that are rich in antioxidants only stands to reason. Eggs, onions, avocados and asparagus all contain an antioxidant called glutathione, which attacks free radicals and aids in cataract prevention.Other antioxidants that protect against free radicals are vitamin C and vitamin E. Found in fresh fruits and vegetables, vitamin C also protects against cataracts and clouding of the eyes. Foods with the highest vitamin C concentrations per serving are spinach, peppers, broccoli, brussels sprouts and citrus fruits. Vitamin E is difficult to obtain through diet only, but it is available in wheat germ, kale, sweet potatoes, avocados, almonds and blueberries. Vitamins C and E are readily available as dietary supplements, but obtaining them through diet is the preferred method for your body to utilize them.Healthy fats that contain omega-3 fatty acids benefit the eyes as well. They keep the blood vessels and nerves that go to the eyes healthy and young. Excellent food sources of omega-3s are sardines and salmon. Eating two to three portions a week is recommended, and daily dietary supplements also help.
What Not To Eat
Eating the best foods for your eyes can be sabotaged if you continue to include items in your diet that counteract their effects. Caffeine can deplete vitamins and minerals from your body, including the ones necessary for eye health.Foods that are high in preservatives or highly processed also deplete vitamin stores, and are also known to cause inflammation. Inflammation increases pressure around the nerves and blood vessels that go to the eyes, causing poor vision and not allowing proper blood flow to deliver necessary vitamins and minerals to the tissues.Free radicals in our bodies are increased by poor lifestyle choices, such as smoking and stress, and other factors such as pollution. Try as much as you can to limit your exposure to these things as you add the above healthy foods to your diet.
Read more: How Does Diet Affect Eyesight? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how-does_4742978_diet-affect-eyesight.html#ixzz1WxmEQjfd
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WFP is well placed to play a major role in the continuum from emergency relief to development. WFP will give priority to supporting disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation and post-disaster rehabilitation activities as part of development programmes. Conversely, emergency assistance will be used to the extent possible to serve both relief and development purposes. In both cases the overall aim is to build self-reliance.
In carrying out its mandate, WFP will concentrate on what it is best suited to do with the resources available as cost-effectively as possible. WFP will focus on those aspects of development where food-based interventions are most useful. It will make all necessary efforts to avoid negative effects on local food production, consumption patterns and dependency on food aid. WFP will continue to play a major and significant role in providing transport and logistics expertise and assistance to ensure rapid and efficient delivery of humanitarian aid.
WFP's multilateral character is one of its greatest strengths. WFP will exploit its capability to operate virtually everywhere in the developing world, without regard to the political orientations of governments, and to provide a neutral conduit for assistance in situations where many donor countries could not directly provide assistance. WFP will provide services: advice, good offices, logistic support and information; and support to countries in establishing and managing their own food assistance programmes.
WFP, on request, will provide bilateral services to donors, UN agencies and NGOs on the basis of full cost recovery. These will be administered and accounted for separately. Such services will complement WFP's regular operations to the extent possible.
WFP will concentrate its efforts and resources on the neediest people ² and countries in accordance with the CFA's decision to provide at least 90 percent of WFP's development assistance to low-income, food-deficit countries and at least 50 percent of its development assistance to the least developed countries by 1997.
WFP will ensure that its assistance programmes are designed and implemented on the basis of broad-based participation. Women in particular are key to change; providing food to women puts it in the hands of those who use it for the benefit of the entire household, especially the children. WFP assistance will aim to strengthen their coping ability and resilience.
To be truly effective, food aid should be fully integrated into the development plans and priorities of recipient countries and coordinated with other forms of assistance. WFP's starting point is the national policies, plans and programmes of developing countries, including their food security plans. WFP will pull together its activities in an integrated way at the country level so that it can respond to urgent needs as they occur while retaining core development objectives. The country strategy note, where this exists, should provide the framework for an integrated response by the United Nations system. In some special cases WFP will adopt a multi-country or regional approach. particularly for the provision of humanitarian assistance.
No single agency has either the resources or the capacity to deal with all the problems of hunger and underdevelopment. Hence the importance WFP attaches to collaboration with other agencies, particularly with its parent bodies, the United Nations and FAO. WFP will continue to work closely with the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, UNHCR, other relevant agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the response to emergencies and humanitarian crises. WFP will also collaborate closely with the Rome-based United Nations food and agriculture agencies, FAO and IFAD, especially in using food aid for achieving household food security. WFP will continue to forge effective partnerships of action with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, regional bodies and institutions, bilateral donors and NGOs in support of economic and social development.
WFP will play its part as an active member of the United Nations system to bring the issue of hunger to the centre of the international agenda. In its dialogue with recipient governments and the aid community, WFP will advocate policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit the poor and hungry.
¹ FAO/WHO (1992) International Conference on Nutrition
² Normally, poor and hungry people are those who earn less than the equivalent of one dollar a day, or who allocate the majority of their household budget to food.
WFP is the food aid arm of the United Nations system. Food aid is one of the many instruments that can help to promote food security, which is defined as access of all people at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life. ¹ The policies governing the use of World Food Programme food aid must be oriented towards the objective of eradicating hunger and poverty. The ultimate objective of food aid should be the elimination of the need for food aid.
Targeted interventions are needed to help to improve the lives of the poorest people - people who, either permanently or during crisis periods, are unable to produce enough food or do not have the resources to otherwise obtain the food that they and their households require for active and healthy lives.
Consistent with its mandate, which also reflects the principle of universality, WFP will continue to:
- use food aid to support economic and social development;
- meet refugee and other emergency food needs, and the associated logistics support; and
- promote world food security in accordance with the recommendations of the United Nations and FAO.
- to save lives in refugee and other emergency situations;
- to improve the nutrition and quality of life of the most vulnerable people at critical times in their lives; and
- to help build assets and promote the self-reliance of poor people and communities, particularly through labour-intensive works programmes.
WFP is well placed to play a major role in the continuum from emergency relief to development. WFP will give priority to supporting disaster prevention, preparedness and mitigation and post-disaster rehabilitation activities as part of development programmes. Conversely, emergency assistance will be used to the extent possible to serve both relief and development purposes. In both cases the overall aim is to build self-reliance.
In carrying out its mandate, WFP will concentrate on what it is best suited to do with the resources available as cost-effectively as possible. WFP will focus on those aspects of development where food-based interventions are most useful. It will make all necessary efforts to avoid negative effects on local food production, consumption patterns and dependency on food aid. WFP will continue to play a major and significant role in providing transport and logistics expertise and assistance to ensure rapid and efficient delivery of humanitarian aid.
WFP's multilateral character is one of its greatest strengths. WFP will exploit its capability to operate virtually everywhere in the developing world, without regard to the political orientations of governments, and to provide a neutral conduit for assistance in situations where many donor countries could not directly provide assistance. WFP will provide services: advice, good offices, logistic support and information; and support to countries in establishing and managing their own food assistance programmes.
WFP, on request, will provide bilateral services to donors, UN agencies and NGOs on the basis of full cost recovery. These will be administered and accounted for separately. Such services will complement WFP's regular operations to the extent possible.
WFP will concentrate its efforts and resources on the neediest people ² and countries in accordance with the CFA's decision to provide at least 90 percent of WFP's development assistance to low-income, food-deficit countries and at least 50 percent of its development assistance to the least developed countries by 1997.
WFP will ensure that its assistance programmes are designed and implemented on the basis of broad-based participation. Women in particular are key to change; providing food to women puts it in the hands of those who use it for the benefit of the entire household, especially the children. WFP assistance will aim to strengthen their coping ability and resilience.
To be truly effective, food aid should be fully integrated into the development plans and priorities of recipient countries and coordinated with other forms of assistance. WFP's starting point is the national policies, plans and programmes of developing countries, including their food security plans. WFP will pull together its activities in an integrated way at the country level so that it can respond to urgent needs as they occur while retaining core development objectives. The country strategy note, where this exists, should provide the framework for an integrated response by the United Nations system. In some special cases WFP will adopt a multi-country or regional approach. particularly for the provision of humanitarian assistance.
No single agency has either the resources or the capacity to deal with all the problems of hunger and underdevelopment. Hence the importance WFP attaches to collaboration with other agencies, particularly with its parent bodies, the United Nations and FAO. WFP will continue to work closely with the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs, UNHCR, other relevant agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the response to emergencies and humanitarian crises. WFP will also collaborate closely with the Rome-based United Nations food and agriculture agencies, FAO and IFAD, especially in using food aid for achieving household food security. WFP will continue to forge effective partnerships of action with the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, regional bodies and institutions, bilateral donors and NGOs in support of economic and social development.
WFP will play its part as an active member of the United Nations system to bring the issue of hunger to the centre of the international agenda. In its dialogue with recipient governments and the aid community, WFP will advocate policies, strategies and operations that directly benefit the poor and hungry.
¹ FAO/WHO (1992) International Conference on Nutrition
² Normally, poor and hungry people are those who earn less than the equivalent of one dollar a day, or who allocate the majority of their household budget to food.
sábado, 23 de noviembre de 2013
experience
Published on Jul 27, 2013
We depend on experiences, on challenges, to keep us awake. If there were no conflicts within ourselves, no changes, no disturbances, we would all be fast asleep. So challenges are necessary for most of us; we think that without them our minds will become stupid and heavy, and therefore we depend on a challenge, an experience, to give us more excitement, more intensity, to make our minds sharper. But in fact this dependence on challenges and experiences to keep us awake, only makes our minds duller.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
viernes, 22 de noviembre de 2013
lunes, 18 de noviembre de 2013
La obesidad y la diabetes
13 Noviembre, 2013 - 23:40
Credito:
José Juan Reyes / El Economista
La obesidad y la diabetes son enfermedades relacionadas. La segunda acompaña a la primera y llega para quedarse. Actualmente, es la primera causa de muerte en México; le siguen las enfermedades del sistema cardiovascular. Cada hora se diagnostican hasta 38 nuevos casos de diabetes; hasta 55% de quienes la padecen desconoce su estado de salud.
En México, se estima que 6.4 millones de personas tienen diabetes y reciben tratamiento farmacológico, pero sólo 28.8% es monitoreado y 6.8% está consciente de que debe llevar dieta especial y actividad física.
En el marco del Día Mundial de la Diabetes (14 de noviembre) y con base en estudios del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, las instituciones de salud gastan por paciente con diabetes 707 dólares al año; es decir, 9,500 pesos al año, aproximadamente.
Credito:
José Juan Reyes / El Economista
La obesidad y la diabetes son enfermedades relacionadas. La segunda acompaña a la primera y llega para quedarse. Actualmente, es la primera causa de muerte en México; le siguen las enfermedades del sistema cardiovascular. Cada hora se diagnostican hasta 38 nuevos casos de diabetes; hasta 55% de quienes la padecen desconoce su estado de salud.
En México, se estima que 6.4 millones de personas tienen diabetes y reciben tratamiento farmacológico, pero sólo 28.8% es monitoreado y 6.8% está consciente de que debe llevar dieta especial y actividad física.
En el marco del Día Mundial de la Diabetes (14 de noviembre) y con base en estudios del Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, las instituciones de salud gastan por paciente con diabetes 707 dólares al año; es decir, 9,500 pesos al año, aproximadamente.
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