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| CLOSING THE KNOWLEDGE GAP
To close the knowledge gap, both the American Lung Association and A AFA have started programs to alert people who have asthma that most can control their symptoms more effectively.
Asthmatics have learned to live with compromised lives.
Mike Tringale
The American Lung Association introduced a five-question test on its Web site for asthmatics older than age 12. The questions ask how often asthma symptoms keep them awake at night, cause shortness of breath and prevent them from completing work at school or in the office. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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 This is because when two plates are placed near each other, the zero-point waves between the plates are restricted to those that essentially span the gap. Since some wavelengths of the field are excluded, this leads to a disturbance in the equilibrium of the field and the result is an imbalance of energy, with less energy in the gap between the plates than in the outside empty space. This greater energy density pushes the two metal plates together. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 During the 1960s and 1970s, I was to hear over and over again about a so-called "protein gap" in the developing world.4
The protein gap stipulated that world hunger and malnutrition among children in the third world was a result of not having enough protein to consume, especially high-quality (i.e. animal) protein.1'4,3 According to this view, those in the third world were especially deficient in "high-quality" protein, or animal protein. Projects were springing up all over the place to address this "protein gap" problem. |
Jack Challem
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 Carotenoids also play key roles in what scientists call "gap junction communication." gap junctions span the physical gaps between cells and, as the term suggests, they enable one cell to communicate with its neighboring cells. It is through such communication that cells share information about conditions and also whether certain genes should be activated.
More than six hundred carotenoids have been identified, but only about twenty are absorbed from foods in the diet. Of these, beta-carotene, lutein, and lycopene are the most common and probably most important in terms of health. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 Daily Dosage: Two single, doses of drops per day, with one drop per year of the child's age and a gap of 1 hour between doses. To be taken in the morning on an empty stomach. 2 hours later, a purgative is given. Adults should receive 20 drops.
LITERATURE
Bombardelli E et al., (1976) Fitoterapia 47:3.
Gupta GS, Behari M, (1972) J Ind Chem Soc 49:317.
Further information in:
Chan, EH et al., (Eds), Advances in Chinese Medicinal Materials Research, World Scientific Pub. Co. Singapore 1985. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 Males tend to have shorter life spans than females and even though the life-span gap narrows as men live longer, still at the age of 75 and older, there are significantly more women with AD than men.
Long-term effects of the metabolic and hormonal differences between men and women may play a relevant role on the observed age-associated cognitive impairment and behavioral changes. Some studies have considered metabolic differences in cerebral glucose between men and women as an important factor in cognitive decline. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The rate of sediment accumulation in a bog at Flat Laurel gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina remained relatively steady for more than three thousand years and then increased four- to fivefold when land clearance reached the crest of the range around 1880.
Slavery wasn't the only reason that erosion was a bigger problem in the South than in the North. |
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| Proquad can help reduce the gap that exists in the United States between vaccination rates for chickenpox—which were an estimated 87.5% in 2004—and vaccination rates for measles, mumps and rubella—which were an estimated 93% in 2004, Feinberg says. "The main goal for any vaccine is to help eliminate disease, and this is possible when very high vaccination rates are achieved in the community."
There is an obvious advantage to the children. They only get one shot. |
| He is author of The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way and Getting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through Meditation, both from Hay House, www. drwaynedyer.com.
Stress has become so ingrained in modern life that many people assume that the tension and anxiety they experience are normal and unavoidable. Not true.
There is nothing natural about living a life filled with stress and anxiety. Our bodies react by elevating blood pressure, increasing heart rate, causing indigestion, ulcers, headaches, breathing difficulties and other negative responses. |
Joseph Campbell
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| According to the Eddie account, after the "yawning gap" 47 had given forth in the north a mist-world of cold and in the south a region of fire, and after the heat from the south had played on the rivers of ice that crowded down from the north, a yeasty venom began to be exuded. From this a drizzle arose, which in turn congealed to rime. The rime melted and dripped; life was quickened from the drippings in the form of a torpid, gigantic, hermaphroditic, horizontal figure named Ymir. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Always having ingredients for healthy smoothies such as frozen fruit and whey protein, or having weight-loss meal replacement drinks on hand can also fill the gap when you need good nutrition and just can't afford the time to prepare a meal.
Menu Planning with Your Computer
The Internet can make meal planning very easy. There are numerous Web sites that have hundreds or even thousands of recipes, many of which can be used very successfully as part of a weight-loss program. |
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| What this means for you: For now, other antibiotics can fill the gap for ear, sinus and urinary tract infections. Experts do not believe that
Cipro's effectiveness against anthrax has been compromised—but this could change in the future if the antibiotic is overused.
Self-defense: Some of the experts believe that doctors are too quick to prescribe Cipro when another antibiotic would be sufficient. If your doctor prescribes Cipro, ask if another antibiotic could be used. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 This is what's known as the five-nucleon gap. Calculations show that about 23 percent of all nucleons end up in helium, and almost all the rest in hydrogen. Small amounts of deuterium and lithium are also produced.5
Modern analyses, using the latest data on nuclear reactions and extensive computer power, give precise element abundances as they come out of the cosmic furnace. These calculations are in a very impressive agreement with astronomical observations. By studying the spectrum of light emitted by distant objects, astronomers can determine their chemical composition. |
| Despite all their efforts, Gamow and his crew could not find a way to bridge the five-nucleon gap. In the meantime, across the Atlantic, the chief proponent of the steady-state model, Fred Hoyle, was developing an alternative theory for the origin of elements. Hoyle was aware that stars, like our Sun, that burn hydrogen into helium are not hot enough to do the job. But what happens when a star runs out of its hydrogen? Then it can no longer support itself against gravity, so the stellar core begins to contract, with its density and temperature rising. |
| In fact, failure to agree at this level would be a cause for alarm, since any disagreement, even in the eleventh decimal point, would indicate some gap in our understanding of the electron.
Anthropic predictions are not like that. The best we can hope for is to calculate the statistical bell curve. Even if we calculate it very precisely, we will only be able to predict some range of values at a specified confidence level. Further improvements in the calculation will not lead to a dramatic increase in the accuracy of the prediction. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 As the body fails to rise to the challenges of day-to-day living, the gap between one's experience and one's expectations widens. Chronic pain in and of itself is a major cause of stress. Acute pain of the type experienced during childbirth, injury, or surgery also triggers the human stress response. Stress can also result from poor nutrition, too little sleep, too little exercise, and even by imagined experiences, such as frightening dreams or movies. There is almost no end to the things that stress us out.
I do a lot of work with veterans. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| Effects on gap junctions. J. Biol. Chem. 280, 13682-13693.
242. Salonen, T., Sareila, O., Jalonen, U., Kankaanranta, H., Tuominen, R., and Moilanen, E. (2006). Inhibition of classical PKC isoenzymes downregulates STAT1 activation and iNOS expression in LPS-treated murine J774 macrophages. Br. J. Pharmacol. 147, 790-799.
243. Hall, A. J., Tripp, M., Howell, T., Darland, G, Bland, J. S., and Babish, J. G. (2006). Gastric mucosal cell model for estimating relative gastrointestinal toxicity of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Prostaglandins Leukot. Essent. Fatty Acids 75,9-17.
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| Estimating the energy gap among U.S. children: a counterfactual approach. Pediatrics 118, 1721-1733.
CHAPTER 23
Obesity: The Role of Physical Activity in Adults
MARCIA L. STEFANICK
Stanford University, Stanford, California
Contents
I. Introduction 391
II. Current Physical Activity Recommendations for Weight Loss and Prevention of Weight Regain 392
III. Relationship of Physical Activity to Obesity in Populations 393
IV. Energy Expenditure and Etiology of Obesity 395
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| Identifying the energy gap: magnitude and determinants of 5-year weight gain in midage women. Obes. Res 13, 1431-1441.
34. DiPetro, L., Dziura, J., and Blair, S. N. (2004). Estimated change in physical activity level (PAL) and prediction of 5-year weight change in men: The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. Int. J. Obes. 28, 1541-1547.
35. Williams, P. T. (2007). Maintaining vigorous activity attenuates 7-yr weight gain in 8340 runners. Med. Sci. Sports Exerc. 39, 801-809.
36. Williamson, D. R., Kahn, H. S., Remington, P. L., and Anda, R. F. (1990). |
| When young people are provided with safe and healthy activities in which to participate during critical gap periods (e.g., after school, on weekends), they are less likely to have time to participate in the high-risk, unhealthy activities that can delay or derail positive development [253-255].
Community-based after-school programs provide multiple opportunities for teaching and reinforcing healthy patterns of physical activity and eating. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These radical reforms are necessary because the future gap between what the government owes and what it stands to receive in revenues is already monstrously large, and it's growing by the minute. This gap, called the Gokhale and Smetters measure, currently stands at an astonishing $65.9 trillion. (Yes, with a "T".) As Kotlikoff explains, "This figure is more than five times U.S. GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one’s head around $65.9 trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| The discrepancy between calcium intakes and recommendations is a large gap after age 11 years. This is a common problem. Looker [102] compiled calcium recommendations and intakes across the lifespan for 20 countries. The percent of adolescents meeting country-specific recommendations was just over 60% for males and approximately 50% for females. Most children over age 8 years in the United States have calcium intakes below recommended levels. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Test results have shown that Ener-Chi Art may very well fill this gap.
Its rate of effectiveness so far has been 100 percent for every person who has been exposed to it. Due to its unique healing benefits, all the pictures of Ener-chi Art were once exhibited for over one month at the prestigious Abbot Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for all the patients to view. Viewing the pictures is all that is required to achieve the desired results. |
| Over two thirds of the HIV infected Americans have not developed any AIDS symptoms since 1985, and the already huge gap is widening each year. The number of new AIDS cases has actually been leveling off for several years and has dropped dramatically in 1996 despite the fact that the new yearly AIDS cases are always added to the totals of all AIDS victims so far. During the same period, although the new AIDS treatments were only made available in 1996, the number of AIDS deaths across the United States has dropped considerably, with a decrease of 44 percent during the first half of 1997. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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The Old versus the New
There was a time when I considered the members of this profession — charged with bridging the gap between doctor and patient — above reproach. Sure, there would be an occasional "bad apple" who would medicate himself or others because he could, because he had access to legal feel-good drugs. Occasionally, a pharmacist would misread the chicken-scratches that substitute for physician penmanship and dispense medications erroneously. But the well-trained pharmacist, for the most part, efficiently served as first-line educator to patients. |
Devra Davis
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 Despite declarations by industry of their intent to close this gap, in reality it would take dozens of years and billions of dollars to do so. It can take three weeks to approve a new chemical for use and thirty years to remove an old one.
In the past, experimental findings in rodents and small mammals were accepted as indications of human harm. Nowadays the field of experimental carcinogenesis itself has become wracked with debates about how to interpret findings. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 The gap between what is happening in today's top diagnostic research labs and the diagnostic struggles that most patients experience in their doctors' offices is vast.
CAN WE PREDICT WHO WILL DEVELOP TYPE 1 DIABETES?
Nowhere is the ability to predict who will have an autoimmune disease more advanced than in type 1 diabetes research. Here, scientists have been able to identify prediagnostic markers for the disease with staggering accuracy. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks the healthy beta cells— the cells that produce insulin—in the pancreas. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 Today there is an ever-widening gap between the evolution of our biology and our society. We don't have to run from lions, but we're stuck with the instinct, and the fight-or-flight response doesn't exactly fly in the boardroom. If you get stressed at work, would you slap your boss? Or turn and run? The trick is how you respond. The way you choose to cope with stress can change not only how you feel, but also how it transforms the brain. If you react passively or if there is simply no way out, stress can become damaging. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| These radical reforms are necessary because the future gap between what the government owes and what it stands to receive in revenues is already monstrously large, and it's growing by the minute. This gap, called the Gokhale and Smetters measure, currently stands at an astonishing $65.9 trillion. (Yes, with a "T".) As Kotlikoff explains, "This figure is more than five times U.S. GDP and almost twice the size of national wealth. One way to wrap one’s head around $65.9 trillion is to ask what fiscal adjustments are needed to eliminate this red hole. The answers are terrifying. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Plant roots suspended in a 100% humidity, highly oxygenated aeroponic growing chamber" = Plant roots are hanging in a tub of water with a gap of air above the water. All Earth air is "oxygenated" otherwise we would all be dead.
"NASA-tested aeroponic technology" - Maybe NASA tested the technology, but what were the results of those tests? They sure don't use these on the space shuttle.
I don't know about you, but calling a plastic lid a "mini greenhouse" seems like a stretch. By the same definition, a soda cup with a plastic lid might also be called a "mini greenhouse. |
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