The raw, organic
variety you can literally taste a variety of floral or flowery fragrances in the pollen. With the Rainbow Acres, I taste nothing beyond the cakey pollen. I get sugars from it, and that's good, right? But this Raw Organic and More is absolutely amazing. Compared to the air dried stuff, there is no
comparison. It is rich and deep and
fragrant. Wow! And after spending a few minutes at Raw Organic and More's site, I can see that they offer a lot of excellent products. I know where I'll be shopping for my bee products from now on. Raw Organic & More does carry a fresh Royal Jelly. It comes in two sizes, 2 ozs. for $11, and 8ozs. for $40. But then if you buy online you're going to pay for shipping, and shipping today is expensive; in some cases, costing as much or more than the product itself.
Friday, September 5, 2014
FLOURIDE: JUST BECAUSE
OBAMACARE MEANS HIGHER COSTS
We've all heard about the rising cost of health care in recent
years and many have experienced the effects in their daily lives. Well, the
Wall Street Journal is calling attention to the problem with a piece in which a doctor-lawyer tells the story of
a massive hospital bill that he received after taking his young son for a
precautionary visit to the emergency room.
Here's a portion of
the piece by Dr. Eric Michael David, co-founder and chief strategy officer of
Organovo Inc., a biotech company in California.
As a doctor and a lawyer, I like
to think I'm pretty good at navigating the health-care system. So when my wife
and I found a large swollen bruise on our 3-year-old son's head more than a
week after he had fallen off his scooter, I was confident we could get him a CT
scan at a reasonable cost.
We live near one of the top
pediatric emergency rooms in the country. The care was spectacular. My son was
diagnosed with a small, 11-day-old bleed inside his head, which was healing,
and insignificant.
I was proud to see the
health-care system working, to see academic medicine working, and most of all
to see my son run as fast as he could out of the ER two hours later.
Then the bill arrived, and you
know where this is going: $20,000. Our insurance had already paid $17,000, and
we owed $3,000 out-of-pocket. What for? Among the items listed on the printout
was a $10,000 charge for a "trauma team activation." This made me
want to give consumers some very simple tips on how to fight their health-care
bills, so here goes:
1. Get yourself a job as a doctor
or nurse. I've served on trauma teams in two of the busiest hospitals in New
York City, and I know what a trauma-team activation looks like: doctors, nurses
and residents running and yelling, IV lines, monitors. You know one when you
see one. Nothing like that happened around my son. So I picked up the phone and
told the hospital that the trauma charge was a mistake.
The billing agent explained that
it was hospital protocol to call a trauma team when there is internal bleeding
in a head injury. I argued, correctly, that it wasn't clinically indicated.
2. Have or gather the legal
knowledge to know when you are being lied to. The hospital billing agent wasn't
a physician and couldn't refute my clinical judgment, so she told me it was
"county protocol" to call a trauma in such cases. This was a bluff,
meant to get me off the phone by hiding behind regulations, a very effective
tactic used by hospital administrators.
I called her bluff and said if
she could show me the county regulation requiring a trauma team for an
11-day-old head injury, I'd happily pay my bill. She said she'd have the head
of emergency services call me.
Stuart Varney reacted this morning on America's Newsroom, explaining that David - being a doctor himself - knew how to get through the
"massive levels of bureaucracy" to have the $10,000 charge removed.
The average American, however, may not have the same success.
He emphasized that
the implementation of ObamaCare is not reducing the cost of health care and
many of these stories will surface in the coming years. The Affordable Care Act
also failed to reduce the bureaucracy and red tape involved in medical bills,
he added.
Catch Varney & Co.,
weekdays at 11a ET on Fox Business Network.
How standing might be the best anti-ageing technique
Spending less time on the sofa lengthens 'telomeres' - the caps on chromosomes which protect the genetic code inside
The best anti-ageing technique could be standing up, scientists
believe, after discovering that spending more time on two feet protects DNA.
A study found that too much sitting down shortens telomeres, the
protective caps which sit at the end of chromosomes.
Scientists found that the less time a person spent sitting, the
longer their telomeres, and the greater their chance of living longer.
Short telomeres have been linked to premature aging, disease
and early death. So spending less time on the sofa could help people live
longer by preventing their DNA from aging.
The research found that people who were frequently on their feet
had longer telomeres, which were keeping the genetic code safe from wear and
tear.
Intriguingly taking part in more exercise did not seem to have
an impact on telomere length.
Prof Mai-Lis Hellenius, from Karolinska University Hospital in
Stockholm, said : "In many countries formal exercise may be increasing,
but at the same time people spend more time sitting.
"There is growing concern that not only low physical
activity but probably also sitting and sedentary behaviour is an important and
new health hazard of our time.
"We hypothesise that a reduction in sitting hours is of
greater importance than an increase in exercise time for elderly risk
individuals."
Telomeres stop chromosomes from fraying, clumping together and
"scrambling" genetic code.
Scientists liken their function to the plastic tips on the ends
of shoelaces, and say that lifespan is linked to their length.
Researchers looked at 49 overweight sedentary adults in their
late sixties and measured the length of the telomeres in their blood cells.
Half of them had been part of an exercise program that lasted
six months, while the other half had not.
Physical activity levels were assessed using a diary and
pedometer to measure the amount of footsteps taken each day.
The amount of time spent sitting down was worked out through a
questionnaire.
The study, published in the British Medical Journal, revealed
that although people who did more exercise tended to be healthier, the most
important factor was how much time they spent sitting down.
Scientists found that the less time a person spent sitting, the
longer their telomeres, and the greater their chance of living longer.
The study was published in the British Journal of Sports
Medicine.
Two months ago I discovered Goggles4u where you can purchase a pair of
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I figured with prescription glasses for $9.95, there had to be a catch, but I
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Quality lens, decent frames, and no surprises.
Since then, I've ordered several additional pairs - including prescription
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glasses have arrived as ordered.
Now that I have eight pair of new glasses from Goggles4u, my wife says I need
to stop - she says I don't need anymore glasses.
But today, Goggles4u made me an offer I couldn't refuse. Buy one pair and get
the second one free.
This BOGO offer includes everything from the $9.95 glasses all the way up to
progressive sunglasses on designer frames. So I gave in and ordered two more
pair (progessives and progressive sunglasses). Got both pair for $54.95 plus
shipping. (My local eye doctor wanted $225.00 for one pair of progressives).
Here's what I've learned from my dealings with Goggles4U:
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The raw, organic
variety you can literally taste a variety of floral or flowery fragrances in the pollen. With the Rainbow Acres, I taste nothing beyond the cakey pollen. I get sugars from it, and that's good, right? But this Raw Organic and More is absolutely amazing. Compared to the air dried stuff, there is no
comparison. It is rich and deep and
fragrant. Wow!
