Lyme Boss, and owner of The Lyme Boss. Hello, Heather Gray here, Speaker, and Functional Practitioner, I started my health journey when my kiddo, who at the time was almost 2, was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. I became an expert on Celiac. After being on a gluten-free diet for 7 years my kid still complained of tummy aches almost daily. He could not fall asleep at night and had problems with frequent urination. Of course, I took him to the doctors, and they repeatedly told me he was fine and that I should let it go. My mother’s intuition told me there were hidden stressors in my son’s body and I was not going to rest until he was well. Do you feel like something is not quite right with your health? Have you been struggling with chronic pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, or other mysterious symptoms that nobody seems to understand? I know how it feels. I was once in your shoes, dealing with my own health issues while trying to take care of my son’s mysterious health problems. I was diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease, after unknowingly living with symptoms for 28 years. It was a painful and exhausting experience, and I felt like there was no hope.
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Katie Brigham@KATIE_BRIGHAM Over half of all new cars sold in the U.S. by 2030 are expected to be electric vehicles. That could put a major strain on our nation’s electric grid, an aging system built for a world that runs on fossil fuels. Domestic electricity demand in 2022 is expected to increase up to 18% by 2030 and 38% by 2035, according to an analysis by the Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit, or REPEAT, an energy policy project out of Princeton University.
That’s a big change over the roughly 5% increase we saw in the past decade. “So we’ve got a lot of power demand coming to this country when we really didn’t have any for the last, like, 25 years,” said Rob Gramlich, founder and president of Grid Strategies, a transmission policy group.
While many parts of the economy are moving away from fossil fuels toward electrification — think household appliances such as stoves, and space heating for homes and offices — the transportation sector is driving the increase. Light-duty vehicles, a segment that excludes large trucks and aviation, are projected to use up to 3,360% more electricity by 2035 than they do today, according to Princeton’s data. But electrification is only an effective decarbonization solution if it’s paired with a major buildout of renewable energy. “So we have both supply-side and demand-side drivers of big grid needs,” Gramlich said.
That means we need major changes to the grid: more high-voltage transmission lines to transport electricity from rural wind and solar power plants to demand centers; smaller distribution lines and transformers for last-mile electricity delivery; and hardware such as inverters that allow customers with home batteries, EVs and solar panels to feed excess energy back into the grid. It’s not going to be cheap. In a study commissioned by the California Public Utilities Commission, grid analytics company Kevala forecasts that California alone will have to spend $50 billion by 2035 in distribution grid upgrades to meet its ambitious EV targets.
Major grid infrastructure needs. Charging electric vehicles is quite electricity intensive. While a direct comparison with appliances depends on many variables, an owner of a new Tesla Model 3 who drives the national average of around 14,000 miles per year would use about the same amount of electricity charging their vehicle at home as they would on their electric water heater over the course of a year, and about 10 times more electricity than it would take to power a new, energy-efficient refrigerator. Larger electric vehicles such as the Ford F-150 Lightning would generally use more electricity than a central AC unit in a large home. Lydia Krefta, director of clean energy transportation at PG&E, said the utility currently has about 470,000 electric vehicles connected to the grid in its service territory of Northern and Central California and is aiming for 3 million by 2030. Given that PG&E’s territory covers about 1 in 7 electric vehicles in the U.S., how it handles the EV transition could serve as a model for the nation. It’s no easy task. The utility is tied to a four-year funding cycle for grid infrastructure upgrades, and its last funding request was in 2021. Now that funding will definitely fall short of what’s needed, Krefta said.
Workers for Source Power Services, contracted by Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), also repair a power transformer in Healdsburg, California, on Thursday, Oct. 31, 2019. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images
How to prepare the United States power grid for the EV Boom. “A lot of the analysis that went into that request came from, like, 2019 or 2020 forecasts, in particular some of those older EV forecasts that didn’t anticipate some of the growth that we believe we’re more likely to see now,” Krefta said. This situation has PG&E applying for numerous state and federal grants that could help it meet its electrification targets. “I think right now people have an overly simplistic view of what electrification of transportation means,” said Kevala CEO Aram Shumavon. “If done right, it will be phenomenal; if mismanaged, there are going to be a lot of upset people, and that is a real risk. That’s a risk for regulators. That’s a risk for politicians, and that’s a risk for utilities.”
Shumavon said that if grid infrastructure doesn’t keep up with the EV boom, drivers can expect charging difficulties such as long queues or only being able to charge at certain times and places. An overly strained grid will also be more vulnerable to extreme weather events and prone to blackouts, which California experienced in 2020. The most straightforward way to meet growing electricity demand is to bring more energy sources online, preferably green ones. But though it’s easy to site coal and natural gas plants close to population centers, the best solar and wind resources are usually more rural.
That means what the U.S. really needs is more high-voltage transmission lines, which can transport solar and wind resources across county and state lines. But Gramlich said that while we’re constantly spending money replacing and upgrading old lines, we’re hardly building any new ones. “I think we need probably about $20 [million] or $30 million a year on new capacity, new line miles and new delivery capacity. We’re spending close to zero on that right now.” There are major regulatory hurdles when it comes to building new transmission lines, which often cross through multiple counties, states and utility service areas, all of which need to approve of the line and agree on how to finance it.
“If you just think about a line crossing two or three dozen different utility territories, they have a way to recover their costs on their local system, but they kind of throw up their hands when there’s something that benefits three dozen utilities, and who’s supposed to pay, how much, and how are we going to decide?” Gramlich said. Permitting is a major holdup as well. All new energy projects must undergo a series of impact studies to evaluate what new transmission equipment is required, how much it will cost and who will pay. But the list of projects stuck in this process is massive. The total amount of electricity generation in the queues, almost all of which is renewable, exceeds the total generating capacity on the grid today. The Inflation Reduction Act has the potential to cut emissions by about 1 billion tons by 2030, according to Princeton’s REPEAT project. But by this same analysis, if transmission infrastructure buildout doesn’t more than double its historical growth rate of 1% per year, more than 80% of these reductions could be lost.
An ‘in-between period.’ Efforts are underway to expedite the energy infrastructure buildout. Most notably, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., introduced a permitting reform bill in May after similar measures failed last year. President Joe Biden has thrown his support behind the bill, which would speed up permitting for all types of energy projects, including fossil fuel infrastructure. The politics will be tricky to navigate, though, as many Democrats view the bill as overly friendly to fossil fuel interests. But even if the pace of permitting accelerates and we start spending big on transmission soon, it will still take years to build the infrastructure that’s needed.
“There’s going to be an in-between period where the need is very high, but the transmission can’t be built during the time period where the need happens, and distributed energy resources are going to play a very active role in managing that process, because no other resources will be available,” Shumavon explained. That means that resources such as residential solar and battery systems could help stabilize the grid as customers generate their own power and sell excess electricity back to the grid. Automakers are also increasingly equipping their EVs with bidirectional charging capabilities, which allow customers to use their giant EV battery packs to power their homes or provide electricity back to the grid, just like a regular home battery system. Tesla doesn’t currently offer this functionality, but has indicated that it will in the coming years, while other models such as the Ford F-150 Lightning and Nissan Leaf already do.
Ford’s all electric F-150 Lightning offers bidirectional charging which allows customers to use the truck’s EV battery to power their home.
Ford Motor Company There will also likely be greater emphasis on energy efficiency and energy timing use. PG&E, for example, is thinking about how to optimize charging times for large electric vehicle fleets. “One thing that we’re trying to do is to work with some of these companies that are putting in substantial loads to provide flexible load constraints where we can say you can only charge 50 EVs at 7 p.m., but at 2 a.m. you can charge all 100,” Krefta said.
Krefta hopes constraints on charging times are temporary, though, and said that moving forward, PG&E is looking to incentivize consumers through dynamic pricing, in which electricity prices are higher during times of peak demand and lower at off-peak hours. And the utility is working with automakers to figure out how electric vehicles can provide maximum benefit to the grid. “What kinds of things do you need to do in your garage to enable your vehicle to power your home? How can you leverage your vehicle to charge whenever there’s renewables on the grid and they’re clean and low cost and then discharge back to the grid during the evening hours?”
Oil and gas workers in the South are finding new job opportunities in a surprising career field: ‘Any work is good for me.’ Story by Jeremiah Budin. Bloomberg spoke to several oil workers who have seen their job opportunities diminish since oil prices collapsed in 2014, and they all seemed more than amenable to working on clean energy. “[The wind industry] keeps Cajuns working,” Gary Chouest, CEO of Edison Chouest Offshore, a shipyard in Louisiana, told Bloomberg. “I care that there’s work,” shipbuilding project manager Whit Carter told the outlet.
“[I’ve] been out of work for too long, so any work is good for me,” Bernie Dunmiles, a self-described “roustabout” who sweeps and cleans tanks, added. “I’m happy to work on wind.” According to the U.S. Department of Energy, an offshore wind farm built in the Gulf could create almost 4,500 jobs worth $445 million (though those jobs would only last through the construction phase). The Biden Administration has also “taken decisive action to jumpstart the American offshore wind industry,” according to a White House press release. These plans are set to bring in “billions of dollars in investments … including $9.8 billion in new investments in 2022 alone.”
All of this signals positive change for the nascent United States offshore wind industry and for the oil-turned-wind workers of the Gulf region. The main thing throwing a wrench in the gears of the wind industry right now is opposition from certain politicians, who have latched onto the issue in recent years. That opposition is having an impact in Texas, where lawmakers have pushed a series of bills that could make it more difficult to generate clean energy in the Gulf of Mexico.
Science Reveals the Cannabis Industry’s Greatest Lie: You’re Buying Weed Wrong (And So Is Everyone Else) By Chris Roberts
Best Advice in MY Lifetime: You will be hated because you know something they don’t and won’t take the time to tell them….so they won’t have to take the time to read about it!
There’s much more to cannabis than THC—for solid proof, look no further than the CBD boom—but when it comes to moving product on the legal recreational market, only two numbers matter: the list price, and the THC content.
Super-potent cannabis flowers, with THC percentages of 25 percent and up, dominate dispensary shelves. High-THC cannabis will sell out very quickly while lower-percentage weed gathers dust.
When cannabis tests at more than 25 percent THC, dispensaries can justify charging $75 or more for a store-bought eighth—because there’s a very good chance people will pay it, confident that they’re taking home the best and most potent weed available. If the weeds in the teens, well, it had better be cheap.
Dried flower buds of legal cannabis in Switzerland. CBD cannabis like this may be excellent [+]AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
THC shopping is almost as bad and dumb as buying wine based on how cool the label looks (which is also how some people buy weed). Not only does THC content have nothing to do with how “good” the weed is, as recent research conducted by the University of Colorado and published in JAMA Psychiatryfound; THC content is also a poor indicator of potency.
High-THC weed doesn’t even get you “more high”! Researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Institute of Cognitive Science documented the experiences of 121 cannabis users. Half the study participants were users of cannabis concentrates—very-high THC cannabis extracts—and the other half preferred cannabis flower.
Both groups received cannabis at varying “strengths”: flower users tried cannabis flower at either 16 percent or 24 percent THC, and extract users received oil at either 70 percent or 90 percent THC. Researchers checked study participants’ blood and monitored their mood, cognitive function, and intoxication level before, immediately after, and one hour after use.
As the researchers expected, the concentrate users had very high levels of THC in their bodies after use. But they weren’t “higher.” In fact, every participant’s self-reported “highness” was about the same— “as were their measures of balance and cognitive impairment,” as CU noted in a news release. Medium THC flower, high-THC flower— all the same high! This was not what the researchers were expecting.
“People in the high concentration group were much less compromised than we thought they would be,” said coauthor Kent Hutchinson, a professor of psychology who studies addiction, in a CU news release. “If we gave people that high a concentration of alcohol it would have been a different story.”
Consider the cannabis flower users. Sixteen percent THC compared to 24 percent THC is a big difference—50 percent “stronger.” How can users of such different “strength” products report such similar psychoactive effects?
The short answer is a theory that cannabis connoisseurs and cannabis scientists have been saying for years: There are many more factors at play than THC. Put slightly longer: Judging a cannabis strain on its THC content is not unlike judging a film based on the lead actor. The THC number isn’t going to be an indicator of the performance.
(One very large exception to this: edibles. If one edible says it has 100 milligrams of THC, and another says it has 10 milligrams, and you eat the 100, you will absolutely be higher, longer, than if you ate the 10.) There are a host of cannabinoids, including CBD as well as more than 100 others—most of which aren’t even tested for.
(Even if they were, would the average buyer know what to do?) There are also aromatic compounds called terpenes that dictate how cannabis affects the mind and body. All of these work in concert, a phenomenon known as “the entourage effect.” This is why synthetic THC simply didn’t have the same medical effects as smoking weed.
A good way—maybe the best way—to determine if cannabis will be good, or at least good for you, is to smell it. But in legal markets like California, that’s now impossible. Pot is sold in prepackaged containers. And the coronavirus pandemic eliminated what limited opportunities there were to smell cannabis. Some shops let you wave under your nose a designated “smell jar”—a few buds in a container with a perforated lid. No longer.
But back to THC numbers. Cannabis researchers know it’s not an indicator. Cannabis growers and sellers know it’s bogus. And yet, here we are. The market simply hasn’t caught on—and merchants, by putting high-THC cannabis out on the shelves to satisfy the misdirected market demand, are ensuring that the misunderstanding continues.
At that level, despite “an amazing terpene profile, the best smoke I’ve ever had” simply will not sell, he said. “People just don’t understand,” he added. “When people go shopping, they look for two things: they’re looking for price, and they’re looking for THC percentage.” Making A Batch of Cannabis Oil – Bing video
With this much momentum, it’s unlikely science will change anything. It will take a long time for buyers to adjust their habits and realize THC content isn’t like alcohol by volume on a beer label after all. Until they do, connoisseurs can take advantage of the market inefficiency, and take-home superior pot with lower THC levels at a reduced price.
It will just require a little more work on the consumer’s end. But it will also require cultivators of lower THC, higher-high weed to have demand high enough to keep them in business, and that’s far from guaranteed.
The Danger of Synthetic Cannabis
Without drug-testing, there wouldn’t be dangerous and deadly synthetic weed, which has killed dozens. On the potentially lethal subject of synthetic weed, the news, since legalization, is better, but still not great.
Though not wholly harmless, cannabis itself hasn’t killed anyone through overdose or misadventure. But cannabis prohibition absolutely has a body count. Between 2016 and 2019, at least 61 Americans died after exposure to synthetic cannabinoids, according to recent research conducted by scientists at Washington State University and published in the journal Clinical Toxicology. Many more have become violently ill or wracked with disturbing mental or psychological trauma after using synthetic cannabis, with more than 64 percent of 7,600 documented exposures over that time frame requiring medical attention, the study found. (These figures don’t capture the full scope of the problem; synthetic cannabinoids are difficult to detect and use is often only detected after the user is in the hospital or the morgue.)
A broad term used generally to describe a range of potent chemicals, intended to mimic natural plant-based cannabinoids and to bind to many of the same receptors—but in some cases, up to 100 times more powerful; the difference in impact comparable “to the difference between a hose hooked up to a fire hydrant versus a faucet with a slow drip,” in the words of Dr. Patricia Frye, a Maryland-based physician and cannabis expert. “Synthetic cannabis” is banned under federal and state law. (Plant-derived cannabis products created via chemical synthesis, including Delta-8 THC and Delta-10 THC, aren’t in this product category.)
Though not a priority for law enforcement, who still arrested hundreds of thousands of Americans for marijuana possession in 2020, synthetic cannabis is notorious stuff. Most often appearing in large cities, fake weed was the ultimate culprit behind a so-called “zombie outbreak” in 2016 in New York City, after several dozen people exhibited the same troubling dis-associative symptoms after smoking a particularly nasty “incense” product called “AK-47” Karat Gold.
Why would anyone use such dangerous and toxic stuff? And how can policymakers discourage such self-harm and solve what researchers described to Cannabis Now as a “serious health threat”? The obvious answer will not shock you.
Nobody Really Likes Synthetic Weed, But… Initially created in labs to understand how cannabinoid receptors work, synthetic cannabis was never intended for use in humans. And perhaps owing to the nasty side effects, synthetic cannabis use isn’t widespread. Natural cannabis is far more popular. Even the estimated 0.2 to 0.4 percent of the population who do admit to using synthetic weed say they’d prefer natural cannabis. However, there’s some societal “encouragement” for synthetic cannabis use: synthetic weed prohibition turns out to be difficult to enforce. Synthetic cannabis doesn’t contain THC. Users won’t show THC metabolites on a urine screening, and so drug tests can’t detect synthetic cannabis, the study noted. Thus, anyone in a position to want a buzz and avoid punishment for weed, including US service members, may decide that fake cannabis is worth the risk. Users profiled in another recent study, from researchers based in Spain, confirm this ready common-sense explanation: Because drug tests don’t search for synthetic cannabinoids, meaning people worried about losing employment, housing, or other opportunities for a positive drug test are willing to risk serious consequences to achieve something like a weed-like buzz. In other words, drug laws encourage drug users to risk great bodily and mental harm they wouldn’t otherwise risk. They say so themselves. Synthetic cannabinoids “exist as a by-product of prohibition,” said Dr. Ethan Russo, a physician, neurologist and prominent researcher and author.
“Following the law of unintended consequences, the continued pervasiveness of urine drug screening for employment has stimulated the popular appeal of synthetic cannabinoids, which are not detectable on routine laboratory tests,” Russo told Cannabis Now. “The result is considerable attendant morbidity and mortality.”
In some places, this situation is getting worse. According to the researchers’ findings, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry, “synthetic cannabinoids are increasingly gaining popularity and replacing traditional cannabis.” However, that’s not the case in the US, where a simple and popular policy intervention leads to a decline in synthetic cannabinoid exposure (and related deaths and hospitalizations) of more than 37%. Only 5.5% of the synthetic cannabinoid poisonings tracked in the study occurred in states with legalization laws. This magic public-health solution is allowing people to use cannabis safely and legally.
With Synthetic Cannabis, Legalization Saves Lives As the Washington state researchers noted, synthetic cannabinoid exposures declined in the US starting in 2016—the same year that four states (California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada) legalized adult-use cannabis for adults 18 and over. Of the exposures that were recorded, most–-56%–-occurred in states “with restrictive cannabis policies at the time of the exposure,” the researchers wrote. When a state passed a law with a more “permissive cannabis policy,” synthetic cannabinoid exposures reduced by 37%, they added. This amounted to an “association” between “liberal policies (legalization) for natural cannabis and declines in reported synthetic cannabinoid poisonings,” they concluded. “This finding suggests a potential effect of policy change on substance use behaviors that may have long-term public health implications.”
Tracy Klein, the lead researcher and a professor in Washington State University’s College of Nursing, didn’t respond to a request for comment. But other experts, including Frye and Russo and Peter Grinspoon, a Boston-based physician and lecturer at Harvard Medical School, accepted the findings as a strong endorsement for cannabis legalization as a public-health intervention. Synthetic cannabis harms people, but people don’t want to use it when natural cannabis is available. When natural cannabis is available, people don’t use it. Legalization saves lives. Could there be a simpler proposition? “The rules of society have created this problem,” Russo said, “one that should no longer exist once a legal and regulated market for cannabis is established.” “Legalizing cannabis, in the adult-use market, would certainly eliminate the need for experimenting with these potentially deadly chemicals,” Frye said.
I’m an award-winning investigative reporter and I have covered the legalization – and the cannabis industry with a political economy lens for more than a decade. I launched northern California’s first cannabis-centric print vertical and founded San Francisco’s first dedicated drug-policy column. My work’s been featured in VICE, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Deadspin, Observer, Curbed, Leafly News, High Times, SF Weekly, and many other places. I hold a master’s degree in politics from Columbia Journalism School.
So Forth: I wanted to find out for myself firsthand: which nute company dominates in 4 key areas that are most important to me: – stability/ nute cooperation (I don’t want to have a drop of sweat fall in the reservoir and throw off the ph) I also want the EC to be on point to the companies’ provided guidelines, especially if I’m following the instructions properly. – yield (obviously) – growth rate (I want to see you stretch, baby) – root density and health (should look like a healthy mess of tiny tentacles) I accept. It’s not much of a comparison if you’re using completely different seeds. Your results could be purely genetic, and you would never know. Nutrients for plants are a lot like gasoline.
It’s All About the Differences in Gas Blends? It really only matters if it’s so bad the car/plant can’t use it. That’s not to say all fertilizers are the same but if you’re running a lineup that’s marketed towards Cannabis, you’re going to have the stuff you need to feed your plants. Growing is all about balance, because something works once for someone does not mean it will always work for everyone. The most important part is finding what works best for you, there is no one size fits all best answer for any questions related to growing.
Sian Ferguson is a freelance health and cannabis writer based in Cape Town, South Africa. She’s passionate about empowering readers to take care of their mental and physical health through science-based, empathetically delivered information.
“Mango Leaves Reversed My Memory Loss — Now I’m Sharper Than Ever At Age 86!”
New research: mango leaf extract dramatically diminishes brain inflammation to improve memory. By Monica Romano June 28, 2023.
“I don’t believe it,” Leni Hayes sighed as she retrieved her car keys from her freezer, gazing at them in disbelief. “How in the world did these get in here?” For the 86-year-old Bellingham, Washington resident, confusing moments like this were increasing in frequency — and troubling her more and more. Lately, she found herself having to search for words, misplacing essential items, like keys and money, and was embarrassed to admit she had even left her purse behind at the grocery store…multiple times. A retired nurse, Leni couldn’t help but ask the question: What is wrong with me? On its face, there wasn’t much troubling her physically. Except for a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation, a type of heart arrhythmia that causes an irregular, often rapid heart rate and poor blood flow, Leni had always enjoyed excellent health. She had learned that her condition could lead to cognitive decline over time, but her doctor assured her that the blood thinners he had prescribed would help combat this risk.
To boot, Leni was also doing everything she knew to protect her brain health: daily walks, including house walking in inclement weather, gardening and socializing with friends at the senior center. And she was grateful to still be able to drive herself to appointments and church and do her own grocery shopping.
The symptoms of memory loss that made Leni worry. When Leni started being unable to balance her checkbook or follow beloved family recipes from her home country of Germany, panic, frustration and even depression set in. “I can’t lose my independence!” she despaired to her children, who had also noticed the changes and had begun to worry themselves, even suggesting she seek medical attention. But the last time Leni had even hinted at feeling blue to her doctor, the only thing he had to offer her were prescription antidepressants. She had refused at the time due to the potential side effects, and this time, she would not make the same mistake again. “I have to find a solution to my memory issues — and fast.”
The simple solution that changed everything for Leni. At their weekly lunch outing one week, Leni’s daughter pulled a blue bottle from her purse and gave her a comforting hug. “I think I have something that may help you, Mom,” she said, as she handed Leni a bottle of Brain Fog Relief by Life Extension ($19 for a 30-day supply on Amazon). At first, Leni wasn’t convinced it would help her. Her daughter explained that the capsules contained a brain-enhancing nutrient called mango leaf extract. Mango leaves…how can a mango help my brain? Leni wondered, skeptically. Keep reading to discover what a huge difference mango leaf ended up making on Leni’s life.
What are the benefits of mango leaf extract? In many indigenous cultures, mango leaves are lauded for their nutritional value, eaten and made into teas. While most of us know mangos as the sweet, tropical fruit indigenous to India, Asia, Africa and South America, it turns out that the leaves of Mangifera indica, a particular species, have been used since ancient times to treat everything from diabetes to memory loss. Mango leaves are a potent source of several beneficial plant compounds including polyphenols and terpenoids — the latter of which are beneficial for immunity and vision. However, as Leni’s experience demonstrates, where mango leaf really shines is brain health.
The leaves of the mango plant are particularly high in one polyphenol in particular: mangiferin. Also known as mango leaf extract, mangiferin is an antioxidant that helps protect the brain by reducing oxidative stress and braininflammation.
In plain language, mango leaf extract has been shown to calm inflammation in the brain so that folks can think more clearly and remember more of what they learn. And as Leni soon discovered, the benefits of mango leaves were more varied than she ever could have imagined.
What is the best way to consume mango leaves? For Leni, the particularly potent blend of the capsules — which combined mango leaf extract and peppermint oil — was intriguing. But capsules aren’t the only option: Since mangiferin dissolves well in water, mango leaves can be easily extracted into infusions or be sipped as tea. One to try: Mango Leaf Tea by Palm Beach Herbals ($15, Amazon).
The amazing benefits Leni received from mango leaves. For several days, Leni stared at the blue bottle on her kitchen table, unsure of whether or not to try it. “What have I got to lose?” she said to herself. “I’m determined to be independent as long as possible,” she vowed. “It can’t hurt to try.”
After clearing it with her doctor: Leni took her first capsule with breakfast and went out for her daily walk. She was skeptical and unsure if it was helping, but kept taking the mango leaf supplement, enjoying the fact that it did not contain caffeine or make her feel at all jittery. And after the first week, Leni was pleasantly surprised to notice she easily recalled the names and faces of others she would encounter on her walks and she felt more confident and focused. All at once, daily tasks like cooking and paying bills were no longer a challenge. Thrilled, Leni continued to take her mango extract every morning with breakfast, and today, she feels sharper than ever. “If I happen to miss a dose, I can tell the difference,” she shares. “I never want to be without it — the mango is a miracle!”
Mango Fruit and leaves More study-backed benefits of mango leaves.
Regulates insulin: Mangiferin (mango leaf extract) prods the pancreas to release a steady supply of insulin, improving blood sugar control. Researchers have found that taking magniferin daily slashed blood-sugar spikes that can trigger cravings and fatigue by 57 percent. Jumpstarts metabolism: Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine say mangiferin helps pre-digest fatty foods, freeing up the liver to focus on crucial tasks like boosting fat burn and flushing out metabolism-slowing toxins.
Repairs skin: A powerful antioxidant, mangiferin promotes healing of damaged skin cells and speeds the growth of healthy new tissue, say researchers in the scientific journal PloS One. The result? A youthful glow and fewer wrinkles.
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How to Survive if You Fall off a Cruise Ship in the Middle of the Ocean. Sometimes the most unimaginable things can happen. A woman survived after going overboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship and Insider has listed a few things we should know if the same thing were to happen to any of us. Veuer’s Maria Mercedes Galuppo has the story.
In early 2023, she attended the Critics Choice Awards, where she was nominated for her role in ‘Dead To Me.’ She was accompanied by her daughter, Sadie Grace LeNoble, and carried in her hand her elegant cane, which she has openly used to help her walk due to the difficulties resulting from her illness.
Christina Applegate is learning to live with Multiple Sclerosis.
Christina Applegate’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame She occasionally attends a public event and is seen walking with a cane. In November 2022, the actress, barefoot and with her cane, proudly made her first red carpet appearance since she was diagnosed with MS. She was honored to receive her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Family and friends by her side
The actress, with family and friends by her side, said in her emotional speech: “This day means more to me than you can possibly imagine.” It has been about 2 years since Christina Applegate went public with her Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis.
Overcoming hurdle after hurdle Let’s take a look back at her many journeys – from her battles with health to her early stardom – proving her unrelenting resilience, positivity, and strength. In August 2021, Christina Applegate, the 49-year-old icon since her youthful role of Kelly Bundy in ‘Married with Children,’ shared some bad news with the world. As it turned out, she suffered from a disease without a cure.
On her Twitter account, the actress announced:
“I was diagnosed with MS (Multiple Sclerosis). It’s been a strange journey. But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition.” Christina went on to say in her Twitter message: “It’s been a tough road.
But as we well know, the road keeps going. Unless some a***ole blocks it.” In an added message, Applegate wrote: “As one of my friends that has MS said: ‘We wake up and take the indicated action.’ And that’s what I do. So now I ask for privacy. As I go through this thing. Thank you xo.”
What is multiple sclerosis? What consequences will Multiple Sclerosis have for Christina Applegate? It is a neurological disease for which there is no cure and which can cause numerous symptoms, including progressive paralysis. Essentially, Multiple Sclerosis consists of the neurons in our brain losing their transmission capacity, which can affect many bodily functions.
Another actress with Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis occurs relatively more in women than in men. Actress Selma Blair (the cast partner of Christina Applegate in the film ‘The Sweetest Thing’) announced in 2018 that she suffered from the condition. It is common to see her walking with a cane because of the disease.
Not to confuse Multiple Sclerosis with ALS Multiple Sclerosis is different from ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), which is what the famous scientist Stephen Hawking suffered from. ALS often leads to more severe and rapid motor disability. Yet, both types of sclerosis are mysterious diseases and their development is often unpredictable.
A history of cancer
It is not the first time that Christina Applegate has faced a serious health problem: in 2008 People magazine reported that she had breast cancer. Later that year, the actress announced in a statement that she’d been cured completely.
What can medicine do for Christina Applegate?
Multiple Sclerosis has no cure, but there are various options for drugs that attack the symptoms and possibly slow down the development of the ailment. This means one can live with the disease for many years.
Life of an actress Christina Applegate was born in Los Angeles on November 25, 1971, and has been an actress since she was a child. Her role as a bad girl in ‘Married with Children’ (which she played between 1987 and 1997) brought her enormous popularity. Other series and comedies would soon come. In the picture, she’s accompanied by Donovan Leitch and Krystyne Haaje. Christina Applegate became a Hollywood star and an ‘it’ girl of the 90s. Of course, she hung out with other stars of the era, like Brad Pitt.
Christina Applegate with Johnny Depp
She did charitable work with actor Johnny Depp on Fox Television’s ‘Stars Feed the Homeless.’ Applegate was 16 when this photo was taken.
Roles in big comedies, like ‘Friends’ Christina Applegate starred in the series ‘Jesse’ and won an Emmy for her appearance on ‘Friends’. Between 2002 and 2003 she appeared in several episodes of the popular comedy, playing Amy Green, Rachel’s sister.
Samantha Who? Towards maturity The bad girl grew up and continued to make funny movies and TV series. One of them, with a title linking to her first big role, ‘Samantha Who?’, ran from 2007 to 2009.
Christina Applegate: two marriages
Christina Applegate was married twice. The first time was with Johnathon Schaech and lasted from 2001 to 2007.
Her husband Martin LeNoble: With Martyn LeNoble, her husband since 2013, Christina Applegate had a daughter, Sadie Grace LeNoble.
Life with Multiple Sclerosis
Despite multiple sclerosis, life goes on for Christina Applegate. As she herself says, it’s a tough road, but the road goes on.
An Extreme New Treatment Has Cured Patients of MS HEALTH 10 June 2016. By DAVID NIELD
An extreme new treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) has been shown to stop the disease in its tracks, hinting at the possibility of a cure.
In a 24-person clinical trial based in Canada, one person who was previously confined to a wheelchair was able to live a normal life again after receiving the treatment.
But there’s a catch – the treatment is so severe, it caused one fatality, so the team behind it is now working on refine the drugs and procedures involved to make them safe for all MS sufferers.
The new treatment was actually discovered by accident by a team at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute in Canada, through their work with patients diagnosed with both leukemia and multiple sclerosis.
One way of tackling the cancer is by extracting bone marrow cells, killing off the remaining immune cells, then injecting the bone marrow (once purged of cancer) back into the body to repopulate the immune system.
It turns out this immune system ‘reboot’ is also very effective at fighting MS. The disease causes the immune system to attack the protective coating that shields nerve cells in the brain, spinal cord, and nervous system. And after noticing the positive results on the condition in leukaemia patients, the researchers decided to trial the new technique just on MS patients, to try to flush out the immune system and effectively start again.
The treatment is designed to stop the progress of MS, but in many cases, it’s actually reversing the progress of the disease, suggesting that the nervous system can sometimes repair itself after MS takes hold, reports Clare Wilson for New Scientist.
The trial began in 2000, and overall, 17 of the 24 people involved in the study saw their MS halted or reversed. It’s not an easy treatment to undergo, because of some rather dramatic and debilitating side effects, and it’s currently only being offered to those with severe MS – patients who are essentially left without a functioning immune system for a period of time. That said, its potential is huge if doctors can figure out how to make it safer.
“Everyone is hesitating to use the ‘c word’, but these patients are cured,” senior scientist Michael Rudnicki of the Ottawa Health Research Institute in Canada, who wasn’t directly involved in the research, told Vox.
[One of the trial patients] “Jennifer Molson was in a wheelchair in a rehab centre, unable to work. And now she’s skiing, she’s working, she got married, and got her driver’s license. I think this is going to be the new standard of care for progressive MS.”
Jennifer Molson, who had chemotherapy-stem cell transplant therapy back in 2002, is now MS-free: “I haven’t had any MS symptoms in 14 years. And I’m not on any MS medications.” The “miracle” was made possible by using the same technique used in leukemia patients wherein doctors take bone marrow from a donor and transplant it into a recipient. But this time, they used the technique to entirely wipe out the patient’s immune system, thereby eradicating the problem. They then put back stem cells, which begins to grow into a new immune system in the patient. While the procedure may sound logical, it must be stressed that it is a very aggressive and risky treatment, and the possibility of death, while undergoing treatment, is entirely possible.
Reversal of Multiple Sclerosis Via Risky Stem Cell Treatment Confirmed (futurism.com) Jennifer Molson was 21, juggling a day job and night school to pursue her dream of becoming a cop, when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. She woke up one morning with pins and needles in her hand, and within a week she couldn’t move her left arm.
By 2001, five years later, she was living in the Ottawa Hospital under 24-hour care, getting around using a cane, walker, or wheelchair. When she was discharged on weekends, to spend time with her then-boyfriend Aaron, she had to rely on him for her every need. He’d cut her food into bite-size pieces, and bathe and dress her. When she lost control of her bladder or bowel, he’d help her go to the bathroom.
“I had no feeling from the chest down,” Molson says. “I could touch something boiling on the stove and burn myself. I could touch fabric without knowing whether it’s sandpaper.” For patients like Molson, with a severe form of MS and no response to the available medications, there’s little hope.
Two years later, her life had taken an abrupt turn. “I walked down the aisle and danced at my wedding, something I had always dreamed of doing,” she said of her marriage to Aaron in 2003.
Now, 15 years later, Molson is still skiing and kayaking on the weekends. She works as a research assistant at Ottawa Hospital.
What happened is something even esteemed medical specialists are venturing to call a “miracle”: The particularly aggressive MS that was on track to disable Molson entirely — and potentially kill her — is now virtually eliminated from her body.
The game changer for Molson was an experimental chemotherapy and stem cell bone marrow transplant she got in 2002 as part of a study in Canada. Molson was one of a small cohort of 24 people with MS who received the high-risk therapy. Of the 24 patients, 70 percent saw the progression of their disease halted or reversed.
Their experience, documented in a paper published today in the Lancet, is the first to describe any MS treatment that fully stops the disease over the long term without MS medication.
“Everyone is hesitating to use the ‘c word,’ but these patients are cured,” says Michael Rudnicki, director of the Regenerative Medicine Program and the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Ottawa Health Research Institute, who was not involved with the research. “Jennifer Molson was in a wheelchair in a rehab center unable to work. And now she’s skiing, she’s working, she got married, got her driver’s license. I think this is going to be the new standard of care for progressive MS.”
“My greatest hope was that the disease would stabilize” MS affects about 2.5 million people around the world, particularly women in more temperate climates like Canada and the northern US.
Instead of protecting the body from foreign invaders, in patients with MS the immune system turns on its host, wreaking particular damage on the myelin, a protective coating around the nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord.
Eventually these attacks can severely damage and destroy the nerves and myelin, interrupting the communication between the brain and body and also leading to symptoms like numbness, trouble walking, and even blindness.
But not all patients’ symptoms manifest in the same way. People with “relapsing remitting” disease experience MS in fits and starts — their symptoms show up for a few days or weeks, followed by weeks, months, or even years of remission.
For most patients with this version of the disease, those periods of remission get smaller over time and eventually disappear, moving them into a new phase of disease known as “secondary progressive MS.”
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Other patients experience something even more insidious and grinding. It’s called “primary progressive MS,” and instead of bouts of remission they see a continuous increase in symptoms accompanied by a decline in health.
Molson had secondary progressive MS at the time of her treatment in 2002. She had tried medication, and nothing worked.
Her doctor, Mark Freedman (one of the authors on the Lancet paper), told her the stem cell transplant wasn’t going to cure her, but at best, if the procedure went well, her health wouldn’t worsen.
“My greatest hope was that the disease would stabilize,” Molson says. “I looked at Aaron, [now] my husband, and said, ‘If I don’t do this, and it proves to work, I’d be kicking myself if my disease progressed.’ It felt like I really didn’t have a choice.”
How stem cells gave Molson a new immune system. Once she was accepted into the study, doctors began the procedure. They first put her through a short course of chemotherapy to stimulate the production of hematopoietic stem cells, which regenerate the immune system, in her blood. They then hooked her up to a machine that cycled through her blood 32 times over the course of seven hours, in order to collect stem cells. Those stem cells were then purified, wiped of any memory of the disease, to later be transplanted into Molson through a blood transfusion.
The most trying part of the treatment: Molson had to endure 10 days of chemotherapy. The doctors were essentially killing off her diseased immune system, only to later replace it with a new one in the form of her own purified stem cells. But the experience was grueling. Molson likened it to “hell.”
“I had a feeding tube because I was constantly nauseous,” she says. “I couldn’t keep my food down.” Growing a new, disease-free immune system meant Molson’s body had to relearn how to defend itself from disease-causing bacteria and viruses. She had to get her childhood vaccines again. But she was also more vulnerable to infection, and wound up developing a blood infection, shingles, and serious bladder infections shortly after the transplant.
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“It took me at least a year before I started to feel human again,” Molson says. Around a year and half after the transplant, she began to slowly return to some likeness of her pre-MS self: She was walking without using a cane, she could shop in the grocery store again, and eventually she didn’t need to nap every afternoon.
“I thought, Maybe I can go back to work,” she says. By 2006, four years after her treatment, she returned to work full time. (She chose to work at the Ottawa Hospital, she said, after seeing firsthand how research can change people’s lives.)
Molson, now 41, says, “I haven’t had any MS symptoms in 14 years. And I’m not on any MS medications.” That’s a big deal given that the medications usually involve daily pills or frequent injections.
But treatment has also left her several unpleasant side effects. Because the chemotherapy damaged her ovaries and put her into early menopause, she’s on hormone replacement therapy — and wouldn’t be able to get pregnant. While she was given the chance to harvest her eggs, she declined. “I couldn’t look after myself, how could I raise children?,” she says. “Remember, I wasn’t supposed to get better.”
She also has to be extra cautious about any exposure to infections. “I was at the dentist three weeks ago, and I had to be on antibiotics before I went for a teeth cleaning,” she says. “There are still parts of the immune system that you have to be careful about.”
Molson’s hair never fully grew back, and she also contends with daily heartburn and digestive issues, which she takes medications for. Otherwise, Molson says she feels as good as she did when she was 21, before her diagnosis. “I don’t take anything for granted. I got a second chance at life.” Only 5 percent of MS patients will be eligible for this treatment.
The study that gave Molson this chance was impressive in its scope and its execution — conducted at multiple hospitals by hematologists and neurologists in Canada and lasting nearly 20 years, from conception to publication. It built on decades of basic research about MS, stem cells, and the immune system, including years of experience using the treatment in patients with blood and bone marrow cancers like leukemia and lymphoma.
Other scientists have already seen promising results in MS patients using similar treatment protocols, but none have managed what Atkins’s team has: to completely halt the disease’s attack on the brain —no relapses, no new MRI lesions in all surviving patients — and for such a long follow-up period.
Several researchers who were not involved with the experiment — and who typically are reserved about novel treatments — told Vox they were excited and hopeful for the treatment’s potential to benefit others with the disease.
“I think this is going to be the new standard of care for progressive MS,” said Rudnicki.
“It’s exciting — an important proof of principle,” said Jeffrey Gelfand, a neurologist specializing in MS at the University of California San Francisco.
Tim Caulfield, a University of Alberta professor who has been tracking stem cell research, noted the difference between this robust finding and the unfounded claims in stem cell clinics around the world: “This is a fascinating development … [and] a good example of the difference between the real clinical research and what is being marketed by the clinics providing unproven therapies — you can’t simply ‘inject’ stem cells and expect significant results.”
Still, there are major caveats to consider. This study was small and lacked a comparison or control arm. Similar, larger studies are needed to confirm the results, and it’s not clear what will happen to patients like Molson in the much longer term.
Ottawa Hospital hematologist Harry Atkins, the researcher who led the study, pointed out that only about 5 percent of MS patients would be eligible for this treatment: again, the minority who have an aggressive form of MS that’s not responding to any treatment.
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And not everyone in the study had results like Molson’s. Of the 24 patients, 70 percent saw the progression of their disease halt or reverse, but the other 30 percent continued to worsen.
That minority who didn’t respond, the researchers think, had MS that was already too far along by the time of their treatment. “At early stages, once the immune system quiets down, the brain can partially heal itself, so the disability tends to get better,” Atkins explained. “But as time goes on, the brain can’t repair itself.”
One patient died, which puts the potential for death from this procedure at around four percent, and severe infections after stem cell treatments — the kind Molson picked up, or worse — are also common.
Since there are other MS medications that are much less toxic and can help some patients, doctors only recommend considering this therapy as a last resort. (Theoretically, the treatment could be done in most blood and marrow transplant centers associated with major hospitals, Atkins said, but there are only a few that perform the procedure. Interested patients can contact the MS Society for more information.)
There’s also the cost: Atkins put it at about $50,000 to $65,000 per patient — and that’s if nothing goes wrong. (Although, MS medications now cost about as much for patients every year in the US so this therapy could actually be a money saver.)
And there are questions about the very long-term effects. It’s not clear what the next 10, 20, or 50 years look like for patients like Molson.
“We know in the long term survivors from groups that have their transplants for cancer and they’re cured and they live a long time,” Atkins said, “that they have a higher incidence of the general population of other diseases [such as heart disease and cancers].”
Already, Atkins and his team have been working on other applications for this stem cell procedure. They managed to reverse “stiff-person syndrome” — a rare neurological disease that causes the muscles in the body contract to the point of complete immobilization — in one patient. And there’s talk of applying the treatment to myasthenia gravis, another incurable autoimmune disease.
Cures in medicine are extremely rare. It’s still too early to label this treatment a cure for MS. “We have only followed our patients for up to 13 years,” Atkins said, “so it’s hard to say what the next 10 to 20 will bring. You’d want to know that before you’d call this a cure.”
For now, though, Atkins will use the word miracle. “It still appears like a miracle to me to see patients recover, and get back to the things that they were supposed to do in life,” he said. “It is very rewarding to see and it wasn’t what we expected, and we are overjoyed about it to know this treatment can help people in that way.”
“I took a leap of faith,” Molson told New Scientist. “I felt like I would be kicking myself if I didn’t take this chance.”
Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the worldwide prevalence of MS.
Currently, MS treatments involve trying to limit the effects of MS and reduce the number of flare-ups, though they’re not a cure, and don’t work for all patients. At this point, scientists still aren’t sure why MS causes the immune system to attack the nerve cells, but think the reboot might wipe such programming from its memory.
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The Doctor’s Farmacy with Mark Hyman M.D. Get my top tips for optimal health and vitality: https://bit.ly/MarksPicks Think about how different our medical system would be if all doctors were required to have an extreme health crisis before practicing medicine. It’s through those toughest times with our own health that many of us turn to Functional Medicine, as we realize conventional care isn’t getting us what we need. But sometimes, being so involved in treating others’ diseases makes it difficult for doctors to even see our own symptoms for what they really are. This week’s guest on The Doctor’s Farmacy, Dr. Cynthia Li, is here to share her personal journey through autoimmunity and realizing her symptoms had deeper meaning. Dr. Li received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. She’s also practiced as an internist in many settings, including Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco General Hospital, and St. Anthony Medical Clinic serving the homeless.
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The cities where more than 120 MILLION Americans are under ‘very unhealthy’ air quality alerts. Story by Joe Hutchison for Home | Daily Mail Online
More than 120 million Americans are now under ‘very unhealthy’ air quality warnings New York is likely to fall into the ‘unhealthy’ category as smoke from wildfires in Canada continues to move south. It comes amid fears that the conditions could compound already ongoing travel chaos over the Independence Day weekend
More than 120 million Americans are now under ‘very unhealthy’ air quality alerts, with Chicago, Cleveland, Maryland and Pittsburgh the worst affected. Smoke from Canada‘s raging wildfires have drifted south over the past few days leaving dozens of states in the north east of the country under a thick smog. A Code Red alert, a warning of unhealthy air, was issued for much of the Midwest and Washington DC on Wednesday. Several cities across Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Iowa were also experiencing ‘very unhealthy air’ according to AirNow.
The National Weather Service has warned that, with no end in sight to the Canadian wildfires, poor air quality is likely to continue. It comes amid fears that the smoke could compound already ongoing travel chaos over the July 4 weekend.
Pittsburgh: Haze from Canadian Wildfires hangs over downtown Pittsburgh and PNC Park as baseball fans take their seats before a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Diego Padres Thursday
Chicago is currently ranked as the worst city, with an air quality of 166, while Washington DC takes the third spot with a reading of 151.
Chicago: In this aerial view, Marine One with US President Joe Biden flies over a hazy Chicago on Wednesday Minneapolis is currently recording an air quality of 111, Detroit is just below it with 107 and New York City follows with a reading of 98.
Milwaukee: People cross the street in downtown Milwaukee Thursday as Canadian smoke engulfs the horizon
Detroit: A freighter passes through the Detroit River as smoke fills the sky reducing visibility to Windsor, Ontario, on Wednesday
According to an online calculator created via Berkeley University, it was found that an AQI score of 64 translates to one cigarette smoked in a 24-hour period. Based on those calculations, people in Chicago are currently smoking 22.5 cigarettes every day due to the surrounding smoke. The smoke is made up of dangerous nanoparticles small enough to penetrate the bloodstream, and people have reported side-effects including irritation to the eyes and throat and breathing problems. The New York City Health Department is urging people to take precautions as the smoke is expected to ‘significantly impact’ air quality and warned it could reach hazardous levels. On Wednesday, eerie pictures showed the US Capitol submerged in thick smoke from the wildfires. Currently, there are 500 active fires in Canada according to the Forest Fire Centre, with five new fires popping up today – 257 of these have been classified as being out of control, with 84 being held and another 159 under control.
It comes just three weeks after New York City was enveloped by the smoke, turning the sky an apocalyptic shade of orange and triggering numerous health warnings. At the time, health experts also warned breathing the fog can be as damaging as smoking 22 cigarettes a day. It comes as travelers at airports across the country have faced misery in the week leading up to the July 4 celebrations, with scores of would-be passengers left stranded. While the reason given for the delays and cancellations is said to be weather related the smoke could exacerbate the issues. When the smoke previously hit the east coast of the U.S. earlier this month, the Federal Aviation Administration announced ground stops for New York’s LaGuardia. Flights into Philadelphia had also been impacted due to the smoke, delaying passengers.
Pearl Harbor was a true tragedy. It’s sometimes difficult to get the full story about an event from one place. Artifacts are spread all over and are often divided among different monuments of the event. One event in American history that those general rules don’t apply to is the December 7th, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Though you’ll find different memorials and honorary plaques around the globe, there’s only one place where you find such a concentration of museums, memorials, and monuments of Pearl Harbor, and that’s the spot where the attack occurred. An extensive collection of relics pulled from the remains of the attack, a series of memorials featuring actual vessels that took part in the assault, and a series of museums and exhibits help to bring together everything you need to know about the Japanese surprise attack.
The Exhibits The first feature visitors encounter at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument is the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. Acting as an introduction to the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Visitor Center is filled with relics from the time, including newspaper clippings about the attack and the war. Two exhibits, “Road to War” and “Attack!” that paints a broad picture of the attack and the events leading up to it. Before heading to the USS Arizona Memorial, guests see a short documentary about the attack, giving further insight into the Japanese assault.
The Memorials of Pearl Harbor Arizona Memorial Shuttle Boat
The most striking feature of the Valor in the Pacific National Monument is the series of memorials dedicated to the mighty vessels that once sailed with the United States Navy. The USS Arizona Memorial pays tribute to the over 1,100 men who perished when the Arizona sank to the bottom of the harbor in the early moments of the attack. Constructed above the actual wreckage of the ship, the memorial drives home the tragedy of the attack.
Where the Arizona Memorial spotlights tragedy, the Battleship Missouri and Bowfin submarine highlight the hope and determination that sparked in the US after the attack. Though neither vessel was part in the Pearl Harbor attack, the Bowfin was launched on the one-year anniversary, also earning it the name “Pearl Harbor Avenger.” The Missouri served as the site for the signing of the Japanese surrender documents, officially putting an end to World War II. Aboard both the Pearl Harbor Avenger and the “Mighty Mo,” guests can get a glimpse of what life was like for the men living aboard the vessels.
The Museums of Pearl Harbor
In addition to the exhibits at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center and the Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park, the Pacific Aviation Museum is an in-depth look into military aircraft used during World War II and other conflicts. Featured is the Mitsubishi Zero, the fighter responsible for strafing Pearl Harbor and the nearby airbases on December 7th, 1941. The museum expands beyond the attack on Pearl Harbor, showing off some more modern aircraft that participated in more recent conflicts.
Story by By JERUSALEM POST STAFF How Did the Titanic Sub Implode? 7 Theories (msn.com) While the exact reason behind the implosion is yet to be determined, several theories shed light on the possible factors at play. The extreme pressure, design flaws, fatigue, delamination, nonstandard design choices, lack of independent testing, and failure to heed warning signs all form part of the complex puzzle surrounding this tragic event.
All five people aboard the Titan submersible have been pronounced dead by the US Coast Guard after several days of round-the-clock searching for the lost vessel. Although the bodies of those aboard have not been found, debris from the submersible was located and authorities said that the debris was consistent with signs of a “catastrophic implosion” which destroyed the submersible and killed the passengers inside.
The Titan, which was on an expedition to visit the wreckage of the Titanic, set off from St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada on Friday, June 16 and began its descent to the site of the famous shipwreck at 8 A.M. on Sunday, June 18. Communication between the sub and the surface was lost about an hour and 45 minutes into its descent. It was scheduled to return to the surface at 3:00 p.m. but never reappeared. The coast guard was notified about the missing vessel a few hours later, and by Monday a massive search and rescue operation was underway. Officials stated that if the sub was still intact and those aboard were still alive, they had between 70 and 96 hours of oxygen left. The search continued in a race against the clock until pieces of the submersible were found on Thursday, approximately 12,500 feet below the surface and 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic wreck. US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger stated in a press conference that the debris found was “consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber.” The sub’s hull is still missing but authorities confirmed that debris would only have been found in the case of an implosion.
“On behalf of the US Coast Guard and entire unified command, I offer deepest condolences to the families. I can only imagine what this has been like for them, and I hope this discovery provides some solace during this difficult time.” Rear Admiral John Mauger
Experts agree on Titan’s implosion David Russell, a former Royal Navy submariner who led the UK’s search for the Kursk submarine in 2000, told Sky News that the pressure hull is where the passengers would have been sitting.
David Mearns, a dive expert and friend of Titan passengers Hamish Harding and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, told the BBC that the debris includes “a landing frame and a rear cover from the submersible,” and that it confirmed what experts had feared about the sub’s fate from the beginning. “The only solace in any of it is they didn’t suffer for four days,” Mearns said in an interview with the BBC, as he expressed his grief at the loss of his friends and the other passengers. Ofer Ketter, co-founder of a private submersible company called Sub-Merge, told the New York post that if something breached the hull and caused a sudden loss of pressure within the vessel, the implosion would have happened in a millisecond, maybe even a nanosecond. “They never knew it happened, which is actually very positive in this very negative situation,” Ketter said of the five victims.
“It was instantaneous – before even their brain could even send a type of message to their body that they’re having pain.” Oceanographer and Harvard University professor Dr. Peter Girguis told the New York Post that the submersible was similar to a scuba tank. “When a scuba tank is overfilled there’s a safety device that releases gas very quickly. At least that’s the plan,” Girguis said. “When you take the equivalent of a scuba tank and you want it to hold the pressure out, it’s a different story – because if you go beyond the strength of the vessel, then it crushes or collapses.” While Girguis agrees that the implosion was sudden, he clarified that we could not know for certain what the five victims on the Titan experienced in their final moments. “We tend to believe they are swift and they tend to be complete, I want to emphasize again, we don’t exactly know,” he told the Post.
The implosion of the Titan submersible during a dive at the Titanic wreck site has triggered investigations into the causes of this disaster.
‘Submarine implosion’ videos viewed by millions after Titanic vessel’s ‘catastrophic’ disaster (msn.com) Digital and animated reenactments of what the submersible’s implosion may have looked like from the outside are being shared on TikTok. One haunting video showed the Titan sub plummeting towards the ocean floor before entirely crumpling in on itself like a crushed can. “The instant collapse of the pressure, the hull would immediately heat the air in the sub to around the surface of the sun’s temperature, as a wall of metal and seawater smashed one end of the boat to the other, all in around 30 milliseconds,” the caption reads. Another video depicts a military submarine floating above the sea floor before suddenly flattening, curling up, then bursting into pieces. “So this is essentially what happens when a submarine implodes underwater,” the narrator says. “It’s very instantaneous as far as death when it comes to any lives that may be onboard.” The US Coast Guard and other experts have stated that the bodies of the five victims may never be recovered, due to the unforgiving nature of the deep sea environment on the ocean floor and the fact that the violent implosion means there may not be any remains left to recover.
Wife of Missing Sub Pilot Related to Titanic Victims – Search (bing.com) Wendy Rush, the wife of OceanGate CEO and missing tourist sub pilot Stockton Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Titanic victims, Isidor and Ida Straus. The Strauses were co-owners of the Macy’s department store. Ida refused to leave the doomed vessel on a lifeboat without her husband. In the present day, their family is divided. Rush’s cousin, Brett Gladstone, says he opposes tourist trips to the wreckage.
‘Catastrophic implosion’: Red flags come to light following Titanic sub’s demise Key mistakes have come to light after officials say all five passengers onboard a titanic sub died following a “catastrophic implosion.”
Titanic Sub Implosion Families and friends grieve for the five occupants killed on board the Titan submersible which imploded during a deep ocean dive to the wreck of the Titanic.
Who Were the Titanic Sub Passengers? All 5 Confirmed Dead ET is learning new details about the five submersible passengers who died in a ‘catastrophic implosion’ during a Titanic wreckage expedition. Among them were Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman, and Titanic researcher Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
CBS News’ David Pogue on “catastrophic implosion” of Titanic submersible Five people on the submersible voyage to the Titanic are presumed dead after the U.S Coast Guard confirmed a “catastrophic implosion of the vessel.” CBS “Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue joins “CBS Mornings” to discuss his own experience on the sub in 2022, and the impact of this tragedy.
Beyond Harrowing Details About The Missing Titanic-Bound Sub The world is watching the desperate search for a lost submersible – and conditions on board the vessel may be worse than what you imagined. #Submarine #Missing #Titanic Voiceover By: Tim Bensch Read Full
A tragic end to the search for a submersible near the Titanic. As tensions rise with China, President Biden hosts India’s prime minister despite controversy over his human rights record. All that and all that matters in today’s Eye Opener.
Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World: Certain Hope In Uncertain Times – Bing video Description: New York Times bestselling author, Dr. David Jeremiah updates his classic book, Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World, offering biblically based, practical instruction for living a confident life in a world filled with chaos and crisis. “Let not your heart be troubled . . .” Confidence can be hard to come by these days. People are losing their jobs, their houses, and their life savings at an unprecedented rate. Violence, natural disasters, and moral depravity seem to be skyrocketing. In the midst of all this chaos, we need to know . . . what on earth should we do now? David Jeremiah brings a message of hope and confidence from the priceless counsel of the Word of God. He answers our most urgent questions, including: How can we weather this storm with a calm heart? What does it truly mean to “wait on the Lord”? What is Jesus saying to our chaotic world today? How on earth did we get into this mess? Can we take a broken world and rebuild it into something fruitful? Living with Confidence in a Chaotic World shows us all that with the power and love of Almighty God, we can live with confidence in this age of turmoil.
Titanic sub tragedy stokes fears for space tourism (msn.com) Inside the OceanGate Titan tragedy – Search (bing.com) This week a submersible carrying passengers to the site of the wreck of the Titanic disappeared in the North Atlantic; all five aboard perished in a catastrophic implosion. Correspondent David Pogue, who rode in the same underwater vehicle last year, reports on this latest disaster, and looks back on his interviews with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and deep-sea explorer P.H. Nargeolet, who were among those killed.
Ross and Hugo Turner are identical twins who conduct fitness experiments on themselves. For 12 weeks, Hugo worked out for 20 minutes and Ross did twice as much, exercising for 40 minutes. Their physiques, strength, and fitness improved almost exactly the same amount. The identical twins Hugo and Ross Turner — known as the Turner Twins — are no strangers to a challenge. The professional adventurers have done all sorts of things in a bid to explore every corner of the world. They have rowed the Atlantic, climbed Mount Elbrus, and trekked Greenland’s polar ice cap. They’re currently trying to reach the most remote locations on each continent and ocean on the planet. But they are equally fascinated by the human body. In between their expeditions, the twins, 34, carry out experiments on themselves to understand how two genetically identical people react to different diets and workout regimes. Their latest challenge is designed to test whether working out for longer is more beneficial than short spurts of exercise.
Hugo worked out for 20 minutes at a time, and Ross worked out for 40 minutes. They compared their strength, fitness, and body composition over 12 weeks.
Ross told Insider that their results were “eye-opening.” Despite working out twice as much as his twin brother for three months, Ross said he saw next to no difference between their physiques or physical performances at the end of the experiment.
They did the same strength-building workout, but Ross did twice as many reps The twins, who are based in London, followed their usual identical diet — they are usually together so they eat practically the same thing. They didn’t track their food but estimated that they were eating about 2,000-2,500 calories a day. In each session, the twins would do a 20-minute workout together, which typically involved four exercises. When Hugo finished, Ross would repeat the workout again. They generally worked out for two or three consecutive days before taking a rest day. The twins lifted the same weights and performed the same number of reps. They performed four sets of each exercise in the higher rep range of 14 to 16 as this build’s endurance, which is important for their expeditions — rather than lifting heavier weights with fewer reps, which aids strength-building.
How they measured the experiment Ross and Hugo weighed themselves at the start and the end of the experiment. Ross was about three pounds heavier than Hugo to start with. They also noted their one-rep-max for a deadlift and a bench press — the heaviest weight they could perform for one rep — and how many push-ups and pull-ups they each could do.
Next, they measured their “VO2 submaximal” — a measure of cardiovascular fitness — by cycling on an exercise bike with the same resistance level for 15 minutes at a set speed while measuring their heart rates. Lastly, they took a body scan every time they went to the gym to measure their weight and body composition.
A shorter workout was just as beneficial, they concluded “The biggest finding was that we didn’t really find a huge amount of performance difference between 20 or 40 minutes, if at all,” Ross said.
Each twin was able to do one more pull-up than usual by the end of the experiment, despite not doing any specific pull-up-focused training. They lifted the same amount when they compared deadlifts at the end, too. Hugo — who was on the lighter workout regime — managed 13 more push-ups at the end compared to when he first started, while Ross only did two more, despite exercising more for three months. Ross, however, increased his max bench press by 5 kilograms, or about 11 pounds, more than his brother. As for their cardio fitness, Hugo’s heart rate at the end of the experiment was higher than Ross’, who worked out for longer. A lower heart rate is a sign of greater cardiovascular fitness, so Ross said the longer workouts made him fitter than his brother.
Ross — who did double the work — couldn’t believe it After working out twice as much, with nowhere near twice the results, Ross was frustrated. “I’ve put in double the work,” he said. “I’ve lifted 16 hours extra over the 12 weeks. Am I seeing any results that I would say are worth doing? Not at all.” But he doesn’t regret the challenge — in fact, he said that everyone should experiment with their workout regimes. “You’ll learn far more for the rest of your life and be far more informed than if you did five years of just doing a gym program because somebody told you to,” Ross told Insider. He said the two of them would probably get the best results by working out for 20 to 25 minutes but perhaps upping the weights — in the experiment, they lifted weights based on what Ross would be able to do for 40 minutes, and so, in a 20-minute workout, they would be able to lift heavier without fatiguing.
A sports scientist said the results aligned with some larger studies. Michael Graham, a senior lecturer in sport and exercise science at Teesside University, told Insider that the twins’ results should be taken with a pinch of salt. As Hugo and Ross acknowledged, the study was too small-scale and uncontrolled for the results to be deemed concrete. “We can’t confidently assume any of the relationships or differences discussed between Hugo and Ross are anything to do with them as twins or simply typical variations and similarities we would see in any pair of individuals,” Graham said. However, their findings do tally with some scientifically controlled research on twins, he said. Graham said the main takeaways should be the importance of individualizing exercise programs, and also that you can gain huge benefits from less time in the gym than many people might think. These twins did the same workout for 3 months — but 1 exercised for half as long each time. By the end, they saw almost exactly the same results. (msn.com)
Meredith and Tom Brokaw. The Brokaw Family May 7, 2015, 3:58 PM EDT / Updated May 7, 2015, 7:31 PM EDT By Tom Brokaw
Tom Brokaw: A Lucky Life Interrupted – Bing video Tom Brokaw was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer, in August 2013. Through months of specialized treatment, he is in remission, and he is opening up about his battle with the disease. In a special edition of NBC’s “Dateline” Thursday at 10 p.m. ET, Brokaw, 75, shares his emotional journey, and his powerful new memoir, “A Lucky Life, Interrupted,” which is being released in the U.S. on May 12th.The following essay is by Tom Brokaw, as told to NBC News senior national producer Tim Uehlinger.
ON MY DIAGNOSIS I have this very good doctor, Dr. Andrew Majka at Mayo Clinic – who thought something was up. So he did some blood tests and called me into a meeting with the head of internal medicine, who is also a hematologist, a blood specialist. They reviewed all the numbers. I didn’t really know what they were talking about. They turned to me and Dr. Morie Gertz said, “You’ve got a malignancy.
It’s called multiple myeloma. And you know people who’ve died from it.” Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president, died from multiple myeloma. Frank Reynolds, the ABC anchorman, who I had talked to toward the end of his life, not knowing what he had, died from it. Later I found out that Frank McGee, who was the Today Show host, died from it.
Odd thing is, I guess I didn’t know enough about it at that time, because my heart didn’t accelerate. I didn’t go into a meltdown of some kind. I was very cool about it. I was kind of in two parts: I was operating as a journalist human being, and the other part was kind of on the outside looking in saying, “This is a big deal, you’ve got to stay cool.”
I didn’t know what I was in for. I’m a guy who’s had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction. And so I couldn’t imagine that I was going to go through the ordeal that it turned out to be.
The Brokaw family Michael Emery
ON MY FAMILY Treating cancer is a family cause. My family is not only attractive — I can say that because I’m paterfamilias — but they’re really smart, and they’re very, very compassionate. They’re all involved in one way or another. My daughter Sarah’s the therapist.
My daughter Andrea and her husband, Charles Simon, are very active with social causes. My daughter Jennifer’s a doctor. My wife Meredith is Meredith. She’s always been very special, not just to me, but to everybody that she’s ever met. I can say that objectively. Tom Brokaw on Blood Cancer Battle, NBC Exit: ‘I Had to Walk Away’ (msn.com)
Tom interviews Mary Shannon McGinnis and Katie Hambright from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. NBC Dateline
ON GETTING INVOLVED IN YOUR CARE One of the things that I learned, and I had really good doctors, as individuals sometimes it wasn’t as collective as I wanted it to be. So one of the things that you have to learn, even if you don’t have the kind of advantage that I do — with the high profile and the access — you have to learn to manage your case. You have to take an active role in it. You either do it yourself, or you do it in conjunction with another physician, who’s a friend, who’s kind of wise counsel, who’s there off to the side saying, “You know, there may be another way of looking at this,” or there’s “I’m not happy with the protocol that they’ve come up with.” In my case, I did have very good care. And I was able to put together a kind of team approach. And that worked very well for me. But not everybody can do that. I’m very aware of that. But everybody has to be constantly conscious of the fact, it’s your body, it’s your health, it’s the cancer that’s affecting you.
Get involved in the fight.
Tom Brokaw in 1973. NBC News
ON MY WORKING LIFE AT NBC NEWS Everybody has a job to do at NBC News. They’ve been my friends; I didn’t want them to know. I didn’t want them to think, “Oh, we gotta worry about Tom.” I had good care going. I had Meredith and the family. And I didn’t want to become the object of some kind of pity, most of all. I didn’t want to show up on the Internet, “Tom Brokaw has cancer.”
It’s just the way I am. But it was very, very touching to know how concerned everybody was. When I got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, I wrote to everyone saying, “This is yours as much as it is mine. Over the years you and everyone else has pulled me across so many lines.”
Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama in 2014.
I was touched by that. But I knew what I had to do, was just to concentrate on getting well. ALSO, For more information on multiple myeloma, including how you can help, visit The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. For resources for cancer patients and their loved ones, click here.
Tom Brokaw has spent his entire distinguished journalism career with NBC News, beginning in 1966 in the Los Angeles bureau where he covered Ronald Reagan’s first run for public office. Brokaw has served as a White House correspondent, TODAY Show host and anchor of the NBC Nightly News. An accomplished author, Brokaw is also a Peabody, duPont and Emmy winner. Tom Brokaw cancer update – Bing video
Tom Brokaw, America’s straight-laced newscaster for the past half-century, is medical marijuana’s latest advocate.
The 79-year-old NBC correspondent and former anchor is in remission from multiple myeloma, but says that the pain has been so “excruciating,” he’s resorted to an alternative pain fix embraced by a growing number of cancer patients. “I’m now on medical marijuana,” Brokaw reveals in a video released Tuesday on SurvivorNet, a cancer information site. Brokaw is a resident of Florida, one of the 33 states that allow medical marijuana.
Brokaw was diagnosed with the disease, which causes cancer cells to cluster in bone marrow, in 2013. Soon after the diagnosis, he had to be medevaced to the Mayo Clinic as the cancer made its way through his pelvic bone. Years of treatment — including chemotherapy and a spinal operation — got the cancer under control, but left him with lasting pain in his bones, he says. The demand for more information on medical marijuana is exploding in recent years, says SurvivorNet’s CEO Steve Alperin. Having someone like Brokaw come out with his experience will “help people understand there are alternative approaches to pain management,” Alperin says. Brokaw’s usage mirrors a growing number of cancer patients who use the substance for symptoms like pain. In a report out Tuesday in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, researchers from NYU say that cancer patients were more likely to favor forms of medical marijuana with higher amounts of THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), rather than the more readily available, non-psychoactive CBD (cannabidiol).
Researchers say the growing interest from cancer patients highlights the need to further study the substance’s side effects, risks and benefits. Either way, Brokaw says the relief will help him to not just maintain his quality of life, but enjoy it, too. “I didn’t want my friends coming around and wringing their hands — I didn’t want to be the victim,” Brokaw says. Now, he’s making plans to travel with his children and grandchildren.
“I’ve been a very lucky guy,” he says in the video. “We’ve had a great life. And I want it to go on.” Sad Last Days: Tom Brokaw, 83, Talks Dealing with Incurable Blood Cancer, Admits Doctors Didn’t Think He Would Survive This Long
Retired journalist Tom Brokaw is sharing a rare update on his decade-long battle with blood cancer. In the upcoming episode of CBS News Sunday Morning, the Today alum sat down to chat about how the illness took a toll on his career, and he confessed his doctors didn’t believe he would even make it to 83 years old, a milestone he hit this past February. “I’ve had a bad experience. I kept thinking bad things wouldn’t happen to me. But as I grew older, I began to develop this condition,” he tells pal and show host Jane Pauley of being diagnosed with multiple myeloma 10 years ago. The Emmy winner noted “what you try to do is control it as much as you can.” “I’ve had to change my life in some way. I really had to give up my daily activity with NBC,” explained the father-of-three. “You know, I had to walk away from them, as they were walking away from me. I just wasn’t the same person. … And so for the first time in my life, I was kind of out there, you know, in a place I had never been in my life.” Brokaw was a staple on news programs for decades, as after several years on Today, he acted as an anchor for NBC Nightly News from 1982 to 2004.
Elsewhere in the sit-down, he gives the scoop on his latest endeavor, Never Give Up: A Prairie Family’s Story, a book dedicated to his parents. Brokaw will also be joined by wife Meredith, who recalled how they set Pauly up with her future husband, Garry Trudeau. He then became a special correspondent and guest anchor until he retired in 2021 after more than 50 years of hard work.
Dietitian Kirsten Jackson makes convenient and healthy dinners. Getty
Dietitian Kirsten Jackson follows the Mediterranean diet, one of the healthiest ways to eat. She shared her go-to dinners with Insider, which she often cooks in bulk to save time. Jackson’s meals generally include olive oil, lots of vegetables, and complex carbs. The Mediterranean diet is widely considered one of the healthiest ways to eat. The diet prioritizes vegetables, legumes, seafood, olive oil, and wine in moderation, and leans away from processed and fried foods, red meat, refined grains, added sugars, and saturated fats. Registered dietitian Kirsten Jackson follows the Mediterranean diet because research suggests it reduces the risk of multiple health conditions such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, and heart disease.
When it comes to dinner, Jackson is all about convenience. Here, she shares her go-to Mediterranean diet dinners with Insider.
Jackson orders pizza with a wholemeal base and makes a side salad. Getty
“I run a business so dinners have to be practical,” she said. “I am not a huge fan of spending hours in the kitchen unless it is to bulk cook something.” Jackson has three rules for creating meals: All food is cooked in olive oil, vegetables make up 30-50% of the plate, and carbs are always “brown.” Jackson always eats brown or whole grain carbs rather than white because they contain more vitamins, minerals, and fiber than other bread options. This means she chooses brown bread, brown rice, and whole grain pasta over white. “Wholemeal foods have been linked to reduced risk of diabetes, cancer, and heart disease,” Jackson said. She also uses olive oil rather than other cooking fats because it is high in polyphenols and remains stable when heated. Polyphenols act as antioxidants and fight free radicals that are linked to inflammatory conditions like cancer.
Pan-fried sardines with oven-baked vegetables Pan-frying sardines only takes a few minutes, and baking vegetables is simple too, she said, so it’s one of her go-to meals. “Baked vegetables are the easiest side dish. You simply cut up a lot of root vegetables like beetroot, squash, potatoes, onions, and courgette, coat them in olive oil, and pop into the oven for about 35 minutes,” Jackson said. If you’re short on time, you can buy pre-chopped packets of vegetables. Sardines are a good source of omega-3s and eating a variety of vegetables provides Jackson with prebiotics which feed her gut bacteria, as well as fiber which reduces her risk of high cholesterol.
Peanut butter chickpea stir fry with wholemeal noodles Jackson makes a quick and easy stir-fry by combining canned chickpeas and a frozen stir-fry vegetable packet. “Stir-fry sauces are usually really high in salt and sugar so I like to make my own,” Jackson said. To make enough sauce to serve three to four people, she mixes together one tablespoon of peanut butter, one tablespoon of honey, and one tablespoon of soy sauce. Pizza with a whole wheat base, plus salad. Like many people, Jackson and her family like getting takeout over the weekend, and their food of choice is pizza. Jackson opts for a whole wheat base, and she makes her own salad on the side to up her vegetable intake, she said. Read the original article on Insider.
A dietitian who follows the Mediterranean diet shares her 5 go-to snacks Story by rhosie@insider.com (Rachel Hosie) • 2h ago
Kirsten Jackson, a dietitian, follows the Mediterranean diet, one of the healthiest ways to eat. She shared her go-to snacks, which provide fiber and protein to keep her feeling full. Jackson recommends chocolate oatcakes with peanut butter instead of cookies. The Mediterranean diet is widely considered one of the healthiest ways to eat. Vegetables, legumes, seafood, and olive oil are key components of it. Wine is OK in moderation, but processed and fried foods, red meat, refined grains, added sugars, and saturated fats are discouraged.
5 Mediterranean diet salad recipes that are filling and delicious, by a dietitian The Mediterranean diet is widely considered one of the healthiest ways to eat. A balanced salad contains protein, carbs, and fats as well as fruits and vegetables. Dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine shared five Mediterranean-inspired salad recipes. Whether or not you follow the Mediterranean diet, knowing a few healthy salad recipes can be super handy, especially in the warmer months. The Mediterranean diet is widely considered to be one of the healthiest ways to eat, thanks to its links with heart health and a lower risk of various diseases including Parkinson’s and diabetes. It focuses on vegetables, legumes, seafood, and olive oil, wine in moderation, and minimal amounts of processed and fried foods, red meat, refined grains, added sugars, and saturated fats. When it comes to building a satiating salad, you need more than just a few lettuce leaves and chopped tomatoes. Dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine, who aims to eat a Mediterranean-style diet, told Insider a balanced salad should contain the following components:
Carbohydrates These are our body’s main source of fuel, Ludlam-Raine said. She recommended choosing higher fiber and wholegrain options where possible, such as quinoa, wholegrain rice, wholewheat pasta, or wholemeal pitta. “I personally like the mixed grains in the microwavable bags for my salads,” she said.
Vegetables, salad, and fruit Ludlam-Raine recommended aiming for two handfuls of produce, for example a handful of salad leaves, crudités, roasted vegetables, or pomegranate seeds. “The greater variety of plant-based foods in your diet, the better your gut microbes will be, which means better physical and mental health,” she said.
Protein “Whether it’s animal or plant-based, protein is digested slowly and helps to keep us fuller for longer,” Ludlam-Raine said. Good sources in salads include chickpeas, feta cheese, mixed beans, hummus, chicken, edamame beans, and salmon, she said.
Fat “Fats provide some of the essential fatty acids our body can’t make itself and help to absorb fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K,” Ludlam-Raine said. To get a source in your salad, try adding a handful of olives, mixed seeds, flaked almonds, a dollop of pesto, or a drizzle of rapeseed or olive oil, she said.
The diet is hugely popular, including with celebrities such as John Goodman, Selena Gomez, and Penélope Cruz. Kirsten Jackson, a registered dietitian, previously told Insider that she followed the Mediterranean diet, sharing her favorite breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on the eating plan. When snacking, Jackson aims to eat whole foods that provide protein and fiber, often incorporating fruit or vegetables. Here, she tells Insider about her go-to snacks.
Roasted chickpeas Roasted chickpeas are a good alternative to chips, Jackson said. They are a great source of protein and fiber, she said, and are easy to make: Simply drain canned chickpeas, pour them into a baking tray, drizzle them with olive oil, and season with salt, pepper, and spices. Then bake until crisp.
Homemade trail mix Jackson makes her own trail mix by combining dark chocolate, dried fruit, nuts, and seeds. Dark chocolate has multiple benefits, including boosting heart health.
Apple slices with peanut butter Apple slices with peanut butter are a satiating snack thanks to a combination of fiber, fat, and protein. Having nuts or nut butter alongside fruit is much more filling than fruit alone, a dietitian previously told Insider.
Vegetable sticks with hummus If you don’t have time to chop carrots, peppers, cucumber, or celery, Jackson recommends buying precut vegetables. Combining veggies with hummus makes the snack more filling than vegetables alone.
Oatcakes with peanut butter Jackson also snacks on oatcakes with peanut butter. She aims to always eat complex carbohydrates — such as oats, sweet potatoes, brown bread, and whole-grain pasta — because they contain more vitamins, minerals, and fiber than refined carbs including white bread, potatoes, and pasta. If you’re craving cookies, Jackson recommends looking out for chocolate oatcakes to help satisfy your sweet tooth too.
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