Moe Power, Moe Problems
Gene HealyReason TV has postedvideo of my recent Soho forum debate on presidential power, facing off with Stanford University ’s Terry Moe. The overarching question was“Is More Presidential Power Necessary in the Modern World?”, but the debate resolution itself focused on a specific proposal advanced by Professor Moe:To make the federal government more effective, presidents should be given fast-track authority to propose bills, for all types of legislation, that Congress must approve or deny by majority vote and without change.Moe and his coauthor, the University of Chicago ’s William G. Howell, have showcased the ...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 2, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Gene Healy Source Type: blogs
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Some meats increase dementia risk, others reduce it, new research finds.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 26, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Dementia subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Impossible
I finally broke down and tried the impossible burger. They sell it at my local superduperhyperultramegamart, so I figured I didn ' t have an excuse not to. I haven ' t eaten beef for about 45 years, so I really didn ' t remember what it tastes like and I had some trepidation. Everybody says it ' s a convincing imitation, and I thought I might be grossed out.Well, no, I wasn ' t really grossed out, but on the other hand I didn ' t feel like I ' d been missing anything. I actually think some of the veggie burgers you can get (or make yourself) that aren ' t pretending to be meat are better. And by the way they are also...
Source: Stayin' Alive - March 13, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
A look at the 2020 –2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs), published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), provide science-based recommendations on what to eat and drink to promote health, reduce the risk of chronic disease, and meet nutrient needs. The guidelines provide a framework for policy makers and nutrition and health professionals to help individuals consume a healthy and nutritionally adequate diet. They also help inform dietary planning for federal programs including the National School Lunch Program, the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), and the...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 10, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Carol Sullivan, MS, RD, CSO, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
Could what we eat improve our sleep?
We think of eating a nutritious diet and exercising as healthy behaviors, but sleep is one of the pillars of a healthy lifestyle. Why is this? Sleep sets the stage for our days. If we experience sound sleep for seven to eight hours, we arise energized in the morning. Diet, exercise, and sleep work synergistically, and affect one another. All three can have an effect on our daily well-being and longevity.
To be well and vital and help prevent certain diseases, like obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, diabetes, and many other conditions, we need to prioritize sleep. When we make sleep a priority, we can impr...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Pegg Frates, MD Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Healthy Eating Mental Health Prevention Sleep Source Type: blogs
If We Don ’t Feel Socially Accepted, We Get More Defensive When We’ve Done Something Wrong
By Emily Reynolds
When you’ve done something wrong, big or small, it can be hard to own up to — particularly if you feel you’ve transgressed a moral or social code. Instead, you might avoid confronting the issue and become defensive. Yet defensiveness often has negative consequences anyway: it can hurt someone else’s feelings, cloud your ability to make a good decision in the moment, or prevent you from changing harmful behaviours.
But why do we get defensive, and what can we do to minimise those negative consequences? A new study from Michael Wenzel and colleagues at Flinders University, published in the Br...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - March 9, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Morality Social Source Type: blogs
DHS Should Release Supplemental H-2B Visas Immediately
David J. BierLast year, Congressauthorized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to effectively double this year ’s H-2B visa cap fornonagricultural seasonal employers in landscaping, forestry, seafood, and other industries. Employer requests exceed the initial cap onFebruary 12, but in over two weeks, DHS has announced no plans to release any additional visas. This failure compounds President Biden ’s ongoing error of not rescindingDonald Trump ’s H-2B visa ban on some types of H-2B workers.Employers will need their workers by April 1, so the administration has barely one month to notify employers of the new pro...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - March 1, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: David J. Bier Source Type: blogs
Sens. Romney and Cotton Propose Universal E ‐Verify and Minimum Wage Hike
Alex NowrastehSenators Romney (R-UT) and Cotton (R-AR)announced that they intend to introduce a bill to raise the national minimum wage and mandate E ‐Verify for all new hires in the United States. Immigration restrictionists have tried to useminimum wages to reduce immigration for more than a century. Combining a high minimum wage with E ‐Verify is not as surprising as it first seems. Restrictionists assume that higher minimum wages will increase unemployment for lower‐skilled workers,which it will, and that will mostly force lower skilled immigrant workers out of the country entirely.E ‐Veri...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - February 16, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
New dietary guidelines: Any changes for infants, children, and teens?
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published new dietary guidelines to help Americans get and stay healthier across all parts of the lifespan. Babies and toddlers are included for the first time, because the recommendations cover our full lifespan.
The guidelines are called “Make Every Bite Count.” If we want to get and stay healthy, we shouldn’t be eating foods that are basically empty calories — or worse, foods that actually do us harm.
Because foods can do us harm. Eating an unhealthy diet can lead to obesity, with the cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and everything else...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Adolescent health Children's Health Healthy Eating Parenting Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: True and False Prophets
Like most of the chapters of this sermon of Moses, this one has multiple components. The first repeats for what must be the fourth time (I haven ' t been keeping track) the assertion that Levites have " no inheritance " but are entitled to a portion of the sacrifice. The idea of their having no inheritance does not have the literal meaning it would in our society. They can indeed own real estate and there is even land set aside on the outskirts of the towns for their agricultural use. And as this very chapter says, they can own and sell ancestral property, although they can give it up and enter the service of the tem...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 17, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Can I take something to prevent colorectal cancer?
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. There is compelling evidence that screening to detect CRC early to find and remove precancerous polyps can reduce CRC mortality. However, screening has associated harms, including procedural complications, and inherent limitations. For example, colonoscopy, the most common screening tool in the US, is less effective in preventing cancers of the right, or ascending side, of the colon compared with cancers of the left, or descending, side of the colon.
Moreover, only 60% of US adults recommended for screening actually follow through. Ev...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 13, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Andrew Chan, MD, MPH Tags: Cancer Prevention Screening Source Type: blogs
3 simple steps to jump-start your heart health this year
In 2020, the terrible toll of the COVID-19 pandemic largely overshadowed the affliction that remains the leading cause of death in this country: heart disease. In the United States last year, at least twice as many people died from cardiovascular causes as those who died from complications from SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus.
While the challenges from the virus are new, experts have been studying heart disease for decades — and everyone can benefit from that knowledge. “The lifestyle habits that keep your heart healthy may also leave you less vulnerable to serious complications from infections such as COVID-19 and i...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - January 12, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Julie Corliss Tags: Exercise and Fitness Health Healthy Eating Heart Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: The pilgrimage festivals
Most of Deuteronomy 16 simply reiterates the commandments in Exodus 23, repeated in Exodus 34, to keep the so-called pilgrimage festivals. In Hebrew these are called Pesach, the Passover; Shavuot, the Festival of Weeks; and Succot, the Festival of Tabernacles (or booths). The Torah puts these festivals in future tense, because it pretends to have been written in an imaginary past before the building of the Temple in Jerusalem, but of course the Torah was actually written in the Second Temple period so the pilgrimages had been occurring for some 300 years, before being interrupted by the Babylonian captivity and destruction...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 10, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
The Vaccine Allocation Mess In New York
Ryan BourneNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo are currently atloggerheads over vaccine allocation in the city. The governor has only approved for the vaccine to be given to the first prioritized groups: healthcare workers in hospitals, urgent care providers, and nursing home residents and staff. New York City Mayor De Blasio believes that the city should be given authority to broaden eligibility further, and that if given that authority, they could already be vaccinating many more New Yorkers, including the over ‐75 demographic at highest personal risk from the virus....
Source: Cato-at-liberty - January 8, 2021 Category: American Health Authors: Ryan Bourne Source Type: blogs
6 Ways to Make Your Diet More Sustainable in 2021
We’ve just had the warmest decade on record, with 2020 being one of the warmest years ever. Unfortunately, there is no indication that climate change will slow down in the next decade.
We are all in the same boat here, and it’s in our hands to stop it from sinking. And it all starts with food, production of which accounts for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions.
The good news is that it's not only up to governments and large producers to help reduce global warming. Each of us can do something to support the environment - and human health along with it.
The World Health Organ...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - January 7, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Ieva Sipola Tags: diet featured health and fitness self-improvement goals pickthebrain resolutions sustainable living Source Type: blogs
