From Uber driver to Harvard Medical School
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over— like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?” – “Harlem” by Langston
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From Uber driver to Harvard Medical School originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 2, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Oscar A. Leyva Tags: Education Medical school Source Type: blogs
Thanksgiving Recipe Roundup
I’m often asked to recommend recipes for Thanksgiving, so here’s a few suggestions for you all.
I’ve never actually cooked a turkey, so this will just be sides and desserts. To be honest, that’s pretty much are all I care to eat at Thanksgiving dinner anyway.
Noticeably missing from this list are recipes for cranberry sauce (I use the one on the cranberry bag – no need to mess with perfection), mashed potatoes (there is no recipe, it’s instinctual if you’re Patsy’s daughter), and stuffing (I’ve never made it, that gets assigned to someone else).
Hope the...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - November 18, 2022 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Uncategorized Gluten-free thanksgiving Holidays recipes Sides Thanksgiving desserts Thnksgiving recipes Vegetarian thanksgiving Source Type: blogs
This Raisin Test Can Predict A Child ’ s Future (M)
The raisin test can predict children's powers of attention and their later academic achievement. (Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog)
Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Child Psychology subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Hit song
As far as I can tell, Chapter 16 has no real basis in Samuel. I doubt that it ' s actually original, but the source material has been lost. This shows the Chronicler ' s usual obsession with lists of meaningless names, but the main act is a song. Now seems as good a time as any to mention that the Book of Psalms is traditionally attributed to David, but that ' s nonsensical. It was compiled centuries after his death, if he ever existed. Presumably this song reflects theology at the time Chronicles was written, probably in the 4th Century BCE, in the Second Temple period. I ' ll just make a couple of points...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 26, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Unstuck in Time
One norm of story telling that doesn ' t interest the Chronicler is chronological order. First he told us about the return from Babylon, then he abruptly jumped back centuries to the death of Saul, without any warning. Now he jumps back in time again to the period when David was a pretender to the throne and hiding out with a guerilla band. Modern story tellers may certainly use flashbacks but they also have some way of helping us keep track. If you didn ' t already know the story, you would be hopelessly confused by now.While Chapter 12 is not inconsistent with Samuel, unlike previous material it evidently has a different...
Source: Stayin' Alive - October 12, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: They don't teach this in Sunday school
And you aren ' t likely to hear a sermon preached on it either. Before we get to the really weird shit, a reminder that Mephibosheth is Jonathan ' s son and Saul ' s grandson, who was dropped by his nurse and made lame. David brought him to Jerusalem and gave him an estate. Mephibosheth ' s son is Micah, and apparently that ' s who David inquires after; but why Micah ' s defection to Absalom costs Mephibosheth is estate is not explained.The second incident is also a bit mysterious. David decides to put up with a guy cursing him and throwing rocks at his party. Basically, David says " Who cares, that ' s the least of our wo...
Source: Stayin' Alive - February 13, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A very strange story
2 Samuel 6 accomplishes the historically important task of getting the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, but it does it in a very strange way. Some of the events in this story are absurd, others inexplicable. I ' m sure the theologians have come up with interpretations, but your is probably just as good.6 David again gathered all the chosen men of Israel, thirty thousand.2 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Ba ′ale-judah, to bring up from there the ark of God, which is called by the name of theLord of hosts who sits enthroned on the cherubim.3 And they carried the ark of Go...
Source: Stayin' Alive - January 9, 2022 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Wednesday Bible Study: Keep exterminating those Amelekites!
The Amelekites were exterminated by Saul (1 Samuel 15); then they were exterminated again by David (1 Samuel 27). But here they are again, just a couple of years later! They attack the Philistine city where David ' s band has been staying, but unlike the Israelites, they don ' t kill anybody, they just take captives. Hmm. Anyway, David exterminates them again, except for 400 men who escape on camels. Note again divination with the ephod, a frequent motif in Samuel.30 David and his men reached Ziklag on the third day. Now the Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They had attacked Ziklag and burned it,2 and ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - December 15, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: A subplot
We now get a little story that is essentially unrelated to the main plot. It features a woman with agency, in fact she acts contrary to her husband ' s intention and gives away a good deal of his property. One point of this seems to be to emphasize David ' s virtue, but it hardly seems virtuous to me that he intends to massacre an entire household -- which in this case evidently means at least dozens of people who are the employees of a wealthy sheepherder. And the reason he will do this is simply because the householder declined to reward David for not robbing him. Does that make sense? Oh yeah, Samuel dies. Or does ...
Source: Stayin' Alive - November 28, 2021 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
poem
Op Note XThey rolled in the next case. Another attempted suicide. But he wasn ’t yet dead. His eyes were cold and blue like ancient ice. Pupils just points without extension. No light passing in or out. His body was furrowed with self-inflicted wounds, too many to count. He was young and pale and tattooed in an Olde English script. Some Bible verses I certainly couldn ’t quote. Ezekiel or Romans I forget. Once he had been opened we feared it was too late. It seemed he was just an empty space, like a coffin, a waiting grave. But we were dutiful. We explored.&nb...
Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 10, 2021 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs
Mindfulness Can Help Us Overcome Our Deepest Fears
Mindfulness is all the rage for multiple reasons. This practice helps you halt future fears and ruminations about an immutable past and live in the present moment. That isn’t the only benefit you can reap, however.
Mindfulness allows you to capture what neurologist and Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl describes as freedom — the pause between an external stimulus and your reaction to it. Here’s how you can use this practice to help you overcome your deepest fears.
1. It Helps With Health Procedures
Do you feel nervous before you go to the dentist? If so, you aren’t alone. Approximately a third of the popula...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 23, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Kara Reynolds Tags: confidence depression featured happiness meditation psychology self-improvement fear mindfulness self improvement success Source Type: blogs
Sunday Sermonette: What's this all about, anyway?
Numbers 6 is one of the more puzzling chapters in the Torah. It isn ' t clear what the point is of being a Nazirite (spelled Nazarite in the KJV) or why somebody would want to do it. Apparently there was considerable Talmudic debate about this but they never got to a consensus. By declaring oneself a Nazirite, a person assumes exactly three restrictions: don ' t cut the hair, don ' t consume any products of the plant genus Vitis (not just alcoholic wine) and don ' t get near a corpse. Other than that there are no affirmative responsibilities and you can do whatever else you want. This is apparently a state of special " con...
Source: Stayin' Alive - August 2, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: blogs
Breakfast cereal: a memoir
As awful for health as they are, having played such a huge role in childhood breakfasts, thoughts of breakfast cereals still conjure up a host of memories.
Deep within the haze of my childhood memories, buried beneath recollections of nerdy high school days, a marriage gone sour, and a brother-in-law midlife crisis involving duct tape, three members of the local PTA, and a VW bus, are images of the mornings I sat with my two sisters at our kitchen table in suburban New Jersey, each of us slurping a bowl of Trix, Lucky Charms, or Fruit Loops cereal, still recovering from a late night of Bewitched and Mission Impossible.
We ...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 18, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Breakfast cereal grain-free wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Breakfast Nut Mix
Here a recipe from the Wheat Belly 30-Minute (Or Less!) Cookbook.
Here’s your answer to breakfast cereal—but this “cereal” has none of the problems of the stuff that lines an entire aisle at your supermarket. Serve this nut mix with coconut milk, almond milk, or dairy milk, cold or hot. Top with 1/4 cup fresh or frozen berries. It’s also a great accompaniment to yogurt, such as our oxytocin-boosting L. reuteri yogurt.
I make use of the modest fruit sugar in raisins. If you’re serving the nut mix to your children and they prefer it sweeter, add just a bit of stevia or other benig...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - June 11, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Recipes breakfast cereal grain-free low-carb wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Phytonutrients: Paint your plate with the colors of the rainbow
Did you know that adding color to your meals will help you live a longer, healthier life? Colorful fruits and vegetables can paint a beautiful picture of health because they contain phytonutrients, compounds that give plants their rich colors as well as their distinctive tastes and aromas. Phytonutrients also strengthen a plant’s immune system. They protect the plant from threats in their natural environment such as disease and excessive sun.
When humans eat plant foods, phytonutrients protect us from chronic diseases. Phytonutrients have potent anti-cancer and anti-heart disease effects. And epidemiological research sug...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - April 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Katherine D. McManus, MS, RD, LDN Tags: Health Healthy Eating Source Type: blogs
