Unity Farm Journal - Second Week of September 2016
Hurricane Hermine came and went, dropping only 2/10ths of an inch of rain on the drought parched soil of Eastern Massachusetts. Although we had 20 mph wind gusts, none of the stressed trees were knocked over.We ’re continuing to irrigate our crops using our 60 zones of drip irrigation, while trying to preserve the well. We ’re praying for rain.We ’re always learning at Unity Farm. This week ’s question - can a pig get cyanide toxicity from eating peach pits? Each week we receive the discarded fruit and vegetables from Tilly and Salvy ’s farmstand, feeding them to the pigs, poultry and...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - September 8, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Mix & Match Detox Plan for Cleansing, Health, and Weight Loss
DominikSchraudolf / Pixabay
Looking for simple guide to detox for one week or more? Well here it is. It’s pretty simple. Prepare some of the items ahead of time to make it easy to put your meals together quickly, such as the dressings, beans, quinoa, etc. You can read the plan below and also download the pdf version for easy printout. Click here to download the plan as a PDF file >>> 1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
Key Ideas
Start day by cleaning and charging your mind.
Set your intention for the day.
Use positive affirmations all day long for the things you seek to be, do, and feel.
L...
Source: Life Learning Today - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living How To cleanse detox weightloss Source Type: blogs
Mix & Match Detox Plan for Cleansing, Health, and Weight Loss
DominikSchraudolf / Pixabay
Looking for simple guide to detox for one week or more? Well here it is. It’s pretty simple. Prepare some of the items ahead of time to make it easy to put your meals together quickly, such as the dressings, beans, quinoa, etc. You can read the plan below and also download the pdf version for easy printout. Click here to download the plan as a PDF file >>> 1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
1 Week Detox Cleanse Plan
Key Ideas
Start day by cleaning and charging your mind.
Set your intention for the day.
Use positive affirmations all day long for the things you seek to be, do, and feel.
...
Source: Life Learning Today - August 19, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Healthy Living How To cleanse detox weightloss Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of August 2016
I ’m on “vacation” this week, working remotely from the farm, so no Wednesday blog post, but here’s the Unity Farm update.I always tell my staff that management is balancing scope, time and resources. To much scope and not enough makes resources very grouchy unless they are augmented.The same thing is true about managing a farm. Unless you set a scope that is achievable with the resources you have, the time (defined as the seasons in the farming year), living things, including your own well being, will suffer.As we plan for 2017, something we ’re doing during my slack time this week, we’e set a...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - August 18, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Tahcheen-e Esfenaj (Baked Persian Rice Cake with Lamb, Spinach & Prunes)
I must apologize for the infrequency of my blog posts over the past year. My new position at the medical school has kept me much busier than I’d ever imagined. Now, a year later, things are finally settling in and I’m hoping to bring this blog thing back to life, if only because the act of writing truly grounds me.
One of the better parts of my new position has been getting to know our Qatar-based medical school faculty and staff, who sent me the most amazing Persian cookbook – Saraban: A Chef’s Journey through Persia by Greg and Lucy Malouf. (Thank you Shahrad and team!)
This is a cookbook tha...
Source: The Blog That Ate Manhattan - August 7, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Margaret Polaneczky, MD Tags: Meat & Poultry Lamb Rice Cake Spinach Tachchin Tah-Chin Tahcheen Source Type: blogs
Why Bad News Is Not Always Bad
Last month, the cover of BusinessWeek featured an article, How Big Pharma Uses Charity Programs to Cover for Drug Price Hikes, focused on co-pay charities for Medicare patients. I of course had heard about such co-pay charities before, and even had the opportunity to meet with a representative of one a few years ago, but frankly I had no idea what they did. So when the article came out, outlining the "evils" of this practice, it caught my attention. By catching my attention, it actually saved my elderly parents significant amounts of money.
My father and mother are both retired, living on a small pension and Social Secur...
Source: Policy and Medicine - August 4, 2016 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Crippled by Self-Doubt? Your Impostor Syndrome Could Have Roots in Childhood
Do you ever feel like you somehow got away with landing your job without truly deserving it? Do you feel super uncomfortable when your boss praises your work, because you’re sure you haven’t earned it? Do you have a fear of being “found out,” exposed for not being experienced, talented, successful or knowledgeable enough for your job?
You might be experiencing something called Impostor Syndrome. And you wouldn’t be alone: over 70% of people report experiencing Impostor Syndrome at some point in their career.
What Is Impostor Syndrome?
People who suffer from Impostor Syndrome feel inadequacy and chronic self-doubt...
Source: World of Psychology - August 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Melody Wilding, LMSW Tags: Children and Teens College Creativity Family Friends General Habits Happiness Industrial and Workplace Mental Health and Wellness Motivation and Inspiration Personal Professional Psychology Relationships Self-Esteem Self-He Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of July 2016
“Guineas for sale” < br / > < br / > Our Guinea fowl have been especially productive, so we ’ve sent this message to all the Massachusetts farm mailing lists and posted signs at all the farmstands < br / > < br / > " Guinea Fowl Keets for Sale - 40 available now (born 7/6/16) < br / > Sturdy vigorous baby keets, no stressful shipping involved. Locally bred hatch in many colors from healthy free range birds on a certified organic farm in Sherborn, MA < br / > Contact Us at < a href= " http://www.unityfarmstore.com/contact.html " > http://www.unityfarmstore.com/contact.html < /a > & nbsp;Unity & nbsp;Farm LLC & nbsp;($...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - July 21, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Monkey Pie
Ever have a slice of monkey pie? No? Well, that’s good, because there is no such thing, at least not in our part of the world. And it would be weird if there was. It would be contrary to instinctive notions, eating a creature similar to humans. You wouldn’t eat human pie and, for similar reasons, you wouldn’t eat monkey pie.
Would you agree that every creature on earth, human and otherwise, follows an instinctive dietary program?
This toad is an insectivore, consuming flies and grasshoppers in order to survive. Nobody had to tell this toad that flies are delicious. Properly nourished...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - July 8, 2016 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Wheat Belly Lifestyle adaptive evolutionary gastrointestinal gluten grains Inflammation Source Type: blogs
New Marketing Strategy for Direct Access Testing: Monitoring Wellness and Fitness
I have long been interested in direct access testing (DAT) and have blogged about the topic for ten years. Here's a link to an early note from 2006 (see: Four Categories of Direct Access Testing). Over this time, DAT has never gained much market share or attention until recently when the travails of Theranos have brought the topic to the level of consciousness for many. Theranos lobbied with success in Arizona for legislation to allow DAT. This was in the pursuit of its own business interests but it also allowed Sonora Quest Labs to begin accept consumer speci...
Source: Lab Soft News - June 8, 2016 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Healthcare Business Lab Information Products Lab Processes and Procedures Laboratory Industry Trends Medical Consumerism Medical Education Preventive Medicine Reference Laboratories Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of May 2016
Wedding plans have occupied much of this week at Unity Farm, ensuring that my daughter’s marriage weekend has perfect logistics. A wedding on a farm is more challenging than you think - how do you prevent flying guinea fowl from leaving “gifts” on the guests? Should the pigs be moved to minimimze squealing during the ceremony? How do you prevent chickens from eating the flowers? We’ll be serving Unity Farm foods and beverages, accompanied by vegan/vegetarian catering. The family begins arriving tonight.This week, another goose, Hermes, was born. Our weathe...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - May 19, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
Unity Farm Journal - Second Week of May 2016
It’s Spring so it’s time for new farm babies. Welcome Athena and Apollo, two baby geese born this week. They have the benefit of 3 mothers and 1 father watching over them. The adults took them to the pond and taught them how to swim within a few hours after hatching. We’re keeping the goose pen closed during the day when we’re not around because of all the hawk activity. A week old goose is an easy target.Temperatures are edging up to the mid 70’s so the pigs are getting hot. Yesterday, we moved them to their summer paddock with its shade and cool mud. The pi...
Source: Life as a Healthcare CIO - May 12, 2016 Category: Information Technology Source Type: blogs
On St. Patrick’s Day eat green… leafy vegetables
In honor of St. Patrick’s Day, here are a few reminders about the benefits of leafy green vegetables.
Lin Yan published the benefits of these foods in USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center News, http://1.usa.gov/1U9vD8x on March 23, 2013. “Dark green leafy vegetables are great sources of nutrition. Salad greens, kale and spinach are rich in vitamins A, C, E and K, and broccoli, bok choy and mustard are also rich in many of the B-vitamins. These vegetables also contain an abundance of carotenoids—antioxidants that protect cells and play roles in blocking the early stages of cancer. They also c...
Source: BHIC - March 17, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: Annette Parde-Maass Tags: General Public Health Source Type: blogs
Recommended Probiotics for Kids
Promoting healthy, diverse gut bacteria appears able to make a big difference in keeping us healthy. That’s why I often recommend probiotics for the kids in my pediatric practice. This is especially true after a course of antibiotics.
Many parents are confused by the wide array of probiotics available and ask for my recommendations. There are several nice options. I suggest trying one and observing changes in y0ur child’s digestive health. If you don’t see the desired result (either stool that is too loose or continued constipation), try a different brand.
Brands of Recommended Probiotics for Kids
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - March 7, 2016 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Nutrition Probiotics Vitamins & Supplements Source Type: blogs
