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  Gastroenteritis Causes And Epidemiology
By Ken Donald
Gastroenteritis, also described as inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, is a sickness of fever, diarrhea and vomiting caused by an infectious virus, bacterium or parasite. It typically is of Read more...
   
  The Stomach Flu - Signs, Symptoms And Treatment
By Roger Hutchison
Viral gastroenteritis, also known as "the stomach flu", is a very common infection of the stomach and intestines. It is the second most common illness encountered in American families and causes Read more...
   
 

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Here's A Simple Solution To Improve Your Nutritional Adsorption
By Farrell Seah
A healthy gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) houses beneficial bacteria for the thorough breakdown of food, and it contains carrier proteins for the transport of vitamins and minerals across the intestinal lining. Further, it employs a host of active antibodies for the continuous removal of toxins from the gut.

All three of these are necessary to ensure that we receive the proper nutrition from the foods we eat, and maintain the body’s first line of defense against dangerous bacteria and other pathogens. Herein lies colostrum’s magic, and the reason behind its tremendous success in positively influencing the treatment of a wide variety of different diseases.

Because most chronic illnesses are directly linked to a breakdown in the function of the digestive system, colostrum’s ability to balance the processes in the gastrointestinal tract make it perhaps the single most effective means of ensuring overall health and preventing disease.

Our modern diets are characterized by a high intake of refined sugars, food additives, and herbicide/pesticide residues. Many of us also consume large quantities of caffeine, alcohol, antibiotics or other prescription medications.

All of these irritate the lining of the digestive tract, and this irritation can in turn lead to chronic inflammation of the intestinal walls—a particularly common and disruptive disorder called leaky gut syndrome. Leaky gut syndrome is so named because chronic inflammation of the gut makes the intestinal walls more permeable to large molecules, dangerous pathogens, and toxins inside the gastrointestinal tract.

This increased gut permeability in turn allows the absorption of large, undigested food molecules and pathogens into the bloodstream, which can lead to the development of food allergies or initiate autoimmune responses associated with arthritis, lupus, and other autoimmune diseases. Chronic inflammation also prevents the proper absorption of nutrients, and hinders the removal of harmful parasites, bacteria, and viruses from

the gastrointestinal tract.

Several factors in colostrum are active in reducing inflammation, healing the gastrointestinal tract, and preventing the proliferation of pathogens within it. The growth factors in colostrum act quickly to stimulate the repair of damaged tissue in the intestinal lining, reducing its inflammation and restoring its decreased permeability to pathogens entering the gastrointestinal tract.

The immune factors in colostrum contain proteins called immunoglobulins that bind to and assist in the destruction of pathogens, alleviating diarrhea and improving nutritional uptake. Other immunologically active proteins, like cytokines and lactoferrin, regulate the intensity of the immune response, or alter the balance of minerals in the digestive tract to keep them harmful bacteria at bay. Colostrum further prevents intestinal infections with specialized sugar molecules, called glycoproteins, which prevent pathogens from attaching themselves to the intestinal wall.

All these immune and growth factors work together to restore the healthy function of the gastrointestinal tract, and maintain the body’s first line of defense against infection from harmful pathogens. With a healthy intestinal tract restored, toxic load on body is reduced and nutritional uptake is enhanced. In addition to resolving a variety of gastrointestinal disorders, this can virtually eliminate the signs and symptoms of food allergies, and alleviate many of the physical symptoms associated with many other autoimmune disorders.

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Extreme Monopoly Board Game Knockoff, Boca Raton edition
About two weeks ago I was at a local Walgreens in Boca Raton when I came across something unusual. I meant to blog about it then, but alas, I just now got a round tuit.

Anyway, what I found:

[A picture of a game clearly based on Monopoly] Everglades University?  Who ever heard of Everglades University?  And in Boca Raton?  I've been in Boca Raton for over 30 years and this is the first I've heard of it! [Back of the box showing the board game and pieces] A pretzel?  Really?  A pretzel?  The original Monopoly pieces are better related to Boca Raton than a preztel!

I amazed this even exists! I wonder who's idea this even was? The Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce?

Anyway, it's clearly a knockoff of Monopoly, as you won't find it for sale at Hasbro. It's actually made by Late for the Sky, which seems to make games based off Monopoly, or should I say, The Landlord's Game which is completely in the public domain (wink wink nudge nudge say no more say no more, unlike Monopoly. But Boca Raton Opoly sure looks like Monopoly, walks like Monopoly, and probably quacks like Monopoly, so I wonder how they get away with this?

Perhaps by flying under the radar of Habro?

Update later this day

Apparently, Hasbro doesn't care:

Leaders at Late for the Sky say Monopoly gameplay is not copyrighted, meaning any version of the game can be created as long as the board, pieces and names within the game are different from the original version.

Via my friend Jeff Cuscutis on Linked­Pin­My­Face­Tik­Insta­Me­Trest­We­Gram­Book­In­Tok­Space, Business making Monopoly games based on Carolina towns

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Tesla, Edison, and who actually fought the War of Currents?
I used to think Thomas Edison was a self-aggrandizing business man who took the credit for the inventions his employees made, and Nikola Tesla was the real deal?a genius inventor who was actually responsible for most of our technology based on electricity. But now? Having watched the 4˝ hour long video ?Most Everything You Know About Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison is Probably Wrong? (and yes, it's four and a half hours long!) I'm not so sure my assessment is correct. The long video goes deep into the history of Tesla, Edison, and the War of the Currents where it wasn't Tesla vs. Edison, but Westinghouse (the company) vs. Edison (the copmany).

Tesla might have been a genius, but not all this theories about physics and electronics were correct and later in life he went a bit ? crazy ? to say the least (he fell in love with a pidgeon and said he created incredible inventions without having actually ? you know ? built the incredible inventions). And Edison might have been a self-aggrandizing business man, but he credited his team and oftem times, his team didn't invent the technology, but improved upon existing designs (to the point where he learned 6,000 ways not to build a lightbulb).

And the whole thing about Edison electrocuting an elephant (or at least animals) to show how dangerous alternating current was? Eh ? not exactly. And he did not invent the electric chair.

Yes, it's a long video, but if you are interested at all in Tesla and/or Edison, it's worth the time to watch. It got me to rethink how I think about Tesla and Edison.

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Remembrance of enlightened palms past
The image at the bottom of this page reminds me of the time I used to photograph enlightened palms, but it never occurred to me that one could enlight trees with fireflies (we don't get fireflies down here in Lower Sheol, which may be the reason why). The pictures I took with the Christmas lights used an exposure of a few seconds; I wonder how long an exposure was used for the firefly photo.

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How to measure ? cup of oil, part III
I just received a nice email from Muffintree14 thanking me for helping them make a recipe where they needed to meaure out ? of a cup! They were trying to measure out 200ml of something (they didn't specify what) and it turns out that 200ml is about ? of a cup. I suspect they could have just used a regular cup, as that's 237ml. As long as you aren't baking bread (or other pastry-like food item) then it probably doesn't matter that much. Roughly speaking, 200ml is close enough to 1 cup that you might as well use 1 cup.

But then I found an image (via Bob Anstett on Tik­Linked­My­Face­Pin­Insta­Me­Gram­Space­We­In­Tok­Trest­Book) describing the various relationships among Imperial units, and from there, I found a much better way to meaure ? cups?measure out 1 cup, then remove 8 teaspoons; much better than the 2 ? cup measures (or 1 ? if available), a 1˝ tablespoon and a ˝ teaspoon. And maybe this will help someone else twenty years down the line.

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Matchbox cars seem to have gotten bigger in recent years
Bunny and I went to a local Toyota dealership to fix an issue with her car (it turns out it was a very unusual, but very minor, issue) and while there, we saw this on the display floor:

[A very small electric car for one] That's not a car!  That's an oversized roller skate!

Turns out, this is not a large Matchbox car, but a small electric car straight from a factory in Japan (the informational flying under the windsheid is all in Japanese). A five year old would barely fit in this thing, much less an adult. There doesn't appear to be any storage space of any significant size, and sans doors, I'm not sure this is even road legal. And the the staff there don't even know if it's for sale. Weird.

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I love it when abstractions are too abstract to be useful
I recently found an annoying aspect of Xlib?it's hard to find documentation about what keys affect the state field of the keyboard event. It's obvious that the shift keys on the keyboard will set ShiftMask, the control key will set ControlMask, and the CapsLock key will set LockMask (when I would expect it to set ShiftMask since it's just locking the shift keys to ?on?), but there's little to say what keys set the Mod1Mask, Mod2Mask, Mod3Mask, Mod4Mask and Mod5Mask.

This is problematic, because I do need to check for keyboard events and this threw me for a loop?why are none of the keys working? Well, that's because my virtual Linux server on the Mac sets the NumLock key, which causes the X server to then set the Mod2Mask for all keyboard events and I wasn't expecting that.

Sigh.

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