Suggestive Signs AroundWritten by Lala C. Ballatan
One of his nurses e-mailed wintermute2_0 a picture which he posted on January 27, 2005 at site, http://www.the19thfloor.net/archives/2005_01.html. It shows a sign which serves as a warning for persons in wheelchairs situated in a park or zoo lagoon down below a descending bridge, it seems. It indicates that lagoon has crocodiles in it and that persons in wheelchairs must take care not to go at racing speed down bridge. The consequence suggested that a crocodile may be waiting for them to eat them. I smiled a rather silly smile after looking at sign. Don’t get me wrong, I perfectly understand sign, and when I see such on certain places, I wouldn’t have reacted like I did just now. But a question really popped out of nowhere in recesses of my mind – do alligators consider persons in wheelchair preferable to swallow rather than non-disabled ones? It might be because when persons in wheelchair fall into water and into their waiting mouths, they’re easy to gobble up because of their helplessness? So…there’s a little grain of possibility that alligators can now think enough to prefer who they want to eat, huh? Tsk…tsk…tsk… To normal persons like us, sign might not have that much impact. But to those with disabilities and especially wheelchair-bound ones, they really can be quite muddled over sign. They would even think, as wintermute2_0 has thought – “is sign really intended as a warning or a suggestion?”
| | Vitamin D for the DisabledWritten by Mart Gil Abareta
Perhaps, most important source vitamin D is sun exposure. The sun’s ultraviolet rays cause vitamin D synthesis in skin. Ten to fifteen minutes of sun exposure at least two times per week to face, arms, hands or back without sunscreen is usually enough to provide adequate vitamin D. Also, it is very important for individuals with limited sun exposure to include good sources of vitamin D in their diet.According to article “Vitamin D Gains Favor as Health Key” by Tim which was posted on February 29, 2004 at www.ruggedelegantliving.com, emerging research indicates that vitamin D is more important to our health than previously thought, leading an increasing number of scientists to challenge whether fear of sun exposure has made us cover up too much. Doctors are finding an increase in vitamin D deficiencies, even as researchers discover remarkable results from vitamin that affects nearly every tissue in body. Did you know that best known activity of vitamin D is its role in maintaining bones? It functions by increasing uptake of calcium from intestine through interaction with parathyroid glands in controlling bone resorption and serum calcium levels. The skeleton is body's reservoir of calcium and provides calcium through resorption of mineral when serum levels of this essential element drop. It also increases reabsorption of phosphate by kidney tubule, and may directly affect osteoblast, cell which forms bone.
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