Suggestive Signs Around

Written by Lala C. Ballatan


One of his nurses e-mailed wintermute2_0 a picture which he posted on January 27, 2005 atrepparttar 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 thatrepparttar 113924 lagoon has crocodiles in it and thatrepparttar 113925 persons in wheelchairs must take care not to go at racing speed downrepparttar 113926 bridge. The consequence suggested that a crocodile may be waiting for them to eat them.

I smiled a rather silly smile after looking atrepparttar 113927 sign. Don’t get me wrong, I perfectly understandrepparttar 113928 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 inrepparttar 113929 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 intorepparttar 113930 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,repparttar 113931 sign might not have that much impact. But to those with disabilities and especiallyrepparttar 113932 wheelchair-bound ones, they really can be quite muddled overrepparttar 113933 sign. They would even think, as wintermute2_0 has thought – “isrepparttar 113934 sign really intended as a warning or a suggestion?”

Vitamin D for the Disabled

Written by Mart Gil Abareta


Perhaps,repparttar most important source vitamin D is sun exposure. The sun’s ultraviolet rays cause vitamin D synthesis inrepparttar 113923 skin. Ten to fifteen minutes of sun exposure at least two times per week torepparttar 113924 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 torepparttar 113925 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 whetherrepparttar 113926 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 fromrepparttar 113927 vitamin that affects nearly every tissue inrepparttar 113928 body.

Did you know thatrepparttar 113929 best known activity of vitamin D is its role in maintainingrepparttar 113930 bones? It functions by increasingrepparttar 113931 uptake of calcium fromrepparttar 113932 intestine through interaction withrepparttar 113933 parathyroid glands in controlling bone resorption and serum calcium levels. The skeleton isrepparttar 113934 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 byrepparttar 113935 kidney tubule, and may directly affectrepparttar 113936 osteoblast,repparttar 113937 cell which forms bone.

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