Tempest in a tea cup, Wisdom in a sake cupWritten by Will Clower, Ph.D.
What an oxymoron Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine has turned out to be. This vegan organization has one colossal ax to grind with their archrival, Darth Atkins. This is an old score that they’ve unfairly flung in front of public before, all in effort to squash low carb idea and its adherents. The first time was when Robert Atkins suffered his fatal accident, a cranial blow that caused edema – when water accumulates within tissues. This tragic condition, obviously, caused his body to fill with fluid and thus, his overall weight to rise. The so-called “Responsible Physicians” seized on this dying man’s condition by calling Atkins obese – which he was not – and telling everyone who would listen that his diet killed him – which it did not. In end, all they accomplished is to add bitterness and confusion to nutrition science by their shrill, unfair attacks on those who happen to disagree with them. So, after maligning a dead man, they’ve now put up Florida businessman Jody Gorran to sue Atkins Corporation. Gorran – channeling those Responsible Physicians – made following claims. First, Atkins was a doctor and Gorran was on his diet. Second, he had to have heart angioplasty to clear his arteries after 2 years on diet. And third, he reasoned, of 40,000 factors that affect weight and health … Atkins approach must have been very one to have done it to him. Of course, I’m no low carb acolyte, and do anxiously encourage lemmings to rebound back from intoxication with this high protein approach. But you still have to be fair, or you lose integrity, credibility, and confuse everyone in process. That’s why Responsible vegans need to go sit in time out, before heading off to their anger management therapy.
| | Children with Reading DisordersWritten by David Fitzgerald
This learning disability is quite widespread. This disorder is known as dyslexia, and it is believe to affect as many as 8 percent elementary school children. Reading is one of Big R’s, an ability that is important for success in our daily lives. As an adult you pick-up a newspaper, magazine, or any print matter and learn through reading material something new or maybe a deeper understanding of topic. This process of reading has become second nature to you, but as a child you had to develop certain tasks. In your early years of life you learned to focus your attention on printed material and in most cases taught to read it from left to right. As you advance you learned alphabet, and sound of letters. From there you jumped to sound of words. Of course there was “Miss English” you know type. Marking up your (what you thought) great English paper with red pencil, and always correcting your English.But this is a process of learning to read and understand sentences. From this to reading books some good, some not so good. Your mind began building ideas and images. New ideas are compared with old and way you look at new experiences change your way one thinks. The concepts can be deep thoughts or everyday experiences are stored in your memory. But children with dyslexia can have problems with any of these tasks. They can have a problem separating sounds in spoken words. Or they might be unable to simple sound out words, or maybe have trouble rhyming words.
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