Good suggestions, all. I'm sure ours is not the only area of the country in which mid- to late-summer is the only time residents routinely lock their car doors when parking. It is to keep people from leaving sacks of zucchini on the back seat.
The dates in the title refer to an event in March 2012. Thread drift over the the last 16 months has morphed it into a discussion of solar flares in general.
<shrug> I don't mind rudeness (though, if you really were "sorry" about it you wouldn't have hit the "submit" button, so typing "sorry I'm so rude" is oxymoronic).
I just don't see a need to start a new thread when one already exists.
Now, about those solar flares...
Those interested in solar flares can get email notifications from the Australian government's Bureau of Meteorology, at
http://www.ips.gov.au/
(Or http://www.ips.gov.au/Products_and_Services/4/1 for the actual list of alerts that are available)
I've been a subscriber for about a year and really...
http://newsroom.melbourne.edu/news/world-first-clinical-trial-supports-use-kava-treat-anxiety
The only negative thing I see in the article is that "the study was funded by the NHMRC and Integria Healthcare who manufacture MediHerb and Thompsons Kava products." Nevertheless, JCD is a respected...
No more "variable" than usual here in Colorado. 88F today, with forecast for next few days being 88-85-86-81. Big change from two weeks ago, but that's just called "springtime" here. :)
I'm just glad to be done with winter.
At one time it was thought that those with pernicious anemia (or those taking proton-pump inhibitor meds) could not benefit from oral B12 therapy. That is no longer the case.
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Presse Med. 2010 Dec;39(12):e273-9. doi: 10.1016/j.lpm.2010.03.027. Epub 2010 Aug 12.
[Oral vitamin B12: Efficacy...
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Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2003 Dec;56(6):635-8.
Replacement therapy for vitamin B12 deficiency: comparison between the sublingual and oral route.
Sharabi A, Cohen E, Sulkes J, Garty M.
Recanati Center for Medicine and Research and Clinical Pharmacology Unit, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel...
My list is probably shorter than many others, since I only rely on those plants which have been shown in controlled studies to have medical benefit. I eschew those which only come up in a search engine query as "good for calming the liver" or other such claims. My list:
- St. John's Wort...
Several replies have already given my answer: It is based on function. Ability to walk up x flights of stairs without being short of breath; ability to tie one's own shoes; ability to see one's own feet ;)
(and, obviously, having those limitations due to excess weight, not some other illness or...