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A ‘sin tax’ applied to sweetened goods on store shelves is not the most efficient, effective method of lowering caloric intake from sweet food and would be more disruptive to consumers than necessary, according to Iowa State University research. With a national debate taking shape about the possibility of a national tax on foods with high sweetener content, ISU economists have examined how such a tax would best be applied.
Rather than assessing a tax on these sugary goods as they are taken through the grocery store checkout lines, the research shows that a better way is to tax the food processers on the amount of caloric sweeteners, such as corn syrup and sugar added in processing before the product hits the shelves.
The economists, John Beghin and Helen Jensen, both professors in the Department of Economics, are quick to point out that they are not advocating for or against any tax, but simply researching how and where a possible sweetener tax would be most effective.

Exercise may encourage healthy eating by changing parts of the brain that influence impulsive behaviour, according to a new review of the available literature by researchers from Spain and the US published in Obesity Reviews. The researchers conclude that in a society where we are surrounded by temptations and triggers that facilitate over-eating and excess, the part of the brain responsible for “inhibitory control” undergoes “relentless strain” (they note it has limited capacity anyway), and doing exercise on a regular basis enhances it.
“By enhancing the resources that facilitate ‘top-down’ inhibitory control, increased physical activity may help compensate and suppress the hedonic drive to over-eat,” they write.
Obesity has been rising at an alarming rate in Spain in recent years, so much so that in some parts of Spain, the proportion of the population that is obese is higher than that in many parts of the United States, the country traditionally considered as having the highest obesity rates in the western world.

Diabetes is one of the killers of people today. In some countries in Asia, it has been linked to some other sources. The article will somehow give us some insights with regards to diabetes retinopathy.
The human eye has three layers. The outermost layer is called sclera. The middle layer of the eye is called the uvea, and the innermost layer is called the retina. The retina is the light-sensitive membrane at the back of the eye. When light enters the eye, the cornea and lens focus the light onto the retina. The central area of the retina, called the macula, contains millions of nerve endings packed closely together. These nerve endings are responsible for the sharpness of the visual image. The retina converts the image into electrical impulses that are carried to the brain by the optic nerve. So, without the retina, the eye cannot communicate with the brain and vision is lost.

Gestational diabetes is defined as carbohydrate intolerance that is first recognized during the course of pregnancy. It occurs in 4% of all pregnancies and is considered as one of the most common metabolic disorders affecting pregnant women.
The diabetes, which usually is diagnosed for the first time during pregnancy, may persist even after delivery. As a consequence of gestational diabetes, there is a very high blood sugar level. The severity of carbohydrate intolerance may vary in its severity in different individuals.
Diabetes may occur due to an inadequate supply of insulin, required to metabolize sugar (Type I diabetes) or it may occur due to the improper usage of insulin (Type II diabetes). Gestational diabetes as mentioned previously is due to the action of hormones produced during pregnancy that blocks the action of insulin. This is known as insulin resistance.
Gestational diabetes usually manifests during the second trimester of pregnancy. In the majority of affected women, there is recovery from the diabetic state after delivery. In some cases an existing diabetic condition may be brought to the forefront during antenatal examinations. In such cases, the diabetes tends to persist even after the delivery of the baby.

What does this mean? Since alcoholism is a chronic and life-long disease, it primarily affects or even damage the brain’s structure and function. In addition, the disease is characterized by symptoms including an impaired control over alcohol, compulsive thoughts about alcohol, and distorted thinking. It can also lead indirectly, through excess consumption, to physical dependence on alcohol, and diseases such as cirrhosis of the liver.

How alcoholism developed? According to one reference, a person ‘s genes play a strong role in development of alcoholism. It also depends on many factors, such as environment, genetic heritability, and personal choice. Current evidence indicates that in both men and women who are alcoholism is 50-60 percent for genetically determined, and 40-50 percent for environmental influences. However, females have much lower concordance rates than males.

The diagnosis of alcoholism is often made of the DSM-V criteria for alcohol dependence such as some areas as follows: The tolerance, a need for markedly increased amounts of the substance to achieve intoxication, and diminished effect with continued use of the same amount of substance. The withdrawal, the characteristic withdrawal syndrome for the substance, and the same substance is taken to relieve. The substance is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period that was intended. And more others.

Do you know what does in mean by cluttering? In medical term cluttering is called as tachyphemia. In the past, cluttering has been viewed as a fluency disorder. This is described as a speech disorder and a communication disorder. The listeners had difficulties to understand their speech due to rapid speaking rate, erratic rhythm, poor syntax or grammar, and words or groups of words unrelated to the sentence.

In most cases, those who are with cluttering may experience a short attention span, poor concentration, poorly organized thinking, inability to listen, and a lack of awareness that one’s speech is unintelligible.

Cluttering is sometime confused with stuttering. However, to understand the difference of the two communication disorders, let us also consider what is stuttering mean. Stuttering is a often analyzed as a speech disorder, a coherent pattern of thoughts, but can’t say it. Stutterers are usually dis-fluent on initial sounds, when beginning to speak, and become more fluent towards the ends of utterances. It also characterized by struggle behavior, such as over-tense speech production muscles.

Can clutterers be treated? Since clutterers have poor awareness of their disorder, the Delayed Auditory Feedback (DAF) is usually used to produce a more deliberate, exaggerated oral-motor response pattern. Other treatment components will help to improve narrative structure with story-telling picture books, turn-taking practice, pausing practice, and language therapy.

The New York Times came out swinging this morning with two Business-section articles about Chuck Prince, CEO of Citigroup, and Stephen McPherson, president of ABC Entertainment.

If you love leadership studies, these two are must read.

Chuck Prince presides over a stagnant (some would say stumbling) Citigroup, the behemoth financial services company. Prince was the top lieutenant of former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill but with a background in law, Prince lacks the operational experience needed to run such a large company.

Unfortunately, he’s surrounded himself with a group of people also regarded as weak executives. So you have a CEO who is afraid to make bold decisions leading a team that is looking out for their own interests. For example, Robert Rubin, the Director and chairman of the executive committee, who “is a constant and close adviser but has refrained from closely overseeing lines of business at Citigroup.” What good is advice if the person receiving it is either a) afraid to act on it, b) may not know what to do with it, or c) doesn’t have a team in place capable of acting effectively on his directives?

Contrast that with McPherson. The article begins with this description:

The brand-conscious Disney, in particular, expects its division chiefs to keep a modest profile, stay on message and play nice with corporate siblings.Mr. McPherson does few of those things. He exhibits a blunt, temperamental style that at times creates a frosty relationship with his superiors and leaves subordinates ducking for cover, say current and former Disney executives. He fires off nuclear e-mail messages, fumes over downbeat ratings and once yanked a $10 million comedy after a single broadcast because he didn’t like its creative direction.

“He’s confident in his opinions. He doesn’t sugarcoat. His position doesn’t sway in the wind,†said Rich Frank, former president of Walt Disney Studios. “That can leave people raw.

Why then is McPherson the right man for his job?

1) He came up through the ranks, gaining experience, and, most importantly, credibility among his peers as both a programming genius and a decisive decision maker. Contrast that with Prince who is widely seen as someone who plugged into his current role without the necessary managerial experience needed to run a huge company.

2) He’s made ABC a place where top talent wants to work — and he’s done it not by tasking his managers with a mandate but by personally doing things to please both actors and rank-and-file.

Here are three examples:

In recent months, he has worked to dispel tension between himself and other executives, particularly his successor at ABC Studios, Mark Pedowitz. At a company team-building retreat in July, he matched up with Mr. Pedowitz on stage to kick off a night of corporate karaoke. Their song was “What the World Needs Now Is Love.â€

and:

In April, Mr. McPherson doled out dollops of thanks to his staff — literally. To recognize their work on the network’s spring pilots, he flew in 12 tubs of ice cream from a New Jersey parlor and pushed a cart up and down the aisles of ABC’s corporate headquarters, scooper in hand.

and:

[Sally] Field says Mr. McPherson changed her mind about returning to ABC. “He sent me the loveliest notes about how the network has changed and about his support for me and the show,†she says. “It felt like if ABC ended up canceling us overnight, at least someone would call me this time.†Ms. Field, who won an Emmy Award last month for the role, keeps the e-mail messages on her bulletin board.

3) He is not afraid of change even if it means doing away with “this is how things have always been done”:

When Mr. McPherson took over ABC three years ago, he made some important operational changes, too. He stopped marketing new shows equally, a vestige of the pre-cable era intended to keep producers happy. And he was the first Big Four network executive to aggressively court the country’s growing Hispanic audience (including dubbing shows into Spanish and pushing his staff to cast more Hispanic actors).

4) He is hyper-competitive.

He also does not dispute that he has left a long trail of hurt feelings and bruised egos in his wake, but he says disagreements are to be expected in any creative business. He also says that he is misunderstood. “I don’t see myself as a bully,†he says. “I know I’m demanding. My biggest gift and curse is that I want to win.â€

It was almost as if the Times put the two stories on the front page of today’s Business section on purpose. I couldn’t think of a better example of how not to run a company in distress (passively, relying on others to make tough decisions, surrounding yourself with inexperienced leadership) being shown so obviously next to an example of how to take a company to the top (decisively, personally involving yourself in employee satisfaction, making difficult decisions while putting yourself on the line, using your experience to help those around you).

Have you ever encountered this medical strategy? Maybe some do, but in order to learn more details in this regard, the following details mentioned below will help.

The Estrogen Replacement Therapy (ERT) is a medical treatment option for women who are experiencing loss of production or reduction of estrogen. This will replaces and replenishes the ovaries with the hormone that they’ve stopped producing naturally. The ERT is also applied in the treatment of menopausal symptoms like vaginal dryness, night sweats and hot flashes. It is also recommended to women who have undergone surgery to remove ovaries or having surgical menopause, and women experiencing early menopause (below 40 years).

But the question is, how the Estrogen administered in ERT? To administer estrogen in ERT, two modes are used. The first and most common mode is orally. This is done through pills which are passes through liver before entering the bloodstream. Another modes is known as transdermal modes which are directly enters bloodstreams. This includes estrogen patches, cream, gel and vaginal ring.

There are many benefits offered by Estrogen Replacement Therapy. To name a few, it prevent early onset of osteoporosis and bone loss, it reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease, reduces the risk of colon cancer among post-menopausal women, it slows down the ageing process, and it improves the overall health of bladder muscles, uterus and vagina.

However, among these many benefits of hormone replacement therapy, this is not entirely free from side effects. Some of these are headache, nausea, weight gain, bloating, pain in the stomach, weakness, mood swings, depression, increase risk of stroke and formation of blood clots, and greater risk of breast and ovarian cancer for women who undergone long-term ERT. But not all women will be affected by some of these side effects, it varies widely.

I couldn’t help but chuckle this afternoon as I read this article. It tracks the current trend of young finance professionals forgoing their MBA’s because the opportunity cost, i.e. lost wages while you spend two years out of the workforce, has become too high.

Too high you say? Tell that to the 28-year-old hedge fund manager in the article who is making low 7-figures.

Why the chuckle? Well, I was on the train back from Philadelphia to New York where I had spent the weekend watching football, talking fantasy basketball, and eating a cheesesteak. Reading an article like this is definitely snaps you back into a New York mindset Finance dominates the discussion these days in New York. Much like Internet dominated the discussion in ’99-’00.

The parallels between the Internet boom and bust and today’s article are striking and scary. When everyone wants to work in your industry that’s probably a bad sign. People stop looking forward and focus on maximizing returns for this quarter, or this week, or today. In other words, everyone is chasing the money. And when people stop planning for the future in hopes of a few short years of rapid financial gain? Hello bubble! Too much money, not enough talent, and pie-in-the-sky dreams is a sure recipe for disaster.

Paul Kedrosky, a blogger I read a ton, feels the same way.