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Dietitian Questions Healthfulness of the Mediterranean Diet
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Dietitian Questions Healthfulness of the Mediterranean Diet

September 3, 2022 · 7:27 AM Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Shana Spence, RD, wrote at Self.com: The Mediterranean diet is constantly lauded in the nutrition world—in fact, US News has named it the “best diet overall” for five years straight—but as a registered dietitian, I think it’s time to think about it a little differently: It’s time to dethrone the Mediterranean diet as being the very best way to eat. Now, the Mediterranean diet—which emphasizes whole grains and plant foods such as fruits, vegetables, legumes, tree nuts, seeds, and olives, and limits red meat, sugar, and saturated fat—is not…
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Posthaste: ‘Financial stress storm’ just starting for working Canadians
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Posthaste: ‘Financial stress storm’ just starting for working Canadians

Breadcrumb Trail Links Executive Summary Executive Financial well-being of workers dives as costs soar, National Payroll Institute survey says Publishing date: Sep 21, 2022 • 1 day ago • 7 minute read • 5 Comments The financial well-being of workers has fallen sharply this year and is expected to get worse in the months ahead. Photo by Laura Pedersen/National Post files Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Article content Good morning! Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article…
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‘Our Linda’: Andover murder victim had major finance job at local company | Merrimack Valley
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‘Our Linda’: Andover murder victim had major finance job at local company | Merrimack Valley

ANDOVER — Intensely private and reserved, Linda Robinson was also diligent, exacting and detail oriented, her former boss recalled. “That’s an enormous thing to have in a finance director in a complicated business,” said Mark DiSalvo, president and CEO of Sema4, Inc., also known as Semaphore, in North Andover. Robinson was his director of finance for 25 years. She left the company on good terms shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, said DiSalvo, who is also the North Andover town moderator. Linda Robinson, 55, was found murdered early Thursday morning in her $2 million 48 Porter Road home. Her…
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Two Hospitals Fined for Violation of Medicare’s Price Transparency Law
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Two Hospitals Fined for Violation of Medicare’s Price Transparency Law

September 15, 2022 · 7:00 AM Not the offending hospital I’ve long been an advocate for price transparency in healthcare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (aka CMS) has recently taken action that requires hospitals to post their prices online, which should boost competition and help you shop around to save money. If memory serves, the price posting only applies to a limited number of services. I presume the rare hospitals that don’t accept Medicare and Medicaid payments are exempt. From MedPage Today: This week [June 2022], CMS handed down their first penalties to two hospitals in Georgia for…
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Stocks plunge after rate hike, Powell comments
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Stocks plunge after rate hike, Powell comments

US stocks tumbled in volatile trading Wednesday afternoon as the Federal Reserve dealt another outsized interest rate hike in its fight against stubborn inflation. The US central bank lifted its benchmark policy rate by 0.75% for a third consecutive time, bringing the federal funds rate to a new range of 3.0% to 3.25% — its highest level since 2008 — from a current range between 2.25% and 2.5% . The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average each shed around 1.7%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite was off by 1.8%. Meanwhile, the CBOE Volatility Index (^VIX) – Wall Street’s “fear”…
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One More Cure for Hiccups
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One More Cure for Hiccups

December 20, 2022 · 5:50 AM I’ve written previously about how Paul Ingraham helped cure my patello-femoral pain syndrome. More recently, Paul looked into hiccup cures because his father had an intractable case. What finally worked for dad? Breathing into a plastic bag. Boosting blood CO2 (hypercapnia) by breathing in a PLASTIC bag. This one is quite plausible and is easy and safe to try. Hypercapnia definitely affects some kinds of hiccups. The story (from a smart source, a good “friend of PainSci”): “There’s an even easier way out of hiccups — at zero cost. Learned it from my uncle,…
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Stocks climb after soft inflation print
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Stocks climb after soft inflation print

US stocks rose Tuesday, climbing on the strength of fresh inflation data showing prices rose less than expected last month. The S&P 500 (^GSPC) advanced by 0.7%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) added 0.3%, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite (^IXIC) rose 1.0%. Stocks fluctuated throughout the day, paring significant early gains in the session before ending comfortably on the green. The session’s jump came after data from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics showed prices in November rose 0.1% over the prior month and 7.1% over the prior year. Tuesday’s data was seen by investors as potentially encouraging for…
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Grain Deal, Zelenskiy to Speak After US Rebuff
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Grain Deal, Zelenskiy to Speak After US Rebuff

(Bloomberg) — Damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure from Russian missile attacks since the war’s start may exceed $100 billion, the country’s Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said. Most Read from Bloomberg Wheat, corn and soybean oil losses extended after Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said a Black Sea grain-export deal would be prolonged by 120 days. Two Russians and a Ukrainian were found guilty by a Dutch court of carrying out an attack on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014 that led to the deaths of all 298 people on board. And President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said officials will travel to the site…
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