This blog's mission is to improve Cultural Health, by raising Cultural Literacy and reducing Cultural Poisoning.
With respect to Cultural Literacy, I am focused on Classical African Civilization. With respect to Cultural Poisoning, I will help you understand how to Detect it, Correct it, and most importantly, how to prevent little children from catching it.
This site is for Americans in general and African Americans in particular. Video: Politics to Physical Health
Galaxy S4 Burns while Samsung Sleeps. You won't believe what Samsung is trying to do to their customer. See Video and Samsung Email to customer.
Hetep another Iphone clone (droid) bights the dust. So if you have a problem with your phone take it to a Samsung store for a friendly instant replacement. Oh, they don't have stores, Oh you say it will take 3 weeks if Samsung will replace it after you show "proof" your phone is kaput. Oh, you say they sent you an email to stuff in your mouth so you can not talk about the S4 that burns while you sleep. Email attempts to force you into taking down this video.
Le't Go to the Video Tape
Must be some kind of Republican corporations are people free speech thing.
From Email:
"... on behalf of himself and for his heirs, successors, executors, administrators, agents, assigns, and for any person claiming through or under him, DOES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY RELEASE, REMISE, QUIT CLAIM AND FOREVER DISCHARGE SAMSUNG, .."
So not only does Samsung want to force you not to tell your story as a free human being but they want to prevent your children and your children's children from telling your story.
Well I for one will put this on my blog and tell everyone I know how Samsung treats its customers. Personally I think Sam is done!
"Human immune cells reprogrammed in the laboratory to attack leukemia helped drive out the blood cancer in adults and children with aggressive forms of the disease, according to studies on the new strategy.
The research, reported today at the American Society of Hematology’s annual meeting in New Orleans, showed that 15 of 32 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia experienced a reduction of their cancers and 7 achieved remission. In patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, 19 of 22 children experienced complete remission, as did all five adults tested.
The technology has now been licensed to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG (NOVN) to open international trials, said researcher Carl June, a professor of immunotherapy at the
University of Pennsylvania. Multicenter trials will start in the U.S. next year at 8 centers around the country, and international trials should begin in 2014, he said."
I have a friend that has acute leukemia. We were just talking about remission today. He is coming home in Mid December and this new tool along with a healthy diet, exercise, supplements and a visit to an integrative doctor could be very timely indeed.
Scanadu, the startup behind a small handheld scanner that measures a patient's vital signs like heart rate and temperature, announced $10.5 million in funding from multiple investors on Tuesday. Relay Ventures led the new investment, which included former Yahoo cofounder and CEO Jerry Yang, that brings the company's total raised to $14.7 million. This will be used to expand the Scanadu team as it seeks FDA approval for the device called Scanadu Scout, said CEO Walter De Brouwer.
This is great I will be a customer for sure. I always take my own vitals in between my 6mo Doctor check ups. Now the big one to crack is Blood Pressure without a cuff of any kind a remote blood pressure sensor would be worth its weight in gold. There are Iphone Bluetooth BP devices now and Iphone diabetes devices but to do it in Tricorder mode now that is something.
"Will spotting Amazon's fleet of "Prime Air" drones soon be "as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today"? That's what Amazon is saying, after CEO Jeff Bezos explained Sunday that the company would, in the future, deliver packages by quadcopter. However, that future may be a bit further out than the revolutionary retailer can say. "
Normally I like new technology but this needs more thought. Cars and trucks I can see, Drowns? Will Iphones now need to be outfitted with drown detection apps? Will drones have blinking red lights like trucks? This is hurting my head. see U later.
"Over the past few years, tech and health-care companies have demonstrated that Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL ) iPhone has plenty of potential as a portable medical device.
Beyond being a phone, the iPhone is a powerful ultraportable computer with a touchscreen, onboard cameras, a microphone, and motion sensors. Those features make it a viable replacement for the brains of many modern medical devices -- allowing for the creation of much cheaper and smaller systems.
Analyze blood, Blood Pressure, EKG, Dermatology analysis, Ultra Sound and I have seen the Odoscope (takes pics of ear infection and mails to your doc.
The iPhone as a glucose meter
Diabetes patients have to check their blood sugar levels regularly with glucose meters. These devices traditionally require a pinprick to dip a blood sample onto a strip of glucose paper, which is then inserted into the glucose meter to be measured.
The Iphone simply is killing the Iphone knock off droids in Medical apps. If you have a serious medical app you are going to put it on the gold standard mobile computing platform first.
" St. Luke’s Medical Center announced today in a press release “”that it now offers a new Integrative Medicine Program, which takes a holistic approach to healthcare by combining traditional medicine with complementary and alternative medicine, such as acupuncture and massage that has proven effective for certain medical conditions."
ACA's (Obama Care) anti-discrimination clause regarding integrative medicine is assisting us patients get these new benefits. It is one thing to be 80 it is another thing to be 80 and healthy.
the rudder of this ship we call the American medical system, Andrew Weil MD was developing a program at the University of Arizona that blended different medical systems. Everyone insisted on the pejorative terms “complementary” and “alternative” medicine, and he knew that those terms were meant to forever subjugate the primary healing systems of the world to a second-tier status to Western medicine. So he coined the term Integrative medicine (at least he is the first person I know of to publicly and consistently use the term) and developed what became known as the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine along with a whole program at UA known as Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine"
I agree with Dr. Forsman regarding the points he raises about the pejorative nature of the MediPlex (Medical Industrial Complex's "Alternative" and "complementary" medicine. and for the same reasons I use and support the term integrative medicine. As Dr. Foresman talked of a "Western" Medicine point of view let me add some Medical Cultural Literacy to the discussion which, will further clarify what Integrative Medicine is.
All three of my go to Doc's are integrative MDs, one was the chief pathologist at the Hospital I was born in
Columbia Presbyterian University Medical center, Dr. Ali and the other two Dr. Washkem and Dr. Koyki are Integrative MD's that are also trained in Traditional African Medicine (TAfM) and Traditional Asian Medicine (TAsM).
The first "hospitals" in recorded history are found in Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt) going back thousands of years before the Western Father of medicine Hippocrates. They we called Houses of light as contrast the hotels for sick people (Hospitals) we have today. .
Kemet is the source of holistic Medicine as it is the first place that it is formally recorded in the history of man. It is here were we find the first "Scientific Medicine in Recorded history along with the earliest know pharmacy industry with its RX that we still use to this day. The kemetian's would not make a chair or treat a patient without due consideration to the Physical, Psychological and cosmological realities. Now there was no reason to call it holistic chairs or medicine then as it was just the way things were done by the majority in this high culture.
Greek doctors like Hippocrates by their own words studied at Kemetic University houses of light in the school of Tihuti. Why Tihuti's magic wand (Caduceus) is still worn and otherwise used as a symbol of medicine to this very day by the medical community worldwide.
It is still the case that the majority of doctors taking the medical oath swear to the African and Western fathers of Medicine, do you know the African's name?
In time, Kemetic medicine would branch into two major tracts. The Western Tract which is physical chemical, drug, surgery focused and the Eastern Tract which, is bio-energetic herbal/food focused. The reintegration of the three tracts is what I consider Integrative medicine.
The bottom line is if I need assistance in restoring my health I want an MD who can apply the best from all three tracts.
So now you have the full story the more things change the more they stay the same.
"Complementary and alternative medicine — a term that encompasses meditation, acupuncture, chiropractic care and homeopathic treatment, among other things — has become increasingly popular. About four in 10 adults — and one in nine children — in the U.S. are using some form of alternative medicine, according to the National Institutes of Health.
And with the Affordable Care Act, the field could make even more headway in the mainstream health care system. That is, unless the fine print — in state legislation and insurance plans — falls short because of unclear wording and insufficient oversight."
One clause of the health law in particular — Section 2706 — is widely discussed among providers of alternative medicine because it requires that insurance companies “shall not discriminate” against any health provider with a state-recognized license.
The smart guy we hired, with his Dems, to run the nation and get a health care bill passed has outsmarted the Taliban Republicans and MediPlex again with Section 2706 (the anti-discrimination section) of the Affordable Care Act (ACA/ObamaCare). This could take us from the current Sick Care system to a start on a true Health Care System.
Imagine being able to go to an integrative MD and my insurance company being smart enough to pay the bill because research shows that they will have higher profit margins for health care then they currently get for Drug and cut sick care. WoW, talk about a health care miracle hidden in ACA..
Hetep and Respect folks it seems to me you can sum up the CIRP report as follows. for Iphone clone makers like droids, The only thing worst then competting against one Iphone is compeating against two Iphones, lol.
The realty is the clone makers have two challanges in portable computing.
1. Apple's plastic phone, even before you throw in their unmatched Ecosystem with it's apps, is better then the clone plastic.
2. The 64bit A7 chip 5S puts apple at least two years in front of the Iphone clones, most of the clones won't be abe to simulate (copy/implement) a usefull 64 bit chip that does not kill off all their existing 32 bit apps for two or more years. Then how long will it take them to get App Developers to write software to run on their catch up 64 bit platforms?
The Gold Standard in Portable Computing - now comes in Gold
Talk about Tim Cook and his A team hitting the ball out of the park, wow!
Columbus Day Cultural Poisoning requires you understand some basics about history. So here are some Columbus Day 101 Cultural Literacy corrections to the historical record.
Columbus Day 101
1. The indigenous people of Turtle is Island (America's) are not "Indian's" Indians are from India
2. You can not discover a place where people already live.
3. Columbus was not the first European to visit Turtle Island.
4. The vikings came to this land 500 years earlier and the Africans were here 1500 years earlier.
5. Christopher Columbus was a criminally insane murder and en-slaver of people
6. His visit spread World War Zero (The enslavement of people of color "Slave Trade") to Turtle Island leading to 50 million indigenous dead. This is added to the 100 million Africans that would die in WW0.
7. Columbus's attack on Turtle Island must be understood in the context of of the Cultural War c. 1500 B.C.E. -Present that starts in Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt)
8. The Culturally Healthy Indigenous people of Turtle Island (Native Americans) hold this day as a day as a day of morning.
My sleep quality was 93% How did U sleep last night? I now have going on three years of my sleep quality data. My Health and fitness recommendation for the day is give up your old dumb alarm clock and get a smart alarm the provides you with feedback about not just the time you spent sleeping but the quality of your sleep. Here is one feed back graphic my Iphone smart Alarm provides for me.
The very first app on a moble computer (smartphone) that watched you while you sleep was Sleep Cycle.
I dropped in the gym yesterday to work on lower body. But the most important part of my day was this time my body spent sleeping (Reparing)..
Tu-a Neter for enabling me to sleep in cycle before the 24th hour of the day.
My sleep graph for Friday 11 Oct. Analysis by Sleep Cycle smart alarm clock for iPhone. http://sleepcycle.com/get/
While this is a welcome statement it is at best an understatement in my opinion. first one must understand that their are at least three major schools of Psychology and they are found in the context of the worldviews that they live in. The Central Worldview (African), The Eastern worldview (Asian) and the last to enter recorded history the Western Worldview.
I was born and raised in the West and like most here I learned about the Western Psychological school of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The notions of the Ego, the Id, the conscious, unconscious, lying on the couch (psychotherapy), the theories of chemical imbalances in the brain and drugs to fix it.
Now I naturally seemed to lean toward Jung as being closer to the mark then Freud, who I judged to be a lunatic at best. But what is important about what I am telling you is that no where in my education did anyone mention that there were two other major schools of psychology. In public schools we were taught that "traditional medicine" was crazy stuff performed by "Witch Doctors", unscientific etc.
Speaking of Traditional medicine few who are mental health professionals are aware that the first mental health system (Psychology) in recorded history was best described as Astro-Psychology and is found in great detail in Classical African Civilization, Kemet (Ancient Egypt).
As I passed through my youthful near blind belief and faith medical doctors. I asked my self some basic questions, Self, I said, how does Western psychology work and what about the other two schools of mental health? The answers I ran across were real eye openers.
In fact, when I compare modern Psychology/Psychiatry with its psychotropic drugs to Traditional Astro-Psychology I submit that traditional mental health is more a effective and less dangerous means of understanding and maintaining ones mental health. The universe(one verse) is made up of energy and we are part of the one verse. The same laws that apply to energy above applies to the energy below. With an understanding of the laws that governed these energies and the use of reason one is in the best position to maintain a healthy physiological, Psychological and cosmological path to the ZOD (Zone of optimal development).{1}
Last but not least If you or a member of your family or friend have taken, are taking or are considering taking a psychotropic drug from a psychiatrist or MD this Documentary is a must see. The name of the Documentary is the Marketing of Madness. It is long 2.5 hours so if you are serious you will have to allocate time. But trust me it will be will worth it.
The psychological arm of MediPlex (Medical industrial complex) has a very distinct way of operating, you need to understand the big picture reality. The health and well being of yourself, your family and friends could one day depend on what you learn from this most frank documentary. I have provided a short 1 minute trailer below to introduce you to the documentary.
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I have watched the full documentary (in three chunks) and I highly recommend that you invest the time with these serious people. Second, if you are not familiar with the other schools of psychology get familiar. It is remarkable how self-regulating health can be with the right information. .
"Scientists took a close look at the chicken nugget and discovered what some may have suspected: it's not full of what we might think of as meat.
A study published online in September in the American Journal of Medicine -- cleverly titled "The Autopsy of Chicken Nuggets Reads 'Chicken Little'" - revealed that two nuggets from fast food chains in Jackson, Miss. contained only about half of what we would consider chicken meat.
"We all know white chicken meat to be one of the best sources of lean protein available and encourage our patients to eat it," lead author Dr. Richard D. deShazo of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said to Reuters. "What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it and still call it chicken.""
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They did an autopsy on two nuggets this is what was in the first one.
Nugget number one was about 50 percent muscle tissue such as from the breast or thigh, which is what most people think of when they think of chicken meat. The rest of it was made from fat, blood vessels and nerves, specifically the cells that line the skin and internal organs of the chicken.
Now what I want to know is what chains maded these unhelthey for profit nugets was it McDonalds, KFC? why keep this informaiton from the public. The FDA needs to launch a massive study on all Chains and make the reports public.
No, the President did not use the term Cultural Poisoning, yet but this is what he said. ‘I’d think about changing’ Washington Redskins team name. The President hits the mental health nail on the head. Videos)
"President Obama became the latest, and most high-profile, figure to weigh in against the Washington Redskins’ name, saying he would consider changing it because it offends many Native Americans."
Young people seem to get it but some do not. LETS GO TO THE VIDEO TAPE
The Washington Post also ran a poll as part of this story. Poll question: Should the Washington Redskins change their name? Results as of my vote 59% yes 41% no
I as a matter of Cultural Health I stopped watching any game with a Culturally Poisoned name like Redskins, Chief, Tomahawks or any ethnic mascots years ago. In recent years I have stopped watching any sport football, baseball that supports the continuance of this type of Cultural Terrorism. My efforts and the efforts of others to address this mental health issue have not met with the kind of success we are working toward.
However, now that the President of these United States and other prominent folks are weighing in we may finally see the movement to Eliminate Cultural Poisoning in Sports gain more traction.
The question is how is your Cultural Health on this matter and what are YOU going to DO about it?.
"The daily practice of QiGong and other Chinese Medicine techniques, according to Dr. Effie Chow during an interview on the Sharon Kleyne Hour Radio Show, can improve health and reduce the need for medication and surgery. Dr. Chow is a pioneer in Alternative Medicine who advocates the integration of some elements of traditional Chinese medicine into modern Western medical practices. Dr. Chow served on the commission that helped established the Institute for Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.
In her San Francisco clinic, the East-West Academy of Healing Arts, Dr. Chow has witnessed dramatic improvement in diseases such as macular degeneration, cataracts, nearsightedness, diabetes, heart disease and cancer."
I use Qi Gong as part of LifeRcise daily to great effect sepecially the Ma'at pose for opening the spine and helping to minimize spinal stenousus..
This is a remarkable disability community technology story as told by a blind person. Iphone VoiceOver" "A liberating experience.
I have a family member who has cerebral palsy, she is not blind but the Iphone has changed her life, reading the web was a challenge the Iphone made it a piece of cake like reading a book. The great Steve Job's invention has done a lot of visible revolutionary things for man kind. But I think it is the mostly invisible things it has done in the disability community that are the most revolutionary.
If the Iphone clone folks like droid want to copy something VoiceOver is something that might help balance their moral orientation if not their innovation. Windows 8 is not just a clone and they have always supported the disability community back in their hay day. I look forward to good things mobile Windows 8 as it starts up.
One of what's thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for $640,000
It is interesting to note that no droid anything is worth what an apple is worth. Microsoft's Windows Apple clones thought they won the PC wars against Apple, they were wrong. PC sales down, Ipad sales up. Tomorrow you will not be able to find a PC as everyone has Ipads.
Today Iphone clone's (the google drone mob lead by the foreign Samsung) thinks they can win against the gold standard Iphone ecosystem, they are also in error.
I remember this machine what a revolutionary beauty. It is marvolus to see this "A" Team spirit still alive at the great Job's apple. I can't wait for the June/July WWDC IOS 7 and other announcements. It was this machine that lest to the medical health break through apps I have on my Iphone like, hart rate monitors, Istethoscope with it's EKG graph, the first diabetes app to check a person's blood, Iphone comparable weight and blood pressure products and much more.
So speaking of investments that might be worth real money in one's retirement, even a dead Apple is worth more then a live droid, where is my, still working, Apple Newton.
Even as she led the women’s Boston Marathon for mile upon mile with nary another female runner in sight, Ana Dulce Felix kept looking over her shoulder.
Turns out she was wise to be on the lookout. Because Rita Jeptoo was closer than she appeared."
Lelisa Desisa, a 23-year-old Ethiopian who won then men's but the woman had the dramatic story, Rita Jeptooo Kenya won the woman's Boston coming from behind. I can't wait to see them in my home town New York City for the Big One.
"The DNA Integrative Medicine & Wellness Center will be an affiliate of US DNA Health Corp, that has signed a leasing agreement with TIDC to provide various medical services, including recreational therapy, as well as treatment of chronic diseases. The centre will offer a new model of family health care based on the holistic approach — uniting leading-edge Western medicine, advanced diagnostics, and cellular therapies complemented by Eastern alternative modalities."
"When sex means reproduction, certain proclivities may simply not be part of cultural models of sexuality."
Barry and Bonnie Hewlett had been studying the Aka and Ngandu people of central Africa for many years before they began to specifically study the groups' sexuality. As they reported in the journal African Study Monographs, the married couple of anthropologists from Washington State University "decided to systematically study sexual behavior after several campfire discussions with married middle-aged Aka men who mentioned in passing that they had sex three or four times during the night. At first [they] thought it was just men telling their stories, but we talked to women and they verified the men's assertions."
In turning to a dedicated study of sex practices, the Hewletts formally confirmed that the campfire stories were no mere fish tales. Married Aka and Ngandu men and women consistently reported having sex multiple times in a single night. But in the process of verifying this, the Hewletts also incidentally found that homosexuality and masturbation appeared to be foreign to both groups.
Aunk's commentary:
This is a remarkable read that I recommend to all my readers. In many African Cultures there is no word for Masturbation and Homosexuality. They think of sex as a kind of night work looking for children. Wow!
Cultural Literacy Minute: When Westerners say something is just "human nature", their own science now indicates that the statement should be corrected to Western nature. We should not confuse social nature, "human nature" and natural law.
This is a good time to remind ourselves of the three major worldviews i.e. the central worldview (African), the Eastern worldview (Asian) and the Western worldview (Caucasian) in the order of their coming into recorded history. The cosmological orientation and resulting Values, Interests and Principles (VIP's) as Dr. Jeffries points out must be understood if one is to be considered a Culturally Literate global citizen.
To reach reasoned conclusions about man one must have the facts from all three worldviews leaving any worldview out of any fact finding mission by definition calls any resulting conclusions into question.
Living according to natural law seems to work just fine.
"The physician generally credited with establishing the field of integrative medicine, Dr. Andrew Weil, delivered the keynote address Feb. 1, at the 10th annual Natural Supplements Conference, presented by the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, Jan. 30-Feb. 2 at the Hilton San Diego Resort."
"When the pills didn't work, Army Brig. Gen. Rebecca Halstead teamed up with her chiropractor to find a holistic solution to her chronic pain.
And that worked.
"Success is a team sport," she said at last week's Foundation for Chiropractic Progress 10th anniversary gathering at the Rio hotel-casino. She was referring to her chiropractor teammate, Dr. Carol Ann Malizia"
