STAF, Inc. - until every family is doing well©
This report compiled, partially written, edited & structured as a seminar
by Dr. Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D.,
The Founding President of Save The American Family - STAF, Inc., -not-for-profit
www.staf1org.weebly.com
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PART A
The Concussion Challenge
An Internet Seminar
This seminar will
save lives:
What every
parent, teacher, trainer, child, nanny, babysitter, caretaker &
anyone of any age must know about concussions to stay safe
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Before we go further
in this seminar full of life saving guidance,
lets look at
how to lower your risk of getting a concussion
Prevention
You can lower your risk of getting a concussion by protecting your head from taking a hard blow. Some ways of doing this are listed below:
- Protective headgear - One of the most important ways to protect your head from concussion is to wear protective headgear while doing any sort of contact sport or high speed sport. This includes activities such as click: football, hockey, skateboarding, bicycling & rollerblading.
- Wear your seatbelt - Concussions often happen during traffic accidents. Wearing your seatbelt can help to prevent injuries during a car crash.
- Diving - (no letter "r') Don't dive into shallow water or bodies of water where you can't see the bottom.
- Sometimes a concussion is referred to as an MTBI which stands for mild traumatic brain injury.
- Around 10% of concussions that occur during sports involve a loss of consciousness. This means you can get a light concussion without you knowing it - the signs for it may appear later (listed below)
- The most dangerous sport for concussions is football where around 75% of the athletes get concussions.
- If a person has had one concussion they are 1 to 2 times more likely to get a second one.
- The CDC estimates that around 1.7 million concussions occur each year. CDC = Centers for Disease Control & Prevention - A U.S. Federal Agency Click: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) www.cdc.gov/
- United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
The CDC maintains several departments concerned with occupational safety and health, such as the Center for Injury Prevention and Control _____________________________________________________
Study all links and articles together with all your family members
- then the results for your family's safety are the most effective -
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Children Sleep Better When Parents Set Rules
Study of children aged 6 to 17 years
Harvard University - Penn State University research
Click green links for further info
Parental limits on the use of electronics, including not looking at screens before bed, helps children get better rest
When parents and children have electronic devices on after bedtime, poor sleep is likely. Household rules about technology at night and a regular bedtime routine can help families get better sleep and more of it, experts say.
For a new study published in the journal Sleep Health, researchers evaluated households in the United States with children aged 6 to 17 years old through Internet-based interviews. A total of 1,103 parents or guardians of an average age of 42 completed surveys. Fifty-four percent were female.
Click: Sleep Health
“We were interested in parental perception of the importance of sleep duration and sleep quality, habits, and routines of the families and children, and obstacles preventing adequate sleep,” says Orefu Buxton, an associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State. Click: Orfeu M. Buxton
Click: Faculty Profile - Harvard University: Orfeu M. Buxton
Although the majority of parents endorsed the importance of sleep, 90 percent of children didn’t get the full amount of time recommended for their age group.
Some of the primary consequences of poor sleep among children and adolescents are behavioral problems, impaired learning and school performance, sports injuries, problems with mood and emotional regulation, and a worsening of health-related issues, including obesity.
Evidence also indicates that in adolescence, lack of sleep may be related to high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, suicidal behaviors, and drowsy driving.
24/7 Society
Experts recommend that children between the ages of 6 to 11 get at least nine hours sleep, and teenagers should get at least eight hours.
The survey suggested several potential reasons for poor sleep:
• Electronic devices in the bedroom
• Busy daily schedules with competing work, school, social, and recreational activities
• Noise from vehicular traffic, commercial or industrial activity, and neighbors
“An important consequence of our modern-day, 24/7 society is that it is difficult for families—children and caregivers both—to get adequate sleep,” Buxton says.
“Good quality and sufficient sleep are vital for children - their brain development needs enough sleep - a person of any age needs enough sleep to avoid sickness,” Buxton says. “Just like a healthy diet and exercise, sleep is critical for children to stay healthy, grow, learn, do well in school, and function at their best.”
Sources:
(1) From Penn State University via Futurity.org
(2) STAF, Inc.
A new bill meant to make contact football safer
Bill would require doctor
at NYC youth tackle football games
A NEW BILL initiated
Click: Tackle football
Click green below for further info
A bill is a proposed law under consideration by a legislature. A bill does not become law until it is passed by the legislature and, in most cases, approved by the executive (= President, Governor, Mayor, etc.). Once a bill has been enacted into law, it is called an Act or a statute.
Click: Bill would require doctor at NYC youth tackle football games
A new bill accepted by the legislature can (based on certain other rules)
be stopped becoming a law Click: Veto
STAF, Inc. seriously suggests,
for the safety of your child(ren)
before you let your child(ren) of any age get involved with football or any other
contact sports or any other sports
with serious concussion
or other health challenges,
discuss the idea carefully.
Study the following web links together and
discuss the findings in a full family meeting.
The fact on the next line is important to remember:
It takes up to the age of 25 to have the human brains fully developed.
Professor Robert Stern (Boston University School of Medicine) states:
"It makes common sense that children, at a time of important brain development, should not be exposed to hundreds of hits to their heads," said Robert Stern, the study's senior investigator and a professor of neurology (= the scientific study of the nervous system, its structure, functions, abnormalities and diseases that affect it), neurosurgery, anatomy and neurobiology (= the biology of the nervous system) at the Boston University School of Medicine.
Prof. Stern's study on the next line - click the title
Click: Youth Football May Factor into Memory Lapses in NFL Vets: Study
Click: School of Medicine | Boston University
Other related links important for your family's decision making:
Click: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
Click: 76 of 79 Deceased NFL Players Found to Have Brain Damage
Click: Head Injuries in Football
Click: Years of battering took toll on Patriots star Mosi Tatupu
Click: New England Patriots
It takes up to the age of 25
to have the human brains fully developed
Click: Brain Maturity Extends Well Beyond Teen Years : NPR www.npr.org -- NPR : National Public Radio› News › Science › - But emerging science about brain development suggests that most people don't reach full maturity until the age 25.
Click: Adolescent Maturity and the Brain: The Promise and Pitfalls www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/National Center for Biotechnology Information
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NFL Must Not Lose Focus on Player Safety
Discuss in your family what activities to accept
A startling number of former NFL players responding to a Newsday survey said they still are effected by injuries suffered during their careers - 70 % by knee injuries, two-thirds by injuries to the lower back and shoulders, half by head injuries.
More than one-fourth said they still take prescription painkillers for those injuries, and nearly two-thirds said they took such drugs while they were playing. Nearly 60 % said they were diagnosed with a concussion while playing.
The NFL, in connection with a lawsuit filed by former players against the league, has admitted that debilitating (= tending to weaken) brain diseases such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's will affect nearly 30 % of former players.
The NFL has made strides (= made improvements) recently to reduce concussions in particular, but more can be done to protect player health with rules changes, better equipment and more education.
Click: Newsday
Click: Parkinson's disease
Click: Alzheimer's
Click: NFL.com - Official Site of the National Football League
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Study all links and articles together with all your family members
- then the results for your family's safety are the most effective -
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The Concussion Challenge continues.......
National Basketball Association
Concussion Policy Summary
The National Basketball Association Concussion Policy is designed to maximize the neurological health of NBA players by providing a framework of education and clinical management. The policy was created under the core principle that each concussion, and each athlete, is unique. Optimum medical care depends on an individualized and comprehensive approach to concussion management.
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Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Some
Initiative aims to track athletes’ head injuries from onset through recovery
Updated April 17, 2015
Click for the graphics for the numbers:
Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Get Some - WSJwww.wsj.com/.../short-on-concussion-data-ncaa-sets...The Wall Street Journal - Apr 17, 2015 - The Numbers: Columnist Jo Craven McGinty explores the NCAA's effort
If the link has expired search the web with the above link title = the graphics is in the WSJ
Click below in the text the colored links for further info - or search the web with the copied link
The NCAA has had a concussion problem for years. But the organization has resisted issuing rules to diagnose and manage the debilitating brain injury, in part because it doesn’t have enough scientific evidence upon which to base rules.
Now the National Collegiate Athletic Association is helping bankroll a project to gather the information. In partnership with U.S. Department of Defense, it has launched a three-year, $30 million project to track the effects of concussion using data from as many as 37,000 student athletes.
The study is one of several new NCAA-backed “big data” projects, according to Oliver Luck, the organization’s executive vice president of regulatory affairs. Other efforts include mandating schools to report to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research and conducting summits to examine injury, recovery and optimal training data related to a particular sport.
“It’s a fairly significant shift in the way the NCAA would like to look at issues,” said Mr. Luck, a former NFL quarterback who is the father of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. “So many schools and coaches have knowledge of sports but have not been making decisions based on data. This is our effort to join that club” of institutions using data to inform decision making.
In the case of concussion, it also is a tacit acknowledgment the NCAA must address a problem that has led some athletes to sue and caused others to quit their sport rather than risk injury. Last year, the NCAA agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over concussion-related claims.
And the blows keep coming. Last month, University of Maryland freshman Melo Trimble hit his head twice in one game of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament before a trainer led him, looking dazed, from the floor. He was later diagnosed with a concussion. A week later, Vanderbilt University quarterback Patton Robinette ended his Division I football career, saying his decision was influenced by having suffered a concussion on the field in September.
The new study aims to document the effects of concussion from onset through full recovery, providing the NCAA with the scientific evidence it says it lacks.
The University of Maryland's Melo Trimble is helped off the court by head trainer Matt Charvat in the second half of a March Madness game last month after sustaining a head injury. He was later diagnosed with a concussion.
“The press, coaches and others talk as if we understand the natural history of concussion,” said Brian Hainline, a neurologist and the NCAA’s chief medical officer. “We’re giving recommendations without having definite answers.”
Traditionally, concussions have been diagnosed based on observable symptoms and what injured athletes volunteered about their condition. More recently, that approach has been augmented with baseline tests administered to athletes before a sports season begins to provide a point of reference in the event of injury.
The problem is athletes who want to get back in a game may inadvertently or intentionally provide misleading information.
“If the person doesn’t drop to the ground and lie there unconscious, it’s not always clear whether they have a concussion,” said Thomas W. McAllister, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, who is one of the principal investigators in the concussion study. “We rely on the athlete to self-report. Most don’t want to report.”
Indiana University, the University of Michigan and the Medical College of Wisconsin are coordinating the study, which will include student-athletes attending the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard academies and about 30 different NCAA schools, phased in over the period. All NCAA-sanctioned sports will be included.
The DOD is interested in the research because military service personnel have a high incidence of concussion, most occur outside of combat and the injury is easier to study in a sports setting.
“Eighty percent of traumatic brain injuries in the military occur outside of the combat zone, with mechanisms that are similar to those experienced by collegiate athletes,” said Col. Dallas Hack, the brain health and fitness research coordinator of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command who is leading the DOD’s participation in the concussion study. “Research in this cohort is much easier to accomplish logistically and will provide many of the answers that would help with the majority of brain injuries in service members.”
Baseline data collected before a sport season begins will include tests of memory, attention and balance, medical history, and information on symptoms associated with concussion such as depression and anxiety.
Athletes must consent to participate and may opt out at any time. Their identities won’t be disclosed. Since August, 3,578 students have had baseline evaluations,
Dr. McAllister said—and already 195 concussions have been diagnosed. Once a concussion is diagnosed, the baseline tests are repeated five times over six months.
RELATED
Additionally, the University of North Carolina, UCLA, Virginia Tech and the University of Wisconsin, will participate in advanced research of athletes who play football, soccer, ice hockey or lacrosse—sports with a high incidence of concussion.
These athletes will wear sensors in their helmets or, in non-helmet sports, somewhere on their body during games to count how often, how hard and from what direction they are hit, and in addition to the baseline information, they will have magnetic resonance imaging of the brain to monitor changes in structure and function; blood work to identify biomarkers that could be used as indicators of concussion or recovery; and genetic studies that may reveal whether some people are more susceptible to concussion or more readily recover afterward.
Data will be shared with the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research system operated by the National Institutes of Health.
It is too soon to predict how successful the research will be or how the NCAA will use the information produced by it and other big-data projects. But filling in gaps in knowledge with hard numbers, statistics and sound scientific research is the right call, and more than 450,000 NCAA athletes stand to benefit.
Sources:
WSJ
STAF
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Study these 3 links below with your whole family
(including with the baby and the toddler(s) (the babies learn already in the womb - they learn in any situation)
Click: (If any of the links has expired, search the web with the colored title)
Biology for Kids: Concussion (Head Injury)
Click:
Concussions in sport - Wikipedia
Click:
Concussion training for Coaches
Also this "Coach link" is good info for every family even though the title states "for Coaches".
The role of the parents is to coach their child(ren) - in a bigger family the role of the older children is to coach their younger siblings.
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National Basketball Association
Concussion Policy Summary
The National Basketball Association Concussion Policy is designed to maximize the neurological health of NBA players by providing a framework of education and clinical management. The policy was created under the core principle that each concussion, and each athlete, is unique. Optimum medical care depends on an individualized and comprehensive approach to concussion management.
- Education: Every player and coach receives concussion education prior to the beginning of each season. Topics include information on the underlying mechanism of concussion, common and uncommon presentations of concussion, appropriate management strategies and possible complications or long-term manifestations of the injury.
- Baseline Testing: Prior to each season, each player will undergo testing of baseline brain function, via a neurological and cognitive assessment.
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Evaluation and Management:
- If a player is suspected of having a concussion, or exhibits the signs or symptoms of concussion, they will be removed from participation and undergo evaluation by the medical staff in a quiet, distraction-free environment conducive to conducting a neurological evaluation.
- If a player is diagnosed with concussion, he will not return to participation on that same day.
- A player that is diagnosed with concussion should have their physical and cognitive exertion limited as much as possible while they are still experiencing symptoms of concussion.
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Return-to Participation Decisions:
- Once a player is diagnosed with a concussion he is then held out of all activity until he is symptom-free at rest and until he has no appreciable difference from his baseline neurological exam and his baseline score on the computerized cognitive assessment test.
- The concussed player may not return to participation until he is asymptomatic at rest and has successfully completed the NBA concussion return-to-participation exertion protocol.
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Return-to Participation Protocol:
- The return to participation protocol involves several steps of increasing exertion -- from a stationary bike, to jogging, to agility work, to non-contact team drills.
- With each step, a player must be symptom free to move to the next step. If a player is not symptom free after a step, he stops until he is symptom free and begins again at the previous step of the protocol (i.e., the last step he passed without any symptoms).
- While the final return-to participation decision is to be made by the player’s team physician, the team physician must discuss the return-to-participation process and decision with Dr. Jeffrey Kutcher, the Director of the NBA’s Concussion Program, prior to the player being cleared for full participation in NBA Basketball.
- It's important to note that there is no time frame to complete the protocol. Each injury and player is different and recovery time can vary in each case.
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Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Some
Initiative aims to track athletes’ head injuries from onset through recovery
Updated April 17, 2015
Click for the graphics for the numbers:
Short on Concussion Data, NCAA Sets Out to Get Some - WSJwww.wsj.com/.../short-on-concussion-data-ncaa-sets...The Wall Street Journal - Apr 17, 2015 - The Numbers: Columnist Jo Craven McGinty explores the NCAA's effort
If the link has expired search the web with the above link title = the graphics is in the WSJ
Click below in the text the colored links for further info - or search the web with the copied link
The NCAA has had a concussion problem for years. But the organization has resisted issuing rules to diagnose and manage the debilitating brain injury, in part because it doesn’t have enough scientific evidence upon which to base rules.
Now the National Collegiate Athletic Association is helping bankroll a project to gather the information. In partnership with U.S. Department of Defense, it has launched a three-year, $30 million project to track the effects of concussion using data from as many as 37,000 student athletes.
The study is one of several new NCAA-backed “big data” projects, according to Oliver Luck, the organization’s executive vice president of regulatory affairs. Other efforts include mandating schools to report to the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research and conducting summits to examine injury, recovery and optimal training data related to a particular sport.
“It’s a fairly significant shift in the way the NCAA would like to look at issues,” said Mr. Luck, a former NFL quarterback who is the father of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. “So many schools and coaches have knowledge of sports but have not been making decisions based on data. This is our effort to join that club” of institutions using data to inform decision making.
In the case of concussion, it also is a tacit acknowledgment the NCAA must address a problem that has led some athletes to sue and caused others to quit their sport rather than risk injury. Last year, the NCAA agreed to pay $75 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over concussion-related claims.
And the blows keep coming. Last month, University of Maryland freshman Melo Trimble hit his head twice in one game of the NCAA March Madness basketball tournament before a trainer led him, looking dazed, from the floor. He was later diagnosed with a concussion. A week later, Vanderbilt University quarterback Patton Robinette ended his Division I football career, saying his decision was influenced by having suffered a concussion on the field in September.
The new study aims to document the effects of concussion from onset through full recovery, providing the NCAA with the scientific evidence it says it lacks.
The University of Maryland's Melo Trimble is helped off the court by head trainer Matt Charvat in the second half of a March Madness game last month after sustaining a head injury. He was later diagnosed with a concussion.
“The press, coaches and others talk as if we understand the natural history of concussion,” said Brian Hainline, a neurologist and the NCAA’s chief medical officer. “We’re giving recommendations without having definite answers.”
Traditionally, concussions have been diagnosed based on observable symptoms and what injured athletes volunteered about their condition. More recently, that approach has been augmented with baseline tests administered to athletes before a sports season begins to provide a point of reference in the event of injury.
The problem is athletes who want to get back in a game may inadvertently or intentionally provide misleading information.
“If the person doesn’t drop to the ground and lie there unconscious, it’s not always clear whether they have a concussion,” said Thomas W. McAllister, chairman of the department of psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, who is one of the principal investigators in the concussion study. “We rely on the athlete to self-report. Most don’t want to report.”
Indiana University, the University of Michigan and the Medical College of Wisconsin are coordinating the study, which will include student-athletes attending the Army, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard academies and about 30 different NCAA schools, phased in over the period. All NCAA-sanctioned sports will be included.
The DOD is interested in the research because military service personnel have a high incidence of concussion, most occur outside of combat and the injury is easier to study in a sports setting.
“Eighty percent of traumatic brain injuries in the military occur outside of the combat zone, with mechanisms that are similar to those experienced by collegiate athletes,” said Col. Dallas Hack, the brain health and fitness research coordinator of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command who is leading the DOD’s participation in the concussion study. “Research in this cohort is much easier to accomplish logistically and will provide many of the answers that would help with the majority of brain injuries in service members.”
Baseline data collected before a sport season begins will include tests of memory, attention and balance, medical history, and information on symptoms associated with concussion such as depression and anxiety.
Athletes must consent to participate and may opt out at any time. Their identities won’t be disclosed. Since August, 3,578 students have had baseline evaluations,
Dr. McAllister said—and already 195 concussions have been diagnosed. Once a concussion is diagnosed, the baseline tests are repeated five times over six months.
RELATED
Additionally, the University of North Carolina, UCLA, Virginia Tech and the University of Wisconsin, will participate in advanced research of athletes who play football, soccer, ice hockey or lacrosse—sports with a high incidence of concussion.
These athletes will wear sensors in their helmets or, in non-helmet sports, somewhere on their body during games to count how often, how hard and from what direction they are hit, and in addition to the baseline information, they will have magnetic resonance imaging of the brain to monitor changes in structure and function; blood work to identify biomarkers that could be used as indicators of concussion or recovery; and genetic studies that may reveal whether some people are more susceptible to concussion or more readily recover afterward.
Data will be shared with the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research system operated by the National Institutes of Health.
It is too soon to predict how successful the research will be or how the NCAA will use the information produced by it and other big-data projects. But filling in gaps in knowledge with hard numbers, statistics and sound scientific research is the right call, and more than 450,000 NCAA athletes stand to benefit.
Sources:
WSJ
STAF
______________________________
Study these 3 links below with your whole family
(including with the baby and the toddler(s) (the babies learn already in the womb - they learn in any situation)
Click: (If any of the links has expired, search the web with the colored title)
Biology for Kids: Concussion (Head Injury)
Click:
Concussions in sport - Wikipedia
Click:
Concussion training for Coaches
Also this "Coach link" is good info for every family even though the title states "for Coaches".
The role of the parents is to coach their child(ren) - in a bigger family the role of the older children is to coach their younger siblings.
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Brain Health
Head Injuries Cause Young Brains Act Old
University of Rochester
Click green links for further info
"It's striking that the same changes that we see in the aging brain are mirrored in the young brain after traumatic brain injury," says Jeffrey Iliff. "It suggests that these events may be the common link to neurodegeneration, between what happens in the elderly and what happens after brain trauma."
Click: Jeffrey J. Iliff, Ph.D. - Profile
Traumatic brain injury
can keep young brains from flushing away waste,
causing a build-up of toxic proteins.
The results mirror what happens
in the aging brain and may set the stage for dementia.
Click: Dementia - Mayo Clinic
“We know that traumatic brain injury(concussion) early in life is a risk factor for the early development of dementia in the decades that follow,” says Maiken Nedergaard, co-director of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine at the University of Rochester.
Click: Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., D.M.Sc. - Research Profile ...www.urmc.rochester.edu/.../2378...University of Rochester Medical Center
New Approaches for Treating Neurological Diseases
Click: Center for Translational Neuromedicine - University of ...www.urmc.rochester.edu/ctn/University of Rochester Medical Center
“The study Head Injuries Cause Young Brains Act Old
shows that these injuries set into motion a cascading series of events that impair the brain’s ability to clear waste, allowing proteins like tau to spread throughout the brain and eventually reach toxic levels.”
Published in Journal of Neuroscience, the findings are the latest in a series of insights that are fundamentally changing the way scientists understand neurological disorders.
Click: The Journal of Neurosciencewww.jneurosci.org
The importance of sleeping enough
is one of the cornerstone of good health, as important as is daily physical activity like walking 10 000 - 25 000 steps daily; use a pedometer click: Pedometers
Sleeping enough is also one of the pillars for your financial success - sleep cleans your brain leading to a renewed brainpower. With your good health and your finances in an excellent order you have an easy time to create a happy, long life.
Sleeping enough is: CDC - Centers of Disease Control & Prevention guidelines: adults of any age: 7 - 8 h, teenagers 9 - 10 h, school-aged children 10 - 11 h, pre-school-aged children 11-12 h, newborns know what to do: they sleep almost 24 h, (min. 18-18 h).
Sleeping enough has much to do with (1) our brain health because the brain flushes out toxins during its REM-sleep (rapid-eye-movement sleep),
with (2) our general health and (3) with our financial success in life:
healthy brain, healthy mind & healthy body leads to a better, more intelligent & beneficial decision making. Click: REM
Sleeping long enough (the suggested hours above) is also important because natural growth hormone (HGH = human growth hormone) develops during our sleep (also in adults) - it's needed for maintaining health and a healthy body-mind balance. Click: Growth hormone
Abusing man-made growth hormone (forbidden but still common in all sports) will harm our body function and create sickness and abnormalities.
The latest science has discovered -
that a part of the human cells, also in every adult, die and are replaced by new cells - however the full scientific picture of the process is not necessarily clear, yet.
Perhaps we can have a second chance in life.
This information in helpful when our wrong lifestyle first has created challenges
to our good health and when we then adopt a healthier, more natural lifestyle we have a real possibility renewing step by step our body systems to function in a health-returning and health-maintaining manner and we can and may have a new start and a new chance in life with our renewed body.
It sounds like being born-again (that is a metaphorical (= figurative) statement, only partially a scientific fact).
Yet, this factually can mean: at any age it will be beneficial to correct the abusive life habits and let the wrong leave us and replace it by accepting & adopting a healthy lifestyle with a daily correct nutrition plan. Such a plan does exist. STAF, Inc. (its website in front of you) is U.S. nationwide & worldwide one of the leading specialists in correct nutrition & healthy lifestyle - See the details
in Part C in this seminar. This all can then mean, as a principle, like to have a second chance to a healthy, happier & longer life.
Click: Brain flushes out toxins during sleepwww.nih.gov › ... ›
News Releases National Institutes of Health -
The study results, published in Science, show that during our REM-sleep a plumbing system called the glymphatic system opens letting fluid flow rapidly through the brains and clean the brain out of toxins - it would not happen properly if we do not sleep enough; then the toxins accumulate in our brain and in our body and immune system causing any know and unknown sickness.
Click: REM
Not sleeping enough and not walking enough daily (10-25K steps daily - use a pedometer) or otherwise not having enough physical exercise is one reason to dementia, Alzheimers, and other brain sicknesses turning us into walking zombies. The human immune system has no pump as the blood circulation has (= the heart is its pump) - the only way to throw out toxins from our immune system is physical exercise - daily walking 10-25 K steps one of the best of them.
(It is purposely repeated often how many steps (10K-25K) to walk daily so that you and every reader would start doing it because: it is the easiest way to have the minimum daily physical exercise. If possible, walk in the clean nature. Walk in a park or in a forest, smell the trees, walk on a riverside or on lakeside and enjoy the beauty, listen to the birds singing when they give you a concert and study the other miracles of the nature - studying and enjoying the nature creates & strengthens mental, emotional and physical health.
Click: Alzheimer's disease - Mayo Clinic
More about the sleep
The discoveries stem from earlier research in which Nedergaard and colleagues discovered a previously unknown system of waste removal unique to the brain which researchers dubbed the glymphatic system.
- Click: Glymphatic System - University of Rochester Medical Centerwww.urmc.rochester.edu/.../glym...University of Rochester Medical Center Throughout most of the body, a complex system of lymphatic vessels is responsible for cleansing the tissues of potentially harmful metabolic waste products, ...
- Click: Scientists Discover Previously Unknown Cleansing System ...www.urmc.rochester.edu/.../index...University of Rochester Medical Center Aug 15, 2012 - Newer Imaging Technique Brings 'Glymphatic System' to Light ... A previously unrecognized system that drains waste from the brain at a rapid ...
- Click: Images for glymphatic system
The brain is essentially closed off from the rest of the body by a complex system of molecular gateways,
called the blood-brain barrier, that tightly control what enters and exits the brain. Consequently, the immune system, the body’s normal waste removal system does not extend to the brain. The work is done by the glymphatic system - just recently discovered by the sleep scientists.
The brain cleaning happens properly only when we sleep enough hours.
That is the reason you, I and all us humans have to sleep the hours given above in order to have clean brains (adults: 7-8 - see the other #'s above).
Your clean brain mean good health, better IQ and higher financial success (because the brain functions better) and finally a longer, happier life because with clean, rested brain you understand better to kick out your stupid harmful habits (like smoking, over-eating, drug use) and add reasonable physical exercise daily (walk 10-25K steps) and add daily mental/emotional practices (like meditation).
STAF, Inc. has developed the copyrighted M+ meditation system - one of the most effective systems worldwide.
As with the rest of the body, the timely removal of brain waste is essential to prevent the unchecked accumulation of toxic proteins and other debris.
However, until recently no one was entirely sure how the brain does it.
FLUSH AWAY WASTE
Nedergaard and her colleagues showed that mice, whose brains are remarkably similar to humans, possess what amounts to a plumbing system that piggybacks on blood vessels to pump cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), the fluid surrounding the brain, through brain tissue, flushing away the waste from the spaces between the brain’s cells.
Recent studies have shown that the glymphatic system is more active during sleep, which may explain why sleep is so refreshing to the mind, and that its function declines with age.
“The failure of the glymphatic system may be one of the reasons that the aging brain is so vulnerable to diseases like Alzheimer’s,” says Jeffrey Iliff, coauthor of study and an assistant professor at Oregon Health and Science University.
“It’s striking that the same changes that we see in the aging brain are mirrored in the young brain after traumatic brain injury. It suggests that these events may be the common link to neurodegeneration, between what happens in the elderly and what happens after brain trauma.”
STICKY PROTEINS
The new research focuses on the impact that traumatic brain injury has on the glymphatic system. It has been long observed that the protein tau plays an important role in the long-term damage sustained by the brain after a trauma. Tau helps stabilize the fibers*), or axons, that nerve cells send out to communicate with their neighbors. Click: Tau protein
Click: Images for brain fiber
Click: Axon - also known as a nerve fiber
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Children Sleep Better When Parents Set Rules
New Study of children aged 6 to 17 years
Harvard University - Penn State University Study
Click green links for further info
Parental limits on the use of electronics, including not looking at screens before bed, helps children get better rest
When parents and children have electronic devices on after bedtime, poor sleep is likely. Household rules about technology at night and a regular bedtime routine can help families get better sleep and more of it, experts say.
For a new study published in the journal Sleep Health, researchers evaluated households in the United States with children aged 6 to 17 years old through Internet-based interviews. A total of 1,103 parents or guardians of an average age of 42 completed surveys. Fifty-four percent were female.
Click: Sleep Health
“We were interested in parental perception of the importance of sleep duration and sleep quality, habits, and routines of the families and children, and obstacles preventing adequate sleep,” says Orefu Buxton, an associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State. Click: Orfeu M. Buxton
Click: Faculty Profile - Harvard University: Orfeu M. Buxton
Although the majority of parents endorsed the importance of sleep, 90 percent of children didn’t get the full amount of time recommended for their age group.
Some of the primary consequences of poor sleep among children and adolescents are behavioral problems, impaired learning and school performance, sports injuries, problems with mood and emotional regulation, and a worsening of health-related issues, including obesity.
Evidence also indicates that in adolescence, lack of sleep may be related to high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, suicidal behaviors, and drowsy driving.
24/7 Society
Experts recommend that children between the ages of 6 to 11 get at least nine hours sleep, and teenagers should get at least eight hours.
The survey suggested several potential reasons for poor sleep:
• Electronic devices in the bedroom
• Busy daily schedules with competing work, school, social, and recreational activities
• Noise from vehicular traffic, commercial or industrial activity, and neighbors
“An important consequence of our modern-day, 24/7 society is that it is difficult for families—children and caregivers both—to get adequate sleep,” Buxton says.
“Good quality and sufficient sleep are vital for children - their brain development needs enough sleep - a person of any age needs enough sleep to avoid sickness,” Buxton says. “Just like a healthy diet and exercise, sleep is critical for children to stay healthy, grow, learn, do well in school, and function at their best.”
Sources:
(1) From Penn State University via Futurity.org
(2) STAF, Inc.
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New Study of children aged 6 to 17 years
Harvard University - Penn State University Study
Click green links for further info
Parental limits on the use of electronics, including not looking at screens before bed, helps children get better rest
When parents and children have electronic devices on after bedtime, poor sleep is likely. Household rules about technology at night and a regular bedtime routine can help families get better sleep and more of it, experts say.
For a new study published in the journal Sleep Health, researchers evaluated households in the United States with children aged 6 to 17 years old through Internet-based interviews. A total of 1,103 parents or guardians of an average age of 42 completed surveys. Fifty-four percent were female.
Click: Sleep Health
“We were interested in parental perception of the importance of sleep duration and sleep quality, habits, and routines of the families and children, and obstacles preventing adequate sleep,” says Orefu Buxton, an associate professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State. Click: Orfeu M. Buxton
Click: Faculty Profile - Harvard University: Orfeu M. Buxton
Although the majority of parents endorsed the importance of sleep, 90 percent of children didn’t get the full amount of time recommended for their age group.
Some of the primary consequences of poor sleep among children and adolescents are behavioral problems, impaired learning and school performance, sports injuries, problems with mood and emotional regulation, and a worsening of health-related issues, including obesity.
Evidence also indicates that in adolescence, lack of sleep may be related to high-risk behaviors such as substance abuse, suicidal behaviors, and drowsy driving.
24/7 Society
Experts recommend that children between the ages of 6 to 11 get at least nine hours sleep, and teenagers should get at least eight hours.
The survey suggested several potential reasons for poor sleep:
• Electronic devices in the bedroom
• Busy daily schedules with competing work, school, social, and recreational activities
• Noise from vehicular traffic, commercial or industrial activity, and neighbors
“An important consequence of our modern-day, 24/7 society is that it is difficult for families—children and caregivers both—to get adequate sleep,” Buxton says.
“Good quality and sufficient sleep are vital for children - their brain development needs enough sleep - a person of any age needs enough sleep to avoid sickness,” Buxton says. “Just like a healthy diet and exercise, sleep is critical for children to stay healthy, grow, learn, do well in school, and function at their best.”
Sources:
(1) From Penn State University via Futurity.org
(2) STAF, Inc.
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Brain Health
Five key ways
to improve your brain health
The human brain leaves computers behind
with its endless capacity
for problem solving, innovation & invention
Many lifestyle choices that are good for the body
are also good for the brain
By Anthony Hannan, Ph.D., Professor
The head of Neural Plasticity at The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in Australia - Professor Hannan is also a member of the National Committee for Brain and Mind, Australian Academy of Science
Click: Professor Anthony Hannan
Click the green for further info
The human brain is the most extraordinary and complex object in the known universe, a kilogram and a half of soft tissue that, at its peak, leaves computers behind with its endless capacity for problem solving, innovation and invention.
So it’s a little surprising that only recently has the concept of brain health begun to emerge. After all, if the body is a “temple”, then surely the brain must be
the “high altar” as it generates all our thoughts, feelings and movements.
Indeed, it is fundamental to all of our conscious experience.
Brain diseases such as Huntington’s, Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia demonstrate how devastating it is when the brain degenerates, dragging the mind and its many wonderful capacities down with it. Clearly, it’s time we all focused more on this most important organ, to improve both the quality and quantity of brain health across the lifespan.
Click: Huntington's disease - Mayo Clinic
Click: Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
The good news is that many of the lifestyle choices that are good for the body are also good for the brain. But we need to be mindful that other factors may be particularly beneficial for brain. Here’s a distillation of some of the current evidence supporting beneficial lifestyle factors into four pillars of brain health.
First: stay physically active
This is a somewhat obvious lifestyle recommendation, as everyone now knows that physical activity is good for the body. But not everyone yet realizes the extent to which physical activity boosts brain health.
There are many ways this may happen as the brain and body are in constant dynamic bidirectional communication. Physical activity can cause muscles to release beneficial molecules that reach the brain, as well as increasing blood circulation to the brain and inducing the formation of new brain cells (neurons) and connections (synapses) between them.
Click: Neuron
Click: Synapse
People who maintain higher levels of physical activity may help protect themselves from brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s and other forms of brain degeneration. There is also evidence that physical activity may help protect against depression and other brain disorders.
Second: stay mentally active
Two of the cardinal rules of click: brain plasticity (changes in the brain) appear to be “use it or lose it” and “neurons that fire together wire together”. There’s also some evidence that people who maintain higher levels of cognitive (mental) activity may be protected from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.
Along with physical activity, cognitive stimulation may help build in a “brain reserve” to protect from, and functionally compensate for, the wear and tear of brain ageing. We don’t know exactly what lifestyle choices are the most important. But spending a lot of time watching television, for example, may involve the double whammy of reduced physical and mental activity, and could be one risk factor.
So what mentally stimulating activities should you do more of? This is a very personal choice, as it will need to be something you can continue to do not just for days and weeks, but for months and years, in order to have long-term benefits.
Third: eat a healthy diet
Yes, you no doubt know this is good for your body, but did you realize a balanced nutritious diet (such as click: the one recommended here) is also good for your brain?
Most of the nutrients from food circulate through your brain via the bloodstream. So a healthy diet can directly improve the health of brain cells and may even slow down brain ageing.
What’s more, by improving body health, the brain may benefit via the heart and cardiovascular system, the immune system and other physiological systems that impact on the nervous system.
Fourth: don’t stress too much!
The human body, including of course the brain, has evolved over many thousands of years. When we were cave-dwellers and hunter-gatherers, the stress response (“fight or flight”) served a very useful purpose in evading predators, obtaining food and other aspects of survival.
But busy 21st-century lifestyles mean many of us suffer from excessive chronic stress. This may eventually be toxic for the body. It’s especially bad for the brain because parts of it are absolutely loaded with sensitive “stress receptors”.
What’s more, some people are more genetically vulnerable to stress, while others are naturally more resilient. These innate factors also impact our stress responses.
Many lifestyle choices can help us better deal with excessive chronic stress.
Stress-reducing strategies such as “mindfulness” and meditation are becoming increasingly popular, often being taught in schools and prescribed by health professionals. Click: Mindfulness
Physical exercise can also help people deal with stress; everyone may have their own approach to “de-stressing” and “chilling out”. Another positive side effect of avoiding excessive chronic stress is healthy sleep patterns. Adequate and regular sleep patterns are known to be beneficial for both brain and body.
Click: How Much Sleep Do We Really Need - National Sleep Foundation
To conclude, I think it was Woody Allen who famously said: “The brain is my second favorite organ!” Considering how fundamental it is to everything we think, feel and do, perhaps we should all be more mindful to look after this most fantastic and plastic of organs, the human brain.
Click: Woody Allen
Fifth: How Not Sleeping Enough Affects Your Metabolism
This fifth text will be placed later - was temporarily unavailable
Sources:
(1) Conversations
(2) CDC - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Click: (CDC)
(3) STAF, Inc.
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Brain Health
FISH DIET
MAY PROTECT
BABY’S BRAIN FROM MERCURY
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Original Study
Posted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on January 22, 2015
Fish diet benefits the baby's brain already in the womb when the mother eats fish
while pregnant.
After the baby's birth the baby gets the brain protection
when the nursing mother eats weekly 2 - 3 times fish.
But not just any fish or any seafood
Here the details what fish to eat
and what not.
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Fish Diet Can Also Protect
The Adult Brain
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What is fish, what is not fish. What fish to eat and what not to eat.
What fish has the lowest price level,
has the lowest pollution and is health wise among the most beneficial.
There is an easy-to-remember safety rule
what fish to eat and what not to eat
(the info revealed a few lines below)
First of all: shellfish is not fish.
It is a misleading term, yet commonly used.
All creatures living in the waters are not fish.
The word 'shell' means "hard cover' and inside the cover is something.
Click: Shellfish
Seafood is different - it is a common term for anything in the waters suitable for certain creatures to eat but not all seafood is suitable for us humans to eat.
Nor is all fish suitable for us humans to eat. Then what fish is suitable for us humans? Here an easy to follow rule.
Eat only fish that (when it still swims around)
has (1) fins, (2) scales and (3) a backbone.
Place the above rule on your refrigerator door
- it is for your and for your family's safety-
Most economical is to eat wild-caught mackerel sold in cans.
Often wild-caught Alaskan salmon sold in cans is quite low-priced.
Compare the prices in different supermarkets - there can be meaningful differences. Stack up when on sale.
Avoid certain farmed fish - often the farmed fish literally grows in its own elimination stuff and they are often fed with inferior fish food.
More and more fish farms are placed in the ocean further away from the land and the fish is raised inside the metal fences in the ocean. The result is cleaner fish as the ocean stream continuously flushes away the fish elimination.
Fish farmed this way is safe.
Do not waste the fish (and the money) by eating more than needed: 2 -3-4 ozs. of canned fish with steamed vegetables and other additions makes a healthy dinner.
What seafood, what fish to eat and what not?
E.g.:
(1) Do not eat eel: it has no scales - when a creature living in the waters does not have all 3: (1) scales, (2) fins, (3) backbone, then it is always toxic for humans and to other mammals (also toxic to our mammal pets). The eel blood is toxic to us humans and to all mammals. The blood carries the nutrients to the cells, thus any part of an eel is toxic.
Click: Eel
(2) Do not eat shellfish because it has no fins, no scales and no backbone (shellfish is not fish but it is categorized belonging to seafood even though it is not suitable as a human food). Shellfish are types of invertebrates that grow an exoskeleton, a hard outer shell. Beneath the exoskeleton shellfish are just soft flesh and have no backbones. Click: Invertebrate Click: Exoskeleton
Common shellfish are: shrimps, lobsters, crayfish (it's no fish), crabs, oysters, clams, mussels - all toxic to us humans because they all are toxins eaters in the waters.
Think about this example: when the rivers, lakes and ocean corals & coral reefs
get toxic by the human commercial, industrial or other activities, one of the best ways to clean the waters is to place plenty of oysters to live in the polluted water areas. The oysters "eat" and are capable by their nature to digest the pollution poisons and clean the waters naturally and without any negative side effects.
Then the humans come and eat the oysters and say "yummy, delicious" - and the oysters are full of poisons - that's yummy? Perhaps it could be called "dummy".
Even though the oysters and other shellfish are in a common use as a human nutrition (they should not be), they are toxic to humans and to all mammals because their role in the nature is to keep the waters clean by digesting the poisons. These cleaning professionals are not meant for us humans (or for other mammals) as nutrition. Some other sea creatures with the capability to handle the toxins can eat them. There is certain order in the nature - that order should not be broken - otherwise there are negative consequences (like sickness caused by these poisonous elements).
All shellfish are among the most common food allergens to us humans and to other mammals. The allergens are made of the poisons they eat & digest in the waters.
Now you know why shellfish and some seafood is not proper food for us humans or to our mammal pets but can be good food for some creatures living in the waters.
As defined above and it is easy to remember: only fish that has fins, scales &
a backbone (when it still swims around) can be safe to us humans and other mammals (as our house pets) to eat in a regular basis, no other sea creature is.
(If, in an accident, we end on a deserted island, we sure are willing to (temporarily) eat anything that is not so poisonous that it would kill us instantly.)
No matter how common their use has become as the human "food" shellfish is always polluted and poisonous to the human body and poisonous to our pets. Why? Shellfish and fish with no backbone & with no scales are the cleaners of the ocean, rivers & lakes. Shellfish and fish with no fins, no scales and no backbone are designed with the capability of eating poisonous pollution and digest it as their natural food - the results: clean, safe water for other water creatures to inhabit and end on our dinner plate. These cleaners are designed to digest the poison - the fish with fins, scales & backbones are not and we humans are not. This is how the nature keeps the waters clean.
Once more (because, even though this is common science knowledge, it is not so commonly known by the humans): If we humans eat these pollution eaters we eat the poisons they have in their system - then we get the poisons we humans are not designed to digest. That poisonous stuff can then cause any known or unknown sickness in the human body leading to suffering and to a shorter life.
Every creature in the nature has some special purpose. In an ideal world all in the nature is multi-related to keep the perfect balance between the species.
In a systematic manner certain species eat only some other species - that keeps the balance in the nature: not anything too much or too little. However, the human activities can cause disturbances in the perfect natural order and cause damage in the perfect natural balance. Because all order in the ideal nature depends on everything else the human-caused damage breaks the natural balance chain resulting in disorder bringing death and disaster to the nature and to the mankind. The trees and other vegetation manufacture most of the oxygen needed for staying alive, the waters (oceans, rivers, lakes & the groundwater) get polluted by overuse of harsh chemicals since mid 1800's.
The energy produced by oil & coal pollutes the air and destroys the natural order.
All resulting from the human activities based on selfishness and greed.
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The Article
Fish Diet Protects The Unborn's Brains
Fish Diet Protects The Adult Brains
"It is becoming increasingly clear that the benefits of correct fish consumption may outweigh, or even mask, any potentially adverse effects of mercury,"
says Edwin van Wijngaarden.
Click: Edwin VanWijngaarden, Ph.D. - Research Profile ...
www.urmc.rochester.edu/.../2403...University of Rochester Medical CenterEdwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D. is Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine.
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The benefits of eating fish but fish that is naturally meant for us humans to eat (as described above what is and what is not) may do more than just offset the risks of mercury exposure to unborn babies. Research shows nutrients in fish (fish that is naturally meant for us humans as desrcibed above) may actually shield the brain from the potentially toxic effects of the chemical mercury (Hg).
The findings are based on a study that spans three decades. The results show that high levels of fish consumption by pregnant mothers in the Seychelles—an average of 12 fish meals per week (that is close to 2 fish meals every day) — did not result in developmental problems in their children.
Researchers have previously equated this phenomenon to a kind of biological horse race, with the developmental benefits of nutrients in fish outpacing the possible harmful effects of mercury also found in fish.
However, the new research, published in the Click: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicates that this relation is far more complex. Compounds present in fish, specifically polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), may also actively counteract the damage that mercury causes in the brain.
“These findings show no overall association between prenatal exposure to mercury through fish consumption and neurodevelopmental outcomes,” says coauthor Edwin van Wijngaarden, associate professor of public health sciences at University of Rochester.
“It is also becoming increasingly clear that the benefits of fish consumption may outweigh, or even mask, any potentially adverse effects of mercury.”
“This research provided us the opportunity to study the role of polyunsaturated fatty acids on development and their potential to augment or counteract the toxic properties of mercury,” says lead author Sean Strain, professor of human nutrition at the Ulster University in Northern Ireland.
“The findings indicate that the type of fatty acids a mother consumes before and during pregnancy may make a difference in terms of their child’s future neurological development.”
BENEFITS VS. RISKS
The new study comes as the US Food and Drug Administration and international agencies are in the process of revisiting fish consumption advisories to better reflect the health benefits of nutrients found in fish.
The FDA’s current guidance—which recommends that pregnant women limit their consumption of certain fish to twice a week—was established because of the known risk of high level mercury exposure on childhood development.
Mercury is found in the environment as a result of both natural and human (e.g. coal plant emissions) activity. Much of it ends up being deposited in the world’s oceans and, as a result, fish harbor the chemical in very small amounts.
This has given rise to concerns that the cumulative impact of prenatal exposure to mercury through fish consumption may have negative health outcomes, despite the fact that that a link between low-level exposure and developmental consequences in children has never been definitively established.
At the same time, fish are rich in a host of beneficial nutrients, including fatty acids, which are essential to brain development, leading to a long-standing exchange among scientists, environmentalists, and policymakers over the risk vs. benefit of fish consumption.
MOTHERS IN SEYCHELLES
Click: Seychelles
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The 115-island country, whose capital is Victoria, lies 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Southeast Africa Population: 89,173 (2013), Official languages: Seselwa, French, English
Government: Unitary state, Presidential system, Representative democracy, Republic
The debate has significant consequences for global health, as billions of people across the world rely on fish as their primary source of protein.
The Click: Seychelles Child Development Study—a partnership between the University of Rochester, Ulster University, and the Republic of Seychelles Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education—is one of the longest and largest population studies of its kind.
The Seychelles, a cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean, has proven to be the ideal location to examine the potential health impact of persistent low-level mercury exposure. The nation’s 89,000 residents consume fish at a rate 10 times greater than the populations of the US and Europe.
The new study followed more than 1,500 mothers and their children. At 20 months after birth, the children underwent a battery of tests designed to measure their communication skills, behavior, and motor skills. Researchers also collected hair samples from the mothers at the time of their pregnancy to measure the levels of prenatal mercury exposure.
Results show that mercury exposure does not correlate with lower test scores. The finding tracked with the results of previous studies by the group—some of which have followed children in the Seychelles into their 20s—that have also shown no association between fish consumption and subsequent neurological development.
Researchers also measured the PUFA levels present in the pregnant women and found that the children of mothers with higher levels of fatty acids known as omega 3, or n3, the kind found in fish, performed better on certain tests. Another common form of PUFA, called n6, comes from other meats and cooking oils and is found in greater abundance in the diets of residents of developed countries.
The fatty acids in fish (n3) are known to have anti-inflammatory properties, compared to n6, which can promote inflammation. One of the mechanisms by which mercury inflicts its damage is through oxidation and inflammation. This has led researchers to speculate that not only does n3 provide more benefit in terms of brain development, but that these compounds may also counteract the negative effects of mercury.
This was reflected in the study’s findings, which show that the children of mothers with relatively higher levels of n6 did poorer on tests designed to measure motor skills.
“It appears that relationship between fish nutrients and mercury may be far more complex than previously appreciated,” says Philip Davidson, the principal investigator of the Seychelles Child Development Study, a professor emeritus at University of Rochester, and senior author of the study.
“These findings indicate that there may be an optimal balance between the different inflammatory properties of fatty acids that promote fetal development and that these mechanisms warrant further study.”
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Government of Seychelles provided funding for the study.
Sources:
(1) University of Rochester
(2) The American Journal of Clinical Nutritionajcn.nutrition.org
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition -AJCN was selected by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as one of the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine over the last 100 years.
Click: Special Libraries Associationhttps://www.sla.org/Special Libraries Association - International association of information professionals/special librarians in corporations, business, science, government, and academic institutions
(3) STAF, Inc.
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Prenatal exposure to methyl mercury
from fish consumption
and polyunsaturated fatty acids
The Original research results article published in
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
First published January 21, 2015
Prenatal exposure to methyl mercury from fish consumption and polyunsaturated fatty acids: associations with child development at 20 mo of age in an observational study in the Republic of Seychelles
Background: Fish is a rich source of n–3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) but also contains the neurotoxicant methyl mercury (MeHg). PUFAs may modify the relation between prenatal MeHg exposure and child development either directly by enhancing neurodevelopment or indirectly through the inflammatory milieu.
Objective: The objective was to investigate the associations of prenatal MeHg exposure and maternal PUFA status with child development at 20 mo of age.
Design: The Seychelles Child Development Study Nutrition Cohort 2 is an observational study in the Republic of Seychelles, a high fish-eating population. Mothers were enrolled during pregnancy and their children evaluated at 20 mo of age by using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II (BSID-II), the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), and the Infant Behavior Questionnaire–Revised. There were 1265 mother-child pairs with complete data.
Results: Prenatal MeHg exposure had no direct associations with neurodevelopmental outcomes. Significant interactions were found between MeHg and PUFAs on the Psychomotor Developmental Index (PDI) of the BSID-II. Increasing MeHg was associated with lower PDI but only in children of mothers with higher n–6/n–3. Among mothers with higher n–3 PUFAs, increasing MeHg was associated with improved PDI. Higher maternal docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was associated with improved CDI total gestures (language development) but was significantly adversely associated with the Mental Development Index (MDI), both with and without MeHg adjustment. Higher n–6/n–3 ratios were associated with poorer scores on all 3 CDI outcomes.
Conclusions: We found no overall adverse association between prenatal MeHg exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, maternal PUFA status as a putative marker of the inflammatory milieu appeared to modify the associations of prenatal MeHg exposure with the PDI. Increasing DHA status was positively associated with language development yet negatively associated with the MDI. These findings may indicate existence of an optimal DHA balance
(= docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) ) with respect to arachidonic acid for different aspects of neurodevelopment.
Source:
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
First published January 21, 2015
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Study all links and articles together with all your family members
- then the results for your family's safety are the most effective -
______________________
FISH DIET
MAY PROTECT
BABY’S BRAIN FROM MERCURY
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Original Study
Posted by Mark Michaud-Rochester on January 22, 2015
Fish diet benefits the baby's brain already in the womb when the mother eats fish
while pregnant.
After the baby's birth the baby gets the brain protection
when the nursing mother eats weekly 2 - 3 times fish.
But not just any fish or any seafood
Here the details what fish to eat
and what not.
__________________
Fish Diet Can Also Protect
The Adult Brain
________________
What is fish, what is not fish. What fish to eat and what not to eat.
What fish has the lowest price level,
has the lowest pollution and is health wise among the most beneficial.
There is an easy-to-remember safety rule
what fish to eat and what not to eat
(the info revealed a few lines below)
First of all: shellfish is not fish.
It is a misleading term, yet commonly used.
All creatures living in the waters are not fish.
The word 'shell' means "hard cover' and inside the cover is something.
Click: Shellfish
Seafood is different - it is a common term for anything in the waters suitable for certain creatures to eat but not all seafood is suitable for us humans to eat.
Nor is all fish suitable for us humans to eat. Then what fish is suitable for us humans? Here an easy to follow rule.
Eat only fish that (when it still swims around)
has (1) fins, (2) scales and (3) a backbone.
Place the above rule on your refrigerator door
- it is for your and for your family's safety-
Most economical is to eat wild-caught mackerel sold in cans.
Often wild-caught Alaskan salmon sold in cans is quite low-priced.
Compare the prices in different supermarkets - there can be meaningful differences. Stack up when on sale.
Avoid certain farmed fish - often the farmed fish literally grows in its own elimination stuff and they are often fed with inferior fish food.
More and more fish farms are placed in the ocean further away from the land and the fish is raised inside the metal fences in the ocean. The result is cleaner fish as the ocean stream continuously flushes away the fish elimination.
Fish farmed this way is safe.
Do not waste the fish (and the money) by eating more than needed: 2 -3-4 ozs. of canned fish with steamed vegetables and other additions makes a healthy dinner.
What seafood, what fish to eat and what not?
E.g.:
(1) Do not eat eel: it has no scales - when a creature living in the waters does not have all 3: (1) scales, (2) fins, (3) backbone, then it is always toxic for humans and to other mammals (also toxic to our mammal pets). The eel blood is toxic to us humans and to all mammals. The blood carries the nutrients to the cells, thus any part of an eel is toxic.
Click: Eel
(2) Do not eat shellfish because it has no fins, no scales and no backbone (shellfish is not fish but it is categorized belonging to seafood even though it is not suitable as a human food). Shellfish are types of invertebrates that grow an exoskeleton, a hard outer shell. Beneath the exoskeleton shellfish are just soft flesh and have no backbones. Click: Invertebrate Click: Exoskeleton
Common shellfish are: shrimps, lobsters, crayfish (it's no fish), crabs, oysters, clams, mussels - all toxic to us humans because they all are toxins eaters in the waters.
Think about this example: when the rivers, lakes and ocean corals & coral reefs
get toxic by the human commercial, industrial or other activities, one of the best ways to clean the waters is to place plenty of oysters to live in the polluted water areas. The oysters "eat" and are capable by their nature to digest the pollution poisons and clean the waters naturally and without any negative side effects.
Then the humans come and eat the oysters and say "yummy, delicious" - and the oysters are full of poisons - that's yummy? Perhaps it could be called "dummy".
Even though the oysters and other shellfish are in a common use as a human nutrition (they should not be), they are toxic to humans and to all mammals because their role in the nature is to keep the waters clean by digesting the poisons. These cleaning professionals are not meant for us humans (or for other mammals) as nutrition. Some other sea creatures with the capability to handle the toxins can eat them. There is certain order in the nature - that order should not be broken - otherwise there are negative consequences (like sickness caused by these poisonous elements).
All shellfish are among the most common food allergens to us humans and to other mammals. The allergens are made of the poisons they eat & digest in the waters.
Now you know why shellfish and some seafood is not proper food for us humans or to our mammal pets but can be good food for some creatures living in the waters.
As defined above and it is easy to remember: only fish that has fins, scales &
a backbone (when it still swims around) can be safe to us humans and other mammals (as our house pets) to eat in a regular basis, no other sea creature is.
(If, in an accident, we end on a deserted island, we sure are willing to (temporarily) eat anything that is not so poisonous that it would kill us instantly.)
No matter how common their use has become as the human "food" shellfish is always polluted and poisonous to the human body and poisonous to our pets. Why? Shellfish and fish with no backbone & with no scales are the cleaners of the ocean, rivers & lakes. Shellfish and fish with no fins, no scales and no backbone are designed with the capability of eating poisonous pollution and digest it as their natural food - the results: clean, safe water for other water creatures to inhabit and end on our dinner plate. These cleaners are designed to digest the poison - the fish with fins, scales & backbones are not and we humans are not. This is how the nature keeps the waters clean.
Once more (because, even though this is common science knowledge, it is not so commonly known by the humans): If we humans eat these pollution eaters we eat the poisons they have in their system - then we get the poisons we humans are not designed to digest. That poisonous stuff can then cause any known or unknown sickness in the human body leading to suffering and to a shorter life.
Every creature in the nature has some special purpose. In an ideal world all in the nature is multi-related to keep the perfect balance between the species.
In a systematic manner certain species eat only some other species - that keeps the balance in the nature: not anything too much or too little. However, the human activities can cause disturbances in the perfect natural order and cause damage in the perfect natural balance. Because all order in the ideal nature depends on everything else the human-caused damage breaks the natural balance chain resulting in disorder bringing death and disaster to the nature and to the mankind. The trees and other vegetation manufacture most of the oxygen needed for staying alive, the waters (oceans, rivers, lakes & the groundwater) get polluted by overuse of harsh chemicals since mid 1800's.
The energy produced by oil & coal pollutes the air and destroys the natural order.
All resulting from the human activities based on selfishness and greed.
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The Article
Fish Diet Protects The Unborn's Brains
Fish Diet Protects The Adult Brains
"It is becoming increasingly clear that the benefits of correct fish consumption may outweigh, or even mask, any potentially adverse effects of mercury,"
says Edwin van Wijngaarden.
Click: Edwin VanWijngaarden, Ph.D. - Research Profile ...
www.urmc.rochester.edu/.../2403...University of Rochester Medical CenterEdwin van Wijngaarden, Ph.D. is Chief of the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine.
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The benefits of eating fish but fish that is naturally meant for us humans to eat (as described above what is and what is not) may do more than just offset the risks of mercury exposure to unborn babies. Research shows nutrients in fish (fish that is naturally meant for us humans as desrcibed above) may actually shield the brain from the potentially toxic effects of the chemical mercury (Hg).
The findings are based on a study that spans three decades. The results show that high levels of fish consumption by pregnant mothers in the Seychelles—an average of 12 fish meals per week (that is close to 2 fish meals every day) — did not result in developmental problems in their children.
Researchers have previously equated this phenomenon to a kind of biological horse race, with the developmental benefits of nutrients in fish outpacing the possible harmful effects of mercury also found in fish.
However, the new research, published in the Click: American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, indicates that this relation is far more complex. Compounds present in fish, specifically polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), may also actively counteract the damage that mercury causes in the brain.
“These findings show no overall association between prenatal exposure to mercury through fish consumption and neurodevelopmental outcomes,” says coauthor Edwin van Wijngaarden, associate professor of public health sciences at University of Rochester.
“It is also becoming increasingly clear that the benefits of fish consumption may outweigh, or even mask, any potentially adverse effects of mercury.”
“This research provided us the opportunity to study the role of polyunsaturated fatty acids on development and their potential to augment or counteract the toxic properties of mercury,” says lead author Sean Strain, professor of human nutrition at the Ulster University in Northern Ireland.
“The findings indicate that the type of fatty acids a mother consumes before and during pregnancy may make a difference in terms of their child’s future neurological development.”
BENEFITS VS. RISKS
The new study comes as the US Food and Drug Administration and international agencies are in the process of revisiting fish consumption advisories to better reflect the health benefits of nutrients found in fish.
The FDA’s current guidance—which recommends that pregnant women limit their consumption of certain fish to twice a week—was established because of the known risk of high level mercury exposure on childhood development.
Mercury is found in the environment as a result of both natural and human (e.g. coal plant emissions) activity. Much of it ends up being deposited in the world’s oceans and, as a result, fish harbor the chemical in very small amounts.
This has given rise to concerns that the cumulative impact of prenatal exposure to mercury through fish consumption may have negative health outcomes, despite the fact that that a link between low-level exposure and developmental consequences in children has never been definitively established.
At the same time, fish are rich in a host of beneficial nutrients, including fatty acids, which are essential to brain development, leading to a long-standing exchange among scientists, environmentalists, and policymakers over the risk vs. benefit of fish consumption.
MOTHERS IN SEYCHELLES
Click: Seychelles
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The 115-island country, whose capital is Victoria, lies 1,500 kilometres east of mainland Southeast Africa Population: 89,173 (2013), Official languages: Seselwa, French, English
Government: Unitary state, Presidential system, Representative democracy, Republic
The debate has significant consequences for global health, as billions of people across the world rely on fish as their primary source of protein.
The Click: Seychelles Child Development Study—a partnership between the University of Rochester, Ulster University, and the Republic of Seychelles Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education—is one of the longest and largest population studies of its kind.
The Seychelles, a cluster of islands in the Indian Ocean, has proven to be the ideal location to examine the potential health impact of persistent low-level mercury exposure. The nation’s 89,000 residents consume fish at a rate 10 times greater than the populations of the US and Europe.
The new study followed more than 1,500 mothers and their children. At 20 months after birth, the children underwent a battery of tests designed to measure their communication skills, behavior, and motor skills. Researchers also collected hair samples from the mothers at the time of their pregnancy to measure the levels of prenatal mercury exposure.
Results show that mercury exposure does not correlate with lower test scores. The finding tracked with the results of previous studies by the group—some of which have followed children in the Seychelles into their 20s—that have also shown no association between fish consumption and subsequent neurological development.
Researchers also measured the PUFA levels present in the pregnant women and found that the children of mothers with higher levels of fatty acids known as omega 3, or n3, the kind found in fish, performed better on certain tests. Another common form of PUFA, called n6, comes from other meats and cooking oils and is found in greater abundance in the diets of residents of developed countries.
The fatty acids in fish (n3) are known to have anti-inflammatory properties, compared to n6, which can promote inflammation. One of the mechanisms by which mercury inflicts its damage is through oxidation and inflammation. This has led researchers to speculate that not only does n3 provide more benefit in terms of brain development, but that these compounds may also counteract the negative effects of mercury.
This was reflected in the study’s findings, which show that the children of mothers with relatively higher levels of n6 did poorer on tests designed to measure motor skills.
“It appears that relationship between fish nutrients and mercury may be far more complex than previously appreciated,” says Philip Davidson, the principal investigator of the Seychelles Child Development Study, a professor emeritus at University of Rochester, and senior author of the study.
“These findings indicate that there may be an optimal balance between the different inflammatory properties of fatty acids that promote fetal development and that these mechanisms warrant further study.”
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the Government of Seychelles provided funding for the study.
Sources:
(1) University of Rochester
(2) The American Journal of Clinical Nutritionajcn.nutrition.org
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition -AJCN was selected by the Special Libraries Association (SLA) as one of the top 100 most influential journals in Biology and Medicine over the last 100 years.
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(3) STAF, Inc.
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Prenatal exposure to methyl mercury
from fish consumption
and polyunsaturated fatty acids
The Original research results article published in
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
First published January 21, 2015
Prenatal exposure to methyl mercury from fish consumption and polyunsaturated fatty acids: associations with child development at 20 mo of age in an observational study in the Republic of Seychelles
Background: Fish is a rich source of n–3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) but also contains the neurotoxicant methyl mercury (MeHg). PUFAs may modify the relation between prenatal MeHg exposure and child development either directly by enhancing neurodevelopment or indirectly through the inflammatory milieu.
Objective: The objective was to investigate the associations of prenatal MeHg exposure and maternal PUFA status with child development at 20 mo of age.
Design: The Seychelles Child Development Study Nutrition Cohort 2 is an observational study in the Republic of Seychelles, a high fish-eating population. Mothers were enrolled during pregnancy and their children evaluated at 20 mo of age by using the Bayley Scales of Infant Development II (BSID-II), the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI), and the Infant Behavior Questionnaire–Revised. There were 1265 mother-child pairs with complete data.
Results: Prenatal MeHg exposure had no direct associations with neurodevelopmental outcomes. Significant interactions were found between MeHg and PUFAs on the Psychomotor Developmental Index (PDI) of the BSID-II. Increasing MeHg was associated with lower PDI but only in children of mothers with higher n–6/n–3. Among mothers with higher n–3 PUFAs, increasing MeHg was associated with improved PDI. Higher maternal docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) was associated with improved CDI total gestures (language development) but was significantly adversely associated with the Mental Development Index (MDI), both with and without MeHg adjustment. Higher n–6/n–3 ratios were associated with poorer scores on all 3 CDI outcomes.
Conclusions: We found no overall adverse association between prenatal MeHg exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes. However, maternal PUFA status as a putative marker of the inflammatory milieu appeared to modify the associations of prenatal MeHg exposure with the PDI. Increasing DHA status was positively associated with language development yet negatively associated with the MDI. These findings may indicate existence of an optimal DHA balance
(= docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) ) with respect to arachidonic acid for different aspects of neurodevelopment.
Source:
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
First published January 21, 2015
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- then the results for your family's safety are the most effective -
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Mercury
Click: Etymology and history
Health effects of mercury
Mercury is the only common metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures. Mercury is sometimes called quicksilver. It is a heavy, silvery-white liquid metal. It is a rather poor conductor of heat if compared with other metals but it is a fair conductor of electricity.
Metallic mercury is used in a variety of household products, such as barometers, thermometers and fluorescent light bulbs. The mercury in these devices is trapped and usually does not cause any health problems. However, when a thermometer will break a significantly high exposure to mercury through breathing will occur for a short period of time while it vaporizes. This can cause harmful effects, such as nerve, brain and kidney damage, lung irritation, eye irritation, skin rashes, vomiting and diarrhea.
Mercury has a number of effects on humans, that can all of them be simplified into the following main effects:
- Disruption of the nervous system
- Damage to brain functions
- DNA damage and chromosomal damage
- Allergic reactions, resulting in skin rashes, tiredness and headaches
- Negative reproductive effects, such as sperm damage, birth defects and miscarriages
Damaged brain functions can cause degradation of learning abilities, personality changes, tremors, vision changes, deafness, muscle incoordination and memory loss. Chromosomal damage is known to cause mongolism.
Environmental effects of mercury
Mercury from soils can accumulate in mushrooms.
Acidic surface waters can contain significant amounts of mercury. When the pH values are between five and seven, the mercury concentrations in the water will increase due to mobilisation of mercury in the ground.
Once mercury has reached surface waters or soils microrganisms can convert it to methyl mercury, a substance that can be absorbed quickly by most organisms and is known to cause nerve damage. Fish are organisms that absorb great amounts of methyl mercury from surface waters every day. As a consequence, methyl mercury can accumulate in fish and in the food chains that they are part of.
The effects that mercury has on animals are kidneys damage, stomach disruption, damage to intestines, reproductive failure and DNA alteration.
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Study all links and articles together with all your family members
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PART B
The Concussion Challenge
To Save Lives:
What every parent, child & anyone of any age
must know about concussions
to stay safe
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Important to know:
The healthy human brain
takes from the birth up to the age of 25
to develop to its full, adult form
It's especially important to protect a young person's brains
to avoid developmental delays or other challenges
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The information in this seminar
is meant to guide in prevention.
This seminar is not to be used as medical advice.
Please immediately consult your physician if you have medical concerns.
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This seminar gives all necessary
decision making details
for your child(ren)'s participation
in any physical activity
(1) safe or (2) brain-destroying
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Definition:
A concussion is a traumatic*) brain injury that alters the way your brain functions. Although concussions usually are caused by a blow to the head, they can also occur when the head and upper body are violently shaken. These injuries can cause a loss of consciousness, but most concussions do not. Because of this, some people have concussions and don't realize it.
Concussions are common, particularly if you play a contact sport, such as football. But: every concussion injures your brain to some extent. This injury needs time and rest to heal properly. Most concussive traumatic*) brain injuries are mild, and people usually recover fully. However, some can be deadly.
*) traumatic (adj.); trauma (noun) = a body wound or shock produced by sudden physical injury, as from violence or accident
Your Baby's Safety
A baby can die if/when the caregiver shakes the baby - the baby's brain hits the skull - that can cause the baby's death. One baby to die in the caregiver's violent hands is too many.
Every day babies die because a frustrated parent, the family's older children,
a babysitter, a nanny, the housekeeper or someone else is shaking the baby.
When the baby cries and cries the caregiver gets blind to his/her own wrong actions and the baby's life is in danger.
To avoid this tragedy, train everyone in this preventive knowledge a few lines below (before anyone can take care of the baby) - the knowledge how easily the baby can die when shaken.
Most parents do not know these facts either. That's the reason Save The American Family - STAF, Inc.'s family legislation demand is that all these facts (as well as successful couple, family & child raising matters) must be taught to every person starting from the kindergarten and ending in the high school and also in the hospitals before a newly-born is released to the parent(s). Of course the teaching material must be made fit for each age level.
Do not let anyone handle your baby before YOU have trained them in this life-saving knowledge.
The training material
" SBS - Shaken Baby Syndrome"
is placed for you next below
(1) in a form of a 2 web links to the information and
(2) in one additional article "Concussion Challenge"
Study the material together as a family:
both parents, all your children of any age still living in your home
Additionally, train any other person
before you leave your baby in their hands and go through the same material
- (1) Click: SBS - Shaken Baby Syndrome - Facts and Figureshttps://www.health.ny.gov/.../shake...
- New York State Department of Health
SBS is a form of child abuse that occurs when an adult or older child violently ... SBS is usually caused by a frustrated parent or caregiver who shakes a baby ... It is estimated that 1,000-3,000 children in the United States suffer from SBS each year. One fourth of victims of SBS die, and 80 percent of survivors suffer from ... - (2)
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Click: Shaken Baby Syndrome: - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.cdc.gov/.../SB...
United States Centers for Disease Control and Preve...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ... are violently shaken dies from this form of ... of violently shaking a baby; the risk factors ... caregivers are prepared to care for a baby. ... Shaking them ... of SBS cases per year because many.
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Additional links to important articles for your whole family
to study together are placed after the article next below
The Article
The Concussion Challenge
By Click: Cindy Trowbridge
Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at University of Texas, Arlington
Some time ago, the deaths of click: three high school football players were linked to direct head injuries on the field of play and one collegiate football player’s
click: death has been potentially attributed to unresolved post concussion syndrome. Even though these athletes were football players, any sporting or recreational events can pose a risk for concussions and head injuries.
Despite the tragic news recently associated with sport, the amazing outcomes of sport participation grossly outweigh the negative consequences of injuries. But injuries should not be considered as just a part of the game, especially when an injury to the brain occurs.
I have been an athletic trainer for sports of all levels for over two decades. And over the past four years, I have fielded more questions from friends and family members about concussions than any other injury during my career. It has become clear to me that parents of youth athletes and their families still need more information about the definition of concussions and symptoms to look for, as well as the appropriate treatment protocols.
Families should know the first step is understanding what makes a child’s brain unique. Then, parents must be ready to take steps to spot concussions and take action.
What makes a child’s brain unique
Concussions are a type of mild traumatic brain injury and are considered to result from a traumatic shaking of the brain. They can cause acute and long-term changes in brain physiology and function including cognition. And for children with developing brains, they can be especially dangerous.
Children have smaller brains in relation to their skulls. Compared to an adult, the young child click: brain has less mass and more cerebrospinal fluid*) between the brain and the skull. By way of analogy the child’s brain is like the egg yolk in an egg – there is room for it to move. Because children’s brains have less mass in relation to the skull, their brains experience more acceleration. This means the brain can hit the skull with more force. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear colorless bodily fluid found in the brain and spine click: Cerebrospinal fluid
It is produced in the choroid plexus of the brain. click: Choroid plexus
A child’s brain also appears to be far more plastic (= capable of being molded or of receiving form) or impressionable (= easily click: impressed or influenced) than the
click: adult brain. This helps during maturation (= the process of growing up), but can have negative effects associated with brain injury because the child’s brain is less resistant to trauma.
We can’t fix brain injuries like we can fix damage done to ligaments and bones. Therefore, it is important for parents to be protective when it comes to their children’s brains and to be aware of the potential long-term effects a concussion can have on normal brain development.
Recognizing signs and symptoms
Recent click: research has shown that parents had misconceptions regarding the definition, symptoms and treatment about concussions.
They didn’t know that concussions can occur from trauma other than a blow to the head and that concussions are considered traumatic brain injuries. They also did not readily recognize key symptoms of concussions including irritability and sleeping difficulties and incorrectly identified arm and leg weakness or numbness as signs, which they are not.
Parents are in a prime position to recognize the signs and symptoms of a concussion in their child. The culture of sport encourages children to play and win so a child will often hide symptoms from medical practitioners. But parents are able to pick up on the subtle signs of problems associated with a previous concussion. Signs and symptoms are usually classified into
click: four categories including physical, cognitive, emotional and sleep patterns.
The physical signs and symptoms include, but are not limited to, headache, loss of consciousness, dizziness or balance problems, numbness, tingling, fatigue, visual problems, diminished pupil reaction, dazed or stunned expressions, ringing of ears, sensitivity to light and noise, and vomiting.
The cognitive responses include mental slowing or fogginess and the emotional signs and symptoms include irritability, uncharacteristic actions, anxiety, sadness and depression.
Sleep pattern changes including excessive drowsiness, trouble falling asleep and altered patterns of sleep and wakefulness are also common.
Return to play and return to learn
Unfortunately, the return to play and return to learn (or classroom) guidelines are not widely understood by parents because of communication gaps in the medical community. If children are treated by emergency room physicians or pediatricians these professionals are often not trained in the long-term management of concussions. This means that children often return to school or athletics too soon.
Often the focus for a child athlete is mainly on return to play but equally important is the return to learn or the classroom and academics. The cornerstone for both the return to play and return to learn plans are REST – physical and cognitive. A child must rest by limiting physical and mental activity (this means reading, TV, games, texting and computer time).
Concussions can cause a metabolic crisis for the brain because blood flow and glucose delivery are impaired. The brain needs energy to function normally and to heal itself, and these metabolic changes mean the active brain may not get as much energy as it normally needs to function properly. This is why rest is important to recovery.
Children with concussions symptoms should be removed from the classroom and provided with work to do at home. Work sessions should remain short
with click: frequent breaks When a child is able to read for 30 minutes without increasing signs or symptoms then a progressive return to school can begin (half days to full days). Resuming physical activity should be click: progressive as well.
Following these guidelines can help parents to be protective of their children’s brains and potentially prevent long-term effects or tragic consequences.
Sources:
(1) Click: Cindy Trowbridge - Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology at University of Texas Arlington
Kinesiology = the study of the mechanics of body movements, known also as human kinetics - additional info at the end of this PART A
Click:
(2) GCG
(3) First published in The Conversation
The Conversation is funded by Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Alfred P Sloan Foundation and William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Our global publishing platform is funded by Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Click: The Conversation
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Study these 3 links below with your whole family
Study these 3 links below with your whole family (including with the baby and the toddler(s) (the babies learn already in the womb - they learn in any situation)
Click:
Biology for Kids: Concussion (Head Injury)
Click:
Concussions in sport - Wikipedia
Click:
Concussion training for Coaches
Also this "Coach link" is good info for every family even though the title states "for Coaches".
The role of the parents is to coach their child(ren) - in a bigger family the role of the older children is to coach their younger siblings.
Click:
Biology for Kids: Concussion (Head Injury)
Click:
Concussions in sport - Wikipedia
Click:
Concussion training for Coaches
Also this "Coach link" is good info for every family even though the title states "for Coaches".
The role of the parents is to coach their child(ren) - in a bigger family the role of the older children is to coach their younger siblings.
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Special info relating to the science of kinesiology
The term appeared above in the article by Professor Cindy Trowbridge, University of Texas, Arlington
Click: AKA Clarifies the Definition of Kinesiology www.americankinesiology.org › ... › Publications › White Papers
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health
AKA - The American Kinesiology Association clarifies the Definition of Kinesiology
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health, society, and quality of life” (click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org) As a discipline kinesiology draws on several sources of knowledge including knowledge gained from personal and corporate physical activity experiences, professional practices centered in physical activity, and knowledge gained through scholarly study and research of physical activity itself. Although the discipline is most often associated with the latter of these, the AKA recognizes that the body of knowledge of kinesiology is informed by and defined by the other two sources as well. Ultimately, the uniqueness of kinesiology as a discipline is its embrace and integration of a multi-dimensional study and application of physical activity--- biological, medical and health-related aspects, but also psychological, social-humanistic, and a variety of professional perspectives as well. Although individual departments may choose to shape their curricula and research agendas around select aspects of the discipline such institutional preferences should not be interpreted as a complete and comprehensive definition of the discipline
Click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org
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Concise Encyclopedia definition: kinesiology
Study of the mechanics and anatomy of human movement and their roles in promoting health and reducing disease. Kinesiology has direct applications to fitness and health, including developing exercise programs for people with and without disabilities, preserving the independence of older people, preventing disease due to trauma and neglect, and rehabilitating people after disease or injury. Kinesiologists also develop more accessible furniture and environments for people with limited movement and find ways to enhance individual and team efficiency. Kinesiology research encompasses the biochemistry of muscle contraction and tissue fluids, bone mineralization, responses to exercise, how physical skills are developed, work efficiency, and the anthropology of play.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the Click: social sciences and Click: life sciences,
as well as the Click: humanities. Click: Anthropology
Click: List of life sciences
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Compare:
Applied kinesiology is different, click: Applied kinesiology
Applied Kinesiology - American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org/treatment/.../applied-kinesiolo...
American Cancer Society
Applied kinesiology is (different from kinesiology), a field of scientific study of the movements of the human body.
Other common name(s): muscle testing, manual muscle testing, AK
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Special info relating to the science of kinesiology
The term appeared above in the article by Professor Cindy Trowbridge, University of Texas, Arlington
Click: AKA Clarifies the Definition of Kinesiology www.americankinesiology.org › ... › Publications › White Papers
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health
AKA - The American Kinesiology Association clarifies the Definition of Kinesiology
The American Kinesiology Association defines kinesiology as “the academic discipline which involves the study of physical activity and its impact on health, society, and quality of life” (click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org) As a discipline kinesiology draws on several sources of knowledge including knowledge gained from personal and corporate physical activity experiences, professional practices centered in physical activity, and knowledge gained through scholarly study and research of physical activity itself. Although the discipline is most often associated with the latter of these, the AKA recognizes that the body of knowledge of kinesiology is informed by and defined by the other two sources as well. Ultimately, the uniqueness of kinesiology as a discipline is its embrace and integration of a multi-dimensional study and application of physical activity--- biological, medical and health-related aspects, but also psychological, social-humanistic, and a variety of professional perspectives as well. Although individual departments may choose to shape their curricula and research agendas around select aspects of the discipline such institutional preferences should not be interpreted as a complete and comprehensive definition of the discipline
Click: www.AmericanKinesiology.org
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Concise Encyclopedia definition: kinesiology
Study of the mechanics and anatomy of human movement and their roles in promoting health and reducing disease. Kinesiology has direct applications to fitness and health, including developing exercise programs for people with and without disabilities, preserving the independence of older people, preventing disease due to trauma and neglect, and rehabilitating people after disease or injury. Kinesiologists also develop more accessible furniture and environments for people with limited movement and find ways to enhance individual and team efficiency. Kinesiology research encompasses the biochemistry of muscle contraction and tissue fluids, bone mineralization, responses to exercise, how physical skills are developed, work efficiency, and the anthropology of play.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humans, past and present, that draws and builds upon knowledge from the Click: social sciences and Click: life sciences,
as well as the Click: humanities. Click: Anthropology
Click: List of life sciences
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Compare:
Applied kinesiology is different, click: Applied kinesiology
Applied Kinesiology - American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org/treatment/.../applied-kinesiolo...
American Cancer Society
Applied kinesiology is (different from kinesiology), a field of scientific study of the movements of the human body.
Other common name(s): muscle testing, manual muscle testing, AK
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The $95 covers all monthly food expenses (including a glass of wine and other "luxury" items now and then). As mentioned above, STAF, Inc. does not sell you food - STAF, Inc. delivers the plan; you buy your food items in your local supermarket. Based on test results the $95 covers all monthly nutritional items for one person. Presently most people use monthly 3-5 times more, some even substantially more - yet their food is mostly wrong & disease bringing "non-food".
Yet, The STAF Plan, at this amazingly low cost level, provides all nutrients any human needs in a correct, healthy, delicious manner and in fully correct proportions.
A healthy lifestyle & correct nutrition plan is good only if everyone working or getting government benefits can afford the plan. Most diet plans are so costly that those people who most need a result-bringing plan cannot afford following the plan. What good is that? Everyone working or getting the government benefits will and CAN afford following The STAF Plan because it will cost the least, much less than any other plan.
(2) Not only is The STAF Plan the most affordable but
The STAF Plan has also financial benefits embedded in its guidance.
In most families the food costs are (much) more than the new STAF Plan demands. The new STAF plan will guide to invest the saved money thus leading to an improved family economy - potentially also to a millionaire level (not a joke, a fact). You can start investing with $50 a month.
No other nutrition & health plan can do that. In STAF, Inc.'s website additional information relating to the investment program.
The Plan provides all detailed instructions.
(3) In addition to providing all healthy lifestyle & correct nutrition guidance The STAF Plan covers, for the first time ever, all necessary elements
(3.1) in strengthening your marriage or your partnership relations,
(3.2) in strengthening your other family ties,
(3.3) in successful child raising,
(3.4) in successfully guiding the teenage challenges and
(3.5) in other happy family related topics.
(4) One more important fact area affecting your health & success as well as also your children's health & success in life is the overweight or obesity factor.
Are you or your children overweight or obese?
About 80 % of the U.S. population is more or less overweight or obese - is your family in that group?
If your family eats unhealthy food as about 90 to 95 % of the U.S. population and about at the same level the rest of the world in the developed countries does, then you have here a solution that you have been looking for.
The STAF Plan is a Healthy Eating Plan in addition to the many other elements it provides.
The STAF Plan
is also an automatic, results-bringing
Weight-loss Program
Nothing else additional to buy - no pills, no expensive nutritional powders or other "miracle" products. Only the natural, unprocessed food ingredients can produce "miraculously healing food".
You buy your natural food ingredients in the local supermarket (stack up when on sale) and prepare your food in your very own kitchen based on the easy-to-follow, new, delicious recipes using only these low-priced, natural, healthy ingredients you bought in your local supermarket that maintains a wide variety of basic (raw) food ingredients.
The STAF Plan will guide you to buy the correct, natural & the healthiest food ingredients that are overall also the lowest priced. You save money, and to earn more money you will learn to invest the saved money following the instructions in The STAF Plan. You and your family members will learn to eat and live in a healthy manner, get your possibly lost health back and then learn to maintain your good health. That all leads to additional savings in your sickness care cost and also that saved money The STAF Plan will guide you to invest wisely. (Notice: you do not invest in STAF, Inc. - the plan gives you guidance where and with whose help to invest wisely.) The STAF Plan will guide you and your family to a better health - then you all can enjoy a financially richer, longer life with an overall improved quality.
The STAF Plan gives you an easy-to-follow list what food ingredients to buy and in what proportions to use them daily in your home-made food.
You do not have to cook every day - you can, if you so want, prepare all food for one week in advance (in some parts even for several weeks) and refrigerate or freeze the pre-prepared food. When you have all your family members involved in the weekly food preparation, it will make everyone motivated to eat the food just because the whole family has prepared it together. Also, when your children (all of them, no matter what age) participate in preparing the food, they all are (including the adults) willing to eat more vegetables, fruit, healthy spices, etc. healthier food just because everyone has been involved in the healthy food creation process.
Not only that, preparing continuously once a week your weekly food together will strengthen your family ties and lead to less negative challenges in your family communication. This togetherness will also strengthen your marriage (or your partnership). All that leads to fewer arguments and to a happier & healthier life.
The family togetherness when preparing the food together and the also eating the food together leads to newly created family strength.
The recent research shows that when your children have a family dinner a few times a week together with both parents, the children will succeed academically better and also will avoid smoking, skip early alcohol use, say no to any types of drugs and wait for sex when they are "real adults" or even wait until they are married. These are science facts not fiction. This of course assumes that no one yells at the dinner table and that the parents respect their children, their questions & opinions and no one is made feel inferior.
When the whole family prepares also the food together it has even more positive effects in helping the children to succeed and to avoid wrong choices in any area of life. All this helps also the parents as these activities will strengthen the overall family ties and strengthen the parents marriage or partnership.
One of this topics was handled in STAF, Inc.'s internet radio show DrDrCanYouHelpMe on January the 28th, 2015 - the script text you'll find in this same website (www.staf1org.weebly.com) in tab: "Radio & TV Shows" and in the recording with that date. Study that text and listen to the podcast.
The website tab has the link to the podcast. Study and listen to the material all together. Do all these things together as a family - your family ties get better and your children will avoid difficulties and will succeed better.
It is not only the correct physical food we all need, we also need the healing mental food - this family togetherness in your weekly kitchen adventure and in all other activities experienced together is good, effective, result-bringing family therapy costing $zero.
For your automatic weight loss The STAF Plan gives you no gimmicks, no pills, nothing strange or complicated - all natural, simple & easy.
You learn to enjoy your home-prepared healthy, delicious food based on the easy-to follow instructions. If you have children, they also will learn to prepare and to enjoy the health-maintaining food for the rest of their lives. This would be one of the best gifts you can have your children inhering from you.
Healthy food will also bring academically better results leading to an overall higher success in your children's future as it will also give you, the parents better financial success and success in every matter in life.
This all is because you all are eating cleaner food with no or less toxic additions, then everyone's brains & nervous system will be cleaner with much less poisonous stuff rolling around.
The cleaner brains work much better creating better ideas to bring a higher success in life - success in anything needs a cleaner body.
Overweight & obesity stores tens of pounds (30 - 50 lbs, sometimes even more) of poisonous, intelligence killing "liquid-fatty-stuff" in your immune system blocking the healthy functioning of the body cells, brains and the nervous system. The results: the poisonous stuff overwhelm your body and the healing, life supporting nutrients do not reach all areas of an overweight or obese person's body leading t0 all kinds of known and unknown sicknesses, to suffering and to an early death - and before that to an overall failure in life.
*The STAF Plan will end suffering, save lives and create a new life with health, wealth & success.
By applying the natural healthy lifestyle & correct nutrition principles revealed in the STAF Plan you & every person will automatically, without any additional effort or difficulty
(1) lose your overweight or obesity,
(2) have your possible lost health back,
(3) maintain your newly-found well-being,
(4) avoid sicknesses and suffering due to unhealthy, disease-causing food choices and by an overall wrong lifestyle and
you will learn
(5) to invest the saved money with the goal of becoming a millionaire (even a multi-millionaire).
The STAF Plan will save you more than you expect and it will save you even more in the health/sickness care costs because the correct, healthy (delicious) food will return & maintain your good health when you have compromised your health by a wrong diet and by a wrong lifestyle -- as over 90 % of the American population has done. The 90 % is the case also in any developed country worldwide.
Then the opposite situation is in many undeveloped countries with the health challenges coming from too little of any type of nutrition.
In the USA and in other developed countries the challenge is to overeat and to waste money in unhealthy, processed "food" (it's not food, it's pure poison, as also "fast-food" = "bad food") leading to all types of health challenges.
When you follow The STAF Plan you will save money and save your health.
The saved money is found money - The STAF Plan will guide you to invest that money in a wise manner, as stated, with the goal of becoming a healthy, longer living, life enjoying millionaire (also with a realistic potential a multi-millionaire depending also on your age) - all realistically possible when you follow the easy STAF Plan instructions and learn to enjoy a correct nutrition & healthy life style leading to a lasting, enjoyable life with your newly-found good health with a new bank account with new assets.
The STAF Healthy Lifestyle & Correct Nutrition program covers all factors needed for a healthy & a happy family life.
The new STAF Healthy Lifestyle & Correct Nutrition program will,
in a televised D.C. event, be introduced nationwide, worldwide &
to The W.H., The President, The U.S. Congress & Senate.
STAF, Inc.'s presence is needed in D.C. in the U.S. Congress (House & Senate).
STAF, Inc.'s founding President is planning (1) to seek a seat in D.C. Congress/Senate to provide the necessary information to the D.C. lawmakers and (2) to establish, as an addition within the related federal agency, a new specialized section Healthy Lifestyle, Correct Nutrition & Family Success office & to be named its first federal director.
New legislation & training for all these matters are needed in a results-bringing manner. The new office would target to save human suffering, bring billions in federal savings in sickness care and raise the life quality of the American families.
STAF, Inc.'s slogan: Less suffering - more life™
Our website page tops have a link to study STAF, Inc.'s founding documents to see its mission statements and you can see them here also click: mission
Save The American Family - STAF, Inc., -not-for-profit, needs donations to widen its important work for your & your family's richer, healthier & safer future.
Two ways to donate:
(1) Mail any size of donation in any currency as paper money to:
STAF, Inc., P.O. Box 1555, New York, NY 10163-1555, USA.
Inside the envelope enclose your name & email address - STAF, Inc. will email you a tax deductible confirmation receipt.
(2) Use your credit, charge or debit card to donate - the card donation links at the end of this article and at the top of every page of this website. Your card record or card invoice is your donation receipt.
At the very end below & at the beginning above of this presentation the card links.
Below you can also view the less publicly known facts how donating is beneficial to the donator, to you.
Fully 100 % of the donations will be used for STAF, Inc.'s help operations in reducing sickness & promoting healthy lifestyle nationwide & worldwide.
At the very end of this whole presentation you can view the less publicly known facts how donating is beneficial to the donator, to you.
We at STAF, Inc. want to know how you expect STAF, Inc. & this advice website,
in a longer run, to improve your & your family's life, or how it already has improved your life.
Let us know in your donation letter.
Listen to STAF, Inc.'s popular Radio Shows - you'll get free CEU & College-University credits, expiring never, valid nationwide & worldwide.
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or search the internet with:
"Save The American Family - STAF, Inc.- Home" - (one 'F' in STAF, Inc.).
Respectfully,
Christian von Christophers, Ph.D., N.D., D.D.
STAF, Inc.'s President
Founder of Successology ® (Reg.U.S.Pat.Off.1991)
- The new science for the GOOD LIFE -
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Next below:
Annex for
added information
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Want to get deeper knowledge &
become a professional ?
Public Health professionals are in demand
because it's more widely recognized that our good health
and higher success in life is possible through our own action
A lifetime opportunity
Become a Certified Healthy Lifestyle
Coach© (CHLC)™
Earn full-time or part-time income (1) in your private practice and/or
(2) by leading STAF, Inc.'s public & corporate seminars in the U.S. nationwide or worldwide in any country.
As a public health professional you will (1) ease human suffering, (2) guide your clients to avoid sickness and (3) have good health. As a CHLC™ -professional you will also show (4) how to build & maintain a happy marriage, (5) how to raise successful children and (6) how to become financially successful, even a millionaire starting only with $50 a month.
When you teach these most important success elements in life you will yourself apply the principles more effectively in your own life and succeed higher than you ever expected.
STAF, Inc. will train & certify you - online or in major cities nationwide & worldwide.
Get more information of this great opportunity - send your brief resume or CV and basic info: (1) country & location(s) where you are available to run STAF, Inc.'s seminars, (2) in what language(s), (3) your education & work experience, (4) links to your online presence and (5) at least one recommendation letter of your suitability for teaching work (state the relation between you and your recommendation letter provider).
Inside the envelope include:
your (1) postal mailing address, (2) your email address & (3) phone #
Write all material in English.
Mail to:
STAF, Inc.
Dept. CHLC ™ Program
P.O. Box 1555
New York, NY 10163-1555
USA
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STAF, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization
and needs donations
Perhaps you could include in your resume envelope a donation of a size suitable to you. Your donation will ease human suffering nationwide & worldwide.
The U.S. paper notes preferred as donation but any currency paper notes are accepted.
STAF, Inc. will email to you a receipt for your donation.
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STAF, Inc. is also in the process
of founding a new University
to provide high-quality education in the public health sciences and in all other STAF, Inc.'s work related science areas - which means: practically all areas of a successful life.
A few examples of the goals the new STAF, Inc.'s University will have.
STAF, Inc.'s goal and its new University's goal is to eliminate the modern killer-epidemics as overweight & obesity, widening smoking in developing countries & drug use worldwide and promote in a new manner nationwide & worldwide the importance of healthy lifestyle & correct nutrition in fighting disease and human suffering.
Also strengthening nationwide & worldwide family ties & traditional marriages to provide a safe, nurturing & healthy atmosphere for our children to grow up, belongs to STAF, Inc.'s and its new University's goals.
So do teaching and training every school child to know how to grow financially successful through investments starting only with $50 dollars a month.
The financial equality nationwide & worldwide can be substantially leveled for everyone's best in our nation and in every nation worldwide.
These are some examples of the new University's goals.
The mission goal is to teach the world to have a better quality of life.
It can only be done when we all start sharing the abundance in knowledge & riches.
The results will be beneficial to the givers and to the receivers. We all share the same planet and its overall health or sickness will affect the rich & the poor, thus affecting us all.
In the new University all degree levels will be available:
Associate, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Quotation
"Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can choose to change the world"
Click: Nelson Mandela
www.staf1org.weebly.com
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STAF, Inc. needs your donation
*to ease human suffering & turn lives to victory
nationwide & worldwide*
Two ways to donate:
(1) Mail any size of donation in any currency as paper money to:
STAF, Inc., P.O. Box 1555,
New York, NY 10163-1555, USA
or
(2) give your donation using your cards - see below
Relating to donations,
here interesting information not so well publicly known:
Giving donations will affect the giver, you, in a beneficial manner
The 3 statements next below are based on science studies (links given below)
(1) When you donate, YOUR self-efficacy will improve click: Self-efficacy
(2) When you donate, YOU get financially richer
(3) When you donate, YOUR physical & mental health gets better
The proof to these statements in these 3 links:
Click: www.sciencemag.org (there click (left side): Abstract or Full text)
Click: Journal of Economics and Finance
Click: Fund-Raising Is Fun and beneficial for the giver
To study STAF, Inc.'s mission statements now for your donation purpose
click: mission
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