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Ahead on the 9/17/14 Maddow show
Tonight's guest:
- Laith Alkhouri, senior analyst at Flashpoint Partners
- Bob McManaman, senior sportswriter for the Arizona Republic
And here's executive producer Cory Gnazzo with a preview of what's in store:
Wednesday's Mini-Report, 9.17.14
Today's edition of quick hits:
* About 10 minutes ago, the House approved a White House request to help train anti-ISIS rebels in Syria. The measure passed, 273 to 156, and will be added to a spending bill (continuing resolution) that funds the government through mid-December.
* Syria: "In Talbiseh and across Syria, insurgent fighters who oppose both the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the foreign-led militants of the extremist group called the Islamic State are being pummeled by a new wave of attacks and assassination attempts."
* Here's hoping this doesn't prompt GOP lawmakers to change their minds: "The White House said Wednesday it supports House passage of a stopgap spending bill that would keep the government funded through Dec. 11."
* Ebola: "The three West African countries most affected by Ebola could experience a 'potentially catastrophic blow' to their economies because of the epidemic, the World Bank Group warned Wednesday."
* The Fed: "The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released details of its plan to reverse nearly six years of easy money as it nears the end of its trillion-dollar stimulus campaign. The move comes amid an economic recovery that looks increasingly sustainable, even if it is not as robust as anticipated."
* Too careless, too often: "'No one ever doubts that I mean what I say,' Vice President Joe Biden told a group of lawyers in a speech before the Legal Services Corporation. 'The problem is I sometimes say all that I mean.' The crowd laughed. Then, less than 20 minutes later, he made a remark that was promptly condemned as a 'medieval stereotype about Jews' by the Anti-Defamation League."
* She raised a fair point: "Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) on Wednesday eviscerated Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for attacking the Obama administration instead of focusing on attacking ISIS. She criticized him for the way he questioned Secretary of State John Kerry during a hearing on the U.S. plan for combating ISIS."
* Nate Silver has extensive concerns about Sam Wang's forecasting model (the methodology, not necessarily the results). Wang, of the Princeton Election Consortium, responded soon after.
* Something to watch: "People seeking clues about how soon the Supreme Court might weigh in on states' gay marriage bans should pay close attention to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg told a Minnesota audience Tuesday."
Obama re-commits: no ground troops
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, caused quite a stir in Washington yesterday, telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that if the next phase of the U.S. mission against Islamic State falls short, he might recommend deployment of American ground troops.
For many, this was seen as a hint of what's to come: if the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is thinking about ground troops, the argument went, then maybe this is the course of action the Obama administration has in mind. There were, of course, a few problems with the assumptions. First, Dempsey was responding to a hypothetical, not making a prediction. Second, the decision ultimately isn't in the hands of the Joint Chiefs anyway.
And finally, the one who would have to make the final call -- the military's civilian Commander in Chief -- keeps saying the same thing: there won't be a ground war for U.S. troops.
In an impassioned, pep rally-like speech to military personnel in Florida, President Obama insisted again on Wednesday that the U.S. will not send ground troops to fight ISIS."I will not commit you and the rest of our forces to fighting another ground war in Iraq," the commander-in-chief said at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. Earlier in the day, Obama was briefed on battle plans to strike ISIS in Iraq and possibly Syria by military commanders at U.S. Central Command.
Obama added, "After a decade of massive ground deployments, it is more effective to use our unique capabilities in support of partners on the ground so they can secure their own countries' futures. And that's the only solution that will succeed over the long term. "
There can be little doubt that the president has been consistent on this. There can be plenty of doubt, however, about whether conditions and specific circumstances will shift in unpredictable ways. If U.S. jets are targeting ISIS locations in Syria, for example, and American pilots are shot down, a mission that intended to stay off of Syrian soil can change quickly.
And then, of course, there's the politics.
Why filibuster a nominee with unanimous support?
The United States maintains embassies in 169 countries around the globe, and in roughly a fourth of them, the ambassador's office is currently empty. The main problem is Senate Republicans creating needless delays, regardless of the consequences for U.S. foreign policy.
The problem is especially striking in Turkey, which is critical to U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, most notably against Islamic State. The Obama administration is giving Turkey the full-court diplomatic press, which is proving to be tricky -- there is no U.S. ambassador to Turkey because Senate Republicans haven't allowed a vote on President Obama's nominee. (The White House was forced to dispatch the Bush/Cheney ambassador to Turkey in a temporary capacity because of the immediacy and urgency of the situation.)
Al Kamen reports today that the delays finally ended, at least in this limited case.
The Senate on Wednesday, moving at what can be called warp speed in the post-"nuclear option" world, confirmed seven more Obama nominees -- including career Foreign Service officer John R. Bass as ambassador to Turkey, a country critical to the effort to defeat the Islamic State militant group.The Senate held a roll call vote on the nomination -- before voting 98 to 0 to confirm him.
The GOP also graciously allowed a unanimous confirmation vote on career diplomat Thomas Frederick Daughton's nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to Namibia. He only had to wait 443 days for the vote on his confirmation -- which literally no one ended up opposing.
John Bass' becoming ambassador to Turkey didn't take nearly as long -- he only waited about 100 days -- but the fact he, too, enjoyed unanimous support raises the question of why he couldn't have been confirmed sooner in light of Turkey's geo-strategic significance.
The answer, of course, is that Senate Republicans' feelings were hurt when Senate Democrats restored minority rule on nomination votes, which may seem ridiculous, but which happens to be true.
Just how often do Republicans delay nominees they support? You might be surprised.
Just wrapped exclusive interview with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani. Racing now to file. #IranOnISIS pic.twitter.com/ydueEwAUmw— Ann Curry (@AnnCurry) September 17, 2014
'I'm tickled to death with it'
About a year ago, Jason Cherkis published an anecdote so popular, even President Obama repeated it.
It featured a middle-aged man in a golf shirt who shuffled up to a small folding table at the Kentucky State Fair to hear about Kynect, the state's health benefit exchange established by the Affordable Care Act. The man liked what he heard. "This beats Obamacare I hope," he said, apparently unaware that Kynect and Obamacare are the same thing.
Today, however, Abby Goodnough has another health care anecdote out of Kentucky that's nearly as striking.
The Affordable Care Act allowed Robin Evans, an eBay warehouse packer earning $9 an hour, to sign up for Medicaid this year. She is being treated for high blood pressure and Graves' disease, an autoimmune disorder, after years of going uninsured and rarely seeing doctors."I'm tickled to death with it," Ms. Evans, 49, said of her new coverage as she walked around the Kentucky State Fair recently with her daughter, who also qualified for Medicaid under the law. "It's helped me out a bunch."But Ms. Evans scowled at the mention of President Obama -- "Nobody don't care for nobody no more, and I think he's got a lot to do with that," she explained -- and said she would vote this fall for Senator Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and minority leader, who is fond of saying the health care law should be "pulled out root and branch."
Just so we're clear, this voter loves her new health care benefits. She also wants to vote for a politician who's desperate to take her new health care benefits away.
It's a reminder that voting isn't always rational, but it's also an example of just how messy the politics of health care can get.
Goodnough's broader point is important: the Affordable Care Act is doing a lot of good for families in red states like Kentucky, but this won't pay any political dividends to Democrats.
Wednesday's Campaign Round-Up, 9.17.14
Today's installment of campaign-related news items that won't necessarily generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:
* In North Carolina's U.S. Senate race, PPP's latest results show Sen. Kay Hagan (D) up by four over Thom Tillis (R), 44% to 40%, which is roughly in line with most other recent surveys. Hagan benefits from a big gender gap -- she leads by 16 among women, while Tillis leads by 10 among men.
* Though most recent polling shows Rep. Bruce Braley's (D) odds improving in Iowa's U.S. Senate race, a new Quinnipiac poll shows Republican Joni Ernst leading by six, 50% to 44%.
* Speaking of Quinnipiac releasing polls that seem like outliers, the same pollster shows former Rep. Bob Beauprez (R) with a double-digit advantage over incumbent Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) in Colorado, 50% to 40%. No other pollster has released results even close to these.
* In New Hampshire's U.S. Senate race, a New England College poll released last night shows Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D) leading former Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass) by 11 points, 51% to 40%. Most recent polling has shown the incumbent with a more modest advantage.
* As if Monica Wehby's Republican Senate campaign in Oregon weren't tough enough, elements of her health care plan appear to have been lifted directly from a survey released by Karl Rove's Crossroads operation.
* Despite his multiple pending felony counts, Rep. Michael Grimm (R) is ahead in the latest Siena College poll, leading his Democratic challenger, Domenic Recchia, 44% to 40%.
Boehner laments 'knuckleheads' within House GOP
Once in a while, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) sounds like a man who isn't entirely fond of his ostensible followers.
Speaker John Boehner said that he's got a "few knuckleheads" to deal with, and that's largely why the Republican majority in the House looks good on paper but doesn't always pan out with votes."On any given day, 16 of my members decide they're going to go this way, and all of the sudden, I have nothing," he said, describing the reality of his "paper majority" in the House, The Hill reported. "You might notice I have a few knuckleheads in my conference."
According to the report in the conservative Washington Times, Boehner went on say, "Dealing with Democrats is one thing. Dealing with the knuckleheads is another."
Whether he finds one easier to deal with than the other was unclear.
These comments come just five months after the Ohio Republican publicly mocked his own members over their reluctance to work on immigration reform.
"Here's the attitude: 'Oh, don't make me do this. Oh, this is too hard," Boehner said, in a tone deriding House Republicans as if they were sniveling children. He added, "We get elected to make choices. We get elected to solve problems, and it's remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don't want to."
Remember, this was the Republican Speaker referring to Republican House members. Now Boehner is also willing to concede an unknown number of his members are "knuckleheads," too.
The candor is certainly welcome, though the larger point is how understandable the Speaker's dissatisfaction is.
Bill Clinton's unsurprising candor on Netanyahu
For reasons that aren't altogether clear, this seems to have caused quite a stir yesterday.
Former President Bill Clinton says he agrees that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "not the guy" for a peace deal.A C-SPAN video -- first reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz -- shows the 42nd president at Sen. Tom Harkin's Iowa steak fry Sunday speaking with an individual along a rope line.
As the Politico report noted, an unidentified voter told the former president, "Netanyahu himself said that he does not want peace. If we don't force him to make peace, we will not have peace." Clinton said he agreed, and talked a bit about his own efforts with Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin.
"But Netanyahu is not the guy," the man in the rope line added. "I agree with that," Clinton replied, before adding some context and detail to previous negotiations.
Soon after, RedState published an item citing this as evidence that Hillary Clinton is not "pro-Israel." The Weekly Standard also wasn't pleased.
And yet, nothing Clinton said seems the least bit surprising. Netanyahu has made no secret that he's not interested in negotiating a two-state solution, so it stands to reason Netanyahu "is not the guy" to reach such an agreement.
Steve M. noted that Clinton has never been especially fond of Netanyahu, dating back to some confrontations in the 1990s. As recently as 2011, Foreign Policy reported, "Who's to blame for the continued failure of the Middle East peace process? Former President Bill Clinton said today that it is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu -- whose government moved the goalposts upon taking power, and whose rise represents a key reason there has been no Israeli-Palestinian peace deal."
So why all the fuss yesterday about something we already knew?
Rand Paul isn't done with executive orders
I didn't have any intention to return to Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) latest flap, but the senator keeps talking about it in a way that warrants a little follow up.
The story started on Friday, when the Kentucky Republican talked about what he'd do if elected president: "I think the first executive order that I would issue would be to repeal all previous executive orders." Paul's comments were reportedly met with "booming cheers" from his conservative audience.
Of course, the declaration didn't make a lot of sense. Presidents since George Washington have made thousands of executive orders -- many of them, such as the Emancipation Proclamation, of great national significance -- and the notion that Rand Paul wants to repeal all of them seemed ridiculous.
Soon after, the senator's office walked back his comments, suggesting Paul was speaking with a rhetorical flourish at the event. "It was not meant to be taken literally," an aide said, seemingly ending the controversy.
The aide, however, might want to have a chat with Paul himself, who sounded fairly sincere about the idea the day after his office tried to downplay the senator's remarks. Scott Conroy asked Paul directly about the idea of repealing every executive order ever issued in American history.
"It's a nice idea," Paul said. "You would obviously have to look at all of the executive orders to see that there's not something in there. But the thing is, you could sunset them all and really repeal them all, and then you could start over. And if there are any ones that are good, you could reinstitute things or ask Congress to reinstitute things that need to be done."But did that mean Paul would be OK with nixing -- temporarily, at least -- President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation? Or what about President Truman's order to desegregate the military?Paul's eyes widened a bit, as if to confirm that he hadn't quite thought it completely through.
Imagine that.
Religious right leader ties U.S. 'secularism' to Islamic State
For much of the post-9/11 era, there's been a strain of thought on the right that holds American liberalism responsible for Middle Eastern terrorism. This was generally applied to al Qaeda, but yesterday, Tony Perkins, head of a powerful religious right group called the Family Research Council, used the same reasoning when talking about Islamic State.
The Family Research Council's Tony Perkins said today that the separation of church and state in the United States has contributed to the rise of Islamic extremist groups like ISIS, arguing in his radio commentary that ISIS has "filled the void left by secularism."According to Perkins, American ISIS militants wouldn't have left the country to fight for the group if only the government had promoted Christianity over other faiths.
Right Wing Watch published an audio clip of Perkins' minute-long commentary, which was about as offensive as you might imagine.
"Radical secularism that has driven the defining characteristics of our Western culture, our Judeo-Christian heritage, from our schools, our entertainment and even our government has left in its place a void, a vacuum," Perkins argued. "And we should know from experience that a vacuum will be filled by something. Without a creedal vision that a society can unify around, the people, the nation, will perish. Unless we are content to allow ISIS or some other radical belief system to fill the void left by secularism, we must rediscover America's founding, Christ-centered vision."
It's certainly a curious perspective. As Perkins sees it, to counter violent religious extremists, the United States should do more to merge religion and government -- which, ironically, is similar to the approach embraced by our enemy.
While I suspect most of the American mainstream has no use for such nonsense, it's worth noting that Perkins' argument, however odd, is surprisingly common in conservative circles.


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Following the 4-HB diet and taking the PAGG supplement created by Tim Ferriss is surely a healthy way of dropping excess fats, sculpting a leaner body and putting on lean mass. But purchasing the pills over and over again, for a cycle that lasts for more than 2 months, can be quite costly.
Those with a tight budget might not find recreating the PAGG stack from home very convenient and might look for alternatives, but lots of weight loss supplement available on the market are either dangerous or ineffective. That's why we created this website – so you, the reader, could get the highest quality and affordable PAGG stack on the market. So instead of replacing this supplement with a less efficient one, why not get familiar with its ingredients and discover what will go inside your own stack?
The PAGG supplement has to be taken 3-4 times a day, which means you'll need to purchase quite a large amount of pills if you plan following the 4 Hour Body Slow Carb diet for a long while. So let's see what's inside the little pills that claim to boost your fats metabolism, enhance your energy levels and redefine your body's shape and composition.
The PAGG stack, as described in Tim Ferriss' book The 4 Hour Body, is a mixture of 4 natural ingredients incorporated in this supplement in precise doses for obtaining a certain effect on one's body and weight.
More specifically, the stack consists in:
All these ingredients can be found in their raw shape in foods or even in the human body, as happens with the alpha-lipoic acid for example.
Policosanol is a waxy extract obtained from sugar cane, wheat, yams and beeswax. It's available in the form of tablets and softgels and can be purchased from drug stores as a standalone supplement.
Alpha-lipoic acid is produced in the human cells but in too low amounts, so adjusting the dose can be done by taking dietary supplements or eating foods that contain this compound. The ingredient is found in meat and foods rich in proteins, in liver and kidneys as well as in green veggies such as broccoli and spinach. However, these sources contain both S- and R-ALA, while studies showed only the second form of the acid (R-ALA) is effective in lowering cholesterol levels and sustaining weight loss.
So the best thing you can do is to get an ALA supplement from a reputable supplier. The alpha-lipoic acid, just like the policosanol supplement, comes in the form of capsules and tablets. Still, injections can also be administered when this compound is used for treating diabetes and diabetic neuropathy. We're just telling you what's out there. Do you really want to inject yourself when a simple and effective capsule is available out there?
Green tea extract is a lot more common than the previously mentioned ingredients. This can be purchased from any drugstore or health food store and is available in the form of capsules as well as in the form of liquid extract. Drinking green tea can help, but doesn't provide the same benefits, as the extract provides higher amounts of flavanols and is much more concentrated.
Last, garlic extract can also be purchased in the form of capsules, or can be taken directly from crushed raw garlic. Again, your choice here, but do you want to deal with the stench of crushed garlic in your fridge? Didn't think so.
But once again, purchasing all these ingredients individually is nearly always going to be more costly than getting the PAGG stack. Not to mention the fact that it's far less convenient. Also, taking the ALA, garlic and green tea extracts directly from foods doesn't guarantee the same amounts of active principles as the weight loss supplement. This is why before starting the 4 Hour Body diet you should ask yourself if you're ready to invest in this supplement or you will just stick with the diet plan, without incorporating the PAGG stack in your menu. For optimal results, we highly recommend you invest in the PAGG supplement.
If you're planning to start the 4-Hour Body weight loss regimen and don't know how to take the supplement for proper results, then reading Ferriss' book is surely the best thing to do as it will help you understand the concept behind this plan as well as why you're allowed to eat only certain types of foods.
Still, this might be a little too time consuming for a beginner who's impatient and excited about achieving a slimmer and healthier body. This is why we took the time to synthesize the most important aspects of the 4-HB and to summarize the recommendations regarding the best strategy for taking the PAGG supplement.
So here's what you need to know before starting with this weight loss plan!
The most important recommendation is to take this supplement in combination with a slow carb diet, or in other words to follow the diet plan indicated by the author of the 4-Hour Body. Why is this, you might ask? The answer is simple: the supplement contains 4 different ingredients that work synergistically to enhance the fats metabolism and to mobilize fatty molecules in adipose cells, so that the body can use them more efficiently.
If you follow a slow carb diet, your body is forced to use the already stored fats for fulfilling its energy needs instead of breaking down carbs in foods, which are available in very small amounts. This contributes to a significant reduction in the body fat percentage, thus sustains weight loss in the long run.
For proper results, the supplement should be taken 15-30 minutes before meals. This way, when foods start being digested, the active ingredients in the PAGG stack are already inside the body, ready to exert their action. The supplement can be taken all week, and – this is important – should always be taken during the cheat day – and, both we and Tim Ferriss recommend taking a 1-week break after the 7-weeks cycle.
Taking this supplement daily won't cause your body any harm. On the contrary, numerous studies proved ingredients in the PAGG stack have several positive effects on the human body, from improving circulation and the functioning of the cardiovascular system to normalizing levels of cholesterol, insulin and triglycerides and .
Tim Ferriss, the author of The 4-Hour Body, recommends taking one week off from time to time so that your body can reset its internal mechanisms, get back to normal and get ready for a new cycle. The stack is powerful enough and mixed with the slow carb diet, it changes a range of chemicals and systems inside the body, so taking some time off regularly is more than recommended.
The body can only store a certain amount of vitamins and minerals at a given time so if these nutrients are eaten in too large amounts, they can build up and trigger unwanted side effects, from digestive issues to intoxication. This is another argument for taking one week off after cycling for 7 weeks.
If you plan taking the PAGG supplement as indicated in Ferriss' book, your daily schedule should look like this:
Unlike other diet plans that are quite restrictive and only allow one to eat limited amounts of calories, The 4 Hour Body says no to starvation and comes with a very flexible eating plan in terms of caloric intake.
Moreover, this weight loss strategy includes a strictly programmed bingeing or cheat day, which has to be repeated once a week in order for the diet follower not to get frustrated or feel "they're on a diet". But this cheat day is not incorporated in the plan just for allowing one reward themselves with tasty and highly caloric foods – it actually has a scientific explanation as well.
Eating unhealthy foods one day per week helps to reset the body's sensitivity to insulin, preventing the occurrence of uncontrollable food cravings during the week and helping one stay motivated and stick with the regimen. It's a lot easier to eat healthy six days a week when you know you're allowed to eat absolutely anything on the seventh day. I personally go nuts on muffins and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups on my cheat day, with results that continue to astound me.
The only restrictive rule in this weight loss program is the one forbidding followers to eat white carbs, as these are seen as the main culprits behind weight gain. So if you decide to commit to this plan and are curious to see what you're allowed to eat once starting the diet, take a look at the list below:
Besides these foods, you can also eat peas, tomatoes, nuts, peanut butter or almond butter, avocado, hummus, garbanzo beans, mayonnaise, unsweetened almond milk and aspartame, but these have to be incorporated in your menu is limited amounts.
What about the foods that can't be consumed when on the 4 Hour Body diet? These are mainly milk and dairy products, including all types of cheese except for cottage cheese, then soy products – soy milk, tempeh, tofu, soy protein shakes, fruits and potatoes. Also, bread, rice, oatmeal, grains, quinoa, tortilla and anything else that's rich in carbs needs to be excluded from the menu.
Creamy dressings, sugary products, commercial ketchup, fructose, corn syrup and other similar sweeteners, honey, corn and popcorn, deep-fried food and kombucha are not allowed in this diet plan.
This diet might sound restrictive but it's not – just think of all the vegetables you're allowed to eat and of all the meat products that will keep you satisfied throughout the day. The 4 Hour Body is definitely not a restrictive regimen as it doesn't force your body to work on a ridiculously low amount of calories.
The secret behind this weight loss plan is it teaches your body how to efficiently and safely lose excess fats by using them for energy instead of storing them in adipose cells. So if you stick with the diet plan, workout occasionally and take the PAGG supplement as well, amazing things can happen to your body!

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As we perhaps know all too well, although we may decide to leave the ground and start climbing, part way up the climb we might find ourselves facing an emotional crisis and a resultant change of heart. So how do we go about dealing with this potentially dangerous performance degrading set of behaviours?"
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Parkinson's Drug Linked to Heart Risk
Jan. 28, 2003 -- The Parkinson's disease drug levodopa may increase the risk of heart disease by raising blood levels of the homocysteine. In a new study, patients who took the drug had higher than normal homocysteine levels, while other Parkinson's patients did not.
Although the findings are preliminary and need to be confirmed, they are not the first to suggest that the widely prescribed Parkinson's drug raises homocysteine levels. And elevated levels of the amino acid have been linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. The most common cause of high homocysteine is a deficiency of folic acid or vitamin B12. But patients taking levodopa for Parkinson's may have elevated levels as a result of the medication itself.
Researcher Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, MD, PhD, tells WebMD that Parkinson's patients taking levodopa should not be overly concerned by the early findings.
"We certainly aren't telling people to stop taking their levodopa, but this is something that patients may want to bring up with their physicians," he says. "It is pretty easy and cheap to get your homocysteine level tested, and patients may be able to lower their homocysteine with vitamin therapy."
Diaz-Arrastia says recent studies from Japan and Germany found higher than normal homocysteine levels among patients on levodopa, but it was not clear whether the drug or the disease itself was responsible for the increase.
In their study, reported in the January issue of the journal Archives of Neurology, Diaz-Arrastia and colleagues from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas measured blood homocysteine levels in 201 Parkinson's patients on levodopa and 35 patients who had never taken the drug. The levodopa patients had 31% higher homocysteine levels than patients who had never taken the drug.
The researchers also found that patients with elevated homocysteine levels were far more likely to have coronary artery disease. Patients on levodopa tended to be older than patients not taking the drug and most had had Parkinson's longer -- both risk factors for increased homocysteine levels. But Diaz-Arrastia says the researchers attempted to control for this in their study.
It is estimated that one-third of people with Parkinson's disease develop dementia, and Diaz-Arrastia says his findings may have implications for these patients. Several large studies are currently examining whether elevated homocysteine is a risk factor for Alzheimer's and other dementia-related conditions. The jury is still out, but if the link is established the researcher says it could explain the high incidence of dementia among Parkinson's patients.
"It has been thought that dementia was associated with the disease itself, but this certainly raises the possibility that the therapy may be putting these folks at risk," he says.
He adds that patients taking levodopa may be able to lower their homocysteine levels by taking supplements -- specifically folic acid, and vitamins B12 and B6.
Donald Jacobsen, PhD, who directs the Laboratory for Homocysteine Research at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, tells WebMD that taking supplements of these vitamins can dramatically lower homocysteine levels, even in those who get the recommended levels of the vitamins in their diets.
"There are many studies showing that homocysteine accelerates the progression of vascular disease," he tells WebMD. "I think there will soon be significant evidence that you can slow this down by lowering homocysteine levels with these supplemental vitamins. The link with Alzheimer's is less conclusive, but we will probably have some answers in a few years."


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Am I on the right track?
Am I on the right track?
Hey everyone. A couple years ago I did a ketogenic diet to lose weight and managed to get down from 215lbs to 180lbs. Over the course of the past couple years I have made my way back up to an unhealthy 189lbs. I wouldnt mind the weight I am at, but I would like to slim down. I would guess I am around 20% bf. It all hangs out around the mid-section for me.
I started P90X last week (Im sure Ill get hate for this, I know, but I enjoy it). I have been diligent with every workout, every day. In the past 9 days since starting I haven't dropped any weight at all. I always weigh myself first thing in the morning. I feel as though, comparing to my first day pictures, that I may have slimmed down a bit. I expected to lose a little bit of weight, though, maybe water weight. I have two 1/2 gallons of water that I fill up and go through each day. This include the water used in supplementation.
Should I just chill out and hold out for a couple more weeks? Are my macros garbage or am I maybe cutting calories too much or maybe retaining water from creatine?
Here is what diet today was like for example:
-EC stack twice a day
-Bioforge V2
-Orange Triad
-Oximega Fish Oil & Greens
-DS Craze
-AEN Intrabolic
-Smart Powders Whey
*Breakfast - 30 Min Later*
4x strips turkey bacon
2oz roast beef
16oz skim milk
2 scoops whey
1x Hamburger patty w/ a little mayo & cheese
2oz roast beef
1cup broccoli
*1.5hr before workout*
1x Quest bar
*Pre/Intra Workout*
1x scoop craze
1x scoop intrabolic
2x Grilled chicken breast
1cup diced asparagus
2tbsp natty pb
Macros: 2,150cals; 80fat; 125carbs; 214protein
You could be retaining a bit of water. You could also be adding some muscle since I can imagine you are working muscles that aren't used to being worked (P90X). Most of your initial weight loss while doing a keto diet is water; I wouldn't try to compare your results with this plan to that of a keto diet. Use your mirror over your scale.
Keep giving it your all with your workouts.
I wouldn't make any huge changes with it being only 9 days.Ω Omega Sports Representative Ω
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Looks great dude! my only gripe - you supplement protein way too much. whey protein should only really be used post workout, get the rest of your dietary protein intake from whole food sources. buy a food scale if you have to so you know what and how much you're getting.
Being that it is only day 9 i wouldnt worry.
Also like one of the other posters said, get yourself an electronic food scale, they are around 20 bucks at walmart. Ensure that you are eating the same amount each time woth meats and so forth. This will also make it easier to cut from certain areas when you need to take away some cals.
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The reason that I take the shake in the morning is because I'm one of those people that just cant eat much immediately upon waking up. If I eat too much, my stomach gets irritated with me and I become miserable. I do not have a problem ingesting the shake, however. If I wait and dont take in the shake at that time, I'll be waiting about another 5 hours before I have time to actually sit down and have a good meal.
Its the same with the quest bar. I would say that 95% of the time at this time of day I am in a meeting. Its a lot easier to snack on one of those during a meeting than whipping out a tub of chicken and some greens. And a bit more professional too.
Just stick to it man. Takes a lil time to see results.
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I'm curious as I never followed a cut before, him being on Day 9, when should he start to see mirror or scale changes? 2 weeks?
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Lift the fücking weight from the floor, or leave it on the ground. The thoughts are supposed to be daunting. The pain is meant to be tormenting.
Typicaly if ive been eating kind of crappy ill start dropping water weight the first week but after week 2 i think is when the magic starts happening.
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I agree he needs to be tried out in Yuvraj's spot in tests. But why would you say he's not suited for the opening spot (in ODIs i.e.)?
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I imagine that not that many here from the UK are going to be up at 3 a.m. on Sunday to watch a dead game. I might catch the end of the first innings.
Not surprised to see most here putting the boot into Dernbach (he was better in his last spell, but the match had gone by then) although Bresnan and Patel were just as expensive yesterday and neither should think themselves guaranteed a place. We don't have an Ealham-type player anymore do we, a steady medium-pacer who can bowl 10 overs for under 40 while contributing at 7 or 8. Bresnan I suppose comes nearest; Woakes doesn't really fit the bill, neither does Wright. Buttler as keeper isn't ideal either - he's only Somerset's reserve one-day keeper - though they may as well stick with it for the last game.
Difference is that Bresnan was tight early up (at a time when Dernbach had previously bowled expensive ****e) and then Dernbach came on when the fielding restrictions were at their best for bowlers and conceded a shed-load. That he bowled a couple of cheap overs at the end after the match was over shouldn't cloud the fact that he was tripe when it mattered.
Patel is also in the team for more than just his bowling.
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FutureNow just wrapped up two successful training seminars in New York, where I had the chance to meet some outstanding GrokDotCom readers. I joined the FutureNow marketing team only a few months ago, so, like everyone else there, I had many questions to ask our instructors (Bryan Eisenberg, Holly Buchanan and Jeff Sexton).
I have the luxury of asking these people all kinds of questions throughout the day in the office. (I'm sure they love it.) But what about the rest of you? How might we do a better job of passing this information along to those who are interested?
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England complete a hat-trick of Ashes wins
But, at tea, it had all looked so different. Australia were 120-1 and pootling towards their target with intense serenity. Then, from nowhere, Tim Bresnan produced one of his intermittent jaffas to dismiss David Warner, and Stuart Broad, followed it up with the wicket of Michael Clarke. Between them, they took five Australian wickets for 13 runs in 56 balls, Broad's spell – and match – one for the aeons, his figures 11 for 121.
The morning session was equally frenetic. Australia took the new ball as soon as possible, Jackson Bird pitching one outside off-stump that jagged in plenty, Bresnan a bull in the headlights and hopping back to play no shot. He was given not out, a review revealing that the ball would have clipped the leg-bail. Accordingly, the on-pitch decision stood; it would prove to be vital.
But, next over, Harris stormed in and unleashed a ball that left Bell on his haunches, an edge diverting the ball into his stumps. He departed for a magisterial 113.
Matt Prior arrived to find Harris on the burst again, and fooled by one that bounced, could impart only an elbow, diverting the ball onto off-stump. But Broad played the hat-trick ball well and eased the next to the third man boundary.
This was serious, pounding, runaway cricket now, Broad beautifully glancing another four almost from behind his buttocks, then slotting another behind square on the off-side. But of it, Harris was having not one iota, punishing the effrontery with a snorter that left England 275 for 8.
Bresnan, though, still fancied Bird, massacring anything short or full. In ten overs with the new ball, England had taken 60 runs. But then Bresnan tapped a return catch to Harris, a tame ending to a wild innings of 45. This brought James Anderson to the wicket, and he soon edged Lyon behind, England's second innings closing on 330, Harris returning figures of 7 for 117.
England had five overs with new ball before lunch, enough to waste a review, when Anderson caught Rogers on thigh and crease, the ball pitching out outside the line. There followed some rain, play restarting an hour and ten minutes late, though with only two overs lost. But the bowling was not exactly menacing, Warner in particular taking care not to miss anything meriting the ire of his bat.
Searching for something, Anderson came around the wicket to Rogers, quickly beating him and appealing for caught behind. Tony Hill agreed, but Rogers and Hotspot did not, the ball shown to flicking the outside of back thigh.
And then it was back to Warner, who coiled to smack Anderson for four through deep point, while at the other end, Bresnan replaced Broad. In his first over, he slanted one across Rogers, who edged to Swann at slip who grassed the tough chance.
With the wicket offering little, Alastair Cook introduced Swann earlier than planned. Third ball, Warner made room and smote him for six; at drinks, at the end of 20th over, Australia were 80-0.
Warner was batting superbly, quick feet and hands allowing him to visit harsh judgment on anything wide. But perhaps most impressive was his shot-selection. He brought up his 50 by gliding Bresnan powerfully to deep point.
Then, Swann hustled Rogers, sending a half-tracker that went for four, followed by one that straightened and hurried. Finally, after several hours of trying, he contrived to direct an edge to hand, caught by Jonathan Trott and out for 49.
In next was Khawaja – in local parlance, ganting on a score. Typically, just as he appeared comfortable, he went back to Swann and jauntily inserted bat somewhere behind pad, the ball homing in to catch him plumb.
But all this did was bring Michael Clarke to the wicket, who started with four off Swann. Then it changed, Bresnan unfurling one that bounced and nipped across Warner, snatching some outside edge. Prior took the catch, and he was gone for a superb but insufficient 71.
But Broad was searing in now and first ball after drinks, he delivered the crucial burn, seaming one away from Clarke, who failed to move his feet and played down the wrong line. It cost him his off-stump.
And just like that, Australia were in trouble. Suddenly, England were up, and Broad fired in a bouncer that tempted Smith, who hooked – into himself, and into his stumps. Broad had 2 for 1 in nine balls, and Australia were 175 for 5.
Into the middle came Shane Watson, pulled through for three uncomfortable runs by Brad Haddin. Next ball, Bresnan pulled him forward, but the pad, and the inevitable happened. And its flaps were open within seconds, Broad, chasing in and beating Haddin, who leapt but could not withdraw his pad. Tony Hill felt it was out, Haddin did not, and Hawkeye showed a ball directed to the uppermost fibre of the leg-stump bail.
As the light faded, England were forced to employ spin from both ends, before a break in the cloud enabled Broad to return. It took him just three balls to have Siddle caught at mid-off, his sixth wicket of the session – for 20 runs, in 43 balls.
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The UpTake: The private future of space exploration just got even more interesting, with an announcement today that could lead to the creation of an Asteroid Zoo, or a private viewing station for civilians to hunt for potentially destructive asteroids.
Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company backed by Google's CEO Larry Page & chairman Eric Schmidt has three days to go in its already successful Kickstarter campaign to raise $1 million to build an asteroid hunting telescope accessible to the public. It turns out the public's interest in the project was on such a scale that today they announced a "stretch goal"—an extra incentive offered through the crowdfunding site—of building what they call an "Asteroid Zoo" if they reach $1.7 million before the campaign ends.
"Planetary Resources values the power of the connected mind; when working together, we can accomplish much more than any of us can do alone," said Chris Lewicki, president and chief engineer, Planetary Resources, in a statement. "We're creating this program to harness the public's interest in space and asteroid detection, while providing a very real benefit to our planet."
The collaboration with Zooniverse will empower citizen scientists to aid in the search of dangerous near Earth asteroids (NEAs) and support planetary defense, according to a statement.
Modeled after Zooniverse's Galaxy Zoo, Asteroid Zoo will allow the public to search through terabytes of data collected by Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) for undiscovered asteroids in game-like process from their personal computers. The public's findings will be used by scientists to develop asteroid-searching technology for telescopes on Earth and in space, including the ARKYD telescope.
The Seattle-based Planetary Resources was founded in 2009 by Eric Anderson and Peter H. Diamandis to conduct low-cost robotic space exploration beginning with the Arkyd Series of space missions intended to identify the most commercially viable near-Earth asteroids. These initial missions are expected to assist the company in enabling the retrieval of raw materials from these select asteroids, including water and precious metals.
Planetary Resources is also financed by and Ross Perot, Jr., Chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group. Some of the company's partners and advisers include the Bechtel Corporation; film maker and explorer James Cameron; former chief of staff, United States Air Force general T. Michael Moseley (Ret.); and Sara Seager, Ph.D., professor of planetary science and Physics at MIT.
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As part of its ongoing effort to assess and improve school safety the Bayport-Blue Point School District will be holding lockdown and lockout drills in every school building between February 12 and February 20.
The drills, according to a letter sent to parents Thursday, will be monitored by security consultants who will then meet with district leaders to discuss how to boost security protocols.
The goal, states the letter, is to familizare students with steps to be taken during an actual emergency and teachers will explain rules and procedures for each drill to the students.
The most recent lockdown incident occurred last November following a phone threat concerning a weapon in the high school. No weapon was found but police arrested a Patchogue teenager attending B-BP high school for making the alleged threat.
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On February 26, at a board of education workshop, school leaders will give a "comprehensive" presentation outlining steps taken to improve district security and also potential next steps to strength security systems.
In the letter, School Superintendent Dr. Vicnent Butera invites residents to attend the security presentation, provide feedback and also visit the "Safety in our Schools" tab on the district's website.
The security drills are part of the district's Project Save committee which includes representatives from school administration, the board of education, staff, parents and local fire departments.