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Lead exposure from soil in Peruvian mining towns: a national assessment supported by two contrasting examples
Alexander van Geen a, Carolina Bravo b, Vladimir Gil c, Shaky Sherpa d & Darby Jack b
a. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Route 9W, Palisades, New York, NY, 10964, United States of America (USA).
b. Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA.
c. Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, Columbia University, New York, USA.
d. Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Columbia University, Palisades, USA.
Correspondence to Alexander van Geen (e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com).
(Submitted: 18 April 2012 – Revised version received: 28 August 2012 – Accepted: 30 August 2012 – Published online: 10 October 2012.)
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012;90:878-886. doi: 10.2471/BLT.12.106419
Children and adults are still routinely exposed to very high levels of lead in developing countries, particularly in regions with a long mining history, such as the Andes.1-4 This study focuses on Peru, which ranks among the world's top five producers of silver, zinc, lead and copper5 and has a long and conflict-ridden mining history.6 Exposure to lead in this country may have been prolonged, despite some widely publicized and severe cases,7 by the importance of the revenue generated by the mining industry, weak regulation, a lack of information about contamination and a perception that the cost of interventions might be prohibitive. The premise of this study is that many, perhaps most, egregious cases of mining-related childhood lead exposure in Peru, and similarly affected countries in South America and Africa, could be avoided at a relatively modest cost by systematically mapping hot spots for lead in soil in mining towns where ore is currently processed or has been processed in the past. Interventions carried out around mines, ore processing plants and smelters in other parts of the world have already been shown to reduce dramatically childhood exposure to lead.8-11
The exploitation of metal-rich deposits in the Andes dates from pre-colonial times.12 Then, the focus was on silver, as it was during the Spanish colonial era. The extensive use of mercury to extract silver through the process of amalgamation undoubtedly had a substantial, albeit localized, impact on the health of workers.13,14 Potentially just as important, however, especially when their cumulative effect is considered, could be the health impact of the mine tailings left over once the most concentrated ore has been separated. These tailing are enriched in lead and were generated over centuries of mining silver, copper, zinc and lead deposits throughout the region. Today when a new mine enters into operation, the mining company attempts to minimize the risk of exposure by purchasing surrounding tracts of land. In the past, however, population centres typically became established near a mine and dwellings were built on top of mine tailings.15 In such places, even today it is still common for children to ingest large quantities of lead by playing in contaminated soil or ingesting lead-laden dust at home.10,16-19 Currently, Peru has no standard for the lead content of soil.
The assumption underlying this study is that lead contamination of soil is heterogeneously distributed and, consequently, the level of contamination within a few kilometres of one mining-related operation can differ greatly from that close to another. If suitable maps were made available locally, young children, who are especially at risk of ingesting soil when playing, could be induced to avoid the most contaminated areas.20 Our aim was to evaluate the potential benefits of such an intervention on a national scale by carrying out a spatial analysis of mining operations in Peru in relation to population density. To the best of our knowledge, no similar study has previously been carried out. In addition, we performed surveys of the local distribution of lead in soil at two locations to illustrate low- and high-risk scenarios. The study focused on lead contamination linked to the exploitation of deposits of polymetallic ore, including gold-containing ore, and therefore excluded contamination associated with cement production and other extractive activities, which could also have a substantial effect on health.
We obtained the geographical coordinates of 7997 sites involved in four types of activity associated with mining: (i) 113 industrial-scale mines in operation in 2009; (ii) 138 ore processing plants; (iii) 3 smelters; and (iv) 7743 "legacies" of past mining activities. Since none of the existing data compilations was exhaustive, the information was drawn from several sources (Appendix A, available at: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~avangeen/mining). The analysis does not include undocumented artisanal mines or informal and unreported mining-related activities, which can also be major sources of lead exposure.11
Spatial analysis
Details of the 7997 sites, including their attributes, were entered into a spreadsheet (Appendix B, available at: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~avangeen/mining) and the data were mapped using ArcGIS software (esri, Redlands, United States of America) and the geographical coordinate system GCS WGS 1984. A circle with a radius of 5 km, termed a "buffer", was created around each site; if there was an overlap, circles were merged. The 5-km radius is a compromise. In some cases, the population exposed to lead may have been overestimated because contamination did not extend as far as 5 km from the mining-related operation. In others, the population may have been underestimated because sites that are active at present or were active in the past were not reported. Data on individual sites and merged buffers were converted into computer files with a .kmz extension (Appendix C, available at: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~avangeen/mining) so they could be viewed on Google Earth (Google Inc., Menlo Park, USA).
Data on the estimated size of the population of Peru in 2000 were obtained from the Global Rural–Urban Mapping Project version 1 (GRUMPv1) data product, available at a resolution of 30 arc-seconds, or ~1 km at the equator from CIESIN (Center for International Earth Science Information Network, Palisades, USA).21 The data were imported into ArcGIS in a grid format. In addition, an overlay of GRUMPv1 population data for Peru was created in a .kmz file format (Appendix C) for comparison with the location of the mining operations in Google Earth. The size of the population living within each 5-km-radius buffer was estimated using the zonal overlay method in ArcGIS: by defining the 5-km buffers as zones, the population exposed within each buffer was calculated using the raster grid population count.
Local soil lead surveys
Two contrasting locations were selected to document the spatial variability of lead contamination of surface soil: the historic mining town of Cerro de Pasco, which is situated 4400 m above sea level in the Andes and has a population of 70 000, and the more recent mine and ore processing plant near Huaral, situated 150 m above sea level only a few kilometres from the Pacific Ocean, with a population of 160 000.
Lake sediment records indicate that heavy metals from the mining and smelting of silver-bearing ores in Cerro de Pasco were being released into the atmosphere as early as 1400 years ago.12,14 In the 1800s, deposition of lead and mercury from smelting increased dramatically with the growth of the Ciudad Real de Minas, as the town was also known. Deposition peaked in the 1950s after the copper and zinc mines were purchased by the United States Cerro de Pasco Investment Co. Subsequently, the mines were nationalized and exploited by the Centromin conglomerate until, in 1999, the Peruvian Compañía Minera Volcan bought the main mines in Cerro de Pasco and the associated Paragsha ore processing plant. The town of Cerro de Pasco has been built around an open-pit mine and on top of mine tailings. In recent decades, vast quantities of waste rock and tailings have been accumulating over an area of approximately 10 km2, several kilometres to the south-west of the main pit and further away from the main population centre.22
The María Teresa polymetallic (i.e. zinc, lead and silver) mine and associated Minera Colquisiri SA ore processing plant started operating 7 km west of the town of Huaral in 1984. Human activity around the perimeter of the mine is primarily agricultural, mostly fruit trees and hog farms. However, a few hamlets were also built close to the perimeter of the site. In contrast to Cerro de Pasco, there is no large population centre close to the mine and tailings are stored in a pond located within the plant property.
In May 2009, the distribution of lead in surface soil in the town of Cerro de Pasco and in areas outside the fence surrounding the María Teresa mine and ore processing plant near Huaral were mapped using a hand-held X-ray fluorescence analyser (Innov-X Alpha, Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan), as used in other studies.11 The precision of the measurements estimated by the manufacturer's software typically ranged from 17 to 250 mg/kg for soil containing 400 to 11 000 mg/kg lead, respectively. The accuracy of the analyzer was evaluated over a period of 10 days using three soil standards from the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology: Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2710 with a mean concentration of lead in soil of 5532 mg/kg (standard deviation, SD: 80), SRM 2711 with 1162 mg/kg (SD: 31) and SRM 2709 with 18.9 mg/kg (SD: 0.5). These measurements averaged 96 % (SD: 4; 11 measurements), 97 % (SD: 7; 7 measurements) and 89% (SD: 10; 4 measurements) of the certified values for the three soil standards, respectively. A .kmz file was created to enable the soil lead data to be viewed on Google Earth (Appendix C).
In the spatial analysis, a total of 312 nonoverlapping buffers were obtained by combining the 5-km-radius circles around the 254 active mining operations (i.e. mines, ore processing plants and smelters) with those around the 7743 mining legacies. The average size of these buffers was 170 km2, with the largest covering an area of 1800 km2. Of the 312 buffers, 227 did not contain a single active mine, ore processing plant or smelter but did include a total of 3030 legacy sites. Another 52 buffers contained a combination of legacies and active mining operations, whereas the remaining 33 buffers contained only active mines, ore processing plants or smelters.
In 2000, the population of Peru was approximately 30 million and was distributed across 195 coastal, mountain (Andean) and tropical forest (Amazonian) provinces. Around 90% of sites with active mining operations or mining legacies were located in mountain provinces, with the remaining sites divided roughly equally between coastal and tropical forest provinces (Fig. 1). The average population density of Peru was only 21 people per square kilometre and about two thirds of the buffers were located within areas with a population density below the national average. In total, 1.6 million people resided within 5 km of an active mine, ore processing plant or smelter or a mining legacy.
Fig.1. The 312 sitesa with active mining operations or mining legacies associated with lead in soil, Peru, 2009.
The size of the population residing in the different buffers ranged widely. It was less than 1000 in each of the 148 buffers with the smallest populations. In another 135 buffers, the population ranged from 1000 to 10 000. However, the remaining 29 buffers (Table 1) accounted for more than two thirds of the total population living within 5 km of an active mining operation or mining legacy: the population in each of these buffers ranged from 10 000 to 129 000. The population density averaged 175 people per square kilometre in these 29 buffers and was below the national average in only 2 of the 29. Eleven of these buffers contained only mining legacies. Together, the 29 buffers encompassed a total of 3438 legacies, 52 active mines, 58 ore processing plants and 2 smelters.
The buffer centred around Cerro de Pasco ranked second in our national assessment: it covered the second largest area, at 1659 km2, and had the second largest population, at 119 178 inhabitants (Table 1). The largest buffer had a slightly larger population, contained 52 legacies and no active mining operations and included Huancayo, Peru's fifth largest city. The Cerro de Pasco buffer contained 12 active mines, 9 ore processing plants and 349 legacies. Our soil survey centred on the main open-pit mine, which continues to be exploited on a massive scale and covers 5 km2 of the buffer. Only 35 of the 74 soil samples (47%) had a lead concentration below the maximum of 1200 mg/kg recommended by the United States Environmental Protection Agency for soil in residential areas where children do not play.23 Soil lead concentrations above 1200 mg/kg were measured all around the open pit but no further than 1 km from its edge (Fig. 2). The five highest concentrations, which ranged between 5000 and 12 000 mg/kg, were all observed in samples taken from within 500 m of the western margin of the pit. Only 11 of the 74 soil samples (15%) had lead concentrations below the threshold of 400 mg/kg recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency for soil in residential areas where children play. Soil lead concentrations below 400 mg/kg were found primarily in the outer northern and eastern sections of the town.
Fig. 2. Aerial image of the main open-pit mine and surrounding town of Cerro de Pasco, Peru, showing locations where the lead concentration in soil a was measured, 2009.
The second location selected for our soil lead survey was in a buffer that ranked fifteenth by population in our assessment and contained only one mine, one ore processing plant and four legacies (Fig. 3). However, the buffer was 90 km2 in area and extended to the outskirts of the town of Huaral. Consequently, it encompassed a sizeable population of 21 705 (Table 1). The soil measurements obtained from this site contrasted markedly with those from Cerro de Pasco. Only 4 of the 47 samples (8.5%) had a lead concentration above 1200 mg/kg and the maximum was 2300 mg/kg. The high lead concentrations were all observed along a road and in cultivated fields within 200 m of the perimeter of the plant. The lead concentration in soil at most other locations within that distance was less than 400 mg/kg.
Fig. 3. Aerial image of the mine and ore processing plant near Huaral, Peru, showing locations where the lead concentration in soil a was measured, 2009.
A study conducted in 2007 by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in collaboration with the Peruvian authorities showed that the lead content of blood drawn from 52% of 163 children living in Cerro de Pasco exceeded the intervention threshold of 10 μg/dL.24 In the Ayapoto area, west of the mine pit where soil was highly contaminated (Fig. 2), the blood lead content exceeded 10 μg/dL in 88% of local children and concentrations as high as 62 μg/dL were measured. In contrast, blood lead levels exceeded 10 μg/dL in only 9.4% of 194 women of child-bearing age from the same areas of the town.
The 2007 study also reported 32 soil lead measurements for Cerro de Pasco in the 150 to 20 000 mg/kg range, with the highest values again being consistently observed in Ayapoto.24 The geographical association between the high blood lead content in children and the high soil lead content, and the absence of a similar association in women of child-bearing age, suggests that the primary pathway of lead exposure in children in Cerro de Pasco is the ingestion of soil and soil dust. The association between childhood exposure and soil contamination observed in Cerro de Pasco is consistent with that seen in studies of the effect of lead mining, ore processing, and smelting carried out elsewhere, including other parts of Latin America.10,17,19,25-26
We are not aware of any studies of the blood lead level in the population living near the Colquisiri mine in our second selected location. However, given the relatively low soil lead levels we observed (Fig. 3), it seems reasonable to assume that the population residing in Huaral was much less exposed than that in Cerro de Pasco.
Although Peru phased out leaded gasoline in 2004, occasional exposure from leaded paint cannot be excluded.16 In addition, exposure from the local manufacturing and recycling of batteries or the use of a lead glaze on tableware, both of which have been shown to be substantial in other developing countries, is also possible.27-29
Two long-term studies of lead in children's blood carried out in Australia and the United States, respectively, are particularly relevant to the situation in Cerro de Pasco. In the lead mining town of Broken Hill, Australia, the blood lead content of all school-aged children was greater than 40 μg/dL in 1982.19 Between 1991 and 2003, as a result of various interventions, the number of children with a concentration above 10 μg/dL declined from 85 to 32%. Lead isotope analysis showed that soil and dust that was contaminated to a level of 1000 to 7000 mg/kg, either by natural erosion of the ore or mining, was a major source of lead in children's blood, although occasionally leaded gasoline and lead-based paint also made a substantial contribution.16
Around the lead mine and smelter at Bunker Hill, Idaho, United States, the mean blood lead level in children was 70 μg/dL in the early 1970s. At the time the smelter was operating without any emission controls, the concentration in yard soil averaged 7000 mg/kg and the house dust lead concentration was 12 000 mg/kg.18 Again as a result of a series of interventions, exposure declined dramatically: the proportion of children with a blood lead level greater than 10 μg/dL decreased from 45% in 1988 to 3% in 2001. In addition, the observation that children were still exposed after the smelter was closed, via the ingestion of soil and house dust, prompted the removal and replacement of house yard soil with a lead concentration greater than 1000 mg/kg. The remarkable reduction in the level of lead in children's blood that was achieved in Bunker Hill sets an attainable target that can be applied to mitigation elsewhere, including areas as badly contaminated as Cerro de Pasco.
The levels of soil lead contamination around Cerro de Pasco and Huaral correspond to high- and low-risk scenarios for Peru, respectively, and therefore probably encompass the range of conditions in the other buffers. The effect of mining on the local population appears to be influenced primarily by its scale and duration. Mining started much earlier in Cerro de Pasco than in Huaral14 and led to the accumulation of a large amount of tailings on top of which the town was built. Moreover, the Cerro de Pasco buffer included 349 legacies compared with 4 in the Huaral buffer (Table 1). It is possible, then, that the number of legacies could provide a useful indication of the severity of lead contamination in locations where no soil measurements are available. Although 14 of the 29 largest buffers by population included active mining operations as well as at least one legacy, judging the severity of contamination on the basis of legacies alone could be misleading. For instance, the buffer that includes the infamous Doe Run smelter in Yauli Province, where extensive childhood lead exposure has been documented,7 does not include a single legacy.
The soil lead survey in Cerro de Pasco shows that contamination is far from uniform even under a high-risk scenario. Heterogeneous distributions of lead contamination, over and above the reduction associated simply with the distance from a mine or smelter, have been reported elsewhere. Consequently, given the magnitude of the effort and resources required to mitigate contamination,5,9 it is essential to identify those areas within a contaminated zone where soil replacement, or even relocation of the local population, is most needed.10 Soil assessments could be used to inform local government and families about the relative safety of various areas. These assessments, combined with information about the consequences of children ingesting lead-contaminated soil, could lead to a decrease in child exposure in the short term and enable the local community to participate in risk reduction.30
Unfortunately, currently there is no viable low-cost equipment that could reliably replace either X-ray fluorescence analysers or more laborious laboratory techniques.31 Public investment in risk mapping is, therefore, urgently needed. With the exception of one recent example in Nigeria,11 the use of costly large-scale soil removal or resettlement of communities to reduce mining-related lead exposure has been limited to high-income countries.18-19
In conclusion, our assessment that 1.6 million people in Peru could be exposed to lead in soil indicates that political will and resources are urgently needed to reduce the effect of exposure on the cognitive development of future generations. Our two case studies highlight the potential of local surveys of lead in soil to reduce exposure at a cost that is negligible relative to the revenues generated by mining, even in highly contaminated areas such as Cerro de Pasco. The key is to provide households and local government with appropriate information. In addition, systematic soil surveys could help identify areas where public health education and interventions are most needed. These approaches could also be beneficial in other countries with a legacy of mining lead-rich deposits. The dramatic reduction in emissions achieved by the owners of the large smelter complex of Ilo in southern Peru in response to emissions monitoring32 illustrates how interventions that rely on public data could be made more effective.
We thank government and industry representatives in Peru, Colin Cook, Sheila Xiah Kragie and Eduardo Ureta. Vladimir Gil is also a faculty member and researcher at the Graduate Environmental Development Program and the Department of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, and is the general coordinator of the Consortium for the Study of the Economic Impact of Climate Change in Peru.
The study was funded by a grant from Cross-Cutting Initiatives, the Earth Institute at Columbia University (http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu). This is Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory contribution number 7607.
Competing interests:
None declared.
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Enhancing Longevity Through the Miami Mediterranean DietMay 2008
By Michael Ozner, MD, FACC, FAHA with Dale Kiefer
While most people relentlessly pursue diet after diet to lose weight, often with mixed results, there is one diet that not only helps you safely lose weight but can also dramatically reduce your risk of heart disease as well. In countless studies, a Mediterranean-style diet has been proven to lower inflammatory markers, reduce metabolic syndrome, eliminate many of the risk factors that contribute to cardiovascular disease, and lower one's exposure to cancer.1-13 In short, this is a diet and a lifestyle that not only can make you look and feel great but can help you live a longer, healthier life at the same time.
In my clinical practice as a preventive cardiologist, I have seen the impressive results of my Miami Mediterranean Diet not only help people lose weight but actually save lives. Characterized by whole grains and legumes, lean protein, fresh fruits and vegetables, and plenty of heart-healthy olive oil, the Mediterranean diet has been clinically proven—again and again—to arrest the degenerative factors that lead to many of our most lethal diseases. The Miami Mediterranean Diet is about preventing cardiovascular disease by reducing inflammation and neutralizing free radicals that lead to heart disease, cancer, and numerous other diseases. Can we defeat cardiovascular disease and its manifestations (heart attack, stroke, peripheral vascular disease)? The answer is yes! And prevention–not intervention–is the key.
The Mediterranean Diet Revolution
As a preventive cardiologist, I have often taken a position that is the polar opposite of many of my colleagues. I firmly believe that we do far too much intervention in this country—invasive procedures like stents, balloon angioplasties, bypass surgeries—and not enough prevention. As doctors, if we seriously invested the time in teaching our patients how to prevent heart disease, we could actually see a significant drop in the amount of cardiovascular mortality in this country. And given that every 36 seconds, someone in America dies of an illness related to cardiovascular disease, there's clearly plenty of need for better prevention. In recent years, I've devoted nearly as much time to lecturing as I have to seeing patients. Traveling all over the world, I eagerly spread the word about the benefits of the Miami Mediterranean Diet. The reason is simple: cardiovascular disease prevention is a topic that is near and dear to my own heart.
My "Eureka" Moment
I first became interested in this remarkably healthful diet about a quarter of a century ago. I remember I had just returned home, late one evening, after a full day of performing a half-dozen or so balloon angioplasties on my patients. Exhausted, I sat down to unwind with some reading material, and came across an article written by University of Minnesota scientist, Ansel Keys, PhD.14,15 It described the groundbreaking Seven Countries Study, which established that the dietary patterns of people living in the Mediterranean region were associated with better health and longer life. A middle-aged Greek man, for instance, was 90% less likely to have cardiovascular disease than a comparable man in the West.
That's when a light bulb went off for me. I thought, "Wait a minute, this is crazy, we're doing it all wrong!" I had just done one half-dozen interventional procedures, and here was information that could have prevented the problem with something as simple as diet and lifestyle.
I had always believed that vascular disease–atherosclerosis—was a metabolic disorder. And this suggested that it required a metabolic solution. So I sat down and typed up 20 to 30 pages describing the diet and lifestyle I wanted my patients to follow. It was a simple patient handout. And guess what? I found that it really worked. Ninety-five percent of my patients were losing weight, lowering their blood pressure, reducing their detrimental low-density lipoprotein (LDL), raising their beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and getting healthier.
Eventually, my intervention-oriented colleagues started asking, "Why aren't you sending us more cases?" They wondered why I wasn't sending patients to the cardiac catheterization lab anymore. The simple answer is that my patients were getting better—without invasive procedures like stents, angioplasties, or bypass surgeries. It was revolutionary!
I've come to believe that we're marching down the wrong path in the United States. We have this "quick-fix" attitude. If a patient develops cardiovascular disease, our treatment is to put in a stent, or to do a triple-bypass operation. While emergency coronary intervention with stent placement and other forms of intervention is often appropriate and necessary in unstable coronary syndromes or for patients in the throes of a heart attack, intervention has never been shown to decrease the risk of a future heart attack or prolong life compared with lifestyle changes and medical therapy in stable patients with coronary artery disease. In fact there's no evidence that putting in a stent or performing a surgical bypass prevents future heart attacks—none. But we keep on doing invasive interventions on stable patients. What we're doing is wrong. It's much better to put a patient on the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle and medical therapy (as needed) to successfully address the underlying metabolic derangements.
Originally I called my handout the "Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Diet and Lifestyle," but soon word got out, and people all over the country were calling my office asking for my "Miami Mediterranean Diet." I gladly sent copies, and the idea for a book was born. It was clear that the information contained in my handout was changing people's lives. In order to provide as much guidance as possible, I decided to write the Miami Mediterranean Diet in order to provide a working blueprint for anyone who wants to lose weight and reduce their exposure to coronary heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. As I watched people change their eating habits and increase their health, I knew that it was time to update the book and have just released the 2008 expanded edition of the Miami Mediterranean Diet. The benefits of this eating plan go beyond good health—in my experience, if you are healthy on the inside, you are going to look fantastic on the outside, too!
Ancient Traditions, Modern Diet
But what exactly is the Mediterranean diet? At least one researcher has defined it as, "the dietary pattern found in the olive-growing areas of the Mediterranean region, in the late '50s and early '60s, when the consequences of World War II were overcome, but the fast-food culture had not reached the area yet."16 But, as another leading researcher points out, "the term "Mediterranean diet," implying that all Mediterranean people have the same diet, is a misnomer. The countries around the Mediterranean basin have different diets, religions and cultures."17 So what I did, in developing the Miami Mediterranean diet, was to combine elements from all the best of those cultures and cuisines, guided by both tradition and modern science. The result is a diet that reflects the ancient dietary traditions of the Mediterranean basin, adapted for a modern American public in desperate need of nutritional guidance. Although I've successfully leveraged the principles of the Mediterranean diet in my medical practice for more than two decades, it seems the world has only recently begun to notice what my patients have known for years–this is a diet and lifestyle that works. And scientific validation of the diet's health claims has accumulated dramatically in the past decade. In the two short years since the publication of the first edition of the Miami Mediterranean Diet, for instance, numerous clinical trials published in the medical literature have confirmed my message–this diet works; this diet saves lives.1,3-13,18-23
Few, if any other diets, can claim as much with equal authority. For thousands of years the people of the Mediterranean region have benefitted from this healthful lifestyle. Of course, they didn't set out to adopt a specific diet with carefully targeted benefits. Rather, they drew sustenance from the land and the sea as their forbears had always done. They cultivated olive and fruit trees and vegetable and herb gardens, raised sheep and goats, and harvested grains and the bounty of the sea. They were only doing what seemed natural, but as it happens, theirs is a uniquely healthful diet and lifestyle. Extra-virgin olive oil, for instance, is remarkably heart healthy since it lowers harmful LDL. It also helps to prevent oxidation of LDL through the action of its abundant polyphenols.5,6,8,24,25 Likewise, fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, beans, fish, and red wine (consumed in moderation) all contribute to the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet. Red meat is infrequently consumed, and even then, it is ordinarily used simply to flavor dishes such as soups and stews.
Recent rigorous science has proven it. From weight loss to improved lipid profiles and significantly reduced risk of developing a variety of cancers, osteoporosis, stroke, and even Alzheimer's disease,3,4,9,11,12,21,26-30 adherents of the Mediterranean diet reap numerous long-term benefits that are virtually guaranteed to deliver longer, healthier life.
Of course, it's not all due to food alone. My book also emphasizes the importance of exercise and stress reduction for maximum health benefits. The Mediterranean lifestyle includes daily exercise, which is as important to good health as a proper diet. Stress reduction is another integral component of this heart-friendly regimen. Exercise, diet and stress reduction are complementary activities in my New World version of this longevity-inducing Old World lifestyle. "The Mediterranean diet and lifestyle can help reduce our level of stress," I wrote, in the original Miami Mediterranean Diet. "Meals are enjoyed with family and friends in a relaxed fashion, with ample time for friendly conversation. Often a short nap or 'siesta' follows the meal." And as un-American as a mid-day nap may sound, brief naps may actually improve both productivity and overall health.31,32
Bountiful Evidence: the Inflammation Connection
Why does the Mediterranean diet work? One theory is that this diet significantly reduces saturated fat consumption and eliminates trans fat intake, thereby reducing atherosclerosis and significantly improving cardiovascular health. Another is that it reduces inflammation. Still another is that it supplies significant quantities of free radical-fighting antioxidants. Perhaps all these factors play a role. Extensive research has certainly demonstrated the role of inflammation in the development and progression of degenerative diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes.23,33-36
Key components of the Mediterranean diet have been shown to be anti-inflammatory. Among these are omega-3 fatty acids from fish.37,38 In contrast, the typical American diet, with its high content of saturated fat, trans fatty acids, and omega-6 fatty acids, is pro-inflammatory.35,39-45
The results of such a diet became apparent late last year, when British researchers published the findings from a decade-long prospective study on a large sample of the aging US population. By gleaning information about diet and mortality from the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study scientists were able to determine the extent to which conforming to a classic Mediterranean diet influences life span.
They discovered that "the Mediterranean diet was associated with reduced all-cause and cause-specific mortality." In women, the greater the conformity to the tenets of the diet, the greater the benefits, including, "decreased risks that ranged from 12% for cancer mortality to 20% for all-cause mortality."3 This is a remarkable validation of a particular dietary pattern, especially given the study's robust sample size of more than 380,000 American men and women.
Another large study published by Greek researchers last year documented improvements in insulin sensitivity, as well as decreases in cholesterol levels and systolic blood pressure, even among overweight and obese men and women who at least came "close" to sticking to the Mediterranean diet.4 The study yielded data showing that subjects with the greatest adherence to the classic Mediterranean diet were more likely to have normal blood glucose metabolism. This implies that this diet is also protective against type 2 diabetes.
A previous report by the same Greek research team concluded that greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet was associated with a reduced incidence of obesity.12 In other words, the Mediterranean diet is slimming, not fattening. Of course, my patients and I have known that for years.


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James has been a volunteer for TDCJ since April 2001. Every Friday night he brings the offenders an encouraging message that they can change their life if they are willing. Through his work with 12-step programs such as AA and Winners Circle, he has touched the life of hundreds of offenders giving them hope for a better tomorrow. James has begun to partner with other volunteers so he can spread the message of hope to more offenders. Although James has been dealing with health issues, he still manages to minister every Friday night and give unselfishly of his time. For his commitment, dedication and perseverance, James has been selected as the recipient for the Substance Abuse Treatment Program award.


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Ferrari boss Marco Mattiacci says he "strongly believes" in Kimi Raikkonen and is confident the Finn's results will improve soon.
Raikkonen's return to Ferrari has been underwhelming, with just 39 points in the first 12 races of the season. In Belgium he scored his best result of the year, with a fourth place finish, and Mattiacci has compared him to a football striker struggling to find his feet at a new club.
"I see this like when you hire a great striker in football and for the first six, seven matches they are not striking and you are waiting and then suddenly they will do an amazing season," he told Sky Sports. "I think Kimi, we have seen in Hungary, we have seen in [Belgium] we have seen he is an extremely talented driver.
"I don't think we did an excellent job in putting him in condition to express the best of him. For sure, he has been suffering a little bit the car that we have for his driving style that he has, but I think it's a combination of factors that didn't bring him in the top five, six drivers. But I strongly believe in Kimi."
Fernando Alonso, meanwhile, has scored the lion's share of Ferrari's points this year, but is believed to be on McLaren's radar for a move back to the British team. Mattiacci said he is only concerned with giving Alonso the best car possible and is not worried about keeping his driver happy in other ways.
"I don't have to keep Fernando Alonso happy. We are not here to look for happiness; we are here to look for the fastest cars.
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Around this time every year we ask you, our lovely Cult readers, to tell us which new OS X desktop applications have caught your eye over the last 12 months.
Last year's winners (by a hair) were Google Chrome and OmmWriter.
What do we mean by "new"? Ideally, we mean brand new applications that were launched for the first time this year. But we're prepared to be flexible, so "new" can also mean major updates to existing apps. And don't forget, we're talking OS X desktop apps here, not iOS apps.
A few suggestions to get you started: Scrivener 2, Postbox, Office 2011, iLife 11, iTunes 10, Reeder, Kiwi, Transmit 4, Lightroom 3… the list is long.
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Tea Cosy in Grey Aran Wool
This grey tea cosy is hand knitted in a lovely and warm Aran wool, which comprises of 25% pure wool and 75% acrylic. It has 4 wooden buttons, 2 sewn on either side of the tea cosy, for decoration and a looped stalk at the top.
To put the tea cosy on your tea pot, you just need to slip it over the top, there are slits on either side for the spout and handle to come through.
The tea cosy fits a standard medium size teapot and is also available in Purple Heather, mustard and turquoise (please see my other listings if you wish to purchase this in those colours).
As this tea cosy is hand knitted, it's best to hand wash it in cool water and dry flat.
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Wasteland 2 is the direct sequel to 1988's Wasteland, the first-ever post-apocalyptic computer RPG and the inspiration behind the Fallout series. Until Wasteland, no other CRPG had ever allowed players to control and command individual party members for tactical purposes or given them the chance to make moral choices that would directly affect the world around them. Wasteland was a pioneer in multi-path problem solving, dripping in choice and consequence and eschewing the typical one-key-per-lock puzzle solving methods of its peers, in favor of putting the power into players' hands to advance based on their own particular play style.
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Pat Deegan, PhD & Associates, LLC
Pat Deegan PhD & Associates, LLC is a small company founded by and for people with psychiatric disabilities. We are disruptive innovators who create and disseminate technologies to support the recovery of people diagnosed with mental illness.
Our flagship product, CommonGround, empowers people to communicate with psychiatrists and to arrive at the best decisions for treatment and recovery.
You can find out more about us at http://patdeegan.com/
This will be used for patients within the mental health system at large as well as staff working in the field including psychiatrists and nurses, case workers and direct service workers, therapists and peer support staff.
We are looking for a designer to develop two (2) icons for what we call decision support and shared decision making. If we like your work, we might also be interested in doing longer term work with you!
The icons should preferably be in a vector format (e.g. AI or SVG), or if not, a raster format of at least 1024x1024 pixels in size.
The icons will be used in both big/detailed settings as well as small icon settings (as small as 20x20). It is preferred that the icons are designed in such a way that the big components are visible when the icons are scaled down in size.
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Decision support, in a health care setting, is accessible, unbiased information that helps people understand their treatment options and prepare to discuss them with their treatment team.
In one example of decision support, imagine a woman who has been diagnosed with breast cancer and is presented with multiple options: mastectomy, lumpectomy, radiation treatment, chemotherapy, or some combination thereof. Different treatment methods result in different rates of survival (according to statistics) as well as different amounts of breast tissue that are removed. Decision support would be information that helps that woman, and her treatment team, determine what the best treatment decision for her and her particular circumstances.
A couple example metaphors for decision support are a question mark and a fork in the road. Note, these are not the only metaphors!
See page 2 of the attached PDF for more information.
Shared decision making, in a health care setting, is active, empowered collaboration in making decisions about treatment and recovery with the doctor and treatment team.
Shared decision making contrasts with the more traditional "parental" model of treatment which assumes the doctor can arrive at the best decision by him/herself. Shared decision making utilizes the fact that there are two experts in the room, the doctor naturally being the expert in the science and treatment, but also the patient is the expert in the what is important to his or her life. Shared decision making utilizes both experts in crafting an agreement through a collaborative process.
A couple metaphors for shared decision making are a handshake and two individuals in collaboration. Note, these are not the only metaphors!
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Officer Brings Security Flaw To Army's Attention; Army Threatens Him With Jail If He Talks About It
from the good-deeds-won't-go-unpunished,-not-in-this-man's-Army! dept
It's a common, but regrettable, reaction. Person A discovers flaw in computer security. This is brought to the attention of Persons B-whatever. Person A is threatened, bullied, fined, expelled, etc. for daring to highlight a potentially damaging security issue. In extreme cases, some even throw the highly-flawed CFAA at the person, accusing them of hacking, "exceeding authorized access."
Why? Who knows? Apparently nothing fixes a security flaw faster than acts of intimidation and the resultant bad press. The US Army presumably holds the power to actually shoot the messenger, but thankfully, it didn't take things that far.
A soldier was made to sign a non-disclosure agreement by the US Army after pointing out a security flaw which allowed accounts on shared PCs to be accessed without proper authentication…While I can almost see the rationale for this action (don't talk about this until we can fix it), it's severely undercut by the fact that the US Army a) had no intention of fixing it and b) had previous knowledge of the flaw's existence.
Army staff authenticate on shared computers on bases and in the field using Common Access Code (CAC) smart ID cards. On completing a session the card is removed from the reader and the session should be terminated. However, it appears that the logoff process is often slow and can easily be cancelled by the next user, who can then continue to access the system under the previous user's account.
The issue has been known about for over two years, with one Army lieutenant who spotted it facing all manner of troubles when he tried to report it to senior staff. Having been told that the problem was too tricky to fix, he was then allegedly made to sign a non-disclosure agreement and told he could face imprisonment if he broke it.I guess the Army figured it could just wait it out. Maybe the system would mend itself, using some sort of nanobot AI or something. I'm pretty sure I read something in Omni about in back in '81... In the meantime, it applied the most minute of Band-Aids to the problem.
Others who pointed out the flaw to superiors were faced with silent inaction.
A statement issued by senior Army IT security staff after the problem appeared in the news has advised soldiers to be more careful when logging out of shared PCs.Right. Because that "be careful" statement works so well at libraries, schools, offices… basically anywhere anyone shares computers. Of course, most shared computers won't have access to information that could potentially pose a threat to a nation's military if it made it out into the wild. The Army seems to somewhat feel this non-solution might be inadequate, so it's applying another set of "be careful" Band-Aids in a way only a large government entity can: with handbooks and motivational posters and weeklong events.
In response to the problem they are planning an "Information Assurance/Cybersecurity Awareness week" in October as a follow-up measure to their new handbook, released last February, which stresses the importance of individual responsibilities to protect information. According to Lundgren, the handbook "augments current policy, training, and inspection processes and aims to raise awareness and change culture."I'm guessing the effectiveness of this program will be in the 0% range. It's tough to get anyone to care about an issue you can't be bothered to fix, no matter how many reminders clog up soldiers' inboxes or how many commanding officers read the mandatory "IA/CA Week" announcement in a low, perfunctory monotone.
And once again, we're back to the crux of the issue: the Army won't fix the problem. It doesn't seem impossible or even extraordinarily difficult. There is the matter of scale, which does complicate things, but refusing to tackle the root problem means the hole in the system will remain open and exploitable, no matter how many soldiers are forced into signing NDAs or threatened with jail time or bored to death by "awareness" presentations.
Considering the recent NSA leaks, you'd think the Army would be hammering away at the problem with alacrity, rather than throwing updated policies and freshly-printed handbooks at its personnel.
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10 debate questions for Obama, Mitt
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney no doubt have it rough at the first presidential debate next Wednesday. But what about moderator Jim Lehrer?
His job is to make two of the most scripted and steady debaters in politics break stride and make some news when they face off in Denver.
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It's not easy, but it can be done — by lobbing questions the candidates themselves would hate to hear. Not exactly "gotchas." More like the bona fide head-scratchers they've struggled to answer through the whole campaign — either because their usual talking points don't fly or because they can't quite square past positions with current stances.
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Here is POLITICO's list of the 10 questions we'd love to see Lehrer put to Obama and Romney.
For President Obama:
1. What do you say to the millions of Americans who might have jobs today if you had made the 2009 stimulus package bigger, as many leading liberal economists argued it should have been. You came to office promising bold action, and in the eyes of many of your supporters, blinked — with devastating effects on the economy.
This is a hope-and-change meets reality question, and Obama could decide to blame Republicans, as he has throughout the campaign. But Obama has some reasons to take credit for a legitimate accomplishment early in his first term.
Many economists agree that his $787 billion stimulus package — Obama's first big achievement as president — helped save the economy from imploding. What it didn't do was create a robust recovery, and the country will be shaking off that hangover for years to come.
Nor did the stimulus dramatically decrease the unemployment rate as Obama's advisers predicted, though, and stimulus has become a dirty word for most Americans.
Liberals in Obama's own administration pressured the president to go bigger, and pumping more money in might have given the economy a bigger boost — or lessened the long-term pain. If Obama believes the stimulus worked, then wouldn't a bigger stimulus have worked better?
Obama had the congressional majorities to make it happen, but he offered a smaller compromise number in part to win Republican votes. Ultimately, every House Republican voted against the $787 billion number. So it seems like maybe the compromise wasn't worth it.
2. Washington seems as toxic today as it was the day you took office. The country was looking to you to unite it, and you yourself admitted recently that you failed. In retrospect, do you feel you overestimated your own ability to bridge divides in Washington, and how do you answer people who say simply: Obama let me down?
It might be hard for the president to confront the ghost of Obama past, and any answer that comes down to "It's all the Republicans' fault" might sound defensive and tinny. But that's where the president tends to go.
"Obviously, the fact that we haven't been able to change the tone in Washington is disappointing," Obama said at the Univision town hall in Florida. "We know now that as soon as I came into office, you already had meetings among some of our Republican colleagues saying, 'How do we figure out how to beat the president?' And I think that I've learned some lessons over the last four years, and the most important lesson I've learned is that you can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside."
Republicans have pounced on this admission, which seems to undercut the rationale for Obama's 2008 candidacy.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 113 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
Buzz kill
We need a new logo for our cell phone accessory called the Buzz kill. The Buzz kill is used to stop your cell phone from interfering with speakers so that your nearby speakers don't emit that awful dit, dit, di-dit, dit, di-dit, dit di-dit static sound every time your phone connects to the cell tower. The Buzz kill is a small pad you place your cell phone on to cancel out the feedback that causes the annoying noise from speakers (stereo speakers, desk speakers, clock radio speakers, etc).
Our target audience is people who use blackberrys or iphones, so consider maybe 25 – 45 yr old professionals. This is a wide group but often includes office workers, business men and women, travelers, etc.
We are looking for a logo related to how our product works with cell phones to make sure the speakers around them don't emit feedback. Our cell phone accessory is called the Buzz kill, and the logo should be the word: Buzz kill. We would prefer to deemphasize the word kill and focus on the buzz part. We want a nice and unique topography. You can capitalize the first letter or not - you can make it one word or two. The buzz in the name refers to the annoying sound (the buzzing static) and the kill obviously speaks to us eliminating the noise.
We like the logo for Snuggie and the logo for Oxi Clean but don't let that limit your creativity.
Related Keywords: noise, static, speakers, cell phone, buzzing.
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Researchers at MIT and Harvard, it seems, have been putting those big brains to use to create automated origami. It's crazy cool engineering and creepy in a Frankenstein's lab type of way. But can it make a paper crane?
The feat was accomplished by outfitting one thin sheet of fibreglass with motorised switches and flexible electronics, then feeding it an algorithm for folding. The shapes shown above are a simple, traditional boat and plane, but there's nothing keeping the tech from producing more complex results like that crane. Or, more likely, practical designs like a multitool or cups that adjust their size based on the quantity of liquid.
Most of all, I wish this had been commonplace in the early '90s. Would've saved me a lot of trouble in Mr Larson's art class. [ZDNet]


text: The Guitar Hero: Aerosmith demo has launched on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 we're told. The demo includes Sweet Emotion and Dream On by Aerosmith, as well as Walk this Way by Run DMC and I Hate Myself for Loving You by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Say what you will about artist-themed Guitar Hero games, at least you're getting four free songs out of the deal. Update: Seems that the official press release announcing that the demos was a bit premature. Back to playing regular old non-Aerosmith-infused Guitar Hero.


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A Calgary mother is facing charges of negligence and failure to provide the necessities of life in connection with the death of her seven-year-old son, who died of a treatable bacterial infection in March.
According to police, the boy was bedridden for 10 days before his death, however, the mother declined to seek medical treatment, relying instead on homeopathic remedies and herbal medicines.
"It should absolutely serve as a warning to other parents," said Calgary Police Service Staff Sergeant Michael Cavilla. "The message is quite simple: If your child is sick, take them to see a doctor."
Police said they arrested the 44-year-old woman on Friday; charges are pending. She cannot be named until she is formally charged.
According to Sgt. Cavilla, the boy looked poorly before he died and several of the mother's friends had advised her to seek a doctor. In the early morning on the day of his death, she phoned 9-1-1; paramedics arrived to find the child in cardiac arrest. He was later pronounced dead.
It should absolutely serve as a warning to other parents
An autopsy concluded he had a Group A streptococcal infection that could have been treated with penicillin.
The police said they have no medical records for the boy prior to his death. The child had recently been enrolled in a local school. Prior to January of this year, he had been home-schooled.
"We have no direct information that religious beliefs factored into this, but there was a belief system and homeopathic medicine did factor in," Sgt. Cavilla said.
The mother has one older child who does not live with her. She is estranged from the father of the deceased boy.
The family live in an older, squat apartment along the trendy 17th Ave. SW of Calgary, a strip replete with coffee shops and bars. Home to a Tarot card shop and used clothing store, the block is a close-knit community, according to a neighbour and friend of the family.
Jon-David Walmsley said the boy was an outgoing, energetic child who would bring him and his roommate the mail. He was the only child in the building and loved the Incredible Hulk comics, he said.
"We're in each other's business. There's a lot of cookie sharing and bringing down meals and stuff," the friend said, noting the accused was an attentive and well-regarded mother. Everyone was shocked by the boy's death.
"It put a dark cloud over the building," Mr. Walmsley said. "She was a fantastic mom, and I can't believe anybody would say otherwise. It's very surprising."
He was one of the most wonderful little boys
The child's grandfather, a well-known political organizer named Donn Lovett, said he was shocked by the charges. The family has hired a lawyer, Mr. Lovett said, noting there were discrepancies between the police's claims and the medical record he had been provided.
Notably, he said, the child died only four days after falling ill, not 10. Mr. Lovett also said his daughter was a diligent parent.
Oddly, Mr. Lovett said, a friend of his fell ill with the same rare infection at the same time. She survived.
"I had seen [the boy] the week before and I was supposed to see him on the Monday. My daughter said he was in bed with the flu," Mr. Lovett said. "On the Wednesday and Thursday, she sent me a note saying he was feeling better and would probably be going to school tomorrow."
His grandfather also said the boy was a gifted artist, and frequently participated in community art shows.
"[He] was one of the most wonderful little boys you can imagine. I did spend a lot of time with him. I have a baseball that I gave him, which I asked my daughter to give back to me to carry in the car. I speak to him every day. He was full of life."
Tim Caulfield, a scholar and Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, said cases like this are tragic and increasingly common.
"The interest in and demand for complementary and alternative medicine continues to grow. There are many factors driving this trend, including suspicion of conventional medicine and 'Big Pharma.'"
He said this has resulted in an increase in measles outbreaks due to vaccination fears, and the growth in popularity of naturopathic practitioners, who often prescribe ineffective homeopathic remedies.
"Alternative medicine is associated with many risks," he said. Supplements often don't contain what they proclaim on the label and herbal remedies can interact with conventional medicine.
Further, alternative therapies can induce patients to avoid effective, conventional treatments, he added.
"We don't need alternative medicine and conventional medicine. We need science-based medicine. Period," he said.
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I recently made a graphic including the dragon (at the top) that you created. I posted it to the social networking site Tumblr and many have been asking if there will be T-shirts made. I was wondering if you would be OK with this? If you aren't that is totally fine, I won't go ahead with it. I just wanted to ask you first as I don't want to pretend that the image is all mine and I don't want to get sued. I think this is a brilliant piece of artwork.
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Hi Josh, I'm Rafael. I'm like your work a lot and I was wondering if you had anymore sketches or drawings about dragons? I'm planning on getting a tattoo and I want to see if you could help me out? Something similar to the "the girl with the dragon tattoo" pls let me know where I can view more of your work. Contact email@example.com thank you.
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get dished necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 217 diseños de 75 diseñadores freelance.
urban dish
28 year old entrepreneur in Austin, TX. In the developement phase of a new restaurant concept that's going to take the world by storm.
Urban Dish is a fast casual restaurant concept offering a simple, customizable menu for sophisticated tastes that appreciate a modern sustainable approach to traditional food but also place a high priority on time and convenience. Our basic menu provides unique combinations through a build your own (BYO) approach consisting of premium meats, fresh fruits & veggies, and starches at a price point between $8-$11. Our food, service, and modern ambiance provides the perfect experience for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or a quick snack in between.
Urban Dish's primary market consists of 25-35 year old educated young professionals who live, work, and play in urban areas. They are very conscious and deliberate about their eating choices, value quality and convenience, and are willing to pay more for them. They are socially active and self aware. These people, commonly referred to as yuppies, are smart, are up to date on current events as well as the latest celebrity gossip. They rely heavily on social marketing and referrals to make their eating choices.
Urban Dish's competitive advantage is a simple menu that centers on addressing the customer's pain of not being able to find fresh, quality food that is convenient, fast, and inexpensive.
The menu will be a 5 step process. 1-style, 2-protein, 3- 2 sides (veggies/starches), 4-flavor profile, 5-extras. the second part of the menu will include breakfast, snacks, etc.
what i'm looking for is something that exudes the brand and speaks to the customer. something powerfully simple. nothing real busy, easy to read but unique and fun. the vibe in the restaurant will be high energy, sexy, modern, hip, cool, trendy, think pinkberry meets chipotle. i want it to pop but not be distracting. colors need to be shades of grey, lighter greens, orange (sparingly), black, white. Grey and lighter green being the primary colors. NO pictures of food or people. no cartoons. subtle graphics/designs are perfectly fine. no stock photos or clip art. i like looking forward to seeing what people come up with!! i need something in the following formats: jpg, ai, pdf
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The older I get the more stress I seem to have in my life. Between work, education, family, and hobbies there is always something else I should be doing, but simply don't have the time for. The world we live in is increasingly filled with more demands than we could ever possibly meet.
We have amazing new technologies that help make our lives better, but there is little that can be done for how overwhelmed our society has become. With all of the added stress that our lives bring, maybe the only way to really reduce our stress is to realize where it is occurring and then look to reduce it.
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This seems to be the next step in these types of devices. We have been able to monitor various health indicators for quite awhile, but now these devices are also providing solutions to those problems.
For more information about the Bandu, including screenshots and a demo video, you can visit their indiegogo site.
You can also read an interview with the company's founder, Robert Goldberg, at MedGadget.com.