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Category: health & fitness
Live Long And Prosper
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a type of obstructive lung disease characterized by long term poor airflow. The main symptoms include shortness of breath and cough with sputum production. …
Tobacco smoking is the most common cause of COPD, with a number of other factors such as air pollution and genetics playing a smaller role. …
Leonard Nimoy died of complications from COPD on February 27, 2015, at the age of 83. He’d quit smoking 30 years earlier, but still suffered from the self-inflicted wound of cigarette addiction.
Near the end he wished his story might help reduce the number of COPD cases each year. It’s the third leading cause of death in the United States.
More than 3 million people died of COPD in 2012, which is equal to 6% of all deaths globally that year.
NIMOY’S COPD DOCTOR DISCUSSES STAR’S FINAL WISH
indiegogo – COPD: Highly Illogical-A Tribute to Leonard Nimoy
via Rob Sawyer
harvesting clean water from fog
Clean water is the world’s immediate need. Education of girls and women the long term priority.
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The research paper.
via Hashem Al-Ghaili
why I don’t like Chile
Chile is 2600 miles long and never more than 110 miles wide. From the main north/south highway it’s easy access to fantastic wilderness.
Chile should be a tourist destination as good as New Zealand.
But it’s not. 😦
I’ve spent about 2 months total in Chile traveling most of the 2600 miles. Costs are similar to Canada … but quality of goods and services are poor by comparison.
If you find something of quality – Casa Azul hostel, for example – chances are it’s run by a foreigner. Probably German.
Most of the expats I met in Chile were frustrated by Chilean society.
People on the trail are good. But I’m not much impressed with the interactions I have with Chileans in the towns and cities.
A currency exchange guy tried to give me only half my money one time. (I’ve seen scummy practice like this in Italy recently, too.)
The World Health Organisation (2013) says over 40% of Chileans smoke, compared with 27% of Argentines and 17% of people in Brazil, where curbs on smoking began in the late 1990s. Chile’s health minister, Jaime Mañalich, says that treating tobacco victims takes a quarter of the $10 billion public health-care budget.
Chile’s smokers are getting younger. According to the Tobacco Atlas, a study of the industry, nearly 40% of girls aged 13-15 in Santiago, Chile’s capital, smoke cigarettes. That is up from just 20% in 2003, and is the highest rate in the world. …
The population looks unhealthy. Walking the streets reminds me of walking in Mexico. A very high percentage of people are conspicuously overweight. This is new to these nations.
Chile ranks 23 on a 2007 list of fattest countries with a percentage of 65.3% of its citizens with an unhealthy weight …
The diet is poor, I think. They still love hotdogs in Chile.
It’s a land that still (mostly) drinks instant coffee.
Internet access is slow Or non-existant. This is a land without enough competition between corporations.
The best reasons to visit Chile are outdoors adventure. And wine.
Otherwise, there are plenty of better destinations for the foreign tourist. I like southern Spain much better, for example.
I liked Chile better my 2004 visit.
related – Travels in a Thin Country: A Journey Through Chile (1999) by Sara Wheeler
pedal 1 hour, electricity for 24 hours
Pollution free energy. 🙂
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Billions in Change is a movement to save the world by creating and implementing solutions to the most basic global problems – water, energy and health. Doing so will raise billions of people out of poverty and improve the lives of everyone – rich and poor.
That’s the mission of founder philanthropist Manoj Bhargava, born in India, educated in the U.S.
Bhargava has committed to giving away 99% of his $4 billion dollar net worth and signed the well-known Giving Pledge in 2012.
Thanks to Doug Davis for the link.
snow FUN north Idaho
Farragut State Park.
Dave, Jeni and I did some virgin powder off-trail snowshoeing. 🙂
New Years 10km run
Good turn out at Adlard’s party the last night of 2015 – about 32 people and 2 dogs.
New Years day 10am tradition. The hung over first run of the year.
For the first time I actually trained for this. It did me no good. I ran about the same as usual – 1 hour.
running Top Bridge park, B.C.
With a 10km run coming up January 1st, I’ve been running a lot of late.
Wet. But good fun. 🙂
running in winter
I’ve been bundling up, running in the snow every day. Gots that New Years Day 10km coming up. 🙂
stop logging the Ghost watershed
I signed a Change.org page:
Petitioning Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, Honourable and 2 others
Call for an immediate moratorium on logging in the Ghost Watershed.
Anna Glaser’s family has a vacation home in the Ghost. Spray Lake Sawmills wants to cut down as many trees as possible. Spray Lake Sawmills is the bad guy. 😦
Here’s Anna’s take on the situation – Ghost Stories
Here are Anna’s family and friends of the Ghost protesting.
Rick McCharles 