Link posted without further comment. A must read article.
Duration of Diabetes Raises Stroke Risk
Diabetes at baseline and duration of diabetes both significantly increased the risk of an ischemic stroke, according to a longitudinal study. Having diabetes for 10 years or more tripled the risk of an ischemic stroke in this racially and ethnically diverse population.
via Medical News:Duration of Diabetes Raises Stroke Risk – in Cardiovascular, Strokes from MedPage Today.
Where do Gorillas Get Their Protein?
Where do Gorillas Get Their Protein?.
I love this website and blog.
Sagicor Life Acquiring PEMCO’s Life Insurance Business
Sagicor Life Insurance Co. has an agreement to buy the policies and clients of PEMCO Life Insurance Co. from its parent company in Washington State as the latter firm exists the life insurance market.
Tampa-based Sagicor is buying about 10,000 term and whole life policies, along with about 7,500 clients, from PEMCO Mutual Insurance Co., a Washington State-based company.
MIB Life Index January 2012 +8.3%
Life Index | MIB Solutions, Inc. | The Industry’s Timeliest Measure of Application Activity.
This is encouraging news.
Latin America: Where the world’s jobs are
Latin America: Where the world’s jobs are – CSMonitor.com.
So far, 200 entrepreneurs from 30 different countries have traveled to Chile to try to get their ideas off the ground through Start-Up Chile. The program aims to fund 1,000 entrepreneurs by 2014, and not only benefits the grantees – 80 percent of whom are foreigners – but is a boon to Chile, too, says spokeswoman Brenna Loury.
Interesting little article that offers minimal facts to back up the author’s assertion in the title. How does 200 entrepreneurs equal “where the world’s jobs are”?
No Age Limit on Benefits of Eating Well
Older people who eat properly are likely to live longer.
That’s the implication of a study looking at mortality and eating habits among a cohort of nearly 4,000 people 65 and older, according to Luis Afonso, MD, of Wayne State University in Detroit, and colleagues.
After an average follow-up of 13 years, participants with a good diet had lower rates of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, compared with those who had a poor diet, Afonso and colleagues reported in the Feb. 13 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
I’ll take fries with that.
Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – January 2012
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 9 January 2012.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 16 January 2012.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 23 January 2012.
BMJ Group blogs: BMJ » Blog Archive » Richard Lehman’s journal review – 30 January 2012.
A Harrison Barnes – Do What You Want To Do, Not What You Think You Should Do
If you have a job or are pursuing a certain career primarily because you think you should, or because others think you should, you are making a huge mistake. You need to understand that if you keep doing this, you are never going to be truly happy. You need to be living the life and having the career that makes you happy. The voices that you hear inside yourself, which tell you to pursue a certain profession or be a certain thing, are often not your own voice. They are the voices of your parents; they are the voices of your peers in school; they are the voices of the people you associate with at work.
Why do you do what you do? Easy question but sometimes you may not like the answer.
More Intelligent Life – Thought for Today 01.27.12
Advice to people at the beginning of their careers: do not imagine that you have to know everything before you can do anything. My own best work was done when I was most ignorant. Grab every opportunity to take responsibility and do things for which you are unqualified.
Advice to people at the middle of their careers: do not be afraid to switch careers and try something new. As my friend the physicist Leo Szilard said (number nine in his list of ten commandments): “Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.”
via THE 60-YEAR JOB: FREEMAN DYSON | More Intelligent Life.
I really wanted to post this when I first read the article. But I was in Chicago, sitting in a Cosi, working on a laptop that should have been replaced five years ago. I didn’t have my usual software tools, but I digress. I loved this advice and I know you’ll love it too.
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