Hello southern neighbors
Happy Independents Day from Sask. Canada…
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Hope everyone’s forth of July was fun.
Cheers.
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Had a drought last summer that was hard on the trees. a lot of big old trees coming out of the ground with it this soft and windy. Gardens are all flooded to death. Making good hay, but everyone’s having trouble getting in the fields. Fruits are not very sweet either. berries and tomatoes lacking flavor. Dilution I guess. But haven’t heard of any bridge problems or tunnels collapsing. Our red clay is a pretty stable kind of earth.
My 4th was happy because we didn’t have a call out for a drowning or a fire.
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I’m bored and sick so I did some research on this guy’s claim that doctors die much younger than everyone else. Personally, I don’t think doctors tend to know as much as they want you to believe they know, but this claim seems invalid.
According to all the actual numbers I could find: white American doctors live to be 72-73 and black American doctors live to be about 69 years old. Basically just like everyone else in American society. Perhaps slightly higher than the average because doctors tend to have a higher IQ than average society. Theoretically, this gives them a slightly better chance of living longer on average…Maybe also due to the fact that they don’t do as much dangerous manual labor as the average person. I don’t know about all that.
I don’t know where this guy gets his numbers. He offers no source as far as I could hear.
Several people site the audio tape “Dead doctors don’t lie” as the source of the 58 year life expectancy statistic,.
The AMA offers the stats of 73 and 69 respectively.
Too many doctors are specialists nowadays. You know the definition of specialist is people who know more and more about less and less - pretty soon they know everything about nothing.
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Mr Don, that´s funny 
Myself I´m no specialist in a paritcular field - but on the other hand I´m pretty useless in several.
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Billy,
On the way to work this morning I heard that the US has the highest mortality rate for mothers dying in childbirth for any developed nation. On Monday I saw a chart showing our healthcare costs way higher than other developed nations with our life expectancy way down in the list of developed nations just above Turkey. BTW, I love Don’s specialist comment which reminds me of another that applies when I try to quantify , “Figures lie and liars figure.”
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Well at least you don’t have to water the grass Wayne. It’s so dry here in Wenatchee, Washington they have had a fire burn ban on since June 1st. Don’t expect it to be released until October. We would like 10% of what you all are getting right now.
Bob
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Hello Mr. Bob .
I was forced in the house from a thunder storm as we speak 
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I think you mean Figures don’t lie but liars can figure.
Au contraire, numbers often obscure reality. Statistical obfuscation is a highly refined form of prevarication. 
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More fake news, sad… Oh, just kidding. 
Here is more data inline with yours
But check out the P Values for Accident and Emergency doctors and their age of death. Of course right above is a low P Value at age 72. But check out the other P Values. Of course I could have my null hypothesis backwards…
But getting back to water and a pinch of sea salt. No synthetic iodine in sea salt but natural iodine in dandelions. I watched a tv show that said all water started out as fresh water but as time chugged along the rains washed minerals/salts into the oceans and made salt water. So sea salt has trace minerals in it. Table salt did but it gets processed, bleached and chemicals added to it. But that could be fake news. I’m sure both sides has it’s share of fake news
I prefer mined salt myself. Sea salt concerns me because so many areas that traditionally process it are located in really polluted areas. Over refined is an issue but raw mined salt is out there. A quick search of said video with the word “REVIEW” or accuracy does not have much good to say about the “doctor” in question. They always talk about doctors being money driven but the critics make fortunes shlocking books seminars treatments but are somehow pure…
Crazy world…
Only advice I listen to is Michael Polan’s 3 rules eat (real) food, not too much, mostly plants.
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I liked one thing he said, at least as it pertains to food. He said if we didn’t have it a hundred years ago we don’t need it now. I can’t take it that far within the realm of medicine and tech but I think it would probably be a healthy way to eat----to not eat anything we didn’t have 100 years ago Would do away with all kinds of preservatives, engineered foods, etc…But then, not everything they had 100 years ago was healthy either…
Besides I like Michael Polan’s rules but I also like Dr. Pepper and cheese whiz…what a conundrum.
I have been battling low thyroid hormone for a long time. I would like to get better acquainted with the real facts on the iodine/sea salt question. We use sea salt for that reason, but maybe I should get mined salt. Does it have more iodine?
Bruce, I agree it’s a real problem. How to fix it is the real question. Suffice it to say that none of us has any easy answers. It used to be that those numbers were blamed on the immigrant population. But now it has become clear that that isn’t the cause. Diminishing educational levels, loss of middle class, how many reasons can we add up? We need one of those easy buttons like on that commercial years ago…
Don , Excellent quote
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I think the iodine has to be added to the salt but dandelions has it.
Correct iodide is added to salt. In the past people got a relatively predictable amount of salt so it was an easy carrier to make sure everyone got the correct amount.
As to mineral salt or sea salt it was all sea salt at one time. If you look into geographic history of places where they mine salt you find an inland sea that dried up millions of years ago. You can see this process with the Dead Sea. So it is a question of if you want to eat today’s sea or one from a million years ago.
I do agree that modern water pollution makes digging up from a million years ago seems cleaner.
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Closest I’ve been to a fireworks display. Short but sweet. Enjoy!
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They seem to be homemade 3" shells are they not? If so, the are well made. The dragonegg (cracking stars) are quite a challange for a diy making…
Nice fireworks chris, thats better than the ones my newbers shoot up, not very many this year it seemed.That last set rocked quik.
Not homemade, 2" I think. Good quality fireworks are reasonably cheap here. Still I save a lot more, by watching other folks light their money on fire…
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