2019.12.06 Fire Drill Fridays, Washington, DC USA 340 60030 (View on Flickr.com)
Photgraphs from today’s Fire Drill Fridays (@FireDrilFriday) are below. This week’s topic was immigrant rights
This is a climate and human rights crisis. Climate migrants routinely face life threatening hardship, discrimination and repression in their search for safety for their families, and often those most vulnerable to changing climate and extreme weather lack the resources to migrate, so remain in harm’s way.See: Mobilize for Climate Justice & Immigrant Rights — Fire Drill Fridays
We are in the midst of a climate emergency. And, as humans inhabiting the same planet we have more in common than not:
2019.12.06 Fire Drill Fridays, Washington, DC USA 340 60018 (View on Flickr.com)2019.12.06 Fire Drill Fridays, Washington, DC USA 340 60016 (View on Flickr.com)2019.12.06 Fire Drill Fridays, Washington, DC USA 340 60036 (View on Flickr.com)
2018.05 Low Carb and Low Carbon – Ted Eytan MD-1001 838 (View on Flickr.com)
This study has been widely shared already, with a significant degree of alarm.
The American Diabetes Association has defined prediabetes as the presence of impaired fasting glucose (IFG; fasting plasma glucose [FPG] concentration between 100 mg/dL to <126 mg/dL; to convert to millimoles per liter, multiply by 0.0555), impaired glucose tolerance (IGT; a 2-hour plasma glucose [2hrPG] concentration after a 75-g oral glucose tolerance test of 140 mg/dL to 199 mg/dL), or glycated hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) levels between 5.7% and 6.4% (to convert to proportion of total hemoglobin, multiply by 0.01).1 In adults, these 3 phenotypes increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes2 as well as cardiovascular diseases. Andes LJ, Cheng YJ, Rolka DB, Gregg EW, Imperatore G. Prevalence of Prediabetes Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2005-2016. JAMA Pediatr [Internet]. 2019 Dec 2 [cited 2019 Dec 4];e194498. Available from: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2755415
This is especially true since prediabetes is too prevalent even in youth and young adults who are normal weight or underweight.
2018.05 Low Carb and Low Carbon – Ted Eytan MD 2-1002 836 (View on Flickr.com)
And it tracks other data that’s as alarming.
2018.05 Low Carb and Low Carbon – Ted Eytan MD 3-1003 837 (View on Flickr.com)
The authors did not offer any reasons why they think this situation exists other than a rise in obesity rates. However, their data does not conclusively establish obesity as the cause.
Here are some additional ideas.
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Should we worry? Yes. Is there a way out? Yes.
A disease that was formerly seen only in old age. A teen with prediabetes -> young adult in a medical system. Many won’t be able to work. Disability & disease instead of family and productivity. Wake up to the hyperinsulinemia model. Reverse this pandemic. #betterfood#fewermedshttps://t.co/3NeK0zRLnj
Andes LJ, Cheng YJ, Rolka DB, Gregg EW, Imperatore G. Prevalence of Prediabetes Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2005-2016. JAMA Pediatr [Internet]. 2019 Dec 2 [cited 2019 Dec 4];e194498. Available from: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2755415
Mokdad AH, Ballestros K, Echko M, Glenn S, Olsen HE, Mullany E, et al. The State of US Health, 1990-2016: Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Among US States. JAMA [Internet]. 2018;319(14):1444–72. Available from: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?doi=10.1001/jama.2018.0158
Cohen E, Cragg M, DeFonseka J, Hite A, Rosenberg M, Zhou B. Statistical review of US macronutrient consumption data, 1965–2011: Americans have been following dietary guidelines, coincident with the rise in obesity. Nutrition [Internet]. 2015 May 1 [cited 2017 Dec 4];31(5):727–32. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25837220
2017.07.02 DC People and Places, Washington, DC USA 7277 (View on Flickr.com)
Thank you for publishing my photograph, @DCPolicyCenter, in this excellent analysis performed by @Shirin_Arslan on the state of hate crimes in Washington, DC.
The stark rises in reported hate crimes in D.C. seen in the last several years have been primarily driven by a rapid increase in the number of crimes reported against LGBTQ groups and communities of color, most noticeably since 2015 (Figure 1). Anti-LGBTQ crimes and race-based hate crimes now make up more than two-thirds of all hate crimes reported in the District of Columbia. Other types of hate crimes include those against political affiliation and religion and disability.Source: Hate Crimes in D.C. – D.C. Policy Center
As the article states, the American Medical Association “…recognizes that hate crimes pose a significant threat to the public health and social welfare of the citizens of the United States”
2019.11.29 Fire Drill Fridays with Jane Fonda, Washington, DC USA 333 115114 (View on Flickr.com)
It’s important, and remarkable, that we’ve arrived to a point in our country where people are getting arrested on the steps of the US Capitol because of fossil fuel use. We couldn’t have imagined this even 10 years ago. Climate change is that urgent.
It was amazing and inspiring to see icon @JaneFonda take a stand in Washington, DC for one of the most important issues of our time, via @firedrillfriday.
2019.11.29 Fire Drill Fridays with Jane Fonda, Washington, DC USA 333 115040 (View on Flickr.com)
This week’s theme was food justice. They tweeted this @cbsnews story (link) about farmers and climate change:
“more farmers need to embrace practices like extended crop rotation, conservation tillage… (and) other agricultural methods including putting livestock back on the land, practicing more rotational grazing, and generating green energy on farms.”Can farmers sow their way out of climate change? – CBS News
A move away from fossil fuels and toward regenerative agriculture are important messages for #HealthyPeopleHealthyPlanet – we can’t have one without the other.
Thanks for enhancing the public’s understanding of this issue.
It’s written regarding this published piece in the magazine from November 15, regarding a study about the health and environmental impact of foods.
I’d like to thank the Economist team for a friendly dialogue about my concerns over email. They explained the process they used to generate the visual, in consultation with the study authors. They published my letter in the interest of the audience forming its own conclusions.
Red meat is about 35 times as damaging to the environment as a bowl of greens, a new study says https://t.co/mPNMO16IiK
A meaty issue * I was dismayed to see your Daily chart on “How much would giving up meat help the environment?” (November 15th). The axes were distorted (from log to linear), and you removed a most concerning datapoint, for sugar-sweetened beverages, from the original that called the paper it referenced into question. The result was that the original figure’s message was distorted to more conveniently serve your headline. This is important, because the environmental impact of health-care use is significant (10% of greenhouse gases in the United States), and food choices that increase health-care use, such as sugary beverages, would mitigate any emissions savings from moving away from unprocessed foods, including meat. The health impact data that the original paper is based on has been largely called into question following the publication of the NutriRECS papers on October 1st. Finally, you did not question the original paper’s use of relative risk measures, versus absolute risk. Relative risk magnifies perceived harms and is often used when the actual increased risk of a behaviour is not as great.
I describe the changes in this graphic. I’d also like to point out that your chart discussion implies that dietary choices are the major determinant of personal emissions. They are not. Transportation and fossil fuel use are far more significant. To support this fact, another study has shown that the elimination of all animal agriculture from the United States would reduce greenhouse gases by 2.6 %, with the resulting widespread malnutrition.
2019.11.23 Low Carb Healthy Fat Pecan Pie, Washington, DC USA 327 62248 (View on Flickr.com)
Recipe time.
This low carbohydrate, healthy fat (#LCHF) pecan pie has
No grains, refined or whole
No added sugar or syrups
No vegatable oils
Which gives it the magical (well, science supported) power of not raising blood glucose or stimulating insulin secretion. I was not wearing a continuous glucose monitor for this particular pie, however previous pies have had this same predictable non-response.
2019.11.23 Low Carb Healthy Fat Pecan Pie, Washington, DC USA 327 25225-2 (View on Flickr.com)
This pie is not vegetarian or vegan, it contains beef gelatin. However, in the link below there is an alternative recipe that uses sugar free maple syrup. I prefer to minimize use of artificial ingredients whenever possible. While the pie is no plant-based, it would be considered grass-based since the plants in it are pre-digested by ruminants.
This was my test pie. I may wear a CGM for pie 2.0 just to confirm. If there are any questions about this, feel free to post in the comments.
2018.03.24 March for Our Lives, Washington, DC USA 00847 (View on Flickr.com)
I was recently contacted by the Orange County Regional History Center in Central Florida (@HistoryCenterFL) about donating photographs I’ve taken of memorials for the 49 people who were murdered while living their lives at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub on June 12, 2016.
The scene in the photograph at the top of this post, produce by Gays Against Guns (@GaGnoguns) at the March for our Lives in 2018 was especially emotionally confrontational and saddening.
The Deed of Gift
Description of Gift: The gift includes 194 digital photographs taken in Washington DC at Vigils held in remembrance of the Pulse nightclub shooting. The photographs were taken in 2016 and 2018 and include photographs from the 2018 March for our Lives event in Washington DC organized by Gays against Guns.
In the deed, there is a space to indicate what the gift is in memory of. I wrote “In honor of a 🌎 learning to ❤️ better.”
The second museum with my photographs in their collection
As I wrote previously, when I went to visit ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at University of Southern California (@OneArchives), the largest of its kind in the world, archivist Erik Adamian said something to me as he showed me Pat Rocco’s photographs from LGBTQ protests in the 1960’s. He said,
“He (photographer Pat Rocco) did what you do today.”Erik Adamian, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at University of Southern California
2019.11.16 Capital Pride Alliance Retreat, Washington, DC USA 320 94103 (View on Flickr.com)
…I use it to support Washington, DC’s Capital Pride (@CapitalPrideDC) and Capital TransPride (@DCTransPride365) in sharing images of the human spirit to a global audience.
In our nation’s capital, we work to celebrate LGBTQ Pride 365 days a year. There’s no limit on human potential when people exist as their authentic selves, in control of their own health and life destiny.
This is what the images show. There will be many more coming, for years and years… ✌️🏳️🌈😀❤️
2019.11.16 Capital Pride Alliance Retreat, Washington, DC USA 320 94024 (View on Flickr.com)2019.06.09 Capital Pride Festival and Concert, Washington, DC USA 1600256 (View on Flickr.com)2019.06.09 Capital Pride Festival and Concert, Washington, DC USA 1600056 (View on Flickr.com)
For some of the people in the room with us, it was their last.
We came to remember the people who laid down their lives so we could exist.
We also come to reassure those who have been told by the 🌎 that they are not amazing that they’ve been lied to.
2019.11.20 Transgender Day of Remembrance, Washington, DC USA 324 28205 (View on Flickr.com)2019.11.20 Transgender Day of Remembrance, Washington, DC USA 324 28221 (View on Flickr.com)
Therefore, “retirement” = leaving in the happiest, so glad I could serve kind of way. This is not retiring from the workforce, just one workforce …
I’m going to do something new because I can. I love change, continuous learning and unlearning, and being a part of and capturing the human spirit wherever I go:
My last retirement post was written when I began working for Kaiser Permanente (specifically, The Permanente Federation) in Washington, DC. It’s been a great several years. This is a fantastic organization and its members, nurses, doctors, and staff deserve the best. I will always support it and them.
I learned a ton* and affirmed every day that the 🥛 is 3/4 full 😀.
* For people interested in specifics: implementation and operation of digital grass roots systems, Salesforce Sales Cloud and Service Cloud, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop finally!), enterprise digital engagement, social media communication, reporting and analytics, and business intelligence. Inquire for more…
