Archive for October, 2008

Oct-31-2008

What to do about jet lag?

For some, flying is a routine. No matter how much security we have to go through to get on the plane, it’s still quicker than all the other land-based systems of transport. For others, it’s an adventure. We have saved our dollars and now we get our reward – a flight to the holiday destination we have been dreaming about for months. Except that, the further we fly, the worse the effects on our bodies. Some flights are nicked-named, the “red-eye” flights because of their timing. When they land, the people leaving the plane look and act like the cast out of Night of the Living Dead and shamble through the rest of the day like zombies. When the flights take us across different time zones, the effects can be just as devastating. One of the reasons for this is sleep (or the lack of it). Our bodies have natural circadian rhythms. We have a body clock that automatically tells us when to eat, to sleep and so on. If something disrupts that daily cycle, all the body’s processes are disrupted. A theory has recently taken hold that the body clock can be reset by using ambien. The idea is a simple one. If you are going to fly forward or back twelve hours, you will be expected to function at full alertness at a time your body clock tells you it’s night. Without intervention, your body’s temperature will drop slightly, your metabolism will slow and you will feel tired. But let’s say you take ambien on the plane. Now you sleep out of synch with your old time frame, but in the right frame for your destination. This is thought to be taking the first step to resetting the clock. In fact, there have been many confirmed stories in the media of sportsmen and women using ambien to get themselves to sleep so they match the local time zones. Some physicians can be persuaded to prescribe ambien for this purpose or you can just buy the ambienonline as you need it for your travel. However, although everyone agrees that it’s the most effective drug to combat insomnia generally, its use for this purpose is more controversial. Forcing the body to sleep is not the same as getting good quality sleep when your body is expecting it. Merely making you perform the activity of sleeping at the local time, is not resetting the clock that regulates your metabolism. Most informed physicians prefer people to live through the change and adjust naturally.

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Oct-31-2008

Those mice are helping out again

When it comes to sickness and disease, most of us have grown used to accepting what life brings us. We are all equally at risk. Viruses and bacteria don’t care. They attack the weak and the vulnerable or the just plain unlucky. But those born with a genetic or hereditary condition deserve our special sympathy. This is always particularly unfair. They are born with a limited number of years to live or with a permanent disability. They never have the chance of an “ordinary” life. So it is with muscular dystrophy, an unfortunate condition where muscles waste away, limiting mobility, affecting balance and eventually removing the ability to walk. People who have this condition tire rapidly, even when the activity level is actually very low. This rapid loss of energy has always been considered odd. We can all intuitively understand that people whose muscles are wasting away will get tired quickly, but not so tired after so little exercise. At first, scientists believed the cause of this fatigue to be overproduction of an enzyme called creatine kinase. However, the most recent research suggests an alternative – that there is a loss of an enzyme called neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS). This prompted the researchers to turn to an unlikely medication for treatment – viagra. As you know, viagra works by allowing the smooth muscles in arteries to dilate. The research team has bred lab mice with muscular dystrophy (scientists are really clever in a macabre kind of way). They examined the blood vessels before and, after light exercise, found the vessels had constricted, reducing the flow of oxygenated blood. But when these mice were given viagra, they were able to exercise without tiring. Preliminary testing in human volunteers shows that they too lack nNOS. The hope is that treatment with viagra as an already approved drug will allow people with muscular dystrophy to move around with getting so tired. However, the fact that this treatment works in mice is no guarantee that it will work in humans. The further difficulty is that if humans are able to exercise more, this may accelerate the breakdown in the muscle cell structure. There needs to be considerable testing before this treatment can be approved. But it does at least offer the chance that the lives of these people can be improved while we wait for gene splicing therapy to come along in the future. So thats an exciting reason to buy viagra online.

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Oct-31-2008

Can anyone recommend a someone that can write a grant?

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We have been searching for someone who is capable of writing a grant in the least bit of time.

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Oct-29-2008

Where should I start if I am interested in learning how to write grants?

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Oct-29-2008

Make a mental note – the FDA is looking out for you

You don’t have to worry. The FDA does not think you are coming and need someone to guide you over the last few steps, or lost and need finding. Rather, they have your interests at heart. This may strike you as a slightly revolutionary idea. The FDA more usually seems to be looking out for the pharmaceutical manufacturers. But, in this instance, the FDA has had reports of a problem that could affect a few men and they felt it sufficiently serious to hurry out a new form of words to warn all men of this “new” risk. So, if you are one of the many who now buy viagra online, this warning might pass you by. Many of the online pharmacies are based outside the US and do not include FDA approved notes inside the packaging. This website for responsible online pharmacies brings you this warning. It’s all part of the service. The FDA has a general system in place to collect reports of adverse side effects to all drugs on its approved list. Under normal circumstances, men can and do take viagra without any problems. If there are side effects, they are barely noticeable and pass almost before you are aware of them. But, in a very small number of cases, men have been reporting a loss of memory. To make the condition sound medically impressive, it has been called Transient Global Amnesia (TGA). It could not easier to describe. Some men take the recommended dose of viagra. They appear to be perfectly normal and usually perform well in bed. However, after an hour or so, their short-term memories are affected. They begin to forget some, and then all, of what has happened over the last few hours. There does not appear to be any other physical problem. It is a simple memory wipe of a few hours of time. There is no clear understanding of how this might be caused nor why evidence of it should only now be surfacing. Viagra has been on the market for some ten years now. It has been used by millions of men around the world and there is no general word-of-mouth on amnesia. However, the FDA is sufficiently concerned that it has directed the manufacturer to include a warning. Quite what you are supposed to do if you find yourself forgetting stuff is not clear, but at least you should remember you were warned.

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Oct-29-2008

There was something important I had to tell you

I know it was important because I tied this knot. I always tie a knot when I need to remind myself to remember something. I know it has something to do with generic viagra but it’s not the obvious – that there is no difference between the generic and the branded viagra. They are bioequivalent. Everyone knows that. Even though the generic sometimes comes as a slightly different shade of blue (or not even blue at all), all pills for the treatment of erectile dysfunction supplied through reputable online pharmacies have the same effect. Wait, it’s starting to come back to me now. There is a difference. When you buy the branded tablet from your local drugstore, you are guaranteed to get the written set of directions approved by the FDA. When you buy through the internet, there may be instructions, but they need not contain all the information required by the FDA. Right. We’re on a roll now. Those wonderful scientist types working at the FDA have been getting all worried about Transient Global Amnesia (TGA). Now, here’s the thing. A tiny percentage of people who take viagra find they can’t remember everything that happens in the hours following. So you might take the tablet in the restaurant and wake up the next morning not being able to remember the drive home (or anything else for that matter). This could be dangerous to your health if you can’t remember what you said to your partner at a critical moment during the evening (or how your car came to have that bent fender). So, the next time you read all the small print in those helpful instructions (something you do all the time when you have nothing better to do), you’re going to see a new warning about TGA. It’s going to be very reassuring and the FDA will be right. Only a very small number of people who take viagra, whether branded or generic, will experience this forgetfulness. And quite what you’re supposed to remember to do when you find yourself forgetting is unclear. But, assuming you remember you forgot something, it’s called TGA and it’s nothing to worry about. Just remember to take a lower dosage tablet next time and all will be fine.

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Oct-29-2008

Stop that spam! Stamp it out!

Have you noticed that most of the spam that fills up your inboxes seems to be related to sexual performance? It starts with the simple and traditional, “Buy cheap viagra online.” and then slowly grows into the more extraordinary ways in which men may apparently impress a woman. Let’s not deny that size is an important factor, but even if it was possible to realize some of these promises on the part of the man, you really do have to question whether the women would swoon in anticipation or run screaming from the room. Anyway, no matter whether men ever do need something more than simple viagra (which is often available cheaply through sites like this), there’s no denying that spam is an annoying problem. It seems you can tweak the filter as often as you like, these clever marketers tweak right back with new ways to get the mail through. Worse, there’s so much of it flowing through the internet at any one time that it seriously slows the operation of the whole system. So governments have been passing laws to outlaw spam. Like that’s ever going to deter people. When almost all the major spam operations cross national boundaries, the laws of any one state are of little interest to the big businesses behind the use of email to sell product. But October 14 goes down as a brave gesture by the US authorities to do something about the problem. Armed with warrants and restraining orders, the Federal Trade Commission closed down a number of sites thought to be critical to the spam network. Unfortunately, it turned out that the spammers had a back-up plan and their operations were almost completely unaffected. It’s such a shame that the Commission decided to hold press conferences to sell the story of their success. In fact, all it did was to demonstrate the difficulty that every government has when trying to act against an international group with multiple servers in different countries. So the spam for cheap viagra continues to drop into inboxes around the world. Perhaps the governments should promote legitimate websites like this as a reliable source of viagra. That way, they will drive the spammers out of business.

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Oct-29-2008

How does a fiction writer go about applying for writing grants?

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I would like to apply for grants to get better equipment and lessen my financial worries so that I can spend more time writing, in the hopes of publishing long-form work in the next year. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Oct-28-2008

I need to learn how to write grants free. I don’t have the funds to get an expensive program, HELP ME PLEASE!!

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I WOULD LIKE TO START A NOT-FOR-PROFIT HALFWAY HOUSE FOR RELEASED EX-INMATES AND ANYONE ELSE THAT IS DOWN ON THEIR LUCK. I THINK WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE. I’M NOT LOOKING FOR A HANDOUT JUST A HELPING HAND SO I CAN HELP OTHERS.

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Oct-24-2008

Is weight loss ever easy?

Have you noticed how many people complain these days? Walk round a supermarket, any large store or go into a restaurant and the odds are you will find someone making a complaint. When you can’t help but overhear what is being said, these people tend to be playing the blame game. Something has gone wrong. It’s someone else’s fault. These others should do something to make the complainer feel better. Many times, of course, the complaints are genuine. The toaster went up in flames or the dress proved transparent when soaked in a rain storm. But, some of the time, the complainer is trying to pass responsibility and find someone to blame for their own failings. Take people trying to lose weight as an example. Some blame the lack support from their families, or say they have bad genes. Some lack the will power – they are too weak ever to carry through on a tough diet. Actually, if people do take responsibility for their diet and exercise, they usually lose weight. When good eating habits and physical exercise are combined with acomplia, clinical trials show people lose an average of 10% of their body weight and keep it off for at least a year. All that is required is that people treat weight loss like a broken leg. If you broke your leg, you would go to hospital and have the bones set. A plaster cast and painkillers would follow. Then after a little physical therapy, you would be walking normally again a month or so later. When you are aware of a problem, you take action and get it fixed. Anyone who wants to change their diet can do so. It’s easy to just eat less. Creating excuses for yourself is letting yourself off the hook. You lack the motivation but don’t want to admit it either to yourself or others (particularly those close to you). So instead of blaming others because things didn’t turn out the way you hoped, find good reasons for sticking to the diet, eating less and exercising more. For the fastest results, use acomplia and watch those pounds drop. It’s not going to be easy all the time. You’re going to be tempted from time to time. So long as it’s only a temporary relapse into bad habits, you will keep on losing weight. The more honest you are with yourself, the better. In fact, you should start to listen to yourself more. If you catch yourself inventing excuses for not following the diet, call yourself on it. If you find yourself rationalizing not going down to the gym, complain about your own laziness. Taking responsibility for reducing your own weight is the first and single most important step to take to slimness.

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