Spring Training has now started and the St.Louis Cardinals have finally reported to Jupiter Florida,the big story coming from the Cardinals camp is about right handed ace Chris Carpenter still being hurt from last season even after having surgery on his shoulder.
Chris Carpenter orginally went down about this time last year with numbness in his whole throwing arm.Three weeks after he discovered his injury Chris had surgery to repair a tendon in his shoulder and eventually was able to pitch in six games of the 2012 season and five games in the playoffs against the Nationals and the Giants.
Chris said in an interview a couple of days ago "I am not ruling anything out,i still might pitch this season." Carp was also said to be contiplating retirement but he cleared those rumors up by saying "I dont think i will ever say those words, I wont ever quit."Carp has infuenced many players in the Cardinals organization including Adam Wainwright and Shelby Miller and now theyre careers are starting to thrive.He will be missed as a teammate during his recovery.
Chris Carpenter is the fiercest competitor the MLB as seen in a long time and many players from other teams were sad to hear about a great players injury for the second year in a row.His performances in the playoff will forever be remembered and if he can not come back from his injury he will be a hall of famer down the road.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
cc #3 diet soda
An article published on Friday, February 8, 2013, by Lylah
M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine/Healthy Living, confirmed results from a study
done by French researchers, linking diet soda to increased risk of Type 2
Diabetes. This article by Alphonse was written as part of a series over the
past year stating claims by various research groups about the ill effects of
consuming diet soda.
Dr. Honglei Chen, a study author from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, stated that artificially "sweetened beverages...have important physical and mental health consequences." Dr. Chen's study, along with another study, performed by the Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, have stated that consumption of artificially sweetened beverages is contributory to conditions such as depression and weight gain rather than weight loss.
The current French study to be published in the American Journal of clinical nutrition was done by France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The study covered "66,118 middle aged women whose dietary habits were tracked from 1993-2007." The study showed that people who drank light or diet soda's were at higher risk for Type 2 Diabetes than those who drank regular soda's. Epidemiologists Francoise Clavel-Chapelon and Guy Fagherzzi, stated that "Women who drank about 12 ounces of artificially sweetened beverages per week were 33 percent more likely to develop the disease..." Although these drinks have no calories or sugar, they are found to increase sugar cravings in consumers, causing them to eat more sugar containing foods. Also, Aspartame, among other artificial sweeteners, causes a rise in blood sugar just like regular sugar.
The American Diabetes Association states that "About 25.8 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes...about 8.3 percent of our population." Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in people 20 and older; and causes heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and nerve damage. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes in the United States.
In conclusion, I have learned that this disease is highly controllable by each individual. If we are careful about what we consume, our weight and our overall health, we can completely avoid this type of diabetes. Education regarding this disease is essential to the population of the United States as well as the world itself.
Dr. Honglei Chen, a study author from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, stated that artificially "sweetened beverages...have important physical and mental health consequences." Dr. Chen's study, along with another study, performed by the Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, have stated that consumption of artificially sweetened beverages is contributory to conditions such as depression and weight gain rather than weight loss.
The current French study to be published in the American Journal of clinical nutrition was done by France's National Institute of Health and Medical Research. The study covered "66,118 middle aged women whose dietary habits were tracked from 1993-2007." The study showed that people who drank light or diet soda's were at higher risk for Type 2 Diabetes than those who drank regular soda's. Epidemiologists Francoise Clavel-Chapelon and Guy Fagherzzi, stated that "Women who drank about 12 ounces of artificially sweetened beverages per week were 33 percent more likely to develop the disease..." Although these drinks have no calories or sugar, they are found to increase sugar cravings in consumers, causing them to eat more sugar containing foods. Also, Aspartame, among other artificial sweeteners, causes a rise in blood sugar just like regular sugar.
The American Diabetes Association states that "About 25.8 million children and adults in the United States have diabetes...about 8.3 percent of our population." Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in people 20 and older; and causes heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure, kidney disease, and nerve damage. Type 2 diabetes is the most common type of diabetes in the United States.
In conclusion, I have learned that this disease is highly controllable by each individual. If we are careful about what we consume, our weight and our overall health, we can completely avoid this type of diabetes. Education regarding this disease is essential to the population of the United States as well as the world itself.
Monday, February 4, 2013
book review:Flags Of Our Fathers
In this unforgettable chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima.
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag.
the men that rose the flag and that are in the famous picture are: Harlon Block,Ira Hayes,Rene Gagnon,Frank Sousley, and John Bradley. This story is about these six men and the struggles they had on the 35 day battle on Iwo Jima
Now the son of one of the flag raisers has written a powerful account of six very different men who came together in a moment that will live forever.
To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of his Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island--an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man.
the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo--three were killed during the battle--were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: "The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back."
Few books have ever captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.I would recommend this book to anyone that likes storys about war and to people do not generally care for war stories because it is a powerful story of the effects after the battle.
In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima--and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag.
the men that rose the flag and that are in the famous picture are: Harlon Block,Ira Hayes,Rene Gagnon,Frank Sousley, and John Bradley. This story is about these six men and the struggles they had on the 35 day battle on Iwo Jima
Now the son of one of the flag raisers has written a powerful account of six very different men who came together in a moment that will live forever.
To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of his Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island--an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man.
the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo--three were killed during the battle--were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: "The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back."
Few books have ever captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war.I would recommend this book to anyone that likes storys about war and to people do not generally care for war stories because it is a powerful story of the effects after the battle.
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