Skip to main content

WHAT TO EAT, DRINK AND BREATHE

From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

          DAY  USA  WORLD    Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82
July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572
Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130
Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82
Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85
Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118
Dec    30       3880    14748       1224       299      465
Jan     14        4142    15512        1151         189      712
Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398
Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194
April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37
May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59 
June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95
 July    7         251      8440        1595        817      411
Aug     4         656    10120        1118         532      423 
Sept   22      2228      9326          839       279     124
Oct      6       2102      8255          543       315       59
Nov    3        1436      7830         186        458       23
Dec     1       1633      8475          266        477       28
Jan     7        2025      6729         148         285     140
Feb     2        2990   12012          946        991      175
Mar     2        1778     7756          335         173       28 
Apr     1          439      4056         290          52       12
May    5          225      2404          151            ?       64 
         11           226      1538           121          24       50 
         12          222      1995           136           9       21

Summary:
  • The latest Omicron subvariant is getting to be a big problem, for new cases are here and there, like in the USA, increasing.
    • However, the deaths/day are not going up because more and more people are getting vaccinated and boosted.  Those who die are mostly the unvaccinated, and this number is slowly dropping.  Those who previously contracted this virus are not invulnerable to a second infection, but they usually only experience mild symptoms.  The concern, thus, are those that become long haulers.  This figure is still a guess, but might be as high as 30%.
  • New cases/day.
    • The U.S. was back to being #1 in new cases yesterday with 85,830.  The new cases per million population was 257.  Others were (with new cases/million in parentheses):
    • #2  Germany  82,652 (980)
    • #3  Taiwan  65,435 (2738)
    • #4  Australia  57,646 (2217)
    • #5  Japan  45,740 (363)
    • #6  Italy  39,839 (661)
    • #7  France  36,047 (550)
    • #8  South Korea  35,883 (698)
    • #9  NORTH KOREA  18,000 (698)
    • #10  Finland  16,973 (3031)
    • French Guiana  925 (3083)
    • World  600,019 (76)
  • Of course the total number of new cases is important, but the more revealing number is new cases per million population, for this figure indicates the intensity of the contagion in that country.  The two lowest numbers above are from the World and USA.
  • The country to watch is North Korea.  
    • It is only coincidental that the new cases/million for North and South Korea are identical.  Clearly, the condition in the North is much more severe, and in time will probably be something like five times higher, placing that country already among the worst in the world.
    • Almost no vaccinations.
    • Health care is poor.  
    • People are malnourished.
    • Notice above that those countries showing the highest intensity of new cases are the ones which were not effected much in the earlier waves.  This is the first time North Korea even mentions COVID.
    • From unreliable reports, since only April, 350,000 people reported symptoms like fever, which almost surely is being caused by some Omicron variant, as not much testing is available.
    • Chances are some high percentage of citizens are asymptomatic.
    • Only six have died, but take this with a pound of salt. 
    • I would imagine that the South (with U.S. help) is offering to send aid to remediate this outbreak.  That could promote long term peace.
Ah, this is a beautiful Friday in Hawaii, even though the day is May 13.  Above is my view from where this posting is being created.  Today, I'll take it easy by featuring useful graphic info people send me.  I'll start with why some of you are fat.
What should you eat?
Onions also are good for your health.
Don't drink what I drink.  I've lately been featuring scotches and tequila.  Not good for our health.  Teas are recommended instead.
Your food could be acidic, neutral or alkaline.  Hair growth is promoted with pH above 7, or alkaline items.

  • Sugar.
  • Meat.
  • Drinks, including alcohol, black tea, coffee and soda drinks.
  • Dairy products, like milk and cheese.
  • I can't imagine too many people minimizing these just for the sake of your hair.
Supposedly:
While embarrassing, yes, farting is good for your health.  
  • The average person farts from 14 to 23 times/day.
  • A diet low in fiber and high in carbohydrates actually produce less gas.  But fiber is especially recommended by all diets these days.
  • 99% of fart is made up of odorless gases.
  • The rest is mostly hydrogen sulfide (H2S), which smells like rotting eggs or a geothermal field.
  • Want to learn how to fart?  Here is a book for $6.
While H2S at high concentrations can be a serious hazard, your nose can detect this gas at just a trace.
Nevertheless, this should be of interest to you.  A long time ago I visited Rotorua in New Zealand, and the tourist industry announced that the overpowering smell of hydrogen sulfide at spas was good for your health.  I thought this was an exaggeration of reality, but this article indicates that H2S apparently does increase life longevity!!!  This gas also helps you if you have heart disease, diabetes and arthritis.  Trends in Pharmacological Science reports that:  hydrogen sulfide has transited rapidly from environmental pollutant to biologically relevant mediator with potential roles in several physiological processes and disease states.

I'll close with a warning about chicken sandwiches:

- 
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

A NEXT COVID SUBVARIANT?

By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases.  Very few are aware that a new one,   BA.4.6,  is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples .  However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6.  Here is a  reference  as to what this means.  A series of two injections is involved.  Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab  co-packaged with  cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on  subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicio...
Post a Comment
Read more

Part 3: OUR NEXT AROUND THE WORLD ODYSSEY

Before I get into my third, and final, part of this cruise series, let me start with some more newsworthy topics.  Thursday was my pandemic day for years.  Thus, every so often I return to bring you up to date on the latest developments.  All these  subvariants  derived from that Omicron variant, and each quickly became dominant, with slightly different symptoms.  One of these will shock you. There has been a significant decline in the lost of taste and smell.  From two-thirds of early patients to now only 10-20% show these symptoms. JN.1, now the dominant subvariant, results in mostly mild symptoms. However, once JN.1 infects some, there seem to be longer-lasting symptoms. Clearly, the latest booster helps prevent contracting Covid. A competing subvariant,  BA.2.86,  also known as Pirola , a month ago made a run, but JN.1 prevailed. No variant in particular, but research has shown that some of you will begin to  lose hair  for...
Post a Comment
Read more

HONOLULU TO SEATTLE

The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota.  Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north.  Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge.  If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic.  Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing.  The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University.  Caught a bus. Was called the  Century 21 Exposition .  Also the Seattle World's Fair.  10 million joined me on a six-month run.  My first. These a...
Post a Comment
Read more