oldviolin wrote:
 

This and rodents are the bane of my existence.  Who gets arthritis in the neck?

hair wads on the drain

 oldviolin wrote:
 

Right there with you, brother.

 oldviolin wrote:
 
The same, brother, if not as prevalent. 

 oldviolin wrote:
 

arthritis

GOP Lawmaker Who Voted Against Paid Sick Leave in Florida Takes Paid Leave From Congress

Workers in many industrialized countries have paid sick leave, a right that has been opposed by business interests in the U.S. for decades. Over the last 10 years, many Americans have in fact lost the right for paid sick leave as corporate interests groups have pushed to roll back the right of local governments to enact paid sick leave policies.

In 2013, then-Gov. Rick Scott signed Gaetz-backed preemption legislation that barred every city and county in Florida from enacting paid sick leave legislation. Disney World, Darden Restaurants, and the Florida Chamber of Commerce promoted the Florida preemption effort.

The Florida law was part of a national drive by industry that began as a reaction to an ordinance in San Francisco. In 2006, voters in San Francisco passed a referendum that required employers to provide paid medical leave for workers, a decision that sparked a movement across the country as other cities developed similar policies. The counterassault from the business lobby came a few years later, as Republicans began making electoral gains after the 2010 midterms.

In 2011, then-Gov. Scott Walker signed a preemption bill into law in Wisconsin designed to override the 2008 Milwaukee ordinance providing paid sick days to workers. Later that year, the American Legislative Exchange Council, a lobbyist-run group that develops template legislation, championed the Walker legislation as a key policy that other states should emulate.

The ALEC committee tasked with leading the charge on banning local paid sick leave was headed by a lobbyist from Yum! Brands, the company that owns Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell.

After thinking about my current bout of illness I reckon I tend to react badly to bacterial infections. Thinking of my pneumonia last year which shouldn't have been as bad as it was ie hospitalisation and a severe bout of tonsillitis about 3 years ago. The rest of the family seem to get the illness but be under the weather for a couple of days. I get really full on ill so last night Andy had one dubious er movement and I was in the bathroom every half hour. Is this plausible does anyone think and any thoughts on strengenthing my system?? I don't think that viral infections are an issue as I haven't been ill all year apart from this and definitely threw a potential cold off in the spring when I though I might still be weak from the pneumonia.

It would appear that either 1) I have managed to lose both my engagement ring and my wedding band, or that 2) someone has stolen them. There are only two people who would have had easy access to them and both have worked for me for years, so wondering if one of them had something to do with it is making me very ill. (I couldn't say that last part in that other place because I have both those employees on my friends list.) If either of them did it, they're going to get away with it. I would rather continue believing I can trust two people I consider close friends and think for the rest of my life that I was the idiot who lost my rings, than confront them and learn that they're both utterly innocent. Each of them would be crushed if I did that.

We'll be moving soon, so the issue of potentially retaining employees who steal from me will become a moot point.

Kinda put a pin in my day.

 Alexandra wrote: 
We eat almost no processed food, therefore no weird stuff.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

I'd be happy if they just started with taking the excessive sodium outta stuff. And excitotoxins (MSG, whatever the hell else there is in that family). I'm real sensitive to those things....

In general terms, the highly processed American diet.  It's garbage packaged in plastic and marketed as food.

 hippiechick wrote: 
I think it's because a lot of what can be referred to as "sugar" (as a listed ingredient) can also come from sugar beets (about 50%), which can be from GMO's.

 Proclivities wrote: 
Hmmm, I thought it was all sugar. That's what I was told. That's good to know, because organic sugar is expensive.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Cane sugar is apparently not genetically modified - yet.

 sirdroseph wrote: 
All sugar except for organic sugar is genetically modified.

 oldviolin wrote: 

Right on Bro! Only ingest things grown from the earth naturally!

 Hairfarmer wrote: 

That's a long-dismissed urban myth.  Aspartame was developed as a sweetener about 40 years ago.  It is awful stuff, though.

 oldviolin wrote: 

 jcf wrote: 
I use erythritol as a sweetener. It is all natural, being made through the fermentation of cane juice. It has no accountable calories, no carbohydrates and is about 2/3 the sweetness of sugar. It triggers no insulin response, neither one way nor the other. You can search for it online. I buy it in one pound bags @ about $6 a bag. It looks similar to sugar.