Urgent Health Alert

URGENT HEALTH ALERT!

Recent reports coming in across our News Desk

indicate a shocking set of facts of life for the population of the United States.

According to several sources of reliable information,

the three leading causes of preventable premature death are:

1. Sleep Deprivation,

2. Dehydration, and

3. Insufficient physical fitness.

Gaveside Service

"Gone too soon?"

Editorial Note.

It should go without saying, but we will say it anyway:

If you have any questions about the status of your personal health,

or there is any uncertainty whatsoever,

a competent physician or health care professional should be consulted.

URGENT HEALTH ALERT!

Recent reports coming in across our News Desk indicate a shocking set of facts of life for the population of the United States.

According to several sources of reliable information, the three leading causes of preventable premature death are:

1. Sleep Deprivation,

2. Dehydration, and

3. Insufficient physical fitness.

These are factors primarily resulting from personal life styles, working conditions and habitation environments. That means, for better and for worse, change is possible, but not necessarily easy. Some conditions are under direct control of the individual, others are societal in nature. (The ancient African proverb is true - it really does take a "village" after all. And it only takes a few "idiots" to mess a lot of things up.)

For example, if a person loses an hour of sleep each night - for any reason - it adds up to the equivalent of a lost night's sleep each week. (You can do your own math.)

If, for another example, you are trying to manage your weight, suppose you can contribute one pound per week toward your goal? That adds up to 50 pounds in a year even if you take two weeks off for vacation or holidays. (That should be possible without enduring outrageous diet plans or incurring excessive health club costs.)

More later.

As People Die From
Lack of Medical Attention:

AN URGENT HEALTH CARE
CONSIDERATION -

How we respond to the needs of the family of humanity is a measure of
our relationship with our Creator. -

(Matthew 25:31 - 46)!

It is time to end the greed
and the hypocrisy that has caused so much misery over the years!

NOTE:

Perhaps one of the best arguments for quality health care for all-

William Jefferson Clinton
and
Dick Cheney.

(Whether you love them or loathe them, if they had the kind of health care [or lack of same] experienced by several million Americans, to borrow an expression from Richard Nixon:

You would not have either of them
“to kick around anymore.”)

Additional information

More helpful information is available from many sources.

Several are on this Web site, from which you may return to this page by simply clicking the "back" button on your browser or using the left menu bar.

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FORMULAS FOR CATASTROPHE!

ONE man
doing the work of TWO people
on TWO hours sleep.

(It shouldn't take a rocket scientist
or brain surgeon
to figure this out.)

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
March 4, 2011 Report:

50 - 70 million adults in the U.S.
have chronic sleep and wakefulness disorders.

Lack of sleep can lead to illness, road accidents and death.

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
March 4, 2011
Unhealthy Sleep-Related Behaviors

Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
March 4, 2011 Weekly Report PDF

Lack of sleep called 'global epidemic'

Doctors press for more shut-eye

CBC News - Posted: Mar 18, 2011

Medical study finds long working hours, combined with getting little sleep or time off,

is a shortcut to an early grave.

Read abstract of the heart study from journal

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Read the complete heart study from journal

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

(Available in PDF Format) Click Here. if you need to download a free PDF reader.

Most people live in a state of chronic low level sleep deprivation which weakens their health.

Learn How you can help yourself.

"THE HUMAN SLEEP CYCLE"

“SLEEP DEPRIVATION & HIGHWAY SAFETY”

U.S. Representative Bruce Braley
Making Our Roads Safe

“SLEEP DEPRIVATION & FIRST RESPONDERS”

Police Sleep Problems
Affect Safety

"DEATH & DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME ! "
Read the facts for yourself.

Sleep Deficit, Fatal Accidents,
and the Spring Shift to Daylight Savings Time

The health effects of daylight saving time

and how to mitigate them

Are you losing sleep from too much
"noise in your 'hood'?"

Is that nearby "home theater" shaking your pictures off the wall
and driving you up the wall?

Learn what they did not tell you!

America is seriously sleep-deprived
with disastrous consequences

The cost in dollars, lives,
and human suffering is very high

(The annual cost to the U.S. economy
is comparable to that of Hurricane Katrina!)

Read the facts for yourself!

"What do the nuclear accident at Chernobyl,
the near meltdown at Three Mile Island,
the environmentally disastrous oil spill by the Exxon Valdez,
and the loss of the space shuttle Challenger all have in common?

They were all caused by people who were making mistakes
because they had had too little sleep."

From:
Sleep Thieves

copyright © 1996
Dr Stanley Coren

Book Cover

ISBN 0-684-82304-7

Sleep Deprivation

(whatever the reasons)

can have Deadly and Tragic Consequences.

Crash of Flight 3407
Buffalo crash probe focuses on
pilot fatigue, low pay

and

Crash of Flight 5191
Tower controller
had slept only 2 hours

and

Comair Flight 5191
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

and

Air India plane crash:
'Sleepy' pilot blamed
Aftermath of Air India plane crash in Mangalore on 22 May 2010
The passenger plane crash was India's first for 10 years

and

Another Wake-Up Call:
Tower controller sleeps
while two passenger jets land without assistance
at Reagan National Airport (Washington, DC).

and

Another Wake-Up Call:
Driver had not slept
for three days
before deadly bus crash.

and

Trolley driver at fault
did not have sufficient rest period
before MBTA Boylston Station Crash.

and

Not Even DOCTORS Are Immune!
Medical Residents Overworked

and

Medical Errors Common
increasing risk of future mistakes

and perhaps

Another news item

might help to convince you.

TIME & TIDE

Too many people in America have become very proficient at spending other people's time and money without their consent or approval.

If you have ever had to deal with:

utilities (such as gas, electric, telephone, cable)

or certain governmental agencies and bureaucracies, contractors or delivery services,

to borrow and expression from former Senator Hillary Clinton,

"you know what I mean."

You can use your own experiences to better understand the impact on individual and collective health
and on the economy from such schedule disruptions and accompanying sleep deprivation.

August 2010

Updated Medical Research
Finds Sleep Deprivation More Destructive
Than Originally Believed

Read More Here

September 2010

Study Shows 4-Fold Higher Death Rate
in Men With Insomnia vs. Normal Sleepers

Read More Here

Help Stop the Swine Flu -

Don't be a Swine!

Poor hygiene is one of the five leading causes
of preventable premature death.
Visit www.cdc.gov/h1n1 for more information.

Please view
this related item

&

read this from
CBC News

CAUTIONARY NOTE:

It is frightening to encounter people who apparently believe that they are descendants of a mythological bird from a desert in the Australian Outback which is allergic to water and would suddenly die if it came into contact with soap.

Related News Item:
Studies have found pigs infected with pandemic H1N1.
People seem to have been the source of the virus.
Please Read This

Another Look at Carl Lewis

http://www.carllewis.com/

An all-time great Olympic Champion shares much helpful information for today.

Olympic stars Carl & Carol Lewis began their careers in the youth program of the Willingboro (NJ) Track Club.

That organization was co-founded by their parents Bill and Evelyn Lewis, two concerned educators who inspired and motivated many young people to achieve excellence.

Recently Carl Lewis launched Fit Forever (http://www.FitForever.com/), a website that is dedicated to empowering youth and adults, and to improving their life conditions through physical activity and a healthy lifestyle.

Please Read More Here.

First Lady Michelle Obama
Let's Move! Initiative

From: “First Lady Michelle Obama”
Date: Mon, July 12, 2010
(Excerpt of message follows.)

As a mother, I know there is nothing more important than a child's health.
But today, obesity threatens the health of one out of three American children.
That's why we launched Let's Move! -- a nationwide effort to solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation.

I hope you'll join me and the thousands of teachers, doctors, chefs, community leaders, athletes and parents from across the country to help raise a healthier generation of kids.

LetsMove.gov -- an online resource for parents, teachers and community leaders to help our children eat better and become more active:
Let's Move!

Sincerely,

Michelle Obama

P.S. Visit WhiteHouse.gov

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Motive for Change - Layman's Guide to Your Health - Volume I
By Lawrence Evans

Getting in shape is easier then what you think.

Get a layman's view of what to do about a dismal situation.

Empower yourself with some common sense rational knowledge that will last a lifetime in our battle to maintain fitness.

This book will change your mind about how you think about health and your body will follow.

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By Lawrence Evans

Health News & Views with Dr. Deas

Dr Gerald Deas
Helpful Wellness & Health Care Information
Official Website of Dr. Gerald W. Deas

Dr. John Clarke uses his music to cut through the misrepresentations that affect youth medically, socially, and psychologically.

Dr. John Clarke
Helpful Wellness Information

HEALTH MATTERS
10 Good Reasons To Laugh For No Reason
Healthy Humor

WHAT IS ADDICTION?
Why are Alcohol and Other Drugs Addictive?

What Is Addiction?
Help An Addict
By Finding Out Now!

Learn more about a
PROVEN CURE
For the Drug Epidemic.
Teen Challenge International
has an 86 percent cure rate!

Looking for Answers?
They ARE Available!
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AIDS

What YOU can do about it!
Fighting AIDS
How you can prevent its spread.
Why you need to be concerned but not afraid.

African Americans still represent
almost half the AIDS cases in the U.S.
Black Enterprise reports

Primetime's special report
"Out of Control:
AIDS in Black America,"
ABC-TV Special Report

The human body is primarily composed of water.
Water is not only beneficial but also vital to life --
only oxygen is more important to human survival.
Water is "The Most Powerful Healing Substance Known To Man."

Read Drinking Water, by Dr. George Grant

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"Speaking Out Against Domestic Violence"

Gary James Poetry

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Gary James Poetry

For far too long the cries of the abused and the hurting have gone unnoticed.

Finally, a book that captures the feelings of those who thought that no one cared and expresses them in the form of poetry.

This book reminds us all to look out for each other, because each other is all we have.

NOISE POLLUTION DATA LOG

YEAR: 12 months in an American apartment builiding
during the “Decade from Hell” described by TIME Magazine.

JAN

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

1

1

1

1

1

1

3

JAN

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

1

2

2

10

FEB

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

1

1

2

2

2

2

2

FEB

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

3

3

2

2

2

XX

XX

12

MAR

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

1

3

1

1

3

3

3

3

1

3

MAR

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

2

1

1

1

3

1

2

2

3

2

3

1

1

1

3

25

APR

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

3

3

1

1

1

3

1

2

1

1

3

3

3

2

3

APR

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

1

1

1

3

2

1

3

1

3

1

XX

25

MAY

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

3

2

1

3

2

2

3

1

3

3

2

3

3

3

1

MAY

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

3

3

1

1

1

1

3

3

2

3

1

1

1

3

29

JUN

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

2

2

3

3

3

1

3

3

3

2

2

3

3

1

3

2

JUN

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

3

3

33

3

3

1

3

3

1

3

3

3

XX

28

JUL

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

2

3

3

3

1

3

3

1

1

3

3

3

1

3

3

JUL

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

1

3

3

1

2

3

3

3

1

1

1

3

27

AUG

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

3

3

3

2

3

3

3

2

2

3

3

3

1

3

3

3

AUG

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

3

3

3

3

3

1

3

3

2

1

3

3

3

3

3

31

SEP

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

3

2

3

1

3

2

3

1

2

3

2

3

SEP

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

2

3

1

1

3

3

3

1

3

1

XX

22

OCT

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

3

1

2

2

2

2

3

1

3

2

2

3

3

3

3

OCT

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

3

3

3

3

3

3

2

2

3

1

3

3

2

3

3

30

NOV

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

3

3

3

3

1

1

1

1

1

1

NOV

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

3

1

1

1

1

XX

16

DEC

01

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

DATA

2

3

3

2

2

2

2

3

2

3

DEC

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

TL

DATA

2

3

2

2

2

2

3

2

2

2

3

21

Noise Pollution Data Log

TYPE AND SOURCE CODES

TYPE CODES

O5  -  Sound system in building

10  -  Adult loud conversation(s)

11  -  Adult physical activities `

15  -  Impact of dropped and/or thrown item(s)

20  -  Slamming door(s)

25  -  Continuously barking dog(s)

30  -  Vehicle sound system

32  -  Pedestrian sound system

35  -  Aircraft

40  -  Power tool(s) and/or appliance(s)

45  -  Weather event(s) and/or other natural phenomena

50  -  Child(ren) running and/or jumping

55  -  Construction machinery and/or equipment

60  -  Emergency response vehicles

65  -  Hallway and/or stairway entrance and/or egress

95  -  Other

DATA SOURCE CODES

1  -  05

2  -  One or more of the following:
    10, 11, 15, 20, 50, 65

3  -  Types 1 AND 2

NOTE:

TL = Number of days with recorded noise pollution incident(s) in the month.

Since there may have been several incidents on a particular day, the total monthly damages may be significantly higher than the TL number indicates.

"GOOD NEIGHBORS

keep their noise to themselves."

(Besides it's the law!)

NPC 1-888-200-8322

www.nonoise.org

Return to Introduction

ANOTHER NOISE POLLUTION DATA LOG

Another actual noise pollution data log from a multi-dwelling unit building housing several inconsiderate tenants.

The log is of intrusive noise disrupting the life of one tenant in a muncipality where the local noise ordinance forbids noise intrusions of any levels between the hours of 10 PM and 8 AM.

Date and time stamps of the noise pollution were obtained by using the video of an area television station to accompany the audio recording of the noise.