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A Wealth of Health: Let’s Talk About the Role of Inflammation in Age and Illness
Herbalist and Author Cathy McNease Inflammation: Causes and Cures
By Cathy McNease, HerbalistOne of the biggest predictors of how well we age is the amount of inflammation present in our bodies. The major killer diseases, such as cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s, as well as the discomforts of gastritis, arthritis, gingivitis, and the many other –itises, all begin with inflammation. When an organ is inflamed, disease follows. Over time that fire in the tissues or cells can become life threatening. Some of the best cures to reduce inflammation are found in colorful fruits and vegetables. The other vital component to fire reduction is to avoid unhealthy fats, denatured grains, refined sugars, and foods heavy laden in artificial flavorings, colorings and preservatives.
In recent years the medical world has awakened to the huge connection between diet and health. One of the measurable factors that your doctor may use to determine disease risks is your level of CRP (C-Reactive Proteins) in the blood. It is now know that this is a more reliable pointer to the possibility of heart disease than merely looking at cholesterol levels. It will also show the amount of inflammation generally present in the body.
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EVENTS: LGBTQ+ Health Care Symposium, May 10 (Charlottesville, VA)
Ken White, Associate Dean, University of Virginia School of Nursing There are an estimated 700,000 people in this country who consider themselves transgender. Add in those who are openly gay, lesbian or bisexual and the number rises to nine million. They find growing acceptance in society, but many people – including doctors and nurses — remain uncomfortable when dealing with the LGBT community. That’s why UVA is hosting a special conference on May 10th.
Ken White is an associate dean of nursing at the University of Virginia. He’s also a gay man, yet no doctor has ever asked about his sexual history, and he knows many health care professionals who are even more uncomfortable with transgender men and women.
“They don‘t know what to say,” he explains. ” They don’t want to make a mistake, so they don’t say anything, and that makes patients feel isolated.”
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Featured Book: From Whence We Come, by Maurice W. Dorsey
Meet the author! Author Maurice W. Dorsey will be at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, May 27 (Baltimore). See details here.I met author Maurice W. Dorsey at the Rainbow Book Fair two years ago. His first book, Businessman First, was the masterful telling of the life of Henry G. Parks. Jr., an African American businessman and entrepreneur. The biography soon became a QBR Wheatley Book Award Finalist.
With the recent release of From Whence We Come, author Dorsey has returned in full force with the story of Seymour Rose, an African American man who is gay and whose life has taught him that coming to terms with family, love, loss, and one’s own identity, can come at high cost.
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The Twist Podcast #63: Dandruffgate, 100 Years of National Parks, and Paying Your Medical Bills with Prayer
Join co-hosts Mark McNease and Rick Rose as we take a twisted look at the news, celebrate 100 years of national parks, chat about dandruff on the world stage, and appreciate God’s social safety net.
Enjoy The Twist on Libsyn, iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher, and right here at The Twist Podcast page.
Copyright 2018 MadeMark Publishing
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6 Questions for Professor Drewey Wayne Gunn
Professor Gunn We learned last week of the passing of Professor Drewey Wayne Gunn. Many of us knew Professor Gunn for his generosity and his encyclopedic knowledge of gay literature, especially forgotten gay literature by authors who paved the way for later generations. I had the pleasure of interviewing him and being amazed at his extensive answers and his deep knowledge of a subject he was devoted to. Here is a reprint of that interview. – Mark/Editor
I was recently introduced by a mutual friend to Drewey Wayne Gunn, Professor Emeritus , Texas A&M University–Kingsville. Professor Gunn has long been interested in recovering forgotten works of gay literature and has produced a treasure trove of guidebooks in his effort to acknowledge the many authors who, while largely ignored or forgotten, paved the way for the richness and variety we now enjoy in gay literature.
His books include the upcoming Gay American Novels, 1870 – 1970 (McFarland, 2016), as well as Gay Novels of Britain, Ireland, and the Commonwealth, 1881 – 1981 (McFarland, 2014), 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction, edited with Jaime Harker (Massachusetts, 2013), The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (Scarecrow, 2013), and The Golden Age of Gay Literature, editor (MLR, 2009).
I had the pleasure of asking Professor Gunn ‘6 Questions’ about his books, his passion for forgotten works, and how he thinks we can best keep our literary heritage alive. – Mark McNease/Editor
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One Thing or Another: All Boxed Up
It’s always One Thing or Another … a lighthearted look at aging, life, and the absurdities of it all.By Mark McNease
Who doesn’t want to gaze at a baseball cap or coffee cup forty years after buying it and remember that special vacation?
How many boxes does it take to hold a life? It’s a question many of us ask when we find ourselves moving from one home to another. A home is in many ways who we are: that place where we’ve spent most of our time, where we’ve created identities linked to the rooms in which we sleep, eat and bathe, and where we contemplate our daily existence. Then a new phase beckons, a new adventure, and we see it all in front of us, boxed and packed to be taken by car, truck or hand cart to the next phase, the next identity with a few revisions.
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Q Audiobooks: Hero: David Bowie, Narrated by Lesley-Ann Jones and Gina Murray
Hero
David Bowie
By: Lesley-Ann Jones
Narrated by: Gina Murray, Lesley-Ann Jones
Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
Release date: 09-22-16
Publisher: Hodder & StoughtonHis music thrilled the generation it was written for and has entertained and inspired every generation since.
Hero: David Bowie is an exploration of the man behind the myths and the makeup told from the very beginning. Respected music journalist and biographer Lesley-Ann Jones knew David Jones from the days before fame, when he was a young musician starting out, frustrated by an industry that wouldn’t give him a break and determined to succeed at whatever cost.
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The Savvy Senior: What to Know About the New Medicare Cards
By Jim MillerDear Savvy Senior,
What can you tell me about the new Medicare cards? I’ve heard there are a lot of scams associated with these new cards and I want to make sure I protect myself.
Leery Senior
Dear Leery,
The government will soon be sending out brand new Medicare cards to 59 million Medicare beneficiaries. Here’s what you should know about your new card along with some tips to help you guard against potential scams.
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Book Review: The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some 1976-1988, by Martin Duberman
By Terri Schlichenmeyer
The Bookworm Sez“The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some 1976-1988” by Martin Duberman
c.2018, Duke University Press $27.95 / higher in Canada
242 pagesParts of your life are missing.
Maybe you’ve forgotten, purposefully or by accident. You were overwhelmed and didn’t look, too influenced by love, anger, or adult beverages to take full notice. Sometimes, you wonder what’s missing but in the new book, “The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some 1976-1988” by Martin Duberman, one man’s gaps are filled.
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EVENTS: The Publishing Triangle’s Annual Awards Ceremony, April 26 (with Finalists’ Reading April 25, NYC)
April 25, 2018, 7 p.m.: The Publishing Triangle will sponsor a reading by a select group of finalists for this year’s awards at the Bureau of General Services–Queer Division, the bookstore inside the LGBT Community Services Center at 208 West 13th Street, Manhattan. The participating finalists for this free event will be announced closer to the event. Books by the readers will be sold at the event.
April 26, 2018, 7 p.m.: Join us for the Publishing Triangle’s annual awards ceremony at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium, 63 Fifth Avenue, in Greenwich Village, New York. Reception to follow. This is a free event.
Among the readers on April 25 will be Paula Martinac, a finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction for her novel, The Ada Decades (Bywater Books). You can read my ‘6 Questions‘ interview with Paula HERE.See a complete lists of finalists and more details at The Publishing Triangle website.
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Adventures in Gardening (#1 in a Series)
In the beginning: last year’s garden. Have photos or advice of your own? Share them with our readers by emailing me here.
Mark McNease/Editor
Before moving full time to our house in rural New Jersey, my husband Frank and I had very little success with our attempts at growing a vegetable garden. Gardens of any kind, especially vegetable gardens, require frequent watering and care. We were only here on weekends, driving out from New York City, and then not every weekend.
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Quotes and Quotable: New York Times Editorial Board
“The president is not a king but a citizen, deserving of the presumption of innocence and other protections, yet also vulnerable to lawful scrutiny. We hope Mr. Trump recognizes this. If he doesn’t, how Republican lawmakers respond will shape the future not only of this presidency and of one of the country’s great political parties, but of the American experiment itself.”
