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Carbohydrates and Loading Not Just for
Spectators

post from All Star Health on 09 February 2010 05:29:59 PM. © All Star Health

Carbs, beer, burgers and the anticipation of commercials can only mean one thing: the Super Bowl. The 2009-2010 NFL season has seen some pretty amazing feats: Kurt Warner and Brett Favre’s incredible performance, despite their age, The Saints 13-3[...]

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Notes for a 2010 introduction to the Health
Career Model (II)

post from Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD on 09 February 2010 03:31:00 PM. © Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD

... Where to start?

By its very nature as already suggested Hodges' model is difficult to explain. There are so many elements that demand our attention and so many avenues to run. Despite revealing one heading to be followed, Murphy (2002) describes how a theory of concepts is still elusive. From this we might focus purely on nursing and take a professional stance. We should be able after all to assume solid grounds for the system that supports nursing: namely nurse education. There is no need to do this as existing theories of concepts can provide a vehicle for explanation and research of Hodges' model.

Frequently acknowledged as a science AND an art, the individual-group axis in Hodges' model and the accent on communication makes individual and group psychology as much a pivotal source of knowledge as human anatomy and physiology. There are differences in the methods of verification, but the dependency is there and evident in the core nursing curriculum. Even though psychology remains a young science, resort to psychology is advantageous in other respects as the development of cognitive science and computer science can also inform our thought and research on Hodges' model. Fundamental to this is the basic form of the model construct the 2 x 2 matrix.

There are a great multitude of models that take this 2 x 2 matrix form. Apart from mathematics examples one the most commonly cited and influential is the so-called Johari window model of Harry Ingham and Joseph Luft which dates from 1955. Luft and Ingham were psychologists who created their model at the University of California, Los Angeles, while researching group dynamics. The Johari model has found a home in soft systems problems and can now be found in many other variations and one-off examples. There are whole books devoted to the subject of '2 x 2', an acknowledgment indeed of their utility and ubiquity (Lowy and Hood, 2004). From the OHP transparencies of old to the latest data projection forms, the 2 x 2 matrix is the tool of choice in the management consultant's armamentarium. This special cognitive device can also serve the (global) health and social care community and do so right across the board*. ...

Ref:
http://www.amazon.com/Power-Matrix-Thinking-Decisions-Management/dp/0787972924

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http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2008/02/big-book-of-concepts.html

http://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2010/02/notes-for-2010-introduction-to-health.html

*I would not include that last sentence in a new introduction, but it completes the post.

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How much water do you drink

post from Obesity Discussion Forums on 09 February 2010 03:04:54 PM. © Obesity Discussion Forums

I have been trying to increase my water consumption but I am not sure how much water is right for me. I know I have been running to the bathroom non...

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Diabetes Conversations and Managament Tools

post from Obesity Discussion Forums on 09 February 2010 12:50:28 PM. © Obesity Discussion Forums

The recently updated Conversation Maps? are a series of colourful, tabletop illustrations of different aspects of diabetes that help people with...

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Amazing Grass Packet Meals

post from Obesity Discussion Forums on 09 February 2010 11:16:27 AM. © Obesity Discussion Forums

Hello Yall, Lat night I was at Henry's Farmers Market Picking up some groceries and I came across these lil meal packets... I havent been too...

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SHE learned she had multiple sclerosis nearly 12
years ago. Her husband Tom stands by her - In sickness and in health ...

post from ** Stu's Views & M.S. News ** on 09 February 2010 09:08:00 AM. © ** Stu's Views & M.S. News **

article provided to me by Bobbie V.
From CNNSTORY HIGHLIGHTS

Tom and Vera Forkner, married for more than 30 years, learned of Vera's MS 12 years ago
Vera's change in mobility changed their relationship because they can't go out on adventures
Research shows women did not fare well in marriage if they were the sick partner
(CNN) -- Tom and Vera Forkner have loved each other for more than 30 years."As you can imagine, it's been everything," Vera said as Tom laughed.
"It's been up and down; it's been smooth; it's been rocky. We've been through a lot together," she said, smiling.Including Vera's multiple sclerosis diagnosis almost 12 years ago.
"The first thing was just fear, because we didn't know what was going on...fear, concern and worry for Vera," explained Tom.Vera says it was like a death in the family.
"It was like the death of a loved one. I'd get up every morning and the first thought was, I have MS," explained Vera.
For the first four or five years her disease was fairly stable and their lives seemed almost normal. Vera, who was in her early 40s, was taking a MS drug that kept her disease under control.

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MS Related: Patient Prescription (Rx) Assistance
Programs

post from ** Stu's Views & M.S. News ** on 09 February 2010 08:56:00 AM. © ** Stu's Views & M.S. News **

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sabotaged by the Super Bowl

So was anybody else like me and pressured to eat crap on the Super Bowl? I'm in a difficult situation, my dad likes to cook, but he hates me being...

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Learning to blog my Body is changing!

Ok Ive posted on the introduction page, I think i was doing it wrong, it looks like the blog should be here :nuts: I'm a blogging newbie :) i...

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Star skier Jimmie Heuga dies - He helped
thousands with MS to live their lives

Vail Daily
Heuga's Vail Valley-based organization has helped thousands with multiple sclerosis live active lives
Jimmie Heuga, the American skier who won a bronze medal in the 1964 Olympics and later used his battle with multiple sclerosis to help other people diagnosed with that disease, died Monday.
He was 66.

In 1984, Heuga founded the Vail Valley-based Jimmie Heuga Center, which sought to encourage people with multiple sclerosis to adopt healthy lifestyles and positive attitudes. The group is now called Can Do Multiple Sclerosis.

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