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Why Macbook is More Reliable Than PC
There will always be someone asking which between the Macbook and PC is a worthy investment, an age-old question that boils down to preference. What a lot of people don't realise is the Mac is a PC. Apple reiterates this every single time a new model is released, that "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh."
In a way what we're really asking is if that Macbook Pro, as a PC, is worth its hefty price tag. But instead of focusing on the price when you start browsing in places like Harvey Norman's Macbook Pro list, let's look into the specs and features that come with choosing Mac and why that makes them more reliable.
Seamless integration with the other Apple products
One of Apple's biggest selling point has always been the fact that they design their own hardware and software. This allows them to create operating systems and apps that are specific to the Apple products. You can access your contacts and send text messages via iMessage from Mac to iPhone, automatically sync photos and videos to iCloud, and the OS is updated across all devices.
Other personal computers have tried replicating this level of integration. But Apple remains to be the only manufacturer to offer an integration that's getting more expansive over time.
Easy access to support
In terms of longevity, the Mac lasts longer than some of the personal computers in the market precisely because Apple continues to update the MacOS and roll out software fixes. But more than that, as customer, if something goes wrong with the hardware you already know exactly where you can take it.
The Apple Store isn't just your one-stop shop for all their products, but it's the number one place you can get full customer support. They can help with issues as simple as troubleshooting problems or serious hardware difficulties.
Well-designed models that look and feel high-end
While there have been design choices from Apple that not a lot of people agree with, there is no question that Macs don't look and feel like they're a premium line. This isn't to say that there are no well-designed PCs, but a majority are bulky and difficult to carry around. On the other hand, the Mac is sleek and very portable.
Macbook is the safest platform
Apple is known for having a picky operating system. Some people can't even use certain kinds of external hardware because Mac thinks it isn't safe. But while the nitpicking vexes a lot of people, it's one of the reasons why the system remains to be invulnerable. Compared to other PCs, there are less cyber attacks on the Mac. Everyday, there are more sophisticated attacks on the Internet, but the Mac still remains to be the safest device to use.
All of these features is the reason why the price point is justified. You have a sleek hardware that gets constant software updates, inter-device use, and easy access to tech support. Not to mention the layer of protection you can get from hackers and phishers.
Especially if your work requires you to be on-the-go and be constantly online, the Mac is the tool to get.
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Assumption: Surgical repair is necessary after a first or second degree tear to the perineum.
These studies indicate that between birth and 8 weeks postpartum, there was no difference in pain or complications between women with tears that were surgically repaired and those with tears that were allowed to heal spontaneously.
This is interesting because it would certainly be nice to allow tears to heal on their own. Unfortunately, there are no long-term studies and one of the studies quoted here did find a difference in how the wound closed so I cannot recommend that tears not be repaired. However, it is nice to know that it is not absolutely necessary.


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Hi friends! This time, before starting the blog, I would like to tell you how my journey with coding started. When I was ten years old, I received a magic gift. My dad gave me computer. He didn't put any games on it. He said if I want games I need to learn how to make my own. So, my dad introduced me to computer programming.
In most parts of the world most kids don't have access to this magic gift. This is something we can change and this is something that is changing. It's an enormous challenge and enormous curriculum of world schools and in the last three years there has been an unbelievable and unprecedented movement led by teachers. Seven countries have declared computer science as part of national curriculum. Twenty states across America have changed their education policies to embrace coding and 120 school districts have partnered with 'code.org'.
But 'why does everyone needs to learn how to code?' is a legitimate question. After all, we have mechanics to repair our cars, we have doctors for medicines, and can't we just leave coding to the coders. Maths isn't just for mathematicians. Every public school teaches these topics because they are foundational to other pursuits. We don't send kids to school just to just to learn how to divide or how to factor polynomials. It is not because they are going to grow up to be factoring polynomials for the rest of their lives. Math is about logic and problem solving. It teaches how to think. Well, computer science is also about logic and problem solving and learning how to think and it teaches some of the same advanced concepts as math in a way. Coding is even more fun and engaging than math is. It makes advanced concepts easier to grasp at a younger age. English as a subject in schools prepares students for college and for life. It is indispensable to higher education. The same way, computer science stimulates imagination, creativity and sharing new ideas. So, this way, computer science is foundational and every public school should offer it as part of curriculum.
Career Shiner, one of the best software training institutes in Noida, is the one which provides workshops on how to get started with coding. Here, they train people from all walks of life. The learning environment they create to learn any software technology is commendable. Here, you become hands-on with coding within months and you are able to assist them in their live software projects. That's a really good start. So, if you are looking for software development and really want to solve your problems, then should join Career Shiner, the one who shines your career.


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Is the Autoimmune Paleo Diet Legit?
January 17, 2015 Dr. Katherine Walkeralternative medicine, autoimmune, diet, health, hood river midwife, hood river naturopath, nutrition, paleo, weight loss Leave a comment
I am an avid supporter of the paleo approach; and I've seen amazing success with it, not only in myself but also my patients. Nutritional research is continuously proving the benefits of high protein, healthy fat diets with plentiful fruits and vegetables. What do you think of the paleo diet? What food plans have you tried to optimize health?
By Lisa Esposito
Most people think of the paleo diet as the meat lover's way to lose weight. But some people with autoimmune conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus, are turning to a refined paleo version to improve life-disrupting symptoms such as pain and fatigue. While medical experts not affiliated with the plan offer mixed feedback, patients willing to make the effort say the autoimmune paleo diet improves their quality of life.
Cutting Food Groups
Many people who follow the autoimmune protocol, which encompasses lifestyle as well as dietary changes, learned of it through the work of Sarah Ballantyne, who has an extensive background in medical research and whose most recent book is "The Paleo Approach: Reverse Autoimmune Disease and Heal Your Body." She makes the connection between autoimmune disease and diet on The Paleo Mom website.
The standard paleo diet starts with a strict elimination phase. That means "no grains, no legumes, no dairy, no refined sugars, no modern vegetable oils, no processed food chemicals." According to the plan, gluten should be "banned for life," and at least initially, dairy of any kind should be avoided. For people with autoimmune disease, there's more. They "should completely avoid" foods including eggs (especially whites), nuts, seeds (including cocoa, coffee and seed-based spices), nightshades, alcohol and artificial sweeteners. Because people with autoimmune conditions are at risk for vitamin, mineral and omega-3 fatty acid deficiencies, there's an added diet emphasis on nutrient-dense foods.
Embracing Meat
Meat – with a focus on incorporating more organ meat and offal – is a paleo mainstay. The plan also encourages shellfish; a large variety of vegetables; some fruit; fats including fatty fish and coconut oil; probiotic foods; and glycine-rich foods like bone broth.
Hillary Jenkins, 29, a personal assistant in El Cerrito, California, often starts the day with breakfast sausage patties, which she makes by mixing ground meat with ground kidney and heart. "I go to a local butcher that gets 100 percent grass-fed cows and sheep," she says.
Not long ago, she would have bypassed the butcher. But at 27, she developed psoriasis, an autoimmune skin condition. Until then she'd always had clear skin, but the condition, which started with a small patch of red spots, quickly spread across her body. A dermatologist prescribed lotions, and eventually, a short course of oral steroids. But as soon as Jenkins stopped taking them, the spots reappeared.
Jenkins wanted other options. Last June, she learned about the autoimmune paleo diet and read up on its potential benefits. "I just went full-on autoimmune protocol right away," she says.
Nightshades and Carbs
When Kristin Kirkpatrick, manager of wellness nutrition services at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute, sees patients with autoimmune conditions, she starts them on a standard (non-paleo) elimination diet. "When you look at foods that have the most likeliness of having some sort of inflammatory reaction, you're looking at things like wheat, soy, dairy, eggs, processed food [and] sugar," she says.
Nightshade vegetables, which include potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant, and sweet and hot peppers, are taboo on the paleo autoimmune plan. Kirkpatrick says these, and some spices like paprika, contain alkaloids, which aggravate inflammation. Cutting nightshades may help "calm" inflammation for susceptible patients.
Cutting legumes and starches can help patients by reducing excessive blood sugar fluctuations. "Bad bacteria in your gut thrives and eats off of sugar," Kirkpatrick says. Overgrowth of bacteria, especially yeast, can stimulate inflammation in susceptible people.
Tackling 'Leaky Gut'
Kirkpatrick explains the principle of treating leaky gut syndrome – believed to be a factor in autoimmune disorders – through diet. While you won't find the term in medical textbooks, she says, "the syndrome is being looked at as a cause to many chronic health conditions, and involves our intestinal permeability and ability to keep toxic and harmful bacteria from going outside our gut."
Ideally, she says, "When you digest something, everything should be digested 100 percent. You should be able to absorb nutrients, but this may not happen when the permeability in your gut allows leakage," she explains. So instead of absorbing all the protein, vitamins and minerals, "you can actually have some of those things leak into the bloodstream and out of the gut, leading to inflammation and malabsorption." Of course, it's not that simple. "It's a whole, complex definition of things that could be going on in the digestive system," she says, and it may be based on autoimmune factors, genetic components and diet.
Angeles Rios, 36, a Pilates, yoga and meditation coach in San Francisco, has ankylosing spondylitis, a type of arthritis centered on the spine. She started on the Paleo autoimmune protocol last spring.
Early on, "making time for daily cooking and grocery shopping was the hardest part," she says. Cooking in batches helps, and preparing dishes from scratch offsets the costs of eating organic foods and grass-fed meats. And she shares.
"Cooking with friends, especially if they know how to cook without something from a box, keeps the process social and interesting to me," says Rios, who coordinates a variety of events featuring paleo-friendly food, from potlucks to support groups.
Jenkins agrees that supportive friends are important, as is being willing to cook for yourself. "I don't trust restaurants," she says. She's wary of cross-contamination and of servers who don't always know which ingredients dishes contain, like prohibited seed-based spices.
Mixed Reactions
"I'd like to see the science behind this," says Marion Nestle, a professor in the department of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University. "A lot of it doesn't make much biological sense. But eating the foods on the OK list should be healthy, so the diet is unlikely to be harmful – other than being a pain to follow."
Judith Volpe, a New York City physician, says "an anti-inflammatory diet that eliminates gluten and dairy is certainly good." But, she adds, "I'm not so big on diets that are heavy in fat. My problem with the paleo diet, in spite of what they say about good fats … most people's cholesterol shoots up 30 to 50 points when they're on that diet."
Working With Doctors – and Vice Versa
Jessica Flanigan is a clinical nutritionist who specializes in the autoimmune paleo diet. Her identical twin sister has Hashimoto's disease, in which the body's immune system attacks the thyroid gland, along with celiac disease. Flanigan and her sister both follow the diet. As clients go through diet phases, Flanigan monitors their symptoms, and working with their doctors, she tracks results of medical tests to detect inflammation. Of clients' doctors, she says, about "25 percent are open and agreeable" to the diet, while the rest are resistant.
Kirkpatrick says among her own patients, eliminating some of the paleo-restricted foods can have "remarkable" results for some: They no longer have gas, bloating or arthritic joint pain, for example. "So there is power here that science needs to catch up with to figure out," she says. "What do we know from a scientific perspective about these foods and overall health?"
The most important thing, Kirkpatrick says, whether people are trying the paleo method or some other type of elimination diet to calm their inflammation, is to work with their physician or dietitian.
When Persistence Pays Off
Flanigan says her sister, who has been on the diet for three years, is "totally symptom free." Jenkins says while it's not an easy diet, it's worth the effort. "Whenever I felt a temptation, I would think, 'OK, is this one or 10 bites of pleasure going to outweigh how I feel if I have a re-inflammation?" she recalls. "And the answer was always, 'No, I would rather have clear skin than the doughnut or whatever the thing is.'"
For Rios, gradually tweaking her eating habits worked: "I no longer take a biologic drug," she says. "I have developed a new community to support my new habits and have changed my view of using food for just serving my taste buds to a powerful medicine that can change my mind and body."
Don't forget to contact Dr. Katherine Walker or your local naturopath for assistance in exploring your options of achieve optimal health and energy.