#Dietician for Children

[kanupriyakhanna]

Fertility Nutrition with Kanupriya: Supporting Healthy Conception

Fertility and nutrition are deeply interconnected, as the food you consume can significantly impact hormonal balance, egg and sperm quality, and overall reproductive health. Kanupriya Khanna, a renowned fertility nutritionist in Delhi, has dedicated her practice to helping individuals and couples improve their chances of conception through personalized dietary plans. Here's an in-depth look at how fertility-focused nutrition can make a difference and the role Kanupriya plays in this journey.

The Role of Nutrition in Fertility

A well-balanced diet can enhance hormonal function, improve ovulation, and prepare the body for a healthy pregnancy. For example, research highlights the benefits of a Mediterranean diet, which emphasizes fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and healthy fats, in boosting fertility. Foods rich in omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins, and antioxidants support reproductive health by improving uterine blood flow, balancing hormones, and protecting against oxidative stress.

Foods to Include for Optimal Fertility

Leafy Greens: Vegetables like spinach and kale are packed with folate, which is vital for ovulation and reducing the risk of birth defects.

Nuts and Seeds: Almonds, walnuts, flaxseeds, and chia seeds are excellent sources of zinc and omega-3 fatty acids, which support hormonal balance and uterine health.

Berries: Blueberries and raspberries are rich in antioxidants that protect egg quality and reduce inflammation.

Whole Grains: Quinoa and brown rice provide complex carbohydrates that stabilize blood sugar levels and enhance fertility.

Healthy Fats: Avocado and olive oil are great sources of monounsaturated fats that support hormone production.

Foods to Avoid

Certain foods can negatively impact fertility. These include:

Refined Sugars and Carbs: These can lead to insulin resistance, which affects ovulation.

Trans Fats: Found in processed snacks, they are linked to decreased fertility.

High Mercury Fish: Fish like swordfish and tuna can disrupt hormone levels.

Alcohol and Caffeine: Excessive consumption can impair ovulation and overall reproductive health.

Addressing Fertility Challenges

Kanupriya’s expertise goes beyond general dietary advice. She designs personalized meal plans to address specific challenges such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), endometriosis, and preparation for IVF. Her approach often includes integrating nutrient-rich foods that reduce inflammation and support a healthy uterine lining.

Achieving a Balanced Lifestyle

Maintaining a healthy weight is critical for fertility. Being underweight or overweight can disrupt menstrual cycles and reduce the success rate of fertility treatments. Kanupriya emphasizes a holistic approach that combines nutrition with lifestyle changes, such as stress management and regular exercise.

Why Choose Kanupriya?

With over two decades of experience, Kanupriya Khanna has helped numerous individuals improve their fertility through dietary guidance. Her tailored programs focus on incorporating superfoods like sweet potatoes, lean meats, and legumes into daily meals while avoiding harmful substances. Her commitment to promoting reproductive health makes her a trusted partner in the journey toward parenthood.

Conclusion

Nutrition plays a vital role in optimizing fertility and preparing for a healthy pregnancy. Whether you are trying to conceive naturally or undergoing fertility treatments, a well-planned diet can make a significant difference. For expert guidance on fertility nutrition, consider consulting Kanupriya Khanna, whose evidence-based, personalized approach can help you achieve your family planning goals.

[eggmacguffin]

don't talk to me about keto it just makes me mad

[exactly24bees]

on that mental illness grind

[afriblaq]

A long road took nine children out of the cotton fields, out of poverty, out of Mississippi. But roads go both ways, and this Thanksgiving weekend, they all returned. This is about Thanksgiving, and coming home.

“There’s my daddy,” says Gloria Chandler Coleman, master of arts, University of Missouri, a teacher in Kansas City. All nine children had memories of a sharecropper’s cabin and nothing to wear and nothing to eat. All nine are college graduates. Cooking the meal in the kitchen of the new house the children built for their parents four years ago is Bessie Chandler Beasley, BA Tuskegee, MA Central Michigan, dietician at a veterans hospital, married to a PhD. And helping out, Princess Chandler Norman, MA Indiana University, a schoolteacher in Gary, Indiana.

Alex Chandler remembers the time when he had a horse and a cow and tried to buy a mule and couldn’t make the payments and lost the mule, the horse, and the cow. And about that time, Cleveland, the first son, decided he wanted to go to college. “We didn’t have any money,” says Alex. “And we went to town; he wanted to catch the bus to go on up there. And so we went to town and borrowed two dollars and a half from her niece, and bought him a bus ticket. And when he got there, that’s all he had.”

From that beginning, he became Dr. Cleveland Chandler. He is chairman of the economics department at Howard University. How did they do it, starting on one of the poorest farms in the poorest part of the poorest state in America? “We worked,” says Princess Chandler Norman.

Source: WAFB 9 @theblackdetournews

@sooooooomississippi

[phoenixyfriend]

…hey so I know the obvious modern AU Sanji is a restaurant chef, but how do we feel about former-starving-child Sanji getting a degree as a registered dietician?

Possibly specializing in recovery for malnutrition in children.

[faithhopeloveandtherapy]

Life with Mr 7 and Miss 5 continues to tick on quite steadily. It feels less like living with a ticking timebomb now. We can generally head the meltdown off before it starts. Weekdays are very routine with school and just down time at home after school, and weekends we keep quite busy with various activities and new experiences for the children. I’ve got one to one swimming lessons lined up for Mr 7 over the summer, and they both get two days a week holiday club. We have a week away booked in August. I’m feeling like the school holidays are quite under control.

Miss 5 is non verbal but we are getting lots more squeals and excited stimming, and she is gaining weight and growing a bit, despite her diet of weetabix. Actually I’ve spoken to the dietician and we have agreed that weetabix and oat milk, both of which are fortified with vitamins, provides a pretty reasonable amount of nutrition. Anyway she is still tiny and way below the 0.4th centile. I do believe this is largely caused by years of chronic malnutrition and neglect. She has been failed by the system that should have protected her.

The two of them will be with us for many months yet and I don’t know what direction their future will go in.

[fatehbaz]

In the 19th century, British colonists faced several challenges in India, [...] [including] malaria. [...] The imperialists needed an answer to the problem and they found it in quinine. [...] [T]he British promptly embraced quinine, consuming tonnes of it every year by the mid-1800s. [...] Quinine was so bitter that soldiers and officials began mixing the powder with soda and sugar, unwittingly giving birth to “tonic water”. [...] [I]t prompted Winston Churchill to once proclaim, “The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen’s lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.” [...] If by some good fortune malaria did not claim them, plague, cholera, dysentery, enteric fever, hepatitis or the unforgiving sun could. Preserving and protecting the body was [...] crucial to the success of the colonial project. As historian EM Collingham aptly summarised in her study, “The British experience of India was intensely physical.”

One way the colonists tried to deal with this challenge was through food and drinks. “The association between food and the maintenance of health was a concern of Anglo-Indian doctors, dieticians and the British authorities throughout the duration of colonial rule [...],” writes Sam Goodman in Unpalatable Truths: Food and Drink as Medicine in Colonial British India. [...]

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The Medical Gazette, for instance, recommended treating dysentery with a “low diet” comprising thin chicken soup [...]. Botanist-physician George Watt too extolled the virtues of sago. In A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India (1893), he wrote that sago is “easily digestible and wholly destitute of irritating properties” and in demand [...]. For fever, weakness and sundry ailments, beef tea [...] was considered an ideal remedy. And for cholera, The Seamen’s New Medical Guide (1842) prescribed brandy during the worst of the sickness and half a tumbler of mulled wine with toasted bread and castor oil [...]. Ship masters and pantrymen would stock their vessels with foods with known medicinal benefits such as sago, arrowroot, lime juice, desiccated milk and condensed milk (the iconic Anglo Swiss Condensed Milk tins, later known as Milkmaid, enjoyed a permanent spot on British ships).

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Businessmen too recognised the precarity of life abroad and realised that therein lay a perfect commercial opportunity. By the 19th century, numerous companies had cropped up across Europe, including in England, that would sell food in hermetically sealed tin containers.

One of these was Messrs Brand & Co. Recommended highly in Culinary Jottings for Madras by Colonel Robert Kenney-Herbert, Messrs Brand & Co had several offerings [...]: essence of beef, concentrated beef tea, beef tea jelly, meat lozenges, [...] potted meat, York and game pie, and A1 sauce [...]. Another company, John Moir & Sons, focused mostly on canned soups [...], selling oxtail, turtle, giblet and hare.

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By the late 19th century such was the popularity of canned foods that rare would be the pantry in a colonial home that didn’t store them along with medical provisions like opium, quinine, chlorodyne and Fowler’s solution (an arsenic compound). [...] As Flora Steele and Grace Gardiner wrote in The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, “A good mistress will remember the breadwinner requires blood-forming nourishment, and the children whose constitutions are being built up day by day, sickly or healthy, according to the food given them; and bear in mind the fact that in India, especially, half the comfort of life depends on clean, wholesome, digestible food.”

To assist the British woman in this ostensible duty, there were a number of cookbooks and housekeeping manuals [...]. The Englishwoman in India, for instance, published in 1864 under the pseudonym A Lady Resident, had a whole section with recipes for “infants and invalids”. These included carrot pap cooked into a congee with arrowroot [...] and toast water (well-toasted bread soaked in water). Steele and Gardiner too had a few recipe recommendations [...], including champagne jelly (“most useful in excessive vomiting”) and the dangerous-sounding Cannibal Broth (beef essence), which they said should be consumed with cream [...] to treat extreme debility and typhoid. [...]

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One dish born of this encounter was the pish pash. The pish pash is considered an invention of the colonial cook, who adapted the kedgeree – the colonial cousin of khichdi – into a light nursery food. The famous Hobson-Jobson defined it as “a slop of rice soup with small pieces of meat” [...]. None other than Warren Hastings, the first governor-general of Bengal, gave confirmation of its efficacy when in 1784 he wrote to his wife from the sick bed [...]. There are enough records to show that the imperialists counted marh (starch water from cooked rice) and bael (wood apple) sherbet among their go-to remedies and benefited from the medicinal qualities of chiretta water and ajwain-infused water.

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All text above by: Priyadarshini Chatterjee. “How food came to the rescue of the British in India.” Scroll.in (Magazine format). 26 April 2023. [Bold emphasis and some paragraph breaks/contractions added by me.]

[lean-mean-demon-genevieve]

On a serious note…Fuck off, Genevieve, you Almond Mom ass bitch.

This is the type of thing that makes me incredibly angry as a person with intimate knowledge of disordered eating and treatment.

I could rant for several paragraphs but instead I will just say this:

G is not a doctor, nor a dietician, nor a therapist. She is not a reliable, unbiased source for this kind of messaging, and neither is “Naturalnursemomma” who has brand deals with several of the “clean” products. G is probably hoping to get her attention with this shoutout.

G is a wealthy, elitist SAHM with admitted anxiety and history of disordered eating. She has ample access to the products on the right and zero worries about having adequate access to food or healthcare in general. While she has also said that she avoids talking about diets in front of her children, this is effectively the same thing.

Check out @foodsciencebabe on IG, Tik Tok, or FB for research-based food info you can actually use.

[wantonlywindswept]

friend! anything new in your life? what's the last thing that made you smile?

hope you have a spectacular day 💙

hello darling!

my wife and i have recently been watching these ex-gymnast youtubers who commit shenanigans and they did a video where they tried women's gymnastics, including the balance beam, and. well. accidents happened that you might expect to happen involving a balance beam, but women do not have the same problem that men do if they land straddling something between their legs

very unfortunate for the guy's potential future children but i was weeping with laughter

as for other things, a lot of my life recently has been revolving around food, but not necessarily in a bad way?

cut for eating disorder things

so turns out i actually DO have an eating disorder, it's just not a useful one that makes people skinny (this is not how EDs work and is a terrible thing to say, i am saying it anyway because those were my initial Depression thoughts). mine's more to do with sensory issues and a lack of wanting to eat that just leads to nutritional problems instead.

earlier this year i had a couple months where i was eating one, maybe two meals a day, and that was kinda when i went 'yeah alright, this is a problem', but there was always that thought of 'okay but is it REALLY?' and it turns out that yes! yes it is

so I've started seeing a therapist that specializes in EDs and talking to a dietician on the regular, and it's actually been pretty good? like some of it has been a kind of validation of 'yes you do have problems with eating and it still matters even if you're overweight', and getting encouragement for eating better. (we are currently aiming for at least 2 meals and a snack. 3 meals is still. iffy. but i greatly appreciate taking small bitty steps instead of jumping right to that.)

and some of it too is focusing on the nutrition part, which mostly amounts to balance and adding more colors to your plate, which has led to multiple instances of me pointing at a fruit or vegetable i've gotten and defensively going 'look! it has color!' to my wife's amusement and agreement. it isn't dieting, but just adding more things (....i just realized how sneaky that is to get me to eat more in general. well played, doctor) that have nutritional benefit.

also my dietician went on a five-minute rant about how BMI is absolute horseshit and how she hates doctors who use it and tell people to do things based off of it (side note, my gastroenterologist basically said 'hey you're obese and you need to lose 20 lbs over the next three months' which hilariously skipped me straight over self-loathing right to 'wow that is unfeasible and absolutely not going to happen'), which then segued into how awful and useless diet culture is

so basically i would die for her

[kanupriyakhanna]

Stay Hydrated When You Are Breastfeeding - Kanupriya

According to studies, it’s recommended that you drink more water than usual when you’re breastfeeding. Since your breast milk is made up of about 90 percent water, it’s important to drink plenty of water each day while planning your diet during your lactation period. Drinking enough water will not only keep you healthy and hydrated but will also help you produce and maintain your breast milk supply.

Tips to Get Enough Water Each Day

It can be difficult to keep a track of how much water you’re drinking when you are a busy new mom. A good way to get enough water in your breastfeeding meal plan is to keep a bottle of water near you to sip while you’re nursing. That way, you’ll be sure to gulp sufficient water when you need.

“Time” your water intake if you have a hard time remembering to drink it. Set an alarm for every hour and try to sip a few ounces each time the alarm goes off. You will soon be in the habit of drinking water.

You can also carry your water bottle with you when you’re on the go. Keep it in your diaper bag, or in the stroller pocket. By having water handy, you’ll be more likely to consume enough water throughout the day.

Check if You Are Consuming Enough Water

One way to determine if you are consuming enough water is to pay close attention to your urine. If your urine is almost clear or a pale yellow in colour — it means you are drinking enough water. However, if the urine is dark yellow or you realize that you are urinating less often than usual- then it’s a sign that you are probably dehydrated.

Recommended Water Intake During Breastfeeding During breastfeeding, the average intake of water should be minimum 3 litres. However, if you need precise information on how much water you should consume as per your health condition — contact Kanupriya Khanna. A certified nutritionist from Delhi, Kanupriya will not only share tips on how to get the right amount of water during breastfeeding but will also help you plan a good post delivery diet to stay healthy.

[inlibrariusvenefica]

Lunar Return July 2, 2024-August 25, 2024

Lunar Moon in 5H

Amusement, back, chances, children, dating, concerts, theaters, movies, creativity, heart, hobbies, things of pleasure

Balsamic Moon

The conclusion of the cycle. Reaping what you have sown. Carrying out your mission. Culminating karma. A time to rest and recuperate; reflect and meditate. Letting go of the past. Embracing the future

Capricorn Ascendant (Theme of the Month)

Architects, bones, bruises, business matters, cemeteries, civil service, clocks, colds, dark places, employers, frozen places, government, hair, ice, joints, mountains, anything that is old, politicians, skin, vocations, watches. Ambition, authority, callous, organized, career focused, pessimistic, cynical, practical, reserved, disciplined, status, miserly, mean, late bloomer

Ascendant Ruler in 2nd House

Banks, bank balance, budgets, cash, how you spend your money, material possessions, possessions, jewelry as possessions, purchasing, base of the skull, self-esteem, taxation, throat, vocal chords, voice

LR Ascendant at 18° (Virgo degree)

Abdomen, animals in general, civil service, clothing, critical people, detail, dentists, diet/dieticians, doctors, editing, employees, one’s employment, fingers, food in general, gardens, hands, healing and healers, health, hygiene, illness, intestines, labor, libraries, nerves, pets, refrigerators, scientists, secretaries, stores, tailors, textiles, detailed or practical work. Analytical, careful, neat, organized, critical, cynical, perfectionist, practical, productive, reserved, skeptical, self-doubt, modest, irritable

Other Things

Venus conjunct Descendant= More social. Good relationships with others.

Sun square North Node= May get too comfortable in some part of your life, but feel like time is running out. Evolving toward a greater purpose

Mercury opposite Pluto= Watch out for arguments, be care of being manipulative.

Venus trine Saturn= Views on love may mature. More careful with your money. Relationships may strengthen

Saturn sextile Ascendant= High self-discipline. Getting along with people if you think they are serious.

Moon conjunct Jupiter= Feeling happy and content. There may be a woman who may have an influence on your spiritual development

[never-not-ever]

Hold up you got a job as a counsellor with some of the most unstable children needing secure treatment without any education in a mental health or social work field?

America is wild

I think you're confusing licensed counselors who do therapy and the mental health counselors/technicians/specialists, support workers, behavior techs that are at the "low entry" part of an inpatient unit.

There's a huge difference between a Licensed Mental Health "Counselor" and what my job was. There's a team consisting of a psychiatrist/doctor, a social worker and a dietician. They did the hard work, the "therapy". MHC/MHS do basic things on a unit like checks, non-therapeutic groups like games, wrap up, art activity, take patients outside for fresh air, monitor meals, assist in restraints, de-escalate during times of high stress, take vitals. Very basic.

I'd check in with my patients and listen to them and I'd often say "I'm just a measly counselor, I wish I could do more to help" but honestly just being there to listen was enough. I know first hand as a patient how helpful it was being able to vent and talk to the counselors who are almost always available.

[kiwidotcom]

just found out 'mommy makeovers' are a thing. where women undergo multiple surgeries at once to get their 'old bodies back' after having children.

multiple MULTIPLE women have died while getting this done. or suffered life long consequences.

trying to 'fix' their bodies that literally created children. they created humans with their bodies and society told them their bodies are wrong.

celebrities are constantly praised for getting their bodies back. celebrities are able to afford childcare and cooks and cleaners and dieticians and personal trainers.

which is not to say the pressure is still unfair. Victoria Beckham was WEIGHED ON LIVE TELEVISION. to 'check' that she had. returned to her previous weight

all of this makes my blood boil. but to top all of it off.

'Dad bods' are praised in society.

which they absolutely should be. but why isn't the same grace granted to women ☹️☹️☹️

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.20

Holidays

Alien Abduction Day

American Diabetes Association Alert Day

Atheist Pride Day [also 6.20]

Bibliomania Day

Big Bird Day

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Day

Culture Day and Creative Intelligentsia Day (Tajikistan)

Dibber Day (French Republic)

Dogs in Yellow Day

Durham Day (UK)

Extraterrestrial Abductions Day 

Festival of Extraterrestrial Abductions

French Language Day (a.k.a. International Francophonie Day; UN)

Ghode Jatra (Horse Festival; Nepal)

Global Message Makes Me Happy & Healthy Day

Great British Spring Clean Day (UK)

Hufflepuff Pride Day

International Astrology Day

International Day of Happiness (UN)

International Francophonie Day

Kiss Your Fiancé Day

Lajos Kossuth Day (Hungary)

Legba Zaou (Haiti)

Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Awareness Day

Macaron Day NYC

Mesopotamian/Sumerian Grain Festival (Honoring Ashnan)

Minion Day (Japan)

Mister Rogers Day

National Arts Advocacy Day

National Backyard Bird Photography Day

National Cherry Blossom Festival begins (Washington DC)

National Day of Italian Universities Day (Italy)

National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

National Jump Out! Day

National Marketing Day

National Plagiocephaly & Torticollis Awareness Day

National Vanessa Day

National Westie Day

Oil Nationalization Day (Iran)

Pigeons Return to City-County Building (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)

P320 Day

Smile Rejuvenation Day

Very Hungary Caterpillar Day

Won't You Be My Neighbor? Day

Won’t You Wear a Sweater Day

World Behavior Analysis Day

World Day of Theater for Children and Young People

World Frog Day

World Head Injury Awareness Day

World NIDCAP Day

World Oral Health Day

World Rewinding Day

World Rights to Water Day

World Sparrow Day

Zipper Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bock Beer Day (New York) [also 2nd Monday]

Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day

Macaron Day

National Ravioli Day

World Flour Day

3rd Wednesday in March

Engineer’s Day (Belgium; Netherlands) [3rd Wednesday]

Kick Butts Day [3rd Wednesday]

National Carry Out Day (a.k.a. Carry Out Wednesday) [3rd Wednesday]

National Dietician’s Day (Canada) [3rd Wednesday]

National SBDC Day [3rd Wednesday]

Small Business Development Day [3rd Wednesday]

Independence & Related Days

Blackland (a.k.a. Kingdom of Blackland; Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]

Conzorica (a.k.a. Federal Republics of Conzorica; Declared; 2014)

Kirkuk Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)

Otango Province Anniversary (New Zealand)

Qootärlænt (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]

Rezaxia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

Tunisia (from France, 1956)

New Year’s Days

Baha’i New Year

Nowruz (New Year) [Day 1, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 

Bahá'í Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í)

Naruz (Afghan New Year)

Navruz (Tajikistan, Ukbekistan)

Norooz (Iran)

Novruz Bairam (a.k.a. Persian New Year; Azerbaijan)

Nowrūz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians; California)

Rosicrucian New Year

Festivals Beginning March 20, 2024

Jazz & Rhythms Festival (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico) [thru 3.24]

Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 3.24]

National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, DC) [thru 4.14]

Trans-Siberian Art Festival (Novosibirsk, Russia) [thru 4.7]

Feast Days

Alexandra (Christian; Saint)

Apple Magic Day (For Norse Goddess Idunn; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Big Bird (Muppetism)

Blessed John of Parma (Christian; Saint)

Clement of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint) [maltsters]

Day Sacred to the Goddess Fortuna, the Morrigan, the Norns, the Three Fates, and the Three Mothers (Lakshmi, Parvati, and Sarasvati)

Edward Poynter (Artology)

Extraterrestrial Abductions Day (Pastafarian)

Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema)

Festival For Driving Out All Evils (Inca)

Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

George Caleb Bingham (Artology)

Henrik Ibsen (Writerism)

Herbert of Derwentwater (Christian; Saint)

John Lavery (Artology)

John of Nepomuk (Christian; Saint)

Józef Bilczewski (Christian; Saint)

María Josefa Sancho de Guerra (Christian; Saint)

Martin of Braga (Christian; Saint)

The Martyrs of Mar Saba (Christian; Martyrs)

Michele Carcano (Christian; Saint)

Philo of Alexandria (Positivist; Saint)

Photina and Her Companions (Christian; Martyrs)

Quinquatria, Day 2: Wrestling Day (Pagan)

Spring Harvest Festival (Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)

Wulfram (Christian; Saint)

Xena Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Zagmuk (Festival celebrating the Resurrection of Marduk)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 79 [22 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [17 of 60]

Premieres

After Hours, by The Weekend (Album; 2020)

Armchair Apocrypha, by Andrew Bird (Album; 2007)

Avalanche is Better None or Snows You Old Man (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 33; 1960)

Back Off Boogaloo, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1972)

Basic Instinct (Film; 1992)

Below Zero Heroes or I Only Have Ice for You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 34; 1960)

The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot), by Aleister Crowley (Tarot Book; 1944)

Bosko’s Easter Eggs (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)

Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 2000)

Cannibal Capers (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)

The Cats Bah (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)

Dumb-Hounded (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1943)

Duplicity (Film; 2009)

Fractured Friendship (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)

Hollywood Shuffle (Film; 1987)

Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (Novel; 1962)

I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 1990)

I Love You, Man (Film; 2009)

The Impossible Possum, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1954)

Insurgent (Film; 2015)

Knowing (Film; 2009)

Lady Chatterly’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1928)

Man of La Mancha (Broadway Musical; 1965)

Meet the Temptations, by The Temptations (Album; 1964)

Neptune Nonsense (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)

Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Disney Cartoon; 1921)

Noises Off (Film; 1992)

Off to China (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)

The Pink Panther (Film; 1964)

The Postman Always Rings Twice (Film; 1981)

The Romance of Betty Boop (Animated TV Film; 1985)

The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel; 1850)

Sham Battle Shenanigans (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)

Straight, No Chaser, by Thelonious Monk (Album; 1967)

Symphony Hour (Disney Cartoon; 1942)

Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Film; 1988)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Novel; 1857)

Wacky Quacky (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)

What Price Fleadom (MGM Cartoon; 1948)

Wild Things (Film; 1998)

Ye Olde Songs, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)

Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel (Philosophy Book; 1948)

Zombeavers (Film; 2015)

Today’s Name Days

Claudia, Wolfram (Austria)

Ivan, Nicet, Pavao (Croatia)

Světlana (Czech Republic)

Gordius (Denmark)

Malve, Malvi, Malviine (Estonia)

Aki, Jaakkima, Joakim, Jooa, Kim, Kimi (Finland)

Herbert, Printemps (France)

Claudia, Wolfram (Germany)

Claudia, Rodi, Rodianos (Greece)

Klaudia (Hungary)

Alessandra,, Claudia (Italy)

Irbe, Made, Magda, Magdalēna (Latvia)

Filomenas, Imgarda, Irma, Tautvilė, Žygimantas (Lithuania)

Joakim, Kim (Norway)

Aleksander, Aleksandra, Ambroży, Anatol, Bogusław, Cyriaka, Eufemia, Klaudia, Patrycjusz, Ruprecht, Wasyl, Wincenty (Poland)

Víťazoslav (Slovakia)

Alejandra, Daniel, Martín (Spain)

Joakim, Kim (Sweden)

Dillan, Dillion, Dillon, Drew, Dru, Dylan, Dylon (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 80 of 2024; 286 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 3 of week 12 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 4 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 11 (Guy-Wei)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 10 Adair II 5784

Islamic: 10 Ramadan 1445

J Cal: 20 Green; Sixday [20 of 30]

Julian: 7 March 2024

Moon: 82%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 24 Aristotle (3rd Month) [John the Evangelist]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 2 of 92)

Week: 3rd Week of March

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 31 of 31)

[genderqueerpositivity]

Just how many people are transgender in the United States is not clear, but in South Carolina it could be nearly 3,000 children, according to a Post and Courier analysis.

In a letter sent amid the budget debate, MUSC said emphatically it does not offer gender reassignment surgery to anyone under 18. Its services for transgender children, offered since 2007, include “access to mental health providers, endocrine medicine providers, social workers and dieticians,” Dr. David Zaas, CEO of MUSC Health’s Charleston Division, wrote in the letter dated March 29.

But the letter didn’t appease Sen. Josh Kimbrell, who authored the ban on MUSC providing gender-transitioning services for minors.

“It doesn’t really say what they do, that’s the problem,” said the Spartanburg Republican, responding to Democrats who accused him of trying to deprive children who may be suicidal of mental health care. “They expressly say what they don’t do, but they don’t clarify what they do.”

Denying that he wanted to withhold lifesaving counseling from any child, he added, “I do, however, think it’s inappropriate for the state to fund a clinic whose whole purpose is to encourage a child to make a decision that may be irreversible.”

Approval of the budget directive that applies only to MUSC came more than a year after a Democrat in the House filed a bill broadly banning gender-transitioning surgery and hormones for anyone under 18. That bill, co-sponsored by one other Democrat and 28 Republicans, drew the ire of his party leaders and got national attention, but it went nowhere in the Statehouse.

″(Opponents of transitioning) tried to pass gender-affirming bans last year and failed at passing a ban,” Condon said. “So instead (they) just used financial pressure with the budget proviso that was included.”

Officially, a state budget directive applies only to taxpayer money approved by the Legislature. But it can be virtually impossible for any public agency to prove a specific program and its employees are wholly funded by other sources. And ignoring legislators’ budget orders can put future public funding at risk.

This fiscal year, MUSC is getting $188.9 million in state funding, but that is 3.5 percent of its $5.4 billion total budget, according to state budget documents and MUSC officials.

After first being assured MUSC could still continue transgender care for minors without touching state funding, Condon said there was an apparent change of heart later last year.

“They felt like the easier way to handle it was to stop providing this care,” she said. So, for the doctors who were prescribing care, “now the doctor’s boss is saying, ‘Don’t do it because it is politically unfavorable,’” Condon said.

MUSC also canceled an LGBT health conference it was slated to host later this month, which is now being picked up by Condon’s group without any participation from MUSC.

It remains unclear when exactly MUSC ended the services. But the result stands Mia among an estimated 150 patients of that pediatric clinic in downtown Charleston scrambling to find treatment elsewhere, even as they have yet to receive official notice from MUSC.

[trivialbob]

A big box was on the front step. Oh, what is this? Socks! I love new socks and, were I a billionaire, I’d wear a brand new pair every day. Maybe even twice a day. Think of the money I’d save on laundry detergent and hot water!

You know what else went through my mind? How many new socks I could  purchase at Target for what my wife paid for these. However, with her order, she included three “normal” pairs for me. They comfort me as well as Thanksgiving dinner.

Today we went to our local brewery for it’s one-year anniversary. Sheila and I had two beers and played cards. It was busy enough that some people had to stand. Our table was a four-top, so we offered the other two chairs to two strangers. We had a fun time getting to know each other. I enjoyed it. 30-year-old Bob would have been uncomfortable with that much socializing.

A guy sitting near us was wearing a sweatshirt for the company that de-ices planes at MSP. Sheila saw it and said, “I’ll wait here while you go ask him 25 questions about de-icing planes. The nice gentleman gladly told me all about de-icing aircraft. The green stuff is glycol. When I retire that might be a fun job if I don’t drive a Zamboni.

Now we’re back home, watching Shrinking. After 1.5 episodes I have to say this is a great show. Some Ted Lasso people are involved in writing and producing this, and I can tell.

Some actors in Shrinking have not aged well. Jason Segel is older, but looks good for his age. But I didn’t believe Sheila when she said the Ted McGinley character looked familiar. No way, I’ve never seen that guy before, I said. Oops, IMDB told me he was Marcy’s second husband in Married With Children.

Harrison Ford does have the look of a Hollywood superstar who can afford the finest trainers and dieticians. Oh this is so sad: I loved Christa Miller in The Drew Carey Show and even somewhat on Scrubs. Then she had work done on her face. Ewwww, ladies, please, no, never. The recent Madonna pictures are cringey. Christa isn’t much better. I’d love to see what she’s look like without having that work done.

A picture of my bed warmers. They didn’t get to go to the brewery today and are very happy Sheila and I are home now.