FBite

 Beautiful sunny day today, but at -20° C and slightly windy, not

a day for a stroll. Looked up the relationship between windchill and frostbite, 

and here is the story.

source: National Weather Service, US.

F_Folk

 

Upsetting!

 

Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’ (msn.com)

Did seem to me odd at the time that experts were dismissing the Wuhan leak 

explanation out of hand. 'Doing harm to science' is the kind of immature response

one does not expect from adult professionals. I'm dumbfounded.

There is such a thing as public health policy, and it has to rest on total transparency

from all concerned 😒

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The US is coming off as the dult on the room on this one: they are

introducing sanctions on individuals and organizations that are facilitating

North Korea's continuing development of ballistic missiles:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/12/politics/north-korea-sanctions-missile-test/index.html

Crowds

 My Covid booster shot - first time with Moderna - hit pretty hard.

I fell asleep during the day with my clothes on, it was so powerful. Feeling

fine today, but now the weather is so cold I shouldn't leave the house until

tomorrow...Brrr 

Watching some YoutTube by periodically erasing my watch history, so I

am essentially watching what is trending. Below, two right interesting pieces

on Ancient Rome from yesterday. A moving crowd is a thing!!!

Handling It

 Not sure how I feel about this. Nobody wants to live in an 

endless emergency but social conditions have changed. the world

population is currently in billions, and the economy globalized.

I am also leery of the argument that vaccines are ineffective because

there are always new variants. Consider: we are seeing new variants in

hospitals but not the original virus. That tells me vaccination has been

successful in controlling it 😉

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/us/politics/former-biden-advisers-pandemic-strategy.html

Obe

 Once and for all, the lowdown on obesity:

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FAT CELLS

Fat cells are formed in the womb. It is in the period

between infancy and adolescence that the majority of fat cells

are formed. If fat deposits exceed the capacity of a cell, an adult 

can generate a new fat cell but this capacity is less as we age, and

stops completely in old age.

Fat cells themselves are replaced every ten years. In that period, the contents 

of the cell will change six times. (This is the healthy standard. Older people

whose fat cell contents does not renew might be more prone to illness.)

So two people of the same weight and sex can have very different fat

cell numbers and distribution on their bodies. Liposuction will actually remove 

fat cells altogether but there is a danger. If one gains weight after liposuction, 

the fat will appear somewhere else on the body because fat cell production

is signaled from an already full cell.

In extensio, one can assume that one's body fat distribution will be a function 

of the rate at which those initial cells were built up. If it happened with caloric binge

events, there might be more visceral fat as the body hurries to store all that fat.

If it was leisurely, there will be fat on the buttocks and other extremeties.

Below, very nice results with arms from a Parisian surgeon. Younger patients

might just have liposuction and the skin will spring back. In other cases, skin

also needs to be removed leaving a scar which will fade over six months.

https://docteur-picovski.com/intervention/lifting-des-bras/

Crisp

 I must admit that starting off the new year back in lockdown

sent me in a bit of a spin. It's cold as heck, and waiting outside

to get into the grocery store is just that element of annoyance which

seems all too much. Plowing through, here.

In the spirit of this situation, I did make a resolution for the New Year: 

that of not gaining any weight - ever - over the next year. Because all that 

means is that one needs to take it off.

Been binge-watching YouTube videos about cruises. They're poignant, really.

Showing people having a grand old time before the corona. I was never much

drawn to them in the past because I am very sensitive to motion sickness.

All that free liquor and food in a moving ship. Why!?

On the up side, Rice Krispies are back on offer at a local store. During the

great shortage of said, discovered Crispix, which has half corn, half rice puffed

nuggets. Quite acceptabe, really🕵️‍♀️