I can’t even eat shelf-stable bagels nowadays. They all have added sugar. I buy from the bakery instead, but they only last a few days before getting sad. I even get low-sugar jam and ketchup and very rarely use sugar in my own house
After not eating excess sugar for long enough, you begin to taste the hidden sugar in everything. Sauces and all sorts of foods that don’t need sugar.
My opinion is, most likely the OH GOP caught wind that the GOP is gaining unpopularity and abortion is an especially losing topic for them, and realized that a legislative takeover of the democratic process may be a little massively unpopular.
As do we, as we will often buy two or three dozen at a time (good bagels are 10 miles away AND whoever’s buying them is in that area already).
I cannot think of a good statement to keep this on-topic, though.
This rings true for me. I had a “geriatric pregnancy” (yes that’s really the term for pregnancies where mom will be age 35+ on the due date) and during labor there was a scary moment when Mini Me’s heart rate suddenly slowed way down. I’m not exactly sure what happened but all of a sudden an alarm was buzzing and an array of doctors & nurses materialized out of nowhere and a few minutes later everything was fine, thank goodness. I’m not exactly sure why there was a problem in the first place or what they did about it, but they certainly were all over it. They may well have told me but I was quite sleep deprived at that point. The important thing was that Mini Me was fine.
Doctors and other medical staff not listening to women or believing their accounts of pain or things feeling wrong is a major problem with maternity care in the US, too.
Not listening to the patient is what nearly killed Serena Williams
She knew she needed heparin. She knew her medical history, and told her care team. And they ignored her until it was nearly too late.
The wealthier areas have adequate infrastructure and people, while the poorer areas have crumbling infrastructure and less people. Thats how you end up with the diverging outcomes over time.
It all comes down to Brexit (masses of skilled EU nurses and midwives left), and lack of investment (into building and maintaining new hospitals). Many deprived areas of the UK have the trifecta: poor maternal nutrition, poor access to quality healthcare, and poor tracking of pregnancy.
Most people with ££ avoid these problems now by going to private hospitals (with maternity wings). I expect this trend to continue.
This current Texas case is heart breaking. I can’t imagine desperately wanting a baby and being in a position where you have to abort b/c your fetus won’t be viable and carrying it to term can jeopardize the chance of a future pregnancy. And then having to go to court to be able to do the right thing. And then even after winning in court have the state AG still trying to block you.
First an article about her successful challenge
and then one from later in the day about Ken Paxton being a douche.
These are the stories that need to come out. I’d like to hear a lay-person defend the AG’s actions. I was hoping to see a counter-suit for emotional distress
Ill take a shot (despite not supporting the law at all) - the AG does not believe the mothers life is in jeopardy yet and so the ban still applies. That callousness is just a consistent application of the law and its his job to remind everyone. (F’ing nonsense as it is.)
That’s contested. It’s chemically very similar to cane sugar. Or rather, HFCS 55 is very similar to what sucrose becomes when it’s split in your gut into fructose and glucose.
As a sweetener, HFCS is often compared to granulated sugar, but manufacturing advantages of HFCS over sugar include that it is cheaper.[4] “HFCS 42” and “HFCS 55” refer to dry weight fructose compositions of 42% and 55% respectively, the rest being glucose.[5] HFCS 42 is mainly used for processed foods and breakfast cereals, whereas HFCS 55 is used mostly for production of soft drinks.[5]
Cane sugar is nearly pure sucrose
It is rapidly split in the gut into equal numbers of molecules of glucose and fructose.
I believe that Samantha was discussing the Texas Supreme Court… the ones who overturned the lower court’s decision to let the woman have an abortion. This hasn’t gone to the US Supreme Court… yet.
In all fairness, the lone star carpet might not be enough of a clue that this is the Texas Supreme Court, and no one outside of a lawyer in Texas should be expected to recognize them. But even if you don’t know the US Supreme Court justices by sight, the fact that it’s 9 white people is a tip off that Thomas and Sotomayor and Brown Jackson aren’t in the picture.
