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This Holiday’s Threat to Your Health and Well-Being! Create a New You in 2019 By Dr. Greg Fors, DC, Board-certified Neurologist

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One out of two Americans either have early diabetes or full-blown type II diabetes: Good chances you are one of them. And, this holiday season, with its holiday treats of sugar and carbs, only increase your chances. This devastating epidemic can take from you, or a loved one, legs, kidneys, eyes, heart and/or brain. Surprisingly, new evidence is now showing that you do not have to wait to be fully diabetic to have these things stripped from your life. Why not do something about it right now? You Do Not Have to Wait to Be Diabetic to Be Damaged: It turns out during the silent “prediabetic” phase spikes in glucose and insulin after eating are causing damage to your body. You don’t realize this because your yearly physical is only looking at your fasting blood glucose. When you are prediabetic most of the time your glucose will return to normal with a 12 hour fast before your blood draw. Furthermore, on this yearly physical, your doctor is not measuring your insulin levels or your hemoglobin A1c which will show your pre-diabetes well before an abnormal fasting glucose will. Because of this you remain ignorant of the damage being done to your body. What Is Your Chance of Being Prediabetic? According to the U.S. CDC more than 1 in 3, numbering over 86 million Americans, have the early stages of diabetes type II or prediabetes. Alarmingly, 9 out of 10 of these people do not realize they have this condition. Worse yet those who are diagnosed do not take it seriously enough because the doctor told him it’s “only” pre- diabetes. Really there is no such thing as pre-diabetes, truly there is only early stages of diabetes or full-blown diabetes. The Signs of Early Diabetes or “Prediabetes”: The cause of type II diabetes is insulin resistance. This is where your cells are no longer hearing the signal of insulin to take in the blood glucose. Therefore, your blood glucose and insulin levels rise after eating causing damage to your cells. One of the first signs of insulin resistance is easy weight gain difficult weight loss. Why? Because insulin is the hormone that tells your body to store fat and not to break down fat. Another early sign of insulin resistance or pre-diabetes is high blood pressure and/or elevated blood fats such as triglycerides and LDL cholesterol. Both factors will lead to heart disease and stroke. Also, numbness, tingling and pain in your legs are often a sign of pre-diabetes and the possible eventual loss of function in your legs. This happens even before being diagnosed with diabetes, because post meal glucose spikes are damaging the nerves in your legs. Because prediabetes has already damaged the nerves in nearly half of those newly diagnosed with diabetes, it is vital for anyone over the age of 35 to be properly tested for pre-diabetes and early signs of nerve damage. I can’t emphasize this enough. If you think you may have prediabetes, or have been diagnosed with diabetes, you need to see a doctor who will look carefully for the early signs of peripheral neuropathy. Furthermore, 30% of you with prediabetes will develop full-blown type II diabetes within five years if something doesn’t change. Therefore, you need to see a doctor who knows how to test for the earliest indications for pre-diabetes and then knows how to reverse it through a safe natural approach. That way you do not have to worry about continually gaining weight and losing your eyes, kidneys, heart or brain to diabetes. Pre-diabetes and Type II Diabetes - What Won’t Fix This: The pharmaceutical industry would have you believe that controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ and nerve damage and early death. And, that type II diabetes is not reversible. Don’t you believe it! A new study published by Mayo Researchers found that the use of drugs to control your blood glucose levels showed no significant benefit in reducing the risk of dialysis, kidney transplant, renal death, blindness, or neuropathy. What this Mayo Study and the famous Accord Study is telling us, the well-intentioned efforts of your conventional doctor’s intervention with prescription drugs to control your blood glucose levels, will not save you from the damage of diabetes! Worse Yet, Alzheimer’s Is Now Being Called Type III Diabetes: Yes, that’s right! New research is showing that one of the primary driving forces behind the new Alzheimer’s and dementia epidemic is insulin resistance of the brain. This is happening even in the stages of prediabetes and of course in full-blown diabetes. What are the primary symptoms: elevated blood glucose levels after meals with, brain fog, decreased cognitive function, depression, anxiety, insomnia all signs of brain inflammation driven by insulin resistance. Do you want to keep your brain, your eyesight, your legs, kidney function, heart health? Are you going to allow yourself to be a victim of this devastating epidemic! Find out if you have pre-diabetes and what you can do to reverse it. Or, possibly you already have type II diabetes and you want to reverse this before it’s too late. Join me Dr. Greg Fors at one of my FREE “Reversing Your Pre-diabetes or Diabetes” Health Workshops—Monday, January 29th or Wednesday, January 30th at 7 PM at the Pain and Brain Healing Center 1400 131st Ave NE Blaine. Call 763-862-7100 to register. Seating is limited.

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► On Dec. 18, 1620, the British ship Mayflower docks at modern-day Plymouth, Massachusetts, and its passengers prepare to begin their new settlement, Plymouth Colony. By spring, 50 of the original 102 Mayflower passengers were dead of illness and starvation. ► On Dec. 22, 1900, the first car to be produced under the “Mercedes” name is delivered to its buyer: Emil Jellinek, the Austrian car racer. Jellinek was so confident it would win races that he bought 36 of them, and the company agreed to name its new machine after Jellinek’s daughter, Mercedes.

1945, Japanese American “evacuees” orders of the king. The Christian world force bent on reversing the federal from the West Coast could return to their was shocked, and in 1173 Becket was government’s progressive reconstruction homes from internment camps. canonized a Catholic saint. activities. ► On Dec. 23, 1968, the crew and captain of the U.S. intelligence-gathering ship Pueblo are released after 11 months’ imprisonment by the government of North Korea. The Pueblo and its 83-man crew had been seized by North Korean warships and charged with intruding into North Korean waters. ► On Dec. 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members. A bomb hidden in an audio cassette player detonated in the cargo area when the plane was at 31,000 feet.

► On Dec. 29, 1170, Archbishop Thomas Becket is brutally murdered in ► On Dec. 17, 1944, Public Proclamation Canterbury Cathedral by four knights of No. 21, declares that, effective Jan. 2, King Henry II of England, apparently on

► On Dec. 26, 1606, William Shakespeare’s play “King Lear” is performed at the court of King James I of England. Lear was one of Shakespeare’s later works.

► On Dec. 25, 1941, “White Christmas,” written by composer and lyricist Irving Berlin, receives its world premiere on Bing Crosby’s weekly NBC radio program, “The Kraft Music Hall.” It went on to become one of the most ► On Dec. 30, 1853, the U.S. minister commercially successful singles of all to Mexico and the president of Mexico time. sign the Gadsden Purchase in Mexico City. The treaty established the final ► On Dec. 28, 1975, ice hockey fans boundaries of the southern United States. watch the Central Red Army team from For $10 million, the U.S. acquired 30,000 the Soviet Union defeat the New York square miles of land in what is now New Rangers 7-3 at New York’s Madison Square Garden. It marked the start of Mexico and Arizona. the first midseason exhibition games ► On Dec. 24, 1865, in Pulaski, between Soviet and National Hockey Tennessee, a group of Confederate League teams, held from 1975 to 1991. veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux (c) 2018 Hearst Communications, Inc. Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a All Rights Reserved secret social fraternity to a paramilitary

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• About 100,000 of the city’s 12.3 million residents visit Moscow’s Gorky Park on a typical Saturday. Russia’s first McDonald’s restaurant opened in Moscow in 1990, and 30,000 people stood for hours to sample their first burger from the fast food chain. • New York City has been the United States’ largest city since 1790. It’s America’s most densely-populated city, and 1 in every 38 Americans live there, about 5.7% of the nation’s population. One out of every 21 residents is a millionaire. Close to 20 million people live in the metro area. Manhattan was purchased from the Native Americans in 1626 for about $1,000 in today’s money. A Dutch trading post was founded there in 1624, and was named New Amsterdam. When the city came under British control 40 years later, King Charles II of England gave the lands to his brother, the Duke of York, who renamed the city. (The Duke would later become King James II.) In 1789, when the population was 28,000, New York City became the first nation’s capital. George Washington took his oath of office on the balcony of the City Hall, but its capital status would endure just

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until 1790, when Philadelphia took over the status. • New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, and about half of the population speaks a language other than English in the home. • Cairo, Egypt, the ninth most populous city, grew up around the ancient Egyptian capital of Memphis, which is now contained within the modern city. The Giza Pyramid complex, which includes the three Great Pyramids and the Great Sphinx, is nearby. Modern Cairo was founded in the year 969, and is home to the world’s second-oldest university, Al-Azhar University, established in 970. • The world’s fifth largest city has more than 21 million people. Sao Paulo, Brazil, is the largest city in South America, and the largest Portuguesespeaking city in the world. Jesuit priests founded the village as a mission on top of a plateau between two rivers in 1554, and named it after the Apostle Paul. The first church building was a hut covered with palm leaves. The village remained in extreme poverty until gold was discovered in the early 1700s. Today’s Sao Paulo has absolutely no billboards, due to their Clean City law passed in 2006 which bans any “visual pollution.” • Mexico City, at number seven in world population, was settled in 1325 by the Aztecs, who called the village Tenochititlan. In 1585, it became officially known as Ciudad de Mexico, or Mexico City. It’s the oldest capital and the largest city in the Americas. In 1900, the city’s population was

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just 500,000. In less than 120 years, it has at #58 , with 5.8 million, and Dallas is at grown to more than 21 million people. #61 with 5.7 million. More than 4 million passengers ride the city’s Metro every day. Mexico City is a sinking city, sinking about 4 inches (10 cm) every year, and perhaps as much as 32.8 feet (10 meters) in the last 60 years. • Delhi, India is the world’s secondlargest urban area with close to 26.5 million people, and has been inhabited since at least 600 B.C. It’s estimated that 18 billionaires and 23,000 millionaires live in this city. Four years ago, the city was the most polluted city in the world, but improved in 2016 to the sixth-worst, with the deaths of 10,500 people every year attributed to air pollution. Of the world’s ten most polluted cities, nine are in India. • Tokyo, Japan is the world’s largest city, with 38.1 million people. It was first settled as a small fishing village named Edo. Around the year 1500, there were just a few thousand people, but by the early 1700s, Edo had its first one million residents. In 1868, when the Japanese imperial family moved there, it became the capital city, and was renamed Tokyo, which translates to “Eastern Capital.” Tokyo’s Shinjuku Station is the largest railway station in the world, with an average of 3.75 million passengers passing through every day. Tokyo can be an expensive place to visit. It has more top-rated restaurants than any other city in the world, and the mega-suite at the Ritz Carlton will set you back $20,000 per night. The city was the first to have a Disney park outside the U.S., a resort that employs 20,000 people. Even with its enormous population, Tokyo is a very safe city, with one of the lowest crime rates per capita of any major city. • Although Chicago has nearly 8.8 million people, it’s not classified as a mega-city. It ranks as the 38th largest city in the world. • Canada doesn’t have a single mega-city. Its largest city, Toronto, ranks 57th in the world, with close to 6 million inhabitants, the only Canadian city in the Top 150. Miami is right behind Toronto

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THE PACIFIC OCEAN Tidbits invites you to dip your toes into these quick facts on the world’s largest ocean. • Nearly one-third of the Earth’s total surface area is covered by the Pacific Ocean. That’s an area of 65,436,200 square miles (169,479,000 sq. km), 15 times larger than the area of the United States and larger than the landmass of all the continents of the world put together! The Pacific accounts for 46% of all the Earth’s water surface. • It’s believed that the Spanish explorer Vasco de Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean in September of 1513, calling it Mar del Sur (Southern sea). Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, the first to circumnavigate the world, explored the Pacific from 1519 to 1522, and named the body of water Mar Pacifico, which translates “Peaceful Sea.” • The temperature of the Ocean varies from a low of about 30 degrees F (-1.4 C) to a high of 86 degrees F (30 C) near the equator. • The Great Barrier Reef is the largest coral reef system in the world. Found in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Queensland, Australia, the reef is 1,429 miles (2,300 kg) long, with about 2,900 individual reefs and more than 1,000 islands. It’s the largest living structure on the planet, the only one which can be seen from space. The reef was discovered in 1770 by English explorer Captain James Cook when his ship ran aground and became stuck on the reef. The reef is made up of 600 types of soft and hard corals, and is home to upwards of 100 species of jellyfish, 3,000 different mollusks, 1,625 varieties of fish, and 133 types of sharks and rays. More than 30 different species of whales and dolphins also live there.

• Fifty-five countries border on the Pacific Ocean, including Canada, the United States, China, Australia, Japan, and Mexico. Indonesia’s 17,508 islands make up a large percentage of the Pacific Ocean’s 25,000+ islands. Japan has another 3,000. • The average depth of the Pacific Ocean is around 13,500 feet (4,115 m). The Mariana Trench, located in the western Pacific Ocean, is the deepest part of the world’s oceans. It’s a crescent-shaped trough in the Earth’s crust, measuring 1,580 miles (2,550 km) in length and about 43 miles (69 km) in width, 120 times bigger than the Grand Canyon. At the southern end of the Trench near Guam is a valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep, the deepest known point on the planet. It reaches to a depth of 36,070 feet (10,994 meters), a depth that is 1.2 miles (2 km) greater than the height of Mt. Everest. • Four descents to the bottom of the Mariana Trench have been achieved, the first, a manned descent in 1960, followed by two unmanned remotely-operated unmanned vehicles in 1996 and 2009, and a manned mission by film director James Cameron in 2012. • The Pacific Ocean contains 452 volcanoes, 75% of the world’s total, which form a ring around the Pacific Ocean basin which is called the “Ring of Fire.” Volcanic activity contributes to the area’s large number of earthquakes, which can trigger gigantic tsunamis with speeds exceeding 500 mph (805 km/hr). • About 60% of all the fish caught in the world come from the Pacific Ocean.

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for him. When Hagiwara died in 1925, his daughter Takano Hagiwara and her children took over. • When World War II started, over 120,000 Japanese people were sent to internment camps. The Hagiwara family and all of the Japanese bakers in San Francisco were sent to a camp in Utah for the next three years. • In the tea garden, anything that looked Japanese was torn down, the Hagiwara home was destroyed, all their possessions were taken, Chinese replaced the Japanese women as hostesses of the tea ceremony, and the place was renamed “The Oriental Tea Garden.” • During the war, Chinese people escaped internment. Because fortune cookies had been popular and profitable, Chinese people took over and started to manufacture and distribute them to their Chinese friends who ran Chinese restaurants throughout the city. • Because San Francisco was a heavily used military port during the war, soldiers who passed through became acquainted with the newly formed tradition of fortune cookies. When they returned to their hometowns and ate at local Chinese restaurants, they asked for fortune cookies, and when none were available, they complained to the management. Chinese restaurants started ordering Japanese fortune cookies to satisfy the wishes of their American patrons. • In Golden Gate Park, it wasn’t until 1952 that the title “Japanese Tea Garden” was re-instated. The Hagiwara family never regained their position as caretakers and were never reimbursed for their losses. It wasn’t until 2009 that Japanese gardeners were put in charge of the Japanese garden. • Today the five-acre Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park is visited by hundreds of thousands of people each year. It’s the oldest Japanese tea garden in the U.S. Fortune cookies are still served with every order in the tea house. (Continued Pg 6)

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• Fortune cookies used to be made by hand, one at a time. A dollop of batter was dropped into a cast-iron mold similar to a waffle iron and then cooked over a grill. (Continued From Pg 3) When removed from the press, the slip of paper containing the fortune would be laid on pancake-type cookie, which would then be folded in half and folded in half again. The end result is supposed to resemble a butterfly or a flower blossom, but really just looks like a wonton. • In 1967, Edward Louie, owner of the Lotus Fortune Cookie Company in San Francisco, invented a machine that that used a vacuum to automatically insert the paper fortunes into the golden wafers as they came off the griddle. He also invented giant fortune cookies which could be stuffed with gifts such as jewelry or money, as well as risquÊ fortune cookies that were popular at parties. At the time of his death in 1990, the original machine he created was still in operation. • Subsequent improvements to his design by other inventors in later years made mass production of fortune cookies so easy and quick that their price dropped dramatically, contributing to their popularity. • About 3 billion fortune cookies are made each year around the world, the vast majority of which are consumed in the U.S. • Family-owned and operated, Wonton Food was founded by Mr. C. S. Wong who was born in South China and came to the U.S. in the 1960s. He started making noodles in the basement of a small store in Brooklyn’s Chinatown in 1973 with only ten employees and one production line. Today, Wonton Food is the largest manufacturer of noodles, wrappers, and fortune cookies in the United States. They turn out 4.5 million fortune cookies a day, more than anyone else in the world. In 1989, Wonton Food attempted to create a demand for fortune cookies in Hong Kong, where they

corporation's most valued asset. Strong brands enhance business performance primarily through their influence on three key stakeholder groups: (current and prospective) customers, employees and investors. They influence customer choice and create loyalty; attract, retain, and motivate talent; and lower the cost of financing. For example, Google is one of the most recognized brands in the world. In North America alone, the brand's value amounted to approximately 245.6 billion U.S. dollars in 2017. Ultimately, brands help shape perceptions and, therefore, purchasing behavior, making other like products and services less substitutable. Think of the phrase "Just Google it". continued next page

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