Bose, Heart Study, China-Taiwan study, Change or die, lifestyle

 
Bose, Heart Study, China-Taiwan study, Change or die, lifestyle

Amar Bose, MIT professor & co-founder of Bose Laboratory:

  Research by definition if it's research, you don't know whether it works or not; if you know the idea [is] going to work, its engineering, develope it;  research is at the heart of what bring out better products;  fear, fear of the unknown; without probing the unknown, there is no possibility for progress;  the unknown could be better (benefit); could be worse (down side);  if we know it could be better, there would be no fear.

  To make some thing better => it must be different
  to be different => courage (require) (to be different)
  courage => fear (acknowledge the fears and, the other side of fear)  
  ([ imagine - what if you have no fear and you have no limit - infinite ])
  ([ what would you do with your life ])  
  ([ or what would you do with the time that you have left on Earth ])
  ([ okay, now work backward, and start placing limiting parameters on The Plan ])
  ([ one-by-one ])

Amar Bose of Bose Lab: Bose speakers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose_Corporation
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Bose to close all North American, European retail stores - Boston Business Journal


By Catherine Carlock  –  Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal
Jan 15, 2020 Updated Jan 15, 2020, 3:31pm EST

Bose Corp. will close all of its 119 retail stores in North America, Europe, Japan and Australia “over the next several months” as the Framingham-based consumer electronics company handles “the dramatic shift to online shopping in specific markets,” the company announced Wednesday.

  Bose corporation - Jan 15, 2020, 3:31pm EST
  Catherine Carlock  –  Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal
  retail operation (closed)
    North America
    Europe
    Japan
    Australia

Bose has retail locations at the Burlington Mall and Colonie Center in Albany, New York, as well as factory stores in Wrentham, Merrimack, New Hampshire and Central Valley, New York.

The company will keep open its retail locations in India, Southeast Asia, South Korea, Greater China and the United Arab Emirates.

  Bose corporation - Jan 15, 2020, 3:31pm EST
  Catherine Carlock  –  Real Estate Editor, Boston Business Journal
  retail locations (keep open)
    India
    Southeast Asia
    South Korea
    Greater China
    United Arab Emirates

The company declined to specify how many employees will be affected in the closures, but did say that the employees would be offered outplacement assistance and severance.

Bose opened its first store in 1993 as a way to give consumers a way to test CD and DVD-based home entertainment systems, said Colette Burke, vice president of global sales for Bose, in a statement.

“At the time, it was a radical idea, but we focused on what our customers needed, and where they needed it – and we’re doing the same thing now. It’s still difficult, because the decision impacts some of our amazing store teams who make us proud every day,” Burke’s statement continued. “They take care of every person who walks through our doors – whether that’s helping with a problem, giving expert advice, or just letting someone take a break and listen to great music. Over the years, they’ve set the standard for customer service. And everyone at Bose is grateful.”


Bose has its headquarters in Framingham.


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►       https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2020/01/15/bose-to-close-all-north-american-european-retail.html

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The Framingham Heart Study is a long-term, ongoing cardiovascular cohort study of residents of the city of Framingham, Massachusetts. The study began in 1948 with 5,209 adult subjects from Framingham, and is now on its third generation of participants.[1] Prior to the study almost nothing was known about the epidemiology of hypertensive or arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.[2] Much of the now-common knowledge concerning heart disease, such as the effects of diet, exercise, and common medications such as aspirin, is based on this longitudinal study. It is a project of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, in collaboration with (since 1971) Boston University.[1] Various health professionals from the hospitals and universities of Greater Boston staff the project.




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►       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framingham_Heart_Study
►       https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/science/framingham-heart-study-fhs
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 Framingham Study

framingham-research-team

Framingham Study is a population-based, observational cohort study that was initiated by the United States Public Health Service in 1948 to prospectively investigate the epidemiology and risk factors for cardiovascular disease. It has grown into an ongoing, longitudinal study gathering prospective data on a wide variety of biological and lifestyle risk factors and on cardiovascular, neurological and other types of disease outcomes across 3 generations of participants. While initially focused on the clinical assessment of risk factors and disease, the study has evolved, incorporating advances in medical science (newer diagnostic criteria, biomarker assays and imaging technologies) as these became available. Extensive genotyping data is available on over 60% of all participants (including over 90% of persons attending examinations after 1990) and samples of sera and plasma from successive exams have been stored for future studies.

The Study began in 1948-50 with the recruitment of the Original cohort (5209 participants; 2,873 women, 2,336 men; age 28-62 years, mean age 45 years) comprising two-thirds of the adult population then residing in the town of Framingham, MA. These persons have been evaluated biennially and are currently undergoing the 29th biennial examination. In 1971, children of the Original cohort members and their spouses were assembled into the Offspring cohort (5124 persons, 2,641 women, 2,483 men; age 5-70 years, mean age 37 years; 3514 biological offspring). Members of this cohort have been reassessed 7 times. Starting In 002, a third generation has been recruited and this Gen 3 cohort comprises 4095 individuals (2183 women, 1912 men; mean age 40 years) who have undergone an initial examination. At each study examination participants are evaluated with medical histories, physician examinations, laboratory tests for vascular risk factors, and at some examinations with cognitive test batteries and brain imaging.


Major findings

Major findings from the Framingham Heart Study, according to the researchers themselves:[16]

1960s
    Cigarette smoking increases risk of heart disease. Increased cholesterol and elevated blood pressure increase risk of heart disease. Exercise decreases risk of heart disease, and obesity increases it.

1970s
    Elevated blood pressure increases risk of stroke. In women who are postmenopausal, risk of heart disease is increased, compared with women who are premenopausal. Psychosocial factors affect risk of heart disease.

1980s
    High levels of HDL cholesterol reduce risk of heart disease. No empirical evidence found to confirm the rumor that filtered cigarettes lower risk of heart disease as opposed to non-filters.

1990s
    Having an enlarged left ventricle of the heart (left ventricular hypertrophy) increases risk of stroke. Elevated blood pressure can progress to heart failure. Framingham Risk Score is published, and correctly predicts 10-year risk of future coronary heart disease (CHD) events. At 40 years of age, the lifetime risk for CHD is 50% for men and 33% for women.

2000s
    So called "high normal blood pressure" increases risk of cardiovascular disease (high normal blood pressure is called prehypertension in medicine; it is defined as a systolic pressure of 120–139 mm Hg and/or a diastolic pressure of 80–89 mm Hg). Lifetime risk of developing elevated blood pressure is 90%. Obesity is a risk factor for heart failure. Serum aldosterone levels predict risk of elevated blood pressure. Lifetime risk for obesity is approximately 50%. The "SHARe" project is announced, a genome wide association study within the Framingham Heart Study. Social contacts of individuals are relevant to whether a person is obese, and whether cigarette smokers decide to quit smoking. By providing contact information, the Framingham Heart Study establishes a network of personal relationships, connecting participants through their relationships—friends, colleagues, relatives and neighbors.[17] Four risk factors for a precursor of heart failure are discovered. 30-year risk for serious cardiac events can be calculated. American Heart Association considers certain genomic findings of the Framingham Heart Study one of the top research achievements in cardiology. Some genes increase risk of atrial fibrillation. Risk of poor memory is increased in middle aged men and women if the parents had suffered from dementia.


Similar studies

The China-Cornell-Oxford Project, also known as the "China-Oxford-Cornell Study on dietary, lifestyle and disease mortality characteristics in 65 rural Chinese counties". This study was later referred to as "China Study I". The successor study is named "China Study II".[32]



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►       https://www.bmc.org/stroke-and-cerebrovascular-center/research/framingham-study
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news.cornell.edu

Asians' switch to Western diet might bring Western-type diseases, new China-Taiwan study suggests | Cornell Chronicle

By Roger Segelken |


ITHACA, N.Y. -- The long-term health benefits to Chinese and other Asian people who have traditionally existed on a primarily plant-based diet might be lost as more people in Asia switch to a Western-style diet that is rich in animal-based foods.

That conclusion is being drawn by some scientists after reviewing results from the latest survey of diets, lifestyles and disease mortality among Chinese populations -- this one comparing current dietary habits in Taiwan and mainland China -- and measuring them against a time when fewer meat and dairy products were available in rural China.

Preliminary results of "China Study II," the follow-up to the China-Oxford-Cornell Study on Dietary, Lifestyle and Disease Mortality Characteristics in 65 Rural Chinese Counties, or "China Study I," were discussed on June 16 at the Congress of Epidemiology 2001 in Toronto by T. Colin Campbell of Cornell, Sir Richard Peto of the University of Oxford, Dr. Junshi Chen of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and Dr. Wen-Harn Pan of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.

The Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry, Campbell also discussed China Study II today (June 25) at a press briefing on the Cornell campus.

"With the new data from mainland China, along with the fascinating new data from Taiwan now in hand, we will have the opportunity to explore dietary and disease mortality trends," Campbell says. "We will see how fast dietary changes in rural China -- preceded by earlier changes in Taiwan -- result in the development of Western diseases."

Some analyses of data from China Study I, which was conducted among thousands of rural families in mainland China, linked that population's low incidence of such Western health problems as cardiovascular disease, some cancers, obesity and diabetes to plant-based diets that were low in animal products. China Study I is now regarded as the most comprehensive study of diet, lifestyle and disease ever completed. Data from the study was first published in an 896-page monograph (1990) and resulted in more than 50 scientific publications.

Planned since 1987, China Study II was designed to re-survey the same mainland Chinese population as China Study I, in addition to a few new sites in mainland China and a new population of 16 counties in Taiwan. China Study II was directed by the three collaborators in the first study and by Dr. Win-harn Pan. When it started in 1987-88, it was the first collaborative research study between mainland China and Taiwan. Data from China Study II are now freely available at an Oxford
University web site: http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/projects/cecology1989/ .


Both surveys afford an opportunity to investigate the effect of dietary change from the typical plant-based diet of rural China to a Western-style diet that includes more animal-based foods, as consumed in urban China and in Taiwan. "Even small increases in the consumption of animal-based foods was associated with increased disease risk," Campbell told a symposium at the epidemiology congress, pointing to several statistically significant correlations from the China studies:

  • Plasma cholesterol in the 90-170 milligrams per deciliter range is positively associated with most cancer mortality rates. Plasma cholesterol is positively associated with animal protein intake and inversely associated with plant protein intake.

  • Breast cancer is associated with dietary fat (which is associated with animal protein intake) and inversely with age at menarche (women who reach puberty at younger ages have a greater risk of breast cancer).

  • For those at risk for liver cancer (for example, because of chronic infection with hepatitis B virus) increasing intakes of animal-based foods and/or increasing concentrations of plasma cholesterol are associated with a higher disease risk.

  • Cardiovascular diseases are associated with lower intakes of green vegetables and higher concentrations of apo-B (a form of so-called bad blood cholesterol) which is associated with increasing intakes of animal protein and decreasing intakes of plant protein.

  • Colorectal cancers are consistently inversely associated with intakes of 14 different dietary fiber fractions (although only one is statistically significant). Stomach cancer is inversely associated with green vegetable intake and plasma concentrations of beta-carotene and vitamin C obtained only from plant-based foods.

  • Western-type diseases, in the aggregate, are highly significantly correlated with increasing concentrations of plasma cholesterol, which are associated in turn with increasing intakes of animal-based foods.


Analyses of data from the China studies by his collaborators and others, Campbell told the epidemiology symposium, is leading to policy recommendations. He mentioned three:

  • The greater the variety of plant-based foods in the diet, the greater the benefit. Variety insures broader coverage of known and unknown nutrient needs.

  • Provided there is plant food variety, quality and quantity, a healthful and nutritionally complete diet can be attained without animal-based food.

  • The closer the food is to its native state -- with minimal heating, salting and processing -- the greater will be the benefit.



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►       https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2001/06/china-study-ii-western-diet-might-bring-western-disease
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https://www.fastcompany.com/75905/three-keys-change

01.02.07
The Three Keys to Change

In this excerpt from the introduction to his new book, Change or Die: The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, Alan Deutschman discusses the framework to successfully change yourself.

BY ALAN DEUTSCHMAN
LONG READ
Change or die.

What if you were given that choice? For real. What if it weren’t just the hyperbolic rhetoric that conflates corporate performance with life or death? Not the overblown exhortations of a rabid boss, or a maniacal coach, or a slick motivational speaker, or a self-dramatizing chief executive officer or political leader. We’re talking actual life and death now. Your own life and death. What if a well-informed, trusted authority figure said you had to make difficult and enduring changes in the way you think, feel, and act? If you didn’t, your time would end soon–a lot sooner than it had to. Could you change when change really mattered? When it mattered most?

Yes, you say?
Try again.
Yes?
You’re probably deluding yourself.
That’s what the experts say.
They say that you wouldn’t change.

Don’t believe it? You want odds? Here are the odds that the experts are laying down, their scientifically studied odds: nine to one. That’s nine to one against you. How do you like those odds?

This revelation unnerved me when I heard it in November 2004 at a private conference at Rockefeller University, an elite medical research center in New York City. The event was hosted by the top executives at IBM, who invited the most brilliant thinkers they knew from around the world to come together for a day and propose solutions to some of the world’s biggest problems. Their first topic was the crisis in health care, an industry that consumes an astonishing $2.1 trillion a year in the United States alone–more than one seventh of the entire economy. Despite all that spending, we’re not feeling healthier, and we aren’t making enough progress toward preventing the illnesses that kill us, such as heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

   ... ... ...

Speaking to the small group of insiders, they were unsparingly candid. They said that the cause of the health care crisis hadn’t changed for decades, and the medical establishment still couldn’t figure out what to do about it.

Dr. Raphael “Ray” Levey, founder of the Global Medical Forum, an annual summit meeting of leaders from every part of the health care system, told the audience: “A relatively small percentage of the population consumes the vast majority of the health care budget for diseases that are very well known and by and large behavioral.” That is, they’re sick because of how they choose to lead their lives, not because of factors beyond their control, such as the genes they were born with. Levey continued: “Even as far back as when I was in medical school”–he enrolled at Harvard in 1955–“many articles demonstrated that eighty percent of the health care budget was consumed by five behavioral issues.” He didn’t bother to name them, but you don’t need an MD to guess what he was talking about: Too much smoking, drinking, and eating. Too much stress. Not enough exercise.

   ... ... ...

CHANGE OR DIE. Copyright © 2007 by Alan Deutschman.

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Ornish is known for his lifestyle-driven approach to the control of coronary artery disease (CAD) and other chronic diseases. He promotes lifestyle changes including a quasi whole foods, plant-based diet,[6] smoking cessation, moderate exercise, stress management techniques including yoga and meditation, and psychosocial support.[4][1] Ornish does not follow a strict vegetarian diet and recommends fish oil supplements; the program additionally allows for the occasional consumption of other animal products.[7]

From the 1970s through the 1990s, Ornish and others researched the impact of diet and stress levels on people with heart disease. The research, published in peer-reviewed journals, became the basis of his "Program for Reversing Heart Disease." It combined diet, meditation, exercise and support groups, and in 1993 became the first non-surgical, non-pharmaceutical therapy for heart disease to qualify for insurance reimbursement.[8] With the exception of chiropractic care, it was the first alternative medical technique, not taught in traditional medical-school curricula, to gain approval by a major insurance carrier.[3][9]

Ornish worked with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for 16 years to create a new coverage category called intensive cardiac rehabilitation (ICR), which focuses on comprehensive lifestyle changes. In 2010, Medicare began to reimburse costs for Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease, a 72-hour ICR for people who have had heart attacks, chest pain, heart valve repair, coronary artery bypass, heart or lung bypass, or coronary angioplasty or stenting. In addition to the Ornish program, Medicare and Medicaid pay for ICR programs created by the Pritikin Longevity Center and by the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.[1][10]

Ornish has been a physician consultant to former President Bill Clinton since 1993, when Ornish was first asked by Hillary Clinton to consult with the chefs at The White House, Camp David, and Air Force One. In 2010, after the former President's cardiac bypass grafts became clogged, Clinton, encouraged by Ornish, followed a mostly plant-based diet.[11]



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►       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Ornish
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Opinion | The Myth of High-Protein Diets (Published 2015)
By Dean Ornish
    March 23, 2015

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/opinion/the-myth-of-high-protein-diets.html

Op-Ed Contributor

MANY people have been making the case that Americans have grown fat because they eat too much starch and sugar, and not enough meat, fat and eggs. Recently, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee lifted recommendations that consumption of dietary cholesterol should be restricted, citing research that dietary cholesterol does not have a major effect on blood cholesterol levels. The predictable headlines followed: “Back to Eggs and Bacon?”

But, alas, bacon and egg yolks are not health foods.

Although people have been told for decades to eat less meat and fat, Americans actually consumed 67 percent more added fat, 39 percent more sugar, and 41 percent more meat in 2000 than they had in 1950 and 24.5 percent more calories than they had in 1970, according to the Agriculture Department. Not surprisingly, we are fatter and unhealthier.

The debate is not as simple as low-fat versus low-carb. Research shows that animal protein may significantly increase the risk of premature mortality from all causes, among them cardiovascular disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes. Heavy consumption of saturated fat and trans fats may double the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.


 premature mortality from all causes
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Pan+A%2C+red+meat+consumption+and+mortality

 cardiovascular disease
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=J.+Intern.+Med.+261%2C+366%E2%80%93374

 cancer
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ann+Intern+Med.+2010+September+7%3B+153%285%29%3A+289%E2%80%93298

 Type 2 diabetes
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23779232


A study published last March found a 75 percent increase in premature deaths from all causes, and a 400 percent increase in deaths from cancer and Type 2 diabetes, among heavy consumers of animal protein under the age of 65 — those who got 20 percent or more of their calories from animal protein.


 75 percent increase in premature deaths from all causes
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24606898


Low-carb, high-animal-protein diets promote heart disease via mechanisms other than just their effects on cholesterol levels. Arterial blockages may be caused by animal-protein-induced elevations in free fatty acids and insulin levels and decreased production of endothelial progenitor cells (which help keep arteries clean). Egg yolks and red meat appear to significantly increase the risk of coronary heart disease and cancer due to increased production of trimethylamine N-oxide, or TMAO, a metabolite of meat and egg yolks linked to the clogging of arteries. (Egg whites have neither cholesterol nor TMAO.)


 via mechanisms other than just their effects on cholesterol levels
  ►  http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmcibr0908756
     A Look at the Low-Carbohydrate Diet
     Steven R. Smith, M.D.
     December 3, 2009
      Mice that were fed a high-fat, high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet were found to have atherosclerosis that was not associated with traditional cardiovascular risk factors.


and cancer
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952174


Animal protein increases IGF-1, an insulin-like growth hormone, and chronic inflammation, an underlying factor in many chronic diseases. Also, red meat is high in Neu5Gc, a tumor-forming sugar that is linked to chronic inflammation and an increased risk of cancer. A plant-based diet may prolong life by blocking the mTOR protein, which is linked to aging. When fat calories were carefully controlled, patients lost 67 percent more body fat than when carbohydrates were controlled. An optimal diet for preventing disease is a whole-foods, plant-based diet that is naturally low in animal protein, harmful fats and refined carbohydrates. What that means in practice is little or no red meat; mostly vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes and soy products in their natural forms; very few simple and refined carbohydrates such as sugar and white flour; and sufficient “good fats” such as fish oil or flax oil, seeds and nuts. A healthful diet should be low in “bad fats,” meaning trans fats, saturated fats and hydrogenated fats. Finally, we need more quality and less quantity.


 IGF-1
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24606898

 Neu5Gc
  ►  http://www.pnas.org/content/105/48/18936.full.pdf


My colleagues and I at the nonprofit Preventive Medicine Research Institute and the University of California, San Francisco, have conducted clinical research proving the many benefits of a whole-foods, plant-based diet on reversing chronic diseases, not just on reducing risk factors such as cholesterol. Our interventions also included stress management techniques, moderate exercise like walking and social support.


 stress management
  ►  http://ornishspectrum.com/proven-program/stress-management/


We showed in randomized, controlled trials that these diet and lifestyle changes can reverse the progression of even severe coronary heart disease. Episodes of chest pain decreased by 91 percent after only a few weeks. After five years there were 2.5 times fewer cardiac events. Blood flow to the heart improved by over 300 percent.


 reverse the progression
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1973470


Other physicians, including Dr. Kim A. Williams, the president of the American College of Cardiology, are also finding that these diet and lifestyle changes can reduce the need for a lifetime of medications and transform people’s lives. These changes may also slow, stop or even reverse the progression of early-stage prostate cancer, judging from results in a randomized controlled trial.


 Dr. Kim A. Williams
  ►  http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Prevention/46860


These changes may also alter your genes [expression], turning on genes that keep you healthy, and turning off genes that promote disease. They may even lengthen telomeres, the ends of our chromosomes that control aging.


 your genes [expression]
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Ornish+D%2C+PNAS

 lengthen telomeres
  ►  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24051140


The more people adhered to these recommendations (including reducing the amount of fat and cholesterol they consumed), the more improvement we measured — at any age. But for reversing disease, a whole-foods, plant-based diet seems to be necessary.

In addition, what’s good for you is good for our planet. Livestock production causes more disruption of the climate than all forms of transportation combined. And because it takes as much as 10 times more grain to produce the same amount of calories through livestock as through direct grain consumption, eating a plant-based diet could free up resources for the hungry.

What you gain is so much more than what you give up.


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►       https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/opinion/the-myth-of-high-protein-diets.html
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In a mythical ideal world, you would match your diet to your age range (not chronological, but biological clock and life stage) to your physical and mental activities (on duty work, off duty family time, off duty leisure, me time) (for some people, work and non-work life simply blend together); it depends on your situation, culture, and environment;  
 1. diet;
 2. biological clock and life stage (stages of life);
 3. physical and mental activities;
 4. situation (i.e. social: family, tribe, group, team), culture (i.e. Western, East, Middle East, North, South, Lowland, Highland), and environmental factors (i.e. geography & topography & terrain & elevation, relation to the equator, relation to a large body of water, a lake, or, the sea, vegetation, climate, weather, wind chill, snow, heat, cold, dry, wet, rain, shower, shade, daytime, nightime);  
 5. ‘moderation in all things’ would be the golden guiding thread (also refer to as the silk-like silver spider web, in some circle).

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 Daniel 1:12 , Bible

Then Daniel said to the steward whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, 12  “Please test your servants for ten days. Let us be given only vegetables to eat and water to drink. 13Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”…

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►       https://biblehub.com/daniel/1-12.htm


In Daniel chapter 1, my namesake and his friends were brought before King Nebuchadnezzar to be trained for royal service. The Bible says, “The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table” (Daniel 1:5). Bible scholars say the royal food provided to the men was most likely largely meat-based. Daniel was insistent to instead trial a plant-based diet and prove to the king they would all be stronger. “Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and water to drink” (verse 12).

source:
►       https://record.adventistchurch.com/2020/04/07/dare-to-eat-plants-like-daniel/


Story Overview:

When Judah turned away from God he allowed the enemy nation of Babylon to capture the Jews and take them away to Babylon.  The temple and the city walls of Jerusalem were destroyed.  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon commanded that the brightest and most handsome captives be educated and taught to serve in the Babylonian courts.  When Daniel and four other young Jews were told to eat the king’s food they refused because it was food that God had forbidden Jews to eat.  When the officials saw that these young men were healthier and stronger when they obeyed God’s food laws, they allowed them to continue obeying the Lord. These four young men impressed the king because they were smarter than all the men in the king’s court.

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►       https://missionbibleclass.org/old-testament/part2/kingdom-ends-captivity-return-prophets/daniel-and-the-kings-food/
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