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Many things cause acid reflux, but most of the time it?s the foods we eat. Certain foods aggravate acid reflux symptoms, making them the cause of your acid reflux. Its best to limit these foods, some foods that are responsible for a higher occurrence of heartburn should be avoided completely. Not everyone that experiences acid reflux will be affected by foods that they should avoid. Others may even experience acid reflux with foods that should be okay. Everyone?s case of acid reflux is different, therefore the most important thing to do is find out what is triggering your heartburn.

More than 20% of Americans experience some form of acid reflux two or more times a week. Although not everyone?s cause is going to be the same, for many it?s caused by what they are putting in their mouth.

Food plays a vital role in supplying the body with essential nutrients and energy. However overtime the quality of our food has started to decline. With all the chemical additives, preservatives, food coloring, flavors, excessive sugar and sodium it?s no wonder our body rebels against us. The ingredients in the food we eat can cause the condition known as acid reflux. If you experience acid reflux also known as heartburn more than two times a week then its time to figure out what?s causing it. The fastest way to fine out what?s causing your symptoms is to keep a food diary. To do this you write down everything you eat throughout the day, no matter how small or big of a portion. Then notate the days you experience acid reflux and at what time so you can coincide it with the food you ate. There may be several foods in your food diary that cause your acid reflux symptoms.

Foods cause acid reflux for two reasons, the lower esophageal sphincter LES relaxes when it shouldn?t or your stomach produces too much acid.

Separate types of foods cause each of these situations. When the LES relaxes it allows food and stomach acid to rise back up into the esophagus causing feelings of heartburn. Normally, w hen you eat the LES snaps shut once food passes through the esophagus into the stomach. However due to certain foods the Les relaxes after food passes through making it more likely that food and stomach acid will rise back up into the esophagus causing heartburn symptoms. Foods that relax the LES include fried or greasy foods, high fat meats, butter, margarine, mayonnaise, creamy sauces, salad dressing, whole milk dairy products, chocolate, peppermint, or caffeinated beverages such as soda, coffee, tea, or cocoa.

When we eat our stomach produces acid to breakdown food into essential nutrient and deliver them throughout the body. The stomach regulates how much acid is produced however some foods stimulate an overproduction of acid. When this occurs excess acid can rise up into the esophagus, causing feeling of heartburn. Foods that stimulate high acid production include caffeinated beverages, carbonated beverages, alcohol, spicy foods, citrus fruit, juices, and tomato based food products.

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Source: http://health.ezinemark.com/acid-reflux-foods-to-avoid-7d34dd71c9ce.html

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‘Broga’ caters to guys wary of yoga

Tired of hearing a wife, girlfriend, mother, sister or female friend sing the praises of yoga, some guys will eventually man up and tag along to a class. Once there, in many studios, he might be one of few downward facing dudes.

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Mandi Bierly records one bit of overheard NSFMD (Not Suitable for Mother’s Day) conversation as it played before ”Iron Man 2”

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Getty ImagesBob Costas and Jerry Sandusky
Much has already been said about the incredible interview that NBC’s Bob Costas did with Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach accused of multiple sexual crimes against young boys. Certainly it will go down as one of the most stunning miscalculations an attorney has ever made – and that point makes you wonder if the recent, egregiously bad cable news environment played a part.
Costas told the New York Times on Tuesday that he had prepared to interview Sandusky’s lawyer, Joseph Amendola, on the new Rock Center newsmagazine hosted by Brian Williams. Normally that kind of situation has the undercurrent of spin on the part of the accused and ratings titillation on the part of the media.
There’s no point in droning on about what is being served in those situations or to slap down a layer of media criticism and take the practice to task. The fact is, those tight-lipped lawyer interviews with the media are commonplace. They’re not going to end because both sides believe they get something worthwhile from the charade.
But a Costas interview with Sandusky himself – a person who had yet to break his silence since the shocking allegations?
That was going to be gold. As Costas told the Times: “About 10 or 15 minutes prior to the interview, Amendola says to us, on his own, ‘What if I could get Sandusky on the phone?’”
That is such a major and unexpected decision that it ultimately trumps in importance what Sandusky said or didn’t, and even Costas’ universally-praised handling of the situation. That was clearly an all-in move for the lawyer Amendola. And based on Costas’ professional dismantling of his client and the head-shaking from legal types in the aftermath on why Amendola would even take that risk, you have to look at the circus that is cable news for even the faintest bit of logic and reasoning.
On the one hand, people like Nancy Grace have the reputation of judge and jury, hanging suspects left and right over the course of countless ratings-hungry programs, night after night. On the other, what does absolute media saturation do but dilute? If you let doubt creep in, chance lives.
As viewers, we’ve seen this going back to O.J. Simpson. Every tawdry disappearance, kidnapping or suspected murder gets churned through the cable news channels and their insatiable 24-hour cycle and endless desire for ratings. What we’re talking about here is the court of public opinion, of course. Normally a jury in high-profile, Casey Anthony-type situations is sequestered away from media spin. But any trial for Sandusky is still some time away. Was this a ploy by his attorney to trot out his client – who Costas rightly noted that many people already think of, based on the charges, as “some kind of monster” – to begin the calming of the angry hordes? To start the spin, the doubt?
Certainly any modern lawyer has seen what kind of mental manipulations can occur when their client’s guilt or innocence is debated ceaselessly on cable. Appear on enough shows and start portraying your client not as a monster but, for argument’s sake, let’s say a damaged person who is now filled with regret. You’re probably not going to jostle the opinion polls much in the early going, but give it time.
And on cable, they’ve got nothing but time.
The problem for Amendola and Sandusky, of course, is that Costas is not Nancy Grace or any other cable blowhard nor, for that matter, a TV journalist likely to swing and miss at such an opportunity. On cable, your percentages rise in that arena.
Costas took the limited time he had with Sandusky on the phone and eviscerated any attempt there may have been for spin or sympathy. Sandusky said he shouldn’t have showered with young boys and called the behavior that might have taken place in those situations, “horsing around.”
Costas quickly moved past such vague and evasive statements and meticulously recounted some of the eye-witness accounts of his alleged pedophilic behavior. The evidence, Costas noted, is significant, particularly when you factor in reports that were filed and those damnin eye-witness accounts. In a question-statement that cut short any wiggle room Sandusky might have hoped for in that phone interview, Costas said: “If all of these accusations are false, you are the unluckiest and most persecuted man that any of us has heard about.”
Oh for a cut-away shot right then of Amendola.
Costas then asked Sandusky if he was sexually attracted to young boys – a question Sandusky had to repeat and think about. His first response was the cringe-quote, “I enjoy young people” and he then added, “But no, I’m not sexually attracted to young boys.”
Anyone who witnessed that interview – and only 3.9 million did, partly because there wasn’t much time to promote Amendola’s late, surprising proposition and partly because the new Rock Center isn’t exactly 60 Minutes in popularity. But millions more people will undoubtedly watch the interview online and what should be readily apparent to them is that this was a  massive miscalculation on Amendola’s part.
His client may not recover from that all-too-brief phone interview, but don’t be surprised at all if, sooner rather than later, Amendola and Sandusky begin their Hail Mary redemption tour of cable news channels.
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Many public school systems chafed under No Child Left Behind, the Bush-era law requiring states to closely monitor student achievement and conduct more regular testing. President Obama announced Friday that states can now qualify for exemptions from some of the law’s key requirements. Guest host Jacki Lyden discusses the changes with Education Week Staff Writer Alyson Klein.

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JACKI LYDEN, host: This is TELL ME MORE from NPR News. I’m Jacki Lyden. Michel Martin is away. Coming up, a classic series of children’s stories is coming alive in a new language. The Berenstain Bears television cartoon has been voiced in more than 20 languages, and now it can be heard in Lakota, one of the languages spoken by the Sioux tribe of North America. More on that in a moment.
But first, President Obama is set to deliver his third annual back-to-school speech on Wednesday. This comes as his administration is working to make big changes to No Child Left Behind. That’s the federal law that requires states to set minimum testing standards for public schools. The law’s proven to be controversial among educators and unpopular among state politicians, who’ve been clamoring for more control over their education policies.
Now, it looks like they’re getting just that. On Friday, President Obama announced that states can now qualify for waivers that will exempt them from some of the law’s key requirements.
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President BARACK OBAMA: Higher standards are the right goal. Accountability is the right goal. Closing the achievement gap is the right goal. And we’ve got to stay focused on those goals. But experience has taught us that in its implementation, No Child Left Behind had some serious flaws.
LYDEN: To talk more about the legacy and future of No Child Left Behind, I’m joined by Alyson Klein. She’s a staff writer for Education Week, where she writes the education policy blog Politics K-12. Alyson, thanks for coming in.
ALYSON KLEIN: Thank you for having me.
LYDEN: So with this announcement, some significant changes to No Child Left Behind. Tell us what they mean, exactly, for a number of states that have struggled with implementing them.
KLEIN: Well, basically, states would get some wiggle room from some of the key requirements of the No Child Left Behind law if they agree to a certain set of reforms that the president has laid out. They would be allowed to get some wiggle room on the 2013-14 deadline, which is coming up in the law. That is supposed to be for bringing all students to proficiency on state tests.
They would also no longer have to meet special requirements for teacher qualifications. There’s a highly qualified teacher requirement, and they wouldn’t have to meet that anymore. They’d also get some funding flexibility.
LYDEN: And both Republican and Democratic governors have objected to this law. Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam, delivered the introduction ahead of the president’s address Friday. He voiced support for the changes. So did Wisconsin Republican Governor Scott Walker. Why is that, and what do states have to do to qualify for these waivers?
KLEIN: Well, states would basically have to outline a new plan for intervening in most schools. Under the – sort of the waivers, states would be basically allowed to intervene in 85 percent of schools. The Feds would still have strict requirements for about 15 percent. So states would get to, basically, decide what they think would work best for that 85 percent. That gives governors like Governor Haslam the running room that they’ve been asking the Obama administration for.
LYDEN: What’s the biggest risk, do you think? If the vast majority of states participate in this, does it mean that No Child Left Behind is over, and where is the emphasis now?
KLEIN: I wouldn’t say that it means No Child Left Behind is necessarily over because we would still be under these waiver requirements, and we’ll have to see how they’re actually implemented. But you know, in theory, states would still have to set standards. They’d still have to measure student progress towards those standards. Standardized testing – it’s is one of most criticized parts of the law – isn’t going away. You’d still have to look at how different groups of students are doing relative to each other. So some of the key tenets would still be in place.
LYDEN: Alyson Klein is a staff writer for Education Week, where she writes a blog called Politics K-12, and she was kind enough to come in here from Bethesda, Maryland, and join us in the studio. Thank you very much.
KLEIN: Thank you.
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For States, More Flexibility In Education Policies