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This was the decade when, for the first time in history, humanity had to learn to manage two realities: the physical reality and the screen reality. This is a critical concept to understand as it underlies much about generations, communications, destruction of physical markets, attention and consciousness.
"Security experts are now urging more than 100,000 households in Britain which have installed doorbell cameras - from Ring to Nest - to take all possible steps to ensure that their devices aren't unintentionally recording other people in their homes or gardens."
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In the 1980s, Gerald Reaven labeled a collection of related disorders "Syndrome X" where the X factor, he eventually determined, was insulin resistance. Today we call this cluster of problems "metabolic syndrome" (or MetSyn), and it is defined in terms of the following five criteria:
1. high blood pressure (>130/85)
2. high triglycerides (>150 mg/dL)
3. low HDL cholesterol (<40 mg/dL in men or <50 mg/dl. in women)
4. central adiposity (waist circumference >40 inches in men or >35 in women)
5. elevated fasting glucose (>110 mg/dL)
If you meet three or more of these criteria, then you have the metabolic syndrome-along with as many as 120 million other Americans, according to a 2020 article in Journal of the American Mrdical Association.
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