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bisexualstokes-archive · 5 years

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The Pancho Problem (1/?)

Chapter (1/?): Flip side of the Coin Rating: Teen+ Pairing: Nick Stokes/Greg Sanders Summary: Trouble always seems to follow Nick Stokes. After their friend Warrick Brown mysteriously disappears, Nick goes rogue and is framed for a murder that he didn’t commit. It’s up to Greg Sanders to clear Nick’s name as well as help him find Warrick, receiving help from an unsuspected person. Chapter Notes: Set near the end of season 6, when Nick's hair returned to normal. Daddy's Little Girl never happened. POV throughout this fic will be Greg's. Read it on A03! | Next Chapter

Las Vegas. The city that never sleeps, though you wouldn’t know that in this part of town. Far from the strip, away from the bright neon lights and casinos, a silence looms over the dark side of the moon. Fog is beginning to spread its way through every street, every alleyway, every crack of the neglected shadow of sin city. There are no stars in the sky tonight, only bushels of clouds.

After the triple homicide I just closed, the droplets of a light drizzle offer a sort of catharsis, though the real comfort will come later at home with him by my side.

The history of this city, coupled with a new appeal for the aesthetics of noir-style mystery movies has caught my attention as of late. Over the past year, a lot of things have changed within me. All of us have changed, really, since the...incident last summer. But he’s changed most of all, though that’s not a surprise. Perhaps that’s why he agreed to come over and watch movies that came out before either of us were born.

“Control, this is Charlie-O-3 Stokes, shots fired, in pursuit of three suspects--”

Gunshots snap, crackle and pop through the speakers on the radio. For a moment, I freeze, slamming my foot on the brakes, not caring that my car is stopped in the middle of a deserted intersection. The once comforting silence is now filled with dread and paranoia, did he get shot?

“Charlie-O-3 Stokes, Control, Respond,”

More gunshots before his voice speaks through the radio, with increased ferocity and speed.

“Three suspects, armed--black van, license plate: Zoey Delta Zero--FU--”

Two more gunshots, and then Nick speaks again, his tone is flat, defeated.

“Control, suspects’ vehicle turned left onto Charleston. They have CSI Warrick Brown.”

The front of the lab is swarming with alternating red and blue lights by the time I arrive. I jump out of my vehicle, eyes scanning the swarming crowd for Nick--hopefully he wasn’t stupid enough to try and follow the suspects on foot.

Sara Sidle spots me, waving her hand in the air for me to come over, but she didn’t need to. I could see Nick’s head above everyone else’s, though his square jaw is pointed to the ground, his head hung in some sort of shame. A wave of relief falls through my body that they’re standing next to a light post and not an ambulance. Sofia stands next to them, jotting down notes in a notebook. Nick is recounting the events of the shooting, eyes closed, face scrunched in concentration.

“Next thing I know, lab’s covered in smoke, fire alarms’ going off, I was on the ground, trying to catch my breath...I remember seein’ Warrick in the Trace lab, trying to pull something outta one of the suspect’s arms. Another guy ran in, tried to knock him out, but Warrick wrestled him off, managed to get the guy’s gas mask and put it on himself. Then, all three of them ran out, the last guy joined ‘em, I was able to catch my breath and tried to get one of ‘em on their way out--”

He lifts up his right hand, a blood soaked bandage over his knuckles.

“Couldn’t see the face, I think I got ‘em in the mask. I ran outta the building and they started firin’ at me and Sara--we fired back. I fired...maybe...five shots? Warrick--uh, Warrick, he...got into the back of the van with two of the guys, the other got in through the passenger’s side. I called it in, tried to get their license plate, only got three digits--Zoey Delta Zero--and...here we are.”

“Thanks, Nick. Sara, anything to add? Were you able to get a clear view of the license plate?”

“No, I was just on my way in when the suspects ran out. I couldn’t get a clear view of the license plate, I had dodged a few bullets behind that red car parked over there...I saw them turn onto Charleston, and that was it.”

“Okay, thanks, guys. I’ll keep you posted...we’ll find him.”

Multitude of questions about the events Nick described swirl in my head, but I start with the most important one.

“Are you guys okay?”

Sara nods, then mutters something about calling Grissom while Nick finally lifts his head up, his eyes are red, his hands are still shaking.

“Yea-yeah, Greg, we’re fine,” Nick sighs. He puts his hand on my shoulder to reassure me, but the amount of pressure he puts on tells me he’s not exactly “fine.”

“I couldn’t stop them.”

“You did the right thing, calling it in--”

“But I should have stopped them, Greg! I just--”

He twists away, pacing a little back and forth, before unleashing his pent up anger on the trunk of the nearest police cruiser. I lifted my hand in an awkward, apologetic wave to a passing officer.

His back rises and falls like a balloon being filled with air, I could hear him attempt to steady his deep, shaky breathing. I’m reminded of the McBride case, how he stormed out of the police station after an intense interrogation. I place my hand on his shoulder, just as I did then.

“You did the right thing, man,” I repeat, squeezing my hand, as if to squeeze up the tension from his body like a sponge. It seems to work, the leather on his jacket loosens as his shoulder falls from my fingers.

He nods and looks back at me, a single tear sliding down his cheek before he quickly wipes it away. But there was no hiding the despair in his eyes. You’d have to be blind not to see the bond that Nick and Warrick have, a bond that was nearly severed last summer with the threat on Nick’s life. I saw firsthand how it tore Warrick apart, and now I’m seeing the other side of the coin.

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realselfblog · 5 years

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Consumers put food front-and-center when thinking about their health. Viewing food-as-medicine is going mainstream for health consumers, who look beyond the “medicine” in that phrase toward a broader concept of personal well-being. This is the theme of a new report from the FMI Foundation called The Power of Health and Well-Being in Food Retail.

The report’s insights are based on surveys FMI has conducted over the past two years, as the Foundation has observed that consumers broadening their definition of health to include emotional health, energy levels, and sleep quality.

The consumer-as-medical-bill-payor is now looking at foods with health benefits, first and foremost for heart health. It’s interesting to note that wearable tech for health in 2019 includes many innovations embedded into consumer-facing devices that relate to heart function, such as the Omron HeartGuide, and FDA-cleared smartwatch that takes blood pressure from the wrist for the first time, Withings Move ECG, the Garmin Vivosport (suitable for athletic use), and the Moov Now (waterproof and great for swimmers).

While interest in specific conditions and medical areas vary across demographic and psychographic groups, there are some generalities that cross most people: two-thirds of people believe fresh produce is integral to a balanced diet. So “produce stars as a retail health anchor,” FMI believes. Fresh food also happens to be one of the barriers to more consumers buying groceries online, which Amazon has discovered in its grocery business.

The vast majority of consumers say they eat healthier at home than when they eat out. Thus, the growth of subscription food boxes that emphasize both healthy eating along with social factors. “Eating together,” whether with families or friends, is seen by most consumers to have healthy benefits, all baked into the concept of “eating well,” FMI calls out.

The top retail channels consumers use for health and wellness are supercenters and discount stores (36%), grocery stores (34%), drug stores and pharmacies (32%), club stores (17%), and natural food/health food stores (16%). The latter, combined with farmers’ markets and special food shops, tend to be frequented by consumers with greater commitment to healthy eating styles.

But these stores aren’t necessarily seen as being “on my side” to help me bolster my health, consumers say. Instead, the most trusted people and institutions for making health through food are “my family,” doctors, farmers, friends, fitness clubs and gyms, and “my primary store” — that is, the retail channel most frequently shopped by the consumer.

Consumers point to some organizations that they perceive may be working against their better health: these include fast food manufacturers, the entertainment industry, food processors (“Big Food”), the media, government agencies, and health insurance companies.

Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

Private labels from these stores, and particularly when there’s organic food in the can or package, is a further trust equity factor. Private labels are lower-cost than national brands, bringing a flavor of financial wellness to the consumer purchase. (Remember, health consumers define well-being beyond medical issues, to include emotional, social and fiscal fitness).

Other departments in the store can also shine health halos to reinforce the trusted consumer relationship, such as personal care, fashion, household products, and general merchandise.

As grocery stores expand their footprints and services as health destinations, they are hiring specific professionals to support this mission: pharmacists, nutritionists, wellness counselors, and healthcare professionals like doctors, nurse practitioners, and nurses to staff on-site clinics. One-third of stores in FMI’s survey have in-store retail health clinics.

We can expect food retailers to, literally, cater to consumers’ growing embrace and purchase of food-as-medicine. Watch your own primary grocery store continue to morph in this way, well beyond the perimeter of the store.

Health Populi’s Hot Points: Last week, The Lancet published a comprehensive report on The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change. The report covers the world, but has particular significant for the United States as our nation must confront the year-by-year growth of obesity and other dietary risks that the paper discusses for the world’s health citizens.

A “syndemic” is a synergy of epidemics, co-occurring at one time in a place, and interactive with each other in a way that leads to multiple, negative outcomes. The Lancet‘s Commission of writers believes that the triple-threat of obesity, poor nutrition, and climate change compromises the health futures of the world’s people….including Americans.

The systemic drivers underneath this syndemic are food and agriculture, transportation, urban design, and land use. The Commission urges us to consider health futures that weave together these drivers as they interact in (negatively) synergistic ways. Addressing just one policy in this complicated web will not solve the larger challenge.

Among several key messages, I’ll call out one here that’s particularly relevant to healthy eating and addressing what should be an obesity moon-shot in America:

“Create sustainable and health-promoting business models for the 21st century to shift business outcomes from a short-term profit-only focus to sustainable, profitable models that explicitly include benefits to society and the environment.”

The U.S. map illustrates each of the 50 states’ levels of obesity prevalence: from lows in yellow to highs in red and at the highest-end, purple in the deep southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the perennial obese state in the central south, West Virginia.

Let’s not pat ourselves on the back so quickly if we live in Massachusetts or Colorado, two of the weight-healthier states. Check out the last chart, comparing obesity rates in the U.S. vs. levels in European nations.

Pizza and pasta doesn’t seem to be hurting Italians when it comes to obesity, Danish pastries in Denmark or fondue or chocolate in Switzerland.

That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

Health care delivery in the U.S. is at a turning point with a dizzying pace of technology innovation, analytics underpinned by volume-velocity-veracity-and-variety, and unsustainable cost-increasing workflows that deliver poor ROI in terms of health outcomes for individual, population, and public health.

This unsustainable economic model, combined with technology platforms and AI, are motivating some of the big-name mergers and alliances we’ve begun to see begin to re-shape the American health care ecosystem. We must pay attention to these organizations’ roles in health care to ensure there is good-acting for longer-term, sustainable health systems in our communities, large and small, urban and rural, across ethnicities and race and socioeconomic status. We’ve lived in a health care world of disparities and equity gaps. It will be much more productive long-run to build an inclusive health/care community that brings care to people in every ZIP code, regardless of peoples’ genetic codes.

I believe that grocery stores in their communities will play growing roles in health for consumers who seek to engage in overall well-being. In just the last few weeks, Kroger announced rolling out blood testing devices to its pharmacies and clinics; Whole Foods launched dietary assistance online via a digital product catalog; and, Earth Fare, a natural foods store in Asheville, NC, hired a Chief Medical Officer. Watch this space to morph as other grocers, along with hospitals, farmers markets, and food pantries, expand healthy food to people who really need it.

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maxihealth · 5 years

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

Other departments in the store can also shine health halos to reinforce the trusted consumer relationship, such as personal care, fashion, household products, and general merchandise.

Among several key messages, I’ll call out one here that’s particularly relevant to healthy eating and addressing what should be an obesity moon-shot in America:

Pizza and pasta doesn’t seem to be hurting Italians when it comes to obesity, Danish pastries in Denmark or fondue or chocolate in Switzerland.

That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

The post Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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titheguerrero · 5 years

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Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine

Food stores gained in trust between 2017 and 2018, illustrating the opportunity that a consumer’s favorite grocery store can leverage in a trusted relationship with a person keen on health.

Other departments in the store can also shine health halos to reinforce the trusted consumer relationship, such as personal care, fashion, household products, and general merchandise.

Among several key messages, I’ll call out one here that’s particularly relevant to healthy eating and addressing what should be an obesity moon-shot in America:

Pizza and pasta doesn’t seem to be hurting Italians when it comes to obesity, Danish pastries in Denmark or fondue or chocolate in Switzerland.

That’s because these countries have strong primary care backbones, spend more on social care relative to health care spending, and have other policies that bake in health well beyond medical care.

The post Consumers Expand Their Definition of Well-Being to Include Food-As-Medicine appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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