中国当代艺术“弯曲的纬度”――兼评“建构之维”院士画展
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中国当代艺术研究院士们的“建构之维”艺术邀请展，展出作品几乎毫无新意，如同麦当劳套餐一样寻常乏味。特别是三大美术学院的院长作品，像三十年里不曾摆动过的老爷钟。相比之下，昔日反权威、反主流、反体制的草莽英雄，显得极为难堪，他们与朝廷官员一起似乎矮了一截，论名气、数年纪、比功夫也不至于是孙子辈，实在有大煞中国当代艺术威风；江湖上则是骂声一片，当年被官府撵来逐去，落草京郊荒野，如今归顺却那般弯曲的纬度，实在辱没了前卫艺术家的反叛个性。
一位叫袁霆轩的艺术青年，对中国当代艺术界表示不满地写道：“中国知识分子惊慌失措的发现‘文化’不是一种追求，而沦为一种谋取钱财的手段，它们本来的彼岸已经被改造被瓦解被消解。于是作为一群理想被毁的战士，中国的知识分子群体已集体哗变，甚至不需要付出心理上的代价，既然无法对抗这个体制，那么就附庸这个体制上苟存。……，无论是附着于政权（详见当代艺术院士）还是附着于金钱（详见改造历史大展），艺术家和策展人都已经默认了文化的工具价值［1］。”这番话指出了中国文化界的普遍现状，袁霆轩的感受可能是历代中国青年的共同悲愤。假设袁轩是明日之星，他可能是体制内的罗中立等人或是体制外的王广义等人，因为中国历史始终无法摆脱机会主义者胜出的宿命怪圈。上个世纪80年代兴起拿来主义现代派艺术，形同当时流行的喇叭裤一样，结果引起人人喊“打”的过街老鼠，唯有那些在压抑中的年轻人跃跃欲试，从而演化出貌似叛逆的痞性基因，这便是中国先锋派艺术的精神病根。当代中国的乌烟瘴气，显然跟纯正的“红旗下蛋”不脱干系；大历史已证明了这些人的崇高理想、反叛姿态存在着一种虚伪的表面现象，骨子里始终充满了贱民禀性，造反胜利则称霸为王，不然就归顺拜官。象王广义、徐冰、蔡国强、张艺谋等人，公开表示崇拜毛泽东，其实一点也不偶然，正如同毛本人极为推崇秦始皇、朱元璋一样，奴性贱民总是敬畏强梁。
当年反权威、反主流、反体制的前卫艺术家，转而今天边附庸权力、迎合主流、归顺体制。本来，艺术家进国家美术馆做展览、出任艺术院士极为正常。关键在极权宰制的社会里，政府是绑架国家的专制势力，官员是掠夺人民的社会寄生虫，任何有文化良知、独立人格的艺术家，必然有着水火不容的基本立场，何况曾是反叛体制权威博得美誉的前卫艺术家。很显然，“建构之维”艺术展，揭开中国前卫艺术的脆弱本质，并见证了极权主义和机会主义在中国仍是胜利者。
当代艺术的中国闹剧
不能说中国当年先锋派艺术家全是机会主义者，至少有人不屑那么做，也有人想被招安而没有资格。在“市场是检验真理的唯一标准”艺术神话下，走向招安红地毯便是升官发财、人生大圆满，张艺谋便是最好例子。中国历史始终是一部机会主义的胜利史，也是近现代始终无法走出半封建的内在根源。
北京奥运前夕，巴黎发生“奥运火炬”事件，王广义、卢昊公然以国家主义和民族主义姿态出现，抵制法国巴黎马约尔美术馆的一个展览，理由是法国政府对待北京奥运的态度令他们感到非常不舒服。周春芽乘机发起了联合声明，得到张晓刚、岳敏君、王广义等人的响应。这场爱国秀表演，真正动机意图在今天已大白天下，让人看清了这些当代艺术家的思想根底和艺术立场。不错，重要的不是艺术，更不是单纯的爱国，而是国内火爆艺术市场，巴黎火炬事件只是提供了绝好的表演现场。不论这些人从前反叛还是现在归顺，可皇帝还是那么个皇帝，朝廷还是那么个朝廷，关键在于艺术家们跪了下来。周春芽致信王广义等人，显得气概十足地说：“看了你们关于取消2008年6月法国展览计划的声明令我十分感动!我坚决支持你们!艺术家不可能是完美的，但作为一个人，一个男人，一个中国人，一个中国艺术家，你们有血性、有骨气、有良知、有正义!中国当代艺术家其实是对这个社会是最持有批判观点态度的，特别是权贵和保守势力。因为作为一个真正的艺术家如果他没有良知和诚实他是不可能创作出伟大的艺术。”［2］
作为一名具有现代人文精神的前卫艺术家，起码不是一个狭隘民族主义者，何况那家被抵制的法国美术馆，跟“藏独”分子、跟北京奥运没有直接关系。要标榜“血性、骨气、良知、正义”，至少王广义等人没有任何优越感，那种肉麻做法显然不是真正的“义和团”。机会主义追求自身利益，向来是不择手段而无须原则。巴黎“火炬事件”之后，接着是53届界威尼斯双年展中国馆、中国当代艺术院院士顶戴、中国美术馆“建构之维”画展。这一切，来得太有戏剧性效果。兴许，本来就是一场历史误会，人们可能误读了这些人的艺术作品，据说那种“弯曲的纬度”代表了一种“神勇”。
中国前卫艺术的身份流变
历史总是具有讽刺意味：一群充满热血的理想青年，本无心造反却站错了队伍；当起义失败之后，好事不再有这些人的份儿，原本蠢蠢欲动便变得沮丧绝望。于是，他们开始以调侃、晦涩、嘲讽的姿态出现，从而赢得中国边缘先锋艺术的江湖旗帜，受到海内外的赞赏以及支持。掌声、鲜花、名气、金钱接踵而来，作品价钱、江湖地位也随之益涨。然而，贱民的痞性、名利的诱惑，这些无心造反而成了美术明星画家们，开始步入张艺谋之后尘，归顺朝廷，他们的人生舞台在祖国，得罪了官府已是心头之患，毕竟不再是一无所有的无产流寇。因此，这些反权威、反主流、反体制的前卫艺术家，摇身一变，成了抵制西方、忠于党国的即时先锋；作品代表国家巡展世界，享有中国艺术研究院院士顶戴，与官僚权贵同台亮相。早年叛逆是无意识的力比多冲动，今天归顺是利益的驱使，重要的不是艺术。
上个世纪八十年代，整个社会处于极度不明朗状态，各种思潮来势凶猛，这是长期压抑带来的时代激流，从而拉开了“85”思潮以及新美术的序幕。由于一代强人的谢世，权力出现松弛，上层派系斗争也越发激烈。邓的复出，并能够把当时主导地位的左派势力――毛系人马挤出国家权力中心，没有民间支持和社会呼声是不可想象的。除了拨乱反正之外，默许农村搞单干、开放自由舆论、否定“三个凡是”，迫使华国锋让位。接着，自由化思潮开始指向政治体制，矛头直扑当政“老人”，权力高层成立中顾委（82年），逼退了一些老人，加强了权力集中；唯独关键人物不肯退，直到86年“十二大”时，邓才让陈云、李先念陪他做样子“半退”，实际上大权仍在手中。从利用社会自由思潮到反“自由化”运动，原因要求政治体制改革的呼声，在党内外都一浪高过一浪，直接威胁到“老人”的核心权力，加上物价飞涨、官倒风气、胡耀邦去世，终于爆发“6四”血幕。
在整个八十年代过程，形形色色的思想主张汹涌而出，开创了建国以来最大自由时代。美术界随势出现了传统复苏和现代扩张，打破了文革美术的僵化体系。西方现代派艺术对于当时文艺青年是一种仰望向往，他们的仿而袭之使自己无形中成为体制文化的对立面；除了反资产阶级“自由化”到“六４”学*潮，整个社会的文化态势和政治气候出现了大逆转，国粹艺术和民族主义占据了主导地位，新极权主义奉行一切向钱靠，导致“民主自由”、“现代主义”和“西方文化”成了不道德的代名词。中国先锋派艺术因此被打上了“自由化”流毒的身份烙印，从艺术家到理论家均遭到体制的排斥。要知道，今天的“当权派”，当年有的上街游过行，有的甚至退过党，机会主义者嗅觉总是异常灵敏的，更多懂得如何浑水摸鱼。圆明园是“85”美术新潮之后，形成了一个画家自然聚落，这些人被官方视为有政治立场问题的可疑分子，像野狗畜生一样被驱来逐去，从被遣送到入狱，从受骚扰到挨打，无所不有，最终散落京郊四野。之所以，江湖上对这些前卫明星们归顺朝廷深怀不满，不光是艺术的伦理精神，关键是那“弯曲的纬度”叫人不好受，毕竟官方并没有就当年驱逐、关押、封杀当代艺术家进行道歉，有人对此耿耿于怀也不难理解。
今天看来，中国先锋派前卫艺术家普遍徒有虚名，他们如今的所作所为便是最好证据。像徐冰、王广义、蔡国强、张艺谋等人，他们所以崇拜毛泽东就因为骨子里的贱性在作痒。抑或说这些人才智也仅限于投机取巧，并无真正的人格尊严和思想立场；失落则造反，得宠则下跪。诚然，这些是长期极权主义所造就的国民性格，机会主义几乎成为中国人生存之道，并不限于艺术家或文化人。可以说，不光是这些前卫艺术家曾经站错了队伍，人们似乎误判了他们的艺术立场，最终演变为一场不欢而散的闹剧。当年追捧这些文化先锋的人们，今天都被响亮地打了一个耳光。膝盖长在每个人的身上，弯曲也是每个人的权利。
值得反思的艺术现场
“现场”一直是邱志杰的噱头概念。人们总被机会主义的现场表演所作弄，从奥运巴黎火炬事件、当代艺术研究院成立、“建构之维”艺术展，它才是一幕幕真实的中国艺术现场。假若包括厂矿、监狱、法庭、官场的生活现场，它完成超出了艺术想象力。然而，举国上下把荣誉和掌声给了那种粉墨登场的“表演性”现场，后感性多少是虚幻的矫情。中国人的确“不差钱”，艺术也不缺市场现场，缺的是艺术家的“骨气、血性、良知、正义”，特别是对权贵和保守势力最持有批判观点态度。
如果用一种态势来描述中国当前的文化艺术，那它象截断历史支流的大坝，造成整个社会精神生态的一潭死水。实事上，导致历史不通畅、社会不幸福、人性不健全的截流之坝，无穷之多。因此，中国社会需要制度、文化、观念的现代性改造，尽管艺术不构成直接的生活实质，但它的敏感性、创造性、启迪性，是任何事物所不可取代的，这也是它赋予人类历史最宝贵的原动力，更是最后一道精神防线－－艺术批判性的文化创造力。然而，中国艺术家没有完全认识到自身无形中成了极权帮凶、专制附庸和历史障碍，普遍热中歌功颂德、附庸风雅、投机取巧。中国当前的透支性发展，不仅挤干了人民这头乳牛，还需付出巨大的生态能源、社会道德的牺牲代价，给子孙后代留下的不光是污染的环境、贫瘠的土地、破坏的山河，还有恶劣的习气、扭曲的心灵和软弱的气质。
当专制极权神圣而不可动摇，机会主义总会屡试屡爽，象吸毒一般难以收手。那么，整个社会必定是平庸恶俗，文化艺术创造力自然微不足道，人们的才华脑力只限于投机取巧；上串下跳、吹吹拍拍、东拐西骗则是最好的生意策略。中国从来不乏脑聪圆滑之人，就缺周春芽所说的“有血性、有骨气、有良知、有正义”的中国人，自然无法建立一个自由而开放、民主而公正的现代文明社会。连一向标榜自己是“对这个社会是最持有批判观点态度的，特别是权贵和保守势力”的当代艺术家，竟然为了“不差钱”和有名无实的院士顶戴，竟然向权贵保守势力跪下了自己的膝盖。照理说，“F4”和徐冰，年纪、才名都不在四大美院院长之下，即便论资排辈也可平起平坐，毕竟象孙子辈站着合影留念有些“损之又损”。可见反叛或归顺，全然不是光明大道。
中国先锋派的前卫艺术历经了从理想到幻灭、从反叛到招安、从老大到孙子、从圆明园到宋庄的全过程，表明中国当代艺术要争取完全的合法地位、艺术家们要拥有文化尊严，还有很长的路要走。历史好比一场接力赛，一个人或一代人无法赢得全场胜利，需要每人的共同努力，至少要避免妨碍伙伴们的前进。就此而言，“85”一代人的确自我消解了前卫艺术精神，他们的荣辱实际上是整个中国艺术界的荣辱，值得艺术同仁的集体深思。历史已明白无误地告诉我们，中国不建立一个民主法制、自由开放的现代文明社会，任何人都不可能拥有人格尊严，艺术家的天赋才华也难以正常发挥，更别说赢得世界艺术史上的荣誉。
引文注释：
［１］袁霆轩《你的荒淫游戏，他的刻骨人生—— 致2010年前提艺术节悼辞》
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［２］**艺术网《王广义、卢昊关于取消2008年6月法国展览计划的声明》
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Be Free From Diabetes Symptoms & Keep Normal Blood Sugar with Natural Diabetes Treatments
Learn about natural diabetes treatment that will help you prevent and reverse diabetes, lower blood sugar, maintain normal blood sugar levels, and be FREE of diabetes symptoms and complications.
Thursday
Diabetes Early Signs: How Diabetes Progresses?
How diabetes progresses
The normal blood glucose levels of people without diabetes is about 80-90 mg/dL before eating and may rise up to 120 mg/dL or a little more after they eat, depending on what kind of food they had.
Pre-diabetes begins when your body is starting to lose control of blood sugar. While your fasting blood sugar levels may be not much higher than normal (100-125 mg/dL), but after meals, the levels rise much higher than normal to almost 200 mg/dL.
Because the peak is higher, it also takes longer for it to come down. Then 4-5 hours later, they may drop below normal – under 70 or even 50 mg/dL, causing symptoms of low blood sugar symptoms, such as shakiness, nervousness, and intense craving for food, especially something sweet.
What happens is your body produces too little insulin right after a meal to keep the blood glucose level down. When it tries to catch up, it releases WAY TOO MUCH causing your blood glucose levels drop TOO LOW. This can go on for years before the person is diagnosed with diabetes.
When you are diabetic, even the fasting blood glucose levels will be higher than normal, over 100 mg/dL. They will zoom to even higher an extremely high level after eating, and because it is so high it takes hours to go back to the starting level.
Diabetes Early Signs: Importance of Blood Glucose Monitoring for Early Diagnosis
Keep in mind that the fasting blood glucose level for a non diabetic person and a person with pre-diabetes may be very similar. Diagnosis of diabetes is usually based on measuring your fasting level, so a person with pre-diabetes may be told that there everything is OK. So such person will continue the unhealthy lifestyle, thinking nothing is wrong with him/her.
This is unfortunate, because being diagnosed with pre-diabetes would serve as an excellent wake-up call for many people to change their ways and adopt healthy habits. Obviously it is much easier to reverse pre-diabetes before it progressed to full-blown diabetes.
Diabetes is a serious condition can have a devastating effect on the entire body, including eyes, kidneys, hear, nerve, ultimately leading to blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease and stroke. Everyone who has diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2 is at risk, and even people who have pre-diabetes can be affected - so it's never too early to take aggressive preventive measures by changing your lifestyle choices.
What is important that you can prevent, and in most cases reverse type 2 diabetes because the disease is largely influenced by the person's lifestyle choices, most importantly dietary choices and physical activity/exercise. Do not wait until it is too late!
The good news is that diabetes can be reversed and your blood glucose levels can be brought back to normal with a proper diet and exercise routine. It's essential to eat a natural plant-based diet, and avoid excessive amounts of fats (read more about the dangers of low carb high protein diet) and learn some low fat smoothie recipes that will help you lose weight and improve your health quickly. Go to http://www.diabetessecretweapon.info/ for more information.
If your blood glucose levels are out of the normal ranges indicated above - you need to take action TODAY!
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Tuesday
Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels Chart - What is a Normal Blood Sugar Range?
If you are reading this blog, it probably means that you, or your relative, or a friend, is has diabetes or has been diagnosed with pre-diabetes. You may feel surprised and scared, and wonder why this is happening.
Having diabetes means that the level of glucose in your blood (or blood sugar level) above the normal range. Glucose is the main source of energy for human cells. Glucose levels are regulated by insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas and released into the bloodstream whenever glucose levels rise.
While everyone has glucose in the blood, as it is essential for living; having diabetes means you have more than your body needs – usually WAY TOO MUCH.
The good news is that diabetes can be reversed and your blood sugar levels can be brought back to normal with a proper diet and exercise routine. It's essential to eat a natural plant-based diet, and avoid excessive amounts of fats (read more about the dangers of low carb high protein diets and how to make healthy green smoothies that will help you lose weight and improve your health quickly. Go to http://www.diabetessecretweapon.info/ for more information.
Normal Blood Sugar Levels Chart
When you find out about being pre-diabetic or diabetic, one of the first things you need to learn is about normal blood sugar levels, abnormal blood sugar levels, and how to monitor your blood sugar. I hope the following blood sugar levels chart and explanation will make it easy for you.
The fluctuation of blood sugar (red) and the sugar-lowering hormone insulin (blue) in humans during the course of a day with three meals. One of the effects of a sugar-rich vs a starch-rich meal is highlighted.
The following article I published recently explains what are normal blood sugar levels.
Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels Chart - What is a Normal Blood Sugar Range?
Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels Chart - What is a Normal Blood Sugar Range?
By Joanna Verdan
When you find out about being pre-diabetic or diabetic, one of the first things you need to learn is about normal blood sugar levels, abnormal blood sugar levels, and how to monitor your blood sugar. The following blood sugar levels chart will make it easy for you.
Glucose, the main source of energy for human cells, is a type of sugar that enters your body whenever you consume carbohydrate foods. Glucose levels are regulated by insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas and released into the bloodstream whenever glucose levels rise.
Measuring your blood glucose has never been easier. There are literally dozens of types of meters that you can use at home or while travelling that allow you to easily and conveniently measure your sugar levels. Your doctor may also recommend a more sophisticated monitoring device that is also easy to use should you need more detailed data than a meter can supply.
The following is a simple blood sugar chart that will give you an idea what values you should be aiming for to maintain good health and avoid dangerous complications due to diabetes:
* Normal glucose range is between 70 and 150mg; these levels are typically lower in the morning, and rise after meals.
* Regardless of when you last ate, a random result of 200 mg/dL or higher means you have diabetes.
* A fasting blood sugar level taken, for example, when you wake up in the morning, should be between 70 and 99 mg/dL If it's 126 mg/dL or higher, you have diabetes.
When monitoring your blood glucose levels, it is crucial that you observe any patterns in your readings, and pay attention to what types of foods, medications or activities trigger undesirable increase or decrease in your readings.
Diabetes is a serious condition can have a devastating effect on the entire body, including eyes, kidneys, hear, nerve, ultimately leading to blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease and stroke. Everyone who has diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2 is at risk, and even people who have pre-diabetes can be affected - so it's never too early to take aggressive preventive measures by changing your lifestyle choices.
What is important that you can prevent, and in most cases reverse type 2 diabetes because the disease is largely influenced by the person's lifestyle choices, most importantly dietary choices and physical activity/exercise. Do not wait until it is too late!If your blood glucose levels are out of the normal ranges indicated above - you need to take action TODAY!
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Monday
IMAGINE yourself enjoying a GOOD LIFE
despite your diagnosis of diabetes!
I’m constantly amazed that no one is talking about beating diabetes simply by making some easy alterations to the foods you’re already eating and getting more physically active.
No one (at least in the official media) ever talks about “beating diabetes”, everyone seems to be content with finding ways to “control diabetes” or “live with diabetes”. And there is a reason for that.
Just think about it, if somebody showed you how to beat diabetes… they wouldn’t make very much money off of you. But if somebody invents a pill or a shot that helps you live with diabetes… they’ll get your money week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year until the day you die.
In fact, there’s a saying in the industry that…
Cures Kill Profits!
Understand that diabetes is a serious condition that can be prevented and even reversed by making some radical changes to your lifestyle.
Do not wait until it is too late!
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Diabetic blood sugar levels: the importance of blood sugar monitoring
If you are diabetic, you must be closely monitoring your blood glucose levels all the time.
Understand that even if you are taking your medications and following your doctor’s orders religiously, there are many variables that could result in a positive test for glucose in the urine, plus the fact that even if the urine was negative, the patient could still be suffering diabetic damage.
The urine becomes negative at a blood glucose level of 180 mg/dL, a level that could still cause damage.
Although you can achieve normal blood glucose most of the time if you treat your diabetes properly, there still may be times when, for no apparent reason, the glucose level is not normal.
There are many factors that determine the blood glucose level at any given time in a diabetic person. These factors include:
Your diet
Your physical activity
Your mental state and stress levels
Other diseases that you may have
Medications that you are taking
For women, the day of your menstrual cycle.
You have diabetes if your fasting blood glucose is greater than or equal to 126 mg/dL on more than one occasion OR your glucose after eating is greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL on more than one occasion.
Some diabetics claim that they can tell the level of their blood glucose by the way they feel.
However, the most common symptom of high blood sugar is having no symptoms at all! Which is why many people are living with prediabetes and diabetes without knowing about it! The fact is less than half of patients who try to guess come even close to the correct answer.
Sure, if your blood glucose is under 50 mg/dL and you have severe signs of hypoglycemia – you are sweaty, irritable, have palpitations and a headache – you know that your blood sugar level is low. And even then, you will not be able to tell for sure what your level is.
You must test yourself regularly and not depend on how you feel, or you risk one or several of the long term and short term complications of diabetes, such as excessive thirst, frequent urination, blurred vision, kidney disease, or nerve damage.
If you have type 2 diabetes, you should measure your sugar level a twice a day, before breakfast and supper. If you have type 1, measure it before meals and at bedtime. The more accurate information you have, the better will be your control over your glucose, and better chances of avoiding complications.
Frequency of monitoring of blood glucose level for people with diabetes:
Before meals and bedtime for people with type 1 diabetes
Twice daily before breakfast and supper for person with type 2 diabetes.
Once daily for people with stable diabetes.
Before meals and one hour after eating for pregnant woman with gestational diabetes or type 1 diabetes.
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Friday
What Are Diabetes 2 Symptoms? Do NOT Ignore Early Signs of Diabetes!
The numbers of people affected by diabetes are rising. In the US alone, approximately 20 million people has type 2 diabetes. This epidemic is caused by changes in our eating habits, shifting from natural foods, to highly processed, fat-ladden food items, and our lifestyles becoming sedentary and inactive. All these factors contribute to deterioration of our health. One of the leads to an increase in the incidence of obesity, a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
* Fatigue: Type 2 diabetes makes you feel exhausted because your body does not get enough fuel into the cells, even though there is plenty of glucose in your blood and plenty of insulin.
* Frequent urination and unquenchable thirst: You feel like you have to go to the bathroom all the time, which dehydrates your body and make you feel thirsty.
* Blurred vision: The lenses of your eyes swell and shrink as your blood sugar levels rise and fall. Our eyes are unable to adjust quickly enough to these lens changes.
* Slow healing of wounds and frequent infections: Your white blood cells don’t work properly in high sugar environment. These cells are critical in the process of healing and defending your body against infections. Unfortunately, all kinds of bacteria and fungi thrive in that environment, making you vulnerable to infections. Yeast infections are often accompanied by the itching and smelly vaginal discharge.
* Numbness and tingling in your feet or legs: This is caused by a common complication of diabetes, called neuropathy. Neuropathy takes over five years to develop, so if you experience numbness in your extremities, you probably have had diabetes for quite a while.
* Heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease: These dangerous complications may appear even before you are diagnosable with diabetes.
There can be various other symptoms that can raise a red flag such as itchy/dry skin, frequent yeast infections. Although these can be attributed to high glucose levels in the body, they can also be a sign of a different problem; so it's best to have your blood glucose levels checked periodically.
The important thing to realize is that diabetes can be reversed and your blood glucose levels can be brought back to normal with a proper diet and exercise routine. It's essential to eat a natural plant-based diet, and avoid excessive amounts of fats (read more about the dangers of too much protein) and learn some green smoothie recipes that will help you lose weight and improve your health quickly and stop sugar cravings once and for all. Go to http://www.diabetessecretweapon.info/ for more information.
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Labels: signs of diabetes, type 2 diabetes symptoms, warning signs of diabetes
Learn about natural diabetes treatment that will help you prevent and reverse diabetes, lower blood sugar, maintain normal blood sugar levels, and be FREE of diabetes symptoms and complications.
Thursday
Diabetes Early Signs: How Diabetes Progresses?
How diabetes progresses
The normal blood glucose levels of people without diabetes is about 80-90 mg/dL before eating and may rise up to 120 mg/dL or a little more after they eat, depending on what kind of food they had.
Pre-diabetes begins when your body is starting to lose control of blood sugar. While your fasting blood sugar levels may be not much higher than normal (100-125 mg/dL), but after meals, the levels rise much higher than normal to almost 200 mg/dL.
Because the peak is higher, it also takes longer for it to come down. Then 4-5 hours later, they may drop below normal – under 70 or even 50 mg/dL, causing symptoms of low blood sugar symptoms, such as shakiness, nervousness, and intense craving for food, especially something sweet.
What happens is your body produces too little insulin right after a meal to keep the blood glucose level down. When it tries to catch up, it releases WAY TOO MUCH causing your blood glucose levels drop TOO LOW. This can go on for years before the person is diagnosed with diabetes.
When you are diabetic, even the fasting blood glucose levels will be higher than normal, over 100 mg/dL. They will zoom to even higher an extremely high level after eating, and because it is so high it takes hours to go back to the starting level.
Diabetes Early Signs: Importance of Blood Glucose Monitoring for Early Diagnosis
Keep in mind that the fasting blood glucose level for a non diabetic person and a person with pre-diabetes may be very similar. Diagnosis of diabetes is usually based on measuring your fasting level, so a person with pre-diabetes may be told that there everything is OK. So such person will continue the unhealthy lifestyle, thinking nothing is wrong with him/her.
This is unfortunate, because being diagnosed with pre-diabetes would serve as an excellent wake-up call for many people to change their ways and adopt healthy habits. Obviously it is much easier to reverse pre-diabetes before it progressed to full-blown diabetes.
Diabetes is a serious condition can have a devastating effect on the entire body, including eyes, kidneys, hear, nerve, ultimately leading to blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease and stroke. Everyone who has diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2 is at risk, and even people who have pre-diabetes can be affected - so it's never too early to take aggressive preventive measures by changing your lifestyle choices.
What is important that you can prevent, and in most cases reverse type 2 diabetes because the disease is largely influenced by the person's lifestyle choices, most importantly dietary choices and physical activity/exercise. Do not wait until it is too late!
The good news is that diabetes can be reversed and your blood glucose levels can be brought back to normal with a proper diet and exercise routine. It's essential to eat a natural plant-based diet, and avoid excessive amounts of fats (read more about the dangers of low carb high protein diet) and learn some low fat smoothie recipes that will help you lose weight and improve your health quickly. Go to http://www.diabetessecretweapon.info/ for more information.
If your blood glucose levels are out of the normal ranges indicated above - you need to take action TODAY!
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Labels: diabetes blood sugar levesl, diabetes early signs, prediabetes, prevent diabetes, signs of diabetes, warning signs of diabetes
Tuesday
Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels Chart - What is a Normal Blood Sugar Range?
If you are reading this blog, it probably means that you, or your relative, or a friend, is has diabetes or has been diagnosed with pre-diabetes. You may feel surprised and scared, and wonder why this is happening.
Having diabetes means that the level of glucose in your blood (or blood sugar level) above the normal range. Glucose is the main source of energy for human cells. Glucose levels are regulated by insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas and released into the bloodstream whenever glucose levels rise.
While everyone has glucose in the blood, as it is essential for living; having diabetes means you have more than your body needs – usually WAY TOO MUCH.
The good news is that diabetes can be reversed and your blood sugar levels can be brought back to normal with a proper diet and exercise routine. It's essential to eat a natural plant-based diet, and avoid excessive amounts of fats (read more about the dangers of low carb high protein diets and how to make healthy green smoothies that will help you lose weight and improve your health quickly. Go to http://www.diabetessecretweapon.info/ for more information.
Normal Blood Sugar Levels Chart
When you find out about being pre-diabetic or diabetic, one of the first things you need to learn is about normal blood sugar levels, abnormal blood sugar levels, and how to monitor your blood sugar. I hope the following blood sugar levels chart and explanation will make it easy for you.
The fluctuation of blood sugar (red) and the sugar-lowering hormone insulin (blue) in humans during the course of a day with three meals. One of the effects of a sugar-rich vs a starch-rich meal is highlighted.
The following article I published recently explains what are normal blood sugar levels.
Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels Chart - What is a Normal Blood Sugar Range?
Diabetes Blood Sugar Levels Chart - What is a Normal Blood Sugar Range?
By Joanna Verdan
When you find out about being pre-diabetic or diabetic, one of the first things you need to learn is about normal blood sugar levels, abnormal blood sugar levels, and how to monitor your blood sugar. The following blood sugar levels chart will make it easy for you.
Glucose, the main source of energy for human cells, is a type of sugar that enters your body whenever you consume carbohydrate foods. Glucose levels are regulated by insulin, a hormone produced in the pancreas and released into the bloodstream whenever glucose levels rise.
Measuring your blood glucose has never been easier. There are literally dozens of types of meters that you can use at home or while travelling that allow you to easily and conveniently measure your sugar levels. Your doctor may also recommend a more sophisticated monitoring device that is also easy to use should you need more detailed data than a meter can supply.
The following is a simple blood sugar chart that will give you an idea what values you should be aiming for to maintain good health and avoid dangerous complications due to diabetes:
* Normal glucose range is between 70 and 150mg; these levels are typically lower in the morning, and rise after meals.
* Regardless of when you last ate, a random result of 200 mg/dL or higher means you have diabetes.
* A fasting blood sugar level taken, for example, when you wake up in the morning, should be between 70 and 99 mg/dL If it's 126 mg/dL or higher, you have diabetes.
When monitoring your blood glucose levels, it is crucial that you observe any patterns in your readings, and pay attention to what types of foods, medications or activities trigger undesirable increase or decrease in your readings.
Diabetes is a serious condition can have a devastating effect on the entire body, including eyes, kidneys, hear, nerve, ultimately leading to blindness, kidney failure, amputations, heart disease and stroke. Everyone who has diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2 is at risk, and even people who have pre-diabetes can be affected - so it's never too early to take aggressive preventive measures by changing your lifestyle choices.
What is important that you can prevent, and in most cases reverse type 2 diabetes because the disease is largely influenced by the person's lifestyle choices, most importantly dietary choices and physical activity/exercise. Do not wait until it is too late!If your blood glucose levels are out of the normal ranges indicated above - you need to take action TODAY!
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Monday
IMAGINE yourself enjoying a GOOD LIFE
despite your diagnosis of diabetes!
I’m constantly amazed that no one is talking about beating diabetes simply by making some easy alterations to the foods you’re already eating and getting more physically active.
No one (at least in the official media) ever talks about “beating diabetes”, everyone seems to be content with finding ways to “control diabetes” or “live with diabetes”. And there is a reason for that.
Just think about it, if somebody showed you how to beat diabetes… they wouldn’t make very much money off of you. But if somebody invents a pill or a shot that helps you live with diabetes… they’ll get your money week-after-week, month-after-month, year-after-year until the day you die.
In fact, there’s a saying in the industry that…
Cures Kill Profits!
Understand that diabetes is a serious condition that can be prevented and even reversed by making some radical changes to your lifestyle.
Do not wait until it is too late!
Posted by Joanna Verdan at 3:28 PM 0 comments
Labels: diabetes natural cures, diabetic cures, is diabetes incurable disease, natural diabetes treatment, prevent diabetes, reverse diabetes
Diabetic blood sugar levels: the importance of blood sugar monitoring
If you are diabetic, you must be closely monitoring your blood glucose levels all the time.
Understand that even if you are taking your medications and following your doctor’s orders religiously, there are many variables that could result in a positive test for glucose in the urine, plus the fact that even if the urine was negative, the patient could still be suffering diabetic damage.
The urine becomes negative at a blood glucose level of 180 mg/dL, a level that could still cause damage.
Although you can achieve normal blood glucose most of the time if you treat your diabetes properly, there still may be times when, for no apparent reason, the glucose level is not normal.
There are many factors that determine the blood glucose level at any given time in a diabetic person. These factors include:
Your diet
Your physical activity
Your mental state and stress levels
Other diseases that you may have
Medications that you are taking
For women, the day of your menstrual cycle.
You have diabetes if your fasting blood glucose is greater than or equal to 126 mg/dL on more than one occasion OR your glucose after eating is greater than or equal to 200 mg/dL on more than one occasion.
Some diabetics claim that they can tell the level of their blood glucose by the way they feel.
However, the most common symptom of high blood sugar is having no symptoms at all! Which is why many people are living with prediabetes and diabetes without knowing about it! The fact is less than half of patients who try to guess come even close to the correct answer.
Sure, if your blood glucose is under 50 mg/dL and you have severe signs of hypoglycemia – you are sweaty, irritable, have palpitations and a headache – you know that your blood sugar level is low. And even then, you will not be able to tell for sure what your level is.
You must test yourself regularly and not depend on how you feel, or you risk one or several of the long term and short term complications of diabetes, such as excessive thirst, frequent urination, blurred vision, kidney disease, or nerve damage.
If you have type 2 diabetes, you should measure your sugar level a twice a day, before breakfast and supper. If you have type 1, measure it before meals and at bedtime. The more accurate information you have, the better will be your control over your glucose, and better chances of avoiding complications.
Frequency of monitoring of blood glucose level for people with diabetes:
Before meals and bedtime for people with type 1 diabetes
Twice daily before breakfast and supper for person with type 2 diabetes.
Once daily for people with stable diabetes.
Before meals and one hour after eating for pregnant woman with gestational diabetes or type 1 diabetes.
Posted by Joanna Verdan at 6:47 AM 1 comments
Labels: blood sugar monitoring, Diabetic blood sugar levels, gestational diabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes symptoms
Friday
What Are Diabetes 2 Symptoms? Do NOT Ignore Early Signs of Diabetes!
The numbers of people affected by diabetes are rising. In the US alone, approximately 20 million people has type 2 diabetes. This epidemic is caused by changes in our eating habits, shifting from natural foods, to highly processed, fat-ladden food items, and our lifestyles becoming sedentary and inactive. All these factors contribute to deterioration of our health. One of the leads to an increase in the incidence of obesity, a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
* Fatigue: Type 2 diabetes makes you feel exhausted because your body does not get enough fuel into the cells, even though there is plenty of glucose in your blood and plenty of insulin.
* Frequent urination and unquenchable thirst: You feel like you have to go to the bathroom all the time, which dehydrates your body and make you feel thirsty.
* Blurred vision: The lenses of your eyes swell and shrink as your blood sugar levels rise and fall. Our eyes are unable to adjust quickly enough to these lens changes.
* Slow healing of wounds and frequent infections: Your white blood cells don’t work properly in high sugar environment. These cells are critical in the process of healing and defending your body against infections. Unfortunately, all kinds of bacteria and fungi thrive in that environment, making you vulnerable to infections. Yeast infections are often accompanied by the itching and smelly vaginal discharge.
* Numbness and tingling in your feet or legs: This is caused by a common complication of diabetes, called neuropathy. Neuropathy takes over five years to develop, so if you experience numbness in your extremities, you probably have had diabetes for quite a while.
* Heart disease, stroke, and peripheral vascular disease: These dangerous complications may appear even before you are diagnosable with diabetes.
There can be various other symptoms that can raise a red flag such as itchy/dry skin, frequent yeast infections. Although these can be attributed to high glucose levels in the body, they can also be a sign of a different problem; so it's best to have your blood glucose levels checked periodically.
The important thing to realize is that diabetes can be reversed and your blood glucose levels can be brought back to normal with a proper diet and exercise routine. It's essential to eat a natural plant-based diet, and avoid excessive amounts of fats (read more about the dangers of too much protein) and learn some green smoothie recipes that will help you lose weight and improve your health quickly and stop sugar cravings once and for all. Go to http://www.diabetessecretweapon.info/ for more information.
Posted by Joanna Verdan at 4:14 PM 0 comments
Labels: signs of diabetes, type 2 diabetes symptoms, warning signs of diabetes
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
为什么花80万也有人愿意移民
http://www.educhn.net 2010-07-26
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最近拜访一位美国著名媒体的专栏作家，她1985年就来到中国，中文很好。
因为她的作家身份，提问似乎变成了双向。她问：“你能告诉我，为什么最近我总是收到很多让我移民的短信？”
短信道：“移民澳大利亚40万人民币，移民美国80万人民币。”她逐条给我看短信，可移民国度还包括加拿大、新西兰甚至新加坡。
她问：“中国不是越来越富强吗？个人不是越来越有钱吗？为什么这么多中国人有钱了还要移民外国？”
她说，那天在大街上看到一条广告，上书几个大字：“房子这么贵？还不如移民呢！”
我终于忍不住大笑，这条不够狠，我看到一条间接广告，锵锵泰斗“窦文涛”说的：“中国有风险，投胎需谨慎”。
即使是中国通，她小心记下“DOU文涛”三个字以后，却被“投胎”这两个字难倒了。她问，什么叫“投胎”？我想了很久，回答她说：”中国人，或者说佛家相信轮回。因此乐观的中国人相信，你死后会再投入人世，变成小孩，再出生。这里是更乐观的人相信，你不但会再生，而且还可以选择自己投胎的国度。”
那么上句话的意思可以是：如果你可以替孩子选择出生地的话，中国不是一个好选择。这算是给她的答案，为什么中国人会这么热衷于移民。
当然，作为一个未必真正生活在中国人群里的“中国通”，她依然不知道为什么移民要那么贵。我说，我正好有一个朋友在移民公司工作，一次我拿到了一在她那里看到一份移民美国的“收益”清单，如果按这份清单的话，那么80万的费用似乎是不贵的（他们公司好像只收20万费用）。
以下是清单部分内容：
*孩子出生。在美出生的孩子就是美国公民。注意你在北京超生一个孩子要罚款24万人民币，而在美国你可以多生几个，不用付罚款。（在加拿大每个孩子每个月政府还支付还有牛奶金呢）
*中小学学费。18岁大学前美国全部中小学都是义务教育。目前北京、上海、广州三地机构办理中小学生赴美的学费每年都在3万美元以上（接近21万人民币）。3万×3年=9万 约等于超过60万人民币。
*大学学费。上大学本地学生的学费每年约3千多美金，而外籍学生要交2万多美金。每年节省1.7万×4年=6.8万 约等于50万人民币
*学生贷款。18岁以上的绿卡持有者可以在拿到绿卡当年申请各种类型的学生贷款，找到工作以后可以分年还清，通常只要拿工资的10%-20%还款。美国和加拿大的学生贷款系统非常方便简单，很多学生都靠自己贷款和打工读完大学。
*政府帮助找工作。美国政府在各地设有专门机构免费为国人找工作，绿卡持有者只要到这些部门登记技能、专长，这些部门就会为登记这免费找工作及提供工作的各种政府资讯。同时，这些部门每年还有各项基金帮助培训待业者，比如电脑、英文。
*周游世界。绿卡持有者在绝大多数国家有免签的优势。当然去朝鲜和古巴两国除外。
*回国投资。美国绿卡持有者被视为华侨，回国投资被视为外资或合资，并享受很多优惠政策。
*退休福利。绿卡持有人在一生累积十年交税记录后（底线为每月50美元的税金）可在退休后（通常为65岁）终生领取美国政府的退休金（每月700-1200美元）。
*失业救济。在有正常收入并交税不少于6个月以后失业，到美国相关部门报失业并办理相关手续就可以按月领取政府救济金（每月600-1200美金不等）。
*事故时的人道待遇。在美国发生事故（车祸，怪病）一切以救人为第一准则。即使你表明没有钱支付手术费，医院也会不懈余力地抢救……
我不是帮移民公司做广告，因为大家每天都在手机收到小广告。以上的信息确实是移民公司所列，而且事实情况大致如此，至少我知道在加拿大的社会福利比美国还要好。比如医疗保险，在有的阿尔伯塔省是全部免费，在卑诗省对穷人医保还有特别的优惠。
我只是想列出来，有一些对社会安定起决定因素的社会福利待遇，西方国家有，而我们没有，这样移民公司和移民生意才有市场。
老实说，假如移民美国费用是80万，你多生一个小孩，让他读3年美国高中，4年美国大学基本省出的钱已经超过80万人民币了—条件是假如你不想让孩子和很多学生一起高考，并且大学毕业以后打破头的找工作的话。
这些费用还只是算到了孩子大学毕业，步入社会的社会的医疗保险、失业保险、退休金等等还没有计算。
如果有能力在美国大城市买一幢房子，基本上今天你省的就更多了，就拿通州2万的房价来说吧，你在美国波士顿的郊区绝对可以买到每平方尺单价更好更便宜的房子。
除了这些可以计算的显性数字，干净的空气、清澈的蓝天、纯净的饮用水，孩子们可以活动的大片绿地。更好的市政措施、更好的交通管理等等，还有人们相对平静的心态这些都是数字和金钱无法计算的。
如果你你要问我为什么国人选择移民，我首先会回答因为他们不想自己将来的小孩喝三鹿奶粉，吃食物中的苏丹红、地沟油和各种肉类中的超标激素……好不容易挤进大学校门，毕业了以后却要排着队在富士康门口找工作。还有越来越大的基尼系数和贫富分化带来的社会不稳定性……这些也是金钱无法计算的。
“中国有风险，投胎需谨慎”这样的口号，当然只能是对自己国家最有深切体验的中国人才能总结出来的。等每个北京老外每天都收到移民加拿大、美国、澳大利亚的小广告的时候，我想这也算是黑色幽默了。
我记得当年在新东方学习英语的时候，老师曾经说过，俞敏洪为美国一飞机一飞机的输送了GRE考了高分的最好的中国学生。这是多么大的壮举啊。
如果移民公司再一飞机一飞机的输送中国掏得起移民费用的社会精英或者贪污的官员，这何尝不是壮举。
当然，如此诋毁祖国母亲的移民广告，肯定会有许多爱国者愤愤不平，但我还是觉得，作为一个爱国者，对这种广告，最好的办法就是广泛地传播它，因为，如此一来，最后留在这个国家的人，都会是纯粹的爱国者了。
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最近拜访一位美国著名媒体的专栏作家，她1985年就来到中国，中文很好。
因为她的作家身份，提问似乎变成了双向。她问：“你能告诉我，为什么最近我总是收到很多让我移民的短信？”
短信道：“移民澳大利亚40万人民币，移民美国80万人民币。”她逐条给我看短信，可移民国度还包括加拿大、新西兰甚至新加坡。
她问：“中国不是越来越富强吗？个人不是越来越有钱吗？为什么这么多中国人有钱了还要移民外国？”
她说，那天在大街上看到一条广告，上书几个大字：“房子这么贵？还不如移民呢！”
我终于忍不住大笑，这条不够狠，我看到一条间接广告，锵锵泰斗“窦文涛”说的：“中国有风险，投胎需谨慎”。
即使是中国通，她小心记下“DOU文涛”三个字以后，却被“投胎”这两个字难倒了。她问，什么叫“投胎”？我想了很久，回答她说：”中国人，或者说佛家相信轮回。因此乐观的中国人相信，你死后会再投入人世，变成小孩，再出生。这里是更乐观的人相信，你不但会再生，而且还可以选择自己投胎的国度。”
那么上句话的意思可以是：如果你可以替孩子选择出生地的话，中国不是一个好选择。这算是给她的答案，为什么中国人会这么热衷于移民。
当然，作为一个未必真正生活在中国人群里的“中国通”，她依然不知道为什么移民要那么贵。我说，我正好有一个朋友在移民公司工作，一次我拿到了一在她那里看到一份移民美国的“收益”清单，如果按这份清单的话，那么80万的费用似乎是不贵的（他们公司好像只收20万费用）。
以下是清单部分内容：
*孩子出生。在美出生的孩子就是美国公民。注意你在北京超生一个孩子要罚款24万人民币，而在美国你可以多生几个，不用付罚款。（在加拿大每个孩子每个月政府还支付还有牛奶金呢）
*中小学学费。18岁大学前美国全部中小学都是义务教育。目前北京、上海、广州三地机构办理中小学生赴美的学费每年都在3万美元以上（接近21万人民币）。3万×3年=9万 约等于超过60万人民币。
*大学学费。上大学本地学生的学费每年约3千多美金，而外籍学生要交2万多美金。每年节省1.7万×4年=6.8万 约等于50万人民币
*学生贷款。18岁以上的绿卡持有者可以在拿到绿卡当年申请各种类型的学生贷款，找到工作以后可以分年还清，通常只要拿工资的10%-20%还款。美国和加拿大的学生贷款系统非常方便简单，很多学生都靠自己贷款和打工读完大学。
*政府帮助找工作。美国政府在各地设有专门机构免费为国人找工作，绿卡持有者只要到这些部门登记技能、专长，这些部门就会为登记这免费找工作及提供工作的各种政府资讯。同时，这些部门每年还有各项基金帮助培训待业者，比如电脑、英文。
*周游世界。绿卡持有者在绝大多数国家有免签的优势。当然去朝鲜和古巴两国除外。
*回国投资。美国绿卡持有者被视为华侨，回国投资被视为外资或合资，并享受很多优惠政策。
*退休福利。绿卡持有人在一生累积十年交税记录后（底线为每月50美元的税金）可在退休后（通常为65岁）终生领取美国政府的退休金（每月700-1200美元）。
*失业救济。在有正常收入并交税不少于6个月以后失业，到美国相关部门报失业并办理相关手续就可以按月领取政府救济金（每月600-1200美金不等）。
*事故时的人道待遇。在美国发生事故（车祸，怪病）一切以救人为第一准则。即使你表明没有钱支付手术费，医院也会不懈余力地抢救……
我不是帮移民公司做广告，因为大家每天都在手机收到小广告。以上的信息确实是移民公司所列，而且事实情况大致如此，至少我知道在加拿大的社会福利比美国还要好。比如医疗保险，在有的阿尔伯塔省是全部免费，在卑诗省对穷人医保还有特别的优惠。
我只是想列出来，有一些对社会安定起决定因素的社会福利待遇，西方国家有，而我们没有，这样移民公司和移民生意才有市场。
老实说，假如移民美国费用是80万，你多生一个小孩，让他读3年美国高中，4年美国大学基本省出的钱已经超过80万人民币了—条件是假如你不想让孩子和很多学生一起高考，并且大学毕业以后打破头的找工作的话。
这些费用还只是算到了孩子大学毕业，步入社会的社会的医疗保险、失业保险、退休金等等还没有计算。
如果有能力在美国大城市买一幢房子，基本上今天你省的就更多了，就拿通州2万的房价来说吧，你在美国波士顿的郊区绝对可以买到每平方尺单价更好更便宜的房子。
除了这些可以计算的显性数字，干净的空气、清澈的蓝天、纯净的饮用水，孩子们可以活动的大片绿地。更好的市政措施、更好的交通管理等等，还有人们相对平静的心态这些都是数字和金钱无法计算的。
如果你你要问我为什么国人选择移民，我首先会回答因为他们不想自己将来的小孩喝三鹿奶粉，吃食物中的苏丹红、地沟油和各种肉类中的超标激素……好不容易挤进大学校门，毕业了以后却要排着队在富士康门口找工作。还有越来越大的基尼系数和贫富分化带来的社会不稳定性……这些也是金钱无法计算的。
“中国有风险，投胎需谨慎”这样的口号，当然只能是对自己国家最有深切体验的中国人才能总结出来的。等每个北京老外每天都收到移民加拿大、美国、澳大利亚的小广告的时候，我想这也算是黑色幽默了。
我记得当年在新东方学习英语的时候，老师曾经说过，俞敏洪为美国一飞机一飞机的输送了GRE考了高分的最好的中国学生。这是多么大的壮举啊。
如果移民公司再一飞机一飞机的输送中国掏得起移民费用的社会精英或者贪污的官员，这何尝不是壮举。
当然，如此诋毁祖国母亲的移民广告，肯定会有许多爱国者愤愤不平，但我还是觉得，作为一个爱国者，对这种广告，最好的办法就是广泛地传播它，因为，如此一来，最后留在这个国家的人，都会是纯粹的爱国者了。
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
别问上帝，问对冲基金
作者：美国对外关系委员会高级研究员 塞巴斯蒂安•马拉贝 为英国《金融时报》撰稿
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美国参与刺激辩论的人士分为两大敌对阵营。奥巴马(Obama)政府一方坚称，不实施刺激将为双底衰退打开大门。另一方则反驳道，持续的刺激可能会让投资者感到恐慌，促使他们抛售美国国债。奥巴马团队引用近期一连串糟糕的经济数据为证，指出经济有可能再次放缓。批评者们则提到去年美国国债市场令人不安的下跌，以及关于外国央行已厌倦为美国赤字融资的传言。
面对处于微妙平衡状态的两难困境时，一些美国人习惯于问：“耶稣会怎么做？”在目前情况下，或许该问：“对冲基金会怎么做？”
对冲基金交易员通常不仅会考虑各种情形出现的可能性，还会考虑每种情形之后果的严重性。假如交易员认为，市场下跌与上涨的几率相等，但如果下跌，跌幅会比涨幅大，那么他就会抓住这一不对称的付出，押注市场下跌，而他的行动可能会促成下跌的自我实现。
上述对冲基金逻辑对刺激辩论的暗示是明确的。尽管双底衰退与债市暴跌的几率或许大致相等，但债市危机之后果很可能会更严重。因此，我们应停止刺激，实施审慎政策。
债市暴跌前景更可怕的原因是什么？首先，路线修正要更为困难。如果我们正走向双底衰退，那么随着一个又一个数据的发布，我们会看到相关迹象。央行有时间做出反应，甚至有时间重新按下刺激的按钮。
当然，货币和财政刺激存在滞后性：理论上，你会采取预防措施。但对于市场危机，没有及时应对的麻烦可要大得多——市场危机会在形势一片大好之时突然而猛烈地爆发。一旦危机爆发，债券价格下跌将推高国债的偿债成本，让最初造成危机的预算困局变得更为混乱，最终形成恶性循环。尽管在希腊等小国家，国际货币基金组织(IMF)及其盟友有时能够打破恶性循环，但它们却没有能力承保规模达8.6万亿美元的美国国债市场。
此外，美国国债危机有可能带来更具灾难性的后果，远不止让经济产出萎缩两、三个百分点那么简单。产出萎缩当然值得重视，这主要是因为，被挡在就业市场门外太久的劳动者往往会永久性地变得心灰意冷。但全球储备资产可信度的丧失，在世界各地都会产生金融和政治影响。
世界各地的投资者将失去基准。他们的投资组合建立在美国国债为无风险资产的假设上；如果基准被摧毁，他们将争相寻找其它价值储存手段（德国国债或是黄金？），从而扰乱整个金融体系的正常价格关系。这种迷茫可能导致雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭后的冻结期重现。没人知道谁或什么东西是可以信任的。与后雷曼时期不同，2008年纾困行动的首席设计师——美国政府这次将自身难保。这次真的会不一样。
美国国债危机的政治后果可能近乎同样严重。由于美国国债的避险资产地位，美国政府频频从地缘政治紧张时期的资本流入中受益。在此类时期，即便是俄罗斯或中国反对美国的政策，它们也屡屡使得这些政策得以成行，因为它们把资产转入了美国国债。因此，尽管俄中两国谴责美国2003年入侵伊拉克，但它们也提供了资助。正是由于此类避险流动，美国才能够在做出军事和外交政策决定时，不必担心自己可获取的资金会枯竭。如果美国国债丧失可信度，美国领导人或许就再也不能将享有这种特权视为理所当然的了。
总之，美国国债市场的危机将震撼世界，仅仅是其可能性应该就会让政策制定者感到恐慌。这一“尾部”风险值得引起政策的高度重视，其中所蕴含的成本是如此的巨大，因此我们有必要把它们纳入到刺激辩论中来。
本文作者是美国对外关系委员会(Council on Foreign Relations)高级研究员，著有《富比上帝：对冲基金与新精英的形成》(More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite)一书
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2010-08-04 23:58:39匿名 来自英国
美国国债当然是全球储备资产,
可信度的丧失，在世界各地都会产生金融和政治影响。
世界各地的投资者--投资建立在美国国债为无风险资产的假设上.
俄罗斯或中国反对美国的政策，它们也屡屡使得这些政策得以成行，因为它们把资产转入了美国国债。因此，尽管俄中两国谴责美国2003年入侵伊拉克，但它们也提供了资助。
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2010-08-04 20:48:26w587l 来自浙江省舟山市
欧洲的减赤承诺，估计会对美国社会产生某种影响；奥巴马需要先考虑美国选民的观点
刺激派的弱点在于，美国已经大规模刺激了，但失业率还是很高
或许，该换自由派上场了
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2010-08-04 19:35:27aobuk 来自河北省廊坊市
马克思列宁主义早就预见了帝国主义的没落与灭亡的结局
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2010-08-04 14:51:15attton 来自广东省深圳市
最主要的对冲美国不做:用吸收中国移民,对冲进口中国货物.
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2010-08-04 09:28:27seeseala 来自广东省
美元和美国债的持续下跌将触及其核心利益，也许很快我们将看到转折点
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2010-08-04 08:41:05iamwangliang 来自山东省济南市
一针见血的指出利害
作者：美国对外关系委员会高级研究员 塞巴斯蒂安•马拉贝 为英国《金融时报》撰稿
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美国参与刺激辩论的人士分为两大敌对阵营。奥巴马(Obama)政府一方坚称，不实施刺激将为双底衰退打开大门。另一方则反驳道，持续的刺激可能会让投资者感到恐慌，促使他们抛售美国国债。奥巴马团队引用近期一连串糟糕的经济数据为证，指出经济有可能再次放缓。批评者们则提到去年美国国债市场令人不安的下跌，以及关于外国央行已厌倦为美国赤字融资的传言。
面对处于微妙平衡状态的两难困境时，一些美国人习惯于问：“耶稣会怎么做？”在目前情况下，或许该问：“对冲基金会怎么做？”
对冲基金交易员通常不仅会考虑各种情形出现的可能性，还会考虑每种情形之后果的严重性。假如交易员认为，市场下跌与上涨的几率相等，但如果下跌，跌幅会比涨幅大，那么他就会抓住这一不对称的付出，押注市场下跌，而他的行动可能会促成下跌的自我实现。
上述对冲基金逻辑对刺激辩论的暗示是明确的。尽管双底衰退与债市暴跌的几率或许大致相等，但债市危机之后果很可能会更严重。因此，我们应停止刺激，实施审慎政策。
债市暴跌前景更可怕的原因是什么？首先，路线修正要更为困难。如果我们正走向双底衰退，那么随着一个又一个数据的发布，我们会看到相关迹象。央行有时间做出反应，甚至有时间重新按下刺激的按钮。
当然，货币和财政刺激存在滞后性：理论上，你会采取预防措施。但对于市场危机，没有及时应对的麻烦可要大得多——市场危机会在形势一片大好之时突然而猛烈地爆发。一旦危机爆发，债券价格下跌将推高国债的偿债成本，让最初造成危机的预算困局变得更为混乱，最终形成恶性循环。尽管在希腊等小国家，国际货币基金组织(IMF)及其盟友有时能够打破恶性循环，但它们却没有能力承保规模达8.6万亿美元的美国国债市场。
此外，美国国债危机有可能带来更具灾难性的后果，远不止让经济产出萎缩两、三个百分点那么简单。产出萎缩当然值得重视，这主要是因为，被挡在就业市场门外太久的劳动者往往会永久性地变得心灰意冷。但全球储备资产可信度的丧失，在世界各地都会产生金融和政治影响。
世界各地的投资者将失去基准。他们的投资组合建立在美国国债为无风险资产的假设上；如果基准被摧毁，他们将争相寻找其它价值储存手段（德国国债或是黄金？），从而扰乱整个金融体系的正常价格关系。这种迷茫可能导致雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)倒闭后的冻结期重现。没人知道谁或什么东西是可以信任的。与后雷曼时期不同，2008年纾困行动的首席设计师——美国政府这次将自身难保。这次真的会不一样。
美国国债危机的政治后果可能近乎同样严重。由于美国国债的避险资产地位，美国政府频频从地缘政治紧张时期的资本流入中受益。在此类时期，即便是俄罗斯或中国反对美国的政策，它们也屡屡使得这些政策得以成行，因为它们把资产转入了美国国债。因此，尽管俄中两国谴责美国2003年入侵伊拉克，但它们也提供了资助。正是由于此类避险流动，美国才能够在做出军事和外交政策决定时，不必担心自己可获取的资金会枯竭。如果美国国债丧失可信度，美国领导人或许就再也不能将享有这种特权视为理所当然的了。
总之，美国国债市场的危机将震撼世界，仅仅是其可能性应该就会让政策制定者感到恐慌。这一“尾部”风险值得引起政策的高度重视，其中所蕴含的成本是如此的巨大，因此我们有必要把它们纳入到刺激辩论中来。
本文作者是美国对外关系委员会(Council on Foreign Relations)高级研究员，著有《富比上帝：对冲基金与新精英的形成》(More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite)一书
译者/汪洋
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2010-08-04 23:58:39匿名 来自英国
美国国债当然是全球储备资产,
可信度的丧失，在世界各地都会产生金融和政治影响。
世界各地的投资者--投资建立在美国国债为无风险资产的假设上.
俄罗斯或中国反对美国的政策，它们也屡屡使得这些政策得以成行，因为它们把资产转入了美国国债。因此，尽管俄中两国谴责美国2003年入侵伊拉克，但它们也提供了资助。
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2010-08-04 20:48:26w587l 来自浙江省舟山市
欧洲的减赤承诺，估计会对美国社会产生某种影响；奥巴马需要先考虑美国选民的观点
刺激派的弱点在于，美国已经大规模刺激了，但失业率还是很高
或许，该换自由派上场了
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2010-08-04 19:35:27aobuk 来自河北省廊坊市
马克思列宁主义早就预见了帝国主义的没落与灭亡的结局
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2010-08-04 14:51:15attton 来自广东省深圳市
最主要的对冲美国不做:用吸收中国移民,对冲进口中国货物.
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2010-08-04 09:28:27seeseala 来自广东省
美元和美国债的持续下跌将触及其核心利益，也许很快我们将看到转折点
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2010-08-04 08:41:05iamwangliang 来自山东省济南市
一针见血的指出利害
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