14 : 38 : 47"In the l940s, farmers attempted to use cheap coconut oil for fattening their animals, but they found that it made them lean, active and hungry. For a few years, an antithyroid drug was found to make the livestock get fat while eating less food, but then it was found to be a strong carcinogen, and it also probably produced hypothyroidism in the people who ate the meat. By the late l940s, it was found that the same antithyroid effect, causing animals to get fat without eating much food, could be achieved by using soy beans and corn as feed."
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Hypothyroidism: How to assess and Correct it
A conservative estimate is that 40% of Americans have sub clinical to advanced hypothyroidism (autoimmune); 10% of Americans are diagnosed, another 30% have symptoms but inaccurate lab tests have been unable to diagnose hypothyroidism (which is easily corrected by proper hormone therapy treatment, diet, and reduction of the consumption of toxins and pollutants). These numbers largely correlate to Americans between the ages of 40-60, but autoimmune and subclinical hypothyroidism—just like autoimmune and Type 2 diabetes— is on the rise in children and adolescents. This number is alarming high due largely in part to the standards of testing for hypothyroidism in most Western practices being highly inaccurate. Due to these poor standards estimates as high as 1 in 4 people diagnosed with anxiety or depression, who have not responded to antidepressants, are misdiagnosed for hypothyroidism. If and when hypothyroidism is diagnosed the underlying autoimmune condition—which is more often than not the root of the problem—is not diagnosed until the body has almost or completely destroyed the thyroid beyond repair. Autoimmune hypothyroidism is a larger epidemic in the United States than diabetes (also an autoimmune and sub clinical disease of the endocrine gland system that regulates metabolism through insulin production in the pancreas).
There is recent research that indicates that this epidemic is largely due to pollutants and toxins from developed countries that cause the immune system to turn on itself and attack healthy cells that are mistaken as foreign causing the body’s immune system to produce antibodies that attack and destroy healthy cells and organs.
The body’s ability to produce hormones that regulate our body’s metabolism, which effects the health of every cell in the body, our cognitive function, energy level, mood, and overall health. Environmental conditions are just beginning to be considered in exponentially rising autoimmune disorders as endocrine disruptors are being identified in the chemicals that disrupt hormone balance in everything from pesticides on our fruit and vegetables, chemicals and nutrient poor soil and fertilizer used in industrial agriculture, estrogen petrochemicals found in plastic that when heated durring shipping or storage are leached into bottled water and other plastic containers, and fluoride in municipal tap water that has been historically used to treat patients whose thyroids were overprotective (HYPERthyroid as opposed to HYPOthyroid).
An early detection of a thyroid problem can be detected through taking an average of basal body temperature in the morning over the course of five days. If an average low body temperature is reported this is a high indicator of hypothyroidism and a blood work for a full thyroid panel should be sought out from a doctor who understands
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The historical patterns of contamination are consistent with historical patterns of type 1 diabetes incidence.
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As an artist, Clark is concerned with the function of objects in material culture and makes works that engage and consider the life span of the objects as well as their heritage and legacy.
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In certain philosophical traditions there is a precept, which explains the value of any material not only by examining its physical properties, but also by recounting its passage into being and considering the people whose effort shaped it’s development. Take for example a simple cotton t-shirt, if followed back to its origin as cotton plants, we would see that in order for it to evolve into a garment, it would be shaped by numerous people.
Its path would begin in the form of plants that needed seeding, tending and harvesting. As bales of raw cotton it would move to a factory where it would be cleaned and woven together into material, implicating more people and machines (operated by people). As fabric the cotton would be cut into patterns and sewn together, involving still more people. Finally the t-shirt would be packed, loaded, shipped, and distributed again requiring yet another labor source.
In addition to the broader notion of showing the interconnectivity of people, the function of this kind of thinking is also meant to emphasize the value inherent in any material, based not only on its physical value, but the sheer amount of human labor that goes into creating refined materials (or facilitating the growth of organic ones). Not incidentally, this kind of thinking assigns value to the most basic kind of human endeavor, in essence honoring work, regardless of it’s nature, as intrinsically valuable because it is a reflection of the human spirit in action.
In contemporary culture, where unfixable appliances, outdated 3 year-old computers, and throw-aways of all types are the norm, it is hard to deny that we have become disconnected with the simple idea that material of all kinds, whether plastic, rubber, cotton, aluminum, or gold is fundamentally valuable. And sadly, woven into this loss of respect for material, is an even more systemic loss of respect for the basic tradition of human, physical labor.
If we presume that art and artists typically have a particularly intimate relationship with materials, one that perhaps more than others, is meant to honor the preciousness of material, one might predict that a movement towards reversing this faulty relationship vis-a-vie people and their materials would start among artists. In fact, it doesn’t take much searching to find that today there is a wave of such artists concerning themselves with this very issue of reusing existing materials to create their art.
Certainly the notion of reusing material for art’s sake is not new. However, a focus on using what is left over, in essence, repurposing material detached from a posture of critique regarding it’s original origin, is where this new trend appears to be carving out it’s own niche. It’s work that celebrates the temporary and defies all tradition about how we define worth. It gently suggests that at a time when melting icecaps are a reality, discussions in art around collecting and archivability seem at best outdated, at worst tantamount to burying one’s head in the sand.
With this in mind the Loop Show brings together a group of artists whose work collectively presents a vision of the art object as something rich and vibrant born of cast off materials, the things we are leaving behind.
China Adams
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