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An Examination of an Innovative Self-Insured Medical Center: The Case of Rosen Hotels and Resorts
Published in Frederick J. DeMicco, Ali A. Poorani, Medical Travel Brand Management, 2023
Frederick J. DeMicco, Abraham Pizam
Harris Rosen, the healthcare visionary, and philanthropist, has used the funds saved to invest in various underserved community projects around Orlando in the domains of education, healthcare, and crime prevention. The Tangelo Park Program is in one of these underserved communities. It is a three-fold educational community service initiative to benefit children and families living in the Tangelo Park neighborhood in Orlando, FL. The project provides: (i) Free preschool for every two-, three-, and four-year-old child living in Tangelo Park; (ii) Full college or vocational school scholarships (including tuition, room, and board, and books) for every graduating high school senior from the Tangelo Park area; and (iii) a Family Resource Center where parents can take parenting courses, obtain counseling, and access other resources to help them become positive role models. In addition to the above, Harris Rosen also provided funding for a new YMCA facility that includes a gym, weight lifting room, and basketball court.
Genetically Engineered Food
Published in David Lightsey, The Myths about Nutrition Science, 2019
Consider some points regarding GE crops provided by Henry Miller and Gregory Conko in Policy Review’s “The Rush to Condemn Genetically Modified Crops,” published by the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.4 Mr. Miller is the Robert Wesson Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution; he was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology. Mr. Conko is a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Genetic modification refers to sophisticated gene-splicing techniques in which genes are moved around precisely and predictably. This is unlike cruder cross breeding techniques which consumers have been accustomed to for decades, such as the consumption of a tangelo, which is a cross between a tangerine and a grapefruit.Every major scientific and public health organization such as the American Medical Association and the National Academy of Sciences, and many more, have concluded that gene splicing produces foods are as safe if not safer than conventional ones (such as cross breeding potatoes) to increase their virus resistance.There has not been one single confirmed adverse reaction or ecosystem disrupted with the use of GM crops which have been cultivated on more than 3 billion acres worldwide with the consumption of approximately 3 trillion servings in North America alone.The reduced fungal toxins alone make them safer for both consumers and livestock, especially in poorer countries.
Association between Citrus Consumption and Melanoma Risk in the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2021
Melissa M. Melough, Junichi Sakaki, Linda M. Liao, Rashmi Sinha, Eunyoung Cho, Ock K. Chun
Citrus consumption during the year prior to baseline was assessed using a validated food frequency questionnaire (FFQ; 23). The FFQ included items asking about consumption of “orange juice or grapefruit juice” (10 frequency options ranging from never to 6+ times per day, with three portion options ranging from less than ¾ cup to more than 1 cup), “oranges, tangerines, tangelos” (10 frequency options ranging from never to 2+ times per day, with three portion options ranging from less than one orange to more than one orange), and “grapefruit” (10 frequency options ranging from never to 2+ times per day, with three portion options ranging from less than ½ grapefruit to more than ½ grapefruit).