by midweek. that same spokesperson said the vast majority of the 750 million packages that ship via ups between thanks giving and christmas will be delivered on time. ups did try to smooth out the volume of orders, but i did so by adding new surcharges to packages delivered during the busiest week. some retailers responded by offering either slower shipping times or suggesting competitors such as fedex. ship matrix is a software provider that analyzes shipping data, said last week more than 89% of parcels shipped through ups were delivered on time, by that is still less than fedex. fedex is beating ups 99.4% of fedex packages arriving on the day they were scheduled to be there. i was going to say if you have a very special presents the need to be there before christmas, start thinking now. back to you.
it is a significant life-changing style. it is a life change that millions people across the planet have been doing so hundreds of years. doctor began to prescribe it to his patient in the 1980s. what he is remarkable. not only we can stop it but we can also reverse it. critics remaining that nutrition as one part of heart health in addition to lowering exercise and meat and dairy and eggs all remaining apart of the u.s. s dietary guidelines. doctor points out those same critics to the science and the results he sees time and time again over the course of 30 years. one of his own studies published in 2014, he had a 90% compliance rate with the diet. of those 177 compliant patients, 99.4% as in all of them except for one had no major cardiac events. this seismic revolution.
prescribing it to his patients in the 1980s and the results were remarkable. not only can we stop it, we can reverse it. critics maintain that nutrition is just one part of heart health, in addition to lowering cholesterol. meat, dairy and eggs all remain part of the u.s. dietary guidelines for a healthy balanced diet but dr. points the same critics to the science and the results he s seen over the course of 30 years. and one of his own studies published in 2014, he had a 90% compliance rate with the diet. of the 177 compliant patients, 99.4%, as in all except for one, had no further major cardiac events. this seismic revolution, we re at the cusp of it now. it s not going to another pill or another procedure. with all the evidence, you might be wondering why more
where is the intermission? you re seeing other republican candidates trying to beef up their rhetoric dropping the f-bomb, trying to seymour macho. we are hearing from other law makers, senator john mccain calling out donald trump over the weekend his rhetoric when it came to muslims. it has an interesting effect turning muslims all over the world against the united states of america which is 99.4% people who practice an honorable religion. how much do comments from senator mccain help or hurt the situation in this case? they don t hurt donald trump. this is the same guy who ripped senator john mccain over the whole issue of being a p.o.w. other republicans saying how dare you criticize a united states senator who is an american hero, didn t hurt him
one of those critics is bob laird of the cardinal newman society and joins us to talk more about this. nice to see you. welcome. good morning. it s great to be here. what are your problems with common core? well, common core is basically an untested experiment by the government in order to prepare kids for college, junior college, and the jobs. catholic education, on the other hand, has been proven to outproduce common core in just about every public school in every area and they prepare kids for life. so there is a fundamental difference in what common core is doing. it s preparing kids for what happens after 18 versus preparing kids for life. some of the statistics you re talking about, this blew me away. 99.4% of students at catholic schools graduate.