Nocturnal Slacker v2.0Since the weather has cooled off a bit down here in sunny (and HOT) Florida, I’ve been going out and about on my daily walks around the neighborhood. I do this mostly for exercise. I try to walk 2-4 miles a day. I also do it for enjoyment. I live in the same neighborhood where [...]
This is via MSN Health: How America Got So Fat (And So Sick) America is fatter and sicker than ever. We compensate by taking pills and going on fad diets. But the fact is that our fast-food, sedentary lifestyle is trumping the advances in medical science that have been responsible for at least four decades [...]
Have you noticed how it seems that so many folks are developing Alzheimer’s disease these days? Is it becoming more prevalent lately? Or is it just the fact that we are more exposed to this because of the media? Or has there really been a dramatic increase in the numbers of folks afflicted by this [...]
Chocolate Covered Aspirin? Posted by V. T. Eric Layton on Apr 4, 2010 A chocolate a day to keep the doctor away? Take two aspirin and call me in the morning? I was recently reading a book called An Aspirin a Day: What You Can Do to Prevent Heart Attack, Stroke, and Cancer by Michael [...]
The proof is in, folks. Read all about it: From the recent Scientific American | Mind Matters article by Andrew Newberg, Religious Experiences Shrink Part of the Brain: The article, “Religious factors and hippocampal atrophy in late life,” by Amy Owen and colleagues at Duke University represents an important advance in our growing understanding of [...]
Back in my hell-raising youthful days, I used to tell my mother I was going to live fast, die young, and leave a good-looking corpse. Her reply was, “Well, two out of three ain’t bad.” Today I read a piece on NPR’s website about a study — yes, another study — that may demonstrate that [...]
I’ve been eating and living in a much healthier fashion as of late. I’ve lost 72 lbs in the past 4 months or so. I’ve also severely limited my sodium intake. Unfortunately, for those around me, I catch myself jumping up on the soap box to lecture one and all regarding mending their evil and [...]
It’s amazing how this tried and true medical technology just keeps on benefiting us in many ways. I’ve been on the aspirin-a-day plan for over twenty years now; with no ill side effects, and possibly numerous beneficial ones. I started taking one a day with my vitamin/mineral supplements every morning shortly after two of my [...]
Yeah… it’s one of those damned eat-healthy articles. Have you ever wondered how much sodium you consume in a day? I doubt you really care. Well, whether you should care or not isn’t my purpose here today. My purpose is just to educate. The recommended daily allowance (RDA) of sodium for an adult human being [...]
On the heels of my article of yesterday regarding diabetes and diet management, I run across this… From CNN Health: Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds by Madison Park For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead [...]
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