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September 2009

High-heeled Pain Forever — A New Study

Women’s Teeter-Tottering Pain (2 Videos, 1 kinda funny) “Do I really want to blog about silly shoes?”, I mused as I read an article about how women abuse themselves with high-heeled footwear. Well, yes, actually I do, because all my adult life I’ve had a running commentary aimed at friends of both genders about the [...]

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FDR’s “Second Bill of Rights”… Has the Time Come?

Sounds Like Utopia, But At What Price? IN RESEARCHING material for his new documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story, filmmaker Michael Moore dug up some long forgotten film footage of president Franklin Roosevelt presenting what Roosevelt called a Second Bill of Rights during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944. To the various [...]

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HIV Vaccine Breakthrough!

Vaccine Shows Promise in Preventing HIV Infection RESEARCHERS ARE now able to prevent a third of new HIV infections after a three year long trial, bringing them one step closer to finding an HIV vaccine.  It’s still in test mode, but the results are very promising.  Watch the video above, and for more details read [...]

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TARP Inspector: Financial System May Now Be In A “Far More Dangerous Place” (VIDEO)

Moral hazard (tails you loose, heads I win) has increased and “is far more dangerous today than a year ago.” Neil Barofsky, TARP Inspector FILE THIS one under “Financial Health” so it doesn’t seem to far off this site’s main focus, your personal health.  I’m compelled to blog about this because it’s so important.  After [...]

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Bill Maher’s New Rule on the American Rat Diet

Do all our Societal Ills Come Down to that We’re Overfed? LOVE HIM or hate him, it’s hard to deny that comedian Bill Maher provokes reflection about many things, among them politics and public policy. I was just reading his New Rule: If America Can’t Get it Together, We Lose the Bald Eagle here, and [...]

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Longevity Tips from the World’s Oldest Man

Simple Conceptually, Harder in Practice ACCORDING TO scientific studies, the most promising way you can increase your longevity is to restrict the calories you consume.  The earliest calorie restriction studies first began a couple of decades ago.  Given that the average lifespan of a human being is relatively long to the humans conducting the studies, [...]

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CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta Gets H1N1

How Was His Illness Treated? CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta recently contracted H1NI, the so called (misnamed) “Swine Flu”, while on assignment in Afghanistan.  It was tough going for Dr. Gupta and his cameraman, Scottie McWhinnie, who also succumbed to this flu, but after a few days of wrenching coughs, shivers, fever and [...]

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Subsidized Taste Buds Ruin Health Care Reform

Agribusiness Subsidies Produce the Food that Makes Us Fat… And Fat Makes Us Chronically Ill. I CONTEND, along with many smarter than me, that nothing can significantly improve the health care system in America if the epidemic of chronic disease linked to diet is not reversed. As Michael Pollen, the Professor of Journalism at UC [...]

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Sweat With Your iPhone

Could You Use An Extra Incentive To Exercise? ON HER birthdays and Christmas when I can get her attention for a moment, as she tears through the wrapping paper of present after present after present, barely registering what the gift is before turning to the next box to open, I sometimes tease my six-year old [...]

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A Health Care Tutorial by Lyndon Johnson

6 Rules to Win “Don’t ever argue with me [about health]. I’ll go a hundred million or a billion on health or education. I don’t argue about that any more than I argue with Lady Bird buying flour. You got to have to have flour and coffee in your house. Education and health. I’ll spend [...]

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