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Jimmey Kimmel on iPhone Health Care

A Health Care Primer for Apple Hipsters [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITT6bYYGVfM[/youtube] HAVEN’T BEEN following the trails and tribulations of Congress’s attempt to revamp how American’s get health care? Well, now you can have it sung to you! Comedian Jimmy Kimmel introduces a new iPhone App that let’s President Obama sing a new tune on health care. “T-Pain” leads […]

Sally Fields and the Wonders of Boniva

Hawking Drugs (and Cereal) on TV EVER WATCH Dr. Sally Fields — an expert on osteoporosis — tell you on TV how important Boniva is for making your bones strong? I mean, if you’re over 50 and not taking Boniva, watch out! “She’s not a medical doctor”, you say. Then why is she pitching us […]

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 […]

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 […]

HIV Vaccine Breakthrough!

Vaccine Shows Promise in Preventing HIV Infection [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwHIw8QGUnY[/youtube] 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 […]

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 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvwKzF6TLKo[/youtube] 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. […]

Bill Maher’s New Rule on the American Rat Diet

Bill Maher says if rats are fed the American Diet they die.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Bill O’Reily Backs Public Health Option

“I want… working Americans, to have a option… if the government can cobble together a cheaper insurance policy that gives the same benefits, I see that as a plus for the folks.” I ADMIT, Bill O’Reily’s support for the public health care options surprises me. I don’t watch his show regularly, but when I do […]

A Public Health Care Substitute?

Exchanges and Inter-state Competition Aim to Bring Down the Cost of Health Care ONE MAJOR element of President Obama’s plan for health care reform is the “public option”, and it has become a lightning-rod for the accumulated angst of many Americans. For those who oppose it, the public option can represent one or more of […]

Can You Wash Away H1N1?

Washing Your Hands Can Help! ONE OF the most powerful weapons against the new H1N1 (“Swine”) virus is summed up in a three-word phrase you first heard from your mother: wash your hands! Tara Parker-Pope’s article in the New York Times gets into the science of clean hands. The statistics are revealing, one of the […]

86 Year-old Billionaire’s Recipe for Longevity

David Murdock has spent millions of his fortune to discover which foods are the most nutrient dense and healthiest on the planet. He practices what he preaches: at 86, Murdock enjoys excellent health and expects to live a lot longer. Find out what is his recipe for longevity. (See chart below.) FORBES ESTIMATES David H. […]

Obama’s Health Care Speech to Congress: “It’s Our Moral Imperative”

Read a quick summary and watch the speech. ABOUT AN hour ago, President Obama finished his health care speech before Congress where he announced a health plan proposal that would meet three basic goals: “It will provide more security and stability to those who have health insurance. It will provide insurance to those who don’t. […]

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