Tipping Our Growers and Pickers: Using the Internet to Distribute Justice and...
Growing Grapes (Photo credit: cight) I bought grapes from Chile today. (Assorted hissing and boos.) I’m sorry, I bought them at an LEED platinum certified environmentally conscious grocery store,...
View ArticleWhat’s My Vaspin Level? Fat Generated Hormone Causes Metabolic Syndrome And...
Adipose tissue is one of the main types of connective tissue. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Plasma vaspin concentrations are eleva… [Clin Endocrinol Oxf. 2011] – PubMed - NCBI. When your doctor wanders in...
View ArticleBiggest Loser Loses Weight Eating Carbs Before Noon. Really?
English: A male House Sparrow nibbling a plant (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In today’s miracle supermarket weight loss scheme, we have the secrets of the Biggest Loser. She eats her carbs before noon, in...
View ArticleGERD, Esophageal Cancer, Richard Dawson’s Death And How To Naturally Prevent...
Esophageal cancer affecting the lower esophageus. Insets show the tumor in more detail both before and after placement of a stent. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Richard Dawson, of Family Feud, has died of...
View ArticleCan A Miracle Exercise Really Take Off 7″ of Your Waist In Seven Days?
English: Double jointed shoulder blades. Or also known as “Bat wings”. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I saw this advertised at the checkout counter, and it wasn’t even next to alien babies or Elvis on the...
View ArticleDr. Oz and Kim Lyons’ Ten Day Plan. Will It Trim Fat for Good?
A diet rich in soy and whey protein, found in products such as soy milk and low-fat yogurt, has been shown to reduce breast cancer incidence in rats. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I love the limitation of...
View ArticleA New Christopher Maloney To Be Proud Of.
I have a great deal of name pride, and I wanted to share another amazing human being who shares my name. Here’s Christopher Maloney, of Liverpool, performing on the X Factor. Talk about a case of...
View ArticleX Factor’s Christopher Maloney Accused of Assault, Gets Death Threats.
Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas luxury cruise ship. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) As someone with a common name, I have a great deal of name pride. Most of the Christopher Maloneys out there are...
View ArticleWhy Your Herbalist Shouldn’t Perform Surgery On You.
English: Plastic Surgeon Vishal Kapoor, MD performing liposuction surgery on female patient using the super-wet technique. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The answer is pretty obvious: because she wasn’t...
View ArticleTaylor’s Stroke of Insight: The Brain and Inner Peace.
Jill Bolte Taylor speaking at TED on February 27, 2008 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Having listened to her incredible book, I was struck by Jill Bolte Taylor‘s Ted Talk. Ten million people have watched...
View ArticleDoes Shopping For Gas Save Money?
English: Bradley gas station along US285 in Englewood, Colorado. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Surprisingly for me, the answer is yes. I live in a town where gas prices fluctuate as much as a nickel...
View ArticleCholesterol, HDL, LDL, VLDL, LOLLDL?
English: HDL (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Ok, a quick primer on cholesterol. Cholesterol is what your body uses to keep things flexible and moving. If you eat no cholesterol, your liver will produce it...
View ArticleWill You Save Money Converting From Oil To Natural Gas?
English: Natural gas burning (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Anyone who has traveled anywhere in Central Maine knows that you just can’t throw a stick without hitting a natural gas dig. I already know I’m...
View ArticleWhen Do We Treat Blood Pressure? New Guidelines After Thirty Years.
Regulating Blood Pressure (NASA, International Space Station) (Photo credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center) Well, I am so glad to hear the new guidelines about blood pressure. Millions of...
View ArticleFrom Couch to 5K, Starting Small, Starting Local
If you’ve never met Cheryl Partridge, she’s a kick in the pants, but in a good way. Cheryl is starting a couch to 5K group with all ages and fitness levels, tonight at the Belgrade Wellness Spa in...
View ArticleCommon Ground Fair Talk: Your Internal Garden
I’ll be speaking at the Common Ground Fair in Unity at noon on Saturday (health and healing tent). The topic is on your internal garden, all the quadrillion bacteria we walk around within us. It’s a...
View ArticleIn Menopause, Every Cell Can Produce the Hormones It Needs?
We have the illusion that different organs are the only places that produce hormones. But as we research further, it is clear that every active cell in the body is capable of producing hormones. How...
View ArticleDoes Round Up Weed Killer (Glyphosate) Cause Cancer?
According to the EPA, we don’t know if drinking Round Up (glyphosate) in your water will cause cancer. We do know that the use of Round Up in the U.S. has tripled since 1986. Back then we were only...
View ArticleWhat Can We Do for Female Hair Loss?
It’s frustrating to try and find decent studies for female hair loss. Because it tends to not be only partial rather than complete, so many more studies are done on males. Here’s the summary: 68% of...
View ArticleIs the Pineal Gland Really A Third Eye?
It’s rare to find something truly rare and amazing in medical literature. But the idea that researchers could transplant a tadpole pineal gland and have it turn into a normal eye counts as one of the...
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