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I help people live with more vitality and strength. I'm a big believer in sustainability, and am a bit nutty about optimizing my diet, supplements, hormones and exercise. To get exclusive Updates, tips and be on your way to a stronger, more youthful body, join my weekly Newsletter. You can also find me on LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram.
Compare the Views of Two Giants of the Vaccination World (Watch the Videos) THE EMAILS keep coming in. Nervous mothers asking me to support their views about vaccination for H1N1, or to write a critique of some pro or con article that a friend is brandishing in front of her face as proof that whatever […]
Continue readingA Simple, But Uncommon, Common Thread YOU PROBABLY have bumped into a myriad of stories over the last several years about “superfoods”, and some superplaces were people live long and well because of their diets, as this great site, Blue Zones, proves. From the Blue Zones “About” section: “… we took teams of scientists to […]
Continue readingIN THIS transparently obeisant genuflection to my female readers, I proffer this summary of a tutorial on getting the right haircut for your face shape.
Continue readingTODAY, November 11, 2009, I remember our soldiers and sailors, particularly my Father. Today, you can choose your celebratory term: Remembrance Day, Veteran’s Day, Armistice Day, even Poppy Day. It doesn’t matter. What does, is that today we remember the signing of the armistice that concluded WWI, and honor those that served all America’s wars, […]
Continue readingMove the Waiting Line to Wall Street FOR REASONS yet to be fathomed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC“) has decided to allocate the scarce H1N1 vaccine to a few Wall Street institutions, such as Goldman Sachs and Citi Group. This is at a time when there are substantially insufficient H1N1 Swine Flu […]
Continue readingWhat You Eat Counts! RIGHT NOW, here in my little hamlet just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, it’s steadily raining. November is in full swing, the days grow short, my work is erratic. All this is a potent combination for some depression; at least a tinge, no? Well… actually, I feel great, which is […]
Continue readingCites a Cover-up! Three Federal Judges say “Not So” Watch Part 1 of 2: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQG5Q4GWw2o[/youtube] WATCH TWO counfounding videos (first above, second below) of environmental lawyer, Robert Kennedy, Jr. claiming that vaccines in general producing “the most sickly children the American history”, and causing autism. Then you can read a story in Slate that rebukes […]
Continue readingDoctors and Nurses that say “No”, A Finnish Conspiratorial Theory, and Dartmouth Takes the Middle Road Doctors Speak Out Against the Vaccine THIS IS worth watching so you can assess if the reasons given by these doctors for not taking the vaccine are persuasive. That said, perhaps an equally compelling set of reasons in support […]
Continue readingTHERE ARE an assortment of ways to track the H1N1 Swine Flu outbreaks, both in the U.S. and world wide. In the U.S. the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tracks cases on a regional level. Its interactive map segments the U.S. into ten regions and keeps up to date with the number of cases […]
Continue readingNow this headline is a shocker, intentionally so, because it sets up a perspective that I wish to examine. If your child is among the 144, nothing else matters, particularly context. To everyone else, what’s most disturbing in the headline isn’t the number of deaths, per se, but the mystery. The unpredictability. After all, if […]
Continue readingLet’s Just Call This A Swine Flu Update HERE, MY attempt is to grab a few H1N1 stories that are indicative of those being told in newspapers, video and the Internet. There’s something for everyone — for the adamant denier that there’s anything to worry about, and hypochondriac alike. Though I present various opinions, I […]
Continue readingParents Wait IN KEEPING with the prevailing medical advice about risk factors of H1N1 Swine Flu, and presenting a good example to the nation, the Obama girls got vaccinated, but their parents did not. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will wait to get their flu shot until after “priority groups” have received there’s. […]
Continue readingThey gain one to one-and-a-half pounds a week IS IT my imagination or does it seem that every other week a new study pops out heralding yet another pharmaceutical drug gone haywire? What does the Supreme Court, Tim Russert, Statins, Avandia, Acomplia, Heath Ledger, Roaccutane, Paxil, Alli and Coumadin have in common? The answer is […]
Continue readingDon’t Encourage This At Home… Unless You Know What To Do! I WATCHED the video (below) of five-year old Romanian Giuliano Stroe (now living in Italy) with a genuine mixture of awe and concern. Awe over what a child can achieve. Concern over how his parent(s) (gotta be his father) had to have push him […]
Continue readingListen to former Labor Secretary, Robert Reich’s Update and Exhortation [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nO47FwR3RE[/youtube] THE HOUSE has a pretty good bill with a public option in it, says Mr. Reich, but the Senate’s bill is twisting in the wind, or should I say that arms are being twisted for and against support on the public option. The video […]
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