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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 […]
Continue readingVaccine 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 […]
Continue readingMoral 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. […]
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Bill Maher says if rats are fed the American Diet they die.
Continue readingSimple 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 […]
Continue readingHow 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 […]
Continue readingAgribusiness 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 […]
Continue readingCould 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 […]
Continue reading6 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 […]
Continue reading“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 […]
Continue readingExchanges 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 […]
Continue readingWashing 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 […]
Continue readingDavid 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. […]
Continue readingOctober May Be the Peak… What to Do? THE GENERAL consensus of epidemiologists is that the H1N1 virus, (aka “Swine Flu”) may peak as early as October, well before the typical apex of flu session, January or February. Whatsup with that?!
Continue reading[9/11/09 Update: Just found this Q&A with Dr. Weil that gets into worthwhile details about how to avoid the flu, supplements for kids, how to evaluate if you should inoculate and more.] ONE OF my favorite health advisors was on Larry King last night. As usual, Dr. Andrew Weil, was spot on with his comments […]
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