Listen, we all know that there are various ways to stay healthy. Taking vitamins, meditating, exercise, eating healthy, dressing warmly when it is cold outside and keeping your body and hands clean are all common and practical ways to keep your health in check. Well, another idea is wearing spiritual jewelry, for yourself or as [...]
If you’ve never heard the name Lance Armstrong, you must have been living under a rock for the last decade. Winning the prestigious Tour de France bicycle race for the seventh consecutive year in 2005 made Armstrong one of the most celebrated athletes in the world. But if this is no easy feat on its [...]
Sneezing green may be a duality – one interpretation comes with ease, the other, very much not so. When your head is pounding and you’ve been hacking up a lung all night, the last thought on your mind is, how can I make this experience more eco-friendly? Times of illness do not a conservationist make: [...]
December 20, 2009 – 10:13 am
Nearsightedness or Myopia is when the eyes focus incorrectly, making distant objects appear to be blurred. The problem can be cured by corrective eyeglasses, contact lenses or refractive surgery. A new study by the National Eye Institute shows that nearsightedness or Myopia has risen in America 66%. In the 1970′s the percentage of people who [...]
November 16, 2009 – 2:41 pm
To think that cigarette smoking among adults is on a steady decline and has been since the 70′s or 80′s is actually false. Check out some of this new data: For the first time in 15 years, cigarette smoking slightly rose this year. About 21% of U.S. adults said that they smoked. This report comes [...]
October 26, 2009 – 12:38 pm
I don’t know about you guys, but I am a passionate drinker. That means, when I have a delicious meal, or some time to relax, I enjoy it with a nice alcoholic beverage. Maybe I will sip on a Great Lakes Burning River Pale Ale while I read the paper; or perhaps I will enjoy [...]
October 7, 2009 – 12:16 pm
Scientists have expanded the lifespan of rats by shutting down the production of S6K1 protein. All I have to say is, thank goodness. Now rats will live even longer! The most important implication is that we won’t have to replace them as often when we test things on them and such. Yes, I’m joking. I’m [...]
October 4, 2009 – 1:37 pm
If you need a heart transplant, or will need one in the next few decades, you’ll probably be in better shape in the near future, assuming you can wait a while. That’s because Sujoy Guha, an Indian biomedical engineer has conjured up a new artificial heart at a cost of about $3,000. That’s about $47,000 [...]
September 29, 2009 – 4:18 pm
I thought maybe we’d take a slightly different direction today. That is, a Western medicine one. Those who read this blog regularly probably assume, and rightly, that I do have an alternative medicine slant, this being an organic blog and all. However, I do still believe in Western medicine.The way I see it, the two [...]
It was bound to happen sooner or later, but it now appears that specially made cell phones are now available for kids as young as age 3 (old enough to not be using the phone as a teething ring). A British cellular phone company has decided to make a marketing push towards an age group [...]
