I don't plan to write much for tonight. It is the end of a year with celebrations of thankfulness, expectation and good riddance - my ...
ASU or Avocado Soybean Unsaponifiables
If you are from the Southeast ASU likely made you think Appalachian or Arizona State University, but instead it is a type of supplement tha...
Resolve under Pressure
I think that I had mentioned around Thanksgiving time that my office was participating in a health challenge called Hold the Stuffing. In c...
What if We Listened
Last week an article came across my "virtual" desk regarding outcomes for persons who actually follow the recommendations made by...
Happy Holidays
My Mom and I will be having a Christmas Dinner together. We will have Quorn with ginger and curry, roasted green beans and pumpkin mousse. A...
Death at any age
I was all set to study and write about telomeres tonight. I am intrigued by the hypothesis that telomeres length is associated with longe...
Odds and Ends
It is the Sunday before the Christian Christmas Holiday and a good portion of America just experienced a snowfall. Actually, they are callin...
Make Mine a Double
They do research on alcohol. I am sure that you knew that. A recent study compared the effects of drinking whiskey to vodka. The two alcohol...
Is Salt More of a Threat After All?
In reviewing research out of Italy and published in the British Medical Journal BMJ, I began to doubt myself or my recent post. The research...
What Cleaning Your Plate Gets You
I was reading an article about research that was recently published in Biomed Central Public Health Journal. In the Reuters piece by Kate K...
Radiation and Cancer
It is not my intention to regurgitate the day's news in my daily blog, but to point out health topics that are either obscure or muddied...
Immobility and Disease
In the late 90s and early 00s, I did some work in Geriatrics. I took five graduate level courses in Gerontology and worked in an elder care...
Odds and Ends
Tamiflu - an email came out this week from the nonprofit organization Public Citizen noting some research that the benefits of using Tamiflu...
Exercise Definitions
Hello. I have two days to finish half of a novel, before it is due at the library, so I am cheating tonight by posting some information I h...
Colorectal Cancer Deaths Decline
Several non profit cancer research, surveillance and advocacy/ educational organizations put out a report this week stating that deaths from...
The Health of our Pets
I closed last night with a teaser - obesity in pets. I had not read the article that I intended to talk about at the time, I read it just n...
New Zealand Nutrition Conference
I thought if I just wrote obesity conference as the title, you might skip this read due to obesity burnout. I will keep it short for you. T...
Odds and Ends with a video bonus
Antioxidants in Lotion: In a popular magazine I read about using antioxidant rich lotions to aid in skin repair and made a note to myself ...