A new study suggests that cutting calories by 12% might help people live longer and healthier lives. Excuse me! This is a fact that’s been KNOWN for 1000s of years(1), clearly demonstrated in studies over and over in the last century all over the place. And — frankly — is Read more…
Disgusting! And all such words… Ozempic and Wegovy are new drugs for “stabilizing blood sugar” and “treating obesity.” With Obesity being the single biggest health problem in America, because of the incredibly poor (and getting worse) food supply(1), what do they do to fix it? They create an amazingly successful Read more…
(This one is a little less formal… just some thoughts concerning the latest “news item”) Tripledemic? Nice word. New word. Never existed before. And INSTANTLY every one is in fear of it. Yet, even Yahoo admits it’s only a possibility! Not a reality… at least not yet. Panic over something Read more…
The Senate voted down a bill that would have put a price cap on insulin. Specifically the Republican party-line blocked the bill. Insulin, of course, is the primary treatment for all forms of diabetes, which, due to the nature of the standard food supply, is among the leading health disorders Read more…
So there I am, working on a computer, and I’m in the updates (the never-ending, interminable updates) and up pops this “ad” (update now or else, sort of thing) saying I can now take this computer to Windows 11. Ok. Groovy, even. (As they used to say.) EXCEPT, the way Read more…
I was just reading an article (perhaps a rant, but the author’s numbers and facts seem to check out) that is really very scary in several ways. He brings up some things I wasn’t aware of. But I’ll just touch on a small part of it and then do my Read more…
When I was a kid there was a lot of talk in the news, on TV talk shows, at school, and at home about overpopulation. How the world was getting just too crowded. That was with a population of about 2.5 billion. Today we have a population of about 7.5 Read more…
In my county (or some county, at least) there is a regular email that goes out reporting on the local status of COVID. Here’s a section of the heart of the latest (as I write this) report: * There were 27 new COVID-19 cases reported Wednesday and Thursday for a total Read more…
There’s this Big Thread in our culture about companies, neighbors, businesses “keeping you safe.” Doing things / not doing things in order to keep you safe. Whether that’s restricting your ability smoke near my door, requiring a CoVid mask, putting up a railing in all the right places, or what ever. Read more…
Out walking this morning I came across a Red Cross coach… some kind of big bus thing converted to some use of the Red Cross’. I assume drawing blood or some such thing. There was no signage out, no identification of why they were there. Okay… it’s got red cross Read more…
I just (really, just now) read a new scientific study suggesting that sodas might be bad for your health. Gosh, what an idea. [That’s sarcasm…] Let me see: Carbonation leaches calcium from your body, leading to osteoporosis and various other conditions. The grotesque amount of sugar in them is damaging to Read more…
There’s a thing emerging, called “Long CoVid,” the symptoms of which sounds awfully familiar to me. Admittedly, there’s not much known about the condition yet, though, in truth not much is really known yet about CoVid or the many vaccines that have been simultaneously produced and released under conditions of Read more…
Considering that it takes 15, 18, even as much as 30 years to reach our physical peak, why do we think that a few weeks of exercise should restore the “damage” done by lounging on the sofa for a decade or two? You know what I mean? [30]
When we are growing up, it takes us 15, 18, even 30 years to reach out peak of strength and endurance. Why then, after sitting our duffs for the next 30 years or so, and then getting all excited to “get it back,” do we get discouraged when it doesn’t Read more…
Some of you will remember Jackie Gleason the actor and comedian, many of you will not. He’s part of this posting for two reasons, his famous line “How Sweet It Is!” after drinking a little from the cup of “coffee” he would be given shortly after getting out on stage, Read more…
There are many things Hollywood SciFi fails to do well. A great many. Some of the SciFi vids that do (more or less) well on the screen wouldn’t even get published in the legitimate SciFi industry (literature, dig?). Ok, fine. Two different standards, live with it. There is one thing Read more…
There’s a hotdog stand (they sell many things, but “hot dog stand” is descriptive) in my town, right on the main drag (it’s a small town). It’s one of those trailer/building things, could be hooked up to a truck and moved, save that this one never goes anywhere. This “main Read more…
There’s an ad for ADHD(1) where a young person is caught just staring blankly out the window. The ad says, or implies, this is a serious mental disorder. Bull! It’s called day dreaming and it’s a very, very important part of the functioning of the human mind. Now, perhaps, if the Read more…
I think I was 12 years old the first time it dawned on me what “kills 99.9% of all germs means.” I was spraying a can of “disinfectant” around, per my mom’s instructions, because the basement had flooded, flood handled but now things might be growing in the damp cinder Read more…
Medical Science gives me a headache sometimes. It appears any more that they rarely look for the cause of your symptoms nor have a true causative agent for almost anything. Not even the “common cold” (more on that below). For example: look up “dry eyes” on the internet. Better yet, Read more…