From the monthly archives:

July 2008

Here’s a thought

July 31, 2008

I live a kind of schizophrenic existence. On the one hand I’m a journalist who writes about health issues. On the other hand I also work as a media relations manager at a big city hospital where part of my job entails pitching stories to health journalists, like me! See what I mean about [...]

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How Come We Don’t Know This Stuff?

July 31, 2008

Think about this. If parents knew all the hassles they were going to experience before they had kids would they still have them? If women heard about the round ligament pain during pregnancy, and the stretch marks and the permanently poochy belly after delivery would they still want to get pregnant?
If parents knew that it [...]

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Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

July 31, 2008

A snail was mugged by two tortoises. When the police asked him for details of the robbery he said “I don’t know. It all happened so fast!”

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Who Needs a Fancy Euro Vacation – Just Go Next Door

July 30, 2008

I was working with a new client recently, it was a very high class spa. It is a beautiful resort that offers a destination weekend get away. It’s the kind of place that most of us would love to go to; beautiful setting, excellent service, and opulent amenities. Unfortunately it also came [...]

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Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

July 30, 2008

A woman is sitting in her house when there’s a knock on the front door. She opens the front door but the only thing there is a snail. So she picks up the snail and throws it into the garden. Two weeks later there’s another knock on the door. The woman goes to the door [...]

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Why Do We Make It So Hard for Ourselves?

July 29, 2008

I recently moved to a new office. It’s nothing fancy, just a cubicle in a fairly ordinary looking office block. But several things that have happened since moving in have highlighted for me the problems we all face in trying to lead healthy lives, even when we really want to.

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Healthy and Simple Joke of the Day

July 29, 2008

A man is praying to God. “Lord” he says “Can I ask you a question”. “Sure, go ahead” says God. “Is it true that a million years is but a second to you” the man asks. “Why yes, it is” God replies. “And is it true that a million dollars is but a penny to [...]

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How To Save Your Knees, One Step At a Time

July 28, 2008

We never really appreciate something until we no longer have it. That’s particularly true of our knees. For most of our lives we take them for granted. They help us get around but we don’t really pay much attention to them. They’re uncelebrated and unsexy; after all, when was the last time you heard someone [...]

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