Archive for February, 2009

SPECIAL REPORT: Should We Ban Fast Food

Should we ban fast food or at least place restrictions on it, such as where it is sold and who it is sold to? It’s an intriguing and clearly controversial idea but it’s one that seems to be gaining increasing traction as a possible approach to tackling the obesity epidemic.

Workout Wednesday #11

I love going to the gym and watching all the different ways people exercise. Sometimes it feels like you can get a glance into someone’s personality just by watching them working out.

Joke of the Day

A proctologist walks into a bank and gets out his cheque book to make a deposit. He puts his hand in his pocket to get his pen, only to pull out a rectal thermometer instead. Realizing his mistake he says “Oh great, now some ass hole has my pen.”

Change Is In the Air

Sometimes even the corniest, most cliched statements are true. What makes it even more fascinating is when you discover that in the most unlikely of places.

Joke of the Day

Police were called to a day care where a three-year-old was resisting a rest.

Healing comes in many ways.

Saturday, Kevin and I were doing some errands on Geary Boulevard for our friend Clare.  Geary is a big street  in San Francisco lined with all kinds of stores like BevMo, Mattress shops, movie theatres and car lots, not very pretty but functional.  While we were walking Kevin spotted the Dome of the Columbarium.  What’s [...]

Joke of the Day

Did you hear about the butcher who backed up into the meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

Exercise for Cash or For Health

Turn on the TV news, listen to the radio, read a newspaper in print or online and all they ever seem to be talking about these days is the financial bailout plan. It seems that everyone is getting some money, except me. And perhaps you too.
Well, now some older adults apparently want in on the [...]

Joke of the Day

These are actual records on people’s medical charts. Not perhaps what the doctor intended!
She has no rigors or shaking chills but her husband says she was very hot in bed last night.
Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year

Workout Wednesday #10

Getting regular aerobic exercise – the kind that leaves you huffing and puffing – is really important for good all around health, but if you don’t like to run and don’t like riding bikes how do you get it? The answer is easy, in fact it’s stairing you right in the face.