Healthy and Simple

Are you trying to lose a little weight?
The question is this?
Do you occasionally give yourself a treat?
And I say, occasionally, because..it’s not as easy as it sounds.
Because if you occasionally eat that piece of chocolate cake… or ice cream sundae…
It could easily turn into Now and Again and if the idea of now and [...]

I actually wrote a whole article about parents and kids and exercise and by the time I got to the end I realised it had nothing to do with what is really important right now. In fact it made me appreciate that we spend so much time focusing on physical exercise that we sometimes forget [...]

The other day I came across a brief article in the San Francisco Chronicle – the newspaper is so thin these days that it really only has room for brief articles – that reported: “Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up [...]

Hands up anyone who whiled away a really boring time at school doodling on a pad? Come on, I bet there isn’t one person who didn’t spend at least one chemistry or physics or comparative literature class making odd sketches in their notebook.
Well now it turns out that you weren’t just wasting time, you were [...]

Last week we took care of Emma Danger, she’s 10 months old now and just beginning to stand, but she has the yoga “happy baby”  pose down. In fact, Emma can suck her toes and sit for long periods of time in a sling on her mother’s chest. She is one flexible little [...]

Did you hear about the Buddhist who went to the dentist to have a tooth removed. When the dentist offered him Novocain he said no, because he wanted to transcend dental medication.
I love a good pun. Actually, come to think of it I love a bad pun, particularly when it gets me rather neatly into [...]

This next exercise should not be attempted around broken glass, gravel or sharp knives. If you have a padded room that would be best. Safest. Here’s what you do. Close your eyes. Stand there for a couple of seconds. Then, slowly raise your right leg until your thigh is parallel with the floor. Hold it [...]

When I die I am going to donate my body to science.  I figure that after many years as a journalist specializing in health, and now working for a hospital, that I have made a good living out of medicine and so should give something back – even if it is my discarded old carcass.
I [...]

Non-Fat! Huh! – What is it good for….Absolutely Nothin’ Say it again!
The food industry has lots of ways to make us believe we can eat what we want and still stick to our diet! Have you been lured into the evil ways of the “Non-Fat” food industry? You know the one that says, “Ice [...]

Have you ever been in a meeting where someone starts to quote some dead philosopher as if they have the answer to everything and you start thinking “oh boy, here we go, how trite is this going to be”. Then you realize that what they are saying is actually not only powerful but really quite [...]