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Thoughts on Change

Well, Shut My Mouth…for 24 hours!

December 21, 2009

Hey, there’s a new twist on an old idea – and I mean really, really old – that claims you can be healthier in just 24 hours, and all you have to do is keep your mouth shut. Well, not completely, you do need to drink plenty of water. Anyway the idea has [...]

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Full Facts About Full Fat – it’s good!

November 15, 2009

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 [...]

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The Unofficial Really Honest Self Health Test.

September 21, 2009

Well, I just read an article called “Mid-Life financial check-up” it’s about reassessing all the things you have done over the years with your money and how to re-focus, depending on your needs, in the future. And it got me to thinking – it happens from time to time – that maybe what we all [...]

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Who Needs Radiologists Anyway!

September 3, 2009

Just when I thought I really didn’t want to hear anything else about health care reform, something came along that really caught my attention and got me excited all over again. And it came in a venue and from a source that I least expected it!
The past few months have been distressingly, depressingly bleak when it [...]

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Fatty Fish, Tattoos, Wine & You!

April 23, 2009

One of the few things in life that I have ever really regretted is getting a full-body tattoo depicting scenes from the Battle of Gettysburg. Ah, the things you do at 17 after a night on the town with a crew from a visiting Portuguese warship.
To be honest, there are several parts of the battle [...]

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How Jack and Jill Can Save Your Life

April 14, 2009

There are times that I just don’t know what I’m going to write about, so I look for inspiration all around me.  I just finished reading “My Stroke of Insight” by Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D.  She is the brain scientist who had a massive stroke at the age of 37.
She was able to observe her [...]

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Food Fight

March 17, 2009

A couple of weeks ago we ran a Special Report about a new approach to tackling the problem of obesity, one that targeted the fast food industry and used the same kind of public health strategies that are proving effective against tobacco and smoking, namely restricting where they can be consumed and by whom.

Now [...]

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There’s Something Fishy Going On Here!

February 9, 2009

When I was at university in England one of my room mates was a lad from Sunderland. Ted was a real character. One of the ugliest people I have ever met, uglier than me even, and one of the most engaging. What was particularly fascinating was that he had a thick ‘Geordie’ accent so it [...]

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