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cancer

Vive La Foreign Lesion!

July 8, 2010

Our brains are funny things. They often take us down dark passages even when we are trying to stay bright and positive. It’s almost as if we don’t have any control over them; as if they have control over us. Maybe they do.
A good friend of mine had a pretty nasty scare recently. First he [...]

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Time To Go Public About the Public Option

October 22, 2009

So, I was watching TV comedian and political commentator Bill Maher recently and Bill was interviewing Alan Grayson, the Democratic Congressman from the 8th District of Florida.  They were talking about health care. These days there are a lot of politicians, and even ordinary people, on TV shows talking about health care reform. Just the [...]

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Careful Where You are Putting That Spider!

September 25, 2009

Here’s some cheery news. Not surprising, but not much fun either. Being overweight puts you at greatly increased risk of cancer. And of course death.
This latest piece of good cheer about weight comes from a study released at ECCO 15 – ESMO 34 (sounds like a football score doesn’t it!), the largest cancer congress meeting [...]

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More Tea on Your Prostate Vicar?

June 26, 2009

Growing up in Ireland and England tea was a constant part of our daily life, the kettle was always full and ready to be fired up to make another pot of tea – just in case someone stopped by to visit or something terrible happened.
We didn’t think anything of it – tea was just something [...]

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Broccoli, Your Belly and Why Sports Drinks are Eating Your Teeth

April 7, 2009

How many of you out there hate eating broccoli? Raise your hands. Just as I thought. Most of you. After brussels sprouts it’s probably the most hated of veggies.
But now there’s a way you can get all the benefits of broccoli without actually having to eat the nutrition-packed veggie.You can eat broccoli sprouts instead! Now, you [...]

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Cancer is not a battle, it’s an attitude!

March 31, 2009

I have a friend who has just undergone a mastectomy. She has cancer.  She recently came to a party we were throwing. Okay, it was our wedding.  I was afraid she would not be able to attend because she was going to have her first chemotherapy treatment the day before the wedding, but she came [...]

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Red Meat, Licorice and Booze – It’s all the news

March 27, 2009

I grew up in a house where if there wasn’t meat on the plate you didn’t consider it a meal. Everything from breakfast to supper usually contained some form of meat – though it was England which means many of them were so heavily boiled/roasted/grilled that they were indistinguishable from each other.
But now it turns [...]

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Joke of the Day

March 23, 2009

These wise words are brought to you courtesy of humorist Dave Barry. OK, technically speaking he doesn’t know we’ve stolen them but what the heck, they’re still funny.
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they [...]

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