Healthy and Simple

Some things just make sense. You don’t need a meteorologist to tell you what the weather is like if you look out the window and see that it’s raining. Your opinion may be anecdotal and unscientific but it’s good enough for me under those circumstances.
In the same way, you know that if you raise the [...]

Sometimes something seems so obvious you don’t even need to point it out. But not apparently if you are a medical researcher. It seems that nothing is so patently clear that they can’t find some pretext to get research dollars to tell us what we already know.
For instance, a new study in the journal Spine says [...]

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 [...]

A scientist was doing an incredibly complicated experiment involving lots of different liquid chemicals, some of them very toxic. He had been struggling with the experiment for years and couldn’t quite make it work. Then he fell into the vat and became part of the solution.

Schools are supposed to be institutions that feed children’s minds, filling them up with thoughts and reasoning. Instead too many schools seem to be places where children fill up their up bodies with junk and candy and “crap” from vending machines. And that investment in vending machines is undermining the investment in kids brains.
We need [...]

I used to work with a doctor who did a stint in the local county hospital, San Francisco General. It’s an amazing place filled with extraordinary doctors, nurses and other staff. And they need to be, they see some of the toughest cases, the worst injuries and the most difficult of patients – some of [...]

Every so often you come upon a study that leaves you asking “and they managed to get money to do that research?” It’s not that the findings are so shocking and provocative, more that they are so bloody obvious that you didn’t really need to do a study to find it out – such as [...]

What would you say if I told you that the way you walk can predict how long you will live? You’d probably think I was crazy, and while you might be right about me being crazy that does not make my statement any less true.
The way you walk can help predict your risk of dying.
Researchers [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]