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Bit By Bit – Small Changes Make Big Differences

January 27, 2010

A woman I work with – let’s call her Carolyn, because that’s her name – recently underwent back surgery. She says since the surgery she’s been in some pain, not just in her back but pretty much throughout her body. At first she thought it was just the usual recovery process, but as the pain [...]

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Slow Down, You Move Too Fast – and Other News

November 5, 2009

The title to this piece is the opening line to a song by Simon and Garfunkel. Strangely the song is called the 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) – and that alone dates it – even though there is no obvious reference to either 59th Street or a bridge.  The line sprang to mind when [...]

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A Pox On All Your Vending Machines

September 8, 2009

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 [...]

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Want to lose weight? The answer is…..

June 29, 2009

Stop eating!  Just kidding, but really  the answer is  in your brain!  It turns out, according to David A. Kessler, M.D., grad of Harvard Medical School, doctor, lawyer, medical school dean, not to mention the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration under 2 presidents, and author of a new book, “What the hell!  [...]

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