Deciding what type of day to have

  Decide that this day will be productive and consequential, and it will be. Decide to rise above the petty distractions, and you’re already on your way. Decide that there are valuable opportunities in the challenges, and you’ll find those opportunities. Decide to make a positive difference, and you’ll have all that is necessary to [...]

Tragedy! Staring at breasts does NOT increase a man’s life expectancy.

An email from a mate (who clearly feels he needs justification for staring at tits for a portion of his day) reminded me of a hoax that is still circulating around the Net (and appearing in many media outlets) since first landing in our inboxes in March / April 2000. An example of the original [...]

Harvard says: 45,000 deaths a year in the US because of lack of health insurance

As the follow Reuters report shows, the Obama scheme to provide a wider range of healthcare options for Americans is desperately needed. http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/09/17/us-usa-healthcare-deaths-idUSTRE58G6W520090917 Let us hope the White House is watching, and serves this report up to the Republicans long, loud and often during the coming election. After all, Harvard is about as good as [...]

At last, what I have said for years comes true – coffee IS good for you!

A new book by health journalist Robert J. Davis, PhD aims to diss some common diet myths once and for all. ‘Coffee Is Good for You’, out in January, disputes many commonly held beliefs about healthy diets. According to Davis’s book (and many recent comments in the media by other experts) you actually don’t need [...]

Chocolate prevents heart attacks

It’s from Cambridge University, reported on CNN. So it must be true. http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/29/semi-sweet-news-for-chocolate-lovers/?on.cnn=1 Next week, some researcher releases news as to why excesses of cholesterol and sugar are actually good for you. It is only a matter of time, people, trust me. Nom, nom, nom …

Don’t Die Before You Read This

We’re doomed, I tell you, doomed. I sincerely trust you are reading this on your iPad while bicycling on your new soopa-doopa exercise bike, ’cause according to researchers, every hour an adult spends watching TV shortens their life expectancy by almost 22 minutes. Those glued to the box for six hours a day slice nearly [...]