Many of us have suffered through cancer, whether it be firsthand diagnosis or that of a family member or friend. Several people in my family have gone through the experience, and I lost my own mother to cancer. It was with great interest, therefore, that I became
Read more →A cup of black, organic coffee without sugar added is a something that some of us appreciate with great verve. There are some potential health benefits to be had from coffee, too, but only when it’s organic and generally when it’s fresh-roasted. For those who enjoy their
Read more →In my article, Diarrhea: Shhh! It Happens, I mentioned that it’s quite common for hunger to drop off substantially over the course of a few days of fasting. I’d like to take some time to discuss the reason for that, along with some other related information that
Read more →Hi, again. It’s Trane, giving you the scoop on poop. Oh, dear. Seriously, though, I missed a couple of things in my first article, and I felt that they were significant enough for me to warrant a second one. Kind of like diarrhea itself, it’s a subject
Read more →No matter how well you live, chances are you’ll be afflicted with diarrhea at some point. For most episodes, it ends up being nothing more than a minor inconvenience and discomfort. For some cases, however, not only can it be a big deal, it can even be
Read more →I’ve been thinking a lot about quality versus quantity. In our super-size cultures, the emphasis seems to have turned away from quality and towards the apparent value of more for your money. Obviously, it fools a lot of people because, well, you are getting more. The question
Read more →One of the saddest signs of our time is the incidence of cancer increasing to such an extent that in North America, 20% of the population will die from cancer of some form. Twenty percent! As such, many of us have been touched by the loss of
Read more →Just a quick note to let everybody know that the hard disk on my MacBook failed on Friday. In the course of recovering from backups, some files got corrupted. Among those was the profile for my mail program. My first startup after recovery downloaded all the pending
Read more →In the continuing saga of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant struggles, soil samples in two of five locations around the plant have turned up low levels of plutonium. What does this mean with regard to the situation that is playing out in Fukushima? How does this
Read more →With the recent events here in Japan and my posts about the apparent risks – and more importantly, the apparent lack of them – have come some commentary from doom-and-gloom types. One of the posters brought up detection of radioactive particles in Iceland. Some folks haven’t been
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