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What Is Your Dead Body Worth?  Good Question

What Is Your Dead Body Worth? Good Question

→  March 27, 2010 1

Last night, CNBC did a show on “What Is Your Dead Body Worth?” It was shocking. I had heard the story about Alistair Cooke and how his body was chopped up and sold. Cooke died in 2004 of lung cancer, the cancer metastasized to his bones. Cooke was 95. His [...]

Hair Dye And Smoking, Not Good For Your Liver

Hair Dye And Smoking, Not Good For Your Liver

→  March 24, 2010 0

According to researchers in this month’s International Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GUT), exposure to hair dye and smoking were the two most significant environmental risk factors for primary biliary cirrhosis in two separate case-control cohorts, reported Martin Prince, MBBS, PhD, of Manchester Royal Infirmary in Manchester, England, and colleagues. The study concluded: “We have [...]

HR 3590: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

HR 3590: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

→  March 22, 2010 0

“I have had some bitter disappointments as President, but the one that has troubled me most, in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat the organized opposition to a National compulsory health insurance program. But this opposition has only delayed and cannot stop the adoption of an indispensable Federal health insurance plan.” — [...]

What’s New?  More On Vitamin D And LFA’s Lupus Now

What’s New? More On Vitamin D And LFA’s Lupus Now

→  March 18, 2010 1

Vitamin D has become quite the star in recent months and for good reason. According to a recent study appearing in the March, 2010 issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, “a jaw-dropping 59 percent of the population is vitamin D deficient. In addition, nearly 25 percent of the study subjects were [...]

When The Body Is Well And The Fog Subsides

When The Body Is Well And The Fog Subsides

→  March 14, 2010 0

I haven’t been around these parts for a while because I had several things on my to-do list that required a well body and clear mind. I needed the brain fog to lift in order to do some much needed research on software applications and/or utilities for conversions and a well body was needed [...]

It Could Be Where You Live

It Could Be Where You Live

→  March 9, 2010 0

I have been having loads of fun exploring ToxMap and EnviroMapper. These two government sites are quite informative. The map shown here is my old neighborhood in Chicago and the number of facilities polluting the air. All of those little blue clouds are VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and more polluting the air. I [...]



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