Foods you should eat
I always read such articles as The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating and try them out, I also take supplements, exercise regularly and go to the sauna. I’ve just come back from my holidays, so the...
View ArticleTofu to forget, Tempe to remember
I used to be a vegan, and I really hated tofu. It’s clear that my body was protecting me from the evils of Tofu, on BBC News I saw tofu ‘may raise risk of dementia’. “There is some evidence that they...
View ArticleProzac heals the brain
I was reading about Prozac in the Boston Globe article Head fake: How Prozac sent the science of depression in the wrong direction, apparently you should “… think of depression in terms of atrophied...
View ArticleProzac heals the brain from Freud
In the article I linked to in my previous post my father pointed out the following Freudian slip: The little blue pills cheer us up because they give the brain what it has been missing. Prozac comes in...
View ArticleTherapeutic Power of Blogging
Last night I was Tag Surfing and saw the article The therapeutic power of blogging. Blogging has given me an open platform to express things that I would normally only absorb and a good platform to...
View ArticleGlobal Disease Mashup #mashup
I found a nice Mash-Up which scraps news sites and populates a Google Map with the data gathered from these articles. Sadly they don’t populate it too well, where the article says The Hague they just...
View ArticleGranite Contains Uranium #health
Your beautiful kitchen could be poisoning you! I though it was very funny when I started reading it. “Granite, as it turns out, contains levels of uranium, which is not only radioactive but releases...
View ArticleWorld Breastfeeding Week
A Pinch and a Punch for the first of the Munch! I know it should be month, From today August 1st to 7th World Breastfeeding Week. There is lots of room here for very smutty jokes, but I’ll leave that...
View ArticleMobile Safety #mobile
CNN.com has an interesting article 5 tips to limit your cell phone risk. Their first is predictable, don’t put it against your head use the speakerphone, but I didn’t know that CNET keeps a list on...
View ArticlePhone or visit your elders (敬老の日)
Today is the Japanese day of respect for the aged. Take the time today to call your (grand-)mother, ask how she is doing. technorati tags: japan, holiday, aged
View ArticleJust Finished Reading “Forever Young” #books
I like non-fiction and I loved Forever young: Science and the search for immortality. The book covers Alzheimer’s, Genetics and Organ Replacement well and although it helps that I have some medical...
View ArticleSightsavers Sunday #who #bbc
Ever since my father exchanged my expensive Christmas gifts for a card which read something like: “A donation was made in your name to SiteSavers” Although I did deserve the gifts – I had been very...
View ArticleDoctors Without Borders Donate Profile #twitter #linkedin #facebook #social
Medicine Sans Frontier, Doctors without Borders, asked people to donate their Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn profiles and profile images for one day. They do something similar to Twibbon, with the...
View ArticleDiscriminating Against Breaks is Counter Productive #productivity
Some weeks ago I read an interview with a Dutch Internet Entrepreneur who was launching a book on how to create a start up. I haven’t read the book so I can judge that, however what surprised me was...
View ArticleJust Finished Reading: How Doctors Think #books
My daughter’s Godmother is studying to be an MD, and has started her internship. Starting her internship coincided with her birthday, which meant that many of the presents she received were related to...
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