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• Toss out ‘Obamacare’ myths, find truth about Affordable Care Act: Truth about Obama's health care reform law is out there if you look for it amid the myths of "Obamacare."
• Don’t fall for GOP trick to dismantle Medicare: Don’t fall for the latest GOP trick to dismantle Medicare: Paul Ryan’s Medicare “plan” means nothing but bad, more expensive health care coverage for the elderly. I urge you to [...]
• Egg recall enormous — sensible consumers are best solution: I’m sure you’ve read or heard something in the news about the humongous egg recall that took place last week. The latest numbers I’ve heard are that about 500 million [...]
• Fitness may be overrated as predictor of long life: I know this may sound like something I’m writing to excuse my own laziness and poor health habits, but I’m serious (at least sort of serious) about this: Fitness may [...]
• If lovely calves aren’t your best feature, how are your abs?: I recently posted a confession that my calves may not be the fittest or best-looking part of my anatomy. Then I ran onto an article at the Huffington Post blog [...]
• Fitness includes good looking legs, I guess: I’m not so naive to think that I’ll win any Handsome Hunk of the Year Honors, at my age, no matter how much I improve my currently poor level of [...]
• New ‘diet plan’ works for me, my wife — diabetes diagnosis: I may have mentioned somewhere here a few months ago that my wife was hospitalized briefly for a heart flutter. (She’s doing very well now, thank you.) While she was [...]
• Brits ban controversial vaccine-autism doctor: The story is sort of “old news” by now, but I was just reading about the British medical establishment’s banning of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield is the doctor who released [...]
• So far insurance reform hasn’t brought about Armageddon …: So far, the federal insurance reform that seemed so overwhelmingly dangerous (according to Republicans) and so overwhelmingly wonderful (according to Democrats) hasn’t yet destroyed the world as we know it [...]
• What would you think is the number one ‘fitness city’ in America?: What would you think is the number one “fitness city” in America? Don’t cheat and Google it yet. Just think about the general health and fitness of the country, then [...]
• Sometimes the news that shocks us most isn’t in the papers: Sometimes, when it comes to news and “reading the papers” as the corny slogan for this website goes, the worst news you get isn’t in the papers — it comes [...]
• As I age, I follow Alzheimer’s research very carefully: As I grow older, I confess I pay much more attention to findings in Alzheimer’s research than I did when I was younger. You don’t need to be a rocket [...]
• After awhile ‘virtual’ or ‘cyber’ world just gets to be too much: How long has it been since you’ve taken a long walk in a park, completely away from any Internet connections, and without your smartphone or netbook or even your iPad [...]
• Now I’ve heard it all: Injection may someday cure phobias: Now I’ve heard it all, I think. I just read an article that researchers in Japan are trying injections into the brain of goldfish that seem to cure their phobias. [...]
• Maybe bald is beautiful — or at least more healthy for men: Years ago someone used the expression on television, “Bald is beautiful.” I don’t know who the comedian was, but that became sort of a cultural mantra for us “old guys” [...]
• Coming down to ‘crunch time’ for health care reform: All news points to a resolution of some kind, an “up or down vote,” on the President’s health care reform efforts within the next week or so. Fortunately, I’ve been [...]
• Personal note: Yesterday’s physical went surprisingly well: I try to be very upfront about anything I discuss here, and that includes a couple of personal health facts: 1) I currently have no health insurance, and, 2) I [...]
• Interesting health survey reveals U.S. may not be most gullible nation: I have to confess, sometimes my point of view on things gets very provincial when it comes to the U.S. I often think of the U.S. as either the best [...]
• Acne app for your smartphone? Is this for real?: Every now and again, science makes radical advances — and then there are the oddball things like the guy who has developed an “app” for very popular smartphone on the [...]
• Interesting diet notes about Winter Olympians: As a lifelong “Fat Guy,” I’ve been interested in various diets and diet ideas, looking for sort of a “Universal Diet Cure” to all things — or some sort of [...]
• Someday we’ll wave magic wands to cure anything, I suppose: I read a lot of medical and health news online most days, because as I grow older and suffer “old guys” aches and pains I find I have a more [...]
• Has swine flu slowed or has media lost interest?: Has the swine flu slowed down and pretty much run it’s course, or has “the Media” just sort of lost interest? I would bet it’s tapered off and faded out. [...]
• Is health, happiness just a ‘natural’ treatment away?: Is full health and happiness just one “natural cleansing” treatment away? Or, more specifically, have you ever tried any colon cleanse products, and have they worked to improve your health [...]
• Take your vitamins — wisely — and it may help your health: Can vitamins change our lives, or save the world, or revolutionize our health and well-being? I don’t know. I’ve generally been skeptical of those who think mega-vitamin doses are the [...]
• Now health care bills ‘reconciliation’ begins — ugh!: Imagine having two pieces of legislation on the same subject, let’s say for example, health care. One bill has been passed by the House; one by the Senate. What happens [...]
• How well do home gyms work out for you?: Yes, the title on this article about home gyms IS intended to be a pun — “work out” as it a good “workout” at the gym? Get it? Over the [...]
• Which bureaucrats come between you and your doctor?: I can’t help but think we need to keep up the battle for health care reform and health insurance reform — even though the realist in me constantly smacks down [...]
• Parents: Have you checked on what drugs your children may be drinking today??: What an amazing story: In a country where people are increasingly more concerned about natural foods, organic foods, healthy eating and drinking, etc., we now find out we may be [...]
• How can the World Health Organization possibly hope to win a worldwide anti-smoking battle?: I just read this news story about a new, worldwide anti-smoking campaign ready to be launched by the World Health Organization (WHO). The campaign, which will be based on a [...]
• U.S. health care reform pioneer — name that President: Can you guess who started this health care reform battle originally? Must have been Bill and Hillary Clinton, wasn’t it? Nope. You mean this all started with President Obama? Nope. [...]
• Don’t be confused by all the silliness out there — get a flu shot: Don’t be confused by all the silliness and “sky is falling” paranoia out there — just go out when you can and get a flu shot. If you are able [...]
• Research indicates you’ll live healther and maybe longer if you’re a pet lover: Pets have always been important to me. When I was a kid, we always had one kind of dog or another around, even when we lived in small apartments with [...]
• As a guy I know nothing about this, but using contraceptives to treat acne troubles me: I was doing some research on the Internet today regarding acne and acne treatments, and I ran onto a couple of articles suggesting that some forms of contraceptive pills are [...]
• Health care reform shouldn’t be THAT hard, should it?: Health care reform really shouldn’t be all that hard to do, should it? Or should it? The very question itself is probably far more complicated than I realize. On the [...]
• Have you worried about bird flu lately? Here’s your chance: Perhaps today should be thought of as a health and fitness day at the old blog. From toys and fitness equipment, let me take you to a recent World Health [...]
• Looking for weight loss miracles — still looking …: I have to confess that I’ve spent much of my life looking for two types of miracles, 1) quick and easy ways to make money, and, 2) quick and easy [...]
• New breakthroughs may be near in understanding, diagnosing, even treating autism: I just saw some stories about new discoveries in what may cause or contribute to autism. These new studies are finding genetic links to autism — indications are that damaged [...]
• Who knows? Maybe this guy’s recovery is sort of a ‘Christmas miracle’: (Editor’s Note: This post was originally posted last year. It is being brought to the top of the blog as a function of a plugin I use which takes “old” [...]
• Shades of Love Canal — upstate New York residents sue IBM over dumping: You may or may not remember the horror felt nationwide back in the late 1970s over the decades some chemical companies spent creating a toxic mattress of waste blanketing the [...]
• Be thoughtful, cautious about what you eat, breathe, drink: There was a time a few years ago when lawsuits, shocking industrial abuses, and widespread treatments for Mesothelioma dominated most discussion about cancer and cancer patients in many areas of [...]
• Town hall meetings on health care turning nasty: I swear, from what I’ve seen on the news, somebody needs to do something to tone down the vicious nastiness at some of those “town hall” meetings being held about [...]
• Speaking of addictions — vaccine could solve cocaine addictions: I see from a recent story, Baylor University is testing a vaccine which may cause people to lose interest in cocaine. Some reports have said it only works well with [...]
• My best guess: ‘Real-life’ health care reform is dead: My very best guess about health care battles currently dominating our nation would be this: In “real life,” we are not going to get truly significant health care reform. It’s [...]
• Back to the sad state of health care in America — don’t have heart attacks in hospitals: I’ve often thought, “Hmm. If I ever have a heart attack, I hope I’m very near or even in a hospital.” Well, maybe I haven’t actually thought exactly that — [...]
• I thought peanut butter was the perfect food — but peanut allergies rise: From my earliest memories back in the 1950s (yes, I am that old), I remember eating peanut butter. Of course, peanut butter wasn’t my first food, but it had to [...]
• Key to U.S. health care needs: Attacking obesity: Over the last few weeks, with health care reform such a crucial message in America, I’ve seen suggestions for dealing with a very important health care need: attacking obesity in [...]
• Why can’t the U.S. provide health care for all citizens from cradle to grave?: According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report dated June 21, 2000, the U.S. has the 37th best health care system in the world. That report shows us below small [...]
• Maybe lowly fruit holds some keys to U.S. obesity epidemic: It’s always been a very lucrative market in America (probably worldwide?) to sell weight loss products. Over the years, there’s impressive evidence that there are weight loss supplements that work [...]
• Interesting study: Wool clothing may cause acne: I suppose at one time or another, every human being struggles to clear up that skin condition we call “acne.” I know personally I got lucky, it was never much [...]
• FDA crackdown could empty some medicine cabinets: When the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) takes a serious look at restricting access to a medication, we’re talking about an issue far more serious than some weight loss pill [...]
• Hard to exercise in summer’s heat — how about you?: I find it hard to get out and exercise in the summer’s heat. I find winter’s chill (as long as the ice doesn’t trip me up) preferable to that nasty [...]
• Teens and drug use — how accurate are survey results, really?: I have two adult children, both wonderful people who, really, were pretty painless to rear — even during their teen years. At a time when I followed such news as [...]
• Need brain surgery? DON’T GO HERE, would be my best advice: I’ve never had brain surgery (that I remember?), nor have I had any immediate family or friends who have had brain surgery. But I would think, if I needed brain [...]
• Great deal of confusion surrounding ephedra diet products: I was doing some research today on the Internet and found that there’s a great deal of confusion surrounding “ephedra” and dietary supplements that contain this herbal ingredient. (Ephedra is [...]
• Best health insurance at any price: Work at healthy living: I’ve written recently about the health care crisis in America — actually, it’s worldwide, but the problems we face here in the U.S. are about all we can handle right [...]
• U.S. rate of AIDS infection worse than previously estimated: (Editor’s Note: This is a “recycled” post from some time back. I’m using a special piece of software that pulls posts from the “older” part of this blog from categories [...]
• Why does the U.S. continue to fail military veterans?: I was disturbed reading a story today about the medical and financial crises being faced by increasing numbers of military veterans in America. Oh, sure, we all remember the Walter [...]
• Single-payer health care? In fantasyland or Europe maybe, but not in U.S.: Once again, the truth of incredibly bad healthcare options is being felt in this good old U.S. of A., the land we still purport is the best in the world. [...]
• Falling TVs, other furniture injure thousands of children annually: A recently published study found a serious problem with children being injured and even killed by falling furniture, especially tipping and falling televisions. (The study on this was released within [...]
• Maybe Alzheimer’s Disease Is on the Way Out!: For those of us who’ve had families hurt by the evil monster of Alzheimer’s, perhaps there’s another glimpse of hope in a recent study just releases which you can read [...]
• Buying diet pills, other supplements? Be wise and be careful: I’m sure there are many good, useful diet pills and other non-prescription supplements available that offer real help for everything from, well, dieting, to supplementing your body with worthwhile vitamins, [...]
• How about a straight answer when health’s at issue?: Doctors did a study reported today about painkillers. The drug they studied was acetaminophen — most popularly sold as Ty****l. Their study found people taking acet. at the highest recommended [...]
• Is the world filled with people who only know how to PANIC at the news?: Is the world really filled with people who only know how to react with panic when they read or hear the news? I ask because everything negative or dangerous going [...]
• Fair question — how much do we waste on ‘health’ products despite recession?: I posted just awhile ago about people who continue to pamper their pets in recessionary times, which leads to another very fair question: Do we “pamper” or needlessly spoil ourselves [...]
• Amazing discovery about dieting — eat less, exercise more is the ‘secret’: Well, the latest amazing discovery about dieting is now in and, guess what? The “secret” to losing weight, according to this 2-year study of more than 800 people, is this: [...]
• Wishing for some serious healthcare reform, but may not happen: I’m wishing for some serious healthcare reform, based on President Obama’s good intentions during the campaign, but that may not happen, at least for some time. I suspect getting something [...]
• Time to get serious about losing the holiday weight, I guess: I think it’s time — past time in my case! — to get serious about losing the weight put on over the holidays, how about you? Ah, who am I [...]
• How is the economy impacting your insurance picture? Or is it?: Is the economy and all the economic woes going impacting your insurance picture? Your family’s insurance or medical needs? If you’re like a lot of people, you may be either [...]
• Maybe this is health, wellness day here at the blog?: Have you ever heard of Lipovox? Have you ever used it? I ask because I ran onto their website Googling around various health/wellness issues. I just saw a rather disturbing [...]
• Can magnetic bracelets help with aches, pains, general health?: For years I’ve seen various ads on TV, in print, and on the Internet for magnetic bracelets, usually touted as an aid for general aches and pains. I’ve never tried [...]
• Here’s a tip for you — growing old isn’t particularly fun or funny: You’ve probably heard the term “growing old gracefully.” Or maybe that’s “graciously,” I’m not sure. I AM sure, though, that growing old is nothing like I imagined it would be. [...]
• Don’t be fooled: OTC medications can be hazardous to your health: There’s been a lot in the news in recent weeks about the risks of giving infants and children over-the-counter cold medications, because of fears of overdose, drug reactions, etc. I [...]
• Sign of the times? Some babies now developing ‘carrier syndrome’: I’d never heard of such a thing as “carrier syndrome” as a health issue for babies until I read an article online recently warning about it. “Carrier syndrome” is a [...]
• Secret to ALL successful dieting: Eat fewer calories than your body uses: I watch probably far more television than I should, especially for a guy who reads the papers. But most of my work is done at home, and with no one [...]
• National childhood obesity epidemic? Maybe more play would help: Tackling our national obesity and related health epidemics (did I mention that I’m seriously overweight myself?) should begin with kids playing more, not with fancy weight equipment but playing games [...]
• Here’s my best, revolutionary diet ‘plan’ that works for ANYONE: I’m going to give you the secret to weight loss and better health. I won’t charge you anything for this, and you won’t need to buy special foods. You’ll never [...]
• Yikes! Will the same people who fed him help with funeral arrangements?: I applaud Manuel Uribe of Monterrey, Mexico, for getting his weight down to about 700 pounds. After two years of pretty intensive dieting, he’s lost around 550 pounds from his [...]
• Health insurance blues — why so much cost for so little benefit?: I’ve got a confession to make: I have been walking a tight rope without a safety net — self-employed for about eight months with no health insurance. The good news [...]
• Today has been declared World Autism Day by the UN: My wife, Shirley, and I have been blessed with two wonderful children, now grown and living successful, happy lives. We have known people with autistic children, hence we’ve known a [...]