Archives for February 2003

Did you know that Congressmen (excuse me-Congresspersons) don't pay into Social Security? Why? Because they've got their own retirement plan-one that even the most pampered fat-cat CEO would envy.

That's right. All over the country, those whining weenies in charge of our kids' educations are banning-under threat of suspension, I assume-such traditional schoolyard games as dodge ball and tag.

But would a drug maker really market such a drug as a potential lifesaver? Could they really resist the temptation to hawk it as "exercise-in-a-pill" for busy career-minded people, or package and pitch it as a miracle weight loss plan?

An Associated Press article from this past year revealed that in just four years, between 1996 and 2000, the pharmaceutical industry increased spending on consumer-targeted TV advertising by a whopping 700%-from $220 million to $1.6 billion.

From this data, the researchers concluded that the typical conduct-and even the mere presence-of a spouse actually stimulates physical pain.

Well, it's like this: We always tend to forget this fact, but the brutal truth is that almost all hospitals are BUSINESSES. And the vast majority of their income comes from insurance companies, also BUSINESSES…

For some reason, in this country, we've adapted the misconception that "fiber is good for you and prevents colon cancer." The truth is that the effects of dietary fiber supplements and fiber-enriched foods are unknown, and potentially very dangerous.

At any rate, the criminal here is not the organism, viral or bacterial, or pork, but a dirty food handler. Restaurants don't like to spend a lot of time examining their food-handling employees.

Periodontitis isn't pretty. It involves infection and subsequent rotting of the gums around the teeth. Obviously, no one wants this sort of thing to occur, which is why the dental hygiene business is booming.

More and more doctors are admitting that for the average person, who shows no symptoms and who has no family history of disease, it’s a “little premature” (translation: useless, and even downright dangerous) to undergo routine cancer screening.