Archives for May 2005

For instance, I've told you about some extreme cases of malpractice that spotlight the incompetence rampant in modern medical care (still the 3rd-leading cause of death in this country).

Although they'd have every right to if the U.S. Constitution were still actually honored as law) to help stop illegal immigration along the U.S./Mexico border.

I've also been telling everyone who'll listen about eggs' enormous health benefits – egg-eaters get huge infusion of Omega-3s, protein, amino acids and healthy fats every time they crack a yolk.

Everyone knows that we're in the middle of a global population boom. But I recently read an astonishing factoid that puts this exponential explosion into stark perspective.

Will it be when every citizen of this country is taking at least three different drugs every day? Will it be when every natural or nutritional cure is replaced by a super-expensive, side-effect-laden chemical?

Never before – at least not to my knowledge – has this angle of the music-as-therapy idea been put to scientific rigor (sort of, as you'll see in a minute).

Because all of a sudden, they're granting their blessings to a bunch of new mosquito repellants – whereas for the last 10 years, only those containing the chemical DEET were ordained by the organization as safe and effective.

A group of Japanese researchers (no, none of them are named Frankenstein) have successfully inserted a gene from the human liver into a variety of rice to help it resist the effects of pesticides and industrial chemicals.

I swear, I think the exercise does something to their brains. It must, because many of them claim running is like an addiction (seems to me more like a death wish), and I'm starting to believe them.

It was the police handcuffing of a violent child after the five-year-old threw an hour-long fit that included tearing papers off classroom walls, trashing an administrator's office, repeated climbing of desk and tables…