How to Add the Gentle Look of Wings

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958

Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization

In his epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration , Dr. Weston Price documented the abnormal dental development and susceptibility to too...

England. Enjoy.

Those nice people at the Guardian have asked me to blog about three things I do to enjoy England . Well, they came to the right place, obvi...

Find The Fault No 41

We've all known garages like this I'm sure. The family car didn't start losing oil until the 1920's, so houses didn't co...

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet, Part II

I just found another very interesting study performed in Japan by Dr. Hajime Haimoto and colleagues ( free full text ). They took severe di...

Shirtwaist Girl... 1943!

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Back to 1662

Today is apparently 'Back to Church Sunday'. There's been some radio commercials, a website and the Bishop of Reading has come ...

Insurance doesn't cover cancer pills!

Today, this New York Times article entitled: Insurance Lags as Cancer Care comes in a Pill revealed the communication gap between patients...

Keeping kids and child care centers flu-free

Ask any parent — little kids have a tendency to touch everything in sight. Their hands glide blissfully from doorknob to toy to nose to shoe...

Weekly Update on H1N1 in Maine 9/24/09

Maine CDC/DHHS Update on Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus September 24, 2009 Overview US CDC reports that key indicators show that flu activit...

Find The Fault No 40

Quite a lot going on here. Looks like my dad in the trilby on the bus. Could that green van be a Trojan? And is that a miniature Dick Tracy ...

Styling Hair for Permanent Wave

(Click on the image to enlarge.) Source: The Journeyman Barber, September 1940

What's New in Hair-Dos

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Dell 1000 Hints - Your Hairdo, January 1958

Flu U: Keeping campuses safe from H1N1 influenza

Heading back to college means more this fall than sorority rush, new roommates and visits to the campus bookstore. The threat o...

Weekly Update on H1N1 in Maine 9/17/09

Overview US CDC reported 1,380 hospitalizations and 196 deaths nationwide between August 30, and September 5, 2009. As of Sept. 6, the World...

Lung diseases

Lung disease is one of the top diseases in the United States today. Lung disease is on the rise worldwide. Factors such as air quality pl...

Stepping Out

It's so often the little, unnoticed things. A very brief trip into the north of the Cotswolds yesterday brought me yet again to Stanway....

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet

Diabetes is a disorder of glucose intolerance. What happens when a diabetic eats a low-carbohydrate diet? Here's a graph of blood gluc...

How women's bodies have been transformed in the past 60 years...

How women's bodies have been transformed in the past 60 years... This article from the Daily Mail which compares bodies from the 50'...

Turnabout.... It Leads a Double Life!

"What fun!" (Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Find The Fault No 39

Good morning everybody. I think we'll have lot to talk about here, quite apart from the fact that there are actually two faults, one del...

For the Skin He'll Love to Touch

Never wash you face with hot water! use lukewarm water to start... and finish with cold. Cold water makes a velvet skin! (Click on image for...

Brighten Up Your Make-up!

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1943

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials Part IV

Dr. Staffan Lindeberg has published a new study using the "paleolithic diet" to treat type II diabetics ( free full text ). Type ...

H1N1 Infection Control in Health Care Settings

We are increasingly receiving questions on the use of masks vs N95 respirators in health care settings. Below is a review of some major hea...