Emergency preparedness kits: Buy one or make one? When disaster strikes, you’ll need quick, easy access to the right supplies to keep you and your loved ones safe and healthy. One of the bes... By apit nursing Friday, April 30, 2010 Comment
Do You Look Happy? (Click on image for a larger version.) Source: How to Find Your Man by Joe Bonomo, 1954 By apit nursing Thursday, April 29, 2010 Comment
cardiovascular disease diet minerals phytic acid Grains as Food: an Update Improperly Prepared Grain Fiber can be Harmful Last year, I published a post on the Diet and Reinfarction trial (DART), a controlled trial t... By apit nursing Wednesday, April 28, 2010 Comment
The Cover Girl (Click on images for full-size versions.) Source: American Hairdresser, November 1942 It's been a while. Did you miss me? By apit nursing April 28, 2010 Comment
Of Course You Can Have Pretty Hands (Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: 1000 Hints Beauty #7, 1956 By apit nursing April 28, 2010 Comment
Boiled Fried Poached Scrambled The Egg Box Camera Returning home yesterday afternoon from the far north eastern corner of the Dengie Peninsular in Essex, I saw this sign at the side of the r... By apit nursing April 28, 2010 Comment
Frank Coopers Hartley's Robertsons Roses Where's That Then? No 22 How romantic, a castle on a hill in winter sunlight. But where is it? One clue might be that a big BBC Sunday night serial was filmed here i... By apit nursing Monday, April 26, 2010 Comment
Winners of APHA’s 2010 Get Ready Scholarship announced Six students have been chosen as the recipients of APHA’s second annual Get Ready Scholarship . The scholarship, which is awarded in conjunc... By apit nursing April 26, 2010 Comment
tobacco Smokeless Tobacco Dangers The Partnership for a Tobacco-free Maine (PTM) is the Maine CDC’s tobacco prevention and control program. Its mission is to reduce death an... By apit nursing April 26, 2010 Comment
Gas Light On Blossom Porters Barrows Steamy Buffets Post & Rail Two enthusiams in one. Here is the donations box for the Gloucestershire & Warwickshire Railway , a preserved line that runs from Toddin... By apit nursing April 26, 2010 Comment
Get Ready Mailbag: Tsunamis can be an unexpected coastal danger Welcome to another installment of the Get Ready Mailbag, when we take time to answer questions sent our way by readers like you. Have a ques... By apit nursing Friday, April 23, 2010 Comment
Lyme disease Important information on Lyme disease A special Review Panel has unanimously agreed that no changes need be made to the 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines developed by the In... By apit nursing April 23, 2010 Comment
health reform Update on Health Reform The Congressional Research Service issued this 100-page report reviewing the public health, health workforce, and quality provisions in the... By apit nursing April 23, 2010 Comment
Pelicans Penguins Ptarmigans Puffins P-P-Pick Up A Penguin Ludlow, Shropshire, Sunday morning. What could be better. The sound of Housman's bells cascading down over the rooftops, little old ladi... By apit nursing Thursday, April 22, 2010 Comment
Half Timbering Magpies Olde Worlde Where's That Then? No 21 In line with Commentator Diplo's request for a monochrome photograph of an Up-to-Date Puzzle Location, I give you....? The only help thi... By apit nursing Monday, April 19, 2010 Comment
overweight Dinner with Taubes, Eades and Hujoel Gary Taubes gave a lecture at UW last Thursday. Thanks to all the Whole Health Source readers who showed up. Gary's talk was titled &q... By apit nursing Sunday, April 18, 2010 Comment
H1N1 fact sheet now available in 10 Asian, Pacific Islander languages Today's guest blog entry is by Kathy Lim Ko, President and CEO for the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum . One of the ... By apit nursing Friday, April 16, 2010 Comment
Old Oil Drums With Bits Of Driftwood Burning In Them Unmitigated Essex Just a quick one, as I'm off now to the Welsh Borders (well, the English side that is: Herefordshire and Shropshire) and will be out of ... By apit nursing Thursday, April 15, 2010 Comment
cardiovascular disease diet liver minerals Copper in Food Sources of Copper It isn't hard to get enough copper-- unless you eat an industrial diet. I've compiled a chart showing the copper ... By apit nursing April 15, 2010 Comment
Artists' Smocks Oozing Mud Rusting Winches Where's That Then? No 20 I thought I'd try something different for this week's puzzle picture. Instead of rummaging through dusty books for old photographs, ... By apit nursing Monday, April 12, 2010 Comment
Two Brief Cases (Click on the images to see the full-size versions.) Source: American Hairdresser, June 1946 By apit nursing April 12, 2010 Comment
cardiovascular disease diet disease fat-soluble vitamins fats French paradox Full-fat Dairy for Cardiovascular Health?? [2013 update: a few colleagues and I have published a comprehensive review paper on the association between full-fat dairy consumption and o... By apit nursing Friday, April 9, 2010 Comment
A prepared community is a healthier community: Small ways to have a big impact During the past few days, thousands of people throughout the country have been celebrating National Public Health Week and its theme of “A H... By apit nursing April 09, 2010 Comment
Duck, cover and hold: Advice for earthquake preparedness Earthquakes are unpredictable and often common in many regions — even in the United States. Just this week, a quake occurred in Mexicali, M... By apit nursing April 09, 2010 Comment
“Eat Local, Eat Organic” Image via foleyfeatures . A remarkable policy resolution came out last week during the American Medical Association’s (AMA) annual meting... By apit nursing April 09, 2010 Comment
Ask Doctor Healthy: Why don’t my Generic pills look like the Brand-Name? The Prescription Access Litigation blog’s resident Advice Columnist, Ask Pharmie, has been on hiatus for a while — but now he’s back! Ask Ph... By apit nursing April 09, 2010 Comment
Brushes Decorating Tables Half Used Tins Of Walpamur Permoglaze Scrapers Wallpaper Paste Unexpected Alphabets No 12 Yesterday was a good day to be on the North Norfolk coast, what with summer-like weather and the first signs of the greening-up of the lands... By apit nursing April 09, 2010 Comment
influenza Flu Update 4/8/10 What’s New with Flu? Flu Activity. Virtually all detected influenza activity seen across the country is with the pandemic strain of H1N1. M... By apit nursing Thursday, April 8, 2010 Comment
health reform Health Reform President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act into law on March 23. Last week, he spoke about health reform when he... By apit nursing April 08, 2010 Comment
Green Cabbages Sandy Bridleways Threatening Skies Missing Walter Between the village of Clare and the town of Sudbury in Suffolk runs one of our many River Stours. Meandering in its shallow valley it also ... By apit nursing Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Comment
cardiovascular disease diet disease hypertension minerals Copper and Cardiovascular Disease In 1942, Dr. H. W. Bennetts dissected 21 cattle known to have died of "falling disease". This was the name given to the sudden, ... By apit nursing Tuesday, April 6, 2010 Comment
Topknots (Click on image to enlarge.) Source: 55 Hair Styles (Dell Purse Book), 1972 By apit nursing April 06, 2010 Comment
Bras Camisole Tops Knickers Where's That Then? No 19 An ordinary English town that enjoys an international reputation. I wonder if that lingerie shop is still there? By apit nursing April 06, 2010 Comment
fat-soluble vitamins minerals Magnesium and Vitamin D Metabolism Ted Hutchinson posted a link in the comments section of my last post, pointing to a page on the Vitamin D Council's website where Dr. ... By apit nursing Sunday, April 4, 2010 Comment