Exotique

(Click on this image to see the full-size version.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, August 1938

Lace Wing

You know how it is. You have an hour to kill between Nottingham and Derby so you start wandering aimlessly about hoping that something will ...

25 Amazing Food Cures

1. BE MORE POSITIVE Dark Chocolate Research shows that dark chocolate can improve heart health, lower blood pressure, reduce LDL cholesterol...

World Rabies Day

Today Maine CDC recognizes the third annual World Rabies Day. US CDC and the Alliance for Rabies Control, a UK charity, established this ...

Health Reform Update

Health Reform and Public Health Health reform has many implications for public health. Learn more by viewing or using the Power Poin...

A Good, Clear Complexion

(Click on images to see full-size versions.) Source: Beaute'Craft, February 1925 Miss Norma Shearer, Mae Murray and Viola Dana credit di...

Time Capsule

To Leicester, and on a beautiful autumn Saturday afternoon we find ourselves in the incredible enclave of Belgrave. Once a small village by ...

Potatoes and Human Health, Part II

Glycoalkaloids in Commonly Eaten Potatoes Like many edible plants, potatoes contain substances designed to protect them from marauding crea...

Will you be my preparedness buddy? When two heads are better than one

For a lot of people, coming up with an emergency preparedness plan can be overwhelming. (What do I need? What should I prepare for? Where wo...

Hairline Precision

(These images are links to the full-size versions.) Source: American Hairdresser, May 1945

Flu update

Flu information for the general public US CDC recommends that everyone 6 months of age and older be vaccinated against the flu this y...

Celebrate Get Ready Day today!

Hooray! Today is Get Ready Day , APHA’s fourth annual observance designed to remind Americans about the importance of emergency preparedness...

Where's That Then? No 41

I'm going to do a much longer blog about this place, but the fountain is the quite jaw-dropping centre (and master) piece. Until the end...

Potatoes and Human Health, Part I

Potatoes: an Introduction Over 10,000 years ago, on the shores of lake Titicaca in what is now Peru, a culture began to cultivate a species ...

Lemons: Your Bath, Your Teeth, Your Figure, Your Family

Is there anything a lemon can't do? (Click on images for larger versions.) Source: Lemons for Loveliness, 1935

Why do kids pick up so many infectious diseases?

Doesn’t it always seem like when there is one sick kid, within a week or so, every other child around has come down with the same sickness? ...

Flak Jacket

Inundated with Battle of Britain celebrations (celebs flying Spitfires, everyone making Woolton Pie) I turned to Flying Officer X. He was a ...

Speaking at Wise Traditions 2010

I'm happy to announce that I'll be presenting at the Weston A. Price foundation's 2010 Wise Traditions conference . The confere...

Protect Your Groundwater

It's National Protect Your Groundwater Day. Nearly 2/3 of Maine people get their drinking water from groundwater, so we have a large st...

17 Ways to Safeguard Your Heart

Meet Dr. Goldberg Twenty years ago, when Nieca Goldberg was in medical school, heart disease was known as a “man’s disease”―something most a...