Maine Public Health Update 2/4/10

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update February 4, 2010 Dr. Stephen Sears is our new State Epidemiologist We at Maine CDC are extremely pleased...

Apples and Potatoes

Quick admin notes

You may have noticed that I switched to screened comments. I finally got annoyed with the spam and unrelated blog links. I try to approve co...

How to Form Cheek Curls and How to Do a Brush-Out

(Click on image to enlarge.) Source: 55 Hair Styles (Dell Purse Book), 1972

Where's That Then? No 10

So sorry for the delay this morning. School run, blah blah. Much to say about this place, but anything said would immediately give it away. ...

Sweet February

The Body Fat Setpoint, Part IV: Changing the Setpoint

Prevention is Easier than Cure Experiments in animals have confirmed what common sense suggests: it's easier to prevent health problems ...

Rules - Do They Respect the Elderly?

I live in a building that is joined to a nursing home, but it is owned by a separate property owner. The building is nice and bright. It is ...

Blackwall, Red Stone

At last I've been able to photograph one of my favourite London buildings. Countless times I have passed through this red sandstone port...

Winter Rose

Parachutes & Corsets

Unmitigated England is full of buildings and bits of buildings that start life in one place and then wake up one morning in another, sometim...

Employment Supports - Not Helpful

Another lesson learned. This is meant as an education piece to illustrate the lack of understanding by the able-bodied. I just discovered th...

Lunch Anyone? A Dilemma for Wheelchair Users

Today there was a Provincial Government Finance Committee Conference at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel, and an acquaintance of mine from Ott...

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Planning a health fair or Get Ready Day or just want to spread the word about being prepared to your community or co-workers? APHA’s Get Re...

Midway Bob... For You Who are TALL

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

Maine Public Health Update 01/28/10

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update January 28, 2010 Keep ME Well Governor Baldacci, in his State of the State Speech and in a January 27th ...

Where's That Then? No 9

A bit of rugged coastline this morning. I love chalk cliffs. Something to do with the vertiginous nature of them, and the fact that they hav...

Right For Each Other

(Click on the images to enlarge.) Source: 1000 Hints Beauty #7, 1956

The Body Fat Setpoint, Part III: Dietary Causes of Obesity

[2013 update: I've edited this post to remove elements that I feel were poorly supported.  I now think that changes in the setpoint are ...

Winter Tale

Get Ready Mailbag: Do I need a flu shot if I have had H1N1?

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...

Winter Cold

Winter Fairy Tale

Weekly update on H1N1 in Maine 1/21/10

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update January 21, 2010 Flu Activity in Maine and the US We continue to see H1N1 circulate in Maine, though at ...

Chocolate Epilogue

So, farewell then Cadbury's as we knew it. Or as we like to remember it, as I went on about here last November. It's a great shame, ...

Sweet January

Save Time Without Sacrificing the Quality of Your Permanents

(Click on the images to read the text.) American Hairdresser, November 1942

Krauss's New Article on Saturated Fat Intervention Trials

Dr. Ronald Krauss's group just published another article in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this time on the intervention t...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Health Care

Below is a wonderful tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., written 10 years ago by the then head of US DHHS' AHRQ. About a year after...

Haiti Earthquake

This US CDC website is very useful for earthquake preparedness. Believe it or not, we have them in Maine on occasion, and certainly many Ma...

Where's That Then? No 8

A fairly easy one this week, I should think. Another classic English view, but I'll give a slight hint. That building on the right with ...

The Body Fat Setpoint, Part II: Mechanisms of Fat Gain

The Timeline of Fat Gain Modern humans are unusual mammals in that fat mass varies greatly between individuals. Some animals carry a large ...

The "Crazy, Mixed-up Skin"

"Nearly every teen-ager faces the embarrassment of acne at some stage of growth. New discoveries are speeding skin health." (Click...

Ancient plagues share similarities with H1N1, other modern diseases

The emergence of the new H1N1 influenza virus last year grabbed the attention of health authorities and many of the world’s people. This nev...

That London

I haven't been down in that London for oh, nearly a year. How I've missed it. I'm a country boy at heart I suppose, but the Big ...

Weekly update on H1N1 in Maine 1/14/10

Flu Activity in Maine and the US We continue to see H1N1 in Maine, including three new hospitalizations this week – one in a child younger t...

New Saturated Fat Review Article by Dr. Ronald Krauss

Dr. Ronald Krauss's group has published a review article titled " Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the associ...

People with chronic health conditions should be vaccinated against the flu

It’s National Influenza Vaccination Week, and although H1N1 flu activity has decreased in recent weeks, people in Maine and across the count...

Where's That Then? No 7

One of the things I like about Karl Gullers' photographs are the viewpoints. There somehow appears to be a spot welded to the ground in ...

Puzzle Corner

This is Uppingham churchyard. Or to be more precise the Victorian extension. Which made me wonder about this little gazebo tucked away in o...

Paleo is Going Mainstream

There was an article on the modern "Paleolithic" lifestyle in the New York Times today. I thought it was a pretty fair treatment ...

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