Corn Oil and Cancer?

The benefits of corn oil keep rolling in. In a new study by Stephen Freedland's group at Duke, feeding mice a diet rich in butter and l...

Public Health Update 2/25/10

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update February 25, 2010 Travel-related Disease Conditions Maine CDC has investigated multiple cases of travel-...

Where's That Then No 13

A few years ago I turned up here early on a hot summer's evening. Folk were cooking suppers on boats, and the strains of the Archer'...

Magnesium and Insulin Sensitivity

From a paper based on US NHANES nutrition and health survey data ( 1 ): During 1999–2000, the diet of a large proportion of the U.S. popula...

Lindeberg on Obesity

I'm currently reading Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's magnum opus Food and Western Disease , recently published in English for the first tim...

More Room At The Inn

As an addendum to the last post, I give you The Wheel & Compass public house at Weston by Welland. Not just because they serve an excell...

Ruff 'n Fluff... a Practical Cut for the Feather Bob

(Click on the images to view them in all their full-size glory!) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, June 1942

Railway Echo No 13

It looks plain and ordinary, a house out in the countryside, probably built in the 1970s. Until one looks more closely at the right hand sid...

Get Ready Mailbag: If I am over 65, should I get the H1N1 flu vaccine?

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...