SUN Safety

Triple digit weather has hit the SW and heat advisories are issued for the next several days.  As summer in the northern hemisphere arrives ...

So you want to be a writer (by Charles Bukowski ) December 2, 2009 So You Want To Be A Writer if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spit...

Chew Wrigley's Double Mint for Exercise

(Click on image to expand.) Source: American Hairdresser, September 1932

Fermented Grain Recipes from Around the World

In my last two posts on grains, I described how traditional food processing methods make grains more nutritious and digestible ( 1 , 2 ). I...

Real EMF Danger: Your Brain on a Cell Phone

UPDATE: 16 June - San Francisco to warn consumers about cell radiation levels By John D. Sutter (CNN) -- San Francisco, California, lik...

FDA and Avandia: Ethics Lacking

FDA-Sanctioned International Diabetes Drug Trial Is Unethical and Dangerous “Surely no patient would willingly participate in a trial in w...

Pleasant Suprise, Spectacular Product

It is not often that I go to the point of being a great fan of a nutritional supplement, especially when I think we are too far away from th...

Get Ready Mailbag: Shaking hands can spread germs. What to do?

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...

Advergames Raise Food Risks

Online games new marketing tool for unhealthy foods ScienceDaily (2010-06-03) -- Public health researchers have found that children, who are...