Just What We Need, Another Bleedin' Saint

You'd think they would have enough of 'em by now, it's not as though the Catholic Church is exactly short of saints is it, they...

May Awareness Campaigns

May is a busy month for awareness campaigns. It’s National Arthritis Awareness Month , Asthma Awareness Month , Healthy Vision Month , and...

Better Not Tell Prince Charles

I was prevaricating about the bush whether to run with the second story at all; it did have certain appeals, a bit of insight into another ...

Unexpected Alphabet No 16

Well, what a day. Everything from the High Victorian visions in Westminster Abbey- red uniforms and internal green trees like it must have b...

Your Head of State (US) Grew Up On Foodstamps, My Head of State (UK) Grew Up On The Postage Stamps

The header taken from a line of Johann Hari, a columnist at The Independent of London, where he talks to Amy Goodman about the politics of t...

Congratulations to the 2011 Get Ready Scholarship winners!

Six students have been chosen as the recipients of the American Public Health Association’s annual Get Ready Scholarship. The scholarship, w...

CDC Report Highlights Children’s Food Environment in Maine

A report out from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week shows that Maine is doing better than the nation at improvi...

Guess What? The Cops Tell Lies and Fit You Up. The Lower Echelons Kill People Tell Lies and Fit You Up

You might be astonished to hear. Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth by George Monbiot 12 April 2011 F...

Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part I

A Curious Finding It all started with one little sentence buried in a paper about obese rats. I was reading about how rats become obese whe...