I just read this disturbing article on a mandatory health care system that shows Mass. workers working more for health care than they do for food, rent, and even time spent with young school age children they have. Can you get by earning $500 a week and have insurance premiums that cost you $287 a…
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Interval Fitness Training
So now the fitness experts are saying that a 15 or 20 minute intense workout, done about once a week is all you really need to get in shape and stay in shape. They say that 4 sets of 4 minute hard workouts with a three minute rest is better than the half hour every…
Study Finds Fault With Pot
A new study has found that smoking cannabis over a long period of time can cause delusions, hallucinations, or psychosis. The study shows that people who use pot at the age of 15 or younger were twice as likely to have psychosis than those who never smoked it. The study involved 3,801 people. Of those…
The New Dog?
Pediatricians are saying lately that the hot dog has been sliding down whole in the gullets of innocent children, thus causing them to choke to death. They further insist that if a child is going to eat a hot dog, they should be redesigned to avoid the choking hazard. Some suggestions have been a hollow…
Stents Or Surgery For Clogged Arteries In Neck
Surgery has long been the “gold standard” in treating those people with clogged arteries in their necks. Now, however Stents have come on the scene and have saved lives. Stents are tubes that are put into arteries. They do two things. The first is to open up clogged arteries and the second is to remove…
What In The HELthcare Has Passed?
About a month ago I heard on the news that Obamas new health care reform has passed Congress. Yeah? I got a couple of facts out of what I heard but not much, so I decided to look around the net and find the plan itself. I was going to read it line by line…
New Concerns About BPA
BPA if you remember was in the news and up for a lot of debate about its safety in plastic baby bottles. A couple of states have banned it’s use in baby bottles for children under 4 years old and more states seem to be following. Manufactures of baby bottles have decided to steer clear…
Autism and Jenny McCarthy
I’ve heard Jenny McCarthy speak about her sons autism and her struggle to find any kind of treatment or help for him. Somehow she did and now she’s written three books and opened up a school across the street from her house. Jenny seems like a down to earth mom struggling to find answers and…
Shaker Weights
OK, maybe they really provide a wonderful arm workout, and maybe I just have a dirty mind. However I can’t take the commercial for this product seriously especially because it states it was made for woman. If you haven’t seen it before it looks like a long metal dumbbell but when you use it it…
Finally Hits Home
My daughter, grandson, and I have been staying at my parents home till we sell it, so it won’t sit vacant. My son and husband are still at our apartment. My son called several days ago that he was sick, so sick he could not only not go to work but could barely get out…