This is something we should all read at least once a week!
Written by Regina Brett of “The Plain Dealer”, Cleveland , Ohio
“To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most requested column I’ve ever written. My odometer rolled over to 50 in August, so here is the [...]
A new study has shown that rear-facing car safety seats for children are better at protecting children for all crash types.
It appears to be common practice to switch children to a forward-facing seat when they reach a weight of about 9kg, or about 8 months of age.
A review of US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [...]
This information was sent by a friend, and we thought you might be interested:
“Some facts about Swine Flu that you won’t get from the mainstream media:
Just got sick of the swine flu propaganda, so I quickly researched. This is what I found:
Swine Flu deaths in the USA: 9
Swine Flu deaths Internationally: 86
(http://health.yahoo.com/news/healthday/usclosertoviableswineflushot.html)
And what about the [...]
Originally called Repetitive Strain Injury, and now called Repetitive Surf Injury, this occurs (obviously) from repetitive small movements such as texting from a mobile phone and using a computer mousepad. This condition is thought to affect 500,000 people in the U.K. alone. [link here] Project that worldwide and the figures are staggering!
Repetitive movements of the [...]
Do you take anti-inflammatory drugs?
Why?
Are you aware that they are not an analgesic (pain killer) as such? They are designed to reduce the inflammation process due to an injury or similar. Inflammation is swelling and redness, usually because the blood supply to an area has increased in an effort to deal with an irritant and [...]
If you suffer from heartburn and/or gastric reflux, you know just how painful it is and how it makes you feel so bad! You’ll try just about anything. That’s why there is such a huge market for Alka-Seltzer and tums and quickeze and other over-the-counter antacids. Not to mention the prescription medications! They are all [...]
Do I really need this surgery?
Well, that’s not for me to say.
But with people being more careful with their dollars, a lot of people are really looking at lower cost alternatives. They are actually thinking that there might be alternatives! Instead of just blindly allowing surgeries to be performed on them without fully understanding the [...]
Pandemic? What’s a pandemic?
Pandemic: An epidemic (a sudden outbreak) that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world. As against an epidemic, which affects more than the expected number of cases of disease occurring in a community or region during a given period of time. A [...]
Some news from the Environmental Working Group:
By eating some of the most contaminated fruits and vegetables, you and your children are exposed to about 10 different pesticides a day, according to EWG. Fortunately, by avoiding the most-contaminated produce out there, and concentrating on the least contaminated instead, you can reduce your exposure to pesticides by [...]
A friend sent this information, and we would like to share it with you:
“This doctor makes sense!!
At the age of 97 years and 4 months, Shigeaki Hinohara is one of the world’s longest-serving physicians and educators. Hinohara’s magic touch is legendary: Since 1941 he has been healing patients at St. Luke’s International Hospital in Tokyo [...]
