Last night, CNBC did a show on “What Is Your Dead Body Worth?” It was shocking. I had heard the story about Alistair Cooke and how his body was chopped up and sold. Cooke died in 2004 of lung cancer, the cancer metastasized to his bones. Cooke was 95. His [...]

According to researchers in this month’s International Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GUT), exposure to hair dye and smoking were the two most significant environmental risk factors for primary biliary cirrhosis in two separate case-control cohorts, reported Martin Prince, MBBS, PhD, of Manchester Royal Infirmary in Manchester, England, and colleagues. The study concluded: “We have [...]

“I have had some bitter disappointments as President, but the one that has troubled me most, in a personal way, has been the failure to defeat the organized opposition to a National compulsory health insurance program. But this opposition has only delayed and cannot stop the adoption of an indispensable Federal health insurance plan.” — [...]

Vitamin D has become quite the star in recent months and for good reason. According to a recent study appearing in the March, 2010 issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, “a jaw-dropping 59 percent of the population is vitamin D deficient. In addition, nearly 25 percent of the study subjects were [...]

I haven’t been around these parts for a while because I had several things on my to-do list that required a well body and clear mind. I needed the brain fog to lift in order to do some much needed research on software applications and/or utilities for conversions and a well body was needed [...]

I have been having loads of fun exploring ToxMap and EnviroMapper. These two government sites are quite informative. The map shown here is my old neighborhood in Chicago and the number of facilities polluting the air. All of those little blue clouds are VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and more polluting the air. I [...]