Archive for July, 2008


Cilantro May Be Salmonella Culprit

After weeks of speculating that the salmonella outbreak that seems to never go away was due to some contaminated tomatoes may be shifting gears now after investigators failed to affirmatively nail down the exact cause of all cases to tomatoes or any specific type of region of tomatoes, and it seems the shift now has [...]

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Is There a Such Thing as “Brain Food”?

I just had an interesting read on how gerbils were tested with varying amounts of foods traditionally, and scientifically in some cases, linked with better cognitive performance and mental sharpness, and the outcome was interesting and had some implications toward the fact that there really might be ways we can eat and nutritionally shape our [...]

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Life Spans Increase

Finally, there’s some good news on the health front for people in the U.S.   Life expectancy, on the average, in the U.S., went past 78 years old, which is of course the highest age expectancy number since we’ve been tracking average longevity.  A step in the right direction, but certainly no major feat since we [...]

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Reducing Foot Odor Naturally

It’s summertime and along with the warm weather there’s an issue with personal hygiene that  can tend to be embarassing.  That’s the embarassment of sweaty and smelly feet.  If you work on your feet all day long and have to wear closed shoes, it’s often unpleasant when you remove your shoes at the end of [...]

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Vitamin C and My Basal Cell Carcinoma Skin Cancer

I have had two basal cell carcinoma skin cancers taken off of my body in the past five years, and because of my family history of skin cancer – actually, melanoma (my grandfather on my dad’s side actually died of a melanoma skin cancer), I had them both surgically removed.  Actually how it went was [...]

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