Archive for January, 2009


CDC Director Gets the Boot

The CDC Director, the agency that is responsible for controlling outbreaks of disease and illness (did you ever see the movie Outbreak, it’s those kinds of situations they are responsible for controlling and taking charge of) has reportedly stepped down at the request of the incoming Obama presdiential administration so that the way can be [...]

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Activia Probiotic Yogurt for Bowel Regularity : Review

I’m on a diet and have been since the fifth of January.  After eating way too much, and too much of the wrong foods, as so many of us do around the holidays since it is around in abundance during that time of year, I decided that enough was enough and that I had to [...]

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Is Your Job Bad for Your Health?

I hate to be cynical, because most of us who aren’t born with a silver spoon in our mouths or otherwise are financially independent, have to work a nine to five job. Whether your job involves labor or you sit at a desk all day, there are bound to be certain aspects about almost any [...]

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Study Says Antioxidant Supplements Do Not Prevent Cancer

In a study of over seven thousand women followed over a period of just above nine years, researchers are saying that the addition of the antioxidant supplements vitamin C, in it’s ascorbic acid form, vitamin E, and beta carotene, when compared to a placebo group who took no such combination of these supplements, had no [...]

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Fire-Safe Cigarettes Up for Consideration

In a move to help eliminate cigarette fire related deaths in smokers who fall asleep while smoking or otherwise accidentally or purposely abandon a still-burning cigarette, there are these new slow burning cigarettes that are trying to push through a mandate in some states that they require smokers to purchase only these types of “safer” [...]

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