Aging – a waste of muscle

I’m back from my yearly pilgrimage to Thetis Island. It was a wonderful respite from every day life – no computers, no phones, no TV. Just the sparkling ocean, the starry sky, the sweet scent of baking pine needles, the tide-sculpted sandstone, the arbutus trees…
For the last few years, I’ve been running every other day [...]

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More about the overuse of antibacterials

I just got back from a short tour of San Francisco and the Napa Valley (where I snapped the olives in my new banner above). While I try to come up with a health-related post that I can incorporate some of my pictures into, I will leave you with another link, from the Environmental Working [...]

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Chocolate is the new grapefruit

The news is all over the newspapers and the Internet: Scientists have found that eating chocolate for breakfast leads to weight loss. Yahoo. Please fire a Lindt bunny my way.
At a this year’s annual meeting of the Endocrine Society, Dr Daniela Jakubowicz presented the results of her study. According to reports, Dr Jakubowicz compared the weight [...]

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