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OK….so I’m a cow! I love meat. That said, it’s probably not the worst thing you could be….you could be a sugar cube! Along those lines, a new book on weight loss and dieting, Always Hungry, focuses on reducing fats and carbohydrates to reset your appetite and help loose weight. In a modified ‘high …
Three cheers for a great scientist and humanitarian….Linus Pauling. His Day is celebrated on February 28th in the state of Oregon, because Pauling, a two-time Nobel Prize winner, is a native-son of Portland, and got his undergraduate degree at Oregon State University. He both discovered the specific abnormality in the hemoglobin molecule that causes sickle-cell …
Expressing Love is the 6th of the keys to good health, as I’ve written about in THE KEYS: 8 Principles for Achieving Better Health. So….I was quite intrigued by a recent article in the New York Times that gave specific instructions on how to fall in love with someone, based on a scientific study done …
I received a lot of sage advice during my Hopkins and Iowa training, most of it ‘medical pearls’ related to diagnosis and treatment, rarely was it related to deeper issues on death and dying. Of course, we experience a great deal of drama every day on the wards, but you learned through osmosis, not …