Ok, so as a medical anthropologist, I read just enough science to make me nervous, but not enough to make me qualified to say anything meaningful about the results of tests and/or experiments.
But, when I read that an expert is nervous, it makes me even more nervous.
Here is a story from the BBC - quoted [...]
Cell phones and cancer risk, I knew there was something fishy in Denmark.
People in New England and NY, prepare to buy a lot of Off! . . .
I’m sure that this story in the Times whizzed by a lot of people, but I’m scared.
Bats, which normally hibernate in the winter in caves in New York, Vermont, New Jersey, are dying in droves. They are flying out of their caves in winter - odd enough - and then dying right there in front [...]
The Napoleon Complex and Suicide - a New Weird Study about Birth Length
So, I usually stay up late and get up rather late (one of the benefits of having no children), and I hadn’t yet had my first cup of coffee when I spotted a news story on the BBC about a new study out of Sweden. It’s about birth length and weight in boys, and their [...]
Finally, some sanity about eggs, drinking 8 glasses of water per day, and other health fears that our grandparents never thought twice about . . .
One of the things that boggles my mind is the fact that some people will do anything to be “healthier”, where “healthier” is a stand-in for one or all of the following:
1. Look younger.
2. Stave off aging in all forms. Haven’t you heard that 50 is the new 30? (Or so people who are 50 [...]
April 6, 2008
Categories: age appropriate, aging, commentary, diet, family, getting older, health, humor, life, mid-life crisis, prevention, science . Tags: aging, comedy, commentary, family, fitness, health, health myths, humor, life, science . Author: tmacphail . Comments: 2 Comments