Methadonia (1)
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Over the weekend I watched an intense HBO special/movie. Methadonia was a little about addiction a little about recovery and a lot about the stories behind addiction. The piece was filmed over a year & a half, and followed the story of a group of eight people using “methadone maintenance” to get off heroin. In the film, many of the users are mixing benzodiazepines (prescribed for seizures or anxiety/panic disorders) with their methadone to create ...
The Power of Walking (1)
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Pw = (mg / p) [3gL / 2]1/2{1 - [1 - p2v2 / 6gL]1/2} * Right after napping, my favorite exercise would have to be walking. It’s easy, it’s free, you don’t need any special equipment to do it, and almost everyone can walk. Stand up, put on some tennis shoes (please, your feet are good things!) and some comfortable clothes, put one foot in front of the other, and then repeat, 10,000 times a ...
How I know that I know what I’m talking about, ed II (1)
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Relationship Tip: Don’t change yourself for anyone but yourself. Slowly, over almost a decade, I changed to make someone else happy. I changed my weight, I changed my exercise habits, I changed my religion, I changed my interests, I changed my taste in music, I changed my hair color, and I even tried to change my family, all to make him happy. Not only did I make myself incredibly unhappy, but he knew I was ...
Recovery, Paging Doctor Biden (1)
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In 1973, when he was 30 and I was -2, Joe Biden first took office as Senator for the state of Delaware. For my entire life, Joe Biden has been the senator for my home state. That is quite a statement. He was raised in the same city I was, which is about the size of your pinky. He graduated from the Catholic school right behind the McDonald’s we went to. Our “city”, and believe ...
Women’s Health in the News (1)
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photo credit: Stig Nygaard For those of you who didn’t know, I have a heart for Africa and especially African women’s health. I keep my eyes out for African women’s health news and I was encouraged to see that cervical cancer is becoming a news headline in Ghana. Ghana News - Women’s Health: Cervical Cancer. If you’re at all interested in African women’s health, you should drop me a line, I’d love to talk more ...
ABOG Calls Out Secretary Leavitt for Misrepresenting Certification Issue in Support of Proposed Regulation (2)
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HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt has issued a third blog post on physician conscience, announcing the release of the official proposed regulation following the draft which has generated so much controversy. I’d like to get more into the regulation itself later, but I continue to be amazed and appalled by Leavitt’s reliance on the certification argument as justification for the measure. Leavitt continues to either misunderstand or deliberately misrepresent the certification issue as a primary argument ...
Panic & Anxiety (1)
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For a few weeks, on Thoughtful Thursdays, I’m going to address anxiety and panic, and the disorders that accompany them. I don’t believe that the conditions are becoming more common, but I do believe the diagnoses are becoming more readily assigned to those seeking help. Both are being diagnosed more and more often and myths surrounding the conditions that I’d like to set some things straight. First: Anxiety is different than fear. When you are ...
Most Wine Should Be Sold in Boxes (39)
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Tyler Colman, reporting for The New York Times: A standard wine bottle holds 750 milliliters of wine and generates about 5.2 pounds of carbon-dioxide emissions when it travels from a vineyard in California to a store in New York. A 3-liter box generates about half the emissions per 750 milliliters. Switching to wine in a box for the 97 percent of wines that are made to be consumed within a year would reduce greenhouse gas ...
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Ian said:
This would be a natural consequence of a carbon tax or cap-and-trade regime.
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bbebop said:
on the downside, wine-in-a-box would obsolete a bunch of wine refrigerators...
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Frank said:
I love bottles -- for my beer and for my wine -- but I also love the idea of my grandchildren enjoying the Earth as much as I do.Can't someone come up with a better solution? Please?
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nybble said:
mmmm... boxed wine.
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zappy said:
I have been drinking boxed wine for quite a while in Italy. Will see if I can find some in germany.
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V said:
Anyone know of some good box wines?
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Todd Mundt said:
In some countries, you can buy wine in boxes that's actually good. We would take a nice step forward if one or two reputable wineries made the switch.
Feds: ‘No Credible Evidence’ That Airborne Fights Colds (3)
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The company that promoted the dietary supplement Airborne as a “miracle cold buster” yesterday cut a deal with the feds, agreeing to pay up to $30 million to settle charges that it didn’t have evidence to back up its advertising claims. Associated Press Photo from 2005 “There is no credible evidence that Airborne products, taken as directed, will reduce the severity or duration of colds, or provide any tangible benefit for people who are exposed ...
Friday 5 - 8/15/08 (1)
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photo credit: isaac bowen On Fridays, I am going to encourage you to do five different things in the next seven days. Those things may range from small to big, but I’m going to try to challenge my readers. If you’re up for taking the challenge, leave me a comment and I’ll add you to a list on this (and every following Friday’s) post! By next Friday, I challenge you to do the following five ...
Top 10 Cell Phone Etiquette Rules People Still Break (6)
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Written by Mobilecommandos Do we really still need to talk about this? You’d think with over a decade of experience under our belts along with our inherent delusions of hyper sophistication that we’d have figured things out by now. But the sad truth remains: cell-phone douche-baggery is worse than ever! In terms of maturity levels, many of us rank amongst toddlers, interrupting anyone and anything with our loud nonsense, our little fingers obsessively pushing buttons ...
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Susheel said:
We all need a refresher course in good manners from time to time...
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Jamie said:
Read and learn, just in case you need to.
Health Blog : The Michael Phelps Diet: Don't Try It at Home (5)
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Michael Phelps celebrates another gold medal and another 12,000-calorie day. (AP Photo) Swimmer Michael Phelps's next career may be in competitive eating. Besides grabbing five gold medals at the Beijing Olympics so far, making him the winningest Olympic athlete ever, he's got to be setting new marks on the chow line. A New York Post account of Phelps's... wait for it... 12,000-calorie-a-day diet, gave us a stomachache. Could one human being really consume that much ...
Quotes on Thinking (1)
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photo credit: soliloca I’m not feeling particularly thoughtful today, so I don’t know where I should begin Thoughtful Thursday. I think (hah!) I’ll share some of my favorite quotes on thinking to get us started! No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. ~Voltaire Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? ~Winnie the Pooh I ...
$15 Meal Ideas From Whole Foods, Seriously! (1)
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Whole Foods can be your friend and foe. Its selection of organic and natural foods is hard to beat, but its prices are often high. That is why I was excited when I stumbled across a cool feature on the site: Meals For 4 Under $15. Under the category, there is a long list of great recipes that should cost you $15 to make in total. Not all recipes are the healthiest, though some are, ...
10 Mispronunciations That Make You Sound Stupid (11)
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Written by Toni Bowers Right or wrong, people often judge you by the way you pronounce things. Say a word incorrectly and POW — they’ve pegged you as a provincial, poorly educated moron. Toni Bowers offers a list of commonly mangled words so you can double-check your own pronunciation. Previously, TechRepublic ran an article about 10 grammar mistakes that make you look stupid. The examples cited involved the misuse of words in written and verbal ...
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James said:
darn, I screw some of these up pretty regularly.
http://ecochildsplay.com/2008/08/05/mothers-milk-breastfeeding-beyond-six-months/ (2)
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Editor’s Note: This breastfeeding story is from guest writer Heather Garvet. Heather blogs at A Mama’s Blog, where she has written other posts on C-sections, VBACs, breastfeeding, pregnancy, and birth issues, as well as her two boys. Heather is also a monthly contributor on API Speaks. This post originally appeared on A Mama’s Blog. World Breastfeeding Week starts on August 1st, and runs through August 7th. The theme of this year is “Mother Support- Going ...
