The thing that drives me nuts about the multi-billion dollar dieting industry is that most of them know (based on multiple scientific research studies) that their approach does more harm than good … especially those that push “meal-replacements” or radically reduced calorie diets. It is healthier to be fat than it is to diet, particularly… Read more The Biggest Losers Also Lose Their Metabolism
My little dog Foxy is very sweet. When we first got her, she wasn’t very cute. Life on the mean streets had left her patchy and emaciated. She looked better after a few weeks of food and love, but still … a pretty scruffy little nerf=herder. She looks much better now. This morning she leaped… Read more Wee Foxy Has a Boo-Boo
Earth Day is celebrated on this date because the environmental movement really got started on April 22, 1970. The idea for a national day to focus on the environment came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara,… Read more Happy Earth Day!
In many ways I’ve been dreading Blossom’s adolescence. Not only does her Asperger’s mean that the normal strum and drang of the adolescent brain become even more erratically dramatic, it also means that trouble with her peers is nearly inevitable. I hate that. Autism in females presents both differently from males, and in several different… Read more Worries for Blossom
The recently released results of a metadata analysis found that organic meat and dairy products do indeed have some nutritional differences when compared to conventional beef and milk. The organic meat and dairy has significantly more Omega-3 fatty acids (yay!) and significantly less iodine (boo!) than ‘regular’ meat and milk. As usual, the benefits of… Read more Food for Thought
Back when the earth was still cooling and I was in grad school, I took a class on anthropological theory. Now, I am a semi-postmodern girl, in that I think the truth is highly subjective and relative … but I do think some things are provable data. The graduate school I was attending was, at… Read more From Whence Science
I am writing this to help the many mothers-to-be that have written me about their Kell sensitive pregnancy and how it could have happened. I think the hardest thing for anyone in a modernized medical society to realize just how random and confusing the body still is. You can do every single thing “right”, and… Read more Kell inheritance
I have a dentist appointment today. It’s just for a routine cleaning, but I suspect it will become more involved once they see the chip in my lower molar. The tooth is healthy, no cavities or anything, but my pernicious habit of grinding my teeth in my sleep is apparently causing some of them to… Read more Tooth? You Can’t Handle the Tooth.
As part of another skirmish in the war on women, some Men’s Rights Activists (MRAs) have formed a movement dedicated to trying to bully women into remaining virgins lest they never, ever marry. These MRAs are on various forms of social media demanding that all men band together and declare that if a woman cannot… Read more Cherry Bomb
Have any of you seen the movie Fed Up? It’s on Netflix now and it is absolutely magnificent. “Fed Up is a 2014 American documentary film directed, written and produced by Stephanie Soechtig. The film focuses on the causes of obesity in the US, presenting evidence showing that the large quantities of sugar in processed… Read more Fed Up