So Where’s the Money? The election is over. Who will now pay for health care? There’s a simple answer – you will. Where Will You See Increased Costs? First through higher co-pays. The Affordable Care Act does little to control health insurance pricing or capriciousness (we paid for it last week but we decided against […]
New Approaches to Combatting Cancer (11/7/12)
Cancer as An Information System The very word cancer scares us. The definition of cancer involves “uncontrolled, unregulated growth.” It’s as if the cells that sustain and give us life intimately betray us. They turn our bodies into a deformed version of ourselves. Heretics are more frightening than pagans, especially when the heretics take over […]
How Much Exercise is Enough? (10/31/12)
Lots of people ask me how much they should exercise. First I have to ask them what they think “exercise” is. What Is Exercise? Any use of voluntary muscle. The body is an information processing unit which considers and takes account of innumerable elements of which we are not consciously aware – like how physical […]
Telling A Fake – Art Versus Science (10/29/12)
The Art of Truth Is it, or isn’t it? Will eating lots of sugar cause cancer? Do energy drinks cause sudden death? In a “gotcha” media culture where the fate of nations is treated as a sports contest – and presidential debates reported with the same gravity as “Dancing with the Stars” – it pays […]
How You View Your Body Changes Your Body (10/17/12)
Thought As Action Ideas change the world. They also change your body. In the early nineteenth century scientists worked eagerly to discover the fundamentals of chemistry. Using progressively more accurate equipment they measured the ratio of oxygen to hydrogen in water, of oxygen to carbon in what we now call carbon dioxide. The ratios they […]
