Your Survival is On the Line In a time of Wikileaks revelations it’s hard for any story to stand out. When US diplomats are asked to obtain DNA samples of any significant foreigner they meet, and the Saudi King is telling the US how to bomb Iran, who cares that the CIA says the US […]
How the Internet will change your body – Part IV – Making the Net improve your health (12/2/10)
Plan 1 – Make Mobile Computing Truly Mobile Internet providers happily point out that the Net now goes everywhere – with the possible exception of extra-planetary outer space. You can watch narwhals piercing the Arctic ice sheet while you argue with your health insurance provider about your massively increased medical bills. So why not walk […]
Three questions that can save your life
Living Longer and Better Woody Allen (seriously) wants to live forever, but most of us will settle for living healthier and longer. It’s more than possible. Asian American women in Suffolk County, New York have an expected lifespan of 95.6 years. A much larger population of the same folk in Bergen County, New Jersey can […]
How you can take time off and get more done (11/24/10)
New Ways to Increase Productivity Take breaks and get more done – is that possible? More than possible, if you know how the body renews and regenerates itself. In yesterday’s New York Times, Jane Brody profiled Professor Tori Yancey of UCLA. Yancey wants Americans to move, and knows well they don’t like to. Her answer […]
Don’t let daylight savings get you down (11/21/10)
Messing with Mother Nature It happens like clockwork every year. Patients arrive and tell me they can’t handle daylight savings. The body clock change of merely one hour, compared with a flight to Europe, where the change is usually six hours, makes them feel uneasy, skittish, unhappy, unmotivated, and fatigued. How come? Here are some […]