What the Jesuits Taught Some claim the maxim comes from St. Ignatius Loyola himself. Yet the idea proclaimed by the Jesuits was old – give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life. It works. Many years ago a young son of my ancestors was kidnapped during a Russian pogrom. His […]
When good things are bad for you – are vitamins too much of a good thing? (10/14/11)
When Good Things Are Bad For You Vitamin – the word itself conjures up healthiness, something vital for life. Without them we can’t live. But can we have too much of them? Yes. Just like we can have too much food. The fat soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K – all have associated hypervitaminosis […]
Can marriage make you fat? (9/21/11)
A Risk of Commitment? So is marriage another risk factor for making you fat? The data from this year’s American Sociological Association Meeting are troubling, though not surprising. Studying over 10,000 men and women as part of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ’79, weight gain was common among both men and women in the 2 […]
The looming Chinese debt (6/10/11)
An Unacknowledged Debt China’s US trade and treasury security surplus remains legendary. At least two trillion dollars of Treasury debt is held by Chinese banks and government entities; each month many billions of dollars flows into Chinese coffers, as we buy far more than what we sell to them. The Chinese government then buys […]
Banned in Arkansas – Lazy Cakes are off the shelves (5/23/11)
Regulators Begin Actions on Drugs as Foods Lazy Cakes, a brownie filled with now 7.8 mg of melatonin, unknown amounts of valerian root and other “herbal” drugs, was banned last week by the Arkansas Department of Health. It also facing a ban in Fall River and New Bedford, Massachusetts. When I wrote about Lazy Cakes […]