May 2010

Oh boy …. here we go.  I’ve been waiting for this study to come out after hearing the previews of it’s pending arrival for a week now. Early Treatment Doesn’t Help Autism Symptoms I’ve been involved in the world of Autism for over 12 years now and I KNOW this is wrong ….. so how [...]

Evidently having four product recalls in 6 months isn’t a good thing – “The matter of a series of Tylenol recalls has been referred to the Food and Drug Administration’s crime division, an FDA official told lawmakers Thursday.” and the child’s recall, it turns out it was because of “…some of the products could contain [...]

No Long Term Benefit To Delaying Vaccines, Study Finds Hmmmm, what’s this….. a study looking at the effects of vaccines?  That’s an interesting finding ….. They report in the June issue of the journal Pediatrics that children who were vaccinated following the recommended immunization schedule exhibited better verbal skills, had higher IQs and were less [...]

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It was just a staircase.  Not really anything special. White walls, blue berber carpeting, a basic three way light at the top and a single handrail. But somehow ….. it got to me. We moved recently and I was surprised to realize that it’s the thing I was going to miss the most.  Evidently without [...]

Phoebe Prince Jon Carmichael Jaheem Herrera Yeardley Love Charles Walker-Hoover All children bullied to death.  Phoebe Prince and Yeardley Love are probably two names that you recognize quickly and easily.  But they represent a fraction of the children that are being bullied in this country.  While politicians are hurriedly trying to get out in front [...]

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A Gentleman Is….

by Steve on 18, May, 2010

What IS a gentleman in the modern age? You see, I don’t think that was as hard a question to answer in the past as it might be today. Carey Grant, surely the picture of a gentleman. Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Two great (and helpful) articles that I ran across this morning: Dr. Dean Ornish: How to Transform Your Lifestyle and Your Life (Part One) Mark Hyman, MD: 5 Simple Steps to Cure IBS

It’s amazing how much technology (even going back to the good ol’ lightbulb) changes not only our lives but our bodies.  It’s even more fascinating though how adaptive our bodies are (whether we realize it or not). How Your Tech Could Be Resting Your Internal Clock

How Do We Keep Our Kids Safe? This week’s show was a doubleheader with two great interviews both dealing with that same question. First up was the husband and wife team of Carolyn and Andrew Gammicchia founders of the organization L.E.A.N. On Us whose stated mission is to: Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Dr. Christine Wood is on a mission to help us all have healthier kids.  Of course she’s a doctor, so that shouldn’t really be a surprise.  However, something that might surprise you are some of the following statistics: American children get 40% of their calories from extra fat and added sugars. Podcast: Play in new [...]

We shared the air with health care advocate and Vaccine expert Mary Tocco on April 18th and Mary shared with us a TON of useful information, stats, facts and figures about the US Vaccine program. I know this is one of those lightning rod topics.  It seems the whole Podcast: Play in new window | [...]