With historic legislation that went into effect  March 2010, 32 million legal residents of the US should now have health insurance of some kind.

 

This is wonderful but it does nothing to address the question of what eats up to $ 2.3 trillion or 16% of… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

Kids these days know way more than they need to about erectile dysfunction, PAD, dyspepsia, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis, and eyelash lengtheners. They grin when they see the couple with an unexpected "Cialis moment" coming on and they suppress their laughter when th… Read full post »

The number of cosmetic-surgery procedures in the U.S. sagged for the second year in a row in 2009, according to an annual survey released by American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. There were 10 million surgical and nonsurgical procedures in 2009, down 2%from 2008.

Breast augmentation was the… Read full post »

I recently heard a story from a friend that his neurosurgeon brother in law had lost a medical malpractice suit and the jury had awarded $ 18 million to the plaintiff. This neurosurgeon had performed back surgery and the plaintiff had developed foot drop ( a common and generally non-disabling complic… Read full post »

A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent. -- William Blake

If psychologists know anything about infidelity it is that infidelity is seldom just about sex.

Infidelity is just a symptom of deeper, more serious underlying problems in the relationship.

Yes, just a… Read full post »

Eleanor Roosevelt said: "Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people."

How many times have we got into a disagreement with someone over an idea, event, or person? Why is it that we just cannot agree about what really happened?

But wait a second! What… Read full post »

According to recent sensational press reports:
" More than a million children regularly go to bed hungry in the US, according to a government report that shows a startling increase in the number of families struggling to put food on the table.
President Obama, who pledged to eradicate childhood hunger,… Read full post »

Getting dressed this morning, I got to thinking: everything that I'm wearing today is Chinese! My socks and underwear, my pants and even my shirt and tie! If apparel makes the man, then these clothes would surely make me a Chinese man!

As adolescents in India in the 1980s, my friends… Read full post »

We need caffeine to wake us up and chocolate to make waking up worthwhile!
The story of Kaldi, the 9th-century Ethiopian goatherd who discovered coffee, did not appear in writing until 1671. (It is quite likely that parts of the coffee plant were being eaten by humans much before this). Legend… Read full post »

Happiness research ( believe it or not, there are nerds with coca-cola bottle glasses researching what makes us happy) has shown that 50% of our happiness is genetically determined and already pre-destined. This is called the happiness "set point" or "happi-stat". According to Sonja Lyubomirsky, only… Read full post »

Valentines Day is a celebration of love, romance, chocolate, candy, flowers, red, hearts, warmth.  Its about friendship and caring. But why am I feeling so horny? Wait a minute: something about the letter V has a sensual connotation.  Vigor, vitality, vivacious, viva, virility, velvet, Viag… Read full post »

There is no conclusive proof that organic food is better than commercially produced food commonly available at the grocery store!

But, think about this:  commercial agriculture processes geared towards mass production of food with genetic modification of seeds, synthetic pesticides, herbicides a… Read full post »

Michelle has decided to take on the issue of childhood obesity. Probably a much more meaningful approach to attacking the issue of sky-rocketing health-care expenses in this country. Obesity is the root cause of the epidemic of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and strokes. It is in…

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Most of us would like to have a long health-span: being highly functioning, mentally and physically active, strong robust individuals and then when it comes time to checkout, to rapidly fall apart and evaporate.

In reality, a lot people in the Westernised world work till their mid-sixties and then ver…

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It was just a couple of a weeks ago that my friend went to sleep never to wake up again. Having died suddenly but peacefully, it was time for his wishes to be fulfilled. He had asked to be an organ donor and indicated his wishes with a little pink sticker…

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I was appalled by some recent press articles saying that exercise doesn't help you get thinner because after exercising, you tend to be more hungry and are also more likely to eat richer foods because "you have earned them".
While this may be true to some extent ( as evidenced by the…

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