I was able to find a short clip about a reporter who decided to become a volunteer drinker in a field sobriety test in this news report from 2007, on “How Much is Too Much?” His report shows some of the sobriety checks done by police officers to determine if someone has had too much to drink. Authored by drdyer. Hosted by Edublogs. (Source: Nutrition and Wellness Biology 50) »View More
Ever live in a place where you know the water is not safe to drink? Where you even use bottled water to clean your teeth? I have and I’ve got to say it’s not fun. I lived in Saudi Arabia for a year and was reliant on bottled water for drinking, cooking, and yes, cleaning my teeth. But while I found it annoying, at least I did have access to clean water which is more that millions of people around the world have. The World Health Organizations (WHO) says… “…1.1 billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. Unsafe water and inadequate sanitation kills nearly TWO MILLION people each year, mostly children under the age of five.” That’s way too many people without clean drinking water. Want to help out? Take the Clean Water... »View More
ALCOHOL AND SEX The pattern on the American scene is changing with more young people drinking, and more alcohol consumed, especially among women. The more affluent our society the more we can afford hard drinks, which is very destructive. A large amount of alcohol is a deterrent on sexual performance and is the major cause of impotence in middle-aged men. We are not talking necessarily about being an alcoholic, but just an excessive use of alcohol by anyone. DRINKING IN MARRIAGE As drinking increases, marital situations deteriorate. One of the spouses is repelled by the other’s drinking, cease to enjoy sex, and tries to avoid sex as mochas possible. This also may block the husband’s agility to maintain or get an erection. Both... »View More
I am, I suppose, somewhat old fashioned. Regular readers will not be surprised to hear that. I believe in being polite to patients. I do not routinely use first names. I always detested the madwives who assume that, because a women whom they have never previously met is lying on her back with her legs apart trying to push out a baby, they have the right to call her “Mary” rather then Mrs Jones. Hospital doctors are at it a lot these days. I have written about it before. It disgusts me. I tend to call male patients “sir” and female patients “Mrs Jones”. There are a few patients, mainly ones who have grown up with me, with whom I have not dropped the first name usage established in early childhood but they are the exception to the... »View More
A powerful antioxidant in green tea may prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea’s predominant antioxidant, in a laboratory mouse with type 1 diabetes and primary Sjogren’s syndrome, which damages moisture-producing glands, causing dry mouth and eyes. “Our study focused on Sjogren’s [...] (Source: Biosingularity) »View More
Yes, fall is finally here in Cincinnati: the weather has turned chilly the past couple of days, and roughly half of the trees have leaves of a distinctly non-greenish color. I love now thinking about the fact that the bright orange and yellows of the leaves were always there in them since they budded in the spring, that the green chlorophyll was simply so abundant that it overpowered these other brilliant colors until now. (I am also comforted by poetic thoughts in the morning. They should disappear before I make my first pot of tea.) What to do before the end of fall: drink a cup of tea and think about the leaves. Copyright © 2008 white pebble. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your... »View More
Yesterday, MedicalNewsToday.com published an article about a 2-year study, by Environmental Working Group (EWG), on bottled water. It seems that bottled water is pretty much the same as tap water. However, 2 of the 10 brands examined had levels of chlorine over what’s allowed in California. And apparently there is a “voluntary standard” for reporting carcinogens in bottled water. Five states produce/allow sell of bottled water that exceeds the standards. As a dentist, you know that many areas have municipal water that’s fluorinated, but most bottled water is unfluorinated. All the bad, none of the good? What are we buying, and why? The researchers who conducted the study for EWG recommend that bottled water manufacturers... »View More
One thing that I have learned this past week, when I have been busy not posting to the blog, is that Boulder has to be the capital of sushi-making in the world. I think that we here have to have more sushi restaurants per capita than, say New York City. Our current favorite sushi restaurant is Sushi Zanmai. We have been there for dinner the past two nights. They make a lovely Kobe beef sushi, and I must have eaten them out of their stock of Kobe beef. We sit at the sushi counter so we can keep an eye out on our food while it’s being made. I also love this city because I’m believing this place is imbuing me with health. I look and feel healthier than I looked and felt before the cancer diagnosis. I figure that that’s a good... »View More