The Well Worth It Series – DIY Sleep

Our Well Worth It feature (an article devoted to a proven treatment that doesn’t get enough mainstream

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media attention – usually due to a lack of profit potential) for February is devoted to one item only: sleep. Why?

There are few things more tortuous than an inability to get to […]

Sweat Yourself Smart?

Looking for motivation to help you stick with your New Year’s resolution? You are sooo smart! These next

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six weeks are when most of us hit our plateau (translation: your grumpy inner voice starts squawking about all the “work” and the “time” that your change takes). But you’re in this […]

Yuck! Drug Sludge in a Glass

Thirsty? Have a sip of this, sweetie. Sure, it looks like water. It even tastes like water. I swear it came from a

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water-treatment plant.

What, you don’t trust me? Well, alright, now that you asked, here’s what’s really in this nice clear glass of…um, water:

According to the AP, “enough of […]

Driving Death

With all the fear-mongering in our health news, it can be hard to keep your

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perspective. Forbes has a remarkably sane wake-up call of an article that each of us should read. It’s an accurate report on the most life-threatening thing that we do – and the one thing most likely to […]

Baby Bogus

A New Year’s BOGUS has been born! (is it just me, or did that happen awfully fast?). And let me tell you, this

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one is a ten-pound whopper with a stinky diaper chock-full of…well, you get the idea. An “evolutionary biologist” published an actual paper asserting that the […]

Healthcare Reform: Complicated? Or Not…

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When people talk about healthcare reform, what starts as a policy question often deteriorates into a Tower-of-Babel cacophony of confusion. Everyone’s talking about something different. And, frankly, it’s hard to know how to make things better when no one knows where they’re headed. So do I know where we […]