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Category Archives: Health
VOX: Why American doctors keep doing expensive procedures that don’t work – The proportion of medical procedures unsupported by evidence may be nearly half
Your health is too important to be left to your doctors. For example, almost all chiropractors and physical therapists treating on a lien basis are useless, according to the 2016 book CROOKED: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting On … Continue reading
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The Age You Peak At Everything
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Doctors Still Make Housecalls
I have the flu today so I ordered my first housecall through the Heal app and a doctor came to my door with an assistant and gave me a physical and spent about half an hour with me answering all … Continue reading
Why Do We Need Pharmacists?
Comments at Steve Sailer: * I used to take only an occasional aspirin but now take close to twenty pills a day. So I’m familiar with pharmacists. But I don’t understand their purpose. If you were to ask me how … Continue reading
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What Drowning Looks Like
Comments: A video of what real drowning looks like: link to a finnish newspaper. A five year old boy is drowning in a swimming pool next to numerous people and nobody notices while literally touching him. Fortunately the boy who … Continue reading
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Will Exercise Save Your Wits?
Comments at James Thompson: * Everyone should exercise, whether it be strength training or cardio. If you don’t exercise, you better start. Grip strength tests are also very important and show racial differences. Blacks have weaker grip even when they … Continue reading
Is There A Way To Find Out Your Pilots’ Names Before Your Flight?
Just in case you don’t want to fly Allahu Air. I would not be thrilled if my pilot were named Mohammed. Frankly, I’d rather not have a woman pilot experiencing PMS. When I can’t sleep, I watch Mayday: Air Crash … Continue reading
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Why Most Pilots Should Be Men
Washington Post: Passengers reportedly fled a flight before it could take off on Saturday — after a United Airlines pilot went on a bizarre rant over the intercom. In a ball cap and casual shirt, the pilot remarked on her … Continue reading
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LAT: Less shrinkage: This is your aging brain on the Mediterranean diet
So brain volume and fast reaction times correlate with intelligence and lifespan? Los Angeles Times: The aging brain is a shrinking brain, and a shrinking brain is, generally speaking, a brain whose performance and reaction time are declining: That is … Continue reading
NYT: ‘How Social Isolation Is Killing Us’
Dhruv Khullar writes in the New York Times: Social isolation is a growing epidemic — one that’s increasingly recognized as having dire physical, mental and emotional consequences. Since the 1980s, the percentage of American adults who say they’re lonely has … Continue reading