Monthly Archives: December 2009

From time-to-time we all experience pain for one reason or another.  So there are a number of methods that have arisen for dealing with pain.  In the U.S. the most commonly used methods are based on over-the-counter “pain medications”.  These include medications we are all too familiar with, such as Tylenol, Advil, etc.  Almost all […]

Time for a laugh break!   Here ya go:  (Might need to turn up the sound a bit.)    To your health!  Jeff Bell Have a safe and wonderful New Years celebration!

When you read the title of this book, you may be tempted to dump the book into the “Too good to be true – pay it no mind” pile.  That would be unfortunate.  While I personally wish the title had been more modest, I also must emphasize that this book makes a great deal of […]

I think most of us would agree that the level of personal freedom and self-determination we realize in our lives is dependent on the degree to which we understand the world we live in.  If we want to control our physical environment we need to understand the laws of physics.  For example, imagine how different our lives […]

There are literally thousands of books about how to stretch and increase flexibility.  If one includes the books on Yoga, various Martial Arts, etc. and that also include major sections on stretching, then the numbers are into the hundreds of thousands. So why bother with yet another book on stretching? “Relax Into Stretch” by Pavel Tsatsouline, […]

I believe that this book is one of the most important health books I have ever read. Here’s why: Reproductive hormone balance is a critical factor in human health, for both men and women. In most ways, the human body is marvelously resilient and maintains its balance very well without much attention from us. However, […]

Lately I have found myself involved in frequent discussions about our health care system and what Congress and Obama are or are not doing about it. Not surprisingly, I have found that even among my very liberal friends, there is a lot of mistrust surrounding possible “single payer” otherwise known as “universal coverage” solutions. I […]