Please, Don’t Pacify

Yesterday, I flipped through a junk magazine in the nail salon and learned all about how I could ‘follow a cookie diet’ and lose ten pounds in week.   Or, I could opt to do a ‘cleanse’ in order to ‘jumpstart my metabolism’ which would also render a solid, double digit reduction in weight in […]

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The 5:2 Diet…Does it Work?

“Dieters restrict calorie intake for two days (to 500 calories for women and 600 for men) and eat what they like for the remainder of the week. And the weight just falls off.” Sound like a gimmick?  It does to me. The Fast Diet, based on the book by Dr Michael Mosley,” the medical journalist who […]

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American Foods That Are Banned Elsewhere

If you typically take blog with a side of raw kale and seared grass fed filet, today might be the day to make an exception. It may turn your stomach; it did mine!    Wake Up Call News, an Alternative Media site that “shares all the big top news from the whole world” and whose […]

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Pfizer Settles A Drug Marketing Case for $491 Million

I’m not about to report on the details of how Pfizer settled criminal and civil charges over the illegal marketing of a kidney transplant drug. I’m more drawn to the figure of $491 Million. As well as the last sentence in the article that refers to the fact that ‘Pfizer’s second- quarter revenue fell 7%, […]

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