From Dr. Mercola: "How many of you have been challenged because you forgot to do something? Well the first and most important step is to make sure that you are getting enough beneficial omega-3 fats like cod liver oil. As you age, your ability to engage in what we call controlled or executive functions declines. Executive functions involve deliberate, planned actions that are processed in

From Dr. Mercola: A great series of very funny photos from around the world called "Only in ...". You won't be sorry you clicked your way over.

Tim Bolen via Health Supreme: "A new study, a compilation of most recent studies, called "Death by Medicine," says: "It is evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the United States. The total number of iatrogenic deaths shown ... is 783,936. The 2001 heart disease annual death rate is 699,697; the annual cancer death rate, 553,251." The number

Noam Chomsky?: " I won't run through the details regarding Somalia since you can find a lot in print, right at the time and later. Steve Shalom had a fine article about it at the time in Z; I wrote about it right away in Z too. More later, after other facts dribbled out. In brief, there had been a terrible famine after the chaos following the overthrow of the murderous US-backed dictator. By the

mercola.com:: "This study used about one teaspoon of CLA to 180 overweight adults for one year and found a significant reduction in body fat, by as much as 5%. "

E-Commerce Times:: "Some 32,000 adults were questioned about their use of complementary or alternative medicine. They were asked about their use of medical systems such as acupuncture, ayurveda, homeopathic treatments, and naturopathy."

Science Daily: "Study participants easily detected odors when awake and in the early transition into sleep (Stage One sleep) but, once asleep, did not. The findings indicate a significant alteration of perceptual processing as a function of sleep. "

About.com - Holistic Healing: "There are always people in the world that wish you bad things, either out of jealousy or envy, and hope for bad things to occur in your life. Any curse will work the minute YOU start to believe in it and allow it to take over your life."

Tim Bolen: "I've been following the activities of the "Quackbusters" for about five years, ever since the name Stephen Barrett (www.quackwatch.com) came up, as a player, against a client of mine in California. I asked the question "why would this group be using a doctor from Pennsylvania, as their witness, when there are 300,000 health professionals in this State?" Bolen is an entertaining

British Medical Journal: "Futurists might like to speculate on what the health services of 2020 look like. The world may be such that as a clinician you work in flexible virtual teams and some of your colleagues are computers. You would of course instinctively mistrust clinicians who always know the answer without consulting the information grid, and patients often choose to be the team leader.

La Leva di Archimede (ENG): : "A division of Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, has agreed to plead guilty to two felonies and pay $430 million in penalties to settle charges that it fraudulently promoted the drug Neurontin for a string of unapproved uses. In an agreement announced by government prosecutors Thursday, Pfizer unit Warner-Lambert admitted that it aggressively marketed the

ABC Action News: "When you are in the hospital, you want to know you are in good hands. Now, a new program at St. Joseph's Hospital is making that wish a reality, literally, with the new 'Healing Touch' therapy." "..."It actually works on balancing the energy of the body to provide an optimum environment for the body to heal," explained Kimberly Garcia, a nurse at St. Joe's for 21

Associated Press: "Ooms hopes CamCare will enable him to remain at home with his wife of nearly 55 years, Tilly, instead of going to an old-age home. A stroke has left him half paralyzed, with serious blood circulation and lung problems. The technology isn't new, but its application is. The connection is established easily using a television set-top box and an ISDN phone line, which has

Associated Press: "A new strain of bird flu has been found in the Fraser Valley, different from anything seen in the area before, officials said"

CBS News: " Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday. "

Inspiranote: "Any worry about possibilities that may happen is usually quite irrational. There are also many people who are not assertive enough and are constantly in turmoil because they do not dare to be themselves."

"I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence." Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.) "Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948) When snow is falling on my city, everything becomes quiet, calm and white outside. There's a special