Posted on July 20, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
by Lani Muelrath, M.A., aka "the Fitness DreamMaker" Are you sitting down? Don’t worry, I haven’t shocking news! I’m just going to lead you in a little exercise. (No matter, if you aren’t sitting, you can do this standing, too.) We’re going to revisit isometrics. Right now, give your backyard a good squeeze. No, I [...]
Posted on July 16, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
"There is that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health." [Book of Proverbs 12:18] There is an old saying: "Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never harm me" no doubt you have heard of it? It is utter and complete garbage! Both the [...]
Posted on July 16, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
And you thought your situation was desperate… A 52-year-old Milwaukee-area man has been accused of faking heart attacks to avoid paying restaurant bills and cab fares. Police say the Waukesha (WAWK’-uh-shaw) man took a cab to a mall Monday and pretended to have a heart attack. The cab driver left unpaid. Authorities say the man [...]
Posted on July 13, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
Some Low-Life, Drug Dealing ‘Scumbags’ Must Have Had a Really Bad Day (to say the least!) This Last Week When Australian Customs Officials Intercepted a Whopping $215 Million Dollars Worth of Ice Tablets They Had Been Trying to Smuggle Into the Nation Hidden Inside a Stone Elephant… In the mid 80′s I ran a successful [...]
Posted on July 13, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
Just When You Thought it Was Safe to Enter the Kitchen… Can you believe that popcorn bags are actually made out of paper that has to be coated with a substance to repel grease and moisture so the bag doesn’t become soggy and rip while it’s getting heated in the microwaave. The chemicals used to [...]
Posted on July 12, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
The practice of “diseasemongering” by the drug industry is promoting non-existent illnesses or exaggerating minor ones for the sake of profits, according to a set of essays published by the open-access journal Public Library of Science Medicine. The special issue, edited by David Henry, of Newcastle University in Australia, and Ray Moynihan, an Australian journalist, [...]
