There is just no way to make this look good. Unless I get a tape worm from Sparky or deer wasting disease, I will remain a fat guy.1
It helps to say that I am famine resistant, but the photos don’t lie. I could phony them up like the fat-arsed social media girls, but that defeats the purpose of having a record of our workout progress.
Mental Illness, Political Ideology, and Holding False Beliefs
Our recent Skeptic Research Center survey of over 3,000 Americans found that 67% of GenZ men and 72% of GenZ women (i.e., those born between 1997-2006) believe “mental health challenges are an important part of my identity.”
That doesn’t sound healthy.
Effect of cocoa flavanol supplementation for the prevention of cardiovascular disease events,
I’ve been buying this nutritional supplement from Aldi for years.
Cocoa extract supplementation did not significantly reduce total cardiovascular events among older adults but reduced CVD death by 27%.
Finally, nutritional science has some good news. The study looks legit.
The study was conducted by Brigham and Women’s Hospital. There were 12,666 women over 65 years old, and 8776 men over 60 years old in a double-blind, placebo controlled study. A 27% reduction in death by cardiovascular disease is substantial.
Whatever can happen, will happen, if you wait long enough.
That is an operating principle in modern physics. There is a 1 in 6000 chance that a nickel dropped on to a table top, will rest on the edge of the coin. If you dropped a nickel every 10 seconds, within 17 hours, you’d expect a nickel to land on the edge. It’s a very unlikely event, but it will happen.
The Florida GOP ending vaccine mandates is playing with fire
Why is this controversial? Parents can get their children vaccinated. By not making vaccinations mandatory, pharmaceutical companies and the medical community will have to be honest and transparent about the benefits and risks. It’s shady when the government assumes that they care more than parents do.
NYT: What Does It Take to Get Men to See a Doctor?
The Cutler Center is one of the few clinical spaces trying to tackle the stubborn problem of men’s lack of engagement with America’s health care system.
Right now, men in the United States, whether infants or elders, are more likely to die at younger ages than their female counterparts. Male life expectancy at birth is currently 75.8 years — 5.3 years less than it is for women.
It’s embarrassing that the next mayor of New York City can’t lift 135 lbs, while a retired teacher in Ohio can bench 180 lbs. My brother and I are doing two sets of 12, at 140 lbs.
More embarrassing for Mamdani is that he made the attempt without knowing for certain that he can lift the weight. Not a good look.
Sparky had his annual physical exam last week at Apple Hill Animal Hospital. Dr. Grossman was more meticulous and engaged than my doctor. She is more understanding as well. She said that he was a little overweight, but he’s pretty active for his age so we shouldn’t worry about it.
His teeth aren’t great and he has a little cyst on his belly, so next week, Sparky is going in to get his teeth cleaned up and the cyst removed. Doc isn’t too concerned, but she wants to get it tested.
The doc called this morning with the results of his blood work. He’s good on everything.
Sparky likes to chase rabbits into the brush. I like to see Sparky so excited. When we go in, Sparky gets on my lap to tell me about his hunt, and I catch a wicked case of poison ivy from the urushiol oil on his fur.
When I took Sparky out this morning at 8 am, there were little spider webs all over the place. They are probably always there, but the dew made them easy to spot.
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