The world’s COVID-19 response has certainly been a litmus test for how people treat one another. We have had wondrous examples of selflessness when people come together to help one another and we have had the glaring embarrassments of political egos running off the rails. All of these things together are what makes us truly…
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Being Healthy: Responding Constructively to COVID-19
Being Healthy has certainly been the headline of the year. COVID-19 brought all of its political baggage and started to move in. We learned: about a novel virus – both the real and the perceived threats to ourselves that Public Health measures can help retard the spread of the virus through a population that political…
Thinking About Cholesterol
Cholesterol gets a bad rap most of the time. That fatty substance circulating around in our blood vessels has been associated with heart disease for many years. Rightly so. Usually found at the scene of damaged blood vessels in significant amounts, cholesterol is a known player but are we reading the situation correctly? What We…
Reality Bites: Vaping Grows Up
No matter which side of the electronic cigarette debate you are on, I don’t think we expected to see vaping and deaths together in the same sentence. However, that is just what happened in the headlines in recent weeks. As the media has rushed to tout the deadliness of vaping with the same enthusiasm it…
Middle Age: Making the Best of What We’ve Got
Welcome to middle age. No amount of anti-aging remedies or wishful thinking will make my body age less. Slower perhaps but not less. I’m stuck with muscles that are not quite as strong as they once were. I have a nervous system that doesn’t fire quite as quickly. And there is a whole host of other things that my body just doesn’t do quite as well now as before.