cholesterol

I knew it was inevitable. Really I did. But I had no idea it would come to soon. Turns out that on Thursday August 28, 2008 I was mathematically eliminated. No, not from any kind of playoff race, but truly, mathematically eliminated. From being of any use to my 6th grade Kenzo in doing her math homework. You see, in the past few days, she has brought home "ALGEBRA."

I think sleep is a wonderful thing.  It's God's design for us to recover from our days.  He knew what he was doing.

CNN is reporting a new study that shows nearly half of “fat” people are not at risk for heart problems because of their weight.

Sixty years.  That's how old I am today.  All I can say is "wow".  To quote Mickey Mantle "if I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself." 

Sixty years.  That's how old I am today.  All I can say is "wow".  To quote Mickey Mantle "if I had known I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of myself." 

The Antioch and Southeast Nashville community will hold its first Southeast Health Fair from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in the K-Mart parking lot, 2491 Murfreesboro Pike.

Via Stop the ACLU, we learn that the Democrats plan in helping with your pain at the pump.

Now, lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel. …

The USDA has ordered it largest ever meat recall of 143 million pounds, but most of the affected beef may have already been consumed.  Where is the failure here?  The government that doesn’t pay attention, the factory farms…who don’t pay attention or even care, or the meat-eating consumer who is just intetreste

Heh, this 'bout sums it up...

"If Obama says 'this is our moment, this is our time' one more time I'm going to toss my cholesterol medicine." - CarolynKB commenting over at the increasingly hingeless Tennessee Guerilla Women.

Tara Parker-Pope of the NYT health blog explores the popularity of statins and stirs some interesting comments.

"Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are among the most popular prescription drugs in the world. In addition to lowering cholesterol, they also lower the risk for heart attacks.

But as I report in my Well column for Tuesday’s Science Times, there is little, if any, data showing that statin drugs prolong life in the majority of people who take them."