I get a healthful recipe email every day from Dr. Weil’s website, usually something simple and delicious. My favorite so far is for Multi-Grain Scones, featuring crunchy millet, which I’ve made several times. Well, if Dr. Weil can do it, why can’t I?
So I’m going to share a recipe for Moroccan Almonds which I am making for my Sunday... Read more
I love it that Beth Brophy, my sister blogger on this website, feels free to voice an unpopular opinion in her blog about buying pink for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Good for her. I feel in good company. I shared her poor opinion of the color pink and its implications for most of my life. A tomboy as a girl, and as a young woman... Read more
Of all the unusual breast cancer causes, this one takes the cake: Paula Constant, a young Australian woman, began her “constant” walking in London in 2004, hiking through France, Spain, and Portugal, including the famous Camino de Santiago. After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Paula dedicated a 2005 leg of her journey through the... Read more
One my of doctors and I are getting pretty frustrated—and pretty cranky too—with each other. We’re having a disagreement about whether I should take a statin. He’s right that it’s indicated—my LDL cholesterol is off the charts—but so is my HDL—“good”—cholesterol, which seems to have worked well all my life protecting me from... Read more
This past week my stomach hurt for four days with no other symptoms—no flu-ish feelings, nausea, or runs--and for the first time in my life, I worried that a stomachache was cancer.
In the past, I would have attributed a stomachache to nothing more than acid reflux, tension, menstrual cramps, or mild food poisoning. But now I have something new... Read more
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