Snipped from DukeHealth.org.

Now that the new year is coming up soon, many will make the most popular new year resolution — lose weight. Unfortunately, many will use the popular snacks, drinks, shakes and food with one of the many popular sugar alternatives. I have always been an avid opponent of their use, so I am glad that the science is starting to reveal that my beliefs were correct.

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Snipped from SciAm.com.

Well, here we are again, reminded of how our “thinking” gets in the way of, well, our thinking. It seems as if our conscious effort to make a good decision lowers the likely-hood that we actually make the best one.

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Snipped from HuffingtonPost.com.

It seems a dangerous and very real medical condition is going to get a little more recognition these days. Heavy metal toxicity is more or less ignored by the medical community do due some unknown reasons by me. But, now that the notoriously famous Jeremy Piven has been recently diagnosed with a very acute version of it, maybe people will start realizing that the risk is real.

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Snipped from Wired.com.

It’s funny how the average person really does think the government has our best interest at heart. When I talk to people, and they say that the FDA says this or SEC says that or whatever governing body is in charge of public safety and health, I laugh. They don’t give a rat’s ass about any of us. It all boils down to money and back-scratching.

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Barack’s High School
Basketball Team Photo

As I picked up his first book, I was hesitant and even a little anxious because over the past 2 years, I have become completely transfixed by the aura of a man who has some how, some way, managed to not only transcend his own race but the cynical and calculated persona of a “typical politician”. So, here I was poised to open the first page, vulnerable to, yet excited by, the prospect of finding out who is the real Barack Obama.

Dreams From His Father

As I turned the first pages of Dreams From My Father, I began to relax as I could already sense that this was no ordinary book. This book, prompted by publishers attempting to capitalize on the first black man to head the esteemed, well guarded and all-white Harvard Law Review, was revealing itself to be more than an interior assessment of racial transcendence and pride. It was unfolding, page after page, as an honest and sometimes raw journey into the mind and psyche of a man’s struggle to find himself.

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Snipped from BBC News.

So, I have done quite a bit of research on Alzheimer’s, and the most frequent news is the same old same old. But, this news is something that I would consider fresh-from-the-labs.

If you are unfamiliar with what exactly Alzheimer’s is, then let me give you a quick run down. Alzheimer’s is, theoretically, caused by a build up of an abnormal, misfolded protein called amyloid beta, which is normally called amyloid alpha. The beta and alpha describe the shape or folding of the protein. Once it becomes misfolded, it reeks havoc on the brain since it becomes a non-functional and insoluble protein preventing proper functioning, nutritional transport and eventually neuronal death.

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