Have you ever believed that turkey makes you sleepy? Or that if you drop something and pick it up within 5 seconds there are little bacteria gathered?  Or my favorite, going outside when it’s cold can give you a cold? There’s an interesting new book that came out recently, “Don’t Swallow Your Gum: Myths, Half…

There I was at the vacation hotel breakfast bar with the crowd of morbidly obese Americans.  I was having breakfast with them, embarrassed, doing my best to eat very slowly and having a very small amount of food. It was hard to sit alongside people who were bingeing like I used to.  But I love…

I was totally shocked at a hotel breakfast bar last weekend.  More than half the customers were morbidly obese, and having plate-after-plate of food.  One couple who could barely fit into their seats was particularly sad: the man had four giant plates of food, and the woman had three.  I realize it’s addictive behavior, and…

Coming up soon in the US is our Independence Day, otherwise known as the 4th of July.  I know that there are lots of readers in other countries, who also celebrate Independence Day at various times, for various independences and hard-won freedom.  So please feel free to think of this as a worldwide day of…

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