While reading through Heft on Wheels a few weeks back I made some mental notes, mainly of the the authors remarks about how he read in Lance Armstrong’s book, It’s Not About the Bike and was inspired to climb Beech Mountain in North Carolina. Mike did it to prove something to himself, but I was [...]
01.09Ten Inches
On December 23, 2008, I lost 10 inches of myself.
Three years ago, my doctor diagnosed me with HPV. I felt dirty, ruined. That was before I learned that the disease affects over 20 million people in the U.S. alone. In fact, 50% of sexually active people will contract HPV sometime in their life.
My form of [...]
My friend and fellow photographer Jeffrey has put together a series of 12 amazing photographs for a 2009 calendar. This calendar is much more that just some pretty images to look at hung on your wall though, Jeffrey and his wife have a son, Brandon, who suffers from Autism and Epilepsy. Even with their medical [...]
07.24You are what you eat
Think about it. You eat a French fry, it goes into your mouth (chew chew chew) and down into your stomach (plunk), works it’s way through your digestive track (refined carbs make you a little gassy?) and all of those Frenchy fried nutrients get taken out and put into your bloodstream, where it [...]
Hanging out just under your stomach and snuggled next to your duodenum is your good old pancreas. The pancreas is pretty important; along with aiding digestion, it produces important hormones such as insulin that regulate blood sugar. Sadly, pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer today, and is generally predisposed to [...]
It seems that every other commercial on TV and one quarter of the ads in any given magazine are promoting some kind of prescription drugs. They vary from ones to help you get up, ones to help you put your head down at night, even ones to help reduce the burn and outbreak. [...]
I am the product of divorced parents, I was a latchkey kid, I grew up in the late 80s addicted to TV, it was my entire world. I love TV, in fact, I could spend weeks doing nothing but channel surfing. I am now an adult, I still love TV but I also [...]
Big thanks to Keith for pointing out possibly one of the funniest products to be sold through Amazon that real people actually buy and use. Die-hard BMX riders swear that this stuff is top notch and they wouldn’t use anything else. What is this gloriously funny product? Anti Monkey Butt Powder is [...]
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and pink is the color associated with the entire month. Many blogs are changing their skins to pink, a lot of retail outlets change their ads to pink, all in an effort to help bring more awareness. There are hundreds of ways you can help, the link [...]
I will freely admit that I am openly skeptic about the abilities of modern medicine. I have very little faith in the true abilities of doctors and rarely find the information from those in the medical profession of any true value. As I see it, they’ve read some books and are simply guessing. [...]