A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health assessed rice consumption and diabetes risk of 39,765 men and 157,463 women and concluded that those who consume two or more servings of brown rice per week were associated with an 11% reduced risk of developing type 2 diabates. Brown rice, a whole grain is […]

Found some old photos of my dad Jackson Newman including a few of his World War II photos of him over in England, where he was a mechanic in the Army Air Corps. My father died about seven years ago, at the age of 93. He worked up until a few weeks before he got […]

Low levels of the male sex hormone testosterone in older men has now been associated with the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. This was the finding of a team of researchers at Saint Louis University in a co-investigative study with Queen Mary Hospital at the University of Hong Kong. The study will be published in the […]

Before the year 2020, according to experts, the following changes will occur relating to the net: *The mobile device will be the main connection too to the net *Voice recognition will be prevalent, usable and used *Personal and work time will not be divided off as more connections to the net will be commonplace and […]

The BP oil slick could hit the east coast in a matter of weeks and will probably spread across thousands of miles of Atlantic shorelines, government scientists have reported. A computer model analysis from the National Center for Atmospheric research shows oil winding around Key West moving up to North Carolina and then spreading east […]

I write this directly upon BP’s announcement that “top kill” has failed to stop the flow of oil from the well and it is moving on to another approach. Given the fact that the spill is the largest disaster of its kind and the economic impact growing daily, some consideration should be given to the […]

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Here is information that we should worry about from a new study by the U.S. Geological survey and written about in ScienceDaily. More than 20% of untreated water samples from 932 public wells around the country contain at least one contaminant dangerous to human health. In some instances, the contaminants included radon and arsenic but […]

I read Tom Friedman’s The World Is Flat and I understand how the world is really one nation when it comes to global economics. In addition, I can appreciate the importance of marketplace competition when it comes to purcashing goods and services. Also, I don’t want to appear to be a blind jingoist anti foreigner […]

Having higher vitamin B12 levels may protect against brain shrinkage in elderly people, according to a recently published study.The researchers called their findings striking, but said more information is needed before recommending that people take vitamin B12 supplements to guard against the loss of brain volume and possibly prevent declines in thinking and memory. In […]