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Pope Benedict's Worry
Tweet Share on Facebook December 27, 2006 CommentPope Benedict's Christmas message was one of great import no matter one's spiritual bent. He beseeched 10,000 followers in St. Peter's Square not to allow technology to trump theology. "Mankind, which has reached other planets and unraveled many of nature's secrets, should not presume it can live without God."
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HRT Theory: Animals Bite Back
Tweet Share on Facebook December 18, 2006 CommentI have a theory: Animals bite back. When humans consume animals or use them to create drugs, there is almost always a boomerang-like response. And it's not good for humans.
In the case of meat, for instance, people who eat a lot of red meat are more prone to cholesterol issues, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Likewise, we're now finding women on Premarin are more prone to certain forms of breast cancer.
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If You're Still on HRT, Think Again
Tweet Share on Facebook December 15, 2006 Comment (7)If ever there were a flashing red sign signaling postmenopausal women to get off HRT, this is one. The medical community is shocked and thrilled by new data showing that breast-cancer rates plummeted an unexpected 7 percent in 2003.
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Most Could Afford Catastrophic Health Coverage
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2006 Comment (41)A top issue for Congress next year is healthcare accessibility. But a little-known fact about healthcare is that many Americans who lack healthcare could afford coverage–at least for the most expensive illnesses––and choose not to have it.
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Obama: Good Guy; Can't Win
Tweet Share on Facebook December 11, 2006 Comment (23)Give Obama a rest! If Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is the Great White–er, Brown–Hope of the Democratic Party, the party's in bigger trouble than it was when it nominated Al Gore and John Kerry (two inevitable losers) for president in 2000 and 2004.
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The Deadly Mix of Models and Anorexia
Tweet Share on Facebook December 8, 2006 CommentThere's only one way to get the fashion tyrants to stop parading Auschwitz-thin models down runways. That's for young women to reject them as role models. Stop buying the clothes they peddle. Understand that a sales pitch is designed to put the other guy's hand in your pocket and that it's a lead you need not follow. Designers who hire the emaciated would toss them more quickly than last week's garbage were anorexia to lose its tonic as a revenue generator.
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Case in Point: House Conservatives Didn't Get It
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2006 Comment (22)Geez! Talk about being stuck in the Wayback Machine. House conservatives must have slept through the November elections and their aftermath. Otherwise, why would they be foisting the carnival-like spectacle of a sure-to-die wedge issue bill on a nation so thoroughly bored with wedge issue politics? Somebody please tell them to keep their codas to themselves.
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Wounded Women Warriors
Tweet Share on Facebook December 4, 2006 Comment (1)All of a sudden media outlets are zeroing in on women warriors in Iraq. An Associated Press article called "Women Warriors Succeed in Iraq" made the rounds this weekend.
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More Evidence of the Opt-Out Delusion
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2006 CommentMore evidence of the gossamer (some would say fictitious) nature of the so-called Opt-Out Revolution. Highly educated, affluent women are not permanently fleeing careers for the home front when they have children. They are instead taking temporary breaks when their children are very young but going back to work and maintaining real-world ambition. This trend is not limited to high-income working mothers. New data show that women of all income levels are taking time off when their children are first born, even if they can't really afford it.
