Complexity is part of the substance of our lives. It’s better to embrace it than believe that self-help and self-treatment will always win the day.
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When life is too sweet
Too many times “free speech” becomes a rallying cry for helping the population become sicker.
Replacement as reinvention
What can television do to foster cognitive impairment? Nothing good.
The boob in the boob tube
What can television do to foster cognitive impairment? Nothing good.
What’s worse: pain or its treatment?
Pain, like hunger, makes people go to almost any length to assuage it.
Can shifting body clocks cause cancer?
If you recognize that disrupting body clocks – and sleep – can provoke tumors, you may think again.
Has your electronic health record been hacked?
Biology is very fast. Stuff gets used up. Different forms of rest are required to rebuild the system for new challenges and a new day.
The anti-relaxation movement
Biology is very fast. Stuff gets used up. Different forms of rest are required to rebuild the system for new challenges and a new day.
Sleep and sex need each other
Much of sex engages fantasy. For many our understanding of fantasy begins early in life – through dreams.
Whatever happened to health?
Blood pressure, lipid levels and liver function tests matter a lot. But they are not the sum total of health.