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  walkingbackhome wrote a new blog post: Candy Bars for Breakfast   1 day, 18 hours ago
  

  Candy Bars for Breakfast

  I spent much of the past year having a Snickers and a Mountain Dew almost every day, at least 3 or 4 times a week. Sometimes, I had more than one of each. And, more than once, I ‘rewarded’ myself (for what, I don’t recall) by stopping my Krispie Kreme and having [...]

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  healthanxiety wrote a new blog post: Bad Day   1 day, 20 hours ago
  

  I Had a bad day, first for ages. I wound meself up at work and it all went down hill from there. I started feeling anxious, then came the symptoms, heart palpitations, chest pains, head ache and just a general feeling of doom and dread. I have had some dinner and a glass of wine [...]

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  peanut wrote a new blog post: Friday, March 18, 2010 It is what it is…..   2 days, 6 hours ago
  

  Hi all,

  This phrase “It is what it is ” is popping up a lot. My nephew says it all the time and I’ve heard other people at work say it too. It is too bad more people don’t take a step back and reflect before getting depressed. Some times things happen and there just is [...]

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  Margaret wrote a new blog post: Melanoma update…   2 days, 7 hours ago
  

  If you have been following my blog for at least a month, you will know that my father-in-law was recently diagnosed with invasive melanoma (for a reminder, please see my Feb 6 and Feb 16 posts). In early February, we were told that the cancer had spread to his lungs (the nodules [...]

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  Margaret wrote a new blog post: Dilemma…   4 days, 11 hours ago
  

  Is this a little white kitty hanging out of a cat tree

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  Margaret wrote a new blog post: A great day…   5 days, 7 hours ago
  

  …It began with my reading a message from a MGUS blog reader who had contacted me last fall, after noticing that her markers, especially the freelite ones, were steadily worsening. After receiving my reply, she began the curcumin protocol. Today she received her test results: normal. No, I am not kidding: NORMAL. And [...]

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  walkingbackhome wrote a new blog post: “Let Us Help You Kill Yourself”   5 days, 10 hours ago
  

  Driving at Night

  The other night, I was driving down a road where there was a stretch of nothing but businesses. The fast food signs were large and bright, advertising their specials.

  Suicide Assistance

  I said to my friend, “They should just say, ‘Let us help you kill yourself.’”

  Sugar and Fat

  We both eat too much and exercise too [...]

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  ronalee wrote a new blog post: Finally Decided on Which Treadmill to Buy   6 days, 2 hours ago
  

  The treadmill is probably the most common piece of large fitness equipment in existence. It seems really quite logical to try and simulate the most common aspect of a human being’s movement about the earth. Because of all this, the treadmill has become perhaps the most finely tuned piece of exercise equipment the world [...]

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  alternativetouchtherapies wrote a new blog post: Is Western Shiatsu ‘Watered Down’?   6 days, 6 hours ago
  

  Shiatsu is a very old form of therapy, the basics of which pre-date its first mention in print Japan in 1915.  When the practice was exported to the West, word of mouth spread quickly.  This word of mouth was not all good.  People complained that the treatment was painful.  I am curious as to whether [...]

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  Margaret wrote a new blog post: Smoldering myeloma study, part II…   6 days, 13 hours ago
  

  I looked up the three small melphalan-prednisone studies on SMM patients mentioned in the abstract. Here are the links: 2009 abstract: http://tinyurl.com/ygnlwr5; 2000 full study: http://tinyurl.com/yjfneba, and 1996 full study: <span style="font-family: [...]

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  Margaret commented on the blog post Curcumin for pets with cancer   1 week ago
  

  Thanks, everyone, for the great comments…which have really encouraged me to figure out how best to administer curcumin to my cats…

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  Margaret wrote a new blog post: Smoldering (asymptomatic) multiple myeloma: current diagnostic criteria, new predictors of outcome, and follow-up recommendations. Part I.   1 week ago
  

  I have to split this post into two parts, since it’s soooo long (I will publish part II tomorrow). It concerns a study on smoldering (asymptomatic) multiple myeloma published last month in the “Journal of Clinical Oncology”…Sherlock, grazie!, sent me the full text…

  In the abstract (see: <span [...]

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  healthanxiety wrote a new blog post: Things Going Well   1 week, 1 day ago
  

  The past 3 weeks have been great. I have had 2 more CBT sessions and now been left on my own to continue with the self CBT I have been taught, which I find really works. I would recommend anybody suffering with anxiety to try CBT. I have now also learnt to talk to family [...]

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  healthnewsdigest wrote a new blog post: A Little BPA With That Sippy Cup?   1 week, 2 days ago
  

  A little BPA with your food might harm you or yours!
  Excerpt from article By Carrie Sturrock, Portland Oregonian, March 11, 2010, 3:05AM

  When my first daughter was born in 2005, I tried to find bottles that didn’t contain bisphenol-A, a potential endocrine-disrupting chemical. I called manufacturers whose representatives didn’t know whether their bottles had it, visited [...]

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  Margaret commented on the blog post Curcumin for pets with cancer   1 week, 2 days ago
  

  A blog reader gave me permission to share his own dog-curcumin story with you, as follows:
  “My Red Cloud Kelpie has a large lump on her side at the base of the rib cage. It’s been there for a while but began to become very evident last fall. So I took her to a vet…her [...]