Roll Out Those Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer Researchers, especially epidemiologists, look for patterns. And they found patterns when they looked at the places where people are most likely to get cancer. They found that there is more cancer in people living in higher latitudes, that is, closer to the arctic. So they started thinking and figuring out this...
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Theobroma cacao tree and Chocolate? There’s a tree producing melon-like fruit that contains between 20 and 30 beans. Believe it or not, those beans become some of the most savored, delicious, creamy, decadent food known to man. “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” ― Charles M. Schulz The tree producing...
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The Sami people of Northern Scandinavia and Russia have over 180 words for snow and ice. Linguists and anthropologists talk about the evolution of a language as tied to ideas and needs that are most crucial to those who speak it. Our basic needs are food, water, shelter and sharing. When reading patient blogs, what Ernest Hemingway says about...
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“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.”~William W. Purkey In the northern hemisphere, it is deep midwinter…the ground is hard as iron and water’s like a stone. It is the darkest time of the year, especially...
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Food… Grandma is from Iowa…grew up on a farm. She milked cows, fed chickens, chopped wood and watched the nation change. Electricity didn’t come to their farm until she was a teen. Richness in her life is measured in stories. And many of these stories are about food. Like the stories of cooking with her new daughter in-law from Korea…how...
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