Special Edition for May: Health
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Perhaps perfect health is the nearest we can come to A Perfect State of Grace.
Fevers, fractured toes, chicken pox and broken arms. Of course, A Mother Is Going to Worry.
Teen Talk by Ethan Sorscher
Escaping into meaningless trivialities has kept me physically healthy. I have no intention of becoming Sick with Stress.
Empty Nest by Mark Wiertalla
I look up every three or four breaths, only to confirm that I’m not there yet. My progress is agonizingly slow. But I have Higher Goals.
and introducing our newest column ...
Old Men by Sheila Hopkins
When you reach the age of these old men, life is for living. You are Past Worrying.
“The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.”– Mark Twain, journalist, author and humorist. He fathered four children; one died in infancy and two died in their twenties.
Ridiculous Video
When is a newborn healthy? When is a new dad way too sensitive?
Funny Photo
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The Man: Hippocrates
Father of: Modern Medicine
The Story: Hippocrates (who lived somewhere around 460-430 BCE to 360-370 BCE) was born on the island of Cos, Greece, and was taught medicine by his father Heraclides. Hippocrates was a physician who made house calls. He founded the Coyan Medical School and wrote some 70 books known as the Hippocratic Corpus. He died of old age in Thessalia.
Whaa? Part I: The Hippocratic school of medicine held that illness is the result of an imbalance of the human body’s four humors – yellow bile, blood, phlegm and black bile. They were characterized by the same properties – dry, hot, wet and cold as the four elements – fire, air, water and earth. Hippocratic therapy was directed towards restoring this balance.
Whaa? Part II: The two sons of Hippocrates – Thessalus and Draco – were his students. They each had sons named Hippocrates.
Whaa? Part III: From the Hippocratic Oath, “I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel …. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption and, further, from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves.”
Amazing Number
90 percent
of men who develop prostate cancer were born with healthy genetic blueprints for their prostates.
Men in their 20s who ejaculate at least five times a week are one-third less likely to develop aggressive prostate cancer during their mature years.
Men who father only daughters have a 40 percent increase in the occurrence of prostate cancer compared with men who have at least one son. A man’s risk of prostate cancer decreases as the number of sons increases.
91 percent of all prostate cancers are sparked by DNA that becomes “corroded” over the course of a man’s life.
30-year-olds have a 30 percent chance of carrying a trace of prostate cancer, 40-year-olds have a 40 percent chance, etc. Yes, the cancer usually progresses so slowly that most men die of something else first, but prostate cancer does kill more than 30,000 men every year.
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