health – Page 9 – Kari Neumeyer

Don’t bring me down

Yesterday I woke up around 9, worked with the doggie on her leash, ate an English muffin and fell asleep on the couch watching home improvement shows. Rob came in at 12:30 or so, to ask me to help him take some measurements outside and says he stood there calling my name for a longContinue reading “Don’t bring me down”

Me duele mi cabeza

Cause of eye-splitting headache: MSG in Chinese take out, or lack of caffeine from usual and accustomed (but not consumed yet today) daily Diet Pepsi?

Cows are bad for the environment

The New York Times says: “Consider these numbers. Global livestock grazing and feed production use ’30 percent of the land surface of the planet.’ Livestock — which consume more food than they yield — also compete directly with humans for water. And the drive to expand grazing land destroys more biologically sensitive terrain, rain forestsContinue reading “Cows are bad for the environment”

Public service announcement

Doing a lot of this: and rubbing one’s eyes without paying attention to whether one has washed one’s hands could lead to this: Or at least that’s my theory. My eye doctor said, “Don’t blame it on the puppy.”

Kind and generous

Thanks very much to Aunt L and Uncle M who sent Isis a gift card from Petco! Darling Isis decided to spend it on a new light and some food for her big brother, Stew, who either is not taking well to the new baby, or to the lack of sunlight in his diet. OrContinue reading “Kind and generous”

Palpitate

I have more trouble with “all-natural” “homeopathic” type remedies I impulse buy than with drugs that are actually prescribed to me by professionals. Maybe I should see a naturopath, instead of concocting my own remedies. A year or so ago, I read about MSM and thought it would be the miracle cure for my TMJ.Continue reading “Palpitate”