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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 - (May Guignon Richards)
Byron wrote up a little piece naming some of the benefits of cranberry. Cranberry has been shown to be a helpful anti-bacterial when dealing with ulcers, gastritis and periodontal disease.
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Thursday, May 01, 2008 - (May Guignon Richards)
Once in awhile I feel the inspiration to jot down my thoughts in poem form. Whether I need to get something that is frustrating me out into the open so I can examine it or to try and form a whisper of an idea into something tangible, being able to put a pen to paper is a fantastic creative outlet.
Here is an excerpt one of these poems:
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 - (May Guignon Richards)
How often do you find yourself at the edge of your ability to cope with daily stress? Do you find that irritability is cyclical? Or do you just reach a point of fatigue where the tiniest little thing that goes wrong sets you off?
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 - (May Guignon Richards)
There has been some question about what roll oral contraceptives play in the development of heart disease. Why is it that a main warning that accompanies “the pill” is “do not smoke especially if you’re of the age of 35 due to the risk of blood clots and stroke”?
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 - (May Guignon Richards)
Reading the mayo clinic article on the Fosamax and Jaw Death connection (see blog below) and writing on the issue rang a loud alarm in my mind of an awful contradiction within the article that is meant to reassure the public about a drug with a very scary side effect. The words “safe” and “jaw death” appear in the same article. It seemed so absurd that it got me thinking about how little we question “authority” anymore. We sit and stare and read and shrug and think, “Wow, that’s terrible. Well, what’s next?” But we don’t feel any motivation to really consider the implications of the constant influx of information intelligently.
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