2010 July | Medical Health

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Ulcerative Colitis Advice

On my earlier post Best of the Web: Ulcerative Colitis, I listed a few websites recommended by health professionals. Now I would like to say that I also like the University of Maryland writeup. Here are the main lifestyle suggestions I found on these websites: 1) Exercise. And note that endurance exercise, ...

Autoimmunity, KyoDophilus, Alfalfa, and Zinc

My general doctor says that patients suffering from autoimmune diseases should not take herbs and supplements that boost immunity (since autoimmunity results from overactive immune responses that attack and harm various parts of the patients' bodies). In other words, when your immune system is already overactive, you are foolish ...

Hikes

List of Hikes I am adding short descriptions of the hikes I take in Canada and the United States. You will find all the photos from the hikes on http://www.flixya.com/user/affiliatebin, and you fill find three of my previous posts on 1) Toronto Waterfront, Leslie Spit, Cherry Beach, 2) Hiking Photos from ...

Desert Venom

Although a number of medical professionals still recommend applying a tourniquet to rattlesnake bites (and then briefly releasing the tourniquet every 15 to 20 minutes), Tony Nester, the author of Desert Survival Tips, Tricks, & Skills (Flagstaff: Diamond Creek Press, 2003), writes that most of the doctors he spoke to ...

Top Brands: Hiking Boots

[August 2010 Update: Last fall I bought a pair of Vasque Mantra hiking shoes on clearance at REI for $20. The Vasque Mantras are now my favorites, and I'll keep on buying them (but if you have high arches the Vasque Breeze Low hiking shoes will probably fit you better). ...

They Say Vegetables Don't Stop Cancer. I Don't Believe It.

This week the media told us all that a new study shows that eating lots of vegetables does not "significantly" lower cancer risk. (The study indicates that vegetables might provide a very small reduction in cancer risk, but that statistic may have resulted from reporting error and bias -- see ...

Buying a House in Arizona: Home, Termite, and Mold Inspections

First I'll tell you about the information you can get from the Arizona State Government. Then I'll tell you about my conversations with house, termite, mold, and fungi inspection companies in Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona. You can phone the Office of Pest Management at 602-255-3664 (and 1-800-223-0618). Or go online ...

My Anti-Cancer Diet

Also see my post Cancer Prevention Foods and Spices. And search the United States government's National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine web site and Mayo Clinc. Daily anti-cancer foods and supplements: 1) I bought one pound of Organic Connections beet powder for $23.80. (That's the best price I found). -- I take ...

A Fish and Vegetable Diet

We have heard about low-fat diets, gluten-free diets, vegetarian diets, and other approaches to healthy eating. Perhaps the best low-fat diet is not only gluten free, it's grain free. Grains tend to cause weight-gain problems, and grains can irritate your intestinal walls, resulting in inflammation and irritable bowels. (I have ...

The Fisheries Turnoff

July 23rd, 2010

I was watching David Suzuki’s “One Ocean” on CBC Television last night, and I was again struck by one fisheries biologist’s arrogance–his choice of words, his tone of voice, his meaning. When he spoke of forcing a smile onto his face at public meetings and inquiries, he was not only insulting his audience, he was admitting insincerity. And why would anyone want to cooperate with an arrogant, insincere fisheries biologist?

Fisheries biology is an interesting field of study, but it often attracts (and subsequently recruits) autocratic individuals who as teenagers and young adults failed to muster enough smarts to succeed at jobs requiring higher levels of creativity, originality, and diplomacy.

World Health and Arrogant Ecologists

Science, Ethics, and Abuse

Global Warming and Publish or Perish

Tags: fisheries, nature, prevention

Toronto Waterfront, Leslie Spit, Cherry Beach

July 8th, 2010

It was over 90 degrees in July, and with the humidity, that temperature had the effect of 104 degrees, but starting at 2 PM, I hiked from Yonge and St. Clair to the waterfront and then on to Cherry Beach and the Leslie Spit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Then I hiked back to where I started on Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue. (Yonge is the longest municipal street in Canada.) Here are a few of the photos:

Toronto Skyline Under Reflections Through Cloud

Tall Ship, Cherry Beach, Toronto

Cherry Beach and Leslie Spit, Toronto

Cherry Road Drawbridge, Ship Passing

Ship passing from Lake Ontario, Cherry Drawbridge

Also see:

Hikes

Skinners Bluff to Bruce’s Caves Along the Bruce Trail

List of Hikes

Superstition Wilderness Hikes

Sydenham to Walter’s Falls Section of Bruce Trail

Grand Canyon Trails: Bright Angel, South Kaibab, Phantom Ranch, Grandview, Ribbon Falls, Plateau Point, Tanner

Dufferin Hi-Land Hike Near Shelburne

Noisy River to Prince of Wales Road, Bruce Trail

Speyside Section and Limehouse Conservation Area, Bruce Trail, Ontario

Scotsdale Farm to Boston Mills Road, Credit Valley & Bruce Trail

42 KM Waterdown Hike, Bruce Trail

46.2 km (28.7 mile) Hike Along Colpoy’s Bay

Tags: aerobics, Canada, exercise, hiking

Hiking Photos from Bruce Trail and Grand Canyon

July 1st, 2010

Here are a few of the photos I took on my hikes in Arizona and Ontario. I use a small Japanese-made Minolta. You will find more of my photographs on http://www.flixya.com/user/affiliatebin.

I took the Arizona shot on the Tanner Trail in the Grand Canyon and the Ontario shots on the Beaver Valley and Sydenham sections of the Bruce Trail (Maps 28 and 29 of the Bruce Trail Reference: Edition 25), about 10 km south of Meaford, Ontario. (Did you know that John Muir once lived in Meaford?). Compared to Arizona, the Bruce Trail does not present large elevation changes, but its moss-covered rocks and boulders are extremely slippery.