I find it a bit aggravating when Dr. Oz seems to recommend that everyone quit coffee on his website. If you look on the webmd website and do a search you will find these articles about coffee.

1. Drinking Coffee May Extend Life

2. Moderate Coffee Drinking Reduces Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer’s by 65% in Study

3. Coffee’s Surprising Health Benefits

4. Coffee Cuts Stroke Risk in Women

Lately I’ve been taking one baby aspirin per day for health reasons. Dr. Oz says take two. Here’s his reasoning.

Dr. Mehmet Oz: Aspirin absolutely benefits the heart and prevents clots from suddenly closing off an artery. Most men and women over the age of 50 should take 2 baby aspirin a day. The reason we give 2 rather than one is that many Americans are resistant to aspirin. And because the side effects are so minor, it makes sense to give double the dose.

I’m rarely impressed by most “health” type websites. Most seem to be pushing one philosophy or product with little if any scientific evidence to backup their claims. “Blue Zones” is an exception and thanks to Dr. Oz. I found the book which started the program and a great website for all sorts of great information and videos. www.bluezones.com

Here’s also a nice introductory video.

I was watching a recent Hubble telescope show on TV and some of the statements by scientists were quite startling.

There is five times more Dark Matter [DM] (we don’t know what this is) then there is Physical Matter[PM].(atoms, chemicals  etc.)
Otherwise galaxies would fly apart – something is holding them together – Dark Matter.

Even if you add the Dark Matter and the Physical Matter, the universe is still missing 2/3 of the matter.

Let’s say that we have knowledge of  1/1000 of the physical world.( I’m being generous, but we have to start somewhere.)

If PW = X

What we know = 1/1000X

DM = 5X

X + 5 X = 1/3 Total (T)

6X = 1/3 T

18X = T

What we know of everything  = 1/18000 = .0000555

An article from the April 2009 Consumer Reports on Health showed how easy it is to build your strength with minimal training. Instead of the two to three sets of ten of each exercise, they said that one set of strength type exercises builds about 66% as much strength as two sets. (They didn’t mention what percentage that is of three sets.) They also recommended that you lift slowly (two seconds) and then lower even more slowly (4 seconds).

While I’ve found is that I can get stronger by lifting weights just twice a week, I’m going to give the one set method a try and see how it works.

For people over 60 they also recommended lifting just twice a week to let muscles recover.

As I’m helping a friend with a budgeting program for kids, I thought I might post the one-page budget I’ve used ever since college. You can find it at (click here) If you have group which would like a presentation on this subject let me know.

Here’s more evidence from the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease to show that coffee might help in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease. “Mice with a rodent equivalent of the disease showed a 50 per cent reduction in levels of amyloid protein in their brains after scientists spiked their drinking water with caffeine. The change was reflected in their behavior as the mice developed better memories and quicker thinking.” (link)

It’s always amazing how simple it is at times – Use It or Lose It.

It can be physical strength and stamina or confidence and self-esteem.

You’re either getting stronger or weaker – the choice is up to you.

Note how crowded this gym is – and it’s free!

The red arrow points to my favorite equipment for strengthening my back.
It seems to work!

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought anybody could do it and Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody, when actually Nobody did what Anybody could have done.