I am not the only person to have been cynical about the so-called "safe levels" of various pollutants, food additives, and other chemicals. I have heard radio interviews and read articles in which people have pointed out that stating something safe up to a given amount is all well and good but does not take into consideration the barrage of bad ( Read more... )

It doesn't happen ever day, not even many days; but one of the problems that arises when one arrives in his or her late 70s is a failure to get a second wind, when that is the usual routine of the individual's day. In my case, I can usually keep going from the time I get out of bed until about 1:30 p.m. and then have a renewed upswing in energy ( Read more... )

As I was having a cream cheese and jelly sandwich on raisin bread this morning, I was recalling some favorite foods of my youth, how often I ate them, and their reputation for increasing people's weight. Every time I would order a sandwich at a lunch counter (which in the 1950s was actually a counter, often in what we called a drug store), it ( Read more... )