Today, I went to the grocery store. I didn't pick up much in the way of meal food, because the weather is once again craptastic (record lows for this time of year, and a winter storm; yay) and I wanted to get in and out as quickly as possible. I give you, however

Snacks for idiots who can't be bothered with a healthy diet until the blood pressure ( Read more... )

The good news ( Read more... )

Sadly, no party for me tonight. It would have been (hopefully) great fun, but I almost passed out in the shower, earlier. I suspect it was a combination of the humid heat and a lack of food prior to that. I've eaten and I'm feeling significantly better, now, but I'm still a little bit foggy and a lot lethargic. Not exactly the right circumstances ( Read more... )

So apparently I am an idiot. My stupidity, however, has led to a useful and important discovery.

I try to keep a few things in my freezer that are, essentially, just things that can get thrown into the oven and heated up. They're not as healthy for me as making something from scratch, but they're quick and easy, and I rarely get the stuff that's ( Read more... )

Some days, I'm really not a fan of people. And it's not that the people in question at the moment are doing anything wrong. They're really not ( Read more... )

The last two days I've been laid off from work (hopefully, I'll be back in on Monday). Normally, this would bother me, at least a little, but in this case the timing couldn't have been any better. Tuesday night, I ended up unexpectedly exhausted. Wednesday, I just barely managed to tough our the night and not go home sick. Yesterday, I was just ( Read more... )

To start with, a question for the armchair pharmacologists on my FL ( Read more... )

I think I'm coming down with a sic, and this one seems like it's going to be a good one. Physically, I've been feeling a bit off, I've been tossing, turning, and waking up more during sleep, lately. Then last night, holy shit with the nightmares. Only one of them was actually enough to wake me up with a (thankfully mild) panic attack, but the ( Read more... )

Potential cure for HIV/AIDS found by Brigham Young University.

What studies to date show is a compound that attacks HIV at its molecular membrane level, disrupting the virus from interacting with their primary targets, the "T-helper" class white blood cells that comprise and direct the human immune system. Further, CSAs appear to be deadly to all ( Read more... )

I have a question for the health aware people on my flist ( Read more... )