Archive for September, 2008

Killing is the only way to measure weight loss

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Warning to all weight watchers. So if you’re holidaying in the polar regions this Fall and see a Japanese researcher coming towards you with one of those big samurai swords, you may decide that you don’t want to be a part of the research. The Japanese have just published a scientific report in Polar Biology - another of those must-read journals. Kenji Konishi, who works out of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo, said August 27 that killing was the only way to accurately measure factors such as body weight or fat thickness! Except that he’s talking about Antarctic minke whales. Where would you get pinchers big enough? Seems hard to have to kill them to find out whether their diets are working. How would you like it in a clinical trial? Take these Acomplia tablets for six months and then we’ll kill you to find out how much adipose fat you’ve lost. OK, so when did you last see a minke whale on your bathroom weighing scales? He’s got a point. It’s hard to get a whale to stay still long enough to get an accurate reading. And then there are those caliper things, the “fat pinchers”.
Acomplia has done well. Participants lose an average 10% of their body weight and an average 3 inches (8 cm) from their waists. Perhaps the minke whales are buying Acomplia online. Let’s not kill them to find out.

Stronger with less

Monday, September 22nd, 2008

There is one rule that no one speaks but this doesn’t make it weaker. This is an article that compares and contrasts one product with another, making the other look really bad. We don’t do that here. We are always absolutely fair and never do more than state facts, not opinions.

So here is something you can check out for yourself. If you look at the way in which the little blue pill is packaged (can’t think which drug that is), you’ll see it comes in 25mg, 50mg and 100mg. Most men seem to do best with an average dose of 50mg. Levitra, on the other hand, comes in 2.5mg, 5mg, 10mg and 20mg. Most men seem to do best with 10mg tablets but many get perfect results with the lower dosages. Why should you care? Well, you’re taking five times less of the same active ingredients to achieve the same results. As a general rule in the world of medication, the smaller the dose, the lower the risk you will experience any side effects. You can ask about your chances to experience side effects. Not that many with either drug but, if you were looking for a reason to prefer Levitra, safety would be top of the list for most.

Cat almost kills her owner

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

We kept it simple. So you have to travel over to Smith Valley in Nevada. Richie Simmons’ cat was sick. She had visited with the local veterinarian to get drugs. One day, Richie cut her finger but thought nothing of it as she tended to the cat. A few days later, she was flat on her back with a high fever. It took a month for the lab to identify the problem.
Well, back in 1911 there was a disease that almost wiped out the squirrel population in Tulare, California so they called it tularemia (creative!). One thing - it was highly contagious between humans and animals. How did the cat come to be infected? It’s going to remain a mystery. Did the cat travel back in time or just visit with some squirrel cousins in California? Who knows. It died before we could ask. The good news Doxycycline was an almost instant cure. Just goes to show. Once you know which bacteria are making you sick, you get the right antibiotic and get better fast.

Headlines are the main part of all the newspapers. Ever since the famous story about man and dog, we’ve had every kind of animal story. Now this is the ultimate cat story because the headline misses out the vital reference to squirrels. Yes, it was a double attack. The cat and the killer squirrels would have been more accurate. We don’t want to make a sensation. Only information.

McCain ducks Viagra question

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Back in July, former senator was asked about his voting record on medical insurance. With abortion such a hot button issue in the Presidential Election campaign, someone asked him a direct question - makes a refreshing change to find someone asking a politician for a straight answer on Viagra. It went along the lines, “Did you vote in the Senate against a proposal to require insurance companies to cover contraceptive products?” To give you a little background, most private medical insurance companies will not cover the cost of any contraceptive product but will pay for their male policy holders to get their Viagra. Now far be it for me to suggest this is a tad sexist - men set the terms of every policy and they favor the men who pay the premiums. No. Perhaps that is fair. When women are good enough to be appointed as the policy makers, they can pay out for the women to get their contraceptives. Without beating around the bush McCain gave very straightforward answer “I don’t know enough about it to give you an informed answer because I don’t recall the vote.” Did you see that one of the side effects of Viagra is amnesia? The FDA is going to require a warning on labels. Looks like former senator has been using Viagra just a little too long if he can’t remember how he votes on important political issues. And just so you don’t get confused, I’m against gender discrimination in any and every form.

How to obtain the proper sleep

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

For years folks from all over have suffered in silence about their sleep anxiety and sleep disorders. Most of them think that they can’t go over their problems by themselves. The reality is that sleep disorders are terribly difficult to get over on your own, once you’ve tried everything else. After you’ve tried to get up and walk around, drink warm milk, exercise and eat right, you have to wonder: what is wrong and what is out there to help? But now the page has turned: there is Ambien! After you’ve experienced trying everything else, Ambien is the best bet. Whether you are trying to regain your sleep pattern after extended traveling or you simply cannot get the sleep you know your body needs, having the right sleep aide will allow you to get yourself back on track. You should know that you should have at least 8 hours of sleep to give to your medication as this will give you the solid sleep you want. For the most men, having a sleep aid like Ambien and the guidelines that your physician provides you when using Ambien is the best way to get your sleep. Now is the time to take control of your life and you can do so with the help of Ambien. Start sleeping today!Also, you may feel groggy during the day after the first few times you use it. Eventually, your body will regain its sleep pattern and you may be able to stop using the drug altogether. For those who believe that they can regain their sleep pattern all on their own, they may be fighting an uphill battle.

Those clever spammers have found a new way to beat the filters

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

Gone are the days when I could just tweak the filter to include the latest permutation on Viagra. Every few minutes my inbox gets another of those annoying spam messages telling me how wonderful Viagra is (or how many times Paris Hilton has had sex with the Boston Philharmonic). Now these clever spammers are into jpgs and all kinds of other tricks to get through the mail servers. Images are hard to filter out. It’s not that I mind being reminded every now and then what the wonderful little blue pill can do. After all, there was that time a year or so back when I had a bad patch and found out how good Viagra is. But to have something every few minutes is just egregiously bad. Why this post? Well, I’ve just had a déjà vu moment all over again. When I was just starting out in IT back in the 70s, one of the standard tools was ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) - a code for characters, numbers, symbols, etc. And what did we clever people do when we got bored? We made pictures out of all those characters. And guess what’s just popped into my inbox. You got it. It’s a headline, “Viagra - $1.10″ with the message built out of ASCII. So it made me sit up and take notice - just like taking Viagra really.