Posted by Joe Rongo on Mon, Jun 14, 2010 @ 12:39 PM
Thoreau wrote in Walden, in the essay:
“Where I Lived And What I Lived For”
To be awake is to be alive... We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor. It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful;
but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally, we can do. To affect the quality of the day is the highest of arts.
Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour...
Posted by Joe Rongo on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 @ 07:08 AM
What Ponce de Leon failed to find in one fell swoop, medical researchers have been chipping away at in recent years. The concept of immortality is no longer myth or science fiction, as scientists have been battle-testing a variety of techniques to help humans live longer.
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Tue, Jan 19, 2010 @ 06:08 AM
Smoking Cessation Temporarily Increases Diabetes Risk, but Researchers Say the Benefits of Quitting Outweigh the Risk
Cigarette smoking is linked to an increased risk of
diabetes, but quitting the habit, ironically, may increase diabetes risk in the
short term, a new study says.
Researchers say people who quit smoking typically gain weight, which may
explain the temporary period of increased risk for developing type 2 diabetes,
which is closely linked to obesity.
The findings are reported in the Jan. 5 issue of Annals of Internal
Medicine. The authors stress that their findings should not deter people from quitting
smoking, which is also a risk factor for heart disease, stroke,
atherosclerosis, and cancer. They say that the health benefits of smoking
cessation outweigh the short-term risk.
“The message is: Don’t even start to smoke,” Hsin-Chieh Yeh, PhD, an
epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and lead
author of the study, says in a news release. “If you smoke, give it up. That’s
the right thing to do.”
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Posted by Joe Rongo on Thu, Dec 31, 2009 @ 11:31 AM
Old Ideas Spur New Approaches in Cancer Fight
Mina Bissell will never forget the reception she
got from a prominent scientist visiting Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, where she worked. She gave him a paper she had just
published on the genesis of cancer.
Dr. Mina Bissell has been lauded for creating “a paradigm shift” in the study of the genesis of cancer.
That was 20 years ago, and ever since, Dr. Bissell and a few others
have struggled for acceptance of what seemed a radical idea: Gene
mutations are part of the process of cancer, but mutations alone are
not enough. Cancer involves an interaction between rogue cells and
surrounding tissue.
The idea seemed messy and unduly
complicated. And cancer genes seemed comparatively clear-cut. So it was
often ignored or dismissed as researchers focused on genes and on
isolated cancer cells growing in Petri dishes in laboratories.
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