14 Wednesday Mar 2007
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, media, weird
Circumcision helps prevent HIV infection
All well and good until …
“This is an extraordinary development,” said Dr. Kevin de Cock, director of the World Health Organization’s AIDS department. “Circumcision is the most potent intervention in HIV prevention that has been described”.
Ummm… 😕
(originally seen over at anhaga’s)
14 Wednesday Mar 2007
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, love
. . . are made of this?
More and more couples in the US are ordering separate master bedrooms in their new homes to help ensure a more harmonious marriage, research suggests.
What do you think? I’ve always thought having separate bedrooms (what the heck, separate suites) would be a fabulous way to live together with an intimiate other. You’d still get all the togetherness and sharing stuff, and of course you could still sleep together anytime you both wanted to … in fact, wouldn’t that be even sexier than always having to sleep together due to lack of space? You could take turns inviting each other over when you felt like having company, and when you felt like reading half the night or just having a comfy whole-bed-to-yourself experience you could do that too.
Well, if it’s good enough for royalty . . .
Meanwhile, the article also makes some good points about conflicting schedules, sleeping habits, etc. getting in the way of an otherwise happy relationship.
13 Tuesday Mar 2007
Posted in blogging, health & happiness, life stuff, musings
Yet another entry for engtech’s 5 things contest.
How about you?
23 Friday Feb 2007
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, musings
From today’s Grauniad.
Illness – even cancer – is the body’s way of communicating, but doctors don’t have time to listen. Psychoanalysis may take years to make you better, but it beats quick-fix therapies.
My GP in Canada was fond of saying that he treated people, not just symptoms, and it’s true that I’ve never met another doctor like him. He was well-known for being an excellent diagnostician and I think the main reason for that was that he took time to listen to what his patients were actually saying to him.
I think the article raises some good points about how health care systems tend to pigeon-hole patients far too much, though I’m not sure that everyone would benefit from psychoanalysis. Still, sometimes just being able to talk and feel like someone is really listening can make a world of difference in how we feel both physically and emotionally. It’s odd how in most western societies we often ignore the obvious connection between physical and mental well-being.
22 Thursday Feb 2007
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, musings
Do you get them?
Back in November it was suggested that the other “dreich” month of the year was February. Do you agree?
It’s a bit different here in Sevilla because, although it can be a bit rainy in February, it also starts warming up and feeling quite springlike.
What’s February like where you are?
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