Quotes of the Day

For residential properties, generally it is desirable to be located near schools (but not backing on them!), near the shops (but not beside them), and with good access to freeways or arterial routes. [2001] - Dolf de Roos

If you hire a company to store your gold, it should be allocated. When you store on an allocated basis, you continue to own the gold. You pay an annual storage fee of one or two percent of your gold’s value. [2004] - James Turk

Red meat is strongly associated with cancer in the esophagus itself, whereas poultry is more strongly associated with cancer down around the stomach-esophagus border. The most protective foods for cancer at the esophagus-stomach border appear to be red, orange, and dark-green leafy vegetables, berries, apples, and citrus fruits. In a randomized clinical trial of powdered strawberries in patients with precancerous lesions in their esophagus, subjects ate 1-2 ounces of freeze-dried strawberries every day for 6 months--that's the daily equivalent of about a pound of fresh strawberries. The progression of the disease was reversed in about 80% of the patients in the high-dose strawberry group. [2015] - Michael Greger

For the treatment of neurogenic cough, I generally use just three medications alone or in combination: Amitriptyline (Elavil), Gabapentin (Neurontin), Tramadol (Ultram). [2014] - Jamie Koufman

The American Diabetes Association recommends avoiding long periods of sedentary behavior. The Association advises us to break up long periods of sitting with 3-minute breaks every half hour to improve blood glucose control. If you have a sitting job, it may take some creativity to find ways to be less sedentary. In those 3 minutes, you could walk to the bathroom and back, walk in place, do pushups against the wall, do lunges and squats, or any activity that suits you. [2018] - Joy Bauer