Sally Squires, the Washington Post’s matchless writer on food and health, gave us six pieces of wisdom to help us survive a Thanksgiving feast, but they apply to the entire season of gastronomic excess. Ready? Here we go:1. Eat breakfast. If you skip the first meal of the day, you’re […]

Does glucosamine relieve arthritis pain? The short answer, according to the results of a long-awaited government study, is "not much." The Washington Post reports that preliminary results of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) study showed that in most people with osteoarthritis of the knee,  glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate supplements […]

Lately Geezer has been doing a lot of not thinking about anything, because not thinking about anything is essential to meditation, and meditation, we now learn, can do many wonderful things, from relieving pain to lifting depression to fighting flu. We know this from two recent stories, one in the […]

Just when we really must know which exercise machines do the best job of burning off a couple of thousand unnecessary calories, the New York Times delivers, in more ways than one, with a thoroughly useful piece in which 10 experts – physiologists, researchers, doctors and personal trainers – rate […]

In a recent post, Geezer calculated that to walk off the calories packed in a typical Thanksgiving meal, he would have to walk for nearly 10 hours, which, fortunately, is pretty close to the time it would take him to walk home from this year’s gathering of extended family at […]

Were our mothers right? Can you get a cold from being cold? The Times asks the question, but the answer comes from Family Journal, which is published by Oxford University Press. The Journal reports on a study conducted at Cardiff University’s Common Cold Centre that took 180 healthy people and […]

There’s a good reason the average age of people who choose hip replacement is 66. The operation requires the removal of so much bone that it’s hard to replace a hip more than one time, which means that if a replaced hip wears out, the hipster could end up spending […]

Researchers at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine have learned something that middle-school students have been telling each other as long as Geezer can remember, which, frankly, isn’t all that long. Beans are good for you heart. So is olive oil. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that researchers at the school […]

The profusion of great websites devoted to skiing (more on that another day) seems not to have put a dent in the daily papers’ coverage of the cool and advertising-rich territory, and Geezer thinks that’s a good thing. Ski writing from papers like the Boston Globe, The New York Times, […]

Geezer would like to mention three reasons one should not rake his or her leaves too soon. 1. Time and again, the first lawn to be swept of leaves has been shown to function as a kind of leaf magnet, attracting leaves from surrounding yards, and necessitating second or even […]