Tag Archives: health

Pitfalls with digital health records

April 8, 2009

The more I hear about digital national health records, the more I worry about them with regards to security. Various interpretations of the new legislation in the 2009 Stimulus bill could mean anything from implementing something like SAFEHealth, a decentralized system, to something like Google Health, which would centralize medical records. I expect that a decentralized system will not be what the government will choose. Proper usage of a decentralized system would be fine, but removes a lot of the [...]

New Doulton Water Filter

January 12, 2009

Today, we installed our brand new Doulton CP200UC+ water filter. We received it a few days ago, but had to buy a faucet fitting for it since it didn’t come with a 3/4” female faucet adapter. After $4 at Home Depot, it works perfectly. We bought ours with a fluoride filter as well as a ceramic filter, giving us the best water we’ve had in quite a while. I highly recommend these as this is the second Doulton filter I’ve [...]

Global AIDS Crisis is overblown

December 5, 2008

I “dare” to say so. This is a great article. My favorite part: “Diarrhea kills five times as many kids as AIDS,” said John Oldfield, executive vice president of Water Advocates, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that promotes clean water and sanitation. “Everybody talks about AIDS at cocktail parties,” Oldfield said. “But nobody wants to hear about diarrhea,” he said. This is interesting too: “There needs to be a rational system for how to apportion scarce funds,” said Helen Epstein, an [...]

Tracking my workouts on cool charts

November 6, 2007

I decided today that I wanted to track my calories burned per day on a nice line graph. I did it, and I think I will continue. The total is automatically calculated by the PHP data source. This was made using my Mephisto Plugin for Open Flash Charts.

Forget Fourth Meal – Try One Meal

July 12, 2007

Now I only need one meal a day! Thanks to this energy packed combo meal, I can get all the calories and protein I need for a daily sitting at my desk! And its so good for me – look at those veggies on there! When are people going to stop buying these products? At least I have heart disease on my side.