Posts categorized under ‘Health’

If you were given the opportunity to live forever, what would you do? Is it possible to turn down the chance to be young and healthy again the older we get?

This morning I woke up with some pretty severe lower back pain. The kind of pain that makes you say “Oh, I guess I can’t bend at the waist today.” It seems I’ve gotten old.

Today was an unscheduled day off for me as the Mrs. and I thought it would be wiser to visit a doctor sooner rather than later for my recurring chest problems.  Monday’s visit to the doctor resulted in a prescription
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Over the last decade or so I’ve been battling a bunch of minor problems such as insomnia, headaches, chest pain, and blood pressure.  Insomnia I can usually deal with as the extra waking hours can be used to analyze things
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If you would have told me five years ago that I would see a doctor at least once a month and be subject to an annual medical checkup, I would have scoffed like a Brit watching Spain win the World
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The Guardian recently featured an article by Patrick Wintour on the risks that some social media sites might carry. The article discusses a report done by Lady Greenfield warning us that sites like Facebook, Bebo, and Twitter risk infantilizing the
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The gentle sound of children laughing and playing in the nearby park wafted over a cool autumn breeze. Summer was now over and the cold clutches of winter would soon be upon the city. Sitting by the window, the ex-athlete
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Last week I was having a rather heated discussion with someone, let’s call him Kenji, at the local coffee house regarding online bullying. He had been rather adamant that people under the age of 17 should not be permitted to
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Facial hair is a funny thing. Not funny “ha-ha”, but funny in that it serves no real purpose for most men, yet continues to grow with an ever-quickening pace. Since the dawn of civilization, many men have sought to keep
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What’s the sound of one heart stopping? It’s a question that few want to know, yet a question where few minds go. To hear the beep next to the bed, like sound comfort next to the head. The fearful pain
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I’m sittin’ at a coffee table unable to see straight, watchin’ parallel lines unwind and undulate, across the steam-streaked windows the scene seems bleak, another train leavin’ home conceding defeat with a low moan. Hanging in a sky made of
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While checking out JapanSoc I happened to see a discussion regarding a post on Blogging Brad’s new site. The question brad asked was quite simple and one that many foreigners ask when living in a new country: Did Japan change
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I’m not sure what it is about viruses in Japan, but they sure pack one heck of a whollop. Two days ago I spent 15 minutes at a hospital here in Kakamigahara in order to get some money refunded, and
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