So I am on a road trip this weekend, and I'm heading to St. Louis from the Atlanta area. I'm using voice recognition software to write this article, and I don't really have access to the book of medicine while driving.

Voice recognition allows me to write articles with a hands-free headset and so basically I can have a conversation with myself and it appears as an article to you!

I've seen a few dozen or a least a half dozen, I may be exaggerating, fender bender's on the interstate today including one vehicle fire which was pretty massive. It did appear that everyone was okay. There are a lot of carpet, textile, and home lighting stores and warehouses on this section of I75 leaving Atlanta.

Regardless the damage to vehicles was definitely done and there are going to be a lot of people heading up to body supply shops for new auto parts.

So I'm getting ready to head up the mountains or head up into the mountains as I leave Chattanooga behind and head towards Nashville on Interstate 24. It is a stretch of 24 where you wind your way up and around a great big mountain, your ears start popping, and the temperature drops a couple degrees, if you're lucky (in the summer).

Then you go rapidly downhill on the other side ears popping again all the way. It's a beautiful part of the country and I mention that here in this blog because I do believe it's important for your health to live in beautiful areas. Beauty will not keep you from getting sick and beauty won't necessarily make you better, but I do feel that it can lift your spirits up. When you are thinking positively and feeling positively you have a better chance of recuperating and healing. I haven't seen anything like that in the book of medicine yet, but I suspect that they'll cover this as the book is not always scientific and often takes moral tones.

Regardless I hope you are having a good weekend or had a good weekend and I'll have more articles straight from the book of medicine soon.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Diet Profiles with MyFitnessPal
  
  

  As I go through the book of medicine, I’ve been thinking more and more about my health. I am not terribly unhealthy nor am I very overweight, however my diet is definitely not terrific.

  I thought I would get some sort of baseline assessment of what my dietary goals should be as it relates to my weight. I weigh about 173 pounds and I’m 6 foot one. I’ve recently put on about 10 pounds and I’d like to get down to an ideal weight of about 160, a very tone 160.

  I’m not trying to be a bodybuilder, but I don’t desire any excess fat either. I do work in front of a computer for many hours at a time and that lends itself to putting on a little weight around my belly. I do go jogging about four times a week for a couple miles.

  I went over to MyFitnessPal.com so I could establish a dietary profile. It only took about 60 seconds to complete this profile and get a very baseline assessment of what I might need to do.

  

  I wouldn’t have to make too many adjustments, but I would need to decrease my calories just a bit. This site all so offers a calorie counter, which I would need as I’m not very good at documenting these types of things on paper nor even understanding what it is I’m documenting.

  My wife is a lifetime member of Weight Watchers, but that just doesn’t work for me.

  The next step of courses to keep a diet journal or a food diary depending on how you want to look at it. That would definitely not be a problem for me as I journal just about everything that I do.

  I haven’t been terribly concerned about calories since I was in the military. Back then we had to worry about ensuring that we consume enough calories each day when we were in the field.That was about consuming lots of calories as opposed to today where I’m looking to consume the right amount of calories for a more sedentary lifestyle, and if I can eat healthier along the way, then even better.

• Lead Palsy
  
  

  Lead Palsy. — under some special circumstances, not at present well understood, extremely minute amounts of lead in water may prove injurious. Thus, for example, Dr. Angus Smith speaks of cases in which lead paralysis, or palsy, was apparently produced by water containing only 1/100TH of a grain of lead to the gallon.

  I’d like to veer off the topic of lead poisoning for a second and just meditate on the fact that until I engaged in reading this section of the book, I had not taken the time to learn the definition of ‘palsy’

  Is is actually an alternative to the word paralysis, and might even be a slang term or abbreviated version of the word.  My own apathetic ignorance as it relates to this word, which to my ears in 2008 even sounds a little politically incorrect, speaks to a decrease in the threat of cerebral palsy even though paralysis (palsy) is still a real problem as a result of injuries.  I might be more in tune with seeking a car insurance quote than fearing for the potential of developing palsy as a result of lead poisoning.

• Second Use of Breathing
  
  

  Second Use of Breathing. –Nor is the stupendousness all. Nature dislikes a waste of energy. In addition to and by a wise adaptation and economy, the process of respiration is made to sub serve a second use no less important than that of purifying the blood — the power of speech. The exhaled air, laden though it may be with the human detritus and off-scourings of the body, and passing through the vocal organs can be transformed into pairs of faith, songs of hope and words of good cheer, kindly encouragement and expressions of love!

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  That section definitely fits into our bizarre grammar category. As I transcribed those words from the text using Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program really had to do some backflips. It definitely stumbled a few times on that one. there so many bizarre points of view and usages of grammar in that paragraph but I’m not sure where to begin.

  I guess all start at the end. They jump into a weird peculiar and strange way of talking about the good things that people can say because they breathe air out of their lungs. Don’t blame mer if I say a curse word, blame the air I’m breathing out?

  The author didn’t try to state that exactly, but they definitely used a bunch of mumbo-jumbo and so their real meaning or intention behind their words is probably lost to the ages.