Last night I had dinner with a gentleman from iContact.  He mentioned that his wife had been writing about her effort to change her life, live healthier, eat healthier and lose weight. 

She has been very successful at achieving her goals.  You can follow some of her journey, her experiences, and benefit from her tips and lessons learned at ChooseABetterLife.net.

I'm hoping to meet more health related bloggers today and as soon as I can find one of my missing cufflinks, I'm off to meet up with people for a couple pre-show breakfast get togethers.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Infectious Diseases from Impure Water
  
  

  Infectious Diseases from Impure Water. — the principal acute diseases which are due to impure water are cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhea and dysentery; and, although it is only within a comparatively recent. That mankind has begun to realize it’s dangerous from the source of these maladies, the accumulated evidence is already very conclusive.

  It is somewhat ironic, that 100 years ago water impurity was a serious issue.  The irony today is two fold.  The types of water impurities that many people around the world faced is no different than the water impurity challenges faced by many developing countries today.  However, instead of wiping out water impurities, we have complicated water impurity issues by contaminating water supplies and water tables with both chemicals from manufacturing processes as well as drugs from antibiotics to viagra that have been flushed away at levels that now present trace levels consumed from people and cattle alike.  Instead of improving our situation on Earth, we have made it more complex and possibly more contaminated. We don’t have the option to reset our water system memory and start all over again, and so we continue to struggle with a system that is gradually getting more dangerous for all of us.

• Composition of the Chest
  
  

  Composition of the Chest– the chest is composed of bones, cartilages, and ligaments.  Its natural form is that of a cone diminishing upward; and it affords lodgment of the heart, lungs and large blood vessels.  Its walls are formed posteriorly by the seven dorsal bones of the spinal column, and the ribs as far as the angle, the sides by the body of the ribs, and front by the ribs, the costal cartilages and the breast bone.

  This section is about as exciting as you’d expect from a medical textbook.  It’s almost unique in the fact that it has no items comments or issues that don’t seem like they would appear in a medical textbook.  Some of the descriptions seem rather basic, but even that’s a bit of a stretch to find something unique about this section.

• Iron in Water
  
  

  Iron in Water. — the presence of iron in a water, rendering it what is called Chalybeate, from the old Greek name for iron, renders it to many persons only a useful topic, but in some people it causes severe headache and serious disturbance of the digestive organs.

  When I was younger I have distinct impressions of hand pumping old farm wells to water plants and things like that in my grandparents flower gardens. The water would be a very rusty brown and smell metallic. One of the things that I am unclear about here is whether or not that ‘rusty’ color of the water was actually iron in the water or something else. I think it might have been, and I’m under the impression that Iron is less dangerous than lead, but then again any metal in your body is likely to be a bad thing.

  These days, I suppose I’d rather see one of those old water pumps incorporated and recycled into modern furniture rather than have to pump water to water the flowers by hand let alone drink it, but its again another sign of the times and the progress that has been made in 100 years.