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:

• THE HEART AND ITS WONDERS – What the Blood Is
  
  

  THE HEART AND ITS WONDERS.
  What the Blood Is.-The blood — the pabulum of life — has not inaptly been termed “Liquid Flesh.” But it is more than that, since it contains materials so essential and so requisite for the building up and repair of every organ tissue of which the body is composed. The blood is the liquid by means of which the circulation in the body is carried on; it permeates every note and corner of the system, and is composed of a pen, colorless fluid, the plasma, filled with red discs, so small, flat and thin that it requires 3,500, placed side by side, to measure 1 inch, and no less than 18,000, placed one upon the other, to make a column 1 inch in height. These discs are continually forming and as constantly dying.

  This section started off very strange with the reference to liquid flash, I think the author would have been wise to describe her point out this reference. As were only 50 pages into the book, I have the suspicion that there are going to be many very peculiar quoted references to sources that we will never know.

  Than the author goes into his rapture about the human body and emotions of being in awe of the blood. That was somewhat to be expected.

  Then we got to something interesting as they started to talk about the red discs. I suspect he’s referring to red blood cells, and the viewer perception that they were discs as they looked at it through a microscope. It probably didn’t really know what they were looking at yet and they could only get a descriptive name.

• Saline Impurity
  
  

  Saline Impurity. — But any quantity of saline impurity exceeding thirty-five grains to the gallon renders a water unfit for the freest domestic use. Such water would be popularly designated as a very “hard” water, but a good deal of in difference is caused by the nature of the hardness, that due to sulfate of lime, and called the permanent hardness because it is not removable by boiling, being decidedly most prejudicial to health.

  Okay so I’m going to admit freely that have no idea what this last paragraph was about. I understand what saline solution is, and I understand what hard water is.  But I do not understand how the two come together in this particular paragraph and what it might mean even in the context of the previous paragraph in section. I think progress like this that I wish I had found a 100-year-old golf digest talking about golf bags and techniques as opposed to a medical journal.

• Pulmonary Veins
  
  

  Pulmonary Veins. – From this net-work of arteries and air sells the radicals of the pulmonary veins arise, and, coalescing into larger and larger branches, at length accompany the arteries and return the blood to the left auricle of the heart in a purified condition. The pulmonary arteries and veins differ from the same vessels in the other parts of the body, since the former conveys the innocent blood, and the latter arterial blood.

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  I stopped on this short paragraph as I approach some larger sections. This segment again makes a reference to the word “net-work” in a style that is now out dated. The next section takes us into Breathing and then lung capacity.