Health and fitness

CDC omits measles deaths from report? Politicized?

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So is the Center for Disease Control (CDC) easily pressured to give an answer Health and Human Services wants or are they really professional and this is legit? Answer depends on which party you belong to….? CDC omits Pennsylvania measles deaths from weekly update pending review State officials have said there were two measles-associated deaths … Read more

Grand Canyon Flash Flood. – One Dead and More than 20 Hikers Missing.

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At least one person has died after a flash flood tore through Grand Canyon National Park, causing significant damage to hiking areas. Authorities are still searching for more than 20 missing people On August 29, floodwaters pummeled Bright Angel Canyon, a ravine that feeds into the Grand Canyon, and Phantom Ranch, the lodge at the … Read more

The new therapy for pancreatic cancer

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This is a very big deal and has been widely publicized. I have friends who died too soon from pancreatic cancer. Below is the editorial from the Wall Street Journal which I’ve excerpted from. The FDA approves a new therapy against one of the deadliest cancers. Oncologists herald the small-molecule pill as a revolution in … Read more

Another major study on walking and health

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Video less than 4 minutes long. The channel has 755,000 subscribers. Note that twice the participants are labeled “suboptimal” so clearly the group was not a bunch of fitness freaks. I guess mostly they just walked. No mention of step counts – just a breakdown of how long they walked and their cardiac health.

Recovering bodies; the ten killed in the Himalaya avalanche.

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From Outside Magazine. You should be able to access it for free. Some excerpts below. They were climbing Broad Peak, the 12th highest mountain in the world. Ten climbers set out to summit the notorious Broad Peak during a narrow weather window. None of them made it back alive. This is what really happened during … Read more

How did Victorian age women get dressed – & go to the bathroom

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An amusing article – Victorian Age as in the 19th century. Turns out it took the properly dressed woman 10 to 20 minutes to get dressed. How they went to the bathroom is at the end of the article. Victorian fashion, like many aspects of British society during Queen Victoria’s reign, was defined by order, … Read more

The Moral – don’t rely on Google Maps while hiking

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Lucky there were no serious injuries. There doesn’t seem to be a paywall to see this short article. Excerpt below the link. https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/google-map-rescue-22367661.php?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us A teen hiking group trusted Google Maps on a B.C. alpine trail. It ended in a helicopter rescue. The Howe Sound Crest Trail is one of British Columbia’s most iconic alpine trails, … Read more