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The Real Reason for “Vaccine Hesitancy”

The term “vaccine hesitancy” is being used to characterize a large percentage of people who have not lined up to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The term "vaccine hesitancy” implies a pause to reflect before getting vaccinated. It is a term that implies that people...

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Grief as deep as you Love

Grief is a complex human emotion. It can produce love, anger, confusion, depression, anxiety, regret, well you get what I am saying.

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Why you Shouldn’t Sleep on Your Breasts and Other Important Points

There’s one big problem with sleeping that most people never think about. This is an important issue, since we spend on average one third of our lives in bed. It has to do with gravity, and the pull it has on your body when it is lying...

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Is Longevity a Matter of Science, or Fate?

Billions of dollars are spent each year in an attempt to live longer lives. We are told that, with the right diet and dietary supplement, medication, exercise regimen, attitude, and body weight, we can extend our lives beyond our wildest dreams. Aging and death are the failed...

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Doctors and Lifestyle: The Blind Leading the Blind

This is a basic reason why medicine does not emphasize lifestyle or other cultural causes of disease. How can doctors tell patients to not do things that they themselves do?

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The Rich Get Richer; the Rest of Us Hang on $600 Handouts

Watching the Sunday news program can sometimes actually be an education. What a surprise to hear a Republican Representative state that Americans don't need a stimulus check! I cannot imagine what world he was living in. Perhaps it is because the...

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Locked Down by Politics, Not Pandemic

This week has been a series of dog-and-pony shows featuring the faces of Gov. David Ige, DOH Director Bruce Anderson (he who is not a medical doctor) Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell and their pet dog, Council Member Joey Manahan. For stage props, they used and abused Lt....

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Learn how to run longer, further & better

By Fabian Patterson There is this craze notion about running, that in order to run better you just need to do it a lot. Although, there’s truth to that. There’s more that goes into running than the motion of picking up and putting your...

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Thousands infected, no contact tracing – and Ige calls senate visit “inappropriate”?

UPDATE: Two days of press conferences and an announcement of further restrictions. From gathering of 10 to now, five. Ok. But nothing is being done. Today, Ige's dog and pony show was about how they are using the convention center for contract tracing. Well, what happened to...

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Nose-Picking Pointers to Help Prevent COVID-19

While everyone is busy washing their hands and coughing in their sleeves, there is an important personal hygiene issue which has been ignored as part of the lifestyle advice for COVID-19 prevention. This oversight has been inadvertent, but since this is a taboo topic, it is typically...

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