Another Dose of Cancer Killers on Board!

Diposting oleh good reading on Rabu, 31 Maret 2010

So far so good today...At least I got a good night's sleep. I finally broke down last night and took something to help me sleep better. You see, they give me steroids before my chemo and I keep taking them for a couple of days after chemo. Those buggers [...]
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EASTER CHICK CAKE BALLS

Diposting oleh good reading on Selasa, 30 Maret 2010

Here’s a cute treat to make for kiddie Easter parties and will totally please adults too!  These were so fun to make!  The googly eyes, beaks and feet are simply glued on with white candy melts.  I used Wilton [...]
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UNAPOLOGETIC CHOCOLATE CHUNK COOKIES

Diposting oleh good reading on Senin, 29 Maret 2010

Have you ever wanted to just have a plain old chocolate chip cookie that hasn’t been mussed with or fussed with—and wanted it now? Right now?That day came.  Today. I wanted a chocolate chip cookie that reminded me of [...]
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Good Drip

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All done with my second round of chemo. This week I got the whole "cocktail". It went fine, it was a lot quicker than last time (they were less worried about allergic reactions). I was home in less than four hours. I managed to talk them out of the [...]
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drip 2 of 6

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Off to an on-time start. [...]
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Talkin' Bout A Revolution...Jamie Oliver is much louder than a whisper!

Diposting oleh good reading on Sabtu, 27 Maret 2010

So I just finished watching the premiere episode of "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution". It is a new show on ABC that chronicles the journey of English chef Jamie Oliver as he tries to change the eating habits of residents [...]
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My Life Story

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Survive the ordeals of modern day life as you strive toward the career of your dreams in My Life Story. As a recent high school graduate living in your parents' basement, life is just getting started. It's time to find [...]
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Island - The Lost Medallion

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Pam, a young archeologist, comes home from an expedition with an ancient medallion of unknown origin. The next day, she is kidnapped and now her boyfriend, James, must track her down in Island: Lost Medallion. Travel [...]
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Ichigo Daifuku (いちご大福)

Diposting oleh good reading on Jumat, 26 Maret 2010

Two years have passed since I last promised my better half that I'll make him some Daifuku(大福); I kept putting it off... day after day, week after week, month after month (^^''') I guess it is because I am not a fan of [...]
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Interesting Articles in the AJCN

Diposting oleh good reading on Kamis, 25 Maret 2010

I just received an RSS alert for the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition's latest articles. This upcoming issue is full of very interesting material:1. Dr. Neil D. Barnard reviews food consumption patterns in the US from 1909 to 2007 (1). This is [...]
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New Issue of Scope online now: Lynch, Haneke, horror, Spanish comedy, auteurism and digital cinema

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Image from Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)Film Studies For Free is delighted, as ever, to announce that a new issue of Scope: An Online Journal of Film and Television Studies has been published.It's yet another extremely [...]
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Sixteen Days Out and Feeling Perky...

Diposting oleh good reading on Rabu, 24 Maret 2010

It's been sixteen days since they dripped the toxic cancer killing chemicals into me. I'm feeling almost normal. I think I'm a bit more tired than normal, but not bad. My taste buds returned to normal last weekend, so I've been enjoying eating all [...]
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New Review of Controlled Trials Replacing Saturated fat with Industrial Seed Oils

Diposting oleh good reading on Selasa, 23 Maret 2010

Readers Stanley and JBG just informed me of a new review paper by Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian and colleagues. Dr. Mozaffarian is one of the Harvard epidemiologists responsible for the Nurse's Health study. The authors claim that overall, the controlled [...]
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The Hollywood Left and the Blacklist Era

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Private Property - Joseph Losey's The Prowler by Matt Zoller Seitz at The L Magazine, March 2010(also see Justin Stewart's essay on this film in the same issue)A ghost town also frames the haunting final scenes of Joseph Losey's The Prowler, [...]
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my sleepy wife.

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We had an appointment with the oncologist yesterday, and then Eileen went for her weekly Herceptin drip. As you may already assume, we had to wait a long time for both appointments to commence. (I probably wouldn't be as cranky about it if I could [...]
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Fatty Liver: It's not Just for Grown-ups Anymore

Diposting oleh good reading on Sabtu, 20 Maret 2010

The epidemic of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of my favorite topics on this blog, due to the liver's role as the body's metabolic "grand central station", as Dr. Philip Wood puts it. The liver plays a critical part in the regulation [...]
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Sweet Treats

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For the past couple of weeks, my kids had to take extra lessons to prepare themselves for their national swimming tests. Both were not fast learners...base on the fact that they have been taking weekly swimming lessons for [...]
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