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I’ve written about Yemen before. The legendary Sheba was in what is now Yemen. There is a 3,000 year old temple of the Moon God there. And today I read this: The earliest evidence of coffee drinking comes from 15th-century Yemen. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coffee This came up because there was just a study released about health…

President Obama has stood up against the Israelis more than any previous president I remember. He is not able to publicly take a stand against them, but I believe that behind the scenes he is working very hard to oppose their aggression and start a process to reach a permanent peace settlement with Palestine. Right…

I was reading up on Wikipedia today about an herb which can lead to severe renal failure and then this one concept was mentioned which people actually believed as recently as a few hundred years ago: the doctrine of signatures. It is the idea that plants which resemble a specific body part or organ can…

A private British organization has released a new report on casualties ahead of Wednesday’s 10th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq. The non-governmental organization Iraqi Body Count says over 170,000 Iraqi civilians and military personnel died in fighting or from acts of terrorism since the start of the war on Iraq. http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20130318_05.html The attack…

There is no clear evidence that the decline in the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is linked to a reported fall in the numbers of new cases of breast cancer, as has been claimed, suggests a study in the Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. The stats and time trends neither back…

“Olive oil had the biggest satiety effect,” reports Prof. Peter Schieberle, Head of the TUM Chair of Food Chemistry and Director of the German Research Center for Food Chemistry. “The olive oil group showed a higher concentration of the satiety hormone serotonin in their blood. Subjectively speaking, these participants also reported that they found the…

Both daughters and sons from divorced families are significantly more likely to initiate smoking in comparison to their peers from intact families, shows a new analysis of 19,000 Americans. This University of Toronto study, published online this month in the journal Public Health, shows that men who experienced parental divorce before they turned 18 had…

Lately I’ve been trying to integrate more beans into my diet. With the onslaught of garbage food levelled against us all its important to make stands where possible. Lately I’ve been making a stand with my crock pot and beans. The other day I found a bag of red beans which I acquired at the…

The European Parliament is in a process of serious deliberation in which it is close to banning pornography.  That fact that it is even seriously considering amending freedom of expression is of great concern.  One would think that the European Union would be perhaps the most aggressive supporter of freedom of expression among world governments.…

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