January 2012
3 posts
“All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Those who refuse to make New Year’s resolutions because they always break...”
– Eric Zorn
December 2011
2 posts
“If you believe, unbelievable things can sometimes be possible,”
– Tim Tebow, 12/11/11
“You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of...”
– Horace, 65 - 8 BC
November 2011
4 posts
“A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to...”
– —Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders...”
– - Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882
“So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 - 1894
October 2011
1 post
Yellow Lids Could Mean Heart Risk | Medical News... →
If you have yellow, raised patches of skin around your upper or lower eyelids, you may be at an increased risk of having a heart attack or suffering from heart disease, according to new research.
Previous research has shown these raised yellow patches — known as xanthelasmata — are deposits of cholesterol. White or grey rings around the cornea — known as arcus corneae —...
September 2011
3 posts
“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those...”
– Henri-Frédéric Amiel, 1821 - 1881
“Does running in place while on Facebook count as exercise?”
– Coca-Cola Facebook Post
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends...”
– Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
August 2011
4 posts
“It is often said that one has but one life to live, but that is nonsense. For...”
– Louis L’Amour, 1908 - 1988
“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own:
He who,...”
– John Dryden, 1631 - 1700
“People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would...”
– Chuck Swindoll
“I have learned this at least by my experiment: that if one advances confidently...”
– Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
July 2011
6 posts
“A singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God…. When you...”
– Marian Anderson, 1897 - 1993
“In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1906 - 1945
“It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.”
– Tom Robbins
“A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness;...”
– George Santayana, 1863 - 1952
“Happiness is a matter of one’s most ordinary everyday mode of...”
– Iris Murdoch, 1919 - 1999
Philosophy, faith and the Fourth of July - The... →
…Other nations have their deepest roots in ethnicity, tribal loyalty, or military conquest. America, uniquely, was dedicated to a proposition - to the fundamental, self-evident truth “that all men are created equal’’ and the political ideas that flow from that truth.
The doctrine that human beings are by nature equal is one that Americans of the Founders’ era had learned from both...
June 2011
2 posts
The Sun Is the Best Optometrist - NYTimes.com →
WHY is nearsightedness so common in the modern world? In the early 1970s, 25 percent of Americans were nearsighted; three decades later, the rate had risen to 42 percent, and similar increases have occurred around the world…
…Researchers suspect that bright outdoor light helps children’s developing eyes maintain the correct distance between the lens and the retina — which keeps...
7 Ways to Protect Your Vision - FoxNews.com →
May 2011
5 posts
Fight Aging with Music? - Ivanhoe Newswire →
Musical training may offset some unwanted effects of aging, according to a new study. Researchers found musicians excel in auditory memory and the ability to hear speech in noisy environments when compared to non-musicians…
Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in Rome Masters... →
Novak Djokovic maintained his unbeaten record in 2011 and landed his seventh title in an already astonishing year by defeating Rafael Nadal in the final of the Rome Masters.
Wow. Novak’s simply unbeatable this year! —DC
“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes by dozens...”
– Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1856-1923
New evidence that caffeine is a healthful... →
Scientists are reporting an in–depth analysis of how the caffeine in coffee, tea, and other foods seems to protect against conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease and heart disease on the most fundamental levels. Some of the newest research points to caffeine (also present in tea, cocoa, and other foods) as the source of powerful antioxidant effects that may help protect people from...
April 2011
4 posts
“I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that...”
– Willie Nelson
Cayenne Pepper May Burn Calories, Curb Appetite →
Red cayenne pepper may help burn calories and curb appetite, especially in people who aren’t used to eating it, says a new study that was partly supported by the National Institutes of Health and the McCormick Spice Company… Read more…
Another great reason to love red cayenne pepper… The spicier the better! —DC
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that...”
– Thomas Szasz - “Emotions”, The Second Sin (1973)
Thomas Szasz quotes from QOTD.org
Study Offers First Look at Asian Americans'... →
SAN FRANCISCO, CA—(Marketwire - April 4, 2011) - It’s generally known that African Americans have the highest risk for glaucoma (about 12 percent) among racial groups in the United States. They are more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic white Americans (5.6 percent) to develop this potentially blinding disease. But little was known about risks for Asian Americans until a National...
March 2011
3 posts
Yervoy, a Melanoma Drug, Wins F.D.A. Approval -... →
The first drug shown to prolong the lives of people with the skin cancer melanoma won approval from the FDA on Friday.
The drug, Yervoy, was developed by Bristol-Myers Squibb and is a novel type of cancer drug that works by unleashing the body’s own immune system to fight tumors.
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
– —Albert Einstein, 1879 - 1955
“It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth...”
– —Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, 1841 - 1935
February 2011
6 posts
How you know eyes are watching you | Psychology... →
You know that feeling you get when you’re being stared at? Out of the corner of your eye, even outside your field of vision, you can just tell someone is checking you out, sizing you up, or trying to make eye contact with you. Sometimes it almost feels like ESP, this ability to detect another person stare, because it often comes at the fringes of our awareness.
But far from being ESP, the...
Keep Sharp, Master More Languages, Delay... →
A new study shows that bilingual patients did not contract Alzheimer’s, the worst phase of dementia until five years later than their monolingual compadres. Mastering a second language can pump up your brain in ways that seem to delay getting Alzheimer’s disease later on… Read more…
“Won’t you come into my garden? I would like my roses to see you.”
– - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1751 - 1816
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m...”
– Ronald Reagan, 1911 - 2004
VisionMonday > Many Employees Don’t Use Vision... →
ORLANDO—Nearly half of U.S. employees are not taking full advantage of their company’s vision benefit, according to the second-annual Employee Perceptions of Vision Benefits survey conducted by Transitions Optical. Overall, 24 percent of employees do not elect to enroll in their company’s vision benefit, the survey said; in addition, 32 percent of those who do enroll do not utilize their benefit...
January 2011
4 posts
Holographic TV May Make 3-D TV Ancient Before It... →
Researchers have used a 2011 Microsoft Xbox Kinect to create streaming holographic video of Pricess Leia, among other things. MIT’s work is still research, achieving a few frames per second and low resolution, but it may make 3-D TV irrelevant…
Can’t wait! —DC
Macular Degeneration Rates Falling in U.S. -... →
Researchers speculate that improvements in diet, physical activity and blood pressure, as well as less prevalence of smoking, may account for the change… Read more: http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/amd_news.htm#ixzz1BKDeqGxX
'Circle lenses' a threat to eye health, doctors... →
Unsupervised use can affect corneas, eye oxygen levels
Fans who want to imitate the freakishly big eyes sported by Lady Gaga in her music video “Bad Romance” can visit dozens of Web sites to order “circle lenses,” and U.S. eye doctors aren’t happy about that. Often sold as one-size-fits-all, with no exam or prescription required, circle lenses are contacts with a...
New Hand-Held 3D Gaming Devices May Help Uncover... →
The American Optometric Association (AOA), representing America’s family eye doctors (optometrists), says 3D in movies, TV and even 3D on Nintendo’s 3DS isn’t necessarily bad for adults or children. In fact, optometrists, professional health care providers committed to children’s vision and eye health, say 3D viewing may actually help uncover subtle disorders that, left uncorrected,...
December 2010
5 posts
Hesperidin in Orange Juice Improves Hypertension... →
…To summarize the findings of this study, hesperidin, when taken in the form of either orange juice or as a supplement, appeared to significantly improve arterial elasticity, and lower diastolic blood pressure, in middle-aged overweight men… Read more…
“Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are...”
– - Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1867 - 1957
Skipping Eye Exams Is Common Despite Fear of... →
According to the (12/20, Barrow) “Well” blog, “Poor vision can lead to job loss, social difficulties, and the pain and cost of falls and accidents.” The blog entry quoted Mark G. Ackermann, Lighthouse’s president, who “emphasized that our rapidly aging population predicts a rising prevalence of sight-robbing diseases like age-related macular degeneration and...