Recommendations from the health authorities in China for would be astronauts. More here.
Category Archives: Health
The guy who invented CPR
Wise words from Peter Safar, the guy who gave us the “Kiss Of Life”.
4st, 7lb
I eat too much to die
And not enough to stay alive
I’m sitting in the middle waiting
Cheeks sunken and despaired
Days since I last pissed
So gorgeous sunk to six stone
Lose my only remaining home
See my third rib appear
A week later all my flesh disappears
Stretching taut, cling-film on bone
I’m getting better
Kate and Emma and Kristin know it’s fake
Karen says I’ve reached my target weight
Problem is diet’s not a big enough word
I wanna be so skinny that I rot from view
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity
Stomach collapsed at five
Lift up my skirt my sex is gone
Naked and lovely and 5st. 2
May I bud and never flower
My vision’s getting blurred
My hands are trembling stalks
But I can see my ribs and I feel fine
And I can feel my breasts are sinking
Mother trys to choke me with roast beef
And sits savouring her sole Ryvitta
But I can change, my cocoon shedding
That’s the way you’re built my father said
I want to walk in the snow
And not leave a footprint
I want to walk in the snow
And not soil its purity
Kate and Kristin and Kit Kat
All things I like looking at
Choice is skeletal in everybody’s life
I choose my choice, I starve to frenzy
Too weak to fuss, too weak to die
Hunger soon passes and sickness soon tires
Legs bend, stockinged I am Twiggy
And I don’t mind the horror that surrounds me
Self-worth scatters, self-esteem’s a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
This discipline’s so rare so please applaud
Yeh 4st. 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I’ve finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel
An ode to anorexia nervosa done up in something as banal as a pop song. The song is called ’4st, 7 lb’ by the Manic Street Preachers. Creepy in a artsy way.
Damien Jurado – Caskets
A new video from my fav singer-songwriter guy is always a cause for celebration especially when it is this good. Is one of the actor suffering from Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy?
Deeply creepy 16th century Anatomy drawing
Anatomy as art by one Juan Valverde de Amusco
Malaysian doctor does her country and colleagues proud
I have had a few occasions to come in contact with Tan Bee Hooi and found her to be both professional and efficient. Death has added a new dimension to her for me; that of a beautiful human life. She has given me no choice but to forever remember her as such.
Panacea for the flu – Roots
After about 5 weeks, I am again in the throes of another bout with the flu and this time around to make things more colorful, I have an irritating hacking cough and a throat like sandpaper.
It leaves me with no option but to come to the conclusion that this year’s flu vaccine DOES NOT work. This is what I have resorted to.
Yes, roots. I have gone native. I am in the process of boiling the above concoction and will be downing the resultant “tea” in a very short while. Wish me luck people.
Smoking = Death (Part 2)
After my post on smoking, I received a few indignant comments from people who insists on deluding themselves about the effects of second hand smoke. If what they are saying is true then they might want to read how one man was awarded GBP 50, 000 for his work-related health problems.
If that is not enough, please also consider the fact that most parts of the United Kingdom have banned smoking in public places. Need I say more?
Smoking = Death
Personally I find smoking a disgusting habit. It is a common sight to see a father puffing out a cloud of death around toddlers and babies with nary a thought for the effects of second hand smoke.
So what is the elected government doing about it? Not much according to a statement by no less than the UN.
In its first comprehensive report on tobacco use in 179 countries, the U.N.s health agency said governments around the world collect more than $200 billion in tobacco taxes every year but spend less than one-fifth of 1 percent of that revenue on tobacco control, it said.
Recently WHO launched its Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2008 highlighting the infiltration of the scourge into the developing world. Download the full report here.
CDC to investigate bizarre skin condition
Imagine waking up one morning to find that you have sprouted multicolored wire-like strands of hair from your skin. For more and more people this is not a page torn from some weird sci-fi pulp novel. So much so that the American Center for Disease Control have decided to investigate the claims of these individuals.
Termed Morgellons, this bizarre condition existed as far back as the 17th century. Till now sufferers were largely thought to be delusional if not downright certifiable. Looks like the poor souls have finally got their day in the sun.
Update : More details from the CDC.
