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While we’ve been busy taking apart the seriously flawed article indicting meat, we have missed celebrating a very welcome article.

February is officially Heart Disease Awareness Month, but since I don’t treat disease on this website, but rather help you to be as healthy as possible, I officially decree that in our world, February is Heart Health Awareness Month!

Decades ago, my eccentric Uncle (J Ward) produced several notable cartoon programs, starting with Crusader Rabbit, moving on to Rocky and Bullwinkle, Fractured Flickers – you get the idea.

I have written before about sarcopenia which I see as an increasing problem among folks as we age, seriously impacting quality of life when it becomes significant.

Snowed in this weekend meant movie-time, and one jewel we watched was The Company You Keep, directed by and starring Robert Redford, about some proverbial legal chickens coming home to roost decades later for some 1970’s-era radicals.

Of the various medical freebies I receive in the mail, I only read two of them.

Sauté two free-range chicken eggs, in 2 tablespoons of butter, over a very low flame. Top with an excellent quality sea salt, perhaps seasoned with seaweed flakes, slide out of the pan into a bowl, so you can scoop up all the yolk with a spoon.

Here’s a statistic for you: For every 2000 women obtaining annual mammogram screening for 10 years, 1 less woman will die of breast cancer. 20,000 mammograms will be performed.

I know your physician has your best interests at heart when he or she notices a slight increase in your LDL ("bad") cholesterol and suggests that you further eliminate fats from your diet, or consider starting a statin medication.