Tag Archive: Tara Parker-Pope

I Liked the Old Distractions Better

When I was a kid the big distraction was sitting too close to your girlfriend on the bench front seat without a seatbelt.  Now the number of distractions seems to increase every year.  We’re not supposed to talk on the phone, text, eat, or apply makeup while we drive, and now an interesting article in ...

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A good weekend read.

I’m going to plan to post a weekend link to an interesting health care article available on-line each week.  This week is a like to an article by one of my favorite reporters, Tara Parker-Pope,  who  writes in last Sunday’s New York Times about the health benefits of marriage and the past and current research ...

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Vitamin D remains in the news

Yet one more Tara Parker-Pope NY Times article.  A good discussion of the pros and cons of Vitamin D.  February 1, 2010, 4:42 pm The Miracle of Vitamin D: Sound Science, or Hype? By TARA PARKER-POPE Imagine a ...

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Don’t worry, be happy?

“Don’t worry, be happy.”   I am probably aging myself by remembering this 1980’s hit by Bobby McFerran.   Maybe a better title for this article might be Don’t’ worry, just do your best and be as happy as you can.  Anyway, I just read a very nice article by Tara Parker-Pope in the NY ...

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