Friday, February 24, 2006

Sic transit ...

I'm wowed by the 3 stunning turnabouts coming out of the Women's Health Initative. First, there's fat, previously bad for your heart, now not a problem. Then there's that hot-flash-reducer cum great-skin hormone therapy beloved of menopausal women, now a problem and causing an increased risk of heart ailments as well as breast cancer. Finally (for the moment at least) there's that old bone strengthening standby, Vitamin D and calcium, now considered unhelpful and raising the risk of kidney stones.

In the same vein, it seems that glucosamine and chondroitin sulphate don't alleviate arthritic pain (but may in some cases).

I wish there were a moral here, but I can't come up with one.

Thursday, February 23, 2006

I vant to be alone

Finally, I've found a kindred spirit who explains what I am: an introvert. Are most, many, or just some bloggers also introverts? Are they introverts who like to communicate with other introverts? Or introverts who want to blog to extroverts? It would seem to me that the extroverts are out chatting it up in bars or bowling alleys instead of staring at typed letters on a screen.