Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you.  For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men?  Good grief!  Get over it already!  If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?

I was reading the Newsweek website, checking out what interesting news might have come up recently, and saw an article about an eleven year old boy that was playing in his uncle’s back yard in a town in Brazil when a pit bull attacked him, biting him in the arm.  The boy, in his own defense, grabbed the dog and bit the dog in the neck!  Before the dog could resume his attack some stonemasons that were working nearby chased the dog off.  The boy lost a tooth (one of his canine teeth, ironically enough!) in the scuffle.  The boy was taken to the hospital for stitches, and the dog was taken to the local pound, where the dog may be killed.

I think it is miraculous that the boy counter-attacked, and lived to tell the tale!  Pit bull attacks are usually very vicious and I am really glad that the boy was not hurt worse. 

I’ve noticed over the years that just eating a bowl of cereal in the morning does NOT keep me “satisfied” until lunch.  Even though the cereal that I eat is the healthiest cereal that I can find that actual tastes good (I like the General Mills Multi-Grain Cheerios!) About ninety minutes later I am “starving” again.  So I try to eat something with protein in it too, if I can.  Unfortunately, most protein-rich breakfast foods upset my stomach, so it can be a toughie for me in the mornings! 

I was reading an article on the Internet that eating a big breakfast can help you lose weight.  That article basically was saying what I’ve known for years now, that if you eat a large breakfast that is heavy on the protein, you won’t be really hungry soon after and reach for those fattening snacks like donuts and muffins!

I was reading an article on the Internet about how a two-thousand year old seed has been sprouted and is growing steadily.  It has been growing for 26 months and is now four feet tall.  It is the seed of a Judean date tree that is now extinct.  Apparently several seeds of this type were discovered 40 years ago and have simply been stored until recently, when some scientists decided to try to germinate it.  I don’t know why they only tried one!  Anyway, what is cool and important about this is that they think (and hope) that the tree will have some medicinal uses. 

That gives me hope for the seeds that I should have planted last year!  Maybe I can still plant them and they’ll sprout!

I was very sorry to hear about the diagnosis for Ted Kennedy’s health over the past couple of days. His family has suffered so much loss and grief; it just doesn’t seem fair for so much of it to be heaped on one family! I just have to wonder sometimes if this is some kind of karmic justice against the entire family for ill-gotten wealth from the moonshine days of old. (The sins of the father shall be visited upon the son. I’ve heard that quote before, I think it is from the Bible, but don’t know exactly which chapter or verse. Sorry to disappoint all of you Bible-memorizing folks out there!)

Anyway, I am truly very sorry to hear about anyone having any kind of cancer nowadays. With all of the technological advances we have made in the past several decades, it seems to me that we should have found the cures for cancer, AIDS, Hepatitis, MS, and all the other horrible diseases that plague our existence. We have lost a few family members to cancer; it is not a pleasant journey. I wish Ted Kennedy and his family well.