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I like this philosophy of only offering kids tasty, but healthy, options late in the day for snacks.

Then again, Gabriel isn't often offered sweets or pastries and really, really like snacking on red pepper slices. So I'm kind of a target audience for this.

Well kids, we're coming full circle back to our parent's time. Polio is back, at least in the poorest and most overcrowded of nations.

My father has a mark on his neck from where my grandfather gave him an emergency tracheotomy in the back seat of the family car using a pocket knife on their way to the hospital because my dad couldn't breathe. And that's what a mild-ish form of polio can do to you, cause you to suffocate. I don't know if I've got it in me to cut into my child. I suppose I could if I have to but I really don't want to find out.

No word from the Jenny McCarthyites on whether they look forward to polio outbreaks within our borders due to their stupidity.

Interesting and frightening news from the world of viruses and bacteria.

Straight out of Gattaca comes news that you can be tracked by the germs you leave behind on surfaces. More on this here.

In a more dangerous to your health than you privacy story, some information on MRSA that both cleared up some myths but also put a real sense of the dangers of the virus into my awareness.

If I ever get a chance to have a garden again, I'm going to follow this scientist's advice and grow some stuff for home remedies.

Yet another thing to lay at Bush's feet: filthy drinking water.

I swear, remember when at least some conservatives followed along the Teddy Roosevelt vision of actually conserving our natural resources? Now they can't wait to ruin nature in the hopes of twisting God's arm to bring on the Rapture. Instead, the rest of us have to suffer with a polluted planet.

Thanks for nothing!

Running the gamut from cough and cold remedies to hangover cures, here's a helpful article of useful home remedies.

Now this is good to know. Apparently scalding your hands like a lobster doesn't make that much of a difference versus washing them in a temperature near the boiling point of lava.

Since I don't catch a lot of CNN anymore I don't get to hear from Sanjay Gupta that often. Here he is with a great interview, some of it focusing on our (incorrect) thoughts on the subject of "brain dead".