A Good Reason For All Types Of Marriage
I did a trawl of the Internet and found this article about William Farr in the New York Times.
He was one of the founders of medical statistics and to quote his Wikipedia bio.
In 1858, he performed a study on the correlation of health and marriage condition, and found that health decreases from the married to the unmarried to the widowed.
The only problem with the study is that it was done 154 years ago. But if he got his statistics right, I suspect his results still hold.
I’m surprised that no-one has invoked William Farr in the argument on gay marriage. After all, the longer we live healthy lives can only be to the good of everybody in the population.
Let’s Stop Smoking At The Top
I am a militant anti-smoker. You will be, if you’ve lost a son because of his smoking. They’ve just had a government minister on 5 Live starting another campaign.
But it needs an example at the top of society!
Why not state on the ballot paper for all elections, whether the candidate is a smoker or not! I would never vote for a smoker!
Marmite Fights MRSA
They’ve now proven that an ingredient in Marmite fights MRSA. It’s all here in the Daily Telegraph.
C was a great eater of Marmite and never got MRSA. I haven’t had it either, so perhaps sleeping with a Marmite eater for forty years is good protection.
The Price Of Wheat
The BBC is reporting that the price of wheat is going up, due to the bad weather.
Do I care?
Not really! As wheat and its dreaded gluten are a poison to me.
Have I Got Raynaud’s Phenomenon?
For the last few months my left hand and foot have been permanently cold and searching for this on reputable health sites leads me to Raynaud’s Phenomenon.
It is something that is linked to various auto-immune diseases like coeliac disease. Many sites say it is rather common and it is not the first time in my life, that I’ve suffered from cold in my left hand. About twenty years ago, whilst under severe financial stress, I suffered from it and went to see the doctor. It got better when the stress was removed by the sale of a company for a large amount of money.
Now, over the last few years, I have been under extreme stress and lately there has been a financial worry, as to whether my house will sell. It now has and I am now reasonably financially secure.
So let’s hope that is the end of it.
The Totally Flat Floor Of A New Bus For London
As someone who travels on buses a lot, all buses should be like this on the lower deck.
The Totally Flat Floor Of A New Bus For London
The picture was taken from the back looking forward.
I think only the New Bus for London has such a flat floor. The conductor told me, it makes things a lot easier for both himself and the passengers.
Incidentally, I had to run and catch this bus. In the end I jumped onto the rear platform after a forty metre sprint. Not bad for a sixty-five year old after a stroke, with a dicky heart.
try doing that on any other bus.
Has London Got Friendlier?
Every Sunday morning, I take the Overground to Shadwell, where I switch to the DLR and go to Royal Victoria station, from where I get the Emirates Air-Line over the Thames to the O2. From there, I go to Canary Wharf station, where I have a late breakfast in Carluccio’s. This was my intension this morning, but I left my Oystercard behind, so I took the Jubilee line from Canning Town station to get to Canary Wharf. I’ve done it now perhaps six or seven times and it allows me to get a good view on the mood of London. Today everybody was very chatty and there was a generally friendly mood.
This wasn’t the first time, that I’ve noticed this upbeat mood on a personal level in recent weeks. One particular feature, is that I’ve had more talks with black people lately, than I’ve ever had in my past sixty-odd years. Could it be, that the Olympics is helping us to live together better, as in fact we all have more common interests, than those things that divide us?
In one instance, I walked away from a bus, with a black woman about my age, chatting about our health problems, both of us remarking that twenty years before, we’d have probably not said a word.
If this is the legacy of 2012, I’m all for it! Or is it just that finally we’ve developed a modern society?
Drinking My Way Back To Health
I got severely dehydrated in this house, due to the high solar gain , which caused temperatures of over thirty with zero humidity.
On the One Show on the BBC a few weeks ago, a guy from Loughborough University, suggested using milk as an electrolyte to help athletes recovery. Searching the Internet, found a few serious papers on the subject from reputable Universities. Since then, I’ve been drinking a couple of glasses of goat’s milk each day and my various pains and bad throat seems to have calmed down.
Last winter, I didn’t suffer to the same extent, but I did remark to a doctor, that I felt cappuccinos helped.
Obviously, the air-conditioning is helping too and the temperature now is about 24°C with about a 50% humidity.
Ian Brady
The lead story on the BBC is Ian Brady. Why are the news media and the public so obsessed with this gruesome man?
He should just be left to rot in his cell. And when he does die, the story should be given little publicity.
I know it’s bad for the mother of his still undiscovered victim, but nothing will bring the victim back and it just makes it so much worse for all the others in the area, who lost a child to Brady or might have.
I speak as someone, who lost a son prematurely to pancreatic cancer. That is in many ways different. but I do feel guilty at times, that I didn’t do more to stop him smoking and get properly medically tested when his health started to go downhill. Now he’s gone, there’s just a big hole in my life!
Strangely, the case could be an argument against the death penalty. If Brady had been hung, there would now be no chance of recovering Keith Bennett’s body. On the other hand, Brady is now 74, so he’s been lucky in some ways to still be on this world.
The phone-in on BBC Radio 5 will probably about Ian Brady and/or the death penalty. I’m going out to do something more productive.
Coeliac Disease And Atrial Fibrillation
I’ve got both and according to this study, if you have coeliac disease, you’re more likely to have atrial fibrillation.
Which I’ve got and is generally considered by my doctors to be the cause of my strokes
This is another problem to add to a long list of those caused by coeliac disease.
The Anonymous Widower 