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Trying to catch a fourth wind
30 Aug 2009
August is marked by health issues – clear signs that I have taken very little care of myself. I have gained back all the weight I’ve lost during those bouts of weight-loss regimens over the past couple of years. [...]
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- Tags: 769, Health, New Balance, Running, Second Wind Running Store, Sports, Weight
Doctors hate apples
In: Health
26 Aug 2009Just this month, I’ve been in and out of clinics for a couple of ailments. I have to admit that I’m not taking pretty good care of myself recently. So much pressure to work and earn. So doctors got to love me since I’ve been handing them hard-earned money to write me prescriptions and I [...]
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- Tags: Dental, Dentist, Health, Medicine, Root Canal Therapy
This shut me up good
In: Health
9 Aug 2009Who said a career based on speaking doesn’t have hazards? For speakers and lecturers, contracting anything that affects one’s ability to speak is catastrophic. Sore throat and upper respiratory infections can render you useless. It takes quite a lot to shut me up but I guess one gets to meet his match once in a [...]
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- Tags: Canker Sore, Debacterol, Health, Singaw
Aray ko! Put@#1&%@!
13 Jul 2009The good thing about science is it keeps on interpreting things that make me understand a bit of myself better each day. I have always regarded myself as a bit of a masochist. I never thought of relating that to my curse-dominated ideolect but science has.
Keele University researchers studied the relationship of cursing with pain [...]
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- Tags: Cursing, Pain, Psychology, Science, Study
Burn, baby! Burn!
In: Health
26 Apr 2008Save for November of last year when I purchased a beat-up car, this month has got to be my most expensive month in cumulative expenses. Not that I’m complaining, it’s so just not me to spend close to not saving a single centavo of my earnings.
Anyway, I’ve been hankering about getting back into shape this [...]
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- Tags: Fitness, Health
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