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i ain’t no doctor

How Time Magazine Got Healthy Wrong

by chas on June 16, 2009

Prevention Doesn’t Healthy Make!
The new Time Magazine is out. It’s the Health Issue and it purports to tell you How to Stay Out of the Hospital. According to Time,
It’s all about Prevention.
I think they got it bassackwards. There is no relationship between Prevention and Health, and while attempting to keep yourself out of the [...]

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Pandemic Panic!

by chas on April 29, 2009

I Ain’t no Doctor
an occasional column by charles faris, hhc

Panic is fear of the natural
So here we go again, the latest outbreak of the disease that is going to

destroy civilization,
bring on martial law and enforced vaccination, or
bring the population down to a sustainable level.

Well sorry, I don’t really have the time in my day [...]

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Yoga according to David Williams

by chas on December 10, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
note: while the non-doc continues to ponder sleep, we’ve dug up this ancient document from his formative years.
If It Hurts, You Are Doing It Wrong
When he first began to teach yoga in the early 70’s, David Williams was told that the “the worst thing is to [...]

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friday afternoon update! 8

by chas on December 5, 2008

fit hits shan!
rowan, my three and a half year old, has been working the countdown lately, something like “ready, set git, go!” in that spirit i’m talking about the week when the fit hit the shan!
and that would be this week, of course, as it is friday and that’s what we do on fridays, go [...]

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monday morning motivator!

by chas on December 1, 2008

monday morning motivator: the why
good morning and welcome to the monday morning motivator. since this is a new project and you are taking the time to be involved, i thought i would take a moment to fill you in on my motivation for starting this thing up.
seven weeks ago (7 weeks already?!) i started a [...]

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i’m only sleeping 2

by chas on November 17, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Last week I began talking about sleep, how much is enough and how to get enough. I definitely came out in favor of quality over quantity, and offered up a list of important factors in getting the most out of your time asleep, going over the [...]

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i’m only sleeping

by chas on November 10, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Chas,
How much sleep is enough? I feel like I  am never getting enough, even when i am getting 8 hours in each night…I eat well, exercise daily with yoga and other, but sometimes feel like i am not getting the right amount of rest for my [...]

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Health care in America

by chas on November 3, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
All politics are internal
In the spirit of the week, and playing off my recent (and to be continued) musings on democracy, todays topic is something that has been batted about a bit from podiums all across the land during the course of this years presidential campaign: [...]

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friday afternoon update! 3

by chas on October 31, 2008

project bears fruit!
as i stated in update 1, one of my goals with this friday update has been to make friday the actual end of my week, and to transition into a work life more attuned to my son rowan’s life schedule. well, jack be nimble if i didn’t just have my entire saturday morning [...]

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Raw green smoothie!

by chas on October 20, 2008

I ain’t no doctor
a weekly column by charles faris, hhc
Oh most humble and sometimes pressed for time non-doc;
I know you are spending the week studying with your main yogi John Friend, so I thought I would ask you a simple question: how the heck am I supposed to get enough greens into my diet? I [...]

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