health

The Shanghaiist reports about a KFC outlet in Hong Kong serving food out of the trash.  Apparently the staff, eager to to get home early, would stop kitchen operations, throw away all leftover food, and start cleaning up before the restaurant closes. Unfortunately,  if an unlucky customer would enter the establishment at that time then [...]
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According to my friend and uber-web-guru Ryan McLaughlin Optima-brand dog food that is available in China is tainted and a recall has been issued. It can apparently cause liver failure in dogs and Ryan’s dog Addie has unfortunately become affected by it. Let’s hope she pulls through.
The Olympics appears to be at fault for this. The [...]
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Tonight when I was buying some milk for the girls to drink, a little lady at our local grocery store approached me and told me that if I bought a box of the ‘new’ milk, they would give me a box of the ‘old’ milk for free.
I politely said no thanks… but she persisted, why [...]
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The beginning of yesterday was just a bit better, but deteriorated as it got later in the day. Mid afternoon the pain was full-on back.
Sjoerd, a very good friend of mine in The Netherlands, instantly saw the chance to become my online doctor and not only diagnosed me, but also gave me a recipe [...]
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Just woke up after a very painful night of “sleep”. In the mean time I also have developed a high fever. I did as told, kept the arm and shoulder warm, wrapped up in blankets and a fleece sweater. Well sweating I have done, but still unable to move the arm properly…
So I guess I [...]
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Something strange has happened to me and again it is related to my health. Did I start this incredible shitty and fucked up year with thrombosis and had quite a few other setbacks to deal with in 2006, i was already getting happy that the year is almost to it’s end.
Well the end ain’t the [...]
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