NEWS 2010!

ATTN MEN--What Women Do NOT Want For Valentine’s 2010

By Kelly Jad'on--There are different varieties of love, but you men seem to dwell heavily on Eros, the special type of love between a man and a woman that celebrates a physical union. Eros is known as the Greek mythological figure for sexual love and beauty. His Roman counterpart is known as Amor or Cupid. You’ll recognize his wings, bow, and arrows together as a symbol of romantic love on Valentine’s Day. MORE

Michael Pollan On Food Rules (Feb 2010)

Jill Nussinow--The other day I went to see my former schoolmate, Michael Pollan, speak about his new book Food Rules. I find this ironic because in junior high and high school, I was the one who cared about healthy food, eschewing the garbage served in the cafeteria and bringing my own food to eat. I went on to get a graduate degree in nutrition and I think that Michael got a degree in English, Michael Pollancommunication or journalism. Michael Pollan became a famous writer. I became a writer with much less status but still with something to say. MORE

**5* Product Review: Fire In The Gut (Feb 2010)**

Review by Dane Rauschenberg

FirstLook: Back To Life After A Heart Crisis (Avery/2010)

Review By Arthur Rosenfeld--Surgeons tend to be “up-and-at-‘em” kind of guys, and Marc Wallack, M.D., Chief of Surgery at Metropolitan Hospital and Vice-Chair of the Department of Surgery at New York Medical College is evidently no exception. Back To Life After a Heart Crisis, written with his wife, Fox News host/anchor Jamie Colby, details his experience with quadruple bypass surgery. The book is an honest, detailed account of the surgical, rehabilitative and emotional dimensions of coming close to death, putting your life in the hands of people you don’t know, and then attempting to rebuild that (active, accomplished, stressed, and full) life once out of the hospital. MORE

FirstLook: Stay Young & Sexy With Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement

Review By Lynette Fleming--Have you lost any friends to breast cancer? Worried you might be next? Has your doctor offered to prescribe Premarin or Fosamax for the issues plaguing you before, during or after menopause … but you’re wondering about the risks? Want to look and feel your best as you age? Tired of traditional medicine and pharmaceuticals with their detrimental side effects and risks? BHRT to the rescue! MORE

FirstLook: Career GPS: Strategies For Women (Amistad/Feb 2010)

Dr. Bell is a black woman, so when she advises black women to check their Angry Black Women (ABW) attitudes at the door to the executive suite, she's sure to get attention. If a white man had said something like that -- even stating that there often is an ABW behind the stereotype -- he'd be pilloried, at the very least. Not only does Dr. Bell discuss attitudes, she gives tips on what to wear at work. One tip: ditch the severe black "corporate" look and go for bright colors. You don't have to look like a guy, she says, as long as you don't overdo it with revealing garb better suited to a party. MORE

Review: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human By Richard Wrangham

Reviewed By Susan Schenck--While researching the history of man’s diet, I found that numerous anthropologists felt cooking had some advantages that enhanced man’s evolution. I got a copy of a cooking manifesto, Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham, professor of Biological Anthropology at Harvard University. (As a side note, my husband thought this was just another of my books that promote the raw food diet—to him, being human is not a plus; we should instead identify with our divine nature!) MORE

HBO MOVIE REVIEW: Temple Grandin (Feb 2010)

Review by David Kinchen--Claire Danes is wonderful in the Mick Jackson helmed HBO movie Temple Grandin, about an autistic woman whose empathy with animals led her to develop equipment and techniques for ethical treatment of livestock. Grandin is well known for her work in autism advocacy and for developing the hug machine, designed to calm hypersensitive persons. MORE

**3*Movie Review: Dear John (Feb 2010)**

Review By James R. Holland--This reviewer saw this feature in a movie theater with only two other people, both female, in the audience. There was not a peep out of either of them at any time in the entire film. With no audience reaction to note, this review is based entirely on how this reviewer feels about the movie. Audience reaction does cause reviewers to consider that aspect of the experience when doing a review. MORE

Valentine's 2010: Are You A Tommy Girl?

By Randall Radic--......But that was then and this is now. Now there are so many perfumes to choose from. Some are sweet nothings, reminiscent of a small sad bar of motel soap. A few, though, are like a beautiful woman, whose beauty camouflages other qualities – her more abstract virtues. Two of today’s most spectacular perfumes are Tommy Girl and White Linen. Calice Becker concocted Tommy Girl, whose infrastructure is that of tea. After trying 1100 blends, Tommy Girl emerged. A radiant scent that shimmers like Prokofiev’s First Symphony. MORE SWEET SOMETHINGS

UN: "Tokyo Two" Anti-Whaling Activists To Stand Trial 02/15/2010

Tokyo, Feb 8, 2010— The Japanese government breached a series of internationally guaranteed human rights by detaining two Greenpeace activists who had uncovered major corruption in the Japanese whaling programme, according to a working group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). MORE

M. D. Anderson: 2010 Exercise Plan For 30 Minutes Every Day

HOUSTON – Being active for at least 30 minutes every day reduces your risk of developing some types of cancer. Fitness experts at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have designed an exclusive exercise plan based on this evidence that will fit into almost anyone’s lifestyle. MORE

Toyota 2010: A Widening Quality Crisis

Reviewed by David M. Kinchen--Toyota is in the midst of its biggest quality crisis ever, which is

somewhat unfortunate for the latest book on the auto industry by New York Times senior business correspondent Micheline Maynard, The Selling of the American Economy: How Foreign Companies Are Remaking the American Dream (Broadway Business, a division of Random House, 272 pages, $26.00).

The widening recall crisis facing the Japanese auto giant -- a truly global country with a big manufacturing big presence in the U.S. and more than two dozen other nations -- shows a company famous for its quality reputation that is also infamous for its inept crisis management handling of recalls involving sudden acceleration and now problems with brakes in its halo Prius model. MORE

FirstLook: Accelerating Out Of The Great Recession (McGraw-Hill/2010)

By Loyd Eskildson--David Rhodes and Daniel Stelter are Europe-based senior partners in the Boston Consulting Group. In Accelerating Out of the Great Recession they purport to offer solid advice on how American business can survive and thrive in these trying times. They begin by observing that it would take a 32% increase in China's private consumption to offset a 5% reduction in U.S. consumer spending - something they believe is not going to happen. MORE

Michelle Duggar 2010: 19 Kids--3 Tips From An OBGYN

Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D.--The Universe is speaking to Michelle Duggar and hopefully she’ll take a moment to listen. Duggar is a 43 y.o. housewife whose life is chronicled on TLC’s TV reality series, The Duggars. While it’s admirable to watch Duggar and her husband, Bob, navigate life raising a plethora of children, pregnancy and giving birth is not an entirely benign act. MORE COMMENTARY

Valentine's 2010: Taza Guajillo Chili Chocolate--A Review

Wow! Cacao bean, unrefined cane sugar, and chili. That's all, and it's all organic. If the chili/chocolate mix sounds odd, think of Mexican mole sauce - this stays close to its Aztec origins. I don't judge the preparation by what goes in, though, it's the outcome that matters. MORE

Chinese New Year 2010: Vegan Almond Cookie Recipe

Jill Blakeway, M.Sc, L.Ac.--This year Chinese New Year falls on February 14th when we will be saying goodbye to the Year of the Ox and welcoming in the Year of the Tiger. RECIPE

HealthCare 2010: Doctors Moving Toward "Cash Only" Fees

HealthCare 2010-2020: Innovation In Disease Prevention/Costs Key

FirstLook: Fifty-Nine In '84 By Edward Achorn (HarperCollins/2010)

Review By James R. Holland--

More Exciting Than Watching the Super Bowl

In the year 1884 a Providence, Rhode Island pitcher named “Old Hoss Radbourn” won 59 National League games with an l.38 ERA. That feat will probably never be equaled? Incredibly this reviewer could not put this page-turner down even while watching the Super Bowl on television. MORE

**5* Product Review: Gaiam Fat-Burning Bootcamp Workout Kit (2010)**

By Randall Radic--Only 16% of Americans engage in some form of exercise on a regular basis. Whereas five times as many – fully 80% of Americans – spend two or more hours per day watching television.

Of those who do exercise regularly, most prefer walking. Lifting weights is the second most popular form of exercise. And aerobic exercise (running, rowing, jumping rope, etc.) comes in third. READ THE REVIEW

A starboard quarter view of the Iranian Navy's second Russian-built Kilo class diesel-powered attack submarine en route to IRAN; Photo Credit: Wikipedia

Israel’s Military Option for Iran – Not “IF,” But “WHEN” (Jan/2010)

Lt Col Rick Francona (U.S. Air Force--Retired)Rick Francona--

For at least the past four years, the senior Israeli civilian and military officials have been touting Iran as the “existential” threat to the Jewish state. Military officers at the Ministry of Defense have admitted to the existence of a variety of contingency plans to address that threat. As you would expect, they are vague about what those plans actually entail, but no doubt the cornerstone of any plan will involve the use of Israel’s key power projection capability – its air force, equipped with hundreds of state-of-the-art American-built, Israeli-modified F-15 and F-16 fighters.

Easy to say – hard to do. MORE