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james-channing-shaw: Skim milk for cappuccino?
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Monday, February 9, 2009. Skim milk for cappuccino? So I'm waiting in line at Starbucks and the young woman ahead of me asks for a grande-chai-latte-soy-non-sweetened-caramel-extra-hot-no-water-no-foam, and the order guy rattles it off to the espresso-maker guy as if he gets 50 similar orders every day! After mid-day, to any self-respecting Italian, espresso is the thing, or possibly macchiato. In America, though, the customer is always right, and you mi...
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james-channing-shaw: Grapefruit and Erectile Dysfunction
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Thursday, November 5, 2009. Grapefruit and Erectile Dysfunction. By James Channing Shaw, MD. There is something you should know about grapefruit. It could change your life. Serendipitously, one month later, I read an article in the. British Journal of Cancer. The other link is the drug metabolism effect. Grapefruit juice is known to inhibit the breakdown of estrogen as well as many drugs, the most notable being cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins&#...
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What would Miles do?: MILES DAVIS
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What would Miles do? Saturday, March 26, 2011. I go back to a 1958 recording, already more than ten years into his career. The albums up to that time have their own swing, their own important history, but there is an album called BASIC MILES (C32025- released 1973), a collection of classic performances by Miles that is impossible to find, but if you can, listen to Stella By Starlight. Either MILES AND MONK AT NEWPORT, or the CD re-release LIVE AT NEWPORT). From the PORGY AND BESS album (1958) is an absol...
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james-channing-shaw: How to combat obesity
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Wednesday, October 21, 2009. How to combat obesity. 42 ways to combat the obesity epidemic (some more feasible than others). By James Channing Shaw. 1 Quit pretending that food is the culprit. That's like saying women are the cause of population overgrowth. The food is the problem. 3 Eat less food. 4 Get off the trans-fat bashing kick. It's not just about the trans-fat! Do you know what will replace trans-fat, now that the public is on to it? 9 Set a good ex...
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james-channing-shaw: June 2015
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Why scabs form. Plain and Simple. By James Channing Shaw, MD. Here’s what everyone should know about WOUNDS:. Wounds heal only in a humid environment. Dry skin cells, like dry leaves on a tree, are DEAD. Scabs form as nature's way of preventing the skin from drying out. Scabs CREATE a moist environment. That allows cells to multiply . That’s why wounds heal best when COVERED. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Ingro...
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james-channing-shaw: Why scabs form. Plain and Simple
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Tuesday, June 16, 2015. Why scabs form. Plain and Simple. By James Channing Shaw, MD. Here’s what everyone should know about WOUNDS:. Wounds heal only in a humid environment. Dry skin cells, like dry leaves on a tree, are DEAD. Scabs form as nature's way of preventing the skin from drying out. Scabs CREATE a moist environment. That allows cells to multiply . That’s why wounds heal best when COVERED. December 9, 2015 at 2:11 AM. Should there be another persua...
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james-channing-shaw: Winter Itch and Winter Dry Skin
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Winter Itch and Winter Dry Skin. Dryness of the Skin: Xerosis (pronounced Zerosis). James Channing Shaw, MD. If you look with a magnifying lens at very dry skin, it looks like a dry lakebed, with multiple shallow cracks. The medical name for this dryness is xerosis. How does xerosis happen, who gets it, and what can be done to treat it? Severe xerosis: this case has become. Why is winter air such a problem? When skin dries out, mo...
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james-channing-shaw: "Don't Pick That Mole"--- dispelling the myth
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Revelations, rants, and the occasional recipe. Sunday, January 20, 2013. Don't Pick That Mole"- - dispelling the myth. NEW ADDENDUM: view new video on preventing and detecting melanoma skin cancers:. Http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? My daughter recently asked, “Is it true that pulling hair out of moles or picking at moles causes them to turn into cancer? This is a melanoma, not a mole! If you pick, you’ll turn it into cancer! The cancer in question here is melanoma. CAN ANYTHING BE DONE TO PREVENT MELANOMA?
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What would Miles do?: THELONIOUS MONK: A playlist of must-listen tracks.
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What would Miles do? Sunday, May 8, 2011. THELONIOUS MONK: A playlist of must-listen tracks. Beautiful ‘off’ endings. These are descriptors that could apply to the piano playing of Thelonious Monk, whose prolific career spanned from the early 1940s to the mid 1970s. Bill Evans called him “…an exceptionally uncorrupted creative talent.”. Has much of the stylistic character that becomes refined during Monk’s career. A beautiful, tender, rendition. I’m Getting Sentimental Over You. Ruby, My Dear. Monk’...
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What would Miles do?
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What would Miles do? Tuesday, September 13, 2011. MICHAEL BRECKER: a playlist and tribute. At the time of this writing (2011), only one tenor saxophone player has gone beyond. Coltrane to a truly higher level of playing. Many have tried, some have come close, but Michael Brecker. This Brecker composition starts with a tight, up-tempo melody over sizzling ride cymbal by Adam Nussbaum. Two minutes into it, Brecker begins a solo that quickly morphs into a saxophone/drum duet that is some of the purest, ...