PUMPING IRONY: Puzzling Priorities

The Food and Drug Administration’s approval last month of Leqembi to treat Alzheimer’s sufferers set into…

PUMPING IRONY: Cholesterol: The Good, the Bad, and the Unpredictable

I spent a few minutes last week lying on my back inside of a large, whining…

PUMPING IRONY: Weighty Matters

For various reasons, we all tend to put on a little weight as we move through…

A Prescription for Frustration

Alzheimer’s sufferers and their caregivers no doubt cheered the June 9 decision by a Food and…

PUMPING IRONY: The Pressure Is On

There’s always been something about the ritual blood-pressure check in a doctor’s office that made no…

PUMPING IRONY: The Disease of Disconnection

I got a phone call out of the blue the other day from an old colleague…

PUMPING IRONY: Swamped?

When My Lovely Wife and I embarked on the hunt that led us to our current…

PUMPING IRONY: Worrisome Advice?

There are few scenarios as stress-producing for this septuagenarian as sitting in a doctor’s office. My…

PUMPING IRONY: Take Two Bean Sprouts and Call Me in the Morning

Among the more popular mantras that pervaded the local food co-op movement during the mid-1970s, none…

PUMPING IRONY: Eat Less, Live Longer?

I once tracked my daily caloric intake in college for a nutrition class project, and it…