Jenny Craig… 36 pounds and falling!

this is what some folks think diet food tastes like...Oh, I know why you really don’t want to go on a diet. It’s because you can’t get enough to eat while fighting the diet and it tastes like sticks and leaveas… and grubs.

Hmmmmm….. well, I don’t know how to say this … but it really really has been a painless experience in losing 36 lbs… and I plan to lose 60 more.

The exciting thing is that I am starting to close the gap between Laura and me in absolute pounds lost… her percentage loss is great, but in battles like this… I change the rules… it’s absolute pounds lost that count! ha!

fresh berries...... yumIn any event , I have to crow about the french toast covered with fresh beeries we have for breakfast… it’s small… but my favorite…

Well… next wek I will be in a place that I haven’t spent much time in… the 280’s… a great weight for me… when I was in athletics… but now only a step towards my goal.

Thanks for stopping by!

Roger Freberg

Cancer Cure or false hope?

offering hopeOne of the more interesting magazines on my rack is called the New Scientist… and leave it to them to have some of the most current and interesting articles out there. I had searched everywhere and finally found the famed video of the ‘prehistoric’ ancient ‘frill shark’ caught alive off Japan on a site in New Zealand… but all I really needed to do was go to newScientist.com.

However, another diddy caught my attention… the title of this New Scientist article was “Cheap , Safe drug kills most cancers”. If the title of the article doesn’t grab you… the first few words of the article will….

“IT SOUNDS almost too good to be true: a cheap and simple drug that kills almost all cancers by switching off their “immortality”. The drug, dichloroacetate (DCA), has already been used for years to treat rare metabolic disorders and so is known to be relatively safe.”

ScienceDaily from which I have linked the picture of the DCA molecule has an interesting take on the issue.

Shands Hospital at the University of Florida has looked at using DCA in other metabolic disorders.

Hero Award... given to those who make a positive contributionCongratulations to all who have found this promising drug… forgive me for being a little ‘corny’… but you are heroes to many…. because you bring hope … and just maybe… a cure.

Roger Freberg