Ask the Doc by Dr. Robert Swain
One of the causes of cancer is excessive free radical damage in your cells that harms your DNA and results in some cells mutating into cancerous cells. Every chemical and toxin in you body causes free radical damage. Combined with high acidity and low oxygenation, you've got a prescription for cancer. Read More
Behind the Badge by Richard Hannibal
It is about 10:00 a.m. on a beautiful day in Morro Bay as one of three on-duty police officers quietly patrol Main Street. The peaceful atmosphere is suddenly shattered by the tense, but controlled voice of the police dispatcher —
"Attention Morro Bay units, we are receiving numerous 9-1-1 calls reporting gunshots being fired at Morro Bay High School. Gunshots can be heard in the background as witnesses call in. Units respond Code-3!"
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Best Friends by Malcolm Riordan, DVM
For at least the last ten years companion animal veterinarians have seen an alarming decline in the number of pet visits at veterinary clinics. This is despite the pet population having increased during the same period. Read More
California State Parks
Of particular interest to anyone who loves animals is the upcoming MCAS Community Program, Monday May 21, 7:00pm at SLO Botanical Gardens Oak Glen Pavillion in El Chorro Regional Park. Read More
Double Vision by By Shana Ogren
Mad Libs: You and Your Community Read More
Feel Better Forever by Brian Dorfman
Up to 80 percent of adults will experience back pain at some time in their lives. It is a leading reason for physician office visits, hospitalization and surgery. When asked about common types of pain, respondents to a National Health Interview survey indicated that low back pain was the most common. Read More
Go Green by Lawson Schaller
As noted in prior columns, California is moving toward Net Zero Energy (NZE) homes - homes that produce as much energy as they consume. This is primarily accomplished with very efficient homes that use little energy and have a solar electric system to offset that energy use. The all electric Daikin Altherma air-to-water heat pump is and will play a big role in getting home owners to NZE. Read More
The Human Condition by John Bullaro
Most of the world's population lives within a couple miles of the ocean. Here on the Central Coast of California we love our coastline. The coast has the priciest homes, considered by many to be in the most desirable areas to live, and is the destination for most tourists. People love to play in the surf, fish, swim, and boat. Yet, despite our love of the sea, humans act like there is a big flush handle by the sea shore. Read More
Medical Myth Busting by Dr. Steven Sainsbury
Heart attacks are definitely one of our biggest fears. We have become a nation of joggers, dieters, and pill takers, much of this behavior directed towards avoiding "the big one." Yet many myths surround heart attacks, not the least of which is that in order to be having a heart attack, you have to feel crushing chest pain -- "Doctor, I feel like there is an elephant sitting on my chest." Read More
Observations of a Country Squire by George Zidbeck
Seems I likely talked out loud to myself when a wee youngster, but just as likely I stopped yapping solo around age seven or eight, and began seriously and silently daydreaming. Could the serial paper 'funnies' and comic mags of the late 1930s have stimulated my quiet mental meanderings? Read More
One Cool Earth by Greg Ellis (New Column)
In last month's installment of this two-part series, you heard about the origins of hedgerows and how they could save the farm. But you don't have to be a head of lettuce to appreciate the hedgerow: Part 2 focuses on hedgerows around homes and in urban communities improving children's health, feeding you, and ultimately save the world! Enter our superhero in green: the hedgerow! Read More
Slo Coast Cooking by Elise Griffith
Did you catch April's article about an inspiring Morro Bay group who won Sunset magazine's One Block Challenge? Team Beach Tractors put together a first rate culinary celebration from foods they'd grown or raised on our cool, quiet strip of coastline. Read More
Surfing Out Of The Box by Paul Finley
As you might have guessed from some of the photos we have put up on
our articles, we have kids and we go to the beach with our kids.
Three little girls go with us to be exact. We are living proof that
going to the beach does not have to stop when you have kids. Read More
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