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This article concludes with the obvious “vary your workout routine for best results” but it does survey some interesting research on rest time between sets. For a few weeks you can spike testosterone and HGH with shorter (1 minute) rests between sets. However the difference declines by 5 weeks into a routine. Over 10 weeks, a 2.5 minute rest would show better gains.

This is a decent article, though the facts are somewhat disturbing. Anabolic steroids you inject are safer than all the methylated prohormones you swallow. Yet the safer option is illegal while the more dangerous option is not.

Once again, the monthly Ezine edition will be published as scheduled on August 1st. Subscribers will find a copy aready in the archive.

The past two monthly editions have addressed some of the less-well-known problems associated with vaccinations. We much prefer to provide positive material that informs about how to actively maintain wellbeing and, when necessary, solve health-related problems by recommending safe and constructive actions. Sometimes we need to be helpful by being a little negative like when we warn of what not to do or what to avoid.

This month we have again followed the trend established over the past two months with a main article that warns about pharmaceutical drugs. The large and wealthy drug companies complain about costs and pretend to be your friends, while pointing to their "squeaky clean" ethics, scientific methods and powerful political allies. In reality they are simply about big business and they frequently get caught out conning you with deceitful practices and poisoning people with dangerous chemicals. They are right about their powerful allies though and that's why they keep getting away with the harms they perpetrate.

The July 2009 ezine edition of The Health Gazette was published on schedule on July 1. Subscribers would have received a copy in their inbox and the archive copy was also made available.This notice was delayed due to technical difficulties on this site.

This month's main article is Part 2 of our two part series documenting what your doctor won't tell you about vaccination. Last month we noted some significant problems. These included the reasonably high vaccination failure rate, resulting in recipients having a false sense of security. We also discussed the inappropriate immune system impact that vaccinations have and the potential this provides for long-term problems and delayed diseases, quite difficult to "pin" on vaccinations.

Prevention is the best medicine.

This argument makes sense to me:

“Why would it drive private insurance out of business?” Obama said of the proposed public option. If private insurers “tell us that they’re offering a good deal, then why is it that the government, which they say can’t run anything, suddenly is going to drive them out of business? That’s not logical.”

The Republican counter-argument I have a problem with:

The Republican National Committee released a cable-TV ad saying Obama’s insurance plan would result in “putting government bureaucrats in charge instead of patients and their doctors.”

My problem is that even now we have bureaucrats deciding who gets what treatment. We all know that private health insurance companies want to make money. Sometimes that means denying certain treatments because they are expensive.