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Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/30/2012: 8,300 steps and 3.7 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/29/2012: 3,000 steps and 1.3 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/28/2012: 10,558 steps and 4.7 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/19/2012: 6,148 steps and 2.8 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/18/2012: 4,489 steps and 2 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/17/2012: 14,159 steps and 6.4 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/16/2012: 8,852 steps and 4 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/15/2012: 6,813 steps and 3.1 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Daily Fitbit stats

My fitbit #fitstats for 7/14/2012: 9,144 steps and 4.1 miles traveled. http://www.fitbit.com/user/22K3T6

Overuse of antibiotics are not just a human problem.

juwannadoright

Before the advent of antibiotics if a person developed an infection they either depended on their body to overcome it or they succumbed to it and died.  That we have greatly reduced the number of these deaths through dispensing pharmaceuticals is undeniable.  That’s the good news.

The bad news is that by allowing pharmaceuticals to do the work that in many cases our own bodies could and should do – by taking a prescription at every drop of a hat – we are lessening our own bodies’ abilities to fight off these infections.  And in many cases, the bugs we are fighting with drugs are becoming resistant to them.

As useful as antibiotics are I was surprised to learn that only 20% of them are taken by humans – most of the rest going to animal livestock and the vast majority of those are being fed to our chicken population. …

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