The Udder Truth

Everyone should be drinking "raw" milk.

Man who can eat a bicycle

Something wacky for you today, and also something many of us wish we had: quite literally, a stomach made of steel. Or, at least a stomach digesting (?!) steel.

Michel Lotito (born June 15, 1950) is a French entertainer. Lotito, who was born in Grenoble, is famous as the consumer of undigestables, and is known as Monsieur Mangetout (Mister Eat-it-all). Lotito's performances are the consumption of metal, glass, rubber and so on in items such as bicycles, televisions, a Cessna 150, and smaller items which are disassembled, cut-up and swallowed. The aircraft took roughly two years to be 'eaten' from 1978 to 1980. He began eating unusual material while a child and has been performing publicly since 1966.

More bizarre people can be found over at the 10 Most Bizarre People on Earth.

Website Joe's Goals Helps Track Health

It's no surprise that the web has a vast number of resources for helping maintain health. Some of them, though, are not as obvious as others. Joes Goals, for example, is a productivity site designed to track whether you are on task or not. Think of a daily "New Year's" reminder. You get points for good actions and negative points for bad actions. In the two days that I have demoed this site, I've discovered a much better use: tracking your health.

Especially for us with IBD, keeping track of what one eats, drinks; when one takes medicine, or when one forgets can get to be mind-numbingly complicated. Not any more.

Take me: I forget lunch meds like it's my job. Therefore, I assign a positive score of 2 for lunch meds (default is one). I also like to have wine with dinner, therefore -- since it's regular -- I assign it a score of zero or neutral. At the end of the day, literally, you can see your score. If you are getting sick with cramps and stomach problems, you won't have as high a score as you would if you were feeling good, eating healthy, and the like. Give it a go! Joe's Goals is an easy registration (they only need your first name), and I haven't gotten an email from them yet.
All the best in health and "goal" setting.