{"id":8401,"date":"2005-11-28T11:13:51","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T18:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/11\/28\/body-tricks.html"},"modified":"2005-11-28T11:13:51","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T18:13:51","slug":"body_tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/11\/28\/body_tricks.html","title":{"rendered":"Body tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.menshealth.com\/cda\/article.do?site=MensHealth&#038;channel=health&#038;category=other.diseases.ailments&#038;conitem=98f183b403517010VgnVCM200000cee793cd____\" target=\"_blank\">Various suggestions<\/a> (for men, at least) on how to &#8220;naturally&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8230; deal with a persistent tickle in your throat.\n<li>&#8230; hear conversation or music better.\n<li>&#8230; overcome the urge to pee.\n<li>&#8230; ignore the pain of an injection.\n<li>&#8230; clear a stuffy nose.\n<li>&#8230; avoid acid reflux.\n<li>&#8230; cure a toothache.\n<li>&#8230; avert burns.\n<li>&#8230; keep from getting dizzy from drinking.\n<li>&#8230; prevent a stitch in your side from running.\n<li>&#8230; cut off a nosebleed.\n<li>&#8230; slow your heart rate.\n<li>&#8230; ease an ice cream headache.\n<li>&#8230; fix near-sightedness.\n<li>&#8230; wake up your gone-to-sleep hands.\n<li>&#8230; impress folks in a party.\n<li>&#8230; stay underwater longer.\n<li>&#8230; memorize stuff better.<\/ul>\n<p>I have no idea how many of these are true and how many of these are squirelly, but they sound kind of cool.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/body_tricks\/\" target=\"_blank\">J-Walk<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various suggestions (for men, at least) on how to &#8220;naturally&#8221; &#8230; &#8230; deal with a persistent tickle in your throat. &#8230; hear conversation or music better. &#8230; overcome the urge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1165,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/05\/the_cold_is_jus.html","url_meta":{"origin":8401,"position":0},"title":"The cold is just the first chapter","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Oct-01 9:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"About two weeks ago, I was laid out for the better part of a week with some sort of bug. 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