A friend just wrote about serious food-related health problems her children have. They're on the rise. Some sort of basic environmental problem is causing an assortment of issues. I read on AOL that a 37-year-old was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It's different from general dementia and can be diagnosed with a specific test. Again, on the rise and with ever lowering ages of onset. No comparison between these two conditions. The only commonality is, I think, environmental. When I was a freshman at Stanford, the man who coined the term "ecology" taught my bio section. He was full of horror stories related to population growth, and they're coming true. 10 years earlier, a Harvard physician named Hans Zinser wrote "Rats, Lice, and History," warning of dire consequences of overuse of wonder drugs like penicillin. Now the TV = loaded with expensive drug company ads for every imaginable aliment from insomnia to I-don't-know-what. We're causing mutations with all these meds, and the environment is making us sick in new ways we never dreamed of. Still, it's a beautiful day today.