September 9, 2009 – 2:07 pm
It’s called the Pendragon apple, and it’s been grown in England since the 12th century. “Of all the organic varieties, Pendragon was the best apple variety and contained seven of the eight kinds of healthy components at the highest levels,” said pharmacist Michael Wakeman, who, like most of the people quoted on the internet, does [...]
September 1, 2009 – 12:45 am
A couple of days ago, we reported that WHO had issued a warning concerning a virulent strain of H1N1. Well, we hope that Colombian President Alvaro Uribe doesn’t have that one, because he has just contracted Swine Flu. Uribe, 57, started feeling a bit fluish on Friday, the very same day he was at a [...]
August 31, 2009 – 12:54 am
We’re generally not the ones to fuel media hype about swine flu. I mean, really, what can you seriously do to prepare for the eventuality of infection? Not much, if anything, besides be self-aware and seek immediate medical attention when you have any symptoms. That, and if you smoke and are overweight, quit and lose [...]
August 17, 2009 – 2:53 pm
A fun new development – marijuana is apparently a potent drug in preventing osteoporosis in the elderly. This is exactly what we need. An army of thick-boned pot-smoking senior citizens roaming the alleys, sticking flowers in people’s guns like they did in the 60′s or something. I think it would be a great publicity stunt [...]
August 10, 2009 – 12:41 am
This may make you think twice about whether you want to be forever young. Brook Greenberg is 16 years old, but she’s basically a baby. Her aging gene is essentially turned off. Either that, or she never had it. And doctors are still searching for whatever it is she doesn’t have. While there’s no hope [...]
August 5, 2009 – 11:12 am
Located in our pancreas are cell clusters called the Islets of Langerhans. About 60% of these cells, called Beta Cells, are designed to transform sugar into glycogen, which is basically a chain of sugars that your body can store away out of the blood and into the liver for energy reserves. The Beta Cells do [...]
We’ve all heard the reasons to have safe sex, but what about unsafe sex? Aside from getting pregnant (which in many cases is a good thing, being that humans don’t last forever and must reproduce) possibly catching your favorite local STD, and being more fun, having sex without a condom is good for your mental [...]
Apparently, divorce can be bad for your health. So can being widowed. So says Linda Waite, a sociologist at the University of Chicago. Leave it to sociologists to make such amazingly innovative observations. But here’s the data she found. Divorced and widowed people have 20 percent more chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes [...]
While it is still summer in the Northern Hemisphere, many people are really not aware that the H1N1 flu virus, otherwise known as swine flu is still very much with us and is due to make a very unpleasant appearance in many North American and European communities once the weather starts turning cooler this fall. [...]
This may seem to hard to believe, but recent scientific findings show that certain extract ingredients found in coffee beans are proving to have a positive effect on curing bad breath, by killing harmful bacteria in the mouth. Professor Mel Rosenberg, at Israel’s Tel Aviv University, has been studying the effects of drinking coffee and [...]
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