Which Color Tortilla Chip Is Healthiest?
A new study shows blue ’s best when it comes to packing the most nutrition into a taco shell or bowl of tortilla chips.
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Top 9 Fitness Myths — Busted!
Think you know the facts about getting fit? You may be surprised to learn how many are really fiction. Fitness Myth No. 6: If you’re not working up a sweat, you’re not working hard enough.
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Fact or Fiction?: Antiperspirants Give You Alzheimers
For some, the thought of abandoning antiperspirants gives them the cold sweats. For others, it’s the thought of using them. Underarm antiperspirants guard against odor and wetness, but could the aluminum-based compounds that reduce sweat actually cause Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer? (Scientific American Takes a Look)
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Breast implants linked with suicide in study
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who get cosmetic breast implants are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Girl dies of brain tumor after doctors tell her ‘headaches are just stress’
[A woman who had complained to her GP of severe headaches for almost a year collapsed and died of an undiagnosed brain tumour. Jennifer Bell, 22, had been told she was suffering from stress but after months of illness had finally been referred to a neurologist. But on July 3 last year- only three days before her appointment, she collapsed at home.]
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The 10 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
Want to do your body a world of good? It’s as easy as expanding your grocery list.
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Court Rejects the Right to Use Drugs Being Tested
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that patients with terminal illnesses do not have a constitutional right to use medicines that have not yet won regulatory approval. The 8-to-2 decision by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit came in a closely watched…
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Race-Based Medicine: A Recipe for Controversy
The article “Race in a Bottle,” by Jonathan Kahn, portrays the development of BiDil, the first “ethnic” drug. The controversy surrounding the medicine relates not only to scientific reasons for classifying the heart failure drug as a medicine for African-Americans but to possible commercial motivations for seeking this designation.
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9 Ways to Be the Perfect Girlfriend
We men care a lot about our relationships. We think about them all the time. We talk about them with our friends. But that doesn’t mean we’ve cataloged everything we want in a girlfriend–or figured out how to tell you what our needs are, for that matter.
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Should Trans Fats Be Banned?
Limiting and labeling trans fats in food is not enough, according to Walter Willett, an epidemiologist and nutrition professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, who argues to food manufacturers that they should be banned altogether.
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One cannabis joint as bad as five cigarettes
Smoking one cannabis joint is as harmful to a person’s lungs as having up to five cigarettes, according to research published on Tuesday. Keep potting Harry.
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7 Simple Tips on How to Workout at Home by Fitness Destinations
If you want the flexibility of working out at home, be sure to read through these 7 tips to make sure that your workouts are fun, effective, and something that you can sustain over the long-term.
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Insight into the Mind of a Genius
To gain an insight into that process, a group of specialists at a University in Japan invited the famous Japanese International Chess player Mr Yoshiharu Habu to conduct an interesting experiment.
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Graph: Leading Causes of Cancer Deaths
The 12 different cancers depicted in the graph will claim the greatest number of lives (in cancer-related deaths) in 2007.
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10 Ways That Garlic Can Improve Your Health
Folklore says that if you hang garlic around your neck, you will keep the vampires away, but garlic has many more practical uses in everyday health care. Here are 10 good reasons to make sure you keep the garlic in your diet. A clove a day may keep the doctor away!
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Child’s weight course is a family affair
Life for the Washington family has changed. Instead of fast food for dinner, they have grilled chicken and vegetables. Sugary drinks have been replaced with diet soda. Frisbee games in their yard have encroached on television time.
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Erection Pill ‘Too Potent’
Batches of a herbal sex-enhancing pill could cause “serious health consequences” after it was discovered they contained traces of a powerful “weekend erection” pill.
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Lithium and bone healing
Researchers have described a novel molecular pathway that may have a critical role in bone healing and have suggested that lithium, which affects this pathway, has the potential to improve fracture healing.
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5 Tips to Stop Smoking Immediately
First of all, you need to know why you smoke because that’s the root of the problem. You can not solve a problem unless you know cause of the problem. Here are 5 tips you can use to quit smoking immediately.
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Boston Hospital Offers Face Transplants
Brigham and Women’s Hospital has given a surgical team permission to perform partial face transplants on certain disfigured patients, making it the second US hospital that has gone public with plans to do this rare and hotly debated procedure.
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STUDY: Two popular Diabetes drugs may double the risk of heart failure
Two popular drugs used to treat late-onset diabetes may double the risk of heart failure, according to a new study. Researchers who analysed data on 78,000 patients who took Avandia or Actos to treat type II diabetes found that it increased the risk of heart failure by up to 100 percent, said the study released on Thursday.
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Color in Science: Is My Blood Really Blue?
You probably learned your basic human anatomy sometime around grade school. Textbooks said your blood was red and a scraped knee on the playground confirmed it. We bleed red because of hemoglobin, an iron-containing protein that carries oxygen throughout the body. So… Why Are My Blood Veins Blue?
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6 Canned Foods You Should Never Try!
With hurricane season almost upon us, it ’s time to start stocking up on bottled water, extra batteries and canned food. But why stick to just beans and corn? Here’s a look at some more exotic (read: disugusting!) canned foods we found.
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Is sea salt better for you than regular salt?
The main thing sea salt has going for it is happy vibes. Salt mines have long been proverbial sites of drudgery. In contrast, you rarely hear anyone gripe about having to get back to the beach.
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Blueberries reduce colon cancer risk by 57%, animal study finds
A compound found in blueberries shows promise of preventing colon cancer, according to a new study. Scientists at Rutgers University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture conducted a joint study on animals, and found that the compound, called pterostilbene, lessened pre-cancerous lesions and inhibited genes involved in inflammation.
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British scientists pioneer TB vaccine
The first vaccine against tuberculosis to be developed for 80 years has begun clinical trials. If the tests are successful, it could be available within eight years, giving medicine an important weapon for containing the resurgent disease.
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Uncircumcised men twice as likely to get HIV
An American health official urged international agencies Tuesday to step up their promotion of circumcision to slow the spread of HIV, saying that men without the procedure face greater risk of contracting the virus from infected female partners.
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New Genetic Mutations Implicated in Half of Autism Cases
HALF of all cases of male autism may be caused by spontaneous genetic mutations, say researchers who have studied the genetic patterns of the condition. Offspring who inherit such mutations are at a greater risk of having an autistic child themselves.
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Sleep Apnea: The Undiagnosed Tragedy
Obstructive sleep apnea is the most undiagnosed sleep disorder in the country, affecting about 20 million Americans. It is also a contributor to diabetes, heart attacks and strokes. Here is one man’s story.
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All-Natural Breast Enlargement
The video is about: Japanese boob fluffer makes breasts grow.This,in turn,is probably making a few penises grow. PS: If the video is authentic, it would be the best way of breasts!:) Very interesting,Enjoy it!
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Hospital bugs “remain a problem”
The number of cases of the superbug MRSA is falling in England, but the potentially more dangerous Clostridium difficile is thriving, figures show. A review by the Health Protection Agency showed hospital MRSA cases had fallen by 10% in the first three months of 2007 compared with a year ago.
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Overweight Kids: College Less Likely
Kids struggle in high school for a lot of reasons — drugs, lack of interest, trouble at home, to name a few. But a new study in the July issue of Sociology of Education highlights a factor that doesn’t immediately come to mind: obesity.
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