Viropiracy - because safeguarding ‘intellectual property’ is more important than saving lives (4)
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This is just a *face-palm* of epic proportions - welcome to the concept of “viral sovereignty“. This extremely dangerous idea comes to us courtesy of Indonesia’s minister of health, Siti Fadilah Supari, who asserts that deadly viruses are the sovereign property of individual nations — even though they cross borders and could pose a pandemic threat to all the peoples of the world. Before anyone jumps down my throat, yes, there is a precedent for ...
Health: CalorieLab Counts the Calories of Popular Foods and Restaurants (25)
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Web site CalorieLab provides nutritional information for popular foods and restaurants to help you keep your diet on track. With over 70,000 foods and 500 restaurants in their database, there's a good chance that if you've eaten it, it's in there. If you're looking for that one healthy item on a restaurant's menu, CalorieLab provides full menu overviews along with more detailed nutritional information for each individual item. Keeping your choices healthy and counting calories ...
Do You Know What Is In Your Soft Drink? (1)
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Today we are going to venture into a very popular area that has detrimental effects on our health. Yes indeed, soft drinks - probably one of the most toxic beverages for one’s health and at the same time one that too many of us drink on a regular basis. Hence in today’s article we are going to dissect soft drinks - consider it, the everything you ever wanted to know about soft drinks, but were ...
3 Reasons Why I Eat Slowly, And How to Do It (2)
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Image by ButterflySha (license). ”The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” Chinese Proverb ”A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.” Aldous Huxley I like to eat slowly. A meal takes thirty minutes or sometimes an hour. But pretty often I forget about this. So I thought I’d write an article about it to keep as a ...
Do You Blame Yourself or Other People? (2)
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It’s not his hospital, according to Dr. Drew, but it’s still come under fire: Celebrity physician Drew Pinsky on Thursday defended a Pasadena psychiatric hospital that has come under scrutiny for the unexpected deaths of three patients and the rape of a teenage girl in the last five months. Pardon my curiosity, but why is this a surprise? Not that he’d be defending the unit, but that really BAD stuff happened at a psychiatric hospital? ...
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Bloomberg News Accidentally Publishes Draft of Steve Jobs's Obituary [Oops] (14)
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Note to Bloomberg News employees: when you're in the system updating your draft of Steve Jobs's obituary, do NOT press publish. That, though, is exactly what happened late last night, as sleuthed by our buddies over at Gawker. Now, pre-writing obits for prominent figures such as the Steve, in good health and in bad, is totally S.O.P. in the media—so this should not be viewed as yet another non-statement on Jobs's personal health. But unfortunately, ...
New Cream Injections Promise Removal of Unwanted Tattoos (1)
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Though it's pretty much the formal antithesis of punk rock, there's a new solution for removing unwanted tattoos: Rejuvi cream is injected below the skin via tiny needles (in much the same way as tattoo ink is injected), and causes the ink to come to the skin surface, form a scab, and then drop off. Rejuvi is apparently absorbed by the pigmented cells in your skin, and bonds with the pigment, which softens the ink ...
Social factors key to ill health (3)
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Artificial is Artificial (1)
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Ziglar Pure and Simple (4)
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In my quest for eating pure I decided to stop using all artificial sweeteners. Since I love iced tea, especially with spicy food, this was a big deal for me. A typical lunch or dinner would consist of five or six glasses of tea, each one getting about three of those little pink packets of the artificial stuff. When I made this change, it wasn’t because of all the scientific studies on the possible harm ...
The Hidden Costs of Smoking (2)
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Although many people realize that smoking is bad for your health, few realize just how big of an impact it can have on your wallet. If you are finding it difficult to quit smoking the following information may just change your mind. Let’s take a look at just how expensive smoking can be. The actual cost of cigarettes - Thanks to cigarette taxes and the higher prices of tobacco, cigarettes are more expensive than ever. ...
10 Calm - Foods That Fight with Your Stress (1)
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Everyone suffers from stress. If you are jittery package of nerves, start eating for stress relief. The following nutritional strategies will not only help you to manage stress, but will also improve your general health, so that you’re calm, even in the middle of the chaos of your life. 1. Oranges - Fast Stress Relief Oranges for stress relief. It turns out that vitamin C relieves stress by returning your blood pressure and levels of ...
World's Smallest Blood Glucose Meter Gets FDA Approved: True2Go [Blood Testing] (6)
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Testing your blood glucose levels if you're a diabetes sufferer may not mean hauling around largeish devices now that the True2Go from Home Diagnostics has won FDA approval. It's the world's smallest, "about the size of a quarter"... it's just about the same size as an iPod shuffle. It's small enough to twist "on to a vial of test strips so diabetics can better manage their diabetes with the convenience of on-the-go testing," which is ...
Not so fast: West Nile virus season just starting - The Courier News (1)
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E Canada NowNot so fast: West Nile virus season just startingThe Courier News - 30 minutes agoBy STEVE LORD Staff Writer Summer may be winding down, but the big season for West Nile disease is starting up. Kane County Health Department officials this week pointed out that since 2002, when the disease first was diagnosed in the state and the ...Village issues tips on West Nile protection Skokie ReviewLI Man, 75, Dies of West Nile ...
Wisdom Teeth Can Yield Stem Cells, Scientists Say (3)
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Dental pulp from a wisdom tooth could be a new source of therapeutic stem cells, sidestepping the ethical concerns of embryonic cells, Japanese researchers claim.
Robo-skeleton lets paralysed people walk (3)
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No Gym. No Problem (1)
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Maybe it’s too expensive. Maybe you’re too shy. Some people just plain do not like the gym. It can be boring, intimidating, and it can seem somewhat redundant. The good news is there’s another way. Sports! Here we’ll take a look at what I feel are some of the most appropriate alternatives to the average gym routine. In my eyes an ideal fitness program should consist of a few key elements. Full bodied, primitive movement ...
No Gym. No Problem (1)
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Maybe it’s too expensive. Maybe you’re too shy. Some people just plain do not like the gym. It can be boring, intimidating, and it can seem somewhat redundant. The good news is there’s another way. Sports! Here we’ll take a look at what I feel are some of the most appropriate alternatives to the average gym routine. In my eyes an ideal fitness program should consist of a few key elements. Full bodied, primitive movement ...
Whoa, the stuff in pot kills germs (8)
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Good news for potheads making their annual trek to Black Rock, Nev., this week to celebrate Burning Man: A new study says that marijuana appears to fight infections. According to research published in the Journal of Natural Products, the five most common cannabinoid compounds in weed--tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabidiol, cannabigerol, cannabinol and cannabichromene--can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Think MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), which claimed more lives than AIDS in 2007 or, more recently, extensively drug-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
Map highlights 'obesity hotspots' (1)
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Humans Evolved to Fear Snakes, Not High-Risk Mortgages or Risks at Traffic Lights (1)
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(Screenshot from the film Snakes on a Plane) Is technology, made to better our lives, killing us? Kids have stopped playing on trees, and this isn’t healthy, reported TreeHugger’s Lloyd last week, citing a UK study that found more and more kids staying inside (playing on computers and video games) are avoiding risky play. According to the study, kids need the adventure of “risky” play: “Risk-taking increases the resilience of children,” said one researcher. “It ...
