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Giving Up Sweets And Vitamins Could Help You Live Longer

info — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 04:33:10 +0000

Giving up sweets and avoiding vitamins could help you live longer, German researchers said on Tuesday. They found that restricting glucose — a simple sugar found in foods such as sweets that is a primary source of energy for the body — set off a process that extended the life span of some worms by [...]

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A fight over fast food menus

info — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:34:37 +0000

Exactly how many calories are in that double cheeseburger or those fries? Some say we should know the calorie count so we can make healthy choices. But how we get that information has led to an all out war between fast food restaurants and the City of New York. Eyewitness News reporter Nina Pineda has [...]

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A fight over fast food menus

Spider bite could replace Viagra

info — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:26:16 +0000

A Brazilian spider delivers more than a painful bite that sends most victims to the hospital. Its venom stimulates an hours-long erection. Now scientists have figured out the chemical that seems to be responsible for the penis boost. In Brazil, emergency room staff can immediately spot the victims of a bite from the Brazilian wandering [...]

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14-year-olds ‘use cannabis daily’

info — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:39:39 +0000

Teenagers as young as 14 are using cannabis every day, according to a study by Queen’s University Belfast. The researchers found about one in 10 cannabis-smoking teenagers they surveyed were using the drug daily. Dr Patrick McCrystal said cannabis use at a young age could lead to mental illness and other problems. “These young people [...]

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14-year-olds ‘use cannabis daily’

Job strain can make you fat

info — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:50:58 +0000

New York – Being stressed out at work can make you fat, a new study suggests. The more job strain men and women reported, the more likely they were to become obese, Dr Eric J Brunner of the Royal Free and University College London Medical School and colleagues found. Higher stress levels were also tied [...]

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Job strain can make you fat

What Really Is In A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget?

info — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 21:09:16 +0000

These two paragraphs are taken directly from The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals: â€œThe ingredients listed in the flyer suggest a lot of thought goes into a nugget, that and a lot of corn. Of the thirty-eight ingredients it takes to make a McNugget, I counted thirteen that can be derived from [...]

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What Really Is In A McDonald’s Chicken McNugget?

Women Settle for Mediocre Sex, Scientist Finds

info — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:45:23 +0000

Women Settle for Mediocre Sex, Scientist Finds Women have high expectations for nearly every area of their lives, but when it comes to sex, they settle for less. And most women keep their dissatisfaction with sex a secret, leaving their partners (let alone their doctors) in the dark, said Anita Clayton, a psychiatrist who focuses [...]

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Women Settle for Mediocre Sex, Scientist Finds

Diet, exercise take off equal pounds, study finds

info — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:08:18 +0000

Eating less and exercising more are equally good at helping take off the pounds, U.S. researchers said on Friday in a study that challenges many of the popular tenets of the multibillion dollar diet and fitness industry. Tests on overweight people show that a calorie is just a calorie, whether lost by dieting or by [...]

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Diet, exercise take off equal pounds, study finds

Female orgasms are potentially a deadly shocker for men

info — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:42:42 +0000

If I’m ever reincarnated, I want to be a woman next time around,” my 56-year-old (male) friend from my high school days blurted out to me one day after we’d met up for the first time in a while. “Why?” I asked. “Because when the sex is good, it’s so much better than it is [...]

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Female orgasms are potentially a deadly shocker for men

Orgasm When You Yawn

info — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 23:51:58 +0000

Yin, Yang And Yawn Claim: The drug clomipramine has been known to cause orgasms in yawning patients. Status: True. Origins: This 1995 article quite nicely sums up the issue of clomipramine, an anti-depressant drug, having the side effects of causing some of its users to experience orgasms when they yawn: Some people prescribed an anti-depressant [...]

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Orgasm When You Yawn