Hope for Cocoa Addicts Everywhere!
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Researchers at the University of Cologne, Germany and Italy's National Institute for Food and Nutrition have done studies on the health effects of this popular treat.
Each participant in the studies ate 3.5 ounces
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Selenium May Reduce Several Cancer Rates
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The study was originally targeted at testing efficacy of Selenium on Skin Cancer in populations where the trace mineral content is lower in the local soil. These regions include the Upper Midwest, Northeast and Florida. ...[read more >>]
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Table for 1 ?
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It is disturbing that this study neglected to count the number of inverted keg-stands or fraternity indoctrination rituals in the lives of the subjects. If those don't
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CR's Best Diets
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It turns out that Peer-Pressure wins out in the end!
I knew I should have done what all the Cool Kids were doing. Damn!
Weight Watchers comes out as CR's highest rated diet for its simplicity and high retention rate. Those weekly indoctrination meetings with free Kool-aid seem to help also.
SlimFast was their second choice
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Encouraging Research on Turmeric
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Their early results suggest it may help slow multiple myeloma and possibly other types of
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Ugly Kids Neglected More
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Damn! That explains all the accidental head injuries and extended games of hide-and-go-seek at the mall when I was 3. Mom still says she loves us all the same.
A study by the University of Alberta in Canada shows that healthy but ugly children were neglected much more than their attractive counterparts.
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Ten ways to Live Longer
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More of a reminder checklist backed up with a few medical quotes and a slide show. This Forbes article is a bit on the simplistic side.
The quality part is the few references
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Woman Loses 170 Pounds on 'Backwards Diet'
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Tricia Cunningham says she has gone from 292 to 125 in 9 months and kept it off for five years thus far.
Her secret: Eat Dinner for Breakfast and vice versa.
The real magic seems to be that she just started eating better and that she ate a large meal first and a small meal last.
Her recent second place in a bikini contest
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High fat food impedes expansion of blood vessels
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Using ultrasound and blood tests, Dr. Paul J. Nestel demonstrates that the ability of arteries to expand is reduced by roughly 25% within 3-6 hours of ingesting high-fat foods.
The upside: giving your kid a cigarette (for now) is cheaper than buying him a happy-meal.
Posted by Will on 05/ 4/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |
How Fat Kills
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How to Live to be 100
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Scientists are on the trail to decoding what makes the oldest people such amazing survivors.
In studies like: The New England Centenarian Study, a Swedish Study on Twins in 1998 and others, they are trying to separate the anecdotal from the real science, or better, use it to track down what is actually happening.
Posted by Will on 05/ 4/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |
14 Superfoods
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The Best of metaVitae.com
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"Cold Beer, Dirty Girls" by Sp!ke in Dirty = Good? and the 'Hygeine Hypothesis'
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