Cooking Sometimes Best Prep For Veggies -TAKE THAT, Natalie Portman!!!

Raw-Foodies... ...

-Sooooooo Burrrrrrrrned!!!

It's anathema for people like that to get over the "Eat it as I found it"-mantra, but various forms of cooking can help develop/change the amount of nutrients that actually make it into your bloodstream, instead of just passing through you.

One of the veggies that benefits is the tomato. Raw food studies have found people deficient in Lycopene if it's not cooked. ->Viva Italia!

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Posted by Will on 05/27/08 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Generic Drugs Apparently More Profitable Than Meth, Crack, etc. -Almost ~1000% Markup

Yet another in the series of "Too Good to Wait", it's: Forget zee Whyyte Laydee! Drop Dat Blunt! -Look out, Pablo!

->CVS!;... -In- -Da- -HOUSE-!!!!<

-Apparently Generic Prescription Drugs are a more lucrative market than the rockings of the crack. -And Walgreen's is one of the chief dealers (of marked-up generics; not crack, silly rabbit ;) ).

In one study by the Freakonomics Blog,

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Posted by Will on 03/16/07 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

Ten ways to Live Longer

Hmm. Note to Self: Rich=Good. Second Note to Self: Must stop sleeping with supermodels and eating caviar; not neccessarily life-prolonging.

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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Posted by Will on 05/ 8/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |

How to Live to be 100

Okinawa or bust, -sonny!

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.

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Posted by Will on 05/ 4/05 | Comments (0) | Email to a friend |