Year: 2011

How To Live Forever (your individual mileage may vary)

I read a very silly study conclusion today. Ready?  Lifestyle doesn’t matter. If you want to live a long healthy life, you only need to have the genes of the Ashkenazi Jews. There. Problem solved. This work, published this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society involved 477 Ashkenazi Jews aged...

Defeating Diabetes is Easy. You just have to look like this guy.

How hard could it be, right?  A new study just out in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism says that more muscle = more control over your Type 2 diabetes. Not eat well … not be more active … not avoid Ho Hos and you’re intravenous Mountain Dew addiction.  Just add muscle...

Can chewing more help you eat less?

You mean … like a cow working her cud?  A new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that people who chew  40 times instead of a typical 15 times led to fewer calories consumed (by 12% — which would lead to weight loss of ~ 25 pounds for the average...

Colon Blow: Are These Cleanses Healthy?

It’s like Roto-Rooter for your colon. And you can “get a visual” (eww) to see why that might make common sense. However, doctors are only now looking into whether or not colon blowing actually does anything besides support the spa industry. Colon Cleansing: What does it do … actually? There’s a tube...