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...

What Happens To Your Kids When They Eat Hot Dogs?

I love hot dogs. Throw some onions on, some mustard, and maybe a little chili.  That’s why it hurts, huuuuurts I say, to read what that little projectile of yumminess is doing to us and our kids. The thing is, it doesn’t have to be this way (check out...

Video: Migraines and The Epilepsy of Pain

Ever felt that knife sticking into the back of your eye? Ever wondered WHY this happens. I talk about both of those things, along with what’s known about alternative therapies, in this segment.  For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website....

Radio Show Today

Click Here To Listen Live every Saturday at NOON EST  Today on the show:  Do guys get Man-o-pause?  “What I Love” segment talks about Breast Ironing.  Our Guest is Dr Srini Pillay, who will talk about Emotions in the workplace, and what Brain Science tells us about that.  For more...

BREAST ironing? Really?

This is NOT done to smooth out wrinkles. It’s a cultural practice in Cameroon. I read this article in CNN Health and had to share what is a truly bizarre practice.  This is so weird: mothers take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to...

Weird. Education Actually Works To Control Calories

Look at this picture!! A FAT FREE cake has that number of calories? Whoda thunk? A normal person would read that and think twice. Well a new study shows that if you give people the calorie information (so they can make a more informed choice), and they are more likely...

How To Prevent Childhood Obesity? Remember What You Have Forgotten

Get this. The calories that kids eat away from home has increased from 23.4 percent to 33.9 percent between 1977 and 2006.Those take-out foods are high in sugar and salt and synthetics and, oh yeah, calories.  “We found that … kids eat an increasing number of calories outside the...

Does Your Money Make You Sad?

It seems that, not only is it true that “Money Can’t Buy Happiness“, but it’s also associated with Sadness and Depression.  A recent study just now showed that depression rates are higher in richer countries than in low- or middle-income nations. What Did This Study Do, Actually? They took...