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Awhile ago Stephen Power, like many unfortunate motorcyclists, got into a very serious wreck.
He didn’t die.
-But he Did break: both arms, both cheek bones, both eye-sockets, his upper jaw, his right leg so badly it needed a bone-graft, and for the hat-trick he also managed to crack his skull.
So OK, not good. But, before they decided to give 3D-reconstruction-wizard…
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1 Apple, 1 Can of Tuna, Coffee, Cigarettes & Vitamins to lose 63lbs. -or 34% of his mass in 4 months for “The Machinist”?
A little tiny bit more food, but running 4+ hour Ultra-Marathon-equivalents to lose almost as much between “Terminator Salvation” and “The Fighter”?
…-My Complaining? -OVER!…
Ever hear someone called a Fathead? Well whoever invented that sobriquet turns out to be on to something.
In addition to just plain plotting to kill you, your Fat is officially also making you easier prey on the Savannah by turning your brain into a pile of mush before it finishes you off.
[ed: your cat has not yet been formally indicted on equal conspiracy charges, but come-on…]
So: The latest salvo launched by Researchers at Georgia Regents University’s Prevention Center is a mouse study that not only showed excess amounts of body-fat produce inflammation…
Paleness Superhero, career spraytan-protester, and all-around Snooki Arch-Enemy,
Jim Gaffigan grumps his way through his thoughts on ice-cream-based health-programs & criminally-intemperate milk-varieties on Conan…
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The interesting intersection between the ‘Old’ and New sciences of Stem Cells and 3D-Printing is starting to provide some amazing developments in both Life-Extension and Replacement-Parts.
The well-known windpipe-replacement is also one of the bigger successes in that category as of late.
*However, to make these things Truly Useful, there are still quite a few obstacles to overcome.
-And now, Make that quite a few, -Minus One.
Jennifer Lawrence Lewis and her team have come up with quite an ingenious…
A lot of times when you read new health info on the internet, you have to take it with a grain of salt.
Well Eric Lipton helps shed some new light on just how bad that can get with his piece at the NYT on the shadowy showdown between the Sugar and Corn Industries and their operators (which hopefully doesn’t include the Rutgers work on Soda).
The digest reads abit like one of those old “Spy Vs. Spy” cartoons,…
In a study led by Dr. Sylvane Desrivières at King’s College in London, her team has found one of the first genes positively linked to Intelligence. …Maybe some day you Will be able to “Fix Stupid”?
Now NPTN wasn’t responsible for a lot of total IQ variance. -But its impairment Was correlated with an odd thinnness in the left half of the brain’s frontal+temporal cortexes;
Why that matters: In general, a thicker outer layer of “Grey Matter” is…
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So this interesting study came out echoing some previous thoughts on fast-carbs, and ultimately supported the idea of eating your fruit instead of drinking it.
One of the more clever things it Did do, was to note that some fruits more than others were associated with health problems like Diabetes.
But some of the other things it wasn’t really focused on, was to suggest reasons Why, or to fill in too many of the blanks.
So on that note, here are a few thoughts on it you might want to consider:…
