The Health Weblog
No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. -Or Dessert:
In the war on Fat, science has spent decades on an antidote to one main offender.
-Sugar.
Because it’s not fat that makes you fat, it’s all the stuff that ruins your blood-sugar & insulin.
And one thing all phony-sugars had in-common, is that they were a bit iffy on what exactly their compounds did once inside your body.
Now we can add a possible link to stroke & dementia to their resume, but previous research may explain why…
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As Stupid As Nascar Cartman:
Every once in awhile, a health news story comes out that is truly inspirational.
Not since Eric Cartman drinking Vagisil in his bid to qualify as a Nascar driver, has something so majestic gone public.
And though in the small “Fail-Army” part of HT there is probably none that will exceed the caution against mixing grenades & sledgehammers.
-Which to be fair, for the rational-minded among you is pretty much the same equation as career blackmail+ impossible sales goals…
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The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year!:
Around the colder months of the year, we all get a set of mixed-blessings.
Lots of fun new Winter sports, several new if inconvenient paintjobs on the landscape by Mother Nature that make everything a quiet wonder to observe.
And the inevitable disruptions in our body’s internal-balance that make us get sick in all kinds of glorious post-new-years-eve-vomit-jamboree ways.
Well CollegeHumor and U.Michigan have each gone their own unique ways to show us the different shades of awful this productivity-sapping season can go…
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Can Food Save Planet Earth?:
In this video, Eater’s Kat Odell and Nick Solares introduce us to another salvo in the war to make a better burger with its inventor, Dr. Pat Brown.
This particular version has taken over 5 years to research and launch.
And thanks to some increasingly-fancy food chemistry, Impossible Foods might be getting us a step closer to a more earth-friendly, healthier future.
And while people should have the luxury to eat what they want, and a burger won’t save the planet, every little bit helps…
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-Well maybe not quite that dire; but close. Read on:
The WHO recently put out a report that says basically All red meat, especially the smoked & salted stuff we seem to instinctively-love, is dangerous to your health and either Will or May cause colorectal, and possibly stomach, pancreatic, and prostate cancer.
This is almost exactly the same thing Harvard Medical School put out a few years ago, with very similar conclusions.
So to that end, here are a few things to think about:…
Now that they’ve been linked to some cases of Alzheimer’s, we need a prion-killer more than ever.
-Or at least something to break up the structures they form in those cases.
Because what the Yale team found out is that the Beta-Amyloid glop that normally hallmarks the disease is made worse when it runs into prions. That-is, the non-mutant,…
