The Health Weblog
He Who Controls The Spice, Controls The Universe!:
Attention Sriracha Addicts, Your time has come!
So for at least 6,000 genius years, mankind has been eating peppers of one type or another.
And as any spicy-food addict can tell you, all different kinds can add some zing to just about any food.
Especially Sriracha potato chips!
And it turns out that the spicy, bitey, hot addiction isn’t just a fun little base-jump for your mouth, it could also be Really healthy for you, too…
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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:…
Don’t let the internet-myths & exaggerations stop you. Unlike a vitamin or a drug, there will probably be insufficiently-concentrated amounts of each substance in one single beer to have a serious effect.
→So your only recourse is to just go pro & make sure to start drinking more! -For the rest of your life.
Besides believe it or not, drinking alcohol really does have actual health benefits.
Anyway, just in-case there is a grain of truth to long-term repeated-exposure benefits, and supported by the best study links we could find…
Somehow the wizards at Merck or their original researchers like CSL Ltd. have made the already-impressive Gardasil even more effective.
The new Gardasil-9 protects against even more strains of HPV than before.
The old vaccine protected against 4 varieties & had a 97% prevention rate. And those 4 strains covered 70% of all potentially-lethal HPV.
Mystifyingly, even though it covers more than twice as many strains,…
Coffee and Tea drinking have been linked [perhaps a little tenuously at times] to a whole host of health benefits, like this, this, and this.
Well now we can add another one to that growing list.
It also turns out that coffee may prevent some cancer; on your skin; -seriously.
In a study of 400,000+ participants over about 10 years, taking into account diet and some environmental factors, drinking up to 3 cups of coffee a day was associated with a 10% reduction in…
And on the subject of MD Anderson Cancer Center, that reminds me of one more thing.
Back in November, there was a health conference that both MDACC & Wired put on called Wired DATA | Life.
It was a small invitation-only shindig, mostly for people really into the health space, like doctors and biotech entrepreneurs; so it didn’t really get a lot of press coverage.
Nevertheless, for those of you interested in the subject, -ESPECIALLY- its intersection with “Big Data”, some of the segments are really not bad.
So below, there is a list…
In one of their recent updates, MD Anderson from Wired’s Data-Life Conference just put out a list of a few foods you might want to check out.
Although it seems like they tried to pick items from every every aisle in the supermarket, and none of them are linked to the studies, it’s pretty safe to assume that each and every choice on MDACC’s list is supported at least by research, if not also their own patient experiences.
Links:
MDAnderson-41 Cancer Fighting Foods[PDF]
TAKE -THAT-, CYTOKINES!!!
Fresh from stocking up the Guns ‘n’ Roses Reunion Tour with Hoffman’s other invention, Professor Peter Rothwell from Oxford and his colleagues have reported their results from Not 1, NOT Two, but THREE huge meta-analysis-studies on the magical cure-all.
And the results really are
I have to admit I was F***ing FLOORED when Harvard released a study that basically says, “If you are within 6 Degrees of Ron Swanson’s bacon-suffused prevailing-wind-fart-contrail, you’re as good as dead.”
But the more I thought of it, the more it seemed like a case of what economists like to call “Statistical-Reacharound-Surprise”, than anything else…
Funny, but don’t lose hope…
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Cartoon: Zach Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
