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Sick Building Syndrome 2.0, The Office Microbiome

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Disease

Sick Building Syndrome 2.0, The Office Microbiome
edna mode from the incredibles stands in front of Lever House in NYC


Perhaps Not Modern Enough:
So back in 1952, Edna Mode’s favorite architect, Mies Van Der Rohe got beaten to the New York punch by the era-defining Lever House glass-box skyscraper.

The minimalist giant-steel-ice-cube International style went gangbusters and was copied just about everywhere.

Then a few decades later, we all inherited an accidental invention from these sealed curiosities: Sick Building Syndrome.

But today with the advent of the Human Microbiome, safety experts are finding something even more sinister: The Office Micro-Biome…

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Forest Bathing: The Road To Wellville Less Traveled. A Pre-19th-Century Practice Revived In 80s Japan That Improves Your Health. -All With Just A Calm Stroll.

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Exercise, Mind/Brain

Forest Bathing: The Road To Wellville Less Traveled. A Pre-19th-Century Practice Revived In 80s Japan That Improves Your Health. -All With Just A Calm Stroll.
mohonk mountain house postcard lake view of house 1940s


1880s or 1980s, Good Ideas Never Get Old:
In our technologically-advanced time, we have a bad-tendency toward disqualifying thoughts & theories that have come before us.

-Especially in the Sciences, old traditions that don’t have a big corporation behind them are looked at as Hokum, Superstition, & Snake-Oil.

But are they really?

Well recently, the scientists of (data) !Crazy Japan! came together and found actual scientific proof for a practice that saw it’s heyday back at the end of the 1800s.

-Getting outside and groping communing-with nature;…

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Dr. Jack Gilbert Gives Us More Reasons Dirt Is Good. This Time, For Kids!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Family, Nutrition

Dr. Jack Gilbert Gives Us More Reasons Dirt Is Good. This Time, For Kids!
dirty kid playing with sticks in forest


The Joys of Cross-Contamination:
So as children go back to school, one of the joys that comes with the territory is sickness.

Schools, ball-pits, & daycare-centers are like stock-exchanges for millions of short little typhoid-marys, infecting eachother with God knows what.

And as other scientists from Duke and IC-L have mystifyingly said before,

That may actually not be such a bad thing…

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Miraculous Halo Top Ice Cream Has Only 60 Calories A Serving. But Is It Really “Healthy” For You? 6 Main Concerns

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Miraculous Halo Top Ice Cream Has Only 60 Calories A Serving. But Is It Really “Healthy” For You? 6 Main Concerns
chocolate and vanilla ice cream cones in pint containers by Halo Top


David Slays Goliath. -With Superior Nutrition?:
So according to their own press-release, a big change happened back in July. Halo Top became the highest-selling ice cream in the country.

Which is a pretty amazing feat at only 5 years in business for Halo.

And the biggest factor in its success is the product is ASTOUNDINGLY low on calories.

So then the big question becomes, despite being in the Frozen Desert Category which is chockablock with brain-killers,

Does this mean you can actually call Halo Top “Healthy”?…

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Diet Sodas, Artificial Sweeteners Possibly Correlated w/ Increase In Stroke, Dementia. And The Missing-Piece As-To Why…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Diet Sodas, Artificial Sweeteners Possibly Correlated w/ Increase In Stroke, Dementia. And The Missing-Piece As-To Why…
close-up of fake pearls with holes drilled, varying sizes


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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Video: DNews Short; Stay Spicy My Friends! UVM Says Red Hot Chili Peppers May Extend Lifespan + Healthspan

Filed Under: Aging, Disease, Nutrition, Video

Video: DNews Short; Stay Spicy My Friends! UVM Says Red Hot Chili Peppers May Extend Lifespan + Healthspan


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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Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Weight/Fat Loss

Fast Carb Revelation? Whole Grains Might Definitively Be Better For Your Weight
golden fabric texture


A Light At The End Of The Tunnel:
So for a long time now, we’ve all been told a few conflicting things.

1) Fast-carbs are bad for you and make you fat.

2) Eat whole-grains because they’re good for you.

But studies have thus-far been less than entirely-conclusive.

Especially since the whole-grainiest people also have the healthiest habits.

But that’s all changed, because a recent study went the extra methodology mile and found something very interesting about the parts we’ve been missing…

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The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

The Economic Impact Of The Common-Cold And 3 Types of Sick People You Should Avoid
the soldier type of sick person to avoid by Jacob Andrews Caldwell Tanner and CollegeHumor


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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Video: Man Vs. Nature, Reloaded. -FIGHT!! German Nuts Explain The Coming Antibiotic Apocalypse, In A Nutshell

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll, Video

Video: Man Vs. Nature, Reloaded. -FIGHT!! German Nuts Explain The Coming Antibiotic Apocalypse, In A Nutshell


A Famous Man Once Said, “We Create Our Own Demons”:
In this video, Kurzgesagt, or “In-A-Nutshell” talks about the future of antibiotics and a few of the problems that are already beginning.

In a very Matrix-y reversal of what’s going on into an idea, they say it this way: Most of Humanity right now is collaborating on the engineering of a Superbug.

And if we don’t change in several ways, the consequences of our actions will let Nature’s worst machines win…

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MythBusters Video & MIT Study: Science Finds Coughs & Sneezes Worse Than Previously Thought

Filed Under: Disease, Video

MythBusters Video & MIT Study: Science Finds Coughs & Sneezes Worse Than Previously Thought


More Than Just Manners:
So we’ve all been taught it’s good manners+hygiene to grab a hanky or an elbow.

Well now, the strangely-obsessed fluid-dynamics researchers at MIT are putting some more weight behind that.

And anyone near as strangely-obsessed might have watched the MythBusters episode on the same subject.

What both of them found might make you reconsider leaving the house between November and March ever again…

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