General Health

2 Foods That Should Be Illegal

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July 30, 2009

I know it’s heresy, and the fat food restaurant association will probably bring me up on charges, but there are two “foods” that humans and animals should not consume.  They are: Sodas, including diet sodas. French fries. I sincerely believe that these “foods” are so dangerous that they should be outlawed.  I won’t try...
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I Dropped My Donut – Do You Want It?

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July 28, 2009

Can you imagine spending four years in undergraduate school and two or three more years to get a Ph.D. and then when your proud dad (who supported you all those years) asks, “What are you working on son?” Your answer – “I’m conducting a study to see if you should eat food that you’ve...
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Do You Want Fries With That?

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July 27, 2009
Do You Want Fries With That?

We love our French fries, don’t we. Perhaps our love wouldn’t be so strong if we stopped to analyze what the nutritional consequences of downing an order of fries are. One large order (6 ounces) of French fries from your favorite fast-food restaurant gives you about 570 calories, roughly half of which are from...
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Cell Phone Danger

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November 2, 2008

This is not what we want to hear, but emerging evidence shows a link between cell phone usage and benign and malignant tumors of the salivary gland. A recent report on the American Journal of Epidemiology published findings from Israel. Researchers compared the lifetime cell phone use of 1,300 adults with 500 adults who...
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Too Old to Workout – Too Young to Die?

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September 17, 2007

How many times have you heard someone say, “After you hit 40, it’s downhill all the way?” Really? Is that true? A Nun in her 70s completed the Ironman Triathlon last year for about her 10th consecutive time! In case you don’t know, that’s a 2.4 mile open water swim in the ocean, followed...
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