Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Top Ten Weird and Bizarre Japanese Soft Drinks

Japan has a drinking problem... but if you've got a thirst for adventure, it's where you want to be.

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Soldiers Revisit Iraq in Virtual Reality

In an air-conditioned lab at Emory University, Aaron Beach is enrolled in a 5-year study designed to help Iraq vets find a new, better way to reduce or eliminate symptoms of PTSD by zipping them back to the battlefield through a high-tech, video-game-like module in which they see, smell, feel and hear what happened when them when they was there.

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Genes In Human Inner Ear Cells Restored

Researchers at the University of Virginia Health System have discovered a way to transfer genes, which they hope will restore hearing, into diseased tissue of the human inner ear. This important step brings scientists closer to curing genetic or acquired hearing loss.

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Slobs Rejoice! The 5-Second Rule Actually 30-Second Rule

In the interest of culinary science, student researchers at Connecticut College conducted exacting experiments in the dining hall and the snack bar to see how long it takes for food dropped on the floor to attract rogue bacteria.

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Babies Get More Than Secondhand Smoke

The chemical traces of cigarette smoke may show up in babies of parents who smoke, according to a new study.

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Why Michael Moore's SiCKO is a health care documentary every American must

America's disastrous health care system is heaving the country head-first into near-certain economic collapse. Just about everybody's either financially strained or going broke due to spiraling health care costs: the people, the employers, state governments and even the federal government. Multinational corporations are fleeing the United States du

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Coffee 'could prevent eye tremor'

Drinking coffee protects against an eyelid spasm that can lead to blindness, a study suggests. Can I get my morning latte put onto my medical bill?

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10 Reasons To Drink More Water

I bet you don't know how important is water for your health, figure and well-being. But drinking water is not just a trend, it's essential! Everything your body does it does better with a healthy supply of water, every system in your body depends on water. So here are 10 reasons why drinking water is good for you.

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Miracle diet pill with teeny-tiny side effect

A new diet pill available over the counter in the US promises "safe, effective weight loss". It also promises horrible incontinence. Seriously. Right there on the drug company website. They promise that you'll crap your pants uncontrollably. And they're still selling millions of these pills to eager customers.

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Boss Donates Kidney to Save Office Assistant

When doctors told Lisa White she needed a kidney transplant to stay alive, she never expected her boss to sign up as a donor.

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The Weird Things People Eat Around the World

"Half the fun of traveling is getting out and enjoying all sorts of foods you're not used to eating. A simple trip to the corner market or grocery store in a foreign land can keep you amused for hours."

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Americans making progress managing diabetes: study

Americans appear to be doing a better job of managing diabetes, with more than half of diabetics reaching recommended targets for controlling blood sugar last year, according to a survey published on Saturday.

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16 Tips to Triple Your Workout Effectiveness

You don’t want to spend long hours at the gym, but you want to get stronger, fitter, leaner, and just plain look good. It’s possible that you’re not getting the most out of your workout time. It’s possible to get a super-effective workout in 30 minutes, and only do a few workouts a week, if you maximize your workouts.

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Big Pharma and Health Insurance Companies Go After Michael Moore-Video

And it’s not limited to Michael Moore either. The 9/11 first responders that Moore took to Cuba in a pivotal scene in the movie are worried that they’ll be persecuted as well.

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If your clueless like me about spices, this guide is for you.

Spices are the basis for flavoring your barbecue. They are many and are everywhere in the world. In days of old they were a sign of wealth. They were traded, and the quest for them has spawned new nations and caused wars. Once you learn how to work with spices, you can make your own spice mixtures, to season your barbecue, and even more...

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American medical system is the leading cause of death in the US

Take two of these and die in the morning.

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HIV infection theory challenged

A longstanding theory of how HIV slowly depletes the body's capacity to fight infection is wrong, scientists say.

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Egypt mufti says female circumcision forbidden

Egypt's state-appointed Grand Mufti said on Sunday that female genital cutting was forbidden by Islam after an 11-year-old girl died while undergoing the procedure at a private medical clinic in southern Egypt. A 2005 UNICEF report on the practice showed that 97 percent of Egyptian women between ages 15 and 49 have already been circumcised.

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Internet Chefs - An expose thats been a long time coming

Despite all the reality cooking shows, TV's not where the innovative cooking action is at. The real stuff is going down on the net. Because while Rachel Ray's pocketbook (and jowls) get bigger by the second, the unknown, unsung heroes, those Internet Chefs, are creating outlandish meals with no fame or fortune in sight--just for the love.

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DARPA's Better Bionic Arm: Our Most Limb-Like Prosthetic

It's an ambitious deadline: By 2009, DARPA hopes to have a mechanical arm whose functionality is on par with a flesh-and-blood limb. A new arm developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) is just as ambitious, allowing its user to actually feel an object in his grasp.

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Would You Believe That Some Women Can See More Colors Than Most of Us?

The normal human retina's color receptors are tuned to green, blue, and red. Working together, the three give us our colorful view of the world. When one or more of those color receptors is missing the result is color-blindness. While most of us have color vision based on three channels; a tetrachromat has four.

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Beautiful Paradox: The cleanest and purest prostitute in the world

Agnes Munyiva; she could be the key to AIDS cure

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Too hot? 7 heat survival tips from the animal world

Learn from the nature how to handle the heat wave more efficiently

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New Cancer Worries For Diet Soda Drinkers

A new study on the effects of low daily doses of the artificial sweetener aspartame shows a statistically significant increase in leukemia, lymphoma and breast cancer in rats. Consumer advocates are calling for the FDA to take another look at the safety of aspartame in light of the study, but the FDA seems uninterested.

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Man With Headache Finds Bullet In Head

A woman was arrested Tuesday after her husband woke up in the middle of the night with a terrible headache and later learned he had a bullet lodged in his head.

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A Unique Look at What the World Eats

This is a fascinatingforay into what's on people's dinner tables across the globe, and is a telling visual of why the health of the Western world is in rapid decline from all our prepackaged, chemically processed and sugar-laden goods, and how much we're actually paying for the privilege.

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Pfizer Under Fire After Drug Trial

Nigerian lawyers maintain that Smai’la, 17, was among 200 children used as guinea-pigs by Pfizer during one of the worst meningitis epidemics to hit the country, in 1996. By the time that it had run its course, more than 10,000 people, many of them children, had died.

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The Downside of Getting High on Cough Syrup

A recent article in the Journal of Emergency Medicine tells the story of a 20-year-old kid from Portland, Oregon that extracted the active ingredient, dextromethorphan, from some cough syrup and tried to get high with it. Thanks to the doctors that treated him, their patient did not earn a Darwin Award.

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BREAKING: Double-blind Study Proves Cannabis Has "Clear Medical Benefits"

Smoking Marijuana, significantly increases daily food intake and body weight in HIV-positive patients, is well tolerated with no discomfort, and does not impair subjects’ cognitive performance. The study compared Marinol to smoked/inhaled Cannabis, in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial, and found clearly more benefits when inhaled.

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Potential cure for HIV discovered

In a breakthrough that could potentially lead to a cure for HIV infection, scientists have discovered a way to remove the virus from infected cells, a study released Thursday said. The scientists engineered an enzyme which attacks the DNA of the HIV virus and cuts it out of the infected cell, according to the study published in Scien

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PICTURE: How the prohibition of Marijuana started.

Hrmmm, we were brainwashed? Not in America, no way.

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Marijuana will be legal in New Mexico starting Sunday

Starting Sunday medical marijuana will be legal in New Mexico. But now the Department of Health has dropped a bombshell: It will allow people who qualify for medicinal pot to grow it in their own homes.

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Study Finds 5 Types Of Alcoholics

New alcoholism research identifies five types of alcoholics and shows that young adults account for more than half of U.S. alcoholics.

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Vaccines cause autism? It's a myth. Get over it.

It is difficult to challenge a mother's knowledge of her own child. And also to fight off the staying power of the vaccines-cause-autism theory and other such notions that verge on the irrational.

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22 Ways to Stop Feeling Tired

Every day, 2.2 million Americans complain of being tired. We all think it's because we just didn't get enough sleep. But it's our everyday habits that do us in: what we eat, how we sleep, and how we cope emotionally. Read on for some simple, recharging changes that can help you tackle all of the energy stealers in your life.

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Moms' Second Hand Smoke Exposure Linked to Psych Problems in Kids

Researchers have linked nicotine exposure from second hand smoke to serious psychological problems in children.

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15 Ways to Keep Your Brain in Shape

It’s simple. Your brain is at the center of everything you do. It’s both the supercomputer that runs your complex life and the tender organ that houses your soul. By engaging in the right activities, you can increase your memory, improve your problem-solving skills, and boost your creativity.

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Hospital, doctor visits up 20 percent in 5 years

WASHINGTON - Hospital and doctor visits in the United States have surged by 20 percent in the past five years, and the most commonly prescribed medications are antidepressants, according to statistics published on Friday.

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LAST PUBLIC PUFF : England Smoking Ban Takes Effect

Smokers across England have sparked up at work and in the pub for the last time as the ban on smoking in enclosed public places begins.

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Massachusetts Begins Universal Health Care

There is a lot of talk about overhauling health care in the United States, but Massachusetts is actually trying to do it -- again.

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Survey: Women Twice as Likely to Commit Domestic Violence

Our culture seems to be encouraging aggressive behavior in girls and women, who tend to display aggression in interpersonal relationships. It is no wonder that many young women feel that it is acceptable to kick, bite or punch a partner.

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Shoes - How they ruined your feet

"Our walk is devastating, not natural. Our feet are ruined from the first step we take in shoes."

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Your Guide to Never Feeling Tired Again

A good guide to help you get a better night sleep. There are many expected items, but a few surprising ones too.

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[pic] What does this sign mean?! Korean unisex toilet?

What on earth could this sign mean?!

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[pic] What does this sign mean?! Korean unisex toilet?

What on earth could this sign mean?!

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Success recipes most people know, but too few follow

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Blood Machine Invented Converts all Blood to Type O

A new machine that makes any blood type universal could lessen the risk of fatal transfusion mix-ups.

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The Dark Side of Soy: Is America's favorite health food making us sick?

"As I studied more, I kept running across risks associated with eating soy. Endocrine disruption? Check. Digestive problems? Check. I researched soy's deleterious effects on thyroid, fertility, hormones, sex drive, digestion, and even its potential to contribute to certain cancers."

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9 Great Reasons to Drink Water, and How to Form the Water Habit

We all know that water is good for us, but often the reasons are a little fuzzy. And even if we know why we should drink water, it's not a habit that many people form. So here are 9 powerful reasons to drink water with tips on how to form the water habit.

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Mind Control by Parasites - could they really alter human behavior?

Half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma, parasites in the body-and the brain. Remember that. Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite found in the guts of cats; it sheds eggs that are picked up by rats and other animals that are eaten by cats. Toxoplasma forms cysts in the bodies of the intermediate rat hosts.

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