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Dr. Michael Greger Says: Take Two Tablespoons of Ground Flaxseed and 100 Micrograms of B-12 Daily

Dr. Michael Greger (below) is a heavy enthusiast for incorporating ground flaxseed into one’s diet (two tablespoons per day for adults), and if you’re vegan or vegetarian he says you should be supplementing with B-12 to the tune of 100 … Continue reading

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Skip Breakfast and Lunch as a Diet Method?

I got pretty severe with myself, diet-wise, about two years ago, and stopped eating breakfast and lunch. I typically don’t eat until 2 pm, and I don’t overeat when I do start eating. Since then, I’ve dropped about 30 pounds. … Continue reading

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Quantum Dieting: Change Your Measurements, Change Your Life

An article in Seed surveys some recent research on quantum physics’s implications for common sense reality. Here’s the problem: [N]one of us perceives the world as it exists fundamentally. We do not observe the tiniest bits of matter, nor the forces … Continue reading

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2008 Election Flashback: Remember the Barack Obama Arugula Controversy?

Though it never went viral, I thought this guy’s response to Republican arugula outrage was amusing: And I found arugula being sold at Walmart and posted a picture of it:

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Wanna Live to 100? Dan Buettner Thinks He Knows How

Dan Buettner has been thinking about longevity issues for a long time, and here’s a digest of his ideas via TED TV:

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Three Days a Week; Thirty Minutes a Day

It doesn’t take all that much effort to keep your heart reasonably healthy. This today in the UK’s Daily Express: Just 30 minutes of jogging or cycling three times a week has amazing results for people with heart problems – … Continue reading

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H1N1 (Swine Flu): Listen to the CDC (Centers for Disease Control), Not Rush Limbaugh

Here’s the CDC’s recommendation regarding swine flu vaccination, as reported in the Washington Post: The first swine flu precaution that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests for parents: As soon as a vaccine is available, try to get … Continue reading

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Why Do We Have Space Diets, But Not Time Diets?

Nearly everybody, it seems, wants to take up less space in the universe (that is, be skinny), but almost nobody wants to take up less time in the universe (that is, die soon). But both space and time are just dimensions, … Continue reading

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Are You Preparing Now for Swine Flu in the Fall?

No time for complacency. According to the Daily News, if the H1N1 (“swine flu”) strain that struck Mexico especially hard earlier this year comes roaring back seriously in the Fall, America could be in for a lot of suffering: A … Continue reading

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Evolutionary Psychology and the Outdoor BBQ: You Are What You Cook?

Did cooking play a big role in making us human? A new book discusses the evolutionary pressure that cooking placed on the human body, brain, and social instincts, and Slate just reviewed it. Money quote: Cooked food, by contrast [with … Continue reading

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H1N1: Hope for a Hot May

According to a group of physicians answering questions about swine flu virus transmission at Slate.com, heat is an important factor: Cells infected with flu virus are coated in a fatty material that hardens and protects them in low temperatures. (When … Continue reading

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The New York Times on the PSA: Maybe Prostate Cancer Screening Doesn’t Matter Too Much

If you’re a male, and a Woody Allen-like hypochondriac (like me), perhaps you feel anxiety each year when you go to get your PSA blood test. Today the NY Times reports on a big study that suggests that all that … Continue reading

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A Raw and Whole Foods Diet from Before World War II

In the 1920s and 1930s Berrnarr Macfadden was a health guru, selling millions of books on fitness training and diet. Mark Adams, of the Daily Beast, tried Macfadden’s raw and whole foods diet and reports on the experience: I purchased … Continue reading

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