Viagra Can Help Fight Prostate Cancer

Viagra, taken alone, is perhaps too well-known as a remedy for certain medical problems. Now comes research from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine and VCU Massey Cancer Center suggesting that, used in combination with a powerful anti-cancer drug,…
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How Fat Are We Now?

, From the Scientific American, comes this stunning graphic showing how fast we’ve grown so fat. Click on image to enlarge it.
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Why Women Feel More Pain Than Men

First, the facts: The vast majority of chronic pain patients are women; a disproportionate number of sufferers from irritable bowel syndrome are women; ditto fibromyalgia, headaches, osteoarthritis, and acute pain after surgeries. What’s up with that, women? Geezer doesn’t know,…
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Abbott Recalls Certain Similac® Brand Powder Infant Formulas

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Replacing Carbs With Meat Brings Cancer and Heart Risks

The good news about an Atkins-like diet is that is works: it will help us lose weight. The bad news, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, is that it may increase our risk of earlier…
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Post-Workout Dip Makes Us Eat More

So it turns out that a dip in a pool is not the best finale to a workout, at least not if the workout was intended to keep the pounds off. Jeannine Stein reports in the LA Times that Australian…
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Why Big Caloric Deficits and Lots of Activity Can Hurt Fat Loss

This week, several people have brought a recent case-study to my attention and asked me for comment.  In it, a 51 year old female began marathon training along with a (self-reported) low calorie diet and either appears to have gained weight or not lost weight (she also showed a very …
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Touching Ourselves Relieves Pain

Ever wonder why we reflexively hold those parts of our bodies that hurt? Now we know: because touching our hurting parts makes at least some of the pain go away. HealthDay reports that researchers at University College London’s Institute of…
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A Cycling Fitness Tool You Can Build Yourself–For Cheap

Turns out it’s a lot easier and way cheaper to develop effective training programs for cyclists than was previously thought. A news release from the University of New Hampshire reports on the efforts UNH graduate student Jay Francis, who used…
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Eat Stop Eat Expanded Edition Review | Intermittent fasting diet for fat loss, muscle gain and health

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