Health
Scary celeb diet tricks you should avoid
They may say they just have good genes, but you deserve to know: Many stars are jogging their butts off, and some resort to unsafe, even illegal weight-loss practices, say insiders. “To be fair, a lot of the top women are doing the right things: eating healthy and exercising, but not obsessively,” says Beverly Hills trainer Gunnar Peterson. “It’s the up-and-coming women who I often see starving and going to crazy extremes.” Here’s the silly stuff they’re doing — and the healthy, longer-lasting alternatives you should try instead.
Your Lemon Juice Diet 24-hour Mini Detox
A body and mind starved of nutrients and overloaded with toxins is one of the major causes of poor digestion, blood sugar swings and the resulting fatigue, mood swings and weight gain.
We Tried It: Cabbage Soup Diet - For Day 1
What is the Cabbage Soup Diet?
The Cabbage Soup Diet is a weight loss program designed around heavy consumption of a low-calorie soup over the course of seven days. However, it is important to note that this is not intended as a long-term regimen.
Drink water, get drugged
I’ve been wondering why I felt so
buzzed after a few slugs of my local sewage water. I always thought it was a natural high.
Can you spot your home town?
At least one pharmaceutical or byproduct was detected in testing within the watersheds of 28 major metropolitan areas, according to an Associated Press survey of 62 major water providers and data obtained from independent researchers.
Cotinine Among Drugs in Drinking Water in the US
AP probe shows drugs coming through drinking water
Traveling throughout the US? Forget worrying about where you’ll find hormone and antibiotic-free milk. You’ve got a bigger problem if you drink water. Antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers, sex hormones - are now all available free in your drinking water.
Tooth transplant restores vision
A man has had his sight partially restored after doctors inserted his son’s tooth in his eye.
Doctors at University College Hospital Galway said there was nothing more they could do for Robert McNichol, 57, from County Sligo after he lost his sight in an explosion two years ago.
Cavity-Fighting Herbal Lollipop
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Robert Schimmel: Comedy’s best medicine
Veteran comedian Robert Schimmel knows a lot about loss. But it’s because of that, he now knows exactly how to live. In his new memoir, Cancer on Five Dollars a Day, the cringe-worthy comic (one of Comedy Central’s Top 100 stand-ups of all time), lets us tag along on a very personal, painful and yes, hilarious journey.As one of the most respected working stand-up comedians of our time, Robert Schimmel, has for more than 20 years, made thousands of comedy fans laugh as well as influenced a huge crop of up-and-coming comics, as he’s constantly likened to Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Richard Pryor. But since he beat the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma he was diagnosed with in 2000, his comedy has done a lot more than create laughs.
Go Green for a Long Life
There are places in the world where a concentrated number of people routinely live to 100.
From the lush valleys of Ecuador to the peaceful island of Okinawa to the pristine hills of the Himalayas, these centenarian clusters all have something in common: an environment conducive to a healthy, long life-clean air, pure water, and nature unspoiled by the modern world.
Facial Yoga
Free Your Tongue
It is recommended that you hold this pose for 60 seconds. It is good if your eyes water; that flushes the toxins that may have accumulated there.
Temple Dancer Eyes
This exercise works on the ring muscles of the eyes to prevent sagging skin and crow’s feet.
Ecstasy can damage brain
The trade and use of Ecstasy have mushroomed since 1995. In that year, federal agents seized a few hundred thousand pills. Last year, federal agencies confiscated more than 11 million.
In a study in England, Ecstasy users had memory impairment on average 2½ years after they stopped taking the drug.
Artificial Cornea Gives Hope To The Blind
Major advancements in technology like this one are what makes the future worth looking forward to. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have invented an artificial cornea that may well be the key to restoring sight for our people with damaged corneas.
How to get rid of Tobacco Smoking
