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Energy Drinks: Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk
Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk By TARA PARKER-POPE Published: May 27, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/health/27well.html?th&emc=th Health researchers have identified a surprising new predictor for risky behavior among teenagers and young adults: the energy drink. Super-caffeinated energy drinks, with names like Red Bull, Monster, Full Throttle and Amp, have surged in popularity in the past decade. About a third of 12- to 24-year-olds say they regularly down energy drinks, which account for more than $3 billion in annual sales in the United States.Breast Cancer
The Breasts Inside a woman's breast are 15 to 20 sections called lobes. Each lobe is made of many smaller sections called lobules. Lobules have groups of tiny glands that can make milk.Do Novelty Products Encourage Underage Drinking?
* PUBLIC POST * For discussion. Flasks under fire RETAIL | Cutie designs, labels stress booze -- proof positive the containers encourage minor girls to drink, groups say January 23, 2009 BY CHERYL V. JACKSON cjackson@suntimes.com Anti-juvenile drinking forces are calling on a Hoffman Estates-linked accessories company to stop selling flasks at its stores across the country.The Truth About Vitamin Water
This may be a touchy subject because I know how many avid Vitamin Water drinkers are out there, especially in our increasingly health-conscious (but misinformed) society. However, it's time to face the facts!
Vitamin Water gives the illusion of a healthy, hydrating, and rejuvenating miracle elixir.
Sassy Water
You've probably heard you need about eight glasses of water a day. Drinking water and even eating "watery" foods like melon, greens, and other fruits and vegetables has enormous health benefits, including warding off fatigue. But perhaps the most important belly benefit of proper hydration is how it helps maintain your body's proper fluid balance and guard against water retention.
Blame Nature If You're Sluggish Today!
Researchers found productivity will drop by 50 per cent this week as depressed staff around the country struggle to come to terms with the dark nights closing in.
A staggering 52 per cent of workers admitted they will struggle to get to grips with their work-load today.
14 per cent said last year's slump was so bad that they were spoken to by their boss about it.
Wow, what a great article--Yes, "The One" Should Fail
Yes, "The One" Should Fail By Quin Hillyer on 10.23.09 @ 6:08AM We will not be intimidated, we will not be bullied, we will not be silenced, and we will not lose. Barack Obama's thugocracy is dishonest, dangerous, and malicious, but it cannot be stronger than the aroused might of a free people. His foreign policy deliberately debases U.S.Will You Get Breast Cancer?
Considering this is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I though this would be a good post.
There's no part of our bodies that we obsess about more than our breasts. Even those of us not prone to health anxiety wonder which, if any, of our everyday habits are upping our odds of getting breast cancer.
Man Dies from Drinking Too Much Water
From the Daily Mail.
Man, 35, drank himself to death after consuming too much water
Last updated at 14:25pm on 31st January 2008
An inquest has heard today how a 35-year-old man literally drank himself to death after consuming too much water.
Shaun McNamara was found on the floor of his bathroom last September after downing a massive quantity of water.
medical innovation and health care costs
Does High-Tech Medicine Mean Higher Health Care Costs? A new report finds that medical innovation boosts life expectancy, but doesn't cost more Ronald Bailey | September 29, 2009 "About half of all growth in health care spending in the past several decades was associated with changes in medical care made possible by advances in technology," declared a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report last year. "Health care economists attribute about 50 percent of the annual increase of health costs to new technologies or to the intensified use of old ones," writes bioethicist Daniel Callahan in his new book, Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System.
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