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With the weather luring us outside, here’s another prod to succumb to temptation and get moving: a report showing that certain kind of body fat are worse than others – specifically waist measurement and your risk of cancer. Abdominal girth and heart disease risk have been linked in many, many studies – but this is […] What’s old is new again…again! It’s kind of fun when something that was in the public eye disappears and is then “discovered” decades later. This time, the organ is your sturdy, silent spleen.* There’s an old saying, venting your spleen, which means, basically, to lose your temper and vent about all the grievances you’ve accumulated. […] For all us anti-regulation types (and yes, I am occasionally one), here’s powerful evidence that there really oughta be a law when it comes to restaurants. The first city to legislate giving people calorie information on all foods woke up to a nasty surprise. Specifically, what they’d been putting in their mouths. New Yorkers are […] Grunt Doc has the line-up of medical blogs ship-shape and standing at attention for your review. Check it out – the quality shows. Kind of like George Clooney’s taunting of Matt Damon that George is a three time (THREE-TIME) Sexiest Man Alive, Grunt Doc is (brace yourself, folks) a six-time (SIX-TIME) host for Grand Rounds. […] Oooh, there are just some kinds of evil that we’d all love to get our hands on – you know what I mean, the old “give-me-10-minutes-alone-in-the-interrogation-room-with-the-cameras-turned-off” urge. When it comes to serial killers, some have a lot to answer for. One of the worst of the worst just took a blow to the nuts, and […] Are there times when your body over-does it in the killing germs department? There’s a new argument that we should, in addition to treatment, be suppressing the human response to mega-infections by giving immune-suppressing drugs (specifically steroids). These studies run counter to the argument that our bodies know what’s best (and don’t tend to overdo […] |
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