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In our on-going coverage of Black Future Month news, we here at Doc Gurley have discovered the perfect present (as we head into June, the month of weddings) for a new Bride! Imagine, if you would, that you could hand someone you love–a beaming, happy young woman–a little gift (under $20!) that could save her […] For all of us who’ve had the sad experience of losing sight of our pubes at some point, there is wonderful news in the health research world. Study after study (including a new one today) has shown that getting that paunch over a belt (oh, heavens, just thinking about it makes me want to undo […] Grim news for those people continuing to suffer from Hurricane Katrina–tests show that the FEMA trailers have high levels of formaldehyde, with the CDC urging FEMA to move families out of the trailers as soon as possible. This Newsweek article is a review of the issue. Unfortunately, no one seems to be rushing to answer […] In our on-going coverage of BFM healthnews (see the Doc Gurley post, Black Future Month, for more info), we here at the Doc Gurley headquarters have found some important advances in news affecting people with salt-sensitive high blood pressure (which tends to be over-represented among African Americans). Salt-sensitive high blood pressure is pretty much just […] Here’s some more grim news on the diet soda front. Circulation published a study that found that drinking diet soda (specifically) raised your chances of getting the horrible threesome of diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol (called the metabolic syndrome) by 34% among people who drank one diet soda a day–even when everything else […] Okay, so I come from a kind of Southern gothic family–but don’t we all have at least one uncle who’s been saying since the eighties that artificial sweeteners will make you fat? The argument goes–people who are overweight use artificial sweeteners, therefore, artificial sweeteners make you gain weight. Association, therefore, cause. Everyone at the dinner […] |
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