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There is no tasteful way to discuss this subject so let’s just get it out of the way what we are referring to here. Poop, feces, poo, etc. are a few terms. Now, with that out of the way a problem that’s increasingly widespread: the Clostridium difficile bug, typically caught by patients in hospitals and [...]

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There have been attempts in the past to use a magnetic pill to have it go where the doctors want it to go. The reason for wanting to do this is that pills tend to dissolve in the wrong part of the intestine sometimes so they don’t exactly give the best help to the patient. [...]

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the yo-yo dieting phenomenon has always been well known. Diets lose a lot of weight, but eventually you gain it right back. Dieting has been linked to forms of binge eating. Shaving calories triggers molecular changes in the brain that make mice more susceptible to stress and binge eating long after the diet ends, researchers [...]

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There was a study on this? Has there been talk of lowering the drinking age? Why would there be anyways? Drinking is arguably one of the most dangerous drugs around int he hands of kids. Although presidents at some U.S. colleges have argued that lowering the minimum legal drinking age could help curb binge drinking [...]

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First off, let’s just all take a collective “ewwwwww!” before we read about this. Since the mind-19th century the concerns about using human waste and sewage as a source of phosphorus was combated with mining phosphate. A report by the UK organic body suggests that the supply of phosphorus from mined phosphate rock could peak [...]

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I think pretty much everyone (besides dog lovers) just assumes cats are smarter than dogs. They get away with doing nothing, they always land on their feet, and they have 9 lives! Clearly any animal that can cheat death is smarter than another right? While it may not prove that dogs are smarter, a study [...]

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You damn global warming freaks are going to kill us all! A widely accepted strategy to combating global warming is to add iron to the ocean waters. Unfortunately, it appears now that it actually results in promoting toxic blooms in the ocean. DUN DUN DUN! Louisiana State University’s Sibel Bargu, along with her former graduate [...]

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It has been known for a while that shorter people have to exppend more energy to walk than us tall and handsome fellows (I’m not dark, more just pretty ). How hard is it for your baby taking their first step? Not as hard as figuring out what this guy is talking about, or building [...]

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If you haven’t learned your lesson that smoking is gonna do something bad to you by middle age, at least you won’t remember that you smoke if you actually get to your Golden Years. Heavy smoking in middle age appears to be associated with more than double the risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms [...]

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You ever wonder why that guy that goes out and gets you drunk on a Tuesday night after work until 2 AM is bright and chipper at 7AM the next day while you feel like someone is gagging you constantly? Wishing you had a colon cleanser on hand to suck all the chemicals out of [...]

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