Can Baldness Cause a Bad Heart? Say it is isn’t so. But according to a meta-analysis performed by researchers at the University of Tokyo, hairlessness is connected to heart disease. What Did They Find? Among 37,000 men taken from 6 studies out of a possible 850, baldness “increased” the risk of heart disease. How Was […]
Recognizing Regeneration (4/22/13)
Recognizing Renewal “My feeling is that sleep is fundamentally important to regenerating all cells.” So says Akhilesh Reddy, a body clock researcher at Cambridge University. He was referring to a new study out of the University of Surrey from a group involving Professors Dirk Jan Dijk and Colin Smith. Yet the same issues appear for […]
Electronic Cigarettes (4/15/13)
Electronic Cigarettes? Several countries, like Brazil and Panama, ban them. The FDA declares their use not backed by proper clinical trials. Some addictionologists hate them, thinking they can addict kids and keep others hooked on nicotine. Others, like the newspaper the Economist and many public health officials think they are a breakthrough in smoking cessation. […]
Give Us A Child Till She’s Seven (3/5/13)
What the Jesuits Taught Some claim the maxim comes from St. Ignatius Loyola himself. Yet the idea proclaimed by the Jesuits was old – give us a child till he’s seven and we’ll have him for life. It works. Many years ago a young son of my ancestors was kidnapped during a Russian pogrom. His […]
Why Weight Is Not Public Health Enemy #1 (1/28/13)
So Big America is obese. So we hear each day. Our kids are obese. Weight is leading to early death, destroying the future of adolescents and young adults. The epidemic of diabesity will destroy American competitiveness – 30 year olds with diabetes don’t work so well – and bankrupt the Treasury through higher Medicare costs. […]