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 […]
Telling A Fake – Art Versus Science (10/29/12)
The Art of Truth Is it, or isn’t it? Will eating lots of sugar cause cancer? Do energy drinks cause sudden death? In a “gotcha” media culture where the fate of nations is treated as a sports contest – and presidential debates reported with the same gravity as “Dancing with the Stars” – it pays […]
Will my TV kill me? (8/17/11)
Does Watching TV Shorten Your Life? Twenty one point eight minutes of lost life for every hour watched. That’s the precise measurement coming from a widely reported Australian study of watching TV. Based on 11,000 adults, they estimate that Australian males, averaging 2 hours of TV a day, will see their lifespan decrease by 1.8 […]
