an apple a day

Yesterday Erin Goeres at Women’s Health magazine blogged about something I’ve always questioned: is there anything wrong with using hot water from the tap when you’re going to be boiling it? Now I always thought the cold-water-for-boiling phenomenon had something to do with either taste or speed of boiling (not that that would make sense… […]

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According to a new German study in the New England Journal of Medicine, the number of heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich when the German team played in the World Cup last summer.
“I know a little bit about the Super Bowl,” study author Dr. Gerhard Steinbeck of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich […]

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No one actually thought sitting around on the couch would help your overall health, of course. But this is an interesting development: researchers at King’s College London found that people who lead a sedentary lifestyle age faster than their more active counterparts in terms of risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, high blood […]

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According to a new British study, women taking the birth control pill for 15 years halved their chances of developing ovarian cancer, and their risk remained low even 30 years later, after they had stopped taking the pill.
This affirms what other researchers have found in the past, and it’s also been discussed that the pill […]

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Right after posting the cayenne pepper tip from Men’s Health (and after noting that my headache was stronger than ever), I just couldn’t resist trying it. Let’s hope this photo doesn’t haunt me for the rest of my life. Ah, the internet.
I mixed the prescribed 1/4 teaspoon of cayenne with 4 ounces of warm water […]

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This morning as I popped a couple of Advils to treat a headache whose source I am quite sure of, I stumbled upon this article
from Health magazine via CNN.com about surprising causes of headaches. The nerve-cell-stimulating effects of perfume, the chemical and electrical processes in the brain caused by weather changes, the scalp-tugging of too-tight […]

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I’m a major salt fiend. While I’m pretty good at keeping myself from putting extra salt on food, I can’t contain myself if I’m within 50 feet of a bag of Doritos. And tomato juice? Don’t even get me started. Sure, I’ll get a chocolate craving every so often, but usually it’s more along the […]

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Well, this is just great.
Researcher Max Taub of Southwestern University in Texas has found that greenhouse gas could decrease the nutritional content, specifically protein, of many key food crops.
Taub’s analysis, detailed in the March issue of the journal Global Change Biology, found that when grown in elevated carbon dioxide levels, potatoes showed almost a 14 […]

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OK, let’s have a bit of fun. The folks over at Reading with Scissors posted this gem of an ad yesterday:

There are just so, so many things to say about this ad (not to mention that belt - yikes), but I’ll try to be concise.

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Chris Freytag over at Prevention.com wrote an interesting blog post about fast food restaurants’ efforts to appeal to the health-conscious consumer. She says some restaurants are trying to offer “light” options — she even eats the 6″ grilled chicken sub at Subway, guilt-free — but urges readers to check out nutrition facts before buying into […]

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