Health And Fitness
Dollar Stores Feed More Americans Than Whole Foods (#GotBitcoin)
The Presence Of Dollar Stores Appears To Correlate Much More Strongly With Race (Blacks And Hispanics) Than With Income. Dollar Stores Feed More Americans Than Whole Foods (#GotBitcoin) [caption id="attachment_6530" align="aligncenter" width="544"] Dollar Stores Are Now Feeding More Americans Than Whole Foods Is – Even Though Most Dollar Stores Have…
The Search For Longevity Compounds With Dr. Gordon Lithgow
The podcast I share with you today features Dr. Gordon Lithgow, a professor of gerontology at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging. Gordon studies mechanisms of aging by identifying compounds that extend lifespan or prevent age-related disease. He has discovered a range of factors that can lengthen life in the microscopic worm Caenorhabditis elegans or C. elegans as…
Secrets of ‘UltraGeezer,’ Earth’s Fastest 70-Year-Old Distance Runner (#GotBitcoin?)
Gene Dykes Breaking The Record In Jacksonville, Fla. A retired computer programmer out of Philly breaks a marathon record. His blunt training advice: ‘Just run.’ Secrets of ‘UltraGeezer,’ Earth’s Fastest 70-Year-Old Distance Runner Let me introduce you to your new favorite American athlete: Gene Dykes. Retired computer programmer, lives in…
Food Companies Get Until 2022 To Label GMOs (#GotBitcoin?)
Some Consumer Groups Said The New Usda Rules On GMOs Will Take Too Long To Implement And Aren’t Friendly To Shoppers. New USDA rule obligates food makers to disclose genetically engineered ingredients on labels. Food Companies Get Until 2022 To Label GMOs U.S. food companies must label products containing genetically…
Hemp And CBD Now Qualify For One Of The Most Lucrative — And Wasteful — Government Subsidies (#GotBitcoin?)
Who would have thought five or 10 years ago that the House and Senate agricultural committees would use a farm bill to amend the Controlled Substances Act and remove hemp — part of the cannabis family and a distant cousin to marijuana — from its class 5 category and reclassify…
Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything But Zen (#GotBitcoin)
Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything But Zen (#GotBitcoin) A pair of apps preach relaxation to millions of customers—but still badly want to beat each other. Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That’s Anything But Zen The two smartphone apps taking meditation mainstream exude a Zen vibe and trumpet…
Food, The Gut’s Microbiome And The FDA’s Regulatory Framework
There Is Rapid Growth In The Number Of Products That Claim To Affect The Gut Microbiota And Benefit Health. New understanding of how our gut microbial communities (microbiota) transform dietary ingredients into metabolic products that affect human biology is altering our definitions of the nutritional value of foods (1, 2). Food,…
I Downloaded My DNA This Week (#GotBitcoin)
One of the features that all these DNA companies like 23andme, Ancestry, etc. provide is the ability to download the raw data from a genetic scan. I Downloaded My DNA This Week (#GotBitcoin) I Downloaded My DNA This WeekI took a test a couple years ago as part of a…
Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled a Drinks Boom, Now Threaten a Crisis (#GotBitcoin?)
Evian’s Water Bottling Plant In Évian-Les-Bains Facing a consumer backlash and stricter regulation, companies are trying to do what’s eluded them for years: make a better bottle. Plastic Water Bottles, Which Enabled A Drinks Boom, Now Threaten A Crisis Bottled water, which recently dethroned soda as America’s most popular beverage, is…
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA (#GotBitcoin?)
Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA Unintended consequences have included enlarged rabbit tongues and extra pig vertebrae, as bioethicists warn of hubris. Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA The purported birth last month of the world’s first gene-edited human babies, claimed by a Chinese scientist, spurred a…
Billionaire is Turning Heads With Novel Approach To Fighting Cancer (#GotBitcoin?)
Billionaire is Turning Heads With Novel Approach To Fighting Cancer The following is a script. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is the correspondent: Cancer has outwitted scientists and doctors for decades. More than 1,500 people still die of the disease every day in this country. But scientists will tell you they have…
Over-Diagnosis And Over-Treatment Of Cancer In America Reaches Crisis Levels (#GotBitcoin?)
Debate Among Doctors Looks at Whether Zealous Screening Leads to Over-treatment. Over-Diagnosis And Over-Treatment Of Cancer In America Reaches Crisis Levels Early detection has long been seen as a powerful weapon in the battle against cancer. But some experts now see it as double-edged sword. While it's clear that early-stage cancers…