We are talking about kitchen sponges. The very thing that you use to “clean up” after a meal or snack contains the second highest load of coliform bacteria in the whole house, after your drain traps. A new study by researchers at several institutions in Germany investigates the role of kitchen sponges and their capability […]

Most of the food we eat is quickly broken down in the high-acidity environment of the stomach, then absorbed there and in our small intestines. But fiber survives this entire process and makes its way to the colon unscathed, where it’s feasted upon by resident bacteria of the large intestine. Consequently, the more fiber we […]

  This movement is beginning to become more and more real. What started out as lifestyles for extreme health and animal advocates (or try-hard celebrities) is moving its way into the sports world in a big way. With an increasing  amount of conclusive studies and heightened awareness in the media, we’ve seen more and more […]

  Eating plenty of fruits and veggies is probably the single most important piece of advice that most Americans ignore on a daily basis. As a country, we eat woefully little roughage, and it is undoubtedly hurting our health. But any story that claims eating more [insert fruit or veggie here] will directly prevent you […]

As my high school world history teacher would say ” Take Chances, Make Mistakes, Get Messy”, we  kept that advice handy as we went after this  vegetable lasagna,  highlighted by: Homemade Tomato Sauce, Green Lentil Noodles, Almond Ricotta, Cashew Mutz and Veggies throughout. Didn’t know how it was gonna play out for a large Italian […]

Raising cattle contributes to global warming in a big way. The animals expel large amounts of methane when they burp and fart, a greenhouse gas many times more potent than carbon dioxide. U.S. beef production, in fact, roughly equals the annual emissions of 24 million cars, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists. That’s a […]

  Getting ready for some good old family stress for the holidays?  Could tapping be your savior? I stumbled across this a podcast a few weeks ago while I was getting ready in the morning and it was on the topic of Tapping. I listened as the guest (Nick Ortner) talked about its benefits and […]

LS – For modern daters, the social and technological advances of the last 200 years may be a greater amount of change than humans are equipped to deal with, Apostolou said. “There are reasons to believe that most of the adaptations we carry with us today evolved in an environment where mate choice was more […]

A biohybrid sperm microrobot might one day deliver anti-cancer drugs to tumors in the female reproductive tract, according to a new paper from Germany. The sci-fi-sounding microbot, which was described in a December article in the journal ACS Nano, consists of sperm from a bull combined with a plastic, 3D-printed microstructure covered with an iron-based […]

As  Barstool Sports continues to win the daily mind share of thousands, one can only think  – Whats driving them to their Moon level dominance. With every News and Media outlet trying to shun and box them in, they continue to grow, build their audience, and one-by-one put competing organizations in mental pretzels. There’s only […]

This is the sacrifice that we must pay to rid the world of of every last Rattata. Its not as easy as it looks, this was my latest attempt:   Here’s the good news, people are getting up and getting out of their houses. This is the first game since Dance Dance Revolution that actually […]

When a man complains of cold or flu symptoms, it may not be fair to dismiss his laments as simply a case of “man flu.” Men may really experience worse symptoms than women after catching a respiratory virus, a new review suggests.     “The concept of man flu, as commonly defined, is potentially unjust,” […]

Belly Fat Ups Odds of Emergency Surgery Trouble MONDAY, Oct. 30, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Excess belly fat dramatically increases the risk of complications and death after emergency surgery, a new study finds. The research included more than 600 patients who had emergency surgery and underwent CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis before surgery. […]

SA–Could killing off these ‘zombie’ cells in the mice delay their premature descent into old age? The answer was yes. In a 2011 study, the team found that eliminating these ‘senescent’ cells forestalled many of the ravages of age. The discovery set off a spate of similar findings. In the seven years since, dozens of […]

Are you always tired? Struggling to keep your eyes open at work and not being able to doze off at night? Feel like your constantly carrying sandbags on your shoulders? Its just never your day?…….. And Scene! “Great work everyone! We’ll just throw in a couple of doctors pointing at some papers and CGI some […]