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The 11 Best Foods You Arent Eating & How to Eat Them
1. Beets: Think of beets as red spinach, Dr. Bowden said, because they are a rich source of folate as well as natural red pigments that may be cancer fighters.
How to eat: Fresh, raw and grated to make a salad. Heating decreases the antioxidant power.
2. Cabbage: Loaded with nutrients like sulforaphane, a chemical said to boost cancer-fighting enzymes.
How to eat: Asian-style slaw or as a crunchy topping on burgers and sandwiches.
3. Swiss chard: A leafy green vegetable packed with carotenoids that protect aging eyes.
How to eat it: Chop and saute in olive oil.
4. Cinnamon: May help control blood sugar and cholesterol.
How to eat it: Sprinkle on coffee or oatmeal.
5.Pomegranate juice: Appears to lower blood pressure and loaded with antioxidants.
How to eat: Just drink it.
6. Dried plums: Okay, so they are really prunes, but packed with cancer-fighting antioxidants.
How to eat: Wrapped in prosciutto and baked.
7. Pumpkin seeds: The most nutritious part of the pumpkin and packed with magnesium; high levels of the mineral are associated with lower risk for early death.
How to eat: Roasted as a snack, or sprinkled on salad.
8. Sardines: Dr. Bowden calls them “health food in a can.'’ They are high in omega-3’s, contain virtually no mercury and are loaded with calcium. They also contain iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper and manganese as well as a full complement of B vitamins.
How to eat: Choose sardines packed in olive or sardine oil. Eat plain, mixed with salad, on toast, or mashed with dijon mustard and onions as a spread.
9. Turmeric: The “superstar of spices,'’ it has anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties.
How to eat: Mix with scrambled eggs or in any vegetable dish.
10. Frozen blueberries: Even though freezing can degrade some of the nutrients in fruits and vegetables, frozen blueberries are available year-round and don’t spoil; associated with better memory in animal studies.
How to eat: Blended with yogurt or chocolate soy milk and sprinkled with crushed almonds.
11. Canned pumpkin: A low-calorie vegetable that is high in fiber and immune-stimulating vitamin A; fills you up on very few calories.
How to eat: Mix with a little butter, cinnamon and nutmeg. ... more -
The power of the itch
So strong, she scratched through her skull and into her brain...
'"Scratching is one of the sweetest gratifications of nature, and as ready at hand as any,” Montaigne wrote. “But repentance follows too annoyingly close at its heels.” For M., certainly, it did: the itching was so torturous, and the area so numb, that her scratching began to go through the skin. At a later office visit, her doctor found a silver-dollar-size patch of scalp where skin had been replaced by scab. M. tried bandaging her head, wearing caps to bed. But her fingernails would always find a way to her flesh, especially while she slept.
One morning, after she was awakened by her bedside alarm, she sat up and, she recalled, “this fluid came down my face, this greenish liquid.” She pressed a square of gauze to her head and went to see her doctor again. M. showed the doctor the fluid on the dressing. The doctor looked closely at the wound. She shined a light on it and in M.’s eyes. Then she walked out of the room and called an ambulance. Only in the Emergency Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, after the doctors started swarming, and one told her she needed surgery now, did M. learn what had happened. She had scratched through her skull during the night—and all the way into her brain.'
Gotta love the New Yorker! So strong, she scratched through her skull and into her brain... ... more -
Sixth foot found along B.C. Coast
Another human foot has washed up on a B.C. shore today, the sixth foot discovered since last August. The foot was discovered in a black running shoe in front of a campground in Campbell River by a local woman who was looking for rocks she wanted for a crafts project. Another human foot has washed up on a B.C. shore today, the sixth foot discovered since last August. The foot was discovered in a blac... more
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PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID
If you can read this title then you will know what this is about. The amazing power of the human mind!
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Tattoos - Cool? Sexy? Bad!
A selection of tattoos ranging from the cool, the sexy, the artistic, the not so artistic and the plain crazy. Make up your own mind as to which you think is which!
A selection of tattoos ranging from the cool, the sexy, the artistic, the not so artistic and the plain crazy. Make up your own mind a... more -
Lynda Carter finds a woman floating in the river (true story)
true story, Wonder woman finds a....
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The best animal full body tattoos ever ever
Dude at a club with some cracking animal tattoos, I thought the detail and variety was very good
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CSI: Charles Manson
A dig for clandestine graves at Charles Manson's last hideout was called to an end Wednesday after yielding no bodies and leaving scientists puzzled over the clues that had enticed them to come this far.
The dig had been scheduled to last three days, ending Thursday. But the work went faster than scheduled, with the crew of 20 digging until dusk, then camping out at night beside the ranch house Manson and his followers had used.
"So far there have been no human remains found," Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze said after the four sites with the greatest probability of holding human remains were dug up. "We're finishing up this site and that'll be it for the day - nothing."
Manson and his followers hid out at the ranch following their killing spree in Los Angeles. For years, rumours have swirled about other possible Manson victims, including hitchhikers and runaways who visited the site and were never heard from again.
Scientists who conducted a preliminary probe of the rugged, remote site in February said they identified several spots that could be graves, leading Lutze to conduct the exploratory excavation.
A dig for clandestine graves at Charles Manson's last hideout was called to an end Wednesday after yielding no bodies and leaving scie... more -
A man with a unique cool tattoo
He caught me of guard in a pub, refused to show his tattooed face and showed me his tattoo arms instead. Good stuff.
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the plantaris muscle... do you have one?
the plantaris, a vestigial muscle that runs from the femur (thigh) to the calcaneus (heal), does not exist in approximately ten percent of the humans living today. freshman medical students often mistake this muscle for a nerve due to it's pencil-thin, elongated form. scientists believe the muscle was useful to other primates for grasping with their feet, but is now disappearing because it's motor function today is so minimal. the plantaris acts to weakly plantar flex the ankle joint, to flex the knee joint, and may also provide proprioceptive feedback information to the central nervous system regarding the position of the foot. it's long tendon can readily be harvested for reconstruction elsewhere with little functional deficit. the unusually high density of proprioceptive receptor end organs supports this notion.
the plantaris, a vestigial muscle that runs from the femur (thigh) to the calcaneus (heal), does not exist in approximately ten percen... more -
Cellulite good for your health!!
Body fat found under the skin - and particularly on the buttocks - may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research suggests.
no need to exaggerate though... (jk) Body fat found under the skin - and particularly on the buttocks - may help reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, research su... more -
Female daft punks?
yo yo, check it Daft Punk - is your body better faster & stronger?
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More we know about genes, the less we understand
An early mystery was genes. Scientists did not know what hidden factor lurked inside living things, giving rise to their traits and traveling from parent to child to recreate those traits anew.
The answer, of course, turned out to be DNA: Segments of the molecule encode the proteins and RNA molecules that carry out the work of life, send signals, capture energy and build biomass.
But it quickly became clear that just having genes was not the full secret of life. The genes need to become active at the right time and place. Think about it: Each one of your cells contains genes that can produce hair and toenails, and can crank out neurotransmitters and digestive enzymes. If all your genes did churn away, your body would become a hideous, useless jumble. Our life depends on the courteous restraint of our genes.
In the late 1950s, French scientists discovered how genes are restrained. They wanted to know why the microbe E. coli sometimes made enzymes for feeding on lactose (the sugar in milk), and why sometimes it didn't. The scientists demonstrated that E. coli uses three genes to feed on lactose, and all three are lined up next to each other in the microbe's DNA. They also discovered that the three genes can all be shut down at once. A special protein latches onto a distinctive bit of DNA near the genes, blocking the molecules that would read their genetic recipes. If the repressing protein is pried away, the genes switch on.
All living things, ourselves included, turn genes on and off in a similar way, by making switch-like proteins called transcription factors. And as scientists have identified more of these, they've discovered something remarkable: They form a chain of command. The job of some transcription factors is to switch others on and off, and they in turn are controlled by other transcription factors. Even a seemingly simple microbe like E. coli has an impressive hierarchy. Just nine genes rule over about half of the 4,000-odd genes in E. coli.
E. coli's network allows it to respond quickly to the challenges it meets, from starvation to heat to the loss of oxygen. It can rapidly reorganize itself, switching on hundreds of genes and switching off hundreds of others. What makes this network all the more impressive are the feedback loops that keep it from spinning out of control. When one gene switches on, for example, it may make a protein that shuts down the gene that switched it on in the first place.
Yet even as scientists uncover this network, they discover yet another mystery. In the latest issue of Nature, scientists reported an experiment in which they wreaked havoc with E. coli's network. They randomly added new links between the transcription factors at the top of the microbe's hierarchy. Now a transcription factor could turn on another one that it never had before. The scientists randomly rewired the network in 598 different ways and then stepped back to see what happened to the bacteria.
You might expect that they all died. After all, if you were to pop open the back of an iPod and start linking its components together in random ways, you'd expect it to crash. But that's not what happened.
An early mystery was genes. Scientists did not know what hidden factor lurked inside living things, giving rise to their traits and tr... more -
Flu season worst in 4 years
This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses that made most people sick, health officials said Thursday.
The 2007-2008 season started slowly, peaked in mid-February and seems to be declining, although cases are still being reported, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Based on adult deaths from flu and pneumonia, this season is the worst since 2003-2004 - another time when the vaccine did not include the exact flu strain responsible for most illnesses.
Each year, health officials - making essentially an educated guess - formulate a vaccine against three viruses they think will be circulating. They guess well most of the time, and the vaccine is often between 70 and 90 percent effective.
But this year, two of the three strains were not good matches and the vaccine was only 44 percent effective, according to a study done in Marshfield, Wis.
The CDC compares flu season by looking at adult deaths from the flu or pneumonia in 122 cities. This year, those deaths peaked at 9 percent of all reported deaths in early March, and remained above an epidemic threshold for 13 consecutive weeks. In 2003-2004, they peaked at more than 10 percent of all deaths, and surpassed the epidemic threshold for nine weeks.
"Our season is not quite as high but is lasting a little longer," said Dr. Dan Jernigan, deputy director of the CDC's influenza division. This year's flu season has shaped up to be the worst in four years, partly because the vaccine didn't work well against the viruses th... more -
Women can sniff out Incest
Aversion to inbred men isn't just a sensible cultural tradition. It might be biologically hard-wired into women who are literally able to sniff out the scent of incest.
In a study published today in Current Biology, researchers from the University of Liverpool bred two groups of male mice to be identical in every way but one: the diversity of their so-called major urinary proteins.
Lacking Google stalking and the advice of embittered friends, female mice rely on urinary proteins for information about potential mates. In the wild, mice born to genetically unrelated parents have more varied proteins than the offspring of related parents -- and in the Liverpool lab, female mice consistently picked males with the most complex urinary bouquet.
Do human women have the same ability? Scientists don't know -- but it's certainly plausible. Olfactory cues are among the tricks we instinctively use to detect unsuitable mates. (That said, some animals prefer inbreeding -- and in certain circumstances, "kissing cousins" might have an advantage.)
A non-scientific aside: a lot of jokes came to mind for this post and are entirely unfit to print. That's probably for the better. But it's a shame this study didn't come out five years ago -- it would have made a great plot device for an episode Friends or Seinfeld. Aversion to inbred men isn't just a sensible cultural tradition. It might be biologically hard-wired into women who are literally able... more -
The Unsexy Five
NUMBER FIVE
Maxim ranks Britney Spears fifth, singling out her two kids, two ex-husbands, weight gain and “losing the ability to perform.
NUMBER FOUR
Madonna took the fourth place for her “self-righteous bellyaching and rapid postnuptial deterioration.” NUMBER FIVE ... more -
http://Body Worlds Art Exhibit - Part 1 - Milwaukee, WI
Showing at the Milwaukee Public Museum Through Jan. 18th..........See also at this site Body Worlds Part 2 by LK Productions http://current.com/items/88526421_body_worlds_san_jose
........................Stay tuned for Part 3! Showing at the Milwaukee Public Museum Through Jan. 18th..........See also at this site Body Worlds Part 2 by LK Productions http://cu... more -
Eye think you've got the wrong address...
Imagine the joy of receiving an unexpected gift and then opening it to find it's a human eyeball that's been wrongly delivered to you instead of a needy patient who is waiting for a transplant.
The eyeball was intended for a hospital patient in Hobart, Australia, but was wrongly delievered to a hotel patron randomly. The courier firm who made the 'balls-up' defended the mistake claiming it was down to a "failure in an internal handover process."
Don't worry, the eyeball was recovered and successfully transplanted.
Eye don't know, whatever next? Imagine the joy of receiving an unexpected gift and then opening it to find it's a human eyeball that's been wrongly delivered to you ... more -
One Step Closer to the Bionic Woman
Engineers at the University of Washington have used new techniques to create a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an electronic circuit and lights. This could offer an opportunity for superhuman vision.
I realize this is just one more step closer to some science fiction-like world where we've create a race of robot/human hybrids that want to destroy us, or something equally sinister but you know what? I totally want these! Engineers at the University of Washington have used new techniques to create a flexible, biologically safe contact lens with an electr... more -
Are you overweight?
According to BMI (Body Mass Index) categorisation, this triathlete, Jessica, is overweight.
The Flickr group in this link catalogues pictures of random people with their BMI category (underweight, normal, obese etc) next to them and makes for interesting viewing. Not only because some members of the public are just plain weird, but because the BMI categories are obviously a little too limiting in their definitions.
The extreme ends of the scale aren't too surprising but there are some questionable results in there. According to BMI (Body Mass Index) categorisation, this triathlete, Jessica, is overweight. ... more
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