Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Health. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

It's official: drinking makes you live longer!

A study was released yesterday that proves (once again) drinking is good for you. The shocking part of the study is that people who don't drink at all have the shortest life span... even heavy drinkers live longer than those who abstain! The group with the higest longevity was the moderate drinkers (1-3 a day). Don't believe me? Check out the whole study published by Time magazine.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Chineese man has world's largest man-boobs!

Doctors are baffled by this Chinese dairy farmer who has the biggest man-boobs ever recorded. Check out the full article at The Sun.

Thursday, March 25, 2010

Kid with 31 fingers and toes!

That's a lot of little piggies! It's gonna take more than wee wee wee to get all the way home... look at those feet!

A Chinese boy with 31 fingers and toes is set to undergo an operation to remove the extra digits. The six-year-old boy, whose name has not been released, has 16 toes and 15 fingers. One of the fingers is incomplete and appears on X-ray photographs as a "fork" sticking out from the right thumb.

The boy, from Shenyang in China's north-eastern Liaoning province, beats the current world record of 12 fingers and 13 toes. The condition is known as polydactyly.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Woman in China grows horns!

This 101-year-old woman is causing a stir in China, because she has begun to sprout horns on her head! A horn started growing on her head a year ago and just continued to get bigger and bigger. Now it looks like another one is sprouting up on the other side of her head. Not to worry, this woman isn't the offspring of a forbidden human / goat relationship... it looks like she just has an abnormally large "cutaneous horn" which is a raised growth that can be commonly found on elderly people who have been exposed to radiation.


Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Roger Ebert's new computer voice

We talked about this on the air yesterday... Roger Ebert lost his jaw to cancer, so he's been using a computer to speak to people much like Stephen Hawking. However, computer programmers were able to lift Ebert's actual voice off of hours of his show and commentary on DVDs. The result was debuted on Oprah yesterday. Pretty cool!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Controversial NYC Health ad

People are all up in arms over this commercial put out by the department of health in NYC. It demonstrates how drinking sugary soda is just as bad a having a glass full of fat...

Friday, September 18, 2009

Custom sized condoms

Did you know that the FDA doesn't allow very large or very small condoms? Magnum XLs are only sightly bigger than normal. In Europe, however, they are soon going to get them in 70 different sizes.

Believe it or not, using a condom that is the wrong size increases the possibilities of breakage and slippage, which in turn increases the possibility of sexually transmitted infections, or unwanted pregnancies. Even while they know this, the FDA doesn't allow for condoms that are longer, shorter, thinner, or thicker than the average.

In Europe, however, men will be able to print out this measuring tool, and order exactly the size they need: Click here to download the fit kit in Microsoft Word

This will never work because no one will ever order a J-33 even if they need one!

They won't be available in the US, but it's still fun to measure. And, if you're wondering... D-17.

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