Don’t Take My Wife, Please Comedians have been getting cheap laughs at the expense of the old ball and chain for as long as there have been women and steel. The funny thing is that as much as we joke about women driving us to our graves, the fact is that they actually add years [...]
It’s probably news you don’t want to hear, but coffee is not the best thing for your heart. Coffee affects our metabolism in several ways that place us at increased risk of heart disease. One way that coffee increases our risk of heart disease is by promoting inflammation in our body. A study done in [...]
If you’ve ever wondered how, precisely, people die, we can tell you the one place you should not look for answers: television. On TV, sometimes folks die an agonizing death from the slightest case of sniffles. Other times, the helicopter slams into the bridge and the whole A-Team emerges unscathed. “It’s hard to answer the [...]
Most people know that if they stopped smoking, drank very moderately, ate the right food, exercised regularly and got enough sleep they would live longer and be healthier. Yet most of us continue to do all or most of the things we know we shouldn’t. True, mortality rates for heart disease and strokes have been [...]
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For Kelly Jens, food was once an all-consuming passion. “I was always thinking about what my next meal would be,” says the 28-year-old Glenwood, Iowa, native. “When I’d go out to eat, I’d try to pick places with the biggest portions or the most courses. I especially liked Quarter Pounders with Cheese, nachos, pizza with [...]
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