Archive for July, 2008
Most American Adults Would Be Fat in the Future
A new study suggests that 86 percent of U.S. adults will be overweight or obese by the year 2030.
Currently 64 percent of U.S. adults are at an unhealthy weight, as defined by having more than a 25 on the body mass index.
The researchers conducted projection analyses based on data collected over the past three decades [...]
How Bad Are iPods for Your Hearing?
Hearing loss is more common than ever before. About 16% of American adults have an impaired ability to hear speech, and more than 30% of Americans over age 20 — an estimated 55 million people — have lost some high-frequency hearing, according to a new study published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The [...]
Your Everyday Killer: How To Protect Yourself From Cellphone Radiation
Have you heard, cellphones are deadly. Science told us so this week when Dr. Ronald B. Herberman of the esteemed University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute realized that cellphones emit death rays that fry your brain and turn you into a baby-eating Communist, or give you cancer or whatever. Dr. Despair isn’t a downer though! Inside, [...]
Male Desire is Blind
A new study shows that a man’s testosterone level will increase while talking to a woman, regardless of whether he finds the woman desirable.
Research involving a group of male students found that their levels of the hormone testosterone increased to the same extent whether they were talking to a young woman they found attractive – [...]
Don’t Want to Die Young? Watch Horror Films…
Men may not live as long if they have low testosterone, regardless of their age, according to a new study. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 90th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
The new study, from Germany, adds to the scientific evidence linking deficiency of this sex hormone with increased death from all [...]
