Life Done Right™

A new study suggests that despite your reluctance to live a healthy life, making a few changes to your diet and exercising can vastly improve the odds that you won’t be fodder for the worms or flames a tad too soon. So now there’s no excuse for not putting down the remote and shoveling that [...]

This is our kind of story. A 60-year-old woman from Australia was injured while jet skiing. Right on, baby! Now if she was wearing a thong bikini she gets bonus points in heaven.
Elderly woman hurt in fall from jet ski

For those who still need convincing that exercise and the right diet make a difference, indulge yourself and read about how these activities can increase your longevity. If you’re a miserable person by nature, though, then sorry, hit the ground and give us fifty push-ups.
Bigger Brains, Better Genes

Knowing whether a new product or service causes cancer requires years of use before drawing any conclusions. When a company introduces a new product, especially a food product, they are required to demonstrate there is no obvious link between the product and harmful effects. A new product, though, introduces elements that a company may have [...]

This ad appeared on Time magazine’s website. It has a provocative come on. Ever since Karl Rove set out to use organized religion for political purposes, America has devolved into a dictatorship run by a foolish president who prefers a good vacation to the details of how to solve complex problems…most of which he created. [...]

Hollywood has been trying to make The Curious Case of Benjamin Button for years. It finally went into production with Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett starring with David Fincher directing. It’s the story of a 50-year-old man who begins to age backwards and freaks out when he falls in love with 30-year-old Cate on his [...]

The crap shoot known as life is fraught with terrible odds for those who harbor a sketchy set of genes. One day you’re enjoying a Broadway play in New York and the next day you might find yourself in the emergency room being rushed off to surgery to remove a cancerous growth or unblock some [...]

Before you buy that dream retirement house, you better check the yellow pages and find out if there are any doctors on call to treat you as the aging process begins to make mincemeat of your body. Young doctors, apparently, have no desire to practice in small towns or depressed industrial cities. They want [...]

Dying is usually not a choice; how to survive just might be, as long as you can afford an attorney to file a lawsuit so you can gain access to innovative medical treatments. Here’s a fact: “97% of the sickest patients are ineligible for or don’t have access to the clinical trials that are testing [...]

For those of you who commute to work every day, you might want to rethink whether living in the country and working in the city is worth the price of your own life. All those cars on the road produce “ultra-fine particulate matter that has been linked with premature death, cardiovascular disease and respiratory illness, [...]

Things may be built to last, but nothing lasts longer than it’s intended design, including the human body. Baseball players, especially pitchers, put an amazing amount of stress on their bodies. An arm hurling a baseball at 90 miles per hour requires more than a good night’s sleep to recover. Understanding how the body works [...]

A Democracy, at its core, is about truth and freedom in government. In reality, the Republican party under the guidance of Karl Rove has traded truth and freedom for partisan politics, regardless of how the expunged facts impact your health and well-being. Everything, from the Iraq War to stem cell research to political donations to [...]

The insurance business is a lot like one of the $5 mystery bags you can buy at the variety store. You never know if it’s filled with something valuable or just crappy overstock the store is trying to unload at your expense. News that downsized employees between the ages of 55 and 64 who discovered [...]

This dude running off to his honeymoon knowing he had at least a pretty awful case of tuberculosis needs to come clean. His evasive behavior tells the truth to lies that keep coming out of his mouth. When someone says turn yourself in to the Italian health authorities, which part didn’t you understand?
My read: once [...]

At first I didn’t know what to think of this guy who boarded a plane with his new wife for a honeymoon abroad. The more you read about him, though, the more you realize that he’s nothing more than a selfish a**hole. Big time. Here’s a guy who decided against doctor’s orders to put everyone [...]

Watching Paul Abdul on American Idol can sometimes be a strange experience. Her behavior just doesn’t smack of normalcy. Something in the gut says, I can’t put my finger on it, but she’s just not acting the way normal people do. Well, there seems to be some health issues involved. Good for her she’s able [...]

Leonard Nimoy may not seem of this world for those of you who have troubling separating the man from the Vulcan, but trust us, he’s of this earth. We know because we’ve had a chance to see his Full Body Project, a series of photographs that document big beautiful women in the buff.
Shooting digital [...]

With the genome pretty much figured out, the race to find connections between genes and health conditions is underway. For example, we learned the other day that longevity is tied to the pha-4 gene. Now researchers have found a genetic link to heart disease. Please note: they did not find any connection between a broken [...]

There’s a rule in America: if it’s on sale, then how can you resist buying it, even if you don’t need it. I mean, c’mon, fifty percent off!! The same seems to apply to eating. The bigger the plate size, the bigger the rationale for why your mind is seduced into eating far more than [...]

We love data research porn. This is information that outlines a market or provides a series of insights into consumer behavior that creates major business opportunities. Elizabeth Pope dug up some facts that show seniors are the key demographic for health clubs. Forget those twenty-something hard bodies! Embrace the soiled underwear crowd driving Ferrari’s and [...]