] Innsbruck-based lung specialist Prof Dr Friedrich
] Bischinger said people who pick their noses with their
] fingers were healthy, happier and probably better in tune
] with their bodies.

Excellent!

Ananova - Top doc backs picking your nose and eating it

] A 19-year-old college student who had shown no outward
] signs of depression killed herself over the weekend at an
] Eli Lilly & Company laboratory in Indianapolis where she
] had been participating in a company drug trial for an
] experimental antidepressant.

Yikes!

Student, 19, in Trial of New Antidepressant Commits Suicide

] We knew we ate more; we knew we had gained weight. Now a
] new study that looked at 30 years of Americans' eating
] habits has pinned down how many more calories,
] carbohydrates and fats are eaten daily.
]
] From 1971 to 2000, the study found, women increased their
] caloric intake by 22 percent, men by 7 percent.

My thoughts on carbs have changed a bit since the last time I posted on the subject ... maybe I'll write some more later.

Study Details 30-Year Increase in Calorie Consumption

]
] Saying mad cow disease is now "indigenous in North
] America," an international panel advising the Agriculture
] Department recommended a ban yesterday on feeding all
] animal protein to cattle.

Its about fucking time! How stupid is it to be feeding cows to cows?!

Ban Urged on All Animal Protein for Cattle

]
] Diageo, the British liquor company whose brands include
] Johnnie Walker, Guinness and Smirnoff, said yesterday
] that it would put nutrition labels on its products to
] detail how much alcohol and how many calories and
] carbohydrates are in each bottle.

Diageo to Put Nutrition Labels on Liquor

] Bennett soon ascertained the patients did have one other
] thing in common. All three were reading Harry Potter and
] the Order of the Phoenix, the fifth installment in the
] enormously popular series by J.K. Rowling.

LOL!

Health 24 - News, Pain

Naysayers have been trying to show Atkins is bad for you for about 30 years now and haven't a shred of evidence. Meanwhile there continues to be study after study showing that low-carb helps cholesterol, etc, etc.

I think its probably an uncontroversial fact of anthropology that we (Americans, anyway) are eating more carbs now than at any previous point in human history. Prehistoric man certainly did not have many carbs in his diet.

I've lost 30-35 lbs over the past 18 months or so by cutting carbs -- and I'm not nearly as low as an Atkins regime. It isn't that hard. Step 1: quit drinking regular soda.

I've been saying it for awhile now -- and there was a NYTimes article to this effect about 3 weeks ago -- that corn subsidies and agribusiness are the reason everyone is overweight. We have too much corn. So we grind it up into corn syrup and put it in everything. (Not to mention feed it to cows but that's another issue).

There is no question that Atkins works. And there are some signs that "mainstream" medicine is starting to come around; doctors are now starting to talk about glycemic index.

Obesity is starting to be recognized as the single biggest factor in heart disease. Being really overweight is about as bad for you as smoking!

RE: Hackers on Atkins

]
] VIENNA, Austria - The man believed to be the first
] recipient of a human tongue transplant was recovering
] Tuesday and showed no signs of rejecting the organ, his
] doctors said.

Whoa!

Kansascity.com - Your Kansas City Everything Guide

] THURSDAY, May 29 (HealthScoutNews) -- Indoor swimming
] pools could be a major source of childhood asthma.
]
] That's the conclusion of a new study by Belgian
] scientists who found that exposure to a byproduct of
] chlorine used to disinfect pools damages the lungs and
] could be associated with an increased risk of asthma in
] children who swim a lot.

Interesting...

Yahoo! News - Indoor Pools May Cause Childhood Asthma

] A study suggests chemicals in tea can destroy bacteria
] and viruses that cause throat infections, dental caries
] and other dental conditions.

Tea is good for you.

BBC NEWS | Health | Tea 'may fight tooth decay'