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Did you know May is Skin Cancer Awareness month? It surely is. And to draw even more awareness to what has become an increasingly pertinent issue, the Beauty & Style channel here at b5media (where I also write) will be hosting a Theme Day centered around this very issue.
Tuesday, May 20, will see links from […]
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Need yet another reason to enjoy tea time? How about this…
Researchers at Dartmouth University have found that drinking two or more cups of black or green tea every day can cut your risk of acquiring two of the most common types of skin cancer.
Your risk […]
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So you’re cooking, right? You grab the lid off the pot so fast that it flings itself mercilessly against the inside of your wrist, sending you careening over to the kitchen sink as your dinner burns on the stove. What do you do next?
A) Run the wound under cool water.
B) Call the pizza joint […]
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Picture this: You’re in the mall. You’ve just splurged on a fabulous handbag. You’re eyeing a pair of Gucci sunnies in that cool starlet style. You’re sucking down an Orange Julius. And in fifteen minutes, you’ll be getting a Botox injection.
No, this isn’t the dream you had last night, this is the life of […]
A 35-year-old Indonesian man named Dede suffered a simple cut as a teenager and thereafter began growing tree-like warts all over his body. The warts soon worsened into mossy, branching growths, virtually incapacitating him. His wife left him, he was out of a job, and he was made the village freak. Doctors could never figure […]
And just like your real roommate, they don’t pay rent (but they do at least clean up the place). Your body is a veritable planet, housing some 90 trillion roommates, mostly microbes. These spiderlike mooches hang out in places like your eyelashes, buried headfirst in your follicles, just munching away at your skin. (Hey, we […]
Here are some bizarre things I got a kick out of this week. Um, what does this have to do with health? Baby, I can justify anything, but I think oddities, humor and sheer stupidity do a lot for our health. Nobody ever races home from work thinking “Wow, I can’t wait to read Sara’s […]
Some of us just aren’t comfortable covering our bodies with something cooked in a vat off the new Jersey turnpike as an alternative to sun exposure. We’d like to do the cooking ourselves. Now, there are tons of common kitchen item type recipes out there that involve creamy vegetables and oil, but I say, screw […]
Celebrity plastic surgeon Tony Youn of Dr. 90210 fame breaks it down for us on his blog. He explains why $400 containers of skin creme made from cocoons are exactly what they sound like: a bunch of B.S.
1. Any over-the-counter products do little except moisturize the skin. The FDA does not allow medically-active products to […]
This story is old news, but I couldn’t resist. It’s a fascinating rehabilitation tale that’s truly bizarre. A Russian man was born with a 2.5 inch crooked penis and no scrotum. Doctors removed his penis and attached it to his arm where it was grown to 6.5 inches using his own body tissue before being […]
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