Rosemary Fights Free Radicals In Your Brain

Here’s good news from EurekAlert: Rosemary chicken protects your brain from free radicals The active ingredient in rosemary, known as carnosic acid (CA), can protect the brain from stroke and neurodegeneration that is due to injurious chemical... (read full article)

Exercise Improves Thinking

Here’s an article from Science Daily titled Exercise Improves Thinking, Reduces Diabetes Risk In Overweight Children. So the second part of the title is truly a “Duh!” type of statement, but the first part is interesting. The researchers... (read full article)

Randy Pausch Lecture

Here is an amazing lecture given by Randy Pausch, his final lecture ever. He’s not retiring. He’s 47 years old and is dying of cancer. It’s long, but well-worth the watch. He impressed me right off the bat when he acknowledged the... (read full article)

Garlic Improves Your Blood Pressure

Yesterday, onions; today, garlic. The allium family is bringing us all kinds of goodness this week. It looks like eating the equivalent of two cloves of garlic lowers blood pressure by boosting hydrogen sulfide. Unfortunately they only say “fresh... (read full article)

Eat Onions, Save Your Pancreas

Here’s good news for onion lovers like myself: An Onion a Day May Repel Pancreatic Cancer Onions and black tea appeared to show “modest inverse associations” with pancreatic cancer, although the trends were not significant (P=0.056 and... (read full article)

How A Ketogenic Diet Can Prevent Seizures

I hope you’re ready for some thick reading. I came across a study at Jimmy Moore’s site titled “Ketogenic diet and astrocyte/neuron metabolic interactions”. After going through much medical jargon, the authors conclude that (feel... (read full article)

More Fast Food Means More Body Weight

Now here’s a shocker. A Temple University study discovered that eating more fast food makes one gain more weight. Although the raw numbers aren’t all that exciting, some of the other findings are. Adding an additional one, two or three fast-food... (read full article)

Shoulder Rehab Workouts

Via Straight to the Bar comes this Diesel Crew video for shoulder rehab. This was important for me given that I just crossed the four month mark since having my left shoulder scoped. I watched the video last week and started incorporating the circuits... (read full article)

Why Flax Seeds Aren’t As Good As They’re Claimed To Be

Photo courtesy of Dakota Flax Flax is commonly touted as a good way for everyone to get their omega-3 fatty acids. Add some to your cereal. Grind it on your toast. Add the oil to your salad dressing. Bad news for vegetarians today: I’m dispelling... (read full article)

Wasting Good Egg Yolks

Photo courtesy of SXC.ht A friend recently told me about watching his roommate meticulously peel some hard-boiled eggs and then throw the yolks away. It’s a common thing for people to talk about eating an egg white omelet or having 3 egg whites... (read full article)