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Health
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Obese South African Is Allowed To Stay In New Zealand – Not Entitled to Health Care
10 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember Albert Buitenhuis, the obese South African living in New Zealand, who was threatened with deportation because he was just too fat? Well listen to this..
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Mom Booted Off Instagram For Nude/Upside Down Yoga/Breastfeeding/Rainbow Combo Photo [PIC]
28 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An American Instagrammer has been booted off of the photo sharing service for “violating Instagram’s community guidelines”. Amy Woodruff (the owner of the Daughter of the Sun Instagram account) practises yoga, and lives in a teepee with her family in the wilds of Hawaii Click through for the pic.
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Groom Your Exquisite Beard With This Styleshaver Pro For Only R699, Incl. Delivery
26 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Do you have a beard? Do you watch Homeland? Have you ever wondered how Saul maintains his immaculate face mane? Do you desire to have a face mane of Saul’s quality? If you do, then you need to learn to sculpt, shape, and truly care for your beard. And to do that, you need the right tools.
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Beat Around The Bosch – SA’s First Fun Run Concert
22 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Beat Around the Bosch is SA’s first combined running and live music event, and it’s happening in Stellenbosch on 28 September! The event is the first of its kind because no other running race has ever featured live music from six stages around the 7,95km track through the historic student and winelands town.
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Man Loses The Ability To Feel Sad After Suffering Stroke
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
68-year-old, Malcom Myatt of England, will never be sad again. After spending 19 weeks in the hospital due to a stroke he suffered, doctors told him the frontal lobe of his brain had been destroyed. That’s the section of the brain that controls emotions.
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North Korea Has A Massive Crystal Meth Problem
21 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
North Korea is experiencing something of a meth “epidemic” at the moment. Kim Seok-hyang, the man who wrote a report titled, ‘A New Face of North Korean Drug Use: Upsurge in Methamphetamine Abuse Across the Northern Areas of North Korea’, said: “Almost every adult in that area (of North Korea) has experienced using [crystal meth] and not just once.”
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The Question That Won’t Go Away: Is Fruit Juice Bad For Your Health?
19 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Juice. The healthy alternative to fizzy-drinks. Have it when you’re not feeling well, or when tap water isn’t hitting the spot. But is it really the healthiest option? Not according to American obesity expert, Robert Lustig.
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Coca-Cola Defends Sweetener Dangers Amid Declining Sales
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Coca-Cola has launched a new print advertising campaign which some have called a “propaganda campaign” in an attempt to reverse declining sales. The ads show the company defending the use of its sweetener, aspartame. The ad reads, “time and again, these low and no calorie sweeteners have shown to be safe, high-quality alternatives to sugar”.
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Canadian Guy Tweets Request For Weed, Canadian Police Retweet, Internet Goes Mental
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Twitter is used for many things these days, but it is also key to remember who may be following you. This Canadian mechanic used Twitter to request marijuana from local drug dealers. He also asked them to deliver the stash to his work. And that’s when the York Regional Police retweeted him, asking if they can come along, too.
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Of Course People Are Walking Around With 3D-Printed Ears In China
15 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Missing an ear? Not a problem. Not in China, anyway. Researchers in China are using 3D-printers to print ear cartilage samples made from real tissue. And they’re not stopping at the ears – why would they?
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Yes, Michelle Obama Is Actually Making A Hip-Hop Album
14 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As part of her ‘Let’s Move!’ initiative to tackle childhood obesity, the first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, is making a hip-hop album. That’s right, the FLOTUS is going to make an album featuring the likes of Doug E. Fresh, Jordin Sparks, Matisyahu, Travis Barker, Ariana Grande, Ashanti and DMC.
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Be Amazed And Terrified – A Microscopic Look At How A Mosquito Feeds [VIDEO]
08 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Recent research by Ed Young explores what really happens when a mosquito sucks your blood. This video provides an microscopic look at a mosquito’s weirdly flexible mouthpiece as it searches for a blood vessel to pierce and drink blood from. Enjoy this: Mosquitos suck so hard that they actually crush your blood cells.
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Eat This Twice A Week And You Can HALVE The Risk Of Lung Cancer
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A study conducted by scientists at Jiangsu Provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the regular ingestion of raw garlic can lower your risk of lung cancer. Participants who ate the herb on a regular basis reduced their risk by 44%. In smokers, the risk of lung cancer fell by 30%.
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South Africa Is Super Fat, Says Science
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last year, over 2,500 respondents participated in the SA National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the results of which were published on Tuesday. The survey showed that 22% of South African children between the ages of two and five are either overweight or obese – that’s 10% higher than in the United States. On average, 60% of women aged 50 years and above have waist measurements of 88cm or more.
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Planes DO Make You Sick: Qantas Passengers Taken To Hospital
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A Qantas flight from Chile to Australia on Thursday resulted in 26 ill passengers, 16 of whom required hospitalisation after touch down in Sydney. Ambulances and paramedics met the plane to transport the ill passengers, who are claiming to have fallen ill during the flight.
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NEW DIET Is Called The ‘Breath Diet’ And Takes 5 Minutes A Day [VIDEO]
01 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Breathe the weight away is what former Japanese actor Miki Ryosuke is claiming. If you simply concentrate on your breathing and take long breathes and exhale aggressively for two to five minutes daily, you will lose weight.
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Oh James! Rare Condition Causes Debilitating Euphoria When Stroke Victim Hears Movie Theme Tune
01 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
An unnamed 45-year-old man suffered a stroke. He made a full recovery. Sort of. We say “sort of”, because the man developed synesthesia, a neurological syndrome that enables a person to taste colour and sound. And other things.
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New Tooth Sensor Will Tell You When You’re Eating Too Much [PIC]
01 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists at the National Taiwan University in Taipei have developed a “wearable oral sensory system”. The Wi-Fi enabled sensor is able to detect when the wearer is speaking, drinking, coughing and chewing.
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If You’re 23 Or 69 You’re Having The Best Years Of Your Life: This Is Why
29 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Yes, a new study of over 20,000 participants has declared that 23 and 69 are the two happiest years of your life, confirming that anywhere between 29 and 51 really is a sprawling, barren emotional wasteland. You’re pretty screwed if you didn’t stop to savour the hell out of either of those two years. Quick! […]
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Is Lack Of Sleep Ruining Your Career? How Much Is Enough?
29 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Hyper successful people like Donald Trump and Martha Stewart like to remind as many people as often as possible of how little sleep they get. Donald and Martha subscribe to the Gladwell premise that the more you do something, the better you’ll be at it. When pressed, they’ll tell you that they owe their success […]
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Woman Addicted To Plastic Surgery Talks To Oprah About Having A Fake Face
25 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In 2004, Jenny Lee appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show and at the time revealed to Oprah that she had undergone over 25 surgeries. Now she is back talking about what has happened in her life since the Oprah interview.
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Menthol Cigarettes Are More Addictive Than Regular Cigarettes
24 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
All of you who think you are doing good to your body by smoking menthols may just be wasting your time. As of Tuesday the US Food and Drug Administration said they may have to place restrictions on menthol cigarettes. According to study results, the product is actually more addictive than regular cigarettes “menthol cigarettes pose […]
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Now That It’s Lunch: Study Shows Missing Breakfast Increases Your Risk Of Heart Attack
23 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Could skipping breakfast be detrimental to your health and place you at risk of having a heart attack or coronary heart disease? These could be the results you notice when you do not eat breakfast.
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This Surgical Knife Can Detect Traces Of Cancer
19 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers at London’s Imperial College have developed a surgical knife that will enable doctors to detect if the tissue they are cutting into is cancerous or not.
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Eat A Donut Right Now: Dubai Will Actually Pay Residents In Gold As Incentive To Lose Weight
18 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If gym isn’t the thing for you, then maybe you need to move to Dubai. According to Emirates 24/7, Dubai is testing the incentive theory. Will people lose weight, if they have something to gain…that isn’t fat? The city is offering, wait for it…two grams of solid gold, if they drop a casual two kilograms […]
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Man Wakes Up In Motel – Has Amnesia And Can Only Speak Swedish
16 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Something like this has definitely happened before – in The Hangover. So, according to Business Insider, a man was found four months ago… unconscious… in a Southern California motel. Not such a crazy story? Except for the fact than when the man awoke, he could only speak Swedish and didn’t remember a thing about his […]
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This Is Why Mozzies Like Your Ankles More Than Other People’s
15 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Mosquito. You know the noise, you know the feeling, but you don’t know why the heck in a room of 10 people, you come out looking like you’ve caught some foreign disease. An article in the Smithsonian covered the question: “Why do mosquitos bite some people more than others?” We’ve taken the most important ideas […]
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This Is How You Smuggle Goods Across SA Borders
15 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you ever wanted to run some kind of Breaking Bad smuggling expedition, now is your chance. According to defense analyst Helmut Heitman, South Africa has no airborne radar system. This means that if you know exactly where the ground-sited radar is and fly low enough, you can successfully smuggle whatever it is you need to. With the […]
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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Make Babies In May
11 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
According to an article from the LA Times, those old wives’ tales about pregnancy aren’t as far fetched as we thought. Health economist Janet Currie and Hannes Schwandt of Princeton University describe how there could be a relationship between the month the child is born, birth weight and gestation period. Currie published on Monday: Pregnancy length and […]
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Woman Opens Eyes While Doctors Harvest Her Organs
10 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Doctors at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in New York were removing a woman’s organs for transplant when they realised the woman was alive. Colleen Burns had opened her eyes during surgery.
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