Fat smokers rejoice: If you're trying to shed that panza and kick the habit, the pharmaceutical industry has good news for you. Brace yourselves - the next miracle drug is targeting you.
Lunch meat - for many, the plastic crackle that comes with the first rent of bright yellow packaging is the harbinger of the new semester. Time to brown bag it for another four months.
It doesn't matter whether it's a butterfly alighting on a sorority girl's ankle, a blue teardrop falling from a convict's eye, or a pin-up girl jiggling on a barfly's arm - getting a tattoo hurts. That's because the needle must stab the skin hundreds of thousands of times to leave the mark.
A tyranny of silence is threatening your sexual health. That was the concern voiced by Dr. Drew Pinsky this weekend in Austin, Texas, at the Trojan College Roundtable, a focus group discussion of sex on campus and in the media.
Sex can lead to cancer. No, that's not some nefarious falsehood cooked up to scare high school kids into abstinence. The connection between sex and cancer is real, and college students are among the group most at risk. Scary - and sad - but true.
Come with me to the dark side of the garden. Vegetables have a dark side. Most people don't eat enough vegetables, and perhaps there are some good reasons why. These nutritious foods can have unpleasant side effects - tears, stinky urine and flatulence, just to name a few.
We are witnessing the emergence of a strange paradox - an increasing number of people go hungry and grow obese at the same time. In a country that produces more food than any country in the world, food insecurity and hunger are on the rise. One out of every six New Mexicans does not have enough food at all times to meet basic needs. Of these, 46.5 percent are working poor. Nationally, New Mexico is second only to Texas in food insecurity.
"Study Finds Low-Fat Diet Won't Stop Cancer or Heart Disease." That was the New York Times front-page headline earlier this month shrieking the results of the largest study ever conducted examining the link between diet and cardiovascular disease. The Women's Health Initiative study included 49,000 subjects over a nine-year period.
by Samara Alpern Daily Lobo columnist People just aren't as romantic as they used to be. Back in the day, men concocted all kinds of aphrodisiacal rituals and potions to elicit love from women. In North Africa, for example, a man would secretly enrich a beverage for his love interest with semen ...
by Samara Alpern Daily Lobo columnist When Hurricane Katrina ruptured the New Orleans levees, 25-foot waves of water pounded into the city ahead of 150 mph winds. The whole region struggles to deal with the aftermath of being submerged in noxious waters for weeks.
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