Monday, January 4, 2010

HEALTH NEWS

Got acne? There's an app for that.

It's Doctor Pearson's AcneApp. It lights your iPhone screen alternately blue and red. The Doctor says the blue is anti-bacterial and the red is anti-inflammatory. He says it even works on wrinkles by stimulating collagen growth. The idea is to fix your face while talking on the phone.

There's no clinical study that says any of this works. Still, there's a sucker born every minute, so if you're one you can get it at the Apple app store for $1.99

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Do you really know what you're eating?

Students doing DNA studies at Trinity School in Manhattan found that one out of six food items for sale were mislabeled.
  • White tuna sushi was really cheaper tilapia.
  • Sheep's milk cheese was really made from cow's milk.
  • Venison dog treats were make of beef.
  • Sturgeon caviar was Mississippi paddle fish.
  • An all-beef kosher hot dog sold from a New York pushcart showed only ... cow DNA.

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In a stroke of irony, Al Bernardin, the inventor of McDonald's Quarter Pounder, has died. He died of a stroke.

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And Dr. Hulda Clark has died. She wrote the books "The Cure for All Cancers" and "The Cure for All Advanced Cancers." She died of cancer.

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The federal estate tax expired at the end of last year. Congress is almost certain to renew it in the future. So if you're going to die, now would be a good time.

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