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02/28/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Whoops, you dropped something: Man’s rectum falls out after sitting on the toilet too long, playing games on his mobile phone

A man who lived in Zhongshan, Guangdong Province in southeast China was rushed to the hospital around midnight of Sunday, February 4 after he saw a mysterious ball-sized lump dangling from outside his anus. The Chinese man sought medical attention after “a big lump slipped out of his anus.” After examining him, the doctors said […]

02/27/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Johnson & Johnson facing class action suit over the asbestos in its talc products

New Brunswick, New Jersey-based pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer Johnson & Johnson is facing its first investor class action lawsuit. According to a legal complaint filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey on Thursday, February 8, investors suffered from losses when the price of Johnson & Johnson’s stock […]

02/26/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

How poultry farming in India contributes to the global superbug problem: Antibiotics help chicks grow bigger, faster, for more profit

Chicks that arrive on a farm in Rangareddy district in India, near the southern metropolis of Hyderabad, are fed a yellow liquid from plastic containers. “Now the supervisor will come, and we will have to start with whatever medicines he would ask us to give the chicks,” the caretaker said. These medicines are antibiotics, of which […]

01/24/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Survival food staple: 12 household and medicinal uses for the onion

Onions are naturally tasty — add them to any dish, and they would surely make an already scrumptious meal even more flavorful. What’s better is, not only are items of joy to the palate, onions are also blessings to the body due to their many nutritional and medicinal benefits. What are those? Read this article and […]

12/28/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Is there a nutritional advantage to fresh vs frozen fish? Well, that depends…

New research shows that frozen fish is just as good as fresh fish if properly prepared. According to an initiative by Trondheim, Norway-based research company SINTEF, the Norwegian Institute of Nutrition and Seafood Research (NIFES), and the Icelandic research institute Matis, new methods of handling fish can make it fresh throughout the year. The project, […]

12/27/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

How do you like your mushrooms? Researchers find that grilled is the best way to preserve the nutritional benefits

Spanish researchers have been able to show that grilling is the best way to preserve mushrooms’ nutritional benefits. Scientists from Mushroom Technological Research Center of La Rioja (CTICH) sought to measure the influence of different cooking methods (boiling, frying, grilling) of betaglucans content, antioxidant activity, and proximate composition of four cultivated mushroom species. The researchers […]

11/08/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

MASSIVE RECALL: Packaged vegetables from Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s may contain Listeria

Salinas, California-based Mann Packing Co., Inc. has issued a voluntarily recall of its packaged vegetables that are distributed all over the United States and Canada over fears that the products are contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The vegetables are sold at grocery stores such as Albertsons, Target, Trader Joe’s, Walmart, and 10 California-based Whole Foods stores. […]

08/31/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Memphis Meats receives massive investment from Bill Gates; hopes to eliminate all animal slaughter within 30 years

In just three years, you may be chomping down on a “lab burger” and putting gravy over a “test-tube chicken” if a new venture company has anything to say about it. San Francisco, California-based startup Memphis Meats is intent on developing meat from stem cells. And they might just be successful, thanks to the investment […]

08/31/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Drone-based pizza delivery service launched in Iceland… won’t the pizza get cold?

Residents of Reykjavik, Iceland may be the first ones in the world to get their pizzas literally from the heavens. Last Wednesday, August 23, 2017 saw the launch of the world’s first drone delivery service in Iceland’s capital. The drones, which are powered by Tel Aviv, Israel-based drone delivery company Flytrex, made it possible for […]

08/16/2017 / By Jhoanna Robinson

Cutting high-fructose corn syrup out of your diet reactivates internal healing and regeneration in just EIGHT days

Fructose can be found in 75 percent of packaged foods and drinks because it is less costly and 20 percent sweeter than raw sugar. Upon consuming and ingesting it into the body, it is converted into fat as it is metabolized in the liver, a process which is known as de novo lipogenesis (DNL). Removing […]

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