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Lie in Bed for 90 Days, Make $17,000, Seriously

Lie in Bed for 90 Days Make $17000 Seriously

It sounds too good to be true, but this is not a joke or a scam. (more…)

Bravo’s Work Out Finale

In case you missed the season finale of Work Out on Bravo, tonight is a rerun. On the Work Out’s season finale, all the Sky Sport & Spa’s clients reveal their weight-loss progress to the trainers. Click here to see a preview. (more…)

SPF Clothing

SPF Clothing

The ad for one brand of SPF clothing says the following: “Omni-Shade is a revolution in sun-protective clothing. The Sun Goddess shirt with UPF 50 protection effectively blocks 98% of harmful ultraviolet radiation. So you can stay in the sun longer, without all the messy goo.” (more…)

Bigger, Stronger, Faster

Bigger Stronger FasterBigger, Stronger, Faster is a must see documentary. Christopher Bell and his brothers Mike and Mark grew up in the ’80s desperate to emulate their he-man heroes Arnold Schwarzenegger and Hulk Hogan.

So all three boys took up powerlifting. And just like Schwarzenegger and Hogan – who have since owned up to using steroids when in their prime – each Bell brother began juicing. (more…)

Masturbation: Prostate Cancer

Masturbation Prostate CancerEvery guy knows that you must use it or lose it. It appears that this advice applies to the prostate gland as well. Researchers from the Cancer Council of Victoria in Australia found that men who masturbated five times a week or more decreased their risk of prostate cancer by 33 percent.

They compared the sexual habits of 1,000 men with prostate cancer against 1,250 healthy men who did not have the disease. The researchers speculated that frequent masturbation flushes out cancer-causing toxins that promote the disease. (more…)

Cell Phones: Sleep

Cell Phones Sleep

Prolonged cell-phone use before bedtime may impair your sleep quality. In a study of 71 people, participants took longer to reach deep sleep and had shorter bouts of deep sleep after they had been exposed to cell-phone radiation for three hours, compared with having been exposed to sham signals for the same amount of time. (more…)

Overweight People Have Bad Breath

Overweight People Have Bad BreathBeing overweight may be a risk factor for bad breath, according to The Journal of Dental Research. When investigators at Tel Aviv University in Israel rated the breath of 88 people with a machine that measures smelly chemicals, people with a higher body-mass index were more likely to have high odor scores.

The reason might relate to metabolism, diet, or dry mouth, “but everything is conjecture,” says lead researcher Mel Rosenberg. (more…)