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People, Thought out, HealthNovember 5, 2009 3:46 pm

phantom mask How to Stay Awake When You Absolutely Must

 In anyone’s life there do happen such sleepless nights or busy days after which comes a very difficult time (usually close to some deadline) during which you have to keep staying awake. Here comes the time to swindle both your body and your mind.
 I offer you a list of relatively effective ways to keep yourself awake. All of them I tested on myself and survived! So, here you go:


Caffeine in the Coffee
 Good chose if you have to stake awake for about an hour. Then are likely to appear withdrawal symptoms such as headaches, anxiety, fatigue and sleepiness reaches a greater extent. Coffee affects everyone differently and people who regularly consume it affects less than the others. Moreover about 25% of people have no stimulant effect from coffee at all.
 This is not working for me as sometimes it seems I drink coffee instead of water. Yea, I do know what doctor said!

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Men, Sex, HealthJuly 23, 2009 12:45 pm

phantom mask 10 Ways to Cure Impotence

You can spend your whole life trying new and different ways to combat erectile dysfunction.  It seems like someone dreams up a novel and completely untested solution every afternoon.  Today, I learned that a glass of pomegranate juice could fix a guy up, lickety-split.  Yesterday, I read that guys in Peru drank frog juice to get things going.  It made me wonder what would happen if you slammed back a pomegranate-frog smoothie every morning. 

Look, the fact of the matter is that most of the recommendations people have for curing ED really don’t do much good.  Someone out there may have got out of bed the day after watching Lawrence of Arabia with his first erection in months.  That doesn’t mean that a Peter O’Toole flick is going to help you. 

In the spirit of giving guys with ED advice that may or may not really do a damn bit of good for them, we bring you the following list of tips.  Some of them are the straight up gospel truth about dealing with erectile dysfunction in a smart way.  Some of them aren’t.  We’ve tried to make it clear which ones are which. 

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Food, Science, HealthJuly 9, 2009 1:57 pm

phantom mask How Much Sugar?

A label can tell you there are 39 grams of sugar in your soda, but what does that much sugar look like?
They’ve used regular sugar cubes (4 grams of sugar each) to show how the sugars in your favorite foods literally stack up, gram for gram.
Compare foods, find out where sugar is hiding, and see how much of the sweet stuff you’re really eating.

Beverages

  Coca Cola 

12 oz (355 ml) Can
Sugars, total: 39g
Calories, total: 140
Calories from sugar: 140

20 oz (590 ml) Bottle
Sugars, total: 65g
Calories, total: 240
Calories from sugar: 240

1 Liter (34 oz) Bottle
Sugars, total: 108g
Calories, total: 400
Calories from sugar: 400

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News, Thought out, ScienceMay 22, 2009 8:38 am

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People, Thought out, HealthMay 20, 2009 7:07 am

phantom mask Three Celebrities Who (Should) Use Generic Drugs

Okay, the people we’re about to discuss may not actually use generic drugs.  That’s between them, their doctors and their pharmacists.  We have no way of knowing whether any of these famous people are managing their high blood pressure with a little help from name brand Lasix or a generic dose of furosemide. 

However, we thought it would be fun to use a few big-name celebrities to illustrate why buying generic drugs makes so much sense—and a few of the challenges that have slowed public acceptance of generics. 

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Men, Sex, HealthApril 23, 2009 12:07 pm

phantom mask 7 Things You May Not Know about Erectile Dysfunction

If you’ve experienced erectile dysfunction, you’ve probably done at least a little homework on the subject.   However, there are a few pieces of information you may not have stumbled across.  Consider these seven things you may not have known about impotence. 
These seven facts run the gamut from important to trivial, but they’re all interesting.   

1) Erections aren’t simple. 
There are at least five different physiological processes involved in getting an erection.   
First, nerve impulses must originate in the brain.  Second, those impulses need to travel unimpeded down the spinal cord.  Third, nerve impulses need to connect from the spinal cord to the penis.  Fourth, veins and arteries must supply the penis with adequate blood flow.  Finally, the muscular and vascular structures in the penis must be capable of producing an erection.   
Problems with any one of those processes can spell the difference between a happy sex life and erectile dysfunction. 

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Thought out, ScienceMarch 16, 2009 12:38 pm

phantom mask The Verbalization of Sounds

It’s hard to communicate exactly colors. If you’re speaking of black or red, you most likely would be understood. But what if you wish to communicate pale-yellow or grayish black colors?

However the verbalization of sounds is much more complicated.

In 1950, General Motors condensed the sounds of car trouble into seven types:

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Thought out, ScienceMarch 12, 2009 1:23 pm

phantom mask A Business Built on Mentos and Coke

Stephen Voltz and Fritz Grobe were a soggy, grinning mess. Wearing lab coats, safety goggles and clip-on ties, they stood in a downpour before thousands of cheering fans. It wasn’t rain that drenched them but 55 gallons of Diet Coke.

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Business, HealthMarch 9, 2009 1:25 pm

phantom mask Why Generic Equivalents Work Better than the Real McCoys: New Study Links Generic Drugs to Better Health

It isn’t tough to understand why generic drugs produce better health outcomes. No, they don’t have any secret ingredients in them that make them more powerful than name brand medications. The reason isn’t scientific. It’s economic.

 

They’re less expensive.

When times are tight and you have to make a call between a prescription and something to eat, you pass over the pharmacy in favor of the grocery store.

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Women, Men, ScienceFebruary 11, 2009 1:08 pm

phantom mask Men Are Happier Than Women

Less able to achieve their life goals, women end up unhappier than men later in life, even though they start out happier, a new survey of Americans suggests.

Early in adult life, women are more likely than men to fulfill their family life and financial aspirations, leading to greater overall happiness.
Later in life, however, the tables turn and men report coming closer to reaching their goals for consumer goods and family life. Men are more satisfied with their financial situation and family life, and are happier than women in later life, the study shows.

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