WHO: Smoking kills 5 million every year – USATODAY.com.
This is not news to anyone is it?
Flying The Friendly Skies On Hello Kitty Air – Hello Kitty – Jezebel.
How cute is this? Would you want to fly on Hello Kitty Air?
Soy Appears Safe for Breast Cancer Survivors.
So many mixed thoughts/reports on soy. Is it safe, is it not safe? What do you think?
Girls In Sports Are Expected To Be Assertive, Not Violent – Girl hockey player – Jezebel.
Does seeing girls protect themselves in sports bother you? Is it a double standard?
What an interesting concept. This morning, publishers Condé Nast , Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation and Time Inc. announced that they’re going to “develop open standards for a new digital storefront and related technology that will allow consumers to enjoy their favorite media content on portable digital devices.” A Hulu for magazines?
My friend Paul sent this to me. Did you know that the onion is a derives from the lily? I did not. Did you also know “Onion extracts, rich in a variety of sulfides, provide some protection against tumor growth. In central Georgia where Vidalia onions are grown, mortality rates from stomach cancer are about one-half the average level for the United States. Studies in Greece have shown a high consumption of onions, garlic and other allium herbs to be protective against stomach cancer.” Onions apparently ROCK!
Cancer Death Rate Continues to Fall.
Great News on the cancer front! New cancer cases and the cancer death rate continue to fall in the U.S., driven largely by declines in lung, prostate, and colorectal cancers in men and breast and colorectal cancers in women.
9 Unexpected Things Found in Drinking Water.
An analysis of federal data from the last five years revealed that more than 20 percent of the nation’s water-treatment systems have broken provisions of the Safe Drinking Water Act, the standards enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency. The result? As many as 19 million Americans are sickened each year.