So you like “giving head”, you may want to check out Multi-disciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium about Human Papillomavirus or HPV.  Also, HPV has been linked with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Which is better  for heart disease “giving head” or gossip? You may want to gossip more instead!

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Oral HPV infection is more common among men than women, explaining why men are more prone than women to develop an HPV related head and neck cancer, according to a study presented at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium, sponsored by AHNS, ASCO, ASTRO and SNM. Human papillomavirus, or HPV, has recently been linked to some types of head and neck cancer that are becoming more prominent in the United States, mostly among men.

Fed up with listening to your spouse or co-workers gossiping away? Leave be, says a new research from University of California Berkeley. Gossip helps to prevent bad behavior, prevent exploitation and reduces stress levels.

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Gossiping can also be therapeutic, the volunteers’ heart rates appeared to increase when hearing gossip, but lowered again once they passed on the information to someone else. A problem shared is a problem halved indeed so gossip all you want – it can be healthy for your heart.

A study by Italian researchers shows that the more people are informed by newspapers, television and the Internet, the more they stick to the Mediterranean diet, the healthiest eating pattern in the world just ask Dr.Oz he grew up on this type of diet and today he’s still the same weight he was in College.

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It is time to leave behind the belief that mass media are always a source of bad habits. Television, newspaper and the Internet, when used to get information, may turn out to be of help for healthy choices and improved education.

Avoid Looking At Pictures Of Appetizing Food As It Will Make You Hungry!

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Max Planck researchers have proven something scientifically for the first time that laypeople have always known: the mere sight of delicious food stimulates the appetite.

A study on healthy young men has documented that the amount of the neurosecretory protein hormone ghrelin in the blood increases as a result of visual stimulation through images of food. As a main regulator, ghrelin controls both eating behavior and the physical processes involved in food metabolism.

So now you know all those highly appealing advertisements of food during the commercial break from your favorite TV show is done with a goal in mind – to make you hungry and keep you feeling hungry

An international team of scientists has isolated a natural hormone or chemical messenger in muscle cells that triggers some of the important health benefits of exercise.

The scientists have named it “irisin”, after the Greek messenger goddess, and believe it is a promising candidate for developing drugs to treat diabetes, obesity and maybe even cancer.

Senior author Dr Bruce Spiegelman, from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues, write about their findings in the January 11th online issue of Nature.

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First author Dr Pontus Bostrom, a postdoctoral fellow who works with Spiegelman in his lab conclude: “Irisin could be therapeutic for human metabolic disease and other disorders that are improved with exercise.”

The world population is estimated to be seven billion and all these mouths need feeding. With fears about overfishing and the sustainability of fish stocks in our seas fish farming is becoming big business. As with all farming there are issues about maintaining the health of stock and how to prevent bacterial infection.

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New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal, BMC Microbiology demonstrates that a prototype water purification reactor containing a thin film of titanium dioxide (TiO2) is able to enhance the sun’s natural disinfection properties. This device could reduce the need for expensive antibiotics or poisonous chemicals.

A study led by Russell R. Russo, MD, a third-year Orthopaedic Surgery resident at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has identified a new source of life-threatening necrotizing fasciitis – “bath salts.”

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The study, describing the first known case of necrotizing fasciitis from an intramuscular injection of the street drug known as “bath salts,” is published in the January 2012 issue of Orthopedics, now available online. Necrotizing fasciitis is an orthopedic emergency.

I guess this is one more reason to stay away from drugs, especially the non-prescribed type that can be easily bought on the street.

A new study published in the January 4 issue of PLoS ONE reveals that men and women have significant personality differences. Differences between men and women and the extent of their differences have long been the issue of debate.

Marco Del Giudice of the University of Turin in Italy and his team have now found a new method to measure and analyze personality differences, which according to them is more accurate than previous methods. We are still trying to find out the mysteries between men and women, are we?

A program for women at risk of substance abuse during pregnancy could save nearly $2 billion annually in health care costs if implemented nationwide, according to a Kaiser Permanente study published online in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ journal, Obstetrics & Gynecology.

Nearly $2 billion could be saved for every 4 million births each year if the program was implemented nationwide, the study estimated. The Kaiser Permanente researchers presented their cost statistics in 2009 dollars. To those Republicans that hate Obama care, this would be of greater benefit that doing away with health care for all Americans as we could get “two birds with one stone”, isn’t this better for America?

In a study published in the January 4 issue of JAMA, researchers assessed 25 healthy individuals who were randomized to different levels of over-consumption on protein diets whilst living in a controlled setting. They found that those who consumed the low-protein diet gained less weight compared with those eating normal and high protein diets.

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Furthermore, they established that calories alone and not protein seemed to contribute to increases in body fat and that protein did contribute to changes in energy expenditure and lean body mass.  It’s reasonable to expect that the more you consume daily, the more you would gain in weight if you lead a less active lifestyle.  If you exercise vigorously, then the excess calories would be expended and not stored as fat.