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The Great Salt Debate: So Bad?

The Great Salt Debate: So Bad?

This week experts warned against the dangers of overdoing low-sodium diets. That's a step toward what salt advocates like "The Salt Guru" Morton Satin have enjoined for years.

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier Nick Adams/Reuters

Study: Why Pot Smokers Are Skinnier

Marijuana users had smaller waists and scored higher across several measures of blood sugar regulation.

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey flickr

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey

Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist.

Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer Jamal Saidi/Flickr

Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer

Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.

Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred flickr

Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred

Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends?

21 to Drink Coffee? flickr

21 to Drink Coffee?

The U.S. FDA announced a plan to investigate and potentially regulate caffeine.

Have You Ever Tried to Force-Feed a Captured Human? AP

Have You Ever Tried to Force-Feed a Captured Human?

U.S. Naval medics are forcing tubes down the noses of detainees at Guantánamo Bay in order to feed them against their will. The U.N. has said this violates international law. When does "suicide prevention" become torture?

Study: Foreign-Born Kids in the U.S. Develop Fewer Allergies Michael Kooren/Flickr

Study: Foreign-Born Kids in the U.S. Develop Fewer Allergies

Kids living in the U.S. who were born elsewhere are 59 percent less likely to have allergic diseases, but their risk increases with time spent in the country.

How Deadly Is a Spoonful of Cinnamon? YouTube

How Deadly Is a Spoonful of Cinnamon?

Major medical journal takes on the eat-cinnamon-feel-terrible meme very late in the game; awareness and mystique of proscribed act heightened

Are Tea Bags Turning Us Into Plastic? emily.laurel504/Flickr

Are Tea Bags Turning Us Into Plastic?

Some of the fancy new tea bags are made of fancy plastic. A fair price to pay for drinkable luxury?

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