Pepper your meals with food as medicine
Sgt. Pepper may have led the Lonely Hearts Club Band for the Beatles in 1967, but we're promoting him to major general and spreading the pepper around as much as possible. Turns out this spice contains an ingredient called piperine that has amazing powers. It is, as a study in Frontiers in Cell and...
Opioids vs OTC pain relievers
A recent report in BMJ looked at the case of a 28-year-old male triathlete with hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating). After surgery to sever sympathetic nerves in order to control the problem, he couldn't escape postoperative pain, despite taking medication and doing physical therapy. So he went to a spot where he'd...
No need to put on relationship pounds
In the 2011 comedy "What's Your Number," Ally (Anna Faris) decides to revisit ex-boyfriends in hopes that one of them will turn out to be "the one." In one scene, she runs into an ex, Donald, and flashes back to their less-than-healthy relationship. Both were overweight. Ally suggests...