^ 15 hours a day???

Maybe the change in bone density was due to the riveting of the phone holder to the user's hip.

bmwracer wrote:

^ 15 hours a day???

Yeah I thought that was a bit excessive...serious phone sluts.

bmwracer wrote:

^ 15 hours a day??? Maybe the change in bone density was due to the riveting of the phone holder to the user's hip.

That was what I thought. After all, there are EM fields everywhere in modern society. Of course, I've carried much greater loads on a belt than a puny cell phone for much longer and it never seemed to become an issue beyond the normal.

Wood-Based Synthetic Bone is Just Like the Real Thing
By Clay Dillow 01.05.2010

First, there was the wooden peg leg. Then came bone replacements made of various metals and ceramics. Now, in the 21st century, we're back to wood. But this ain't your average sea dog's pine prosthesis; researchers in Italy have found a way to turn wood into synthetic bone that's so similar to real bone that it never has to be replaced.

By heating and processing rattan wood -- think wicker furniture -- at very high pressures and adding calcium and phosphate along the way, researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics in Faenza fabricated a load-bearing synthetic so durable and so bone-like that, unlike ceramic and metal bone and joint substitutes, it never has to be replaced. Surgeons have already successfully implanted the artificial bone into sheep, demonstrating that real bone will actually fuse with the material, eventually making it hard to see where synthetic ends and real biological material begins.

It's unlikely the process will be available to human patients for at least five years, but with the science perfected, accident victims, cancer patients and those with degenerative bone diseases should be able to have replacement bone whipped up in custom batches in just ten days time.

Cool.

The New Yankee Workshop meets Scientific American Frontiers.

bmwracer wrote:

Cool. The New Yankee Workshop meets Scientific American Frontiers.

Pretty fascinating.

Report: 40 percent of cancers are preventable
Wed Feb 3, 11:21 am ET

LONDON – About 40 percent of cancers could be prevented if people stopped smoking and overeating, limited their alcohol, exercised regularly and got vaccines targeting cancer-causing infections, experts say.

To mark World Cancer day on Thursday, officials at the International Union Against Cancer released a report focused on steps that governments and the public can take to avoid the disease.

According to the World Health Organization, cancer is responsible for one out of every eight deaths worldwide �\ more than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. WHO warned that without major changes, global cancer deaths will jump from about 7.6 million this year to 17 million by 2030.

In the report from the International Union Against Cancer, experts said about 21 percent of all cancers are due to infections like the human papillomavirus, or HPV, which causes cervical cancer, and hepatitis infections that cause stomach and liver cancer.

While the vaccines to prevent these cancers are widely available in western countries, they are almost nonexistent in the developing world. Nearly 80 percent of the world's cervical cancer deaths are in poor countries, according to the agency.

"Policymakers around the world have the opportunity and obligation to use these vaccines to save people's lives and educate their communities towards lifestyle choices and control measures that reduce their risk of cancer," Cary Adams, chief executive of the International Union Against Cancer, said in a statement.

In Western nations, experts said many of the top cancers �\ like those in the lungs, breasts and colon �\ might be avoided if people changed their lifestyle habits. To reduce their risk, the agency recommended that people stop smoking, limit their alcohol consumption, avoid too much sun, and maintain a healthy weight through diet and exercise.

From the LA Times:

Blood pressure: What you can do for yourself

Multiple articles here: http://www.latimes.com/news/health/la-he-blood-pressure-sg,0,3173609.storygallery

bmwracer wrote:

From the LA Times: Blood pressure: What you can do for yourself Multiple articles here: http://www.latimes.com/news/health/la-he-blood-pressure-sg,0,3173609.storygallery

I read that this morning over breakfast.

Tu_triky wrote:

I read that this morning over breakfast.

Yeah, I just finished reading the article in the paper....

Hmm, no mention of Vitamin D.

bmwracer wrote:

Yeah, I just finished reading the article in the paper.... Hmm, no mention of Vitamin D.

Yeah I have read clinical research regarding the influence of vitamin D on blood pressure. Vitamin D is not really a vitamin in the strictest sense but it is a pro-hormone, and as such, it has it impacts your endocrine system which itself has an impact on your blood pressure. In any event the recent avalanche of Vitamin D research makes it quite obvious that it is important in the prevention/treatment of many degenerative diseases such as cancer and chronic pain conditions.

Tu_triky wrote:

Yeah I have read clinical research regarding the influence of vitamin D on blood pressure. Vitamin D is not really a vitamin in the strictest sense but it is a pro-hormone, and as such, it has it impacts your endocrine system which itself has an impact on your blood pressure. In any event the recent avalanche of Vitamin D research makes it quite obvious that it is important in the prevention/treatment of many degenerative diseases such as cancer and chronic pain conditions.

Yup, that's why I've been popping one 2000IU gelcap everyday for the past couple of years... Nice that Costco has 'em along with the fish oil gelcaps.

bmwracer wrote:

Yup, that's why I've been popping one 2000IU gelcap everyday for the past couple of years... Nice that Costco has 'em along with the fish oil gelcaps.

That's good. That's the new standard that most physicians who are current on the research recommend, not the FDA's 400 IU...even that bear Andrew Weil upped his recommendation from 1000IU to 2000IU.

Tu_triky wrote:

That's good. That's the new standard that most physicians who are current on the research recommend, not the FDA's 400 IU...even that bear Andrew Weil upped his recommendation from 1000IU to 2000IU.

Yeah, 2000IU was what was recommended in the Wiki article for Vitamin D.

bmwracer wrote:

Yeah, 2000IU was what was recommended in the Wiki article for Vitamin D.

After reading a book on Vitamin D, reading most of the info at the Vitamin D Council website...I think 2000IU is the min. Some ppl may need more depending on their health and their plasma levels of Vitamin D.

To your health.

Tu_triky wrote:

To your health.

Kanpai!

bmwracer wrote:

Kanpai!

Crack open the Riesling before I crack open my head!

Tu_triky wrote:

Crack open the Riesling before I crack open my head!

Geh, I don't have a corkscrew...

EDIT: I do have one... In my Swiss Army Knife.

bmwracer wrote:

Geh, I don't have a corkscrew... EDIT: I do have one... In my Swiss Army Knife.

Com'on MacGyver, I thought you knew!

Tu_triky wrote:

Com'on MacGyver, I thought you knew!

Hey, MacGyver got promoted to Stargate SG-1.