Hack Your Hangover

If you can remember this article before you start your drinking binge this weekend, you'll probably be much happier the next morning. It proposes that hangovers are caused by three primary things: Dehydration, "vitamin burnout", and toxins. Prepare well for these and decrease your hangover if not avoid it altogether.

How to Severely Decrease the Chances of a Hangover


If you're reading this Sunday morning, fret not! Pull yourself up off the floor and take a look at these home remedies from Howstuffworks. From eggs to bananas, it sounds like the remedies are about the same as the preventative measures. To defeat this beast that plagues us all, we must first learn to understand it!

How Hangovers Work

Cigarettes Censorship Forced in Canadian Shops

"You can browse the latest porn magazines at Canadian shops, but tough new laws mean that cigarette packages are simply too suggestive.

Shop owners in Ontario, Quebec and a few other provinces must now hide tobacco products from their customers under rules that will cover most of Canada by year-end as the country tries to stamp out smoking by young people."

And to think people think this is logical. I guess if the "young people" can't see the ciggies behind the counter, they won't think they exist. Censorship solves everything.

Cigarettes whisked out of sight

World's Oldest Woman Had Normal Brain

A 115-year-old woman who remained mentally alert throughout her life had an essentially normal brain, with little or no evidence of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study in the August issue of Neurobiology of Aging. The findings question the assumption that Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia will inevitably develop, if people live long enough.

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Tech History Made on February 4, 1915

On this day in 1915 it was discovered that proper nutrition is important, but no one cared. Many impoverished southerners were contracting an often fatal disease called pellegra. It began with mouth sores, skin rashes and diarrhea then eventually moved on to mental deterioration then death. More than 10,000 people lost their lives to pellegra in 1915. Pellegra was thought to be caused by airborne microbes.

Dr. Joseph Goldberg used volunteer inmates from Mississippi prison to test the infectiousness of pellegra. He soon discovered it was not infectious at all. If it wasn't a microbe then what was causing it?

Dr. Goldberg proceeded to monitor closely the diets of 2 control groups. He concluded that the usual diet of a poor southerner: cornbread, molasses and pork fat, lead to pellegra. A diet of meats, vegetables and milk cleared up pellegra. However, his ideas were not widely accepted. The fact that a Yankee was blaming a disease on poor southern social conditions did not sit well with many, and the medical big wigs of the day were bent on it being an airborne microbe. Finally, 20 years later, a thing called vitamins were introduced.

Composing this article makes me think about my own diet. It consists mainly of Mountain Dew and pretzels. Perhaps I'll have a salad for lunch.

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Tech History Made on January 11, 1922

On this day in 1922 the first diabetes patient was treated with insulin. The 14 year old Leonard Thompson's terrible condition greatly improved as he regained his strength and energy. The research for insulin had begun many years before when doctors noticed that if an animal 's pancreas was removed it would develop diabetes. Doctors began extracting fluid from the blotches on the pancreas. These blotches turned out to be the hormone insulin that would save the lives of millions. Even though, in saving the life of Leonard , the Toronto General Hospital had not found a cure, it had finally found an effective treatment.