We don?t know where this originated, but it’s too good not to share. If you want to stay healthy, check out these rules. You?ll be surprised to find that you?re already following a lot of them.
1.Grill a steak. You may think it’s bad for your heart, but you’d be wrong. Beef contains immunity-boosting selenium as well as homocysteine-lowering B vitamins. And up to 50 percent of the fat is the heart-healthy monounsaturated variety.
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Jill McGivering writes in bbcnews.com that sick people in Thailand are trying a unique cure. One patient says, “I started drinking my own urine after hearing from a monk that if you have any kind of disease, urine drinking will help.”
Her doctor, Dr. Banchob, recommends that patients collect their own urine in the morning and start drinking small amounts, until they’re drinking a glassful a day. He says, “In the ancient times or early days in the rural areas, I think Thai people practiced this.”
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According to Dr. Floyd Bloom, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the U.S. healthcare system is “in imminent danger of collapse,” despite the fact that we spend more on medicine than any other country. He says the system is failing both patients and doctors, and our medical weakness could suddenly become serious during a chemical or biological attack. “The threat of war and the imposition of mass casualties from any new acts of terrorism could prove calamitous for the U.S. medical community’s ability to care for the ill,” Bloom says. An interesting note: This story comes from the BBC and was not reported in the U.S. media.
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