Written on November 28, 2011 by Jade Haigh
Brian Reed, of Lafayette, placed third in the Heavyweight weight class at the New York State Natural Bodybuilding Championships Nov. 19 at the Driver’s Village Conference Center in Cicero.
Reed, who is a recreation therapist at Tully Hill Chemical Dependency Treatment Center, also placed third in the men’s Masters class.
Despite the physical challenges he faces with cerebral palsy, Reed has been competing in natural bodybuilding shows for more than 20 years.
“When I was born, my umbilical cord was wrapped around my neck, cutting off oxygen and, thus, causing brain damage,” Reed said in June.
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Written on November 26, 2011 by Jordan Ballard
How the human brain perceives nudity is boosted at an early stage of visual processing, researchers say, and that ability may be tied to mating.
Most people are attracted to pictures of nude or scantily clad bodies, the Finnish team note. Previous brain imaging studies have pinpointed areas in the brain that specialize in detecting human bodies in the environment but it wasn’t known whether the brain processes clothed and nude bodies in different ways.
In this study, Jari K. Hietanen, of the University of Tampere, and a colleague monitored the brain activity of volunteers as they looked at pictures of men and women who wore everyday clothes or swimsuits, or were nude.
The results showed that the brain processes pictures of nude bodies more efficiently than pictures of clothed bodies.
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Written on November 23, 2011 by Jett Dooley
Roshini Raj, MD, Health’s medical editor and coauthor of What the Yuck?!, fields your most personal and provocative questions.
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Written on November 23, 2011 by Jade Haigh
Nov. 22, 2011 — People with HIV infection have a higher risk of many kinds of cancer — but not all the risk is due to the AIDS virus.
The finding comes from a study comparing 1996-2008 medical records of nearly 21,000 people with HIV to those of over 215,000 matched people without HIV. That was enough data to calculate risk for 10 kinds of cancer.
“The incidence rates of six of 10 cancers were markedly elevated in HIV patients,” study leader Michael Silverberg, PhD, MPH, of Kaiser Permanente’s research division, says in a news release.
People with HIV had:
- 199-fold higher risk of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS), one of the diseases first connected to AIDS.
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Written on November 21, 2011 by admin
Smoking tobacco cigarettes can now be substituted with using an electronic vaping device. With modern starter kits now offering improved capabilities, getting the best smoking sensation from an electronic cigarette is not an impossible thing to do these days. The smoke-free electronic cigarettes also offer a number of benefits we don’t normally get when smoking an electronic cigarette.
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