You're Drinking the Wrong Kind of Milk, and other Weekend Reads

by Helen Lamanna, AdvisorAnalyst.com

Here are this week's reading diversions for your personal enligtenment. Have an excellent weekend!

Cloak App Helps You Avoid People You Don't Want To See

Luckily, there is a new iOS app called Cloak that could help you out. It uses geo-location technology to track your friends and acquaintances -- so that you can avoid them.

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10 Painfully Obvious Truths Everyone Forgets Too Soon

You know how you can hear something a hundred times in a hundred different ways before it finally gets through to you? The ten truths listed below fall firmly into that category – life lessons that many of us likely learned years ago, and have been reminded of ever since, but for whatever reason, haven’t fully grasped.

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The Main Causes and Symptoms of Liver Cancer | ActiveBeat

The prevalence of this cancer is due to the role the liver plays in our bodies. As the largest gland in your entire body, your liver is responsible for filtering and eliminating toxins, stockpiling vitamins and essential nutrients for energy, generating the necessary proteins for blood clotting, and producing bile for efficient digestion.

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You're Drinking the Wrong Kind of Milk | Mother Jones

When my in-laws moved from India to the United States some 35 years ago, they couldn't believe the low cost and abundance of our milk—until they developed digestive problems. They'll now tell you the same thing I've heard a lot of immigrants say: American milk will make you sick.

It turns out that they could be onto something. An emerging body of research suggests that many of the 1 in 4 Americans who exhibit symptoms of lactose intolerance could instead be unable to digest A1, a protein most often found in milk from the high-producing Holstein cows favored by American and some European industrial dairies. The A1 protein is much less prevalent in milk from Jersey, Guernsey, and most Asian and African cow breeds, where, instead, the A2 protein predominates.

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10 Burning Facts About Your Metabolism | ActiveBeat

An increase in physical activity will increase your BMR. The main objective is to exercise at a rate where your heart rate increases when it comes to cardiovascular exercise. Resistance training (or weight bearing exercise) is the most effective way to increase BMR—the greater your muscle mass; the faster your body will burn calories.

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Do Your Medications Affect Your Bones?

If you have osteoporosis, or are at risk for it, you want to do all you can to keep your bones as strong as possible. Besides following your doctor's advice on diet and exercise, you should know that some medications are bone-friendly -- and others may have side effects that affect the bones.

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Brain Foods Pictures Slideshow: What to Eat for Better Concentration

Listen to the buzz about foods and dietary supplements, and you'll believe they can do everything from sharpen focus to enhance memory, attention span, and brain function.

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Alzheimer's disease burden weighs heavily on women - Health - CBC News

Women more likely than men to develop Alzheimer's, be caregivers

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Daylight saving time may have health costs - latimes.com

Springing ahead for daylight saving time may in fact be March Madness as numerous studies list detrimental effects of losing an hour's sleep.

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Having trouble sleeping? These products aim to help - latimes.com

Lack of sleep, researchers say, can cause driving hazards, depression, poor work performance, a hazy memory, a lackluster sex life, an increased risk of obesity, disease and more — as if those were not enough.

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What is Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease is a fatal, progressive and degenerative disease that destroys brain cells. It is the most common form of dementia, accounting for 64 per cent of all dementias in Canada.

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Faecal Transplants Are Curing Incurable Diseases like Crohn's - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

An Australian doctor claims he is curing incurable diseases using an all-natural waste product we usually flush away - human stool.

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10 things that can raise your blood pressure - Health & Wellbeing

There's no way of telling from the outside if you have high blood pressure. You can feel perfectly well and yet the force of blood pressing against the walls of your arteries can be high enough to be slowly causing damage that increases your risk of heart disease, strokes and kidney failure.

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