This vitamin-beats-cancer thing is getting to be like the "rocks-scissors-paper" game, in which rocks beat scissors but paper beats rocks, and scissors beats paper. In this case, as reported in the item below, while sunshine can help us beat some cancers, it can also cause skin cancer, but skin cancer […]

You read it here second: Vitamin D, which is made our the skin from the sun’s ultraviolet rays, appears to help prevent several types of cancer. Now you can read it here fourth, as we cite a Los Angeles Times’ story reporting that in the last three months, four separate […]

We found this trove of Boston running loops while noodling around the Boston University website. Many thanks to the BU track team for posting these loops, which are sorted into morning runs (6 miles), runs (7 to 11 miles), and long runs (more than 11 miles). The site offers directions, […]

Slow news day: Do these butt exercises until we find something interesting to write about.  Seriously, these five routines,  brought to you by the Boston Globe, are designed to strengthen a muscle that gets a lot of visual attention and relatively little exercise. They look good to us, and they […]

It took ten years of research and development, but whole wheat pasta is finally ready for prime time.  That, at least, is the judgement of New York Times food writer Marian Burros, who tells us in this article that a two-ounce serving of whole-wheat pasta can contain five to seven […]

Our knees, it turns out, are a bit more delicate than we thought. A new study published in the Journal of Preventive Medicine found that a person whose body-mass index was even slightly over the healthy range was three times more likely to have a cartilage tear.  As the Chicago […]

How cool is this? Backpacker magazine gives us the GPS coordinates, as well, of course, as helpful descriptions, of 85 great dayhikes in a whole mess of states. No we didn’t count em, but you can. Even cooler, each hike comes with coordinates of several obstacles and/or points of interest […]

Kudzu, the prolific Asian vine that has become the bane of the American southlands, is good for something, but only if you drink too much. As this Reuters story reports, researchers at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical Center discovered that people who were normally inclined to down several drinks at […]

Red isn’t just the color sin, it’s the color of victory, at least in the opinion of two researchers at the University of Durham, U.K. The journal Nature reports that the Durham scientists looked at the outcomes of combat events in the recent Olympics in which combatants are randomly assigned […]

The good news is that acupuncture does appear to relieve the pain of migraine headaches. And the better news is that it doesn’t even have to be real acupuncture. As the New York Times reports, German researchers divided 302 migraine sufferers into three groups. The patients were told that one […]