Beans Beans, beans, the musical fruit The more you eat, the more you toot The more you toot, the better you feel So we have beans at every meal! Beans, beans, they're good for your heart The more you eat them, the more you fart The more you fart, the more you eat The more you sit on...

About 'better eating', here is a quote I spotted the other day. “Discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.” Guavas Guavas are a small round, or oval, or pear-shaped tropical fruit. They’re not all that common, so they might be hard to find, depending on where you live. But if you can track...

I rather like this quote from Mark Twain, “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint,” though there is no need for you to worry. I’ve checked everything through most thoroughly. You will be amazed when you discover just how much of those foods we take for...

Now, blessings light on him that first invented sleep! It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all the...

My mother, now sadly departed from this Wonderful World, used to say “stand up straight, Joey,” for she knew that poor posture makes a bad impression. She was right in more ways than she knew, for just recently it was found that standing straight and pushing out your chest helps in other...

Noone knows for sure if other species dream but some do have sleep cycles similar to humans. Elephants sleep standing up during non-REM sleep, but lie down for REM sleep. Some scientists believe we dream to fix experiences in long-term memory; that is, we dream about things worth remembering. Others reckon we...

Here is an oddity. The back of your knee is used by the body's sleep-wake clock to reset it, so scientists say.  They have not been able to explain a 1998 study that shows a bright light shone on the backs of human knees can reset the brain's sleep-wake clock. It is not clear whether this discovery is being...

Tom Cruise has installed a snoratorium in his newly refurbished mansion in Beverley Hills (£20m – I include the value as the current vogue in the Dailys is to include house prices regardless of the story, though never, I note, when the Queen is mentioned).  The room is padded...

13. Experience Experience - lots of it—is critical when it comes to accurately reading mammograms. A study from the University of California, San Francisco, found that doctors with at least 25 years’ experience were more accurate at interpreting images and less likely to give false positives. Ask about your radiologist’s track...

7.  BRAZIL NUTS ARE NUTS OF SELENIUM Brazil nuts are a excellent source of selenium, an antioxidant that lowers the risk of bladder cancer in women. Other studies also found that those with a high blood level of selenium have lower rates of dying of lung cancer and colorectal cancer. Researchers think...