by beconrad   Doctors and scientists have long known that some people were sensitive to gluten. Celiac disease is a well documented and widely studied disease in which sufferers are unable to process the gluten in pasta, bread and other food sources. The inability to process gluten can lead to

This week we are republishing this year’s most popular blog which was on Bob Dylan accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature back in March. Last week Bob Dylan performed in Stockholm and while he was there he met with the Nobel Prize Committee and accepted this year’s award for literature.

By Dr. Kristie Do you want to know how to improve your running? Whether you’re running for fitness, weight loss, stress relief, or competitively, it’s important to continuously challenge yourself in order to increase your speed and stamina and help promote weight control. Plus, by challenging yourself, you make your

They both may embrace Communism as their form of government, but there have always been vast differences between Russia and China.  The brutal purist form of communism adopted by Mao Te Sung, the leader of the Chinese Revolution in the forties resulted in tens of millions of deaths.  The people

By Carlton Ryan Many of us eat too much. The average person would be healthier if they ate less everyday. Of course, doing so is hard. Among the myriad difficulties is hunger. If you try to eat less, you may feel as if you are starving much of the time.

“Set your phasers on stun,” Captain James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise would bark at his crew, but we all knew he meant “lasers” instead of “phasers” because lasers were the weapon of the future.  When Auric Goldfinger flipped on his superlaser that was burning and cutting through solid

You’re probably already aware of the many benefits of getting and staying in shape and leading an active lifestyle. Once you’ve made the important decision to begin a new fitness routine, where do you begin? The biggest challenge is not only taking that first step, but committing to the routine

The primary problem in trying to study a mummy is that if you take the wrappings off, the body disintegrates before you can do much examination.  The idea for using a high-energy particle accelerator for the examination came after one of the co-curators, Essi Rönkkö, stumbled upon a fully intact mummy,

Staying on a diet is a challenging endeavor, which can often be made more difficult by random days when you feel ravenously hungry for no particular reason. Researchers find that there are some common reasons why these especially hungry days occur, and understanding the triggers for hunger can help you

The disappearance of famed woman aviator Ameila Earhart has long been on of America’s great mysteries. Like Jimmy Hoffa, Earhart seemed to vanish into thin air.  Well, we do know she was in the air, attempting to fly her Lockheed Electra around the world in 1937 when she suddenly vanished.