Rallies over mosque near Ground Zero get heated

NEW YORK (AP) — The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, “Say no to racist fear!” and American flags waving on both sides. The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to discuss an alternative site. The other, Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, said during a Middle East trip that the attention…

Menstrual cramps may alter women’s brains

Menstrual cramps are often dismissed as a mere nuisance, but new research suggests the monthly misery may be altering women’s brains. Researchers in Taiwan used a type of brain scan known as optimized voxel-based morphometry to analyze the anatomy of the brains of 32 young women who reported experiencing moderate to severe menstrual cramps on a regular basis for several years, and 32 young women who did not experience much menstrual pain. Even when they weren’t experiencing pain, women who had reported having bad cramps had abnormalities in their gray matter (a type of brain tissue), said study author Dr. Jen-Chuen Hsieh, a professor of neuroscience at the Institute of Brain Science at National Yang-…

H1N1 flu undergoing genetic changes in swine

Although the pandemic H1N1 “swine” flu that emerged last spring has stayed genetically stable in humans, researchers in Asia say the virus has undergone genetic changes in pigs during the last year and a half. The fear is that these genetic changes, or reassortments, could produce a more virulent bug. “The particular reassortment we found is not itself likely to be of major human health risk, (but) it is an indication of what may be occurring on a wider scale, undetected,” said Malik Peiris, an…

U.S. water system needs better enforcement, smart investment to ensure quality

In 1908, Jersey City, N.J., became the first city in the United States to chlorinate its municipal tap water. Other municipalities rapidly followed suit with water filtration and purification systems, and the United States witnessed what were arguably the most dramatic and rapid improvements in public health ever achieved. Over the next couple of decades, cholera and dysentery effectively disappeared. Health experts estimate that half of the entire decline in urban death rates and three-quarters of the drop in infant mortality from 1900 to 1940 resulted from the improvement in water quality. The dramatic drop in illness contributed to the increase in labor productivity…

New health-care law might make your doctor more informed, efficient, responsive

In many respects, American doctors today labor much the way their counterparts did 50 years ago. This Story How the new health-care law might make your doctor better informed, more efficient, more responsive and, maybe, happier What will the changes mean for you? Ask Post reporters. Most are in practices with five or fewer other physicians. They keep their records on paper in longhand. When they need to consult a colleague, they reach for the telephone. They bill for each visit. They have …

Cooking Light: You don’t have to bawk at chicken skin

Chicken skin: It’s the new health food. That may sound like a nutrition columnist’s idea of an April Fools’ Day joke. But the April issue of Cooking Light, a leading U.S. cooking magazine, makes the case that a bit of chicken skin now and then won’t hurt you and can even supply some healthful fat. That revelation appears in a list of 10 “Nutrition myths that shouldn’t keep you from the foods you love.” No. 8 among them: “You should always remove chicken skin before eating.” In its argument to debunk this, the article says, “You can enjoy a skin-on chicken breast without blowing your sat…

Minnesota abortion provider helps meet need in South Dakota

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Carol Ball’s day begins in the dark, in another state. By the time she arrives at work, crosses a snowy parking lot and enters the austere one-story Planned Parenthood clinic here, she has flown 200 miles to do something no South Dakota doctor will do. This Story Abortion provider’s day in Sioux Falls begins elsewhere Abortion poll Ball performs elective abortions. She is one of four doctors who travel anonymously, for security reasons, to the lone clinic in a state that has …

The Very Best Abdominal Workout at Home

If your looking to shed a few pounds and start getting the best abdominal workout you’ve come to the right place. In this article I’m going to share with you the best abdominal workout you can do at home that will get you looking your best. And the nice part is it won’t take you very long to perform. Crunches Crunches are considered to be on of the best abdominal workout exercises you can do for your abs. Now, I know that you’ve probably heard this before because crunches have been the talk for many, many years now but there is no better way to work your midsection than by doing good old fashion crunches. In order to do crunches properly …

Exercise the Right Way So You’ll Feel Right

As you already know, you need to exercise to help keep you living a long and healthy life. So how do you do it properly so that you can get the healthy, long-living benefits of exercise? This article will explain “the how long,” “the how often,” “the how intense,” and “should I see a doctor” questions that will help guide you when you start exercising or working out. This article is for “everyday” folks who just want to lose some flab and look better–this is not an …

MMA Strength and Conditioning Exercise – Should MMA Conditioning Differ From Standard Conditioning?

If you started out as a weekly gym goer with the muscle bound tight ab mentality, then suddenly decided to adapt that physical conditioning to Mixed Martial Arts, what exercises would you keep and what exercises should you let go of? The bench press was your world, now there’s a heavy bag? So Where do you draw the line between your old workouts and MMA needs? Where do these two worlds meet? This is what I’ll be discussing in the remainder of this article. If you targeted your physical fitness exercises for the purpose of becoming a well rounded athletic specimen, than you likely will still be using many of your foundational …

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