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When eating, we generally find food that we think tastes great. Others like to focus on how healthy a certain food is before eating it. In any case, food is essential to all of our being. It is speculated that the body can only last two weeks without eating before it starts to break down [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Friday, August 14, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under All, Food, Health · Tagged almonds, Apple, capsaicin, cashews, cassava, cherry, chilies, cyanide, deadliest, death, food, habaneros, Health, kill, mushrooms, poison, potato, pufferfish, tomato, top 10 toxic foods, toxic, toxic foods, yuca
Viruses can often be seen in a very poor light, but they aren’t all bad. In fact, we humans probably wouldn’t exist without viruses. Author Michael Brooks writes about the upside of sharing the planet with these ruthless killer machines. Here are the top 10 reasons to love viruses. Ah-Choo!
10. The virus gave us complex [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 1:09 am
Filed under All, Health, Nature · Tagged antibiotics, cure, diseases, dna, Evolution, Health, lethal diseases, Life, mimivirus, nucleus, outbreak, scientists, virus, viruses
Every new year brings about a thoughtful look at the past. And what better way to gain more insight or guilt than to have a few quotes to increase your wisdom for this coming year. So read on and find out what a few bright minds thought about beginning a new year. Here are the [...]
Posted by Elizabeth Downing Johnson on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 2:04 am
Filed under All, Humor, Misc, People · Tagged alcohol, America, celebration, criminals, diet, Disney, drunk, Fireworks, Gun, Health, Holidays, Independence, kiss, Mom, mystery, new years, night, quotes, resolutions, sky, stars, tradition, Universe
As humans, we have evolved errr… changed over time. Because of the complexity of our bodies, certain organs and parts seem to become less and less needed over time. Whether you’re some big fan of evolution or you’re completely against it, there are parts of the human body that are no longer needed to live [...]
Posted by Ash Grant on Sunday, December 7, 2008 at 12:27 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Health · Tagged adenoids, appendix, arrector pili, Bizarre, body, body parts, coccyx, Evolution, gall bladder, goose bumps, hair, hair follicle, hairs, Health, human body, human vertebrae, male nipples, medical, muscle fibers, organs, Plica semilunaris, sinuses, tailbone, third eyelid, tonsils, useless body parts, weird stuff, wisdom teeth
Since the time of fire, man has had arguments – rare or well done? Of course, arguments depend on your point of view, or in the case of husbands and wives, what the wife thinks. Some arguments are never-ending. Over the centuries, there have been some doozies that have kept philosophy students and teachers debating.
To [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Thursday, November 13, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Filed under All, History, Nature, Religion · Tagged abortion, Animal, bullets, Christian, Creation, Darwin, death, death penalty, Destiny, Dr. Kevorkian, Earth, Evolution, God, Gun, Health, identical twins, Nature, nature vs nurture, Nurture, religion, right to bear arms, Universe
Fad diets try to offer a quick fix for fast weight loss, and, even if they work, the result is short-term and the pounds come bouncing back. The biggest problem with unhealthy fad diets is that you shouldn’t stay on any of them for extended periods of time because they are generally unbalanced nutritionally. Many [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 12:04 am
Filed under All, Food, Health · Tagged alcohol, Cabbage, cabbage soup diet, chicken soup diet, coffee tea, dairy products, diet, diets, evening snack, fad diets, fish, food restrictions, fried foods, green vegetable, Health, junk food, malnutrition, Medicine, red meat, Sleeping Beauty, sugar alcohol, top 10 lists, top ten lists, unhealthy fad diets, water, worst fad diets
It used to be that poisoning was the murder method of choice for those cunning villains who wanted to “get away with it.” However, following advances in forensic science, poisoning no longer allows murderers any anonymity. Nowadays, the use of poison is so easily detectable it is comparable to the murderer writing a confession. “And, [...]
Posted by TopTenz Master on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 6:07 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Crime, Health · Tagged arsenic, Bizarre, brown recluse, castor bean, Crime, cyanide, death, Health, hemlock, heroin, medical, Medicine, poison, pufferfish, Snake, snakes, strychnine, Venom
Warning: Some of the images and video may be disturbing. The common cold has no cure. Scientists have been trying for centuries to find the cure, which would undoubtedly make our lives easier. However, the common cold has nothing on these 10 infectious diseases. The diseases are, for lack of a better word, so viral [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 12:05 am
Filed under All, Bizarre, Health · Tagged Animal, anthrax, Bizarre, cholera, common cold, cure, death, Ebola, fatality rate, Health, infectious diseases, influenza, lethal diseases, Malaria, medical, outbreak, SARS, smallpox, spanish flu, top 10 list, Typhoid, typhoid fever, typhoid mary, vaccination, variola virus, virus, viruses, War