Magnetic Weight Loss Toe Rings - - Based on the Ancient Chinese Art of Toe Watching

Attach these Magnetic Weight Loss Toe Rings to your big toes and watch amazed as the weight drops off. Apparently. Based on the ancient Chinese art of Toe Watching or something. $1.67 a pair.

  Lose weight without exercise 

# Based on ancient Chinese medicine, these rings stimulate the acupressure points on your big toe (and, for extra benefit, the second toe), thus curbing your appetite in a safe and natural way 

# Made from soft & non-allergenic silicone materials 

# Two powerful magnets on each ring provides a magnetic field of 1100 gauss to stimulate acupoints in your feet

Medical Mysteries - Dede Kosawa: The Tree Man Searching for The Cure

Medical history—recent and otherwise—is filled with jaw-dropping oddities, miraculous recoveries, and unsolved mysteries. There is more to these cases than shock value, however. What headlines call “miracles” are a testament to human resilience, and so-called medical mysteries remind us just how much we have to learn about the body and mind.

Two of such medical mysteries are share here; under the tag of "Medical" or "Mystery". Here I'm going to share naother such true; but amazing and unbelievable story with you.


Dede Kosawa: The Tree Man

The bizarre growths covering his body have made Indonesia's Dede Kosawa an international fascination, known to millions as the Treeman.

The arms, legs, and face of Indonesian Dede Kosawa are covered in bark-like warts, which have made him internationally famous and earned him the nickname Tree Man. Doctors believe the growths are caused by a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) that has been exacerbated by a genetic immune defect.

His hands looked like contorted, yellow-brown branches extending 3 feet. Unable to clamp his hands into a fist or pick up a fork, he made his living by performing in carnivals in rural Indonesia. He became known as the Treeman.

"His life was taken away from him," said Dr. Anthony Gaspari, an American dermatologist who traveled twice to Indonesia to treat Kosawa. "He was severely disfigured and was sent into a rural isolated village where he was sheltered from his peers. With good reason, he was a sad man. He wanted to be cured and he wanted hope."

The growths encrusting his arms accounted for nearly 12 pounds of his 100-pound body. Kosawa, 36, often became exhausted after taking a few steps because of the dense warts on his feet. The growths that carpeted his limbs were posing more problems.

In 2007, Kosawa had 12 pounds of warts removed at an Indonesian hospital, and in February he underwent his ninth round of surgery. He now has better use of his hands and feet but will continue to need surgery every few months, as there is no known cure for his condition.

Let's see him in action in the following clip:



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Tatiana and Krista Hogan: The Twins From Vernon, British Columbia - - Twins Are a Miracle of Modern Medical Science

The world of medicine and healthcare is full of miracles, that sometimes even defy the simple rules of evolution and the same can be said in the case of Tatiana and Krista Hogan, the twins from Vernon, British Columbia, who are only joined from birth and share the same cerebral activities but also have different personalities, despite sharing the same brain. The twins are a miracle of modern medical science, as they not only dodged the odds of their survival at the time of their birth, but now they have celebrated their fourth birthday on October 25th, this year.

One of the most startling factors of this highly unique cerebral sharing process between the twins is the ability to share their thoughts, as both Tatiana and Krista share the same skull structure, along with a bridge between their sensory region of the brain, also known as Thalamus. This enables the twins to carry out one of the rarest functions in evolution, the process of human networking. Dr. Douglas Cochrane, a neurosurgeon at Vancouver’s Children’s Hospital, has been involved with the twin’s condition since they were in the womb and his team has been keeping a close eye on the developments. A scintillating fact that surfaced last year while the twins were undergoing a series of tests was that, their brain was recording signals from the each other’s visual references, thereby creating a rare and incredible networking bond between the twins.

Fashion Hazards - - Killer High Heel Shoes Injured 33% of Ladies Worldwide

The next time you wear those stilettos, better be careful-a new study has suggested that more than three million women have had to seek medical attention for injuries caused by their high heels.

Half either tore a tendon or twisted an ankle, while thousands of others smashed their teeth or broke wrists by falling flat.

But 60% of women said whatever agony a pair of heels caused, they would keep wearing them if they won compliments.

The poll of 3,000 women aged 18 to 65 also found a whopping 89% said uncomfortable shoes have ruined a night out.

More than a third have had to be helped or even carried home because of pain from shoes that are too tight.

And 61% have spent a whole evening sitting down.

But 80% have bought a trendy pair despite knowing they do not fit.

Only 2% of the women polled by Hotter Shoes never wear heels.

"Women tend to buy shoes that look good, and then worry about the pain later," the Sun quoted spokeswoman Lisa McCarten, as saying.

"It's incredible to imagine the pain and discomfort women endure for a pair of killer heels," she added.

Vegetarianism: A Path to Lead a Healthy Life

There are many routes to living a healthy and fit lifestyle. A vegetarian diet is one of those routes.

The most common type is called the Lacto-ovo vegetarian. This type does not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, and shellfish or animal flesh of any kind. But they do eat eggs and dairy products.

With this type of diet, there is less fat and cholesterol because there is no meat. There is also a higher level of fiber from vegetarian foods such as apples, beans and spinach.

There are many misconceptions about vegetarians. Vegetarians do not only eat vegetables and fruit. They must include all of the parts of a normal balanced diet.

The key to maintaining healthy eating habits is to eat a variety of foods such as fruit, vegetables and a source of protein and iron.

Protein is not found in meat alone. Beans, tofu, milk, lentils, eggs, peanuts and hard cheeses are all good sources of protein.

According to The American Heart Association, reducing fat intake is recommended to lower the risk of chronic disease.

A easy way to stay away from taking in too much fat is to stay away from most fast food chains.

Other benefits of a balanced vegetarian diet include lower blood pressure, lower rates of diabetes and lower obesity rates.

Dementia in Adults Can Be Controlled by Daily Intake of Beetroot Juice - - New Study Revealed Important Facts About Dementia and Its Cure

Dementia is the syndrome in which affects the brain and hence cause serious loss of cognitive ability in aging person. It causes major dysfunction in memory, attention, language, and problem solving abilities, is now said get treated by the daily intake of beet juice, which in turn increase the blood flow in the brain in older adults.


A new study found in this prospect that beet juice can combat the progression of Dementia. As beet root contains high concentrations of nitrates which when comes in contact with the bacteria’s in mouth gets converted into nitrites and nitrites in turn open blood vessels in the body and increase the blood flow in the places in the body where it is required the most.

It has been shown previously also that nitrites found in high concentration in celery, cabbage, and other leafy, green vegetables like spinach, widely blood vessels but this study was first to say that nitrites increase blood flow in the brain as well. "There have been several very high-profile studies showing that drinking beet juice can lower blood pressure, but we wanted to show that drinking beet juice also increases perfusion, or blood flow, to the brain," said Daniel Kim-Shapiro, director of Wake Forest University's Translational Science Center; Fostering Independence in Aging.

The study on Beet root was done on 14 adults age 70 and older over a period of four days, where the researchers looked at the effects of the dietary intake of nitrates, where the subjects reported to the lab after 10 hours fast, for the first two days they consumed either a high and a low nitrate rich diet including 16 ounces of beet juice, where high nitrates is to be given more and recorded the blood flow by MRI and for the third and fourth days of the study, the researchers switched the diets and repeated the process for each subject.

It showed that by eating nitrate rich diet increase the blood flow to the white matter of the frontal lobes he areas of the brain commonly associated with degeneration that leads to dementia and other cognitive conditions.

The findings are published online in Nitric Oxide: Biology and Chemistry, journal of the Nitric Oxide Society and will be available in print soon.

Wound Dressing That Changes Colour to Indicate Wound Infected - Designed by Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT

Identifying that a covered wound may becoming infected can be very tricky to diagnose without removal for examination. However scientists at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Modular Solid State Technologies EMFT in Munich have been designing a new type of wound dressing that changes colour to indicate that a wound is becoming infected.

The dressings have a pH indicator dye within their material that reacts to different pH values. Healthy skin and healed wounds would usually show a pH of 5 or below. However is the wounds pH changes from the acid into the alkaline range, it indicates complications in the healing of the wound and the dressing with indicate this with a colour change.

“If the pH value is between 6.5 and 8.5 an infection is frequently present and the indicator color strip turns purple, “ says Dr. Sabine Trupp, a scientist at the EMFT.

The new dressings allow wounds to now be regularly checked from the outside of the dressing without any disruption to the healing process underneath.