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Is your sunscreen causing cancer?

I do much better when I get my 30 minutes of sun and then cover up with clothing.

Is your sunscreen causing cancer?

The majority of sunscreens on the market today are more harmful than beneficial.  Sunscreens are designed to decrease your risk of skin cancer and allow you to enjoy the sun without worry.  Unfortunately, most modern day sunscreens may increase your risk of cancer and disrupt the functioning of your hormones (1415).

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Sucralose affects insulin response

Granted this is somewhat narrower than my title suggests, but it should make you think twice about eating sucralose (Splenda).

Diabetes Care | Mobile

OBJECTIVE Nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS), such as sucralose, have been reported to have metabolic effects in animal models. However, the relevance of these findings to human subjects is not clear. We evaluated the acute effects of sucralose ingestion on the metabolic response to an oral glucose load in obese subjects.

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PHP on Google App Engine

Seems like more trouble than it’s worth.

PHP Overview – Google App Engine — Google Developers

App Engine applications can be implemented using the PHP programming language. This developer guide introduces the standard interfaces and explains how to use them with App Engine, as well as the raw APIs and development tools included in the App Engine PHP SDK.

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Anno Online open beta

 

Anno Online sails into open beta | Joystiq

Ubisoft’s Anno Online has opened the city gates for an open beta, granting all access to the free-to-play city building strategy game. Interested lords and ladies should set course to anno-online.com for access. New players logging in during the first week of the open beta will receive a “premium ship.” Players who participated in the closed beta will receive several rewards. The greatest gift? Their data won’t be wiped per the standard beta transition, so they can continue on.

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The 7-Minute Workout

This sounds a lot like Body by Science. Instead of 5 exercises done every 7-10 days, it’s 12 exercises done three times a week. It’s roughly the same time per week. My understand of the aforementioned book, though, is that exercising more often will slow strength gains. The 7-minute workout might be optimizing for something other than strength, of course. Of course, how it works for you matters more than any results from a study.

The Scientific 7-Minute Workout – NYTimes.com

In 12 exercises deploying only body weight, a chair and a wall, it fulfills the latest mandates for high-intensity effort, which essentially combines a long run and a visit to the weight room into about seven minutes of steady discomfort — all of it based on science.