This girl can only eat Tic Tacs

Natalie Cooper is a 17-year-old teenager who has a mysterious illness that makes her sick every time she eats anything. In fact, the doesn't make her sick is TIC TACS! 


For reasons that doctors are unable to explain, Tic Tacs are the only thing she can stomach, meaning she has to get the rest of her sustenance from a specially formulated feeding tube. 

This woman has been eating nothing but pizza for over 30 years

Claire Simmons, a 33 year old woman who suffers from a condition called Selective Eating Disorder has been eating nothing pizza for almost her entire life. Experts say she's on the road to killing herself with her diet but Claire is convinced that her diet of only consuming pizza has been nothing good for her health over the past 30 years. She is also literally afraid of eating anything else but pizza and refuses to eat fruits and vegetables. I've heard of people loving pizza but never this extreme. 

Man of Steel - Official Trailer

Looking forward to this, Man of Steel. Superman and all his glory!

The site that allows you to rent a Grandma

Rent-a-Grandma is a real company in Texas with another location in Virginia. The company hires older women with childcare experience to provide in-home care for anyone willing to pay for it. This is absolutely weird but I awkward enough, I know a lot of people who may consider trying this out!

Interested, here's the official website http://rentagrandma.com/

Horror films can help you burn calories

Watching scary movies can help you burn the calorific equivalent of a small chocolate bar, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Westminster.

 The study found that films with regular "jump-scare" moments were most likely to help burn calories because they increased the heart rate dramatically. "Each of the 10 films tested set pulses racing, sparking an increase in the heart rate of the case studies," said Dr Richard Mackenzie, senior lecturer and specialist in cell metabolism and physiology at the university. "As the pulse quickens and blood pumps around the body faster, the body experiences a surge in adrenaline. It is this release of fast-acting adrenaline, produced during short bursts of intense stress (or in this case, brought on by fear), which is known to lower the appetite, increase the basal metabolic rate and ultimately burn a higher level of calories."

Yet another reason to hop on Netflix and watch a horror film, maybe a few! 

The oldest person in the world

Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez shows a civil registry document that states she was born on Feb. 2, 1885, during a party ahead of her 127th birthday, at her home near the neighborhood of Santa Rosa in Ceiba Hueca, where she was born in the Granma region of eastern Cuba, Wednesday, Feb.1, 2012. Bautista, who is also known as Candulia, was born Feb. 2, 1885 according to the civil registry, making her possibly the oldest person in the world.

There is a blind guy who can ride his bike in traffic using echolocation

             

A blind man uses echolocation to "see" the same way a bat does. 

Consuming onions and garlic can help your hair grow

In a study published in the June 2002 issue of "The Journal of Dermatology," scientists outlined the positive effects of onion juice on hair growth. A group of 23 patients applied onion juice twice a day; 86.9 percent of patients experienced regrowth after six weeks. Onion comes from the same family as garlic, the allium family, and its positive effect on hair regrowth comes from its high sulfur levels, which characterize all members of the allium family
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Due to its antibacterial properties, garlic can rid the scalp of toxins and promote scalp circulation, both of which are essential for healthy growing hair. It's also good for relieving scalp dryness.

Kim Kardashian without make up

Kim Kardashian without make up, would you have recognized her?

This is what Kesha looked like in High school

Pop star Kesha, before and after pics. 

10 health benefits of Marijuana

1. Cancer

Cigarette smoke causes cancer because the tobacco is radiated whereas marijuana isn't  In fact, the American Association for Cancer Research has found the marijuana actually works to slow down tumor growth in the lungs, breasts, and brain considerably.

2. Seizures

Marijuana is a muscle relaxant and has “antispasmodic” qualities which have proven to be a very effective treatment of seizures. There are actually countless cases of people suffering from seizures that have only been able to function better through the use of marijuana.

3. Migraines

Since medicinal marijuana was legalized in California, doctors have reported that they have been able to treat more than 300,000 cases of migraines that conventional medicine couldn’t through marijuana. And that’s NOT just because it’s easy to fake having migraines, right? RIGHT?!

4. Glaucoma

Marijuana’s treatment of glaucoma has been one of the best documented. There isn’t a single valid study that exists that disproves marijuana’s very powerful and popular effects on glaucoma patients. Beat that, DEA!

5. Multiple Sclerosis

Marijuana’s effects on multiple sclerosis patients became better documented when former talk-show host, Montel Williams began to use pot to treat his MS. Marijuana works to stop the neurological effects and muscle spasms that come from the fatal disease.

6. Tourette’s and OCD

Just like marijuana can treat seizures and multiple sclerosis, marijuana’s effects slow down the tics in those suffering from Tourette’s, and the obsessive neurological symptoms in people with OCD.

7. ADD and ADHD

A well documented USC study done about a year ago showed that marijuana is not only a perfect alternative for Ritalin but treats the disorder without any of the negative side effects of the pharmaceutical.

8. IBS and Crohn’s

Marijuana has shown that it can help with symptoms of the chronic diseases as it stops nausea, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.

9. Alzheimer’s

Despite what you may have heard about marijuana’s effects on the brain, the Scripps Institute, in 2006, proved that the THC found in marijuana works to prevent Alzheimer’s by blocking the deposits in the brain that cause the disease.

10. Premenstrual Syndrome

Next time your girlfriend is complaining that you smoke too much weed, hand her a joint. Just like marijuana is used to treat IBS, it can be used to treat the cramps and discomfort that causes your girlfriend to lash out at you. Using marijuana for PMS actually goes all the way back to Queen Victoria. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.

The FBI urged Martin Luther King to commit suicide with this letter

The FBI urged Martin Luther King to commit suicide with this letter: 

10 signs of a cell phone addiction

So, the other day I read an interesting article about cell phone addiction and I pretty much relate to all of these. In the comment space, include all the numbers that actually relate to. Are you an addict as well? Let's see: 

10. You’ve spent more on accessories than on your phone.
It started out with something harmless like a car charger, but then you stepped up to the car FM transmitter, armband, a different case for each day of the week, spare batteries, screen protectors, a stereo Bluetooth adapter, wireless speakerphone, and even a dock powered by tube amps. You realize that it’s just a phone, not a kid, right? And that none of it will work when you inevitably upgrade to the next version six months from now?

9. You have 30 different apps installed. And use them all.
We’ve all gone through app-installing binges where we’ve installed some questionable stuff on our cell phones. Two weeks later, we either figure out it’s garbage and delete it, or leave it to stagnate. But those of you still checking on your digital iPhorest trees, using car locater to find your Camry down the block every morning, and thumbing through digital copies of the U.S. Constitution during heated political debates are the real nuts.

8. You have alarms telling you when to do everything in your life.
Business meetings, doctor’s appointments, and group meetups. All valid events to put in your phone. Have an alarm for putting out the trash on Wednesday night? You’re in way too deep, buddy. When you need your phone to prod you through every step of the day, it might as well be your respirator or dialysis machine.

7. You read about your phone on your phone.

Not content to dream about your phone, fondle it in your pocket all day long, and relish every chance to use it, you actually invest time in finding out more about it, while using it. You read through the latest TUAW posts on your iPhone, or threads on the Crackberry forums from your Bold. Your phone is no longer a means to an end, it is the end.

6. You’ve cut back on necessities to afford your $100 a month cell phone bill.

OK, lunch is pretty important. But $5 a day adds up to like $150 a month, and that can totally pay your phone bill if you just switch to Jell-O and ramen noodles for a while. Or maybe you could just start hopping the turnstile instead of paying for a subway pass. Or move to a cheaper apartment. Or carry a balance on that credit card…

Does this logic sound familiar?

5. A full battery charge barely lasts the day.

After brushing your teeth and washing your face, your last ritual before bed is plugging in that smartphone. Because if you don’t, there’s no way that sucker’s lasting another full day after the workout you gave it today. We’ll admit that the battery life on some modern smartphones is pretty dismal, but if you’re downing a full charge day after day, you might need to lay off the juice.

4. You broke it, and it feels like you lost a friend.

In a moment of clumsiness, you went to remove it from your pocket for the 37th time in the last hour, slipped, and sent it pinwheeling toward pavement, where it landed with a sickening crack. Or, in a moment of carelessness, you let it slip out of your pocket on the train, waiting to be snatched up by some hawkeyed bum. Even worse, in a less-than-sober moment, you dropped it into a fountain (which is not a urinal, by the way). Whatever the circumstances, you can’t stop replaying the event in your mind, running over its irreplaceable digital contents in your mind, and kicking yourself for letting it happen. Maybe you even have dreams about a reunion with your long-lost friend. Er, phone. When the symptoms start to border post-traumatic stress disorder, it’s time to move on.

3. When you meet people with the same phone, you can only talk about the phone.
“You have an iPhone too? Oh awesome, have you tried the PDXBus app yet? Yea, this case is pretty cool, but I’m getting this metallic one soon that’s even slimmer.”

If this sounds at all like a conversation you might have upon meeting someone with the same smartphone, you should reconsider your smartphone addiction and your social life.

2. You feel a brief moment of panic when you touch your pocket (or grope to the bottom of your purse) and it’s gone.

We’re not talking about a lost phone here, just realizing you left it at home. And feeling the skipped heartbeat of sheer terror.
“What if people try to call me?”

“What if I can’t find the nearest Starbucks without asking someone?”

“What will my Twitter followers think?”

Take a deep breath before you need an iDefibrillator app and forge on without your faithful digital assistant. Life will be OK.

1. You use it in the bathroom.

This is just wrong. But not for hygienic reasons as you all suspect. If you’re using your smartphone on the can, you’ve just robbed yourself of your last refuge from interruption. You’ve tainted mankind’s last fortress of solitude by draggeing the entire equivalent of a computer into the equation. Can’t you live five minutes without e-mail? Really?

FROM: http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/top-10-signs-of-cell-phone-addiction/

Official Trailer: IRON MAN 3

Official Trailer: IRON MAN 3!

26 year old woman aged over 50 years in a matter of a few days

Doctors are baffled and medical experts are divided on what could have triggered the condition of the 23-year-old, who now looks 50 years older after the affliction took hold following an allergic reaction to seafood.

Nguyen Thi Phuong, now 26, has claimed that her youthful beauty began to fade over the course of just a few days, leaving her with sagging, wrinkled skin all over her face and body in 2008 and that until now she has apparently been forced to wear a mask in public to hide her appearance.

Girl survives lightning strike because of her iPod

This teenage girl survived a terrifying lightning strike after she was saved by the wire of her Apple iPod while listening to music.

Sophie Frost and her boyfriend Mason Billington, both 14, stopped to shelter under a tree when a storm struck as they were walking around their neighborhood.

Doctors believe Sophie survived the 300,000-volt surge only because it traveled through the gadget’s wire, diverting it away from her vital organs. Check the photo of the clothes she was actually wearing during the incident.

Anger is good for your health

 

Ironically, this particular emotion actually reduces the negative impact of stress, according to scientists. It increases blood flow to part of the brain which is involved in experiencing positive feelings, a study has discovered. People who bottle up their emotions tend to suffer from depression, stress and anxiety while those who express their anger are more likely to experience a release in which causes instant stress relief and boost in mood. So let it out, be upset, get mad and you'll most likely live a little longer!

A woman stabbed her boyfriend repeatedly for cheating at Monopoly

This New Mexico woman repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend after accusing him of cheating during a game of Monopoly game, according to police, Laura Chavez, 60, and her boyfriend were playing the popular board game at her Santa Fe apartment when the dispute occurred. Chavez, pictured in the mug shot, allegedly admitted stabbing her lover, Clyde "Butch" Smith, with a kitchen knife several times. 

Police reported that both Chavez and the 48-year-old Smith appeared to be intoxicated. The man, who cops found bleeding heavily from wounds on his head and right wrist, was hospitalized.

Over 150 people survived falling from an airplane without a parachute

According to the Geneva-based Aircraft Crashes Record Office, between the years of 1940 and 2008 there were 157 people who fell out of planes during a crash and survived without a parachute living to tell about it. 42 of those falls occurred at heights at over 10,000 feet! One  incident involved a British Tail-gunner whose plane was shot down during WWII. He fell over 18,000 feet without a parachute. His fall was broken by pine trees and soft snow.

Why our fingers begin to wrinkle in water

Water tends to wash away the oily substance that protects your skin.  When this occurs, a certain type of dead cell on your skin will absorb the water causing the cells to swell up, but the layer underneath doesn't.  So the swelling, in addition to the places the skin is connected underneath to the non-swelled layer, causes your finger tips to look all wrinkly.

There's a kid named " Jesus Condom "

Interesting, his name is Jesus Condom. 

In the 1940's, an actual chicken by the name of Mike lived for over a year without a head

In the 1940's, an actual chicken by the name of Mike lived for over a year without a head.

Starting rumors can help you gain more friends

Starting rumors can help you gain more friends. Psychologists suggest that rumors,  scandal and defamation of others is what brings two people closer. Professors at the University of Oklahoma had dozens of subjects "eavesdrop" on a recorded conversation between two fictional characters. The group was then asked to converse and chat about what they liked or disliked about these two characters.

The scientists found people felt closer if they agreed in their antipathy towards either character. A common fondness created less of a bond. "It appears that people's folk theories about friendship formation are amiss," the researchers wrote in the journal Personal Relationships. "There seems to be something especially delicious about the process of sharing our grievances about other people."

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2006/may/22/lifeandhealth.relationships?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Feeling guilty can damage your immune system

Research suggests that a positive outlook on life can have great health benefits, but with guilt-ridden people feeling more vulnerable to illness than those who do things naturally out of spite. 

Researchers asked 30 students to list their favorite activities, giving them both a pleasure and a guilt rating from one to 10. Samples of saliva from the participants were then tested for levels of immunoglobulin A - an antibody which is the body's first line of defence against infection.

The team from Hull University found that high guilt ratings were accompanied by low immune levels. 

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2000/apr/17/juliahartleybrewer1

The Woman Who Spent Over $4 million on plastic surgery

Jocelyn Wildenstein, a wealthy socialite and ex-wife of billionaire art-dealer heir Alec Wildenstein, has reportedly spent over $4 million on plastic surgery in an attempt to look more like the exotic wild cats she admires.

 BEFORE:

AFTER:

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was a Captain Kirk mask painted white

 

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original Halloween was a Captain Kirk mask painted white.

There's a wine spa pool in Japan

There's a wine spa pool in Japan.

A book titled Everything a man knows about women has over 100 blank pages

In a little more than 100 pages, Dr. Alan Francis releases years of research and thousands of interviews to reveal the most comprehensive understanding of men's knowledge and understanding of the opposite sex in Everything Men Know About Women.

 

Between the pages of this telling tome, readers will find over 100 blank pages because in reality, what do men really know about women?

Halle Berry accepts Razzie Award for worst Actress

Halle Berry accepts Razzie Award for worst Actress for her role in Cat Woman.

Cell Phones linked to Depression & Insomnia

According to a report in the British newspaper The Independent, sweeping new research has linked the radiation emitted by mobile phones to such symptoms as confusion, sleeping problems and chronic headaches.

Scientists did a study on both 35 men and women found that using the phones before bed delays and shortens the deep stages of sleep—the part of sleep that allows the brain and body to repair and rejuvenate from the day's wear and tear.

In Teens, who tend to use their phones late at night, the study found that the sleep disturbances caused by the radiation can trigger depression, mood swings, ADHD-like symptoms, personality changes, impair concentration and academic performance.

It seems that the radiation from mobile phones can make it difficult to both fall and stay asleep. The radiation can delay and shorten the deep stages of sleep, important since this is when your brain and body repair and rejuvenate, making exposure linked to headaches, difficulty in concentrating, depression, and personality changes.

The color PINK doesn't exist

Speaking in terms of light, pink should probably be called ‘


minus-green,’ because pink is just the leftovers of white light 


when you take out the green.

Dr Seuss also wrote ADULT BOOKS

The Seven Lady Godivas: The True Facts Concerning History's Barest Family

First published in 1939, the book is a "tongue-in-cheek reworking" of the legends of Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom, featuring seven Godiva sisters who are each engaged to a Peeping brother. When Lord Godiva dies falling from a horse, the girls "were left with a grim obligation. Horses must be studied and charted, made safe for posterity." So they each set out to discover "a new Horse Truth of benefit to all mankind" – completely naked, of course. "Nowhere," says their father, "could there be a group of young ladies that wasted less time upon frivol and froth. No fluffy-duff primping, no feather, no fuss. They were simply themselves and chose not to disguise it."

This was news to me, seeing as though I'm a really big fan of his work. His books captured our childhood, I guess the saying is right..." Everyone has a past. " Either way, Dr Seuss will always be held as one of the greats.