Health News of the Day is a daily summary made from the selected links I post on Twitter. It is in a bullet points format with links to the original sources which include 350 RSS feeds that produce about 2,500 items per day:Can Touching Your Toes Test Your Arteries? There is a correlation between inflexible bodies and inflexible arteries. http://bit.ly/5Rcmsn -- PubMed source: Poor trunk flexibility is associated with arterial stiffening. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol. 2009 Oct;297(4):H1314-8. Epub 2009 Aug 7.Medical news tweets are not research articles - they are 140-character messages - please always go to the original source, links, etc. Tweets and links do not represent endorsement, approval or support. Image source: OpenClipArt.org, public domain.
Over the past 20 years, the number of doctors in relation to the American population has risen by 30% http://bit.ly/65bAAf
"When picking food, go the caveman route. Does this product occur in nature or come from trees? If not, avoid it" - CNN http://bit.ly/8lkbLH
TIME: The Year in Health 2009 - from A to Z http://bit.ly/5Aju40
Sleep and school: The owl group had an average GPA of 2.84. Larks and robins averaged 3.18. http://bit.ly/4G4LJl
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