HPV's Cancer Links May Be Broader Than You Think


With the use of the the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine gaining in popularity, the direct link between HPV infection and cervical cancer is gaining a much broader public understanding.  What's less well known to people, though, is that HPV is linked to more cancers than just cervical cancer.  As detailed in a new article in the medical journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, in addition to cervical cancer, HPV infection can increase the risk of vaginal and penile cancers, as well as anal and oropharyngeal cancers. Oropharyngeal cancer includes cancer that can affect the tongue, throat, tonsils, and soft palate, and its rate is quickly increasing. Vaccination against HPV can help protect girls and boys against many of these cancers and is routinely recommended to begin at ages 11 and 12 for both boys and girls but can also start later and still be effective. 

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Simple Detoxification You Can do By Yourself

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Pollution, junk foods, stress, and other unhealthy life-style gives a lot of toxin to your body. Within several years, or sometimes months, it will turn against your body to mess up your health. Look for these signs to make sure you don't have too much toxin :



  1. Irregular menstrual cycle
  2. Headaches
  3. Flu
  4. Constipation or diarrhea
  5. Get tired easily for no reason
  6. lack of spirit and motivation
  7. Random pain in parts of our body
  8. Urine color gets darker
Our body actually able to clean itself through sweat, urine, poop, and sneezes. But sometimes you have too much toxins that our body can't deal with it.
If you have some of the signs above, consider these steps:

  1. Have more sweat through regular exercise. Sweating through exercise is much better than sweating on sauna. Toxin will come out carried by sweat.
  2. Fasting (not eat and drink) from sunrise until sunset. It will clean your digestion system. Make sure you don't eat too much after the sunset, and drink much water. Veggies and fruits do you good too.
  3. Be a blood donor, every 4 months. It will renew you blood cells and save other people's life.
  4. Do not sleep late, and wake up early. Also wake up at around 2-3 AM and drink water or pray (for Muslim).

Coke, Calories, and Obesity: Junk Food Greenwashing?

The new two minute Coca Cola video ("Coming Together")  touting the company's efforts to combat weight gain while urging everyone to "come together" to work against the rising tide of obesity is at once daring and laughable.  There is a great deal to critique in the well-produced ad (seeking praise for developing new artificial sweeteners, for one), yet it's the overarching point that "all calories count" that is the most apparent exaggeration.

Yes.  The body does treat the energy from calories pretty much the same once they are consumed, but as we wrote in a recent news piece, calories from sugary soda are unique.  They're much more easy to over-consume than calories from many other sources, and they can have unhealthy effects on the response of insulin and related hormones. And soda is well-established as the prime contributor to weight gain in the US - the theme of last year's PSA campaign from the New York City Department of Health (see below).

Should Coke be praised for its modest moves toward fighting obesity? Some may say "yes," yet the messages that all calories are the same and that everyone needs to "come together" to fight obesity seems a PR move aimed simply at deflecting growing criticism rather than a real effort to improve the health of kids and adults the world over.  It is a company built on selling sugar water. To expect it to significantly veer toward health promotion would be little more than delusion.