Farts for Health

Beans, beans,
their good for your heart.
Beans, beans
they make you fart.
The more you fart,
the better you feel.
So eat your beans
at every meal.
It seems that there is more to this saying than meets the eye, as it relates to farts, that is.
A smelly rotten-egg gas in farts controls blood pressure in mice, a new study finds.
The unpleasant [...]

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When You Get Desperate (Insurers that is)

Now insurers are getting desperate and want more of your money. Nope, not in raising premiums, they want a piece of the bailout pie.
The Treasury Department is dramatically expanding the scope of its bailout of the financial system with a plan to take ownership stakes in the nation’s insurance companies, signaling new concerns about a [...]

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