Yowazzup: A Directory of Happening Things

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An exclusive remix of Nas’s track, "Wake Up" is available to those want to participate in the IntraHealth campaign. You can download the track for free, but you’ll also have a chance to make a donation to the cause as you’re acquiring the track.

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Demi Moore has revealed her secret to her beauty and youth and no, it is not Ashton Kucher but blood sucking leeches. She shared the news during an appearance Monday on “The Late Show With David Letterman.”

“I’ve always been somebody looking for the cutting edge of things that are for optimizing your health and healing, so just a week ago I was in Austria doing a cleanse and part of the treatment was leech therapy,” she told Letterman.

“These aren’t just swamp leeches, these are highly trained medical leeches,” she laughed. “These are not just some low level scavengers; we’re talking high level blood suckers.”

Moore also revealed that leeches prefer bare skin. “Leeches don’t like hair, they much prefer a Brazilian.”

What’s the benefits?

“It detoxifies your blood,” she told Letterman. “And they have a little enzyme that when they’re biting down on you, gets released into your blood and generally you bleed for quite a bit. And your health is optimized. It detoxified the blood and I’m feeling detoxified right now.”

What’s your say? Do you generally think leeches contribute to Moore’s youth rather than botox and Asthon Kucher?

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Feeling depress? Don’t fret. Feeling sad can be good for you as it promotes good health. Don’t get panic nor get medications right away, instead, try to focus and overcome the depression.

According to some experts, sadness actually helps us learn from our mistakes. It also invites sympathy and therefore help from others. So, it’s not the end of the world. In fact, there are many ways to handle depressions. That, is another topic altogether.

What do you think? Is feeling sad good for you?

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Nobody can live forever but we can live longer by practicing the followings.

1. Sleep 6-7 hours per day, not more, not less
2. Be optimistic
3. Have more sex
4. Have a massage
5. Exercise
6. Meditate
7. Do sit-ups
8. Take yoga
9. Floss your teeth
10. Visit the dentist regularly
11. Watch your weight
12. Quit smoking
13. Manage stress
14. Look after your breasts
15. Check your blood pressure
16. Have regular smear tests
17. Have a glaucoma test
18. Chill out
19. Be rich
20. Get a dog
21. Laugh a little
22. Live in the country
23. Have lots of children
24. Learn to play piano
25. Play sudoku
26. Play crossword puzzles
27. Learn a new language
28. Keep taking exams
29. Keep on working, even after retired
30. Be close to your mother
31. Don’t BBQ
32. Do gardening
33. Eat more chocolate
34. Eat pumpkins
35. Eat beans and blueberries
36. Eat gazpacho
37. Eat spicy foods
38. Eat salmon, sardines, mackerel or herring
39. Eat the Mediterranean way
40. Drink miso soup
41. Drink red wine moderately
42. Drink tea moderately
43. Drink coffee moderately
44. Drink more water
45. Play brain games
46. Move to Japan, France, Spain, Switzerland or Australia
47. Don’t take work home
48. Maintain your social life
49. Volunteer
50. Get married happily

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Good afternoon. It’s a finger-licking good day!

• Good news for fast food lovers. KFC and Taco Bell has stopped using trans fat oils.
• In order to stay competitive to recent Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick, Yahoo will buy the rest of Right Media.
• Does your Macbook has battery problems too?
• “Stone Cold” Steve Austin talks about his first movie, Condemned. Hell, yeah!

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Often in life, many of us have overlooked the importance of health until something bad happen. Sometimes, when the something bad actually happens – it might be too late to get a remedy. Prevention is always better than cure.

Ririanproject.com listed down 99 ways, mostly involved with your food intake on how to take care of your heart. Eat healthy, stay healthy!

99 Ways To Keep Your Heart Pumping

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Good afternoon and Happy Diwali to all Hindu friends.

• It was reported that White bread increases cancer risk. Oh crap, I just ate some of those.
• Sony PlayStation 3 will come with a lot of free stuff despite the price tag of USD $600 when it goes on sale November 17.
• Four designers. Three seasons of “Project Runway.” Two months to create a collection. One winner.

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Too many cans of cola might mean bad news for your bones.

Some women drink diet cola to help keep the weight off, but a new study suggests that drinking diet, regular and decaffeinated cola can actually lower bone density and put women at increased risk for osteoporosis.

According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, roughly 55 percent of Americans, mostly women, are at risk of developing the brittle-bone disease, which leaves bones dry, weak, and more likely to fracture.

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This sterile looking is one of the 15 types available varying from animals and human snouts, to zippers.

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That tasty miso soup you had for lunch may be more than delicious — it could help you burn away excess fat.

That’s the conclusion of preliminary research presented Monday at the American Chemical Society’s annual meeting, in San Francisco.

Researchers led by Kazuo Miyashita, a chemistry professor at the Hokkaido University Graduate School of Fisheries Sciences in Japan, investigated the effects of brown seaweed, Undaria pinnatifida — a type of kelp called wakame that is widely consumed in Japan.

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