Health Headlines

FitSugar — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:00:00 PDT

There are some health headlines that are worth sharing. Often the stories behind the headlines live up to their tag lines. Check out these three stories with "double take" deserving headlines.

Nutrition: An Up Side to Hard Times – New York Times
An interesting analysis of the health benefits of Cuba's economic crisis. The average daily calories consumption per person dropped by almost 1000 calories and people started walking more. There were significant decreases in the rates of obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease and stroke.

Sales Call Leads to Kidney Donation – CNN
A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman donated one of his kidneys to a potential client too broke to use a vacuum cleaner due to his illness.

And this just in time for Halloween...

Hair-Raising Ideas to Cure Baldness – USA Today
Could scalp transplants, donated from corpses, be the next cure for baldness? Hair restoration specialists explore the possibilities.

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