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Part of avoiding The study, published Sunday in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, looked at the health records of more than 150,000 middle aged to elderly Korean residents who had taken part in an earlier screening program and had no pre-existing heart disease. As part of their screening, the volunteers provided information about their oral health habits and had their teeth examined Advertisement During that time, 3 Those who brushed their teeth at least three times a day, for instance, were 12 percent less likely to have heart failure, and people who had lost a substantial majority of their teeth (22 teeth These sorts of population studies can only indirectly point to a link between two things, not directly show that brushing your teeth will protect you from heart disease. And it’s worth emphasizing that the potential impact of a healthy mouth on your heart is likely to be relatively small: 4.17 percent of people with gum disease in this study developed heart … [Read more...] about The Heart Wants What the Heart Wants, and It Wants You to Brush Your Teeth

It's the first high school track meet of the season. Boys who have completed no warm-up whatsoever other than to wrestle over the last Reeses peanut butter cup stand, hands dangling like heavy weights, near the start line of the JV 800 meter run. Long of shin and weak of chin, they're inanimate, forcing the starter to blast his whistle and point at each boy individually and then at the spot on the line he should occupy. Brand new size 10-1/2 spikes, puckered around the thin damp flipper inside, flop into position with no prancing, no hint that they'll ever move from that spot again. At the Set command, all eleven bony edifices are vertical, devoid of tension. The starter's pistol cracks. Never before has cold clay breathed so quickly. The small but appreciative crowd turns to the flashing knees, the flailing arms, the most calorically expensive dynamism of the day so far. As crowd-pleasing as this blistering first 200 meters is, certain concerned parents begin to wonder how much … [Read more...] about An Exercise Physiologist Explains Why 800 Meters Hurts Like The Devil

2014 has been a tumultuous year full of Ebola scares, random shootings, and rampant racism, sexism, and classism. And seeing as how, Santa be damned, all that might keep on happening right through this holiday season, The A.V. Club has decided to embrace our fear instead of cower behind it. Thus, our two-part 2014 holiday gift guide is packed full of terrifying and highly contagious items available to the masses right this very second. Each item below can absolutely kill you and/or your loved ones given the chance, but isn’t knowing you have to leave a lasting legacy part of the fun of holiday cheer? So grab some duct tape and some surgical masks and lock and load for part one, below. Part two will run tomorrow—assuming the world doesn’t blow up before then. Advertisement Gwar iTaste MVP vaporizer ($10.99 and up) Combining the wickedly metal act of vaping with the smooth, satisfying taste of Gwar, the thrash band’s officially licensed vaporizer wraps and … [Read more...] about The Airborne Toxic Advent, or

While it's been widely known for at least a decade that Frank Gehry is the world's worst living architect, it's not entirely clear why some people—mostly very rich clients—haven't picked up on this yet. The utterly god awful Biomuseo in Panama, an eco-discovery center that cost at least $60 million and took a decade to construct, is only the most recent case in point. Gehry long ago stopped pursuing any interesting material or tectonic experimentation—and he used to be an interesting architect!—to become the multi-billion dollar equivalent of a Salvador Dalì poster tacked to the wall in a stoned lacrosse player's dorm room, an isn't-it-trippy pile of pseudo-psychedelic bullshit that everyone but billionaire urban developers can see through right away. What's particularly frustrating about Gehry's career is that he's somehow meant to be cool, a kind of sci-fi architect for the Millennial generation, a Timothy Leary of CAD; but he's Guy Fieri, his buildings … [Read more...] about Frank Gehry Is Still the World’s Worst Living Architect

Garage rock 101 This month, The Sonics will release This Is The Sonics—the legendary garage-rock band’s first studio album of entirely new material in nearly 50 years. That’s one hell of a hiatus. At the same time, it makes a weird sort of sense. Garage rock may have originated as a strictly teenage phenomenon in the ’60s, but since then it’s refused to die, instead becoming one of the most timeless genres of music in existence. Trapped in a perpetual state of primitive, hormonal fury, garage rock has aged as well as whiskey or rhythm and blues itself, the source of the music’s power. Advertisement The Sonics know this well; in 1965, the Tacoma group’s debut album Here Are The Sonics!!! set the pace for the golden age of garage rock. Amid raw-boned covers of R&B songs penned by Rufus Thomas and Berry Gordy (early Stax and Motown have been staple sources of inspiration for garage rock, then and now) are originals like … [Read more...] about Where to start with the primal sound of garage rock