As it’s long holiday weekend for the majority of our readers, I decided to postpone the review of the Food Matters documentary until tomorrow.
Instead, here’s another Healthbolt Funtime escapade…
Seems you can be whoever you want to be, including a ‘Super Villian’.  All you have to do is answer a few oddball questions and the truth will be revealed!
I, apparent, am…
The Joker

The Joker

23%

Lex Luthor

23%

Dr. Doom

23%

Mr. Freeze

21%

Catwoman

20%

Green Goblin

20%

Kingpin

19%

Mystique

16%

Magneto

14%

Riddler

14%

Apocalypse

13%

Poison Ivy

13%

Juggernaut

8%

Venom

6%

Dark Phoenix

6%

Two-Face

4%

The Clown Prince of Crime. You are a brilliant mastermind but are criminally insane. You love to joke around while accomplishing the task at hand.

So Which Super Villian Are You?
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You’ve debated them around the water cooler for years. Your mother has warned you about a good many of them. Seinfeld even had a whole show built around one of them (#5). What are they?
Old Wives Tales, of course.
But are they tales, or do some of them hold some truth a grain or two of truth? Take the quiz below to test your own knowledge on some of the most commonly accepted thoughts out there. Then check your answers and get the explanations you seek at MSNBC.com.
1. Cell phones are dangerous to use in hospitals because they can interfere with …read more

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The medical world: a place where truth reigns supreme and questions are definitively answered. The one place shielded from wive’s tales and urban legends.
Not.
In reality, the medical world is fraught with all kinds of “We used to believe what?”-type theories and a whole bunch of other BS. Here, dear readers, are just a few of the health myths held on to, but now exposed. Seven, to be exact, debunked by two docs from the Indiana University School of Medicine: Dr. Rachel Vreeman, a research fellow, and Dr. Aaron Carroll, the director of the Center for Health Policy and …read more

Ever wondered how much your body is worth? Start planning now with the Cadaver Calculator!
The Cadaver Calculator asks you a series of questions, including whether you are fit or obese, if you’re a lil smokey or not, how much liquor you quaff, if you are an albino (hey), and if you ever eat anything remotely leafy and green. My mortal coil is evidently worth 5 G’s. How much is yours worth?
(Brilliant: the Cadaver Calculator comes to us via Mingle2, an online dating site. Now that’s romance!)

Your normal programming has been interrupted for this important public service announcement:
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Online IQ tests are a joke (but you know this). Even if they claim to be “real”. They’re not.
Guess what? Mensa is a joke, too.
The vos Savant method will raise your IQ a few notches, but does this really mean anything?
Even the merit of a “real” IQ test is debatable, because IQ is a controversial concept. Evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould and the pioneering Alfred Binet disputed the validity of IQ (among many others).
If you …read more

I’m sick of these alternative health hucksters trying to profit off innocent souls by selling them dangerous, deceitful products. Why aren’t vitamins regulated? Drugs are regulated by the FDA to protect citizens’ health, and it’s about time vitamins were, too. There are seven very compelling reasons why drugs are way better than vitamins. If anything, we ought to deregulate drugs (prescription drugs, people) and ban those dangerous vitamins!

Reason #7: Vitamins may be essential to life, but drugs help mask the symptoms of all the sh*t you shouldn’t be doing to your body.

Okay, …read more

I got very interesting email in my in-box today. It was about a German study released in The New England Journal of Medicine about the physical benefits of men staring at women breasts.

I say with the utmost conviction that this article is, erm, unsupported.
This was kind of expected as I got to the, “Just 10 minutes of staring at the charms of a well endowed female is roughly the equivalent to a thirty-minute aerobics workout.” If this fact were true, our nation would be simply crawling with Adonises instead of Homers. Furthermore, nowhere in The New England Journal of Medicine …read more

This a rhetorical question, but we answer it everyday that we walk around on this earth. Look around you and know that the life you’re living right now is what it’s like to be made out of meat. We all are, and it’s a bizarre concept to wrap your head around.
In an issue of Omni Magazine, in 1991, Terry Bisson published a story titled “They’re Made Out of Meat”. I can only describe it as screaming-ly good. It’s a rather brilliant piece. It’s very topical, considering our concern with the human body around here. And if you haven’t read it, …read more