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Well it’s been proven now – eat a slab of steak every night and you will increase your risk of bowel cancer by a third. I guess it’s always been high on the suspect list, but included in the list of red meat culprits are processed meats like bacon, sausages and the like. That’s the bad news. Which is probably why the Western diet which is high in red meat and saturated fats isn’t your ticket to healthy living. What’s interesting that comes out in the study is that the famed Atkins diet which is low carbs and high protein/fat have also received a drumming. So if those are the things that significantly increase your risks of bowel cancer, what dietary measures should you take to reduce your likelihood of bowel cancer? Eating fish and high fiber foods are the things you need to add to your diet if you want to reduce your chances of getting colon cancer. So grandma was right about eating your greens after all.

Well, looks like the Supreme Court has ruled against the use of marijuana medicinally to ease pain. It went one step further to state that the use of marijuana use for medical purposes was equivalent to a federal crime. So for terminally ill patients who have been privately growing marjuana in their backyards to kill pain on the prescription of their doctors are now fair game to be prosecuted. It was a 6-3 ruling with 6 judges ruling that it was criminal and 3 other judges stating that it wasn’t. Interestingly enough, the plaintiffs were steadfast in their claim that they will persist in using the drug to ease their pain.