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Boobilicious woman teaches us how to check for breast cancer【Video】

KK Miller
Feb 10, 2016
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Ignore the fact that it features a pretty lady with ample cleavage — this video contains important information about detecting early signs of cancer.

Internet
(beautiful women • breast cancer • cancer • health • video)

Researchers find that it takes guts to be a good mother…gut bacteria at least

Master Blaster
Jan 25, 2016

A Fukui University team has discovered a connection between a child’s development and the amount of bacteria in a mother’s intestines – even after birth.

Japan
(developmental disorder • Fukui University • gut bacteria • health • pregnancy • science)

Beep beep! Trucks cruising Tokyo and Osaka to promote easy bowel movements this Enema Day

Master Blaster
Jan 19, 2016

On and around 19 January, trucks will be hitting the streets to raise awareness of the health benefits of enemas. You’ll be able to recognize them by the cute female drivers who appear to be constantly pooping…

Japan
(advertising • enema • Enema Day • health • Ichijiku Pharmaceutical • wtf)

Japanese condom maker creates CG video of two T. rexes humping 【Video】

Casey Baseel
Jan 14, 2016

How else are you supposed to sell prophylactics?

Warning! Hot dino-on-dino action coming up, so check whether your workplace Internet policy allows such things before reading on.

Japan
(Condoms • dinosaurs • funny • health • video)

Heard of painfully nerdy itasha anime-themed cars? Well here’s an ita-acupuncture clinic

Casey Baseel
Jan 5, 2016

Because if someone’s going to stick you with a handful of needles, you might as well have some anime girls watching.

Japan
(acupuncture • anime • health • manga • moxibustion • otaku)

Man hospitalizes himself after gorging on cup ramen and cola

Audrey Akcasu
Jan 5, 2016

A young man recently had a brush with death after his epic snacking caused his stomach to fill with so much gas that it nearly exploded.

China
(Cola • cup ramen • food • gas • health • ramen • stomachache)

Could the kind of coffee you drink affect your brain function? New studies say yes

Audrey Akcasu
Dec 23, 2015

What do you like to get from your coffee, relaxation or focus? Apparently, the type of beans can change the affect on your brain, but which does what?

Global, Japan
(beans • brain waves • coffee • health)

Can’t stop snoring? Maybe you should blame your “throat penis”

Evie Nyan
Dec 21, 2015

Our reporter recently got his uvula lasered off to attempt to cure his chronic snoring. Did it work?

Japan
(health • snoring • uvula • wtf)

What does three months of Yoshinoya beef bowls do to your body? Medical study announces results

Casey Baseel
Dec 11, 2015

Beef bowls are cheap, tasty and filling, so does that mean they have to be bad for you?

Japan
(beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • health • Yoshinoya)

Breakfast for a buck! Tokyo university offering ridiculously cheap, mouth-watering morning meals

Casey Baseel
Nov 27, 2015

No one said the most important meal of the day can’t also be the cheapest.

Japan
(cheap eats • deals • food • health • schools • Tokyo • universities • Waseda)

A Japanese doctor’s 10 tips for proper medical care

Meg Murphy
Nov 19, 2015

With the world’s knowledge quite literally at our fingertips, the sheer amount of information available to us can be overwhelming. With the ability to look up anything from recipes to diagnostics and treatments for diseases at the touch of a button, how are we to know what to believe?

A doctor’s office in Japan has posted a list of 10 tips to help patients weed through all the falsities in order to make the best decisions about their medical care.

Japan
(10 tips • advice • health • Japanese doctors • Japanese hospitals • medicine)

Group of exercisers in China are loving it on all fours, doctor approves (Video)

Master Blaster
Oct 28, 2015

In any park in China you’re bound to see people exercising, whether it’s by jogging, dancing, tai chi, or downing unmanned aircraft. But just when you think you’ve seen it all, a whole new way of working out gets born. The basic philosophy is “Why walk on only two legs, when you have two perfectly good arms as well?”

And so, recreational crawling was born. At the moment it seems to be practiced mainly by a small band of people in Henan Province, but numbers are growing. It’s also said to have health benefits beyond that of regular bipedal walking.

China
(crawling • exercise • fitness • health • Henan • walking on all fours)

Japanese TV show produces baffling list of five household habits that will shorten your lifespan

KK Miller
Oct 20, 2015

It seems like we’re constantly being bombarded with tips and tricks about how to make our lives better or how to improve our quality of life. We’re always being told to change the way we eat, the way we sleep, include some daily physical activity, and re-organize our lives. Everyone has something different to say, but one thing they seem to have in common is the positive spin they put on their life improvements.

That’s not strictly true for Japanese television though. One recent program seemed to be taking a cue from the fear-based strategies of American TV, and spent an entire segment talking about habits in your household that are likely to decrease your lifespan.

Find out the five habits you should be wary of, apparently, after the jump.

Japan
(death • health • ranking • society)

JINS MEME: Award winning glasses track your physical state and concentration levels

Oona McGee
Oct 17, 2015

Thanks to the world of smartphones, we’re now able to connect to ourselves on a physical level in a way we never could before. Fitness apps and wearable devices like the Fitbit wristband allow us to monitor everything from the number of steps we take to our walking speed and heart rate.

While activity trackers usually take physical data from our wrists, Japanese eyewear brand JINS is taking a very different approach by monitoring not only our physical but also our mental state, with the new JINS MEME glasses. Using a number of built-in sensors to gather data from the eyes and body, now you can monitor everything from posture to alertness levels and find out how your body and mind “age” alters throughout the day.

Japan
(apps • glasses • health • JINS • tech • technology)

“Attention, all you pigs!” Japan’s anime-style motivational diet CD minces no words or pork

Casey Baseel
Sep 27, 2015

Being overweight can negatively impact your life in a number of ways, but many of them don’t become apparent until after years of a hyper-calorific lifestyle. As such, vague warnings about lowered energy levels and increased medical costs at some indeterminable point in the future, or even a potentially early death, don’t always have enough of a feeling of immediacy to be compelling arguments to eat healthy and exercise.

On the other hand, a better chance at winning the approval of women is almost always a compelling argument, which is why a new motivational CD is being released in Japan with a number of anime and video game voice actresses alternatively offering encouragement to dieters and spitting contempt at the “pigs.”

Japan
(anime • CD • diet • health • weight loss • weird)

Yoshinoya studying what happens to the body after three months of eating beef bowls

Casey Baseel
Sep 25, 2015

In a lot of ways, Japan’s equivalent to the hamburger is the beef bowl, or “gyudon” as the locals call it. Tasty, fortifying, and cheap, beef bowls are so prevalent and popular in Japan that they essentially have their own strata in the personal food pyramids of many college students and bachelors.

Realizing that much of its customers’ bodies are literally made out of beef bowls, Japan’s largest gyudon chain is now embarking on a research project to investigate what happens after three months of eating the dish.

Japan
(beef bowls • fast food • food • gyudon • health • Yoshionoya)

It must be love: Korean couple make dramatic body transformations in just five months

Audrey Akcasu
Sep 23, 2015

Want to go from flabby to body builder in five months? Yeah, who doesn’t, right? It may seem to be an impossible feat, but one couple in Korea did it and they are loving life. The couple’s transformation from on-the-chubby-side to bodybuilding not only changed their appearance, but also made them famous. Think it’s too impressive to be real? Check out the photos below!

Korea
(body building • fitness • health • relationships • weight loss)

Osaka doctor wins Ig Nobel Prize for discovering kisses can reduce allergic reactions

Master Blaster
Sep 22, 2015

Japan has had a pretty good track record with the annual Ig Nobel Prize. Scientists from all over the country have been awarded for nine years straight for their contributions to wacky and humorous research. Last year, Professor Kiyoshi Mabuchi recieved the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics for determining exactly how slippery a banana peel on the floor is.

Now, Dr. Hajime Kimata of the Osaka Prefecture Neyagawa Allergy Clinic has been given the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine. However, rather than investigating a silly topic, Dr. Kimata’s findings were actually rather sweet: Kissing can reduce a person’s allergic reactions.

Global, Japan
(allergies • health • Ig Nobel Prize • kissing • medicine • science)

Soaking in the sun: the latest diet craze in Hong Kong

Aleisha Riboldi
Sep 11, 2015

Fad diets are a dime a dozen, and some people will go to extreme lengths to lose weight, but would you ever consider turning to the sun for help losing weight?

Apparently, some women in Hong Kong have recently taken to standing and staring at the sun for about half an hour a day in an effort to shed the pounds. We have to admit, as far as weight-loss methods go, it’s definitely a cheaper option. But are followers of this latest diet trend working their way towards blindness rather than thinness?

China, SE Asia
(crazy • diet • fad • health • sun • sun dieting • sun-staring)

Large horn growing out of woman’s head in China

Master Blaster
Sep 3, 2015

The world is a wide and wonderful place, but its also full of hidden dangers and maladies that’d you’d never even expect. I try to watch my blood pressure and limit my starch intake, not for any particular reason. I mean, why wait for starch to be a problem?

I’d like to think I have all my cards in order, but then Liang Xiuzhen of Sichuan, China comes along to rock my world. She has taught me a valuable lesson that no matter how well you prepare for the future, you might still end up with an actual 13-centimeter (5-inch) by 6-centimeter (2-inch) horn growing out of your head.