
Exercise May Help to Offset Damage from Sugared Drinks
Taking sugared drinks in any form increases risk for heart attacks, but exercise may offset some of the damage. Exercise increases blood flow in people who have even severe blockage of their arteries leading to significant heart disease.

Phyllis George and Polycythemia Rubra Vera
Phyllis George was named “Miss Texas” at age 21 in 1970, quickly followed by winning “Miss America.” At age 25, She became famous as the most prominent woman is sports broadcasting, co-hosting the National Football league’s weekly pregame show with Brent Musburger, Irv Cross and Jimmy the Greek.

How to Live Longer and Better
No drugs, supplements or potions have been shown to extend your life, in spite of the fact that the internet is full of an incredible number of fraudulent life-extension products that provide no benefits while they steal your money. However, we do have overwhelming evidence that several healthful lifestyle habits can extend how long you live and improve your quality of life in your later years.

Potential Treatments for COVID-19
As of today doctors have no proven effective treatment for COVID-19. However, many studies are being conducted all over the world. Here are some of the reported studies.

Richard Feynman, Physicist and Humorist
Feynman was one of the greatest theoretical physicists of all time. He helped to develop the atomic bomb during World War II and solved the mystery of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986. He won the 1965 Nobel Prize in physics for his discoveries in quantum electrodynamics.

Getting Frequent Infections Can Precede Cancer Diagnosis
People who develop frequent infections are at increased risk for developing cancer later on. Japanese researchers checked 2,354 patients suffering from malignant cancers and found that compared to those who did not develop cancer, cancer sufferers were at significantly increased risk for suffering infections such as influenza, pneumonia, hepatitis, or gastroenteritis in the six years before they were diagnosed with cancer

A First Vaccine for COVID-19
Oxford University in England has developed a vaccine and will start trials on more than 6,000 people on Thursday, April 30, 2020, to see if their new vaccine is safe and effective.

Why Obesity Increases Risk of Death from COVID-19 or Influenza
A review of 4,103 patients found that obesity and its resultant inflammation, heart disease and diabetes are the most common conditions found in patients requiring hospitalization with COVID-19.

Eugene O’Neill’s Guilt and Death
When you were in school, you may have read some of Eugene O’Neill’s more than 50 plays, such as Long Day’s Journey into Night, Desire Under the Elms, or A Moon for the Misbegotten. He was the only American playwright to ever win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Potential Drugs, Treatments and Vaccines for COVID-19
We have no drugs yet proven to prevent or treat COVID-19, although some drugs appear promising, as do transfusions of blood donated by people who have recovered and are now immune. The virus is spread from one person to another; it has not been shown to be spread from animals or food.