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The Week in Weird (Penis Museum Edition)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL NewsWelcome to our weekly roundup of the strangest, weirdest and most exquisitely bizarre news items of the last seven days. After scouring hundreds of oddities, we found a few that really rise to the top -- or sink to the bottom, as the case may be. With the exception of a story about dogs with fake IDs, all the rest of the stories seem to be sexual things, from kinky taxes to one man who donated his penis to a museum, and another who was less humanitarian with his own (to the dismay of his female patients). So enjoy the stories and we'll have even more for you next week. Behold the power of ...
Cops: Weight-Loss Doctor Told Patients to Burn Calories With Orgasms
By Ben Muessig - AOL NewsA Pennsylvania weight-loss doctor has been accused of sexually assaulting his patients and telling at least one victim that having an orgasm in his office could help her shed pounds. Investigators in Conshohocken say 64-year-old Arie Oren assaulted at least six women, ages 24 to 59, in his Weight Control medical office between 2008 and December 2010. "If you have an orgasm, that would burn around 200 calories," he told one of the women, according to an arrest affidavit acquired by The Philadelphia Inquirer. ...
Drinking Tea Helps Weight Loss, Study Shows
By not in system - AOL NewsForget the latest diet and exercise trends. The secret to burning fat might be as simple as sitting down with a nice cup of tea. Tea contains high levels of compounds that combat the absorption of fat, Japanese scientists have found. These compounds, called theaflavins and thearubigins, stopped weight gain when given to rats on a high-fat diet, the journal Nutrition reported this month. Getty Images A new study shows that tea can help promote weight loss -- but only if you leave out the milk and sugar. There is a catch, though: no milk or sugar in the tea. Proteins in cows' milk ...
Contrave Rejected: What Does the FDA Have Against Diet Pills?
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsToday the Food and Drug Administration declined to approve Contrave, a new prescription weight-loss drug that an FDA advisory panel had recommended for approval. The FDA ruling on Contrave told drugmaker Orexigen Therapeutics that the agency was concerned about long-term use and potential implications on heart health. Orexigen has been ordered to prove, via additional trials, that Contrave's benefits are not outweighed by its cardiovascular risks. Such rigorous studies will be costly and could take years to complete. Orexigen said in a statement that the company plans to "work closely" with ...
GlaxoSmithKline to Pay $750M Fine for Sale of Bad Drugs
By David Knowles - AOL News(Oct. 26) -- Another day, another hard pill to swallow for GlaxoSmithKline. On Tuesday, the pharmaceutical giant agreed to pay $750 million to settle a government lawsuit alleging that the company sold defective and potentially dangerous medication. The U.S. Justice Department brought suit against GSK after finding that the company's Cidra, Puerto Rico, factory produced drugs sold to consumers that were often mislabeled, of the wrong dosage and contaminated with micro-organisms. "Today's settlement reminds the pharmaceutical industry that they must observe those standards and reflects ...
Cheney's Post-Op Appearance: A Few Theories on Dick's Frail Frame
By Katie Drummond - AOL News
(Oct. 12) -- Dick Cheney is back in the public eye, after months of recovery following major heart surgery in July. But there's now much less of Cheney to look at, as the former vice president has shed a reported 20 pounds from his frame. And that weight loss is accompanied by a disconcerting frailty, according to onlookers who watched Cheney partake in a Q&A at the Bakersfield Business Conference in California. Felix Adamo, The Bakersfield Californian / ZUMA Press A frail-looking Dick Cheney holds on to a chair as he takes the stage at the Bakersfield Business Conference on Saturday in ...
How New Gene Findings Help Explain Your Weight and Body Shape
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 11) -- Nutritious food and adequate exercise can't entirely trump genetics where weight -- and where it ends up on your body -- is concerned. It's a reality that researchers have known for years, but one that's been reinforced by a new discovery of over 30 different genetic variations implicated in body composition and shape. What Are the Latest Findings? In a study published in Nature Genetics, an international team composed of 400 scientists runs down variations in DNA sequences that are tied to body weight. Some of the sequences seem to affect one's vulnerability to weight gain. ...
Slumber Longer to Get Slimmer: Study Links Sleep Time to Weight Loss
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Oct. 5) -- Logging adequate sleep might be a key component of losing unneeded fat, rather than valuable lean body mass. A small study on 10 overweight or obese adults, published in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests that diet and exercise are only part of the solution in attaining a healthy body mass and composition. Study participants were sequestered to a controlled environment for four weeks, with their meals, exercise routines and sleep schedules strictly monitored. Because self-reporting is often skewed, the approach makes the research all the more intriguing. Longer ...
The Twinkie Diet: Nutrition Professor Goes on Monthlong Junk Food Binge
By Larry Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 8) -- It's an experiment rich in irony and saturated fats: A Kansas State University nutrition professor will eat little more than Twinkies and Nutty Bars over the next several weeks in an attempt to disprove common beliefs about nutrition. Mark Haub, 40, associate professor in K-State's Department of Human Nutrition, began a 30-day junk food marathon on Aug. 25. He is living on a diet of high-calorie, high-fat foods, such as snack cakes, powdered doughnuts and sticky buns, to show that foods commonly regarded as junk can actually help people lose weight. So far, so good. Since the ...
Cash Incentives Fail to Help Some Lose Weight, Study Says
By Paul Kix - AOL News(Aug. 6) -- Americans have never been fatter. Here's one reason it will be hard to turn that around: You can't even pay people to shed weight. Out this month in the journal Applied Economics Letters is new research by Nicholas Burger and John Lynham. The study's conclusion is that even when people bet they'll lose weight -- sometimes putting down big money -- they still can't take off the pounds. A full 80 percent of overweight bettors lost their wagers. "Humans are impatient," Lynham, an economics professor at the University of Hawaii, told AOL News. "And we have impulses that go against ...
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