Health News Round Up

A thirty five year old man died in the recently after taking a product touted as an aphrodisiac.

According to an article at MSNBC.com, the product is made from toad venom and is apparently sold under names like Jamaican Stone, Love Stone, Piedra, Black Stone and Chinese Rock.

Ingesting the product can cause a fatally abnormal heart rhythm similar to the one triggered in the recent victim.

The product is also not approved by the FDA.

So men, when it comes to getting it up, you better stick to your friend the little blue pill, Viagra.

Anything that has “venom” as its ingredient should really raise a red flag!

Many men who experience breast growth are horrified by the prospect of enlarged breasts.

Most stop shirtless activities such as swimming completely.

Many are too embarrassed to ask for help.

Apparently this condition is a common one and in most cases, especially in young boys, it ends up resolving on its own.

The causes of growing man boobs, a condition known as gynecomastia, are mainly hormone and weight related.

Gaining too much weight and normal fluctuations of hormones, especially during puberty, are the main culprits.

The condition, other than inflicting loss of confidence and body image issues, is harmless and is treatable.

One way to treat it is to take a prescription estrogen blocker such as Tamoxifen.

The other is surgery.

Some twenty thousand American men, fourteen thousand of which are teenagers, had a breast reduction surgery in 2007.

Here is something else to be unhappy about.

You best be aware of how your depression affects your interaction with your children.

According to research conducted on 5,000 families, by pediatric psychologist James Paulson, they found that when the children were nine months old, 14% of the mothers and 10% of the fathers were depressed.

The difference in behavior, between mothers and fathers who suffer from depression, towards their babies showed up in the vocabulary development of their kids.

Apparently depressed fathers read roughly 9% less than those who aren’t.

Therefore, children with depressed fathers end up developing less vocabulary words when compared to their normal counterparts.

However, mothers continued to read books to their children at the same rate as they have always despite the fact that they suffer from depression.