“Health” on The Daily Caller

LOS ANGELES (AP) — California workplace safety officials have fined Larry Flynt’s Hustler Video and another porn producer for not using condoms on set to protect sex performers from exposure to disease. (more)

After staunchly defending the safety of artificial food colorings, the federal government is for the first time publicly reassessing whether foods like Jell-O, Lucky Charms cereal and Minute Maid Lemonade should carry warnings that the bright artificial colorings in them worsen behavior problems like hyperactivity in some children. (more)

A new study published by the American Medial Association found that sexual intercourse or any sharp increase in physical exertion can increase risk of heart attack in persons who are not physically active on a regular basis.  Researchers said Tuesday that the risk of myocardial infarction triples in persons who do not engage in sex on a regular basis versus those that do. Sex can lead to an increased strain on the heart because it involves not only extreme physical exertion, but also prompts emotional arousal that increases adrenaline and heart rate. In order to have a healthy heart; have sex, and have it often. (more)

Have you ever noticed that people on diets are really crabby? While many might blame low blood sugar or a general lack of pleasure (rice cakes, cabbage soup — ugh!), recent psychological research suggests that it’s actually the exercise of self-control that leads people to become irritable and aggressive at inappropriate times. (more)

So much for John Wayne and the masculinity of yore. More men than ever before are getting cosmetic surgery, according to new statistics from the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Joann Prinzivalli has gone through a lot to be a woman, and she wants her birth certificate to show it. (more)

Doctors at a Boston hospital last week performed the first full face transplant in the United States, attaching a donor face to a 25-year-old Fort Worth man whose face was severely burned when his head touched a high-voltage line three years ago. (more)

Young American adults have increased the amount of coffee they drink daily in 2011, after feeling better about their finances following the global economic crisis, a survey showed on Saturday. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Japan’s nuclear crisis is spiking demand in the U.S. and a few other places for a cheap drug that can protect against one type of radiation damage — even though the risk is only in Japan. (more)

A student ended up in intensive care after drinking a bottle of soy sauce as part of an initiation ceremony to join a fraternity house at the University of Virginia. (more)

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Alone with his psychiatrist, the patient confided that his newborn had serious health problems, his distraught wife was screaming at him and he had started drinking again. With his life and second marriage falling apart, the man said he needed help. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — Of all the thousands upon thousands of words said, written or broadcast about Charlie Sheen in the past week, one pithy tweet may have best summed up the seemingly endless appetite for all things Charlie. (more)