There have been a couple studies done about cancer in tall people. One determined that tall men are more likely to get testicular cancer and another said taller men are more likely to get prostate cancer.
From the articles the researchers seemed to have no idea why this was happening and thought that perhaps the hormones that handle cell growth were at fault.
It’s likely they concluded this because cancer is a disease that usually occurs after a cell replicates with errors that then catch hold and continue replicating until the cancerous cells overtakes the organ or other part of the body that is infected by cancer.
Now I am no expert at cancer, but I do know a thing or two about math. That’s why when I first heard about increased cancer in taller people my first thought was, “Well, okay, that makes sense because taller people have more cells, right? So if each cell has the same probability of turning cancerous then there are more chances of cancer.”
If you’re taller you likely have larger organs. Larger organs are not made with larger cells, they’re made with more cells.
So if you have more cells in your body and each cell has a certain likelihood of turning cancerous, then wouldn’t it follow that you have a greater chance of getting cancer?
Think about it from a lottery standpoint. If you only buy one ticket then your odds are 1 in 1 million of winning and if you buy two tickets then your odds go to 2 in 1 million. Increase in tickets = increase in overall odds of winning. So if each cell was a lottery ticket why wouldn’t an increase in cells = increase in overall odds of cancer?
Seems logical to me.
I have several different musical tastes and have several different Pandora stations. Over the last few years through trial and error I have learned my lesson when it comes to damaging a perfectly great Pandora station.
The rule of thumb is even if you like a song that pops up on a Pandora station DO NOT give it a thumbs up unless it fits into the mood or genre of the station you are listening to!
For example, I have a station I seeded with a couple different Aretha Franklin tunes. For a while it was great then for some reason it played Queen “You’re my Best Friend” which I gave a thumbs up because I like. But then I started getting random 70s and 80s mild rock tunes popping up in what I really wanted to be an Aretha-based soul station. I didn’t put two and two together until the Queen song came back on and I saw I’d marked it with a thumbs up.
Here’s what to do if a song comes up in Pandora that you like but is out of context:
1. Listen to it.
2. Skip it.
3. Give it a thumbs down (at your own risk).
I usually listen to a song if I like it, even if it’s not inside the context of my Pandora station. But if I am just not in the mood I will skip it. I don’t know the ramifications of giving a song I like a thumbs down just because it doesn’t fit my station. I would hate for the song not to pop up in another station, when appropriate, so I tend not to do #3.
Happy listening!
If you try to accomplish it all, you will fail miserably. This has been my experience. Instead of trying to create a laundry list of items that I would like to do this year, I decided to find a common item that would impact several of the others. For me, this item was drink more water.
After thinking about it, I discovered that drinking more water impacted at least three of the goals I could have set for myself:
- Drink less coffee
- Lose weight
- Eat better
Although I am not entirely focusing on any of the above three items, drinking water will assist with all three of them. If I drink water instead of coffee, I am accomplishing #1. They say that it helps to drink lots of water if you want to lose weight. Therefore #2 is also impacted. Lastly if I drink water instead of drinks high in sugar I am eating better by not loading myself up with sugar.
So look at your list of resolutions and see if there’s any overlap and diagram them out if necessary. Good luck in 2011.
