by BRONSON PAGE

If anyone in your family has had colon cancer, take the age they were when they were diagnosed, subtract 10 years, and that’s the age at which you should have a colonoscopy. Mom was 50, and so being 40, I had my first colonoscopy this year, besides, all of my coolest friends (Paul, Jeb, Sonny) were having them, and I’m not one to be left out. Here’s how it went for me. If I can get through it, then anyone can:

Thursday:

Breakfast is the last meal I’ll have for over 24 hours. At 9AM, I had mixed fruit with yogurt, cottage cheese, and granola, and since I knew it would be a while until my next meal, I felt a rice krispy treat was also in order. An hour or so later, the hunger kicks in, and it has to be quelled with clear liquids only, and juices without pulp until Thursday night. (more…)

DUDE! Have you heard that using marijuana may actually increase your risk of getting testicular cancer? That’s according to a U.S. study published this past week. Keep in mind, this is the first (and only) study about the topic. Still, it makes you think.

The study of 369 Seattle-area men ages 18 to 44 with testicular cancer and 979 men in the same age bracket without the disease found that current marijuana users were 70 percent more likely to develop it compared to nonusers.

You’re at highest risk if you’ve smoked marijuana for 10 years or more, use it more than once a week, or started using it before the age of 18. The study appears in the journal, Cancer.